Bill 4403

                    Current Status

Bill Number:               4403
Ratification Number:       572
Act Number                 479
Introducing Body:          House
Subject:                   Definitions of missing child, missing
                           person

(A479, R572, H4403)

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 23-3-210, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO DEFINITIONS, SO AS TO CHANGE THE AGE LIMIT FOR "MISSING CHILD" AND "MISSING PERSON" FROM EIGHTEEN TO SEVENTEEN YEARS.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

Definitions of missing child, missing person

SECTION 1. Section 23-3-210 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:

"Section 23-3-210. For the purposes of this article:

(1) 'Missing child' means any individual who is under the age of seventeen years whose temporary or permanent residence is in South Carolina, or is believed to be in South Carolina, whose location has not been determined, and who has been reported as missing to a law enforcement agency.

(2) 'Missing person' means any individual who is seventeen years of age or older, whose temporary or permanent residence is in South Carolina, or is believed to be in South Carolina, whose location has not been determined, and who has been reported as missing to a law enforcement agency.

(3) 'Missing person report' is a report prepared on a prescribed form for transmitting information about a missing person or a missing child to a law enforcement agency.

(4) 'Exploited children' are children under the age of eighteen who are placed in positions where they were taken advantage of sexually because of their inability to cognitively assess or resist the contact or who were placed into these positions because of their dependency upon the offender."

Time effective

SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

Approved the 14th day of May, 1990.