S.C. Code Ann. § 44-9-10: Creation of Office of Mental Health; jurisdiction.

There is hereby created the Office of Mental Health, a component office of the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities. The office shall have jurisdiction over all of the state's mental hospitals, clinics and centers, joint state and community sponsored mental health clinics and centers and facilities for the treatment and care of alcohol and drug addicts, including the authority to name each facility. The office shall be headed by an office director appointed by the Director of the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities pursuant to Section 44-12-50(B)(1). The office director must be a person of proven executive and administrative ability with appropriate education and substantial experience in the field of mental illness treatment.