The Code Commissioner must:

(1) compile the public statutes of the State;

(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(4) note by annotation all unpublished opinions sent to the Code Commissioner by a federal District Judge of the South Carolina District which, in the Code Commissioners opinion, affect or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number and year in which the act is published, to each act and joint resolution of a previous session when amended or repealed;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.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 1-306; 1952 Code Section 1-306; 1942 Code Section 2112; 1932 Code Section 2112; Civ. C. '22 Section 76; Civ. C. '12 Section 66; Civ. C. '02 Section 63; 1913 (28) 68; 1927 (35) 268; 1934 (38) 1329; 1972 (57) 2775; 1982 Act No. 344, Section 5; 1985 Act No. 201, Part II, Section 81I; 1999 Act No. 55, Section 5; 2001 Act No. 23, Section 1; 2002 Act No. 333, Section 3; 2002 Act No. 356, Section 1, Part VI.P(3); 2013 Act No. 31, Section 6, eff May 21, 2013.

Effect of Amendment

The 2013 amendment, in subsection (5), substituted "Legislative Services Agency" for "Office of Legislative Printing, Information and Technology Systems (LPITS)".