No day program in part or in full for the care, training, or treatment of a person with intellectual disability, a related disability, head injury, or spinal cord injury may deliver services unless a license first is obtained from the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities. For the purpose of this article "in part" means a program operating for ten hours a week or more. Educational and training services offered under the sponsorship and direction of school districts and other state agencies are not required to be licensed under this article.
S.C. Code Ann. § 44-20-710
Licensing of facilities and programs
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Madison Ex Rel. Bryant v. Babcock Center (2006)
Most recently applied in Madison Ex Rel. Bryant v. Babcock Center (November 2006)
1990 Act No. 496, SECTION 1; 1993 Act No. 181, SECTION 1078; 2011 Act No. 47, SECTION 2, eff June 7, 2011.
Official source: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.