S.C. Code Ann. § 9-1-620: Effect on members, beneficiaries, their widows or other dependents, of other statutes.

Subject to the provisions of Chapter 5 of this Title, no other provisions of law in any other statute which provides wholly or partly at the expense of the State for annuities, pensions or retirement benefits for teachers or employees of the State, their widows or other dependents, shall apply to members or beneficiaries of the System, their widows or other dependents.