South Carolina · statute · S.C. Code tit. 44, ch. 15 · 9 active provisions
Any county, city, town, political subdivision, or any combination thereof, of over one hundred thousand population, and upon consent of the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, any city, county, town, or political subdivision, or combination thereof, with less than one hundred thousand popula…
The Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities may, when funds are available for such purposes, make grants to assist counties, cities, towns, political subdivisions or any combinations thereof, or any nonprofit corporation, in the establishment and operation of local mental health programs to provi…
Any county, city, town, political subdivision, nonprofit corporation or community mental health board administering a mental health services program may apply for the assistance provided by this article by submitting annually to the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities its plan and budget for…
At the beginning of each fiscal year the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities shall allocate available funds to the mental health programs for disbursement during the fiscal year in accordance with such approved plans and budgets. The department shall, from time to time during the fiscal year,…
Grants may be made for expenditures for mental health services whether provided by operation of a local facility or through contract with other public or private agencies or individual persons.
Every county, city, town, or political subdivision, or combination of them, establishing a community mental health services program, before it may come within this article, shall establish a community mental health board to be made up of not less than seven nor more than fifteen members. Membership of the boards, so fa…
Subject to the provisions of this article and the rules and regulations of the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, each community mental health board shall: (1) Be the administrative agency for the community mental health services program; and it shall be a body corporate in deed and in law…
In addition to the powers and duties already conferred by law, the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities shall: (1) Promulgate rules and regulations governing the eligibility of community mental health programs to receive State grants, prescribing standards for qualification of personnel and qu…
If any balances of appropriations for the program authorized by this article are unexpended during any fiscal year, the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities may carry such balances forward to the next fiscal year; provided, that not more than five per cent of the amount appropriated during any…