Section 45-54-170 - Board of Health Fees

(a) The Pickens County Board of Health shall designate theservices rendered by the Pickens County Health Department for which areasonable fee may be charged and shall set the maximumallowable fee to be chargedfor each service.(b) The Pickens County Health Department shall beauthorized to charge and collect such fees. Allfees collected shall be in addition to any and all federal, state, and localappropriations. Any fees collectedshall be processed in accordance with the recommendations of the Department ofExaminers of Public Accounts.(c) No citizen shall be denied any service because thatperson is unable to pay. PickensCounty Board of Health may establish a sliding fee scale based on ability topay.(d) Thissection shall not apply to nor affect any fees otherwise authorized, set, andcollected under state, local, or federal law or regulation.(e) All feescollected pursuant to this section are appropriated to the Pickens CountyHealth Department which collected the fees.(Act 84–529, p. 1150, §§ 1–5.)