The Office of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities shall make day program inspections as the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities may prescribe by regulation. The day programs subject to this article may be visited and inspected by the department's director or his designees no less than annually and before the issuance of a license. Upon request, each program shall file with the office a copy of its bylaws, regulations, and rates of charges. The records of each licensed program are open to the inspection of the department's director or his designees.

HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 496, SECTION 1; 1993 Act No. 181, SECTION 1078; 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.