Title 2, General Assembly

The Commissioner in preparing a proposed code for adoption by the General Assembly shall eliminate therefrom all provisions providing compensation of all such officers and employees as are referred to in SECTION 8-15-10.

The Code thus prepared by the Commissioner shall be declared by the General Assembly, in an act passed according to the forms in the Constitution of 1895 for the enactment of laws, to be the only general permanent statutory law of the State, and no alterations or additions to any…

The catch line heading or caption which immediately follows the section number of any section of the Code of Laws must not be deemed to be part of the section and must not be used to construe the section more broadly or narrowly than the text of the section would indicate. The ca…

The Code Commissioner, from time to time during any session of the General Assembly, shall furnish the Legislative Services Agency (LSA) with all acts and joint resolutions of a general and permanent nature which have become law. The Legislative Services Agency (LSA) as soon as p…

After receiving the page proofs corrected from the Code Commissioner, the Legislative Services Agency shall print the same and shall deliver not more than twenty-five copies to the Code Commissioner as the commissioner orders. LSA shall publish the advance sheets online as direct…

In case of vacancy in the office of Code Commissioner from any cause, the Legislative Council shall, as soon as practicable, elect a successor for the unexpired term.

The Code Commissioner and the Legislative Council may sell the service mentioned in Section 2-13-190 on terms agreeable to the council and the Code Commissioner. All funds received for this service must be deposited in the state treasury, to the credit of the General Fund of the …

Within twenty-five days after the adjournment of any session of the General Assembly, the Code Commissioner shall furnish the Director of the Legislative Services Agency all acts and joint resolutions passed, and which have been approved by the Governor. The Code Commissioner sha…

(a) Sets of the Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, shall be distributed by the Legislative Council as follows: (1) Governor, three; (2) Lieutenant Governor, two; (3) Secretary of State, three; (4) Treasurer, one; (5) Attorney General, fifty; (6) Adjutant General, one; (7) Comp…

The Legislative Council shall determine the time, manner, and means of revising the Code of Laws for the State, shall determine the method for keeping the general permanent statutory law of the State supplemented and shall check on the work of the Code Commissioner. The Council m…

The Committee shall meet at the call of the chairman. Each member of the Committee shall receive traveling expenses, subsistence, and per diem, as provided by law for members of boards, committees, and commissions, which shall be paid from the approved accounts of the respective …

The Code Commissioner shall act as secretary for the Committee on Statutory Laws, and shall be the director of the Legislative Council. As such director he shall employ, subject to the approval of the Legislative Council, such clerical and other assistants as may be necessary for…

The Code Commissioner must: (1) compile the public statutes of the State; (2) prepare indices and cross-indices to the codification of public statutes, and publish these indices in the appropriate code volumes; (3) note by annotation decisions of the State Supreme Court, the Stat…

The Code Commissioner is directed to delete all references to legislative members serving in any capacity as a member of a state board or commission, except as allowed by Section 8-13-770.

The Code Commissioner is authorized to add all crimes and offenses enacted by the General Assembly to Sections 16-1-90 and 16-1-100 of the 1976 Code. However, the crimes and offenses must be added to the appropriate category as established by Section 16-1-20(A). If the term of im…

The position of Code Commissioner does not constitute an office referred to in Section 3, Article VI of the State Constitution. The Code Commissioner shall report annually to the Legislative Council expenditures from approved accounts appropriated to the Council in the general ap…

There shall be prepared and published annually, under the supervision and direction of the Legislative Council and the Code Commissioner, cumulative supplements to the Code of Laws showing in such detail as the Council and Commissioner may deem proper and sufficient: (1) All gene…

If at any time the supplement of any volume of the Code of Laws shall, in the judgment of the Council and the Commissioner, become too bulky for convenient use, the Council and the Commissioner shall contract to be prepared and published under their supervision and direction, and…