Current Status Introducing Body:Senate Bill Number:309 Primary Sponsor:Peeler Committee Number:08 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:State parks, free of charge for sixty-two or older Residing Body:Senate Current Committee:General Committee Computer Document Number:CYY/15075SD.93 Introduced Date:19930127 Last History Body:Senate Last History Date:19930127 Last History Type:Introduced, read first time, referred to Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Peeler Hayes Type of Legislation:General Bill
Bill Body Date Action Description CMN Leg Involved ____ ______ ____________ ______________________________ ___ ____________ 309 Senate 19930127 Introduced, read first time, 08 referred to CommitteeView additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.
TO AMEND SECTION 51-3-60, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO USE OF STATE PARK FACILITIES FREE OF CHARGE BY AGED, BLIND, AND DISABLED PERSONS SO AS TO CHANGE FROM SIXTY-FIVE TO SIXTY-TWO THE AGE WHICH QUALIFIES PEOPLE FOR FREE USE OF STATE PARK FACILITIES, AND TO FURTHER PROVIDE FOR THE PROOF OF AGE REQUIRED TO BE PRESENTED.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 51-3-60 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 51-3-60. Any South Carolina resident who is over sixty-five sixty-two years of age or disabled or legally blind as defined in Section 43-25-20 of the 1976 Code may use any facility of a state park except campsites, overnight lodging, and recreation buildings without charge. Such These residents may also use campsite facilities at one-half of the prescribed fee. A person exercising this privilege on the basis of age shall present his medicare card, or other card approved by the South Carolina Commission on Aging, or his driver's license to the employee of the State Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism who is in charge of the particular state park, and a person who is disabled or legally blind shall present to such the person in charge of the park a certificate to that effect from a licensed doctor of medicine or an official of an agency authorized by law to make determinations of disability or blindness. The authorization for use of the facilities as provided by this section shall is not be effective if it conflicts with any federal law, rule, or regulation.
The term `disabled' as used herein in this section shall mean the inability to perform substantial gainful employment by reason of a medically-determinable impairment, either physical or mental, which has lasted or is expected to last for a continuous period of twelve months or more. Any South Carolina resident who is a veteran and who has been classified by the Veterans Administration as permanently and totally disabled may also enter any state park without charge upon presentation to the person in charge of the park of an identification card from the county veterans affairs officer stating the veteran's permanent and total disability. A statement of age or disability may not be made for any person whose age and disability records are not maintained in the veterans affairs office at which the request is made."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.