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S.C. Code Ann. § 44-20-900: Injunctions; sufficiency of complaint; fines and penalties.

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  1. Title 44 - HEALTH
  2. CHAPTER 20 South Carolina Intellectual Disability, Related Disabilities, Head Injuries, and Spinal Cord Injuries Act
  3. ARTICLE 5 Licensure and Regulation of Facilities and Programs

(A) The Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, in accordance with the laws of the State governing injunctions and other processes, may maintain an action in the name of the State against a person for establishing, conducting, managing, or operating a day program for the care, training, and treatment of a person with intellectual disability, a related disability, head injury, or spinal cord injury without obtaining a license as provided in this article. In charging a defendant in a complaint in the action, it is sufficient to charge that the defendant, upon a certain day and in a certain county, provided day program services without a license, without averring more particular facts concerning the charge.

(B) A person violating the provisions of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than one thousand dollars for a first offense and two thousand dollars for a subsequent offense. Each day the day program operates after a first conviction is considered a subsequent offense.

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