No regional center of the Office of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities may be closed except as authorized by the General Assembly by law in an enactment that specifies by name the regional center to be closed.

HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 343, SECTION 1; 2011 Act No. 47, SECTION 2, eff June 7, 2011.

Code Commissioner's Note

At the direction of the Code Commissioner, certain references in the S.C. Code to the State Department of Mental Health, South Carolina Mental Health Commission, Department of Disabilities and Special Needs, Department of Disabilities and Special Needs Commission, Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services, and other related terms were changed to reflect the restructuring of these agencies into component offices under the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, pursuant to 2025 Act No. 3, SECTION 18.