South Carolina Code 2-13-60. Duties of Code Commissioner
(1) compile the public statutes of the State;
Terms Used In South Carolina Code 2-13-60
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers.
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
(2) prepare indices and cross-indices to the codification of public statutes, and publish these indices in the appropriate code volumes;
(3) note by annotation decisions of the State Supreme Court, the State Court of Appeals, and the federal District Court for the District of South Carolina and decisions relevant to the State from the federal Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court under the appropriate sections of the codified statutes, the State Constitution of 1895, the United States Constitution, and the state rules of court;
(4) note by annotation all unpublished opinions sent to the Code Commissioner by a federal District Judge of the South Carolina District which, in the Code Commissioners opinion, affect or invalidate a South Carolina statute, act, or resolution;
(5) annually prepare for publication, to be printed by the Legislative Services Agency, the statutes and joint resolutions passed at the preceding session;
(6) place analysis lines at the beginning of each section in every act and joint resolution, except state appropriation measures;
(7) make references, by act number and year in which the act is published, to each act and joint resolution of a previous session when amended or repealed;
(8) divide the acts and joint resolutions into general permanent laws and local or temporary laws, with indices and cross-indices;
(9) arrange all local enactments according to counties in alphabetical order;
(10) regularly review and examine all the general statutory laws of the State;
(11) correct typographical and clerical errors;
(12) change or substitute names, titles, and other designations to make them conform to new laws enacted by the General Assembly or new rules, regulations, or orders having the force and effect of law.