South Carolina Code 44-7-264. Nursing home or community residential care facility licensure; fingerprint-based criminal records check; prohibition of issuance of license or requirement of revocation for certain crimes
(B)(1) A nursing home license or community residential care facility license must not be issued to the applicant, and if issued, may be revoked, if the person or any one of the persons required to undergo a criminal records check pursuant to subsection (A) is required to register under the sex offender registry pursuant to § 23-3-430 or has been convicted of:
Terms Used In South Carolina Code 44-7-264
- Community residential care facility: means a facility which offers room and board and provides a degree of personal assistance for two or more persons eighteen years old or older. See South Carolina Code 44-7-130
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Department: means the Department of Health and Environmental Control. See South Carolina Code 44-7-130
- Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. Source: OCC
- Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. Source: OCC
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
- Nursing home: means a facility with an organized nursing staff to maintain and operate organized facilities and services to accommodate two or more unrelated persons over a period exceeding twenty-four hours which is operated either in connection with a hospital or as a freestanding facility for the express or implied purpose of providing intermediate or skilled nursing care for persons who are not in need of hospital care. See South Carolina Code 44-7-130
- Person: means an individual, a trust or estate, a partnership, a corporation including an association, joint stock company, insurance company, and a health maintenance organization, a health care facility, a state, a political subdivision, or an instrumentality including a municipal corporation of a state, or any legal entity recognized by the State. See South Carolina Code 44-7-130
- Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
(a) abuse, neglect, or exploitation of a child or vulnerable adult, as defined in § 43-35-10;
(b) any violent crime, as defined in § 16-1-60;
(c) any other drug related felony;
(d) forgery, embezzlement, or breach of trust with fraudulent intent, as classified in § 16-1-90(E); or
(e) a criminal offense similar in nature to the crimes listed in this subsection committed in another jurisdiction or under federal law.
(2) This section does not prohibit obtaining licensure when a conviction or plea of guilty or nolo contendere for one of the crimes enumerated in this section has been pardoned. However, notwithstanding the entry of a pardon, the department may consider all information available, including the person’s pardoned convictions or pleas and the circumstances surrounding them, to determine whether the applicant is unfit or otherwise unsuited for licensure for a community residential care facility.
(C) Criminal records checks required pursuant to this section must consist of a fingerprint-based records check conducted by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) for the state check and a fingerprint-based records check conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for the national check. An applicant shall submit with the criminal records check application one complete set of the applicant’s fingerprints in a manner specified by SLED. Fingerprints submitted to SLED pursuant to this section must be collected in a manner specified by SLED and must be used to conduct a state criminal records check by SLED and to facilitate a national criminal records check by the FBI. SLED is authorized to retain the fingerprints for licensing purposes and for notification of the department regarding criminal charges. The actual cost of obtaining state and national criminal records checks by SLED and the FBI must be paid by the licensure applicant directly to the required entity as specified by SLED.