Upon completing this South Carolina Regulations unit, you will be able to:
- Recall that statutes authorize agencies to write regulations at the state level;
- Identify the SC State Register’s role in providing an opportunity for public comment when it publishes notices of drafting and proposed regulations;
- Describe how the SC Code of Regulations is organized by agency into chapters and sections;
- Use the history line of a SC regulation to find where it was first published as a final regulation, and any subsequent amendments, in the SC State Register;
- Use a statutory authority line to identify the statute that authorized a SC regulation to be written;
- Find SC regulations in the SC Code of Regulations by citation, or by subject using an index or a basic keyword search;
- Use a table of contents to find other relevant SC regulations and to contextualize them in a regulatory scheme;
- Analyze a SC regulation and determine its relevance to a legal issue in the context of a set of facts;
- Identify relevant SC regulations using the annotations to a SC statute, or by using applicable SC agency websites;
- Use the SC State Register on scstatehouse.gov to update SC regulations;
- Interpret the KeyCite flags that update SC regulations;
- Find cases and secondary sources that have cited a SC regulation, using KeyCite; and
- Cite SC regulations using the Bluebook and local court rules.
