(A) The South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum is transferred from the State Budget and Control Board and is governed by the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum Commission, as established in Section 60-17-10.
(B) The State Energy Office is transferred from the State Budget and Control Board to the Office of Regulatory Staff.
(C) The offices, divisions, or components of the State Budget and Control Board named in this subsection are transferred to, and incorporated into, the Rural Infrastructure Authority as established in Section 11-50-30. All functions, powers, duties, responsibilities, and authority vested in the agencies and authorities, including their governing boards, if any, named in this subsection are devolved upon the Rural Infrastructure Authority and the authority shall constitute the agencies and authorities, including their governing boards, if any, named in this subsection:
(1) Local Government Division in support of the local government loan program as established in Section 1-11-25;
(2) Water Resources Coordinating Council as established in Section 11-37-200(A); and
(3) Division of Regional Development as established in Section 11-42-40.
(D) The regulation of minerals and mineral interests on public land, and the regulation of Geothermal Resources as provided in Chapter 9, Title 10 is transferred to, and incorporated into, the Department of Health and Environmental Control.
(E) The Procurement Services Division of the State Budget and Control Board is transferred to, and incorporated into, the State Fiscal Accountability Authority.
(F) The State Auditor is transferred to, and incorporated into, the State Fiscal Accountability Authority.
(G) South Carolina Infrastructure Facilities Authority as established in Chapter 40, Title 11 and the South Carolina Water Quality Revolving Fund Authority in support of water quality projects and federal loan programs as established in Chapter 5, Title 48 are transferred to, and incorporated into, the State Fiscal Accountability Authority.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 1-352; 1952 Code Section 1-352; 1950 (46) 3605, 3608; 2005 Act No. 164, Section 2, eff June 10, 2005; 2014 Act No. 121 (S.22), Pt III, Section 4.B, eff July 1, 2015.
Effect of Amendment
The 2005 amendment made nonsubstantive changes in the first sentence and rewrote the second sentence which formerly read "The State Auditor shall be the director of the Finance Division, ex officio, and the directors of the other divisions shall be employed by the State Budget and Control Board for such time and compensation, not greater than the term and compensation for the State Auditor, as shall be fixed by the Board in its judgment".
2014 Act No. 121, Section 4.B, rewrote the section.