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South Carolina regulations: details

Copied from the South Carolina Legislative Council’s Word files on October 3, 2026. Check the official page before you rely on a rule.

What is here

6,858 regulation numbers of the South Carolina Code of Regulations, in 107 chapters, converted by us from the unannotated edition the South Carolina Legislative Council posts in Word files on the General Assembly’s website, copied October 3, 2026.
It is not the official text. The publisher says the unannotated text is not official, and that only the current published volumes of the South Carolina Code of Regulations Annotated, with any acts and joint resolutions that bear on them, contain the official version. This copy is not official either.
The publisher’s own line on how current its files were when we copied them: “Files are current through State Register Volume 50, Issue 3, effective March 27, 2026.” We never call this copy current.
Of the 6,858 numbers, 6,579 are shown with no note, 278 with notes that say what we found, and 1 (10-26) is held back: its heading is listed, and its text is neither shown nor searched.
Look a regulation up by its number, as in 61-9 or S.C. Code Ann. Regs. 61-9. It comes back whole, in printed order. A long one comes back in pages, and nothing is cut. “Chapter 61” lists a chapter.
Lines that begin [GLO: are our notes on the text beside them. They are not the regulation’s words.

How we checked it

We compared the text of each Word file with the text of the publisher’s PDF of the same chapter. For 6,633 regulations the comparison found no word it could not explain, as far as its rules and samples go. For the other 225 the two did not fully agree (219) or the files print images (6), and we read those differences as text, not against the page.
Agreement between the two texts is not agreement with the printed page: both come from one publisher and neither is official.
A person read 150 regulations drawn at random, from those with no note and no table whose two texts agree, against the publisher’s PDF page images, and found none converted or labelled wrongly (0 of 150). At that sample size the true rate could still be as high as 2.5%. In 37 of them the page differs from the Word file itself, and this copy shows the Word file’s text.
We read other groups the same way (short regulations, regulations whose two texts nearly agreed or did not agree, regulations with notes, regulations with tables, 44 read whole and 20 chapters), each reported on its own. In none did we find a regulation we converted or labelled wrongly. Each group’s counts come with every South Carolina result.
Every comparison and read was made by one person, with no second reader.

What it can't tell you

Whether a regulation is in force or valid.
Whether it is current past the publisher’s currency line, or whether anything changed after we copied it on October 3, 2026.
Whether it agrees with the official annotated volumes.
Whether it agrees with the printed pages, beyond the regulations we read against them and the kinds of difference we measured.

Known gaps

Chapter 111 is listed by the publisher and is not carried in this copy: the publisher posts no Word file for it.
The Word files spell out the word “Section” where the publisher’s PDFs print a section sign (§). This copy shows the Word files’ word.
In the publisher’s own print a note number can stand directly against a figure, a unit or a name with no space between them, and this copy shows it so. No check we ran can find such a place, so a regulation that holds one may not say so.
Characters the Word file sets raised or lowered are shown raised or lowered. A character the Word file does not set so is shown at the height of its neighbors even where the page prints it raised or lowered.
Tables are shown cell by cell, in order, as the Word file holds them, with empty cells kept. Underline is not shown anywhere; we found it only in table cells, in 18 regulations, and each says so.
Keyword search reads a regulation’s heading and text and the note units within it. The lines printed after a regulation (its history and the like), the chapters’ front matter and 10-26 are not searched. A search hit names a regulation, not the paragraph that matched.

Notes you may see on an entry

560 regulations printed under a status heading (repealed, transferred and the like): “The file prints this regulation under the status heading shown next. GLO does not say what that status means here, or whether the regulation is or was in force.”
218 regulations whose two texts did not fully agree: “GLO compared this regulation's text in the Word file with the text of the publisher's PDF of the chapter, and the two did not fully agree. GLO read the differences as text, apart from some it did not read, and settled none of them against the printed page.”
306 regulations that hold a table: “This regulation holds a table. Its cells are shown as the Word file holds them, read by one reader; GLO's second check of the text did not cover table words.”
A note printed within a regulation: “A note the file prints within this regulation. It is not the regulation's own text.”
Lines printed after a regulation: “Printed in the file after this regulation and before the next one. Not part of this regulation's text.”
26 regulations with images: “The publisher's files print images within this regulation that GLO does not carry. The text shown here is not the whole regulation as the publisher prints it.”
56 regulations with a pointer to a State Register document: “The file prints, below this regulation's text, a pointer to a State Register document; its words follow. GLO does not say whether the document it names is or was in effect.”
43 regulations read whole by hand: “GLO read this regulation whole, by one hand, against the publisher's PDF page images, because earlier work named it, and found nothing GLO converted or labelled wrongly. Where the page differs from the Word file, or prints a slip of its own, this copy shows the Word file's text.”
10-26, held back: “GLO does not show or search this regulation's text: two readers of the Word file differ on the words of a table in it, and that table has not been read against the printed page. Read this regulation in the publisher's PDF of the chapter.”
A number not in this copy: “Not printed as its own number in this copy of the South Carolina Code of Regulations (the Word files the South Carolina Legislative Council posts, fetched 2026-10-03). That NEVER means the regulation does not exist: one adopted, changed or repealed after the files’ date may differ or be absent here, and a numbered part can be printed inside a regulation’s text.”

Nothing here is legal advice or a judgment that a rule is in force. Full counts for software: the defect_floor field on every South Carolina result (source=sc).