The agency placing a client in a community residential care facility shall develop an individual plan of care in cooperation with the provider. The placing agency shall monitor the plan to the extent considered appropriate by the placement agency.

Prior to a community residential care facility being licensed for operation in an area which is outside incorporated areas of a county, the following conditions must be met:

Terms Used In South Carolina Code 44-7-350

  • 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

(1) The governing body for the area must be given notice of the proposed location.

(2) Where the governing body objects to the proposed site for the facility, the arbitration procedures set forth in Act 449 of 1978 must be employed.