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Sc. Const. art. VIII, § 9 — Article VIII / Section 9
SC Const., Article VIII, Section 9
Status: in_force

Organization, powers, and duties of municipalities. The structure and organization, powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities of the municipalities shall be established by general law; provided, that not more than five alternative forms of government shall be authorized.
Sc. Const. art. III, § 22 — Article III / Section 22
SC Const., Article III, Section 22
Status: in_force

Journal; yeas and nays. Each house shall keep a journal of its own proceedings, and cause the same to be published immediately after its adjournment, excepting such parts as, in its judgment, may require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the members of either house, on any question, shall, at the desire of ten members of the House or five members of the Senate, respectively, be entered on the journal. Any member of either house shall have liberty to dissent from and protest against any Act or resolution which he may think injurious to the public or to an individual, and have the reasons of his dissent entered on the journal.
Sc. Const. art. III, § 32 — Article III / Section 32
SC Const., Article III, Section 32
Status: in_force

Deleted.
Sc. Const. art. III, § 16 — Article III / Section 16
SC Const., Article III, Section 16
Status: in_force

Style of laws. The style of all laws shall be: "Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina."
Sc. Const. art. V, § 26 — Article V / Section 26
SC Const., Article V, Section 26
Status: in_force

Magistrates. The Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint a number of magistrates for each county as provided by law. The General Assembly shall provide for their terms of office and their civil and criminal jurisdiction. The terms of office must be uniform throughout the State.
Sc. Const. art. VIII, § 6 — Article VIII / Section 6
SC Const., Article VIII, Section 6
Status: in_force

Removal of county seat. No county seat shall be removed except by a vote of two thirds of the qualified electors of the county voting in an election held for that purpose; nor shall any county seat be established unless a majority of the electors voting on the question shall vote therefor.
Sc. Const. art. V, § 11 — Article V / Section 11
SC Const., Article V, Section 11
Status: in_force

Jurisdiction of Circuit Court. The Circuit Court shall be a general trial court with original jurisdiction in civil and criminal cases, except those cases in which exclusive jurisdiction shall be given to inferior courts, and shall have such appellate jurisdiction as provided by law.
Sc. Const. art. V, § 3 — Article V / Section 3
SC Const., Article V, Section 3
Status: in_force

Election of members of Supreme Court. The members of the Supreme Court shall be elected by a joint public vote of the General Assembly for a term of ten years, and shall continue in office until their successors shall be elected and qualified, and shall be classified so that the term of one of them shall expire every two years. In any contested election, the vote of each member of the General Assembly present and voting shall be recorded.
Sc. Const. art. IV, § 20 — Article IV / Section 20
SC Const., Article IV, Section 20
Status: in_force

Residence of Governor. The Governor shall reside at the Capital of the State except in case of epidemics, natural disaster, or the emergencies of war; but during the sittings of the General Assembly he shall reside where its sessions are held.
Sc. Const. art. V, § 22 — Article V / Section 22
SC Const., Article V, Section 22
Status: in_force

Grand and petit juries. The petit jury of the Circuit Court shall consist of twelve members and the number of jurors of other courts must be determined by law. All jurors in any trial court must agree to a verdict in order to render the same. The grand jury of each county, and the state grand jury, as the General Assembly may establish by general law, shall consist of eighteen members, twelve of whom must agree in a matter before it can be submitted to the Court. Each juror must be a resident of this State and have such other qualifications as the General Assembly may prescribe.
Sc. Const. art. V, § 27 — Article V / Section 27
SC Const., Article V, Section 27
Status: in_force

Judicial Merit Selection Commission. In addition to the qualifications for circuit court and court of appeals judges and Supreme Court justices contained in this article, the General Assembly by law shall establish a Judicial Merit Selection Commission to consider the qualifications and fitness of candidates for all judicial positions on these courts and on other courts of this State which are filled by election of the General Assembly. The General Assembly must elect the judges and justices from among the nominees of the commission to fill a vacancy on these courts. No person may be elected to these judicial positions unless he or she has been found qualified by the commission. Before a sitting member of the General Assembly may submit an application with the commission for his nomination to a judicial office, and before the commission may accept or consider such an application, the member of the General Assembly must first resign his office and have been out of office for a period established by law. Before a member of the commission may submit an application with the commission for his nomination to a judicial office, and before the commission may accept or consider such an application, the member of the commission must not have been a member of the commission for a period to be established by law.
Sc. Const. art. VII, § 9 — Article VII / Section 9
SC Const., Article VII, Section 9
Status: in_force

Election district; body corporate. Each County shall constitute one election district, and shall be a body politic and corporate.
Sc. Const. art. IV, § 6 — Article IV / Section 6
SC Const., Article IV, Section 6
Status: in_force

Succession when Governor-elect dies, declines to serve, or fails to take oath. If the Governor-elect dies or declines to serve, the Lieutenant Governor-elect shall become Governor for a full term. If the Governor-elect fails to take the oath of office at the commencement of his term, the Lieutenant Governor shall act as Governor until the oath is administered.
Sc. Const. art. XVII, § 5 — Article XVII / Section 5
SC Const., Article XVII, Section 5
Status: in_force

Public printing. The printing of the laws, journals, bills, legislative documents and papers for each branch of the General Assembly, with the printing required for the Executive and other departments of the State, shall be done as provided by law.
Sc. Const. art. VII, § 10 — Article VII / Section 10
SC Const., Article VII, Section 10
Status: in_force

Consolidation of two or more counties. The General Assembly may provide for the consolidation of two or more existing Counties if a majority of the qualified electors of such Counties voting at an election held for that purpose shall vote separately therefor, but such election shall not be held oftener than once in four years in the same Counties.
Sc. Const. art. III, § 11 — Article III / Section 11
SC Const., Article III, Section 11
Status: in_force

Election returns; quorum; absent members. Each house shall judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each house shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner and under such penalties as may be provided by law or rule.
Sc. Const. art. IV, § 17 — Article IV / Section 17
SC Const., Article IV, Section 17
Status: in_force

Duty of State officers to give information to Governor. All State officers, agencies, and institutions within the Executive Branch shall, when required by the Governor, give him information in writing upon any subject relating to the duties and functions of their respective offices, agencies, and institutions, including itemized accounts of receipts and disbursements.
Sc. Const. art. XVI, § 1 — Article XVI / Section 1
SC Const., Article XVI, Section 1
Status: in_force

Amendments. Any amendment or amendments to this Constitution may be proposed in the Senate or House of Representatives. However, for the general election in 1990, revision of an entire article or the addition of a new article may be proposed as a single amendment with only one question being required to be submitted to the electors. The amendment may delete, revise, and transpose provisions from other articles of the Constitution provided the provisions are germane to the subject matter of the article being revised or being proposed. If it is agreed to by two-thirds of the members elected to each House, the amendment or amendments must be entered on the Journals respectively, with the yeas and nays taken on it and must be submitted to the qualified electors of the State at the next general election for Representatives. If a majority of the electors qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly voting on the question vote in favor of the amendment or amendments and a majority of each branch of the next General Assembly, after the election and before another, ratify the amendment or amendments, by yeas and nays, they become part of the Constitution. The amendment or amendments must be read three times, on three several days, in each House.
Sc. Const. art. VII, § 3 — Article VII / Section 3
SC Const., Article VII, Section 3
Status: in_force

Inhabitants; taxable property; area of new county. No new County hereafter formed shall contain less than one one-hundred and twenty-fourth part of the whole number of inhabitants of the State, nor shall it have less assessed taxable property than one and one half million of dollars as shown by the last tax returns, nor shall it contain less area than four hundred square miles.
Sc. Const. art. VIII, § 1 — Article VIII / Section 1
SC Const., Article VIII, Section 1
Status: in_force

Powers of General Assembly. In the exercise of the police power the General Assembly has the right to prohibit and to regulate the manufacture, sale, and retail of alcoholic liquors or beverages within the State. The General Assembly may license persons or corporations to manufacture, sell, and retail alcoholic liquors or beverages within the State under the rules and restrictions as it considers proper, including the right to sell alcoholic liquors or beverages in containers of such size as the General Assembly considers appropriate. The General Assembly may prohibit the manufacture, sale, and retail of alcoholic liquors and beverages within the State, and may authorize and empower state, county, and municipal officers, all or either, under the authority and in the name of the State, to buy in any market and retail within the State liquors and beverages in such packages and quantities, under such rules and regulations, as it considers expedient. However, a license must not be granted to sell alcoholic beverages in less quantities than one ounce in licensed retail stores, or to sell them between seven o'clock p.m. and nine o'clock a.m., or to sell them to be drunk on the premises; however, the General Assembly shall not delegate to any municipal corporation the power to issue licenses to sell alcoholic liquors or beverages. However, licenses may be granted to sell and consume alcoholic liquors and beverages on the premises of businesses which engage primarily and substantially in the preparation and serving of meals or furnishing of lodging or on the premises of certain nonprofit organizations with limited membership not open to the general public, during such hours as the General Assembly may provide.
Sc. Const. art. VIII, § 3 — Article VIII / Section 3
SC Const., Article VIII, Section 3
Status: in_force

Number of counties. No more than forty-six counties shall exist at any time, but the General Assembly may provide for a lesser number.
Sc. Const. art. I, § 29 — Article I / Section 29
SC Const., Article I, Section 29
Status: in_force

Determining personal and real property taxes. Taxes on personal property must be laid upon the actual value of the property taxed, as the same shall be ascertained by an assessment made for the purpose of laying such tax. Taxes on real property must be ascertained by the methods provided by the General Assembly by general law as prescribed in Article X of this Constitution.
Sc. Const. art. V, § 13 — Article V / Section 13
SC Const., Article V, Section 13
Status: in_force

Judicial circuits. The General Assembly shall divide the State into judicial circuits of compact and contiguous territory. For each circuit a judge or judges shall be elected by a joint public vote of the General Assembly; provided, that in any contested election, the vote of each member of the General Assembly present and voting shall be recorded. He shall hold office for a term of six years, and at the time of his election he shall be an elector of a county of, and during his continuance in office he shall reside in, the circuit of which he is judge. The General Assembly may by law provide for additional circuit judges, to be assigned by the Chief Justice. Such additional circuit judges shall be elected in the same manner and for the same term as provided in the preceding paragraph of this section for other circuit judges, except that residence in a particular county or circuit shall not be a qualification for office.
Sc. Const. art. III, § 13 — Article III / Section 13
SC Const., Article III, Section 13
Status: in_force

Punishment of persons not members. Each house may punish by imprisonment during its sitting any person not a member who shall be guilty of disrespect to the house by any disorderly or contemptuous behavior in its presence, or who, during the time of its sitting, shall threaten harm to the body or estate of any member for anything said or done in either house, or who shall assault any of them therefor, or who shall assault or arrest any witness or other person ordered to attend the house in his going thereto or returning therefrom, or who shall rescue any person arrested by order of the house: Provided, That such time of imprisonment shall not in any case extend beyond the session of the General Assembly.
Sc. Const. art. IX, § 1 — Article IX / Section 1
SC Const., Article IX, Section 1
Status: in_force

Regulation of common carriers, publicly-owned utilities and privately-owned utilities serving the public. The General Assembly shall provide for appropriate regulation of common carriers, publicly owned utilities, and privately owned utilities serving the public as and to the extent required by the public interest.
Sc. Const. art. X, § 8 — Article X / Section 8
SC Const., Article X, Section 8
Status: in_force

Payments from treasuries. Money shall be drawn from the treasury of the State or the treasury of any of its political subdivisions only in pursuance of appropriations made by law. (1976 (59) 2217; 1977 (60) 90.)
Sc. Const. art. V, § 25 — Article V / Section 25
SC Const., Article V, Section 25
Status: in_force

Publication of Supreme Court and Court of Appeals decisions. The General Assembly shall provide for the publication of the decisions of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals.
Sc. Const. art. VII, § 6 — Article VII / Section 6
SC Const., Article VII, Section 6
Status: in_force

Indebtedness. All new Counties hereafter formed shall bear a just apportionment of the valid indebtedness of the old County or Counties from which they have been formed.
Sc. Const. art. VIII, § 13 — Article VIII / Section 13
SC Const., Article VIII, Section 13
Status: in_force

Joint administration of functions and exercise of powers. (A) Any county, incorporated municipality, or other political subdivision may agree with the State or with any other political subdivision for the joint administration of any function and exercise of powers and the sharing of the costs thereof. (B) Nothing in this Constitution may be construed to prohibit the State or any of its counties, incorporated municipalities, or other political subdivisions from agreeing to share the lawful cost, responsibility, and administration of functions with any one or more governments, whether within or without this State. (C) The prohibitions against dual officeholding contained in Article VI of this Constitution do not apply to any elected or appointed official or employee who serves on a regional council of government created under the authority of this section. (D) Counties may jointly develop an industrial or business park with other counties within the geographical boundaries of one or more of the member counties. The area comprising the parks and all property having a situs therein is exempt from all ad valorem taxation. The owners or lessees of any property situated in the park shall pay an amount equivalent to the property taxes or other in-lieu-of payments that would have been due and payable except for the exemption herein provided. The participating counties shall reduce the agreement to develop and share expenses and revenues of the park to a written instrument which is binding on all participating counties. Included within expenses are the costs to provide public services such as sewage, water, fire, and police protection. Notwithstanding the above provisions of this subsection, before a group of member counties may establish an industrial or business park as authorized herein, the General Assembly must first provide by law for the manner in which the value of the property in the park will be considered for purposes of bonded indebtedness of political subdivisions and school districts and for purposes of computing the index of taxpaying ability pursuant to any provision of law which measures the relative fiscal capacity of a school district to support its schools based on the assessed valuation of taxable property in the district as compared to the assessed valuation of the taxable property in all school districts of this State.
Sc. Const. art. V, § 7 — Article V / Section 7
SC Const., Article V, Section 7
Status: in_force

Composition and organization of Court of Appeals; terms of Court of Appeals. The Court of Appeals shall consist of a Chief Judge and no fewer than five Associate Judges, the appropriate number to be determined by law. The Chief Judge shall preside, and in his absence the senior Associate Judge. Subject to the supervision of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the Chief Judge shall set the terms of the Court of Appeals. The structure and organization of the Court of Appeals shall be determined by the General Assembly. The Court of Appeals shall sit in panels. The General Assembly may by statute provide for the court to sit en banc .
Sc. Const. art. III, § 29 — Article III / Section 29
SC Const., Article III, Section 29
Status: in_force

Determining personal and real property taxes. Taxes on personal property must be laid upon the actual value of the property taxed, as the same shall be ascertained by an assessment made for the purpose of laying such tax. Taxes on real property must be ascertained by the methods provided by the General Assembly by general law as prescribed in Article X of this Constitution.
Sc. Const. art. III, § 35 — Article III / Section 35
SC Const., Article III, Section 35
Status: in_force

Lands owned by aliens. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to enact laws limiting the number of acres of land which any alien or any corporation controlled by aliens may own within this State.
Sc. Const. art. III, § 28 — Article III / Section 28
SC Const., Article III, Section 28
Status: in_force

Debtor's exemption from attachment, levy, and sale. The General Assembly shall enact such laws as will exempt real and personal property of a debtor from attachment, levy and sale under any mesne or final process issued by any court or bankruptcy proceeding.
Sc. Const. art. XVII, § 13 — Article XVII / Section 13
SC Const., Article XVII, Section 13
Status: in_force

Use of funds realized by Greenwood County from sale of electric properties and system. Funds realized by Greenwood County from the sale of its electric properties and system shall be held intact as an investment fund. Only investments in securities permitted by law may be made and then only by the governing body of the county. No portion of the principal amount of the fund shall be used for any other purpose.
Sc. Const. art. XVII, § 4 — Article XVII / Section 4
SC Const., Article XVII, Section 4
Status: in_force

Supreme Being. No person who denies the existence of a Supreme Being shall hold any office under this Constitution.
Sc. Const. art. V, § 9 — Article V / Section 9
SC Const., Article V, Section 9
Status: in_force

Jurisdiction of Court of Appeals; binding effect of Supreme Court decisions. The Court of Appeals shall have such jurisdiction as the General Assembly shall prescribe by general law. The decisions of the Supreme Court shall bind the Court of Appeals as precedents.
Sc. Const. art. VI, § 9 — Article VI / Section 9
SC Const., Article VI, Section 9
Status: in_force

Removal of officers. Officers shall be removed for incapacity, misconduct, or neglect of duty, in such manner as may be provided by law when no mode of trial or removal is provided in this Constitution.
Sc. Const. art. XI, § 2 — Article XI / Section 2
SC Const., Article XI, Section 2
Status: in_force

State Superintendent of Education. There shall be a State Superintendent of Education who shall be the chief administrative officer of the public education system of the State and shall have such qualifications as may be prescribed by law.
Sc. Const. art. V, § 2 — Article V / Section 2
SC Const., Article V, Section 2
Status: in_force

Supreme Court. The Supreme Court shall consist of a Chief Justice and four Associate Justices, any three of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The Chief Justice shall preside, and in his absence the senior Associate Justice. In all cases decided by the Supreme Court, the concurrence of three of the Justices shall be necessary for a reversal of the judgment below.
Sc. Const. art. XVII, § 12 — Article XVII / Section 12
SC Const., Article XVII, Section 12
Status: in_force

Continuity of governmental operations during enemy attack. The General Assembly, in order to insure continuity of state and local governmental operations in periods of emergency resulting from disasters caused by enemy attack, shall have the power and the immediate duty (1) to provide for prompt and temporary succession to the powers and duties of public offices, of whatever nature and whether filled by election or appointment, the incumbents of which may become unavailable for carrying on the powers and duties of such offices, and (2) to adopt such other measures as may be necessary and proper for insuring the continuity of governmental operations. In the exercise of the powers hereby conferred, the General Assembly shall in all respects conform to the requirements of this Constitution, except to the extent that in the judgment of the General Assembly so to do would be impracticable or would admit of undue delay.
Sc. Const. art. IV, § 16 — Article IV / Section 16
SC Const., Article IV, Section 16
Status: in_force

Compensation of Governor and Lieutenant Governor. The Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall receive for their services compensation, which shall be neither increased nor diminished during the period for which they shall have been elected.
Sc. Const. art. I, § 31 — Article I / Section 31
SC Const., Article I, Section 31
Status: in_force

Public lands. Lands belonging to or under the control of the State shall never be donated, directly or indirectly, to private corporations or individuals, or to railroad companies. Nor shall such land be sold to corporations, or associations, for a less price than that for which it can be sold to individuals. This, however, shall not prevent the General Assembly from granting a right of way, not exceeding one hundred and fifty feet in width, as a mere easement to railroads across State land, nor to interfere with the discretion of the General Assembly in confirming the title to lands claimed to belong to the State, but used or possessed by other parties under an adverse claim.