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2016 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 44 - Health
CHAPTER 9 - STATE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH
Section 44-9-10. Creation of Department of Mental Health; jurisdiction.

SC Code § 44-9-10 (2016) What's This?

There is hereby created the State Department of Mental Health which shall have jurisdiction over all of the State's mental hospitals, clinics and centers, joint State and community sponsored mental health clinics and centers and facilities for the treatment and care of alcohol and drug addicts, including the authority to name each facility.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-917; 1964 (53) 2078; 1969 (56) 653.

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