The executive director must be bonded in an amount as the Director of the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation may fix for the faithful discharge of his duties as custodian of the monies paid to the board. He shall receive the salary as appropriated by the Director of the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation. Each of the board members shall receive for each day actually engaged in the duties of his office per diem, mileage, and subsistence at the rate established by law for boards, commissions, and committees. All fees received by the board become the property of the state general fund and must be deposited to the account of the State Treasurer. The expenditures of the board must be from state appropriations. All fines must be deposited into a special account to be held by the State Treasurer for the purpose of the payment of administrative costs upon the approval of the Department of Administration. At any time the balance in the special account exceeds twenty thousand dollars, all funds in excess of that amount must be remitted to the general fund.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 56-636.5; 1952 Code Sections 56-515, 56-517, 56-520, 56-521, 56-523; 1942 Code Sections 5197, 5215, 5216, 5217; 1932 Code Sections 5197, 5215, 5216, 5217; 1922 (32) 844; 1936 (39) 1364; 1938 (40) 1555; 1943 (43) 208; 1946 (44) 1553; 1951 (47) 506; 1956 (49) 1841; 1968 (55) 2502; 1987 Act No. 170, Part II, Section 26; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 881.

Code Commissioner's Note

At the direction of the Code Commissioner, references in this section to the offices of the former State Budget and Control Board, Office of the Governor, or other agencies, were changed to reflect the transfer of them to the Department of Administration or other entities, pursuant to the directive of the South Carolina Restructuring Act, 2014 Act No. 121, Section 5(D)(1), effective July 1, 2015.