2017 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 40 - Professions and Occupations
CHAPTER 63 - SOCIAL WORKERS
Section 40-63-30. License as prerequisite to practice or offer to practice; providing social work services through telephone or electronic means.

Universal Citation: SC Code § 40-63-30 (2017)

(A) No individual shall offer social work services or use the designation "Social Worker", "Licensed Baccalaureate Social Worker", "Licensed Masters Social Worker", "Licensed Independent Social Worker-Clinical Practice", "Licensed Independent Social Worker-Advanced Practice", or the initials "LBSW", "LMSW", or "LISW" or any other designation indicating licensure status or hold themselves out as practicing social work or as a Baccalaureate Social Worker, Masters Social Worker, or Independent Social Worker unless licensed in accordance with this chapter.

(B) A person providing social work services to a client in this State, through telephonic, electronic, or other means, regardless of the location of the social worker, who is not licensed in this State, is practicing without a license.

HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 189, Section 1.

Editor's Note

Prior Laws:1962 Code Section 56-1600; 1968 (55) 2800; 1982 Act No. 453, Section 3; 1988 Act No. 568, Section 1; 1976 Code Section 40-63-50.

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