S.C. Code Ann. § 44-7-2010: Authority for counties to form regional health services districts.

Any county or group of contiguous counties, any municipality or group of contiguous municipalities located within their boundaries, or any county or group thereof, and any municipalities located within their boundaries, may form a health services district by enactment of the governing body of the county or municipality or by joint enactment of the governing bodies of the counties and municipalities desiring to create a health services district pursuant to the provisions of the South Carolina Education Improvement Act of 1984. The enactment shall designate the name of the health services district and shall declare it to be a body politic and corporate within the counties and municipalities so designated.