Current Status Bill Number:3534 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:19970226 Primary Sponsor:Harrison All Sponsors:Harrison Drafted Document Number:gjk\20133sd.97 Residing Body:House Current Committee:Judiciary Committee 25 HJ Subject:Public defenders, assistant; not required to reside in county in which they serve, Attorneys
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House 19970226 Introduced, read first time, 25 HJ
referred to Committee
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TO AMEND SECTION 17-3-60, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE PUBLIC DEFENDER SYSTEM, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT ASSISTANT PUBLIC DEFENDERS DO NOT HAVE TO BE RESIDENTS OF THE COUNTY IN WHICH THEY SERVE.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. (1) Section 17-3-60(d) of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"(d) The public defender and assistant public defenders shall must be licensed to practice law in this State. and shall be residents The public defender must be a resident of the county in which they serve he serves except as modified by subsection (i) hereof."
(2) Section 17-3-60(i) of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"(i) Nothing herein contained is designed to prevent the combined bars of two or more adjoining counties from jointly creating a defender corporation to be known as the Defender Corporation of ----- and ----- Counties. For the purposes of this subsection the public defender or the assistant public defender(s) may be residents a resident of any county in the defender corporation area."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.