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Current Status Bill Number:View additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.4524 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:20020116 Primary Sponsor:Clyburn All Sponsors:Clyburn, Hosey, Fleming and Harvin Drafted Document Number:l:\council\bills\nbd\11080ac02.doc Residing Body:House Current Committee:Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs Com 20 HANR Subject:Teachers, free admission to state parks and reduced rates at campsites for History Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ ______________________________________ _______ ____________ House 20020116 Introduced, read first time, 20 HANR referred to Committee Versions of This Bill
TO AMEND SECTION 51-3-60, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO FREE ADMISSION TO STATE PARKS AND REDUCED RATES FOR USE OF PARK CAMPSITES, SO AS TO EXTEND THESE PRIVILEGES TO PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS.
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. (A) Any A South Carolina resident who is over sixty-five 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 also 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 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 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.
(B) 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.
(C) The term For purposes of this section, 'disabled' as used herein shall mean means 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.
(D) Any A South Carolina resident who is a veteran and who has been classified by the Veterans Administration as permanently and totally disabled also may also enter any a 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 a person whose age and disability records are not maintained in the veterans affairs office at which the request is made.
(E) The privileges provided for in this section also are extended to a South Carolina resident who is a public school teacher who shall present his or her personal school identification badge or evidence of membership in a professional teachers' association."
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