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Effective: February 10, 2009
Code of Laws of South Carolina 1976 AnnotatedCurrentnessTitle
56. Motor Vehicles
Chapter 5. Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on HighwaysArticle 23.
Reckless Homicide; Reckless Driving; Driving While Under the
Influence of Intoxicating
Liquor, Drugs or Narcotics 56-5-2954. Breath testing sites;
records of problems with devices.
The State Law Enforcement Division and each law enforcement
agency with a breath testing site is required to
maintain a detailed record of malfunctions, repairs, complaints,
or other problems regarding breath testing devices ateach site.
These records must be electronically recorded. These records,
including any and all remarks, must be en-
tered into a breath testing device and subsequently made
available on the State Law Enforcement Division web site.
The records required by this section are subject to compulsory
process issued by any court of competent jurisdiction in
this State and are public records under the Freedom of
Information Act.
CREDIT(S)
HISTORY:2000 Act No. 390, 24;2008 Act No. 201, 12, eff February
10, 2009.
EFFECT OF AMENDMENT
The 2008 amendment added the second and third sentences
requiring the records to be electronically recorded andmade
available on the State Law Enforcement Division website.
LIBRARY REFERENCES
Records 60.Westlaw Topic No.326.C.J.S. Records
99to100,107to111.
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Encyclopedias
S.C. Jur. Automobiles and Other Motor Vehicles 174, Establishing
a Proper Foundation for the Introduction of Test
Results.
NOTES OF DECISIONS
In general1Grounds for suppression2
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1. In general
Under the statute providing that the State Law Enforcement
Division (SLED) andeach law enforcement agency with a
breath-testing site is required to maintain a detailed recordof
malfunctions, repairs, complaints, or other problems
regarding breath-testing devices at each site, a record must be
kept by both SLED and the individual agency. State v.
Landon (S.C. 2006) 370 S.C. 103, 634 S.E.2d 660.Records
3;Records 13
Record kept by State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) on
breath-testing machine used by defendant at detention
center violated provision of recordkeeping statute requiring
maintenance of a detailed recordof malfunctions, repairs,
complaints, or other problems regarding breath-testing machine,
where information available on SLED's website,
which could be accessed at detention center, provided no
particulars regarding problems reported by individual testing
sites.State v. Landon (S.C. 2006) 370 S.C. 103, 634 S.E.2d 660
.Records 3;Records 13
Record kept on breath-testing machine used by defendant at
detention center did not violate provision of record-
keeping statute requiring records to be kept by both State Law
Enforcement Division (SLED) and any law enforce-
ment agency with a breath-testing site, even though detention
center did not keep separate record on site, whereSLED's record
could be accessed at detention center via Internet. State v. Landon
(S.C. 2006) 370 S.C. 103, 634
S.E.2d 660.Records 3;Records 13
2. Grounds for suppression
Defendant was not entitled to suppression of her alcohol breath
test results based on the State Law Enforcement Di-
vision's failure to maintain any local records of test machine
malfunctions, repairs, or complaints, in violation of
statute; internet records were available.Murphy v. State
(S.C.App. 2011) 392 S.C. 626, 709 S.E.2d 685.Automobiles
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