Current Status Bill Number:View additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.633 Ratification Number:245 Act Number:160 Introducing Body:Senate Subject:Certified copies of veterans' discharge papers
(A160, R245, S633)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 30-15-60, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO OBTAINING CERTIFIED COPIES OF VETERANS' DISCHARGE PAPERS FROM THE COUNTY CLERK OF COURT SO AS TO AUTHORIZE THE CLERK OF COURT TO DESIGNATE THE COUNTY VETERANS' AFFAIRS OFFICER AS THE PERSON FROM WHOM CERTIFIED COPIES OF THESE PAPERS MAY BE OBTAINED.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
Veterans' discharge papers
SECTION 1. Section 30-15-60 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 30-15-60. Any person desiring a certified copy of any discharge or certificate of lost discharge, registered under the provisions of this chapter, shall apply for it to the clerk of court of the county in which the discharge or certificate of lost discharge is registered and the clerk of court shall furnish a certified copy upon the payment of a fee of fifty cents therefor.
The clerk of court may designate the county veterans' affairs officer to receive these applications and furnish these copies as provided by this section."
Time effective
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon approval by the Governor.