Title 59, Education

There is hereby created a body politic and corporate to be known as the State Education Assistance Authority (authority). The authority is hereby declared to be a public instrumentality of the State and the exercise by the authority of any power conferred herein shall be deemed a…

The Authority shall be empowered as follows: (a) To make student loans under such terms and conditions as the Authority shall from time to time prescribe; (b) To insure student loans under such terms and conditions as the Authority shall from time to time prescribe; (c) To guaran…

There shall be established and maintained by the authority a fund which shall be designated the "State Education Assistance Authority Loan Fund". There shall be deposited to the credit of the loan fund the proceeds, exclusive of accrued interest, derived from the sale of the reve…

Prior to the issuance of any revenue bonds a sinking fund shall be established, the custodian of which shall be the State Treasurer. There shall be deposited in the sinking fund the revenues from all of the sources pledged for the payment of the revenue bonds including all moneys…

The General Assembly authorizes the authority to provide for the issuance, at one time or from time to time, of revenue bonds of the authority for any of its authorized purposes, including the use of a portion of the proceeds of any issue of bonds for the establishment of a reser…

The resolution providing for the issuance of such bonds may contain such provisions for protecting and enforcing the rights and remedies of the bondholders as may be reasonable and proper, including covenants setting forth the duties of the authority in relation to the purchase o…

As used in this chapter: (1) "Campus" means the grounds and buildings owned and occupied by a college or university for education purposes and streets and roads through and contiguous to the grounds. (2) "College or university" means a state chartered two or four-year private edu…

Persons arrested by a campus police officer must be processed in the manner persons arrested are processed by municipal and county law enforcement officers.

All persons to be employed as campus police officers may attend and be trained at the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy in the manner provided for other law enforcement officers in the State or at another designated location and by training officers as prescribed by the Sou…

The provisions of this chapter may not be construed to prevent colleges and universities from employing or continuing to employ guards, gatekeepers, and other security personnel, and the chapter applies only to those security officers who are granted the additional law enforcemen…

The board of trustees of each college or university may establish a safety and security department and appoint and employ campus police officers to carry out the functions of the department. While on duty, campus police officers shall wear distinctive uniforms prescribed by the b…

(A) Campus police officers are peace officers. While in the performance of the duties of their employment, they have all the powers of municipal and county police officers to make arrests for both felonies and misdemeanors and possess all of the common law and statutory powers, p…

At the time of their employment campus police officers authorized to exercise the powers granted in Section 59-116-30 must: (1) be not less than twenty-one years of age; (2) have completed successfully the training requirements of the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy or wh…

The public safety director or other appropriate official, with the approval of the governing board of the institution concerned, shall establish within the security department a system of ranks and grades and a promotion policy to insure efficient operation of the department and …

(A) Vehicles used for police purposes by a safety and security department are considered emergency vehicles and must be equipped with red or blue lights or combination of them and sirens and operated in conformance with the requirements of Chapter 5 of Title 56. (B) Safety and se…

Campus police officers shall post, before the assumption of their duties, bond in the amount of two thousand dollars in the manner provided in Section 23-1-70 but are exempt from the reporting requirements of Section 23-1-80 so long as they are employed by the safety and security…

(A) It is unlawful for a person to falsely represent himself to be a campus police officer, agent, or employee of a safety and security department of a college or university, or arrest, detain, search, or question in any manner the person or property of a person, nor may a person…

The board of trustees of the University of South Carolina shall be composed of the Governor of the State (or his designee), the State Superintendent of Education, and the President of the Greater University of South Carolina Alumni Association, which three shall be members ex off…

The board of trustees shall take care that the president of the University shall not be an atheist or infidel.

No campus of the University of South Carolina shall be closed without prior authorization of the General Assembly by act or joint resolution.

The regular term of office of each trustee elected by the General Assembly is four years; however, the trustee shall continue to function as a trustee after his term has expired until his successor is elected and qualifies. Trustees from the first, third, fifth, seventh, ninth, e…

(A) The General Assembly finds that it is desirable to provide continuing and general statutory authority for the University of South Carolina to incur debt for, among other things, the purposes of providing funds to acquire, construct, renovate, and equip certain revenue-produci…

As used in this article: (1) "Bond" or "bonds" means any note, bond, installment contract, or other evidence of indebtedness issued pursuant to this article. (2) "University" means the University of South Carolina. (3) "Facilities" means any or all of the following facilities ope…

The trustees are authorized to acquire additional facilities and to improve and renovate existing facilities to the extent they determine to be necessary, and the proceeds of bonds authorized by this article are made available for that purpose. The trustees also are authorized to…

Upon receiving the approval of the State Fiscal Accountability Authority or the Department of Administration, as appropriate, and upon review by the Joint Bond Review Committee, the trustees may from time to time borrow such sums as may be necessary to accomplish the purpose of t…

Bonds issued pursuant to this article must be payable from the revenues or the net revenues derived by the University from these facilities as designated by the trustees with respect to the bonds. The trustees may abandon the use of any portion of the facilities or sell or dispos…

The faith and credit of the State may not be pledged for the payment of the principal and interest of the bonds, and there must be on the face of each bond a statement plainly worded to that effect. Neither the trustees nor any other person signing the bonds is personally liable …

In order to avail themselves of the authorizations set forth in this article, the trustees shall adopt resolutions providing for the issuance of bonds of the University, within the limitations mentioned in this article which must prescribe the tenor, terms, and conditions of the …

The bonds authorized by this article and all interest to become due on them have the tax exempt status prescribed by Section 12-1-60.

It is lawful for all executors, administrators, guardians, and fiduciaries, all sinking fund commissions, the Public Employee Benefit Authority and the State Fiscal Accountability Authority, as cotrustees of the South Carolina Retirement System, and all other governmental entitie…

In case a vacancy should occur in the board among the members elected by the General Assembly, the Governor may fill it by appointment until the next session of the General Assembly. Any vacancy occurring in the office of the member appointed by the Governor shall be filled for t…

The bonds and coupons, if any, attached to the bonds, are executed manually or by facsimile in the name of the University in the manner and by persons as the trustees from time to time determine, and the seal of the University must be affixed to or impressed or reproduced on each…

The bonds must be disposed of in such manner as the trustees determine, except that no sale, privately negotiated without public advertisement, may be made unless the approval of the State Fiscal Accountability Authority is obtained. If the trustees elect to sell the bonds at pub…

To the end that the payment of the principal and interest of the bonds authorized by this article is secured adequately, the trustees of the University may: (1) issue bonds in such amount within the limitations provided for in this article, as the trustees consider necessary. It …

No time limit is set for the issuance of bonds pursuant to this article.

The board of trustees of the University of South Carolina is and is hereby constituted a body corporate and politic, in deed and in law under the name of the University of South Carolina. Such corporation has the following powers: (1) To have perpetual succession; (2) To sue and …

The board of trustees shall meet not less frequently than quarterly, the time and place of each such regular meeting to be fixed by the chairman of the board or otherwise as the board of trustees shall provide. If the Governor chooses to serve as an ex officio member of the board…

All property, real and personal, and rights of every description which have heretofore been vested in the South Carolina College and the University of South Carolina and the trustees of the University of South Carolina are vested in the "University of South Carolina."

The Board of Trustees of the University of South Carolina with the approval of the Department of Administration or State Fiscal Accountability Authority, as appropriate, may enter into lease agreements with a private entity whereby the private entity will provide all services nec…

The trustees of the University of South Carolina may, in their discretion, make use of the provisions of the Eminent Domain Procedure Act (Chapter 2 of Title 28) to acquire land for which funds are provided by the General Assembly.

After obtaining the approval of the State Fiscal Accountability Authority or the Department of Administration, as appropriate, the board of trustees of the University of South Carolina is authorized to lease or to sell and convey from time to time any real property which may have…

Employees of agencies and institutions affiliated with the University of South Carolina School of Medicine who hold faculty appointments in the school may participate in the school's practice plan. Funds generated by such participants shall be handled in accordance with universit…

The University of South Carolina is authorized to close any public road or street which is bordered on two sides by property now owned by the University or hereafter acquired by it. Provided, that no road or street shall be closed which is situated within the corporate limits of …

This chapter is known and may be cited as the South Carolina Academic Endowment Incentive Act.

The Commission on Higher Education shall ensure that each qualifying college or university receives its proportionate share of the State Higher Education Matching Gift Fund based on the ratio of disbursements. Any monies in the State Higher Education Matching Gift Fund not distri…

The purposes of this chapter are to: (1) further the state's efforts to meet its responsibility for the intellectual development of our youth; (2) enhance statewide economic development through initiatives in higher education; to provide incentives to individuals, corporations, o…