2021 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 23 - Law Enforcement and Public Safety
Chapter 3 - South Carolina Law Enforcement Division
Section 23-3-240. Submission of missing person reports to Center.

Universal Citation: SC Code § 23-3-240 (2021)

Any parent, spouse, guardian, legal custodian, public or private agency or entity, or any person responsible for a missing person, may submit a missing person report to the MPIC on any missing child or missing person, regardless of the circumstances, after having first submitted a missing person report on the individual to the law enforcement agency having jurisdiction of the area in which the individual became or is believed to have become missing, regardless of the circumstances.

HISTORY: 1985 Act No. 98, Section 5; 2010 Act No. 192, Section 1, eff May 28, 2010.

Effect of Amendment

The 2010 amendment inserted "or any person responsible for a missing person", and made other nonsubstantive changes.

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