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S.C. Code Ann. § 17-11-50: Application of Habitual Offenders Law not required.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 17 - CRIMINAL PROCEDURES
- CHAPTER 11 Interstate Agreement on Detainers
- ARTICLE IX This agreement shall be liberally construed so as to effectuate its purposes. The provisions of this agreement shall be severable and if any phrase, clause, sentence or provision of this agreement is declared to be contrary to the constitution of any party state or of the United States or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this agreement and the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person or circumstance shall not be affected thereby. If this agreement shall be held contrary to the constitution of any state party hereto, the agreement shall remain in full force and effect as to the remaining states and in full force and effect as to the state affected as to all severable matters.
Nothing in this chapter or in the Agreement on Detainers shall be construed to require the application of the Habitual Offenders Law to any person on account of any conviction had in a proceeding brought to final disposition by reason of the use of such agreement.
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