S.C. Code Ann. § 27-18-76 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 18 / Section 27-18-76
SECTION 27-18-76. Claims for escheated United States savings bonds or proceeds from bond.
Status: in_force

A person claiming a United States savings bond escheated to the State under Section 27-18-75, or for the proceeds from the bond, may file a claim with the administrator. The administrator may approve the claim if the person is able to provide sufficient proof of the validity of the person's claim. No costs of prior court action regarding the savings bond or bonds which are the subject of the person's claim may be taxed against that person. Once a bond, or the proceeds from the bond, are remitted to a claimant, no action thereafter may be maintained by any other person against the administrator, the State, or any officer of the State, for or on account of the funds. The person's sole remedy, if any, must be against the claimant who received the bond or proceeds from the bond. Editor's Note 2015 Act No. 81, SECTION 3, provides as follows: "SECTION 3. This act applies to any United States savings bond that reaches maturity on, before, or after the effective date of this act."
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-29-170 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 29 / Section 27-29-170
SECTION 27-29-170. Jurisdiction of circuit court.
Status: in_force

Dispositions of subdivided lands are subject to this chapter, and the circuit court of this State has jurisdiction in claims or causes of action arising under this chapter, if: (1) The subdivider's principal office is located in this State; or (2) Any offer or disposition of subdivided lands is made in this State, whether or not the offeror or offeree is then present in this State, if the offer originates within this State or is directed by the offeror to a person or place in this State and received by the person or at the place to which it is directed.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-35-130 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 35 / Section 27-35-130
SECTION 27-35-130. Notice required for tenants at will and domestic servants.
Status: in_force

All tenants at will and domestic servants shall vacate the premises occupied upon twenty days' written notice.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-32-70 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 32 / Article 1 / Section 27-32-70
SECTION 27-32-70. Misrepresentation of right to cancel.
Status: in_force

It is a violation of this chapter for a seller of vacation time sharing plans, or his assignees, to misrepresent in any manner the purchaser's right to cancel provided by this chapter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-15-20 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 15 / Section 27-15-20
SECTION 27-15-20. Formal requisites of lease.
Status: in_force

No lease of the lands of the Catawba Indians, whether for life or lives or term of years, shall be held or deemed as valid and good in law unless it be signed and sealed by at least four of the head men or chiefs of the Catawba Indians.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-25-90 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 25 / Section 27-25-90
SECTION 27-25-90. Rights and powers of agents.
Status: in_force

The agent or agents so appointed shall have equal power and authority with the assignee or assignees to sell and dispose of the property assigned and distribute and pay the proceeds, according to the intent and provisions of the deed of assignment. All sales, hypothecations or other transfers of property, whether real or personal, shall be void and null unless made with the consent and concurrence of the assignee or assignees and agent or agents, or a majority of them, and should the assignee or assignees and agent or agents be equally divided on any question such question shall be decided by an umpire appointed as provided in SECTION 27-25-110.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-31-70 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 31 / Article 1 / Section 27-31-70
SECTION 27-31-70. Common elements shall not be divided.
Status: in_force

The common elements, both general and limited, shall remain undivided and shall not be the object of an action for partition or division of the co-ownership. Any covenant to the contrary shall be void.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-8-10 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 8 / Section 27-8-10
SECTION 27-8-10. Short title.
Status: in_force

This chapter may be cited as the South Carolina Conservation Easement Act of 1991.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-45-70 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 45 / Section 27-45-70
SECTION 27-45-70. Certification by board of compliance with requirements of chapter.
Status: in_force

Before a nonprofit organization may claim title to abandoned cultural property, the board shall certify that the nonprofit organization has followed the procedures as required by this chapter for notifying the lender. The board may require nonprofit organizations to submit such documentation of the nonprofit organization's attempts to notify the lender as the board considers necessary.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-40-320 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 40 / Article 1 / Section 27-40-320
SECTION 27-40-320. Effect of unsigned or undelivered rental agreement.
Status: in_force

(a) If the landlord does not sign and deliver a written rental agreement which has been signed and delivered to the landlord by the tenant, acceptance of rent without reservation by the landlord gives the rental agreement the same effect as if it had been signed and delivered by the landlord. (b) If the tenant does not sign and deliver a written rental agreement which has been signed and delivered to the tenant by the landlord, acceptance of possession and payment of rent without reservation gives the rental agreement the same effect as if it had been signed and delivered by the tenant. (c) If a rental agreement given effect by the operation of this section provides for a term longer than one year, it is effective for only one year.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-19-120 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 19 / Article 1 / Section 27-19-120
SECTION 27-19-120. Estates of felons shall not escheat.
Status: in_force

No property shall be vested in the State or any inquisition had by the escheator when any person shall have committed or may commit any felony against the State but such property shall descend to, and be vested in, the representatives of such person.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-8-110 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 8 / Section 27-8-110
SECTION 27-8-110. Use of trust funds to acquire land adjoining state parks.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism as an eligible trust fund recipient is authorized but not required to use monies it receives from the Conservation Bank Trust Fund to provide as a priority for the acquisition of lands adjoining the State Parks System to be used as part of the State Parks System.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-32-190 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 32 / Article 1 / Section 27-32-190
SECTION 27-32-190. Registration of plans; powers of the commission.
Status: in_force

(A) A vacation time sharing plan for sale or offered for sale in this State must be registered with the South Carolina Real Estate Commission as follows: (1) Upon receipt of an application for registration in proper form, the commission must initiate an examination to determine that the: (a) seller may sell, convey, otherwise transfer, or cause to be sold, conveyed, or otherwise transferred the vacation time sharing plan offered for sale if the purchaser complies with the terms of the offer; (b) advertising material and general promotional plan are not false or misleading; (c) requirements of this chapter have been fulfilled; (d) seller or its officers, directors, and principals have not been convicted of a crime involving land dispositions, crimes of moral turpitude, securities law violations, fraudulent business activities, or any aspect of the vacation time sharing business in this State, the United States, or another state or foreign country within the past ten years, and have not been subject to an injunction or administrative order within the past ten years restraining a false or misleading promotional plan involving any of the activities above; and (e) interests in accommodations and facilities conveyed to a purchaser are free and clear of all liens, mortgages, and encumbrances of every kind, the existence or foreclosure of which may result in loss or diminution of the purchaser's ownership or use rights, as represented in the vacation time sharing plan. The seller shall provide adequate assurances to the commission that all interests conveyed to purchasers in accommodations and facilities, and the accommodations and facilities themselves, shall remain unencumbered excepting only tax liens, owners' association assessments, encumbrances including mortgage liens which are subordinate to the vacation time sharing plan or other encumbrances arising from the purchaser's actions, and purchase money mortgages, contracts for deed, or similar purchase money security interests arising from transactions in which the purchasers acquired their interests. Those assurances may consist of bonds, nondisturbance instruments, and recorded instruments advising third parties of the existence of purchaser use rights and providing for subordination of future liens. For those plans in which an interest in accommodations and facilities is not conveyed, the commission may require either a cash or surety bond, or both, in an amount up to but not to exceed a combined total of two hundred fifty thousand dollars. (2) Within thirty days from the date the commission receives an application for registration, the commission must enter an order registering the vacation time sharing plan or rejecting the registration. If an order of rejection is not entered within thirty days from the date of application, the vacation time sharing plan is considered registered unless the applicant has consented in writing to a delay. A reasonable request for an extension of time by the commission must not be withheld. (a) If the commission affirmatively determines, upon inquiry and examination, that the requirements of this chapter have been met, it must enter an order registering the plan. (b) If the commission determines, upon inquiry and examination, that any of the requirements of this chapter have not been met, the commission must notify the applicant that the application for registration must be corrected in the particulars specified within fifteen days. The commission has the discretion to grant a longer period of time for the applicant to make the required corrections. If the requirements are not met within the time allowed, the commission must enter an order rejecting the registration and including the findings of fact upon which the order is based. The order rejecting the registration is not effective for twenty days during which the applicant may petition for reconsideration and must be granted a hearing. (c) If it appears that a person, company, or a business organization has engaged or is about to engage in an act or practice constituting a violation of a provision of this chapter or any rule or order under it, the commission, through the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, with or without prior administrative proceedings, may bring an action in the circuit court to enjoin the acts or practices and to enforce compliance with this chapter or any rule or order under it. The commission must notify, whenever practicable, a person or business violating this chapter before recourse in the circuit court. Upon proper showing, injunctive relief or temporary restraining orders may be granted, and a receiver or conservator may be appointed. Neither the commission nor the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation is required to post bond in a court proceeding. (B) The commission may: (1) make a public or private investigation it considers necessary, either within or outside of this State, to determine if a person has violated or is about to violate this chapter or any rule or order under it, or to aid in the enforcement of this chapter or in the prescribing of rules and forms under it; (2) require or permit a person to file a statement in writing, under oath or otherwise as the commission determines, as to all facts and circumstances concerning the matter to be investigated; (3) for the purpose of any investigation or proceeding pursuant to this chapter, the commission or an officer designated by rule may administer oaths or affirmation and, upon its own motion or upon request of a party, must subpoena witnesses, compel their attendance, take evidence, and require the production of a matter relevant to the investigation, including the existence, description, nature, custody, condition, and location of books, documents, or other tangible things and the identity and location of persons having knowledge of relevant facts or another matter reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of material evidence; (4) apply to the circuit court for an order compelling compliance upon a person's failure to obey a subpoena or to answer questions propounded by the investigating officer and upon reasonable notice to all persons affected by it, through the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation; (5) issue an order requiring the seller to cease and desist from an unlawful practice and to take affirmative action to carry out the purposes of this chapter if, after notice and hearing, the commission determines that a seller has: (a) violated a provision of this chapter; (b) directly or through an agent or employee knowingly engaged in false, deceptive, or misleading advertising, promotional, or sales methods to offer or dispose of an interest in a vacation time sharing plan; (c) made a substantial change in the plan of development and sale of the vacation time sharing plan after the order of the registration without obtaining the prior written approval of the commission; or (d) violated a lawful order or rule of the commission; (6) make findings of fact in writing that the public interest is irreparably harmed by delay in issuing an order and issue a temporary cease and desist order. Before issuing the temporary cease and desist order, the commission, whenever possible by telephone or otherwise, must give notice to the seller of the proposal to issue a cease and desist order. Each temporary cease and desist order must include in its terms a provision that, upon request, a hearing must be held promptly to determine whether or not the order becomes permanent; (7) revoke a registration of a vacation time sharing plan if, after notice and hearing upon a written finding of fact, the commission determines that the seller has: (a) failed to comply with the terms of a cease and desist order; (b) been convicted in a court of competent jurisdiction, after the filing of the application for registration, of a crime involving fraud, deception, false pretenses, misrepresentation, false advertising, or dishonest dealing; (c) disposed of, concealed, or diverted funds or assets of a person so as to defeat the rights of vacation time sharing plan purchasers; (d) failed to faithfully perform any stipulation or agreement made with the commission as an inducement to grant a registration, to reinstate a registration, or to approve any promotional plan or advertisement; or (e) made intentional misrepresentations or concealed material facts in an application for registration; and (8) issue a cease and desist order instead of revoking a registration if it finds, after notice and hearing, that the seller has been guilty of a violation for which revocation could be ordered.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-8-70 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 8 / Section 27-8-70
SECTION 27-8-70. Effect of easement on assessment of property for ad valorem tax purposes.
Status: in_force

For ad valorem tax purposes real property that is burdened by a conservation easement must be assessed and taxed on a basis that reflects the existence of the easement.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-40-540 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 40 / Article 5 / Section 27-40-540
SECTION 27-40-540. Tenant to use and occupy.
Status: in_force

Unless otherwise agreed, a tenant shall occupy his dwelling unit only as a dwelling unit and shall not conduct or permit any illegal activities thereon.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-18-40 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 18 / Section 27-18-40
SECTION 27-18-40. Conditions for taking custody of intangible unclaimed property.
Status: in_force

Unless otherwise provided in this chapter or by other statute of this State, intangible property is subject to the custody of this State as unclaimed property if the conditions raising a presumption of abandonment under Sections 27-18-30 and 27-18-60 through 27-18-170 are satisfied and: (1) the last known address, as shown on the records of the holder, of the apparent owner is in this State; (2) the records of the holder do not reflect the identity of the person entitled to the property and it is established that the last known address of the person entitled to the property is in this State; (3) the records of the holder do not reflect the last known address of the apparent owner, and it is established that: (a) the last known address of the person entitled to the property is in this State; or (b) the holder is a domiciliary or a government or governmental subdivision or agency of this State and has not previously paid or delivered the property to the state of the last known address of the apparent owner or other person entitled to the property; (4) the last known address, as shown on the records of the holder, of the apparent owner is in a state that does not provide by law for the escheat or custodial taking of the property or its escheat or unclaimed property law is not applicable to the property and the holder is a domiciliary or a government or governmental subdivision or agency of this State; (5) the last known address, as shown on the records of the holder, of the apparent owner is in a foreign nation and the holder is a domiciliary or a government or governmental subdivision or agency of this State; or (6) the transaction out of which the property arose occurred in this State and (a)(i) the last known address of the apparent owner or other person entitled to the property is unknown, or (ii) the last known address of the apparent owner or other person entitled to the property is in a state that does not provide by law for the escheat or custodial taking of the property or its escheat or unclaimed property law is not applicable to the property, and (b) the holder is a domiciliary of a state that does not provide by law for the escheat or custodial taking of the property or its escheat or unclaimed property law is not applicable to the property.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-37-100 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 37 / Section 27-37-100
SECTION 27-37-100. Effect of verdict for plaintiff.
Status: in_force

If the verdict be for the plaintiff the magistrate shall within five days issue a writ of ejectment and the tenant shall be ejected by the constable or special constable or the sheriff of the county.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-18-150 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 18 / Section 27-18-150
SECTION 27-18-150. Credit memo.
Status: in_force

(A) A credit memo issued in the ordinary course of an issuer's business which remains unclaimed by the owner for more than five years after becoming payable or distributable is presumed abandoned. (B) In the case of a credit memo, the amount presumed abandoned is the amount credited to the recipient of the memo.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-21-20 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 21 / Section 27-21-20
SECTION 27-21-20. Property recovered by sheriff or police chief; ascertaining and notifying owner; disposition where owner not found; records.
Status: in_force

(A) If property has been recovered by a sheriff of a county or chief of police of a municipality and ownership is ascertained, the sheriff or chief of police must notify its owner as provided by subsection (B). (B) A sheriff or chief of police must provide notice: (1) within fifteen days; (2) by registered mail, return receipt requested; (3) describing the property and including an identifying serial number if available; and (4) advising the owner that the property may be sold at auction pursuant to Section 27-21-22 if not reclaimed within sixty days of mailing of the notice. (C) If after diligent efforts the owner of the property cannot be ascertained or if the property is not reclaimed or sold at public auction, the sheriff of a county or chief of police of a municipality may dispose of any recovered stolen or abandoned property as provided in this subsection. (1) Property that is not suitable for sale, including, but not limited to, clothing, food, prescription drugs, weapons, household cleaning products, chemicals, or items that appear nonusable, including, but not limited to: (a) electric components that appear to have been skeletonized, where parts have been removed and are no longer in working order; or (b) items that have been broken up and only pieces exist may be destroyed by the jurisdiction holding the property. (2) The sheriff or chief of police may use any property recovered by his jurisdiction if the property is placed on the jurisdiction's inventory as property of the jurisdiction. (3) The sheriff or chief of police, with the consent of the appropriate governing body, may turn over to any organization exempt from tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, items of abandoned or recovered property that may be used for the betterment of that organization. However, the accrued value of the items given to an individual organization as provided above by a sheriff or chief of police shall not exceed a value of one thousand dollars in the respective government entity's fiscal year. (D) A jurisdiction recovering property pursuant to the provisions of this section shall maintain a permanent record of all property recovered and its disposition. Effect of Amendment The 2008 amendment, in subsection (A), substituted "by subsection (B)" for "in Section 56-5-5630"; and rewrote subsection (B).
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-18-380 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 18 / Section 27-18-380
SECTION 27-18-380. Duties which arose prior to effective date of chapter unaffected; enforcement and penalties of prior laws unaffected; initial report under this chapter of property not previously required to be reported.
Status: in_force

(A) This chapter does not relieve a holder of a duty that arose before the effective date of this chapter to report, pay, or deliver property. A holder who did not comply with the law in effect before the effective date of this chapter is subject to the applicable enforcement and penalty provisions that then existed and they are continued in effect for the purpose of this subsection, subject to Section 27-18-300(B). (B) The initial report filed under this chapter for property that was not required to be reported before the effective date of this chapter but which is subject to this chapter must include all items of property that would have been presumed abandoned during the ten-year period preceding the effective date of this chapter as if this chapter had been in effect during that period.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-31-240 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 31 / Article 1 / Section 27-31-240
SECTION 27-31-240. Insurance.
Status: in_force

The council of co-owners shall insure the property against risks, without prejudice to the right of each co-owner to insure his apartment on his own account and for his own benefit.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-39-230 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 39 / Article 3 / Section 27-39-230
SECTION 27-39-230. Property exempt from distress.
Status: in_force

The following property is exempt from distress for rent: (1) personal clothing and food within the dwelling; (2) bedsteads; (3) bedding and cooking utensils; and (4) property which is owned by a third party for which the magistrate finds ownership was not transferred from the tenant to the third party for the purpose of avoiding distraint.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-32-20 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 32 / Article 1 / Section 27-32-20
SECTION 27-32-20. Advertisement or conveyance of plan in absence of licensure of seller and prior registration of plan prohibited; materials to be furnished commission by seller of plans; exemptions.
Status: in_force

It is a violation of this chapter for a seller of vacation time sharing plans to: (1) sell, lease, encumber, or convey in any manner or to solicit or advertise those transactions unless the vacation time sharing plan has first been registered with the commission. (2) fail to make available upon request to the commission the following materials and amendments or changes to them made while sales continue: (a) a copy of the contract by which the rights and obligations of the parties are established; (b) copies of promotional brochures, pamphlets, advertisements, or other material disseminated to the public in connection with the sale of the vacation time sharing plan and verbatim scripts of all radio and television advertising in connection with it; (c) a statement of the type of entity through which the selling of vacation time sharing plans is to be carried out, including a list of the names and addresses of all directors, principal officers, dealers, distributors, and sales personnel soliciting in or from the State of South Carolina, and the name and address of the seller's agent for service of process within the State; (d) copies of all contracts between the person offering the vacation time sharing plan for sale to the public and each business providing accommodations and facilities to purchasers of the plan; (e) copies of all rules, regulations, conditions, or limitations on use of the accommodations or facilities available pursuant to the vacation time sharing plan; (f) synopsis of any sales presentation made by the seller to the purchaser over the telephone or other electronic device; (g) projected budget of all recurring expenses which may become the responsibility of all time sharing purchasers. (3) Upon receipt of all materials required by item (2), the commission shall determine their sufficiency and satisfactory compliance with this chapter. The commission then shall issue its order approving their use, and the vacation time sharing plan is then considered to be registered. (4) The following communications are exempt from the provisions of this chapter: (a) stockholder communication including an annual report or interim financial report, proxy material, or other material required to be delivered to a purchaser by an agency of a state or the federal government; (b) oral or written statement disseminated by a seller to broadcast or print media, other than paid advertising or promotional material, regarding plans for the acquisition or development of vacation time sharing property. A rebroadcast or other dissemination of these oral statements to a prospective purchaser by a seller in any manner or a distribution of copies of print media to a prospective purchaser by a seller in any manner is considered an advertisement; (c) advertisement or promotion in any medium to the general public if the advertisement or promotion clearly states that it is not an offer in a jurisdiction in which applicable registration requirements are not fully satisfied; (d) billboard or other sign that is affixed to real or personal property, that is not disseminated by other than visual means to a prospective purchaser, and that does not suggest or invite action on the part of the prospective purchaser; and (e) communication addressed to and relating to the account of any person who has executed previously a contract for the purchase of a time sharing interest in a time sharing plan relating to the communication.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-5-50 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 5 / Section 27-5-50
SECTION 27-5-50. Warranties by life tenants; collateral warranties.
Status: in_force

All warranties which shall be made by any tenant for life of any lands, tenements or hereditaments descending or coming to any person in reversion or remainder shall be void and of no effect. All collateral warranties which shall be made of any lands, tenements or hereditaments by any ancestor who has no estate of inheritance in possession in them shall be void against his heir.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-33-40 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 33 / Section 27-33-40
SECTION 27-33-40. Concurrent jurisdiction of judges and magistrates.
Status: in_force

The judges of the circuit courts and county courts in this State shall have concurrent jurisdiction with and may exercise all of the duties and powers conferred upon magistrates by any provisions of Chapters 33 through 41 of this Title.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-18-310 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 18 / Section 27-18-310
SECTION 27-18-310. Requests for reports; examination of records; demand for payment; estimated amount of abandoned property.
Status: in_force

(A) The administrator may require any person who has not filed a report to file a verified report stating whether or not the person is holding any unclaimed property reportable or deliverable under this chapter. (B) The administrator, at reasonable times and upon reasonable notice, may examine the records of any person to determine whether the person has complied with the provisions of this chapter. The administrator may conduct the examination even if the person believes it is not in possession of any property reportable or deliverable under this chapter. (C) If a person is treated under Section 27-18-130 as the holder of the property only insofar as the interest of the business association in the property is concerned, the administrator, pursuant to subsection (B), may examine the records of the person if the administrator has given the notice required by subsection (B) to both the person and the business association at least ninety days before the examination. (D) If an examination of the records of a person results in the disclosure of property reportable and deliverable under this chapter the administrator shall give notice to the holder stating the amount due plus applicable interest and penalties and his demand for payment. Payment or written formal protest must be made within sixty days from the receipt of the notice or the holder is subject to penalties as provided under Section 27-18-350(B) or criminal prosecution as provided in Section 27-18-350(D). (E) If a holder fails after the effective date of this chapter to maintain the records required by Section 27-18-320 and the records of the holder available for the periods subject to this chapter are insufficient to permit the preparation of a report, the administrator may require the holder to report and pay such amounts as may reasonably be estimated from any available records.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-32-230 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 32 / Article 1 / Section 27-32-230
SECTION 27-32-230. Arbitration; automatic revocation of license; applicant receiving award to subrogate rights.
Status: in_force

(A) A person registered or licensed pursuant to this chapter and a person claiming an interest in the fund shall submit to the decision of a Board of Arbitrators, which is final and binding. The Board of Arbitrators must be composed of three arbitrators, one chosen by the applicant, one chosen by the registrant or licensee, and the commission or its designee. If the registrant or licensee fails to nominate an arbitrator within five days of request or does not respond to the claim, the commission shall nominate the third arbitrator. The decision of the majority rules. Arbitrations must be held at the office of the commission at a time and according to rules of procedure it prescribes. (B) Upon payment of a claim, the registration or license, of the offending licensee is revoked automatically. The registrant or licensee is not qualified for reregistering or relicensing until all amounts paid on his account are repaid in full to the recovery fund, together with annual interest at the rate of eight percent. This section does not prevent the commission or another authority from pursuing another remedy at law or equity. (C) An applicant receiving an award from the fund shall subrogate all rights relative to the claim to the commission to the full extent of all amounts paid, including interest, and shall cooperate with the commission in the prosecution of the subrogated claim. Any amounts so recovered against a registrant or licensee or other responsible parties must be deposited into the fund, less the costs and expenses of collection.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-45-30 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 45 / Section 27-45-30
SECTION 27-45-30. Notice to known lender of intent to terminate loan and claim title to loaned property.
Status: in_force

(A) A nonprofit organization holding abandoned cultural property shall attempt to notify the lender of intent to terminate the loan through the following methods before claiming title to the property: (1) by sending a certified mail letter to the lender's last known address and if the lender has not responded to this letter within sixty days; (2) by contacting the tax commission in the state of the lender's last known address in writing to request a forwarding address for the lender and sending a letter by certified mail to this address, if different from the address to which a certified letter has been mailed pursuant to the requirements of item (1); and (3) by publishing notice and listing of the property in: (a) one newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the nonprofit organization is located for at least once a week for four weeks and in the county of the lender's last known address; and (b) a publication or catalogue of the nonprofit organization. (B) The notice required by subsection (A) must contain: (1) the name and last known address, if any, of the last known owner of the property; (2) a description of the property; and (3) a statement that if proof of claim is not presented in writing by the lender, his heirs or assignees to the nonprofit organization, and if the owner's right to receive the property is not established to the nonprofit organization's satisfaction within one hundred twenty days from the date of the fourth published notice in newspapers, the property is considered abandoned and becomes the property of the nonprofit organization.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-39-330 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 39 / Article 3 / Section 27-39-330
SECTION 27-39-330. Tax liens on property sold under distress.
Status: in_force

The purchaser at a sale of chattels seized under a distress warrant shall take the property subject to any lien for taxes thereon.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-32-365 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 32 / Article 3 / Section 27-32-365
SECTION 27-32-365. Trustee's deed; contents; effect; liability of trustee.
Status: in_force

(A) The trustee's deed must include the name and address of the trustee, the name and address of the buyer, the name of the obligor, including the owner of the timeshare estate on the date of the recordation of the notice of sale, and the name and address of the preparer of the trustee's deed. The trustee's deed must recite that the certificate of compliance was recorded after the regular conduct of a sale, and shall contain no warranties of title from the trustee. (B) Upon the recording of the trustee's deed, the certificate of compliance and trustee's deed together are conclusive evidence of the truth of the matters set forth therein. (C) The trustee's deed conveys to the purchaser all right, title, and interest in the timeshare estate that the obligor had, or had the power to convey, at the time of the execution of the mortgage or recording of the claim of lien together with all right, title, and interest in the owner or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of the mortgage or recording of the claim of lien. (D) If an action is filed based on any claim that the trustee failed to follow the procedures in this article or that the sale was otherwise improper, it is presumed that the trustee was acting solely as the agent of the lienholder, and any liability resulting therefrom is the sole responsibility of the lienholder, mortgagee or managing entity and not the trustee.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-29-110 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 29 / Section 27-29-110
SECTION 27-29-110. Powers of commission as to investigations.
Status: in_force

(a) The commission may: (1) make the necessary public or private investigations within or outside of this State to determine whether any person has violated or is about to violate this chapter or any rule or order hereunder, or to aid in the enforcement of this chapter or in the prescribing of rules and forms hereunder; (2) require or permit any person to file a statement in writing, under oath or otherwise as the commission determines, as to all the facts and circumstances concerning the matter to be investigated. (b) For the purpose of any investigation or proceeding under this chapter, the commission or any officer designated by rule may administer oaths or affirmations, and upon its own motion or upon request of any party shall subpoena witnesses, compel their attendance, take evidence, and require the production of any matter which is relevant to the investigation, including the existence, description, nature, custody, condition, and location of any books, documents, or other tangible things and the identity and location of persons having knowledge of relevant facts or any other matter reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of material evidence. (c) Upon failure to obey a subpoena or to answer questions propounded by the investigating officer and upon reasonable notice to all persons affected thereby, the commission may apply to the circuit court for an order compelling compliance.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-32-240 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 32 / Article 1 / Section 27-32-240
SECTION 27-32-240. Property taxation of time share units; valuation; assessment; enforcement.
Status: in_force

(1) For purposes of property taxation, a time share unit operating under a vacation time sharing ownership plan as defined in item (7) of Section 27-32-10, must be valued in the same manner as if the unit were owned by a single owner. The total cumulative purchase price paid by the time share owners for a unit may not be utilized by the tax assessor as a factor in determining the assessed value of the unit. A unit operating under a vacation time sharing lease plan as defined in item (8) of Section 27-32-10, may, however, be assessed as other income producing and investment property is assessed. (2) The assessment and taxation of real property committed to a vacation time ownership plan must be in the name of the person that is designated to provide or receive the funds for payment of the taxes. (3) Should the person fail to pay the taxes, an execution for the taxes must be issued in the joint name of all the owners of the time sharing periods and must be collected as provided by law.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-19-80 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 19 / Article 1 / Section 27-19-80
SECTION 27-19-80. Advertising land for sale; terms of sale.
Status: in_force

As soon as the Secretary of State shall receive the process in SECTION 27-19-70 mentioned, he shall advertise the sale of such lands in a newspaper of the county or other nearest gazette and also in the most public places of the county in which the lands lie, giving six weeks' public notice, on a credit of twelve months, payable in lawful money. He shall, moreover, take good and sufficient surety and a mortgage of the premises before the title shall be altered or changed.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-28-10 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 28 / Section 27-28-10
SECTION 27-28-10. Short title.
Status: in_force

This chapter may be cited as the "Prohibition of Unfair Real Estate Service Agreements Act".
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-5-60 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 5 / Section 27-5-60
SECTION 27-5-60. Feoffments made by person wrongfully in possession.
Status: in_force

If any person after such entry as is mentioned in SECTION 15-67-430 into lands or tenements holden with force make a feoffment or other discontinuance to any person to have maintenance or to take away and defraud the possessor of his recovery in any wise and afterwards in an action thereof to be taken or pursued before magistrates by due inquiry thereof such feoffments and discontinuances are duly proved to be made for maintenance as aforesaid then such feoffments or other discontinuances shall be void, frustrate and of no effect.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-35-110 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 35 / Section 27-35-110
SECTION 27-35-110. Time of expiration of agreed tenancy for term or years.
Status: in_force

When there is an express agreement, either oral or written, as to the term of the tenancy of a tenant for term or for years such tenancy shall end without notice upon the last day of the agreed term.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-35-30 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 35 / Section 27-35-30
SECTION 27-35-30. Tenancies deemed month to month; exceptions.
Status: in_force

All tenancies of real estate other than agricultural lands shall be deemed from month to month unless there be an agreement otherwise. But this section shall not apply to domestic servants, farm laborers or tenants at will.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-8-60 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 8 / Section 27-8-60
SECTION 27-8-60. Applicability of Conservation Easement Act to, and its effect on, property interests.
Status: in_force

(A) This chapter applies to interests that meet the definition of conservation easement under Section 27-8-20(1) whether designated as a conservation easement or a covenant, an equitable servitude, a restriction, an easement, or otherwise. (B) This chapter does not invalidate an interest designated as a conservation or preservation easement or a covenant, an equitable servitude, a restriction, an easement, or otherwise, that is enforceable under other laws of this State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-16-150 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 16 / Section 27-16-150
SECTION 27-16-150. Tribe not required to pay fee in lieu of school taxes.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the Tribe is not required to pay any fee in lieu of school taxes beginning with school years after 2007-2008.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-40-770 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 40 / Article 7 / Section 27-40-770
SECTION 27-40-770. Periodic tenancy; holdover remedies.
Status: in_force

(a) The landlord or the tenant may terminate a week-to-week tenancy by a written notice given to the other at least seven days before the termination date specified in the notice. (b) The landlord or the tenant may terminate a month-to-month tenancy by a written notice given to the other at least thirty days before the termination date specified in the notice. (c) If the tenant remains in possession without the landlord's consent after expiration of the term of the rental agreement or its termination, the landlord may bring an action for possession. If the holdover is not in good faith, the landlord may recover reasonable attorney's fees. If the tenant's holdover is a wilful violation of the provisions of this chapter or the rental agreement, the landlord may also recover an amount not more than three months periodic rent or twice the actual damages sustained by him, whichever is greater and reasonable attorney's fees. If the landlord consents to the tenant's continued occupancy, SECTION 27-40-310(d) applies.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-43-20 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 43 / Article 1 / Section 27-43-20
SECTION 27-43-20. Removal to plot agreeable to governing body and relatives; determination of suitable plot in case of disagreement.
Status: in_force

The plot to which the graves are removed shall be one which is mutually agreeable between the governing body of the county or municipality and the relatives of the deceased persons. If a suitable plot cannot be agreed upon between the parties concerned the matter shall be finally determined by a board of three members which shall be convened within fifteen days after final disagreement on the new location of the plot. The board shall be appointed as follows: One member shall be appointed by the county or municipality, one member shall be appointed by the relatives, and a third member shall be selected by the two. The decision of the board shall be final.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-47-430 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 47 / Article 3 / Section 27-47-430
SECTION 27-47-430. Aesthetic standards; change in standards; notice; burden to show home unsafe, unsanitary, or not in compliance with aesthetic standards.
Status: in_force

The owner has the burden of proving a manufactured home located in the park is unsafe or unsanitary or fails to meet the park's aesthetic standards. A resident must not be forced to make an aesthetic change to his home's original design which would create undue financial hardship and which is contrary to the terms of the rental agreement during the term of the rental agreement. This section does not prohibit a park from requiring compliance with new or upgraded aesthetic standards which apply generally to homes in the park upon expiration of the lease term or upon a continuance of a tenancy beyond the original term. However, notice of the requirement must be given by the owner to the tenant at least thirty days before the effective date of the change.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-32-400 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 32 / Article 4 / Section 27-32-400
SECTION 27-32-400. Citation of article.
Status: in_force

This article may be cited as the "Time Sharing Transaction Procedures Act".
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-18-370 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 18 / Section 27-18-370
SECTION 27-18-370. Application of chapter to foreign property or transactions.
Status: in_force

This chapter does not apply to any property held, due, and owing in a foreign country and arising out of a foreign transaction.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-40-630 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 40 / Article 7 / Section 27-40-630
SECTION 27-40-630. Wrongful failure to provide essential services.
Status: in_force

(a) If the landlord is negligent or wilful in failing to provide essential services as required by the rental agreement or SECTION 27-40-440, the tenant may give written notice to the landlord specifying the breach and may: (1) procure reasonable amounts of the required essential services during the period of the landlord's noncompliance and deduct their actual and reasonable cost from the rent; or (2) recover damages based upon the diminution in the fair-market rental value of the dwelling unit and reasonable attorney's fees. (b) If the tenant proceeds under this section, he may not proceed under SECTION 27-40-610 as to that breach. (c) Under no circumstances should this section be interpreted to authorize the tenant to make repairs on the rental property and deduct the cost of the repairs from rent. In the event that the tenant unlawfully acts without the landlord's consent and authorizes repairs, any mechanic's lien arising therefrom shall be unenforceable. (d) Rights of the tenant under this section do not arise until he has given notice to the landlord and the landlord fails to act within a reasonable time or if the condition was caused by the deliberate or negligent act or omission of the tenant, a member of his family, or other person on the premises with the tenant's permission or who is allowed access to the premises by the tenant.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-6-80 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 6 / Section 27-6-80
SECTION 27-6-80. Effect on common law.
Status: in_force

This chapter supersedes the common law rule against perpetuities.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-27-90 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 27 / Section 27-27-90
SECTION 27-27-90. Recovery for mesne profits.
Status: in_force

The plaintiff in an action for the recovery of lands and tenements shall recover nothing for the mesne profits of the land, except on such improvements as are made by him or those under whom he claims.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-50-260 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 50 / Article 2 / Section 27-50-260
SECTION 27-50-260. Tenant compliance with evacuation orders.
Status: in_force

If state or local authorities order a mandatory evacuation of an area that includes a residential property subject to a vacation rental, the tenant in possession of the property shall comply with the evacuation order.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-8-20 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 8 / Section 27-8-20
SECTION 27-8-20. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Conservation easement" means a nonpossessory interest of a holder in real property imposing limitations or affirmative obligations, the purposes of which include one or more of the following: (a) retaining or protecting natural, scenic, or open-space aspects of real property; (b) ensuring the availability of real property for agricultural, forest, recreational, educational, or open-space use; (c) protecting natural resources; (d) maintaining or enhancing air or water quality; (e) preserving the historical, architectural, archaeological, or cultural aspects of real property. (2) "Holder" means: (a) a governmental body empowered to hold an interest in real property under the laws of this State or the United States; or (b) a charitable, not-for-profit or educational corporation, association, or trust the purposes or powers of which include one or more of the purposes listed in subsection (1). (3) "Real property" includes surface waters. (4) "Third-party right of enforcement" means a right provided by the grantor of the conservation easement to enforce selected terms of the conservation easement which is granted to a governmental body, a charitable, not-for-profit, or educational corporation, association, or trust, which though not the holder of the easement, is eligible to be the holder of such easement.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-19-310 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 19 / Article 5 / Section 27-19-310
SECTION 27-19-310. Duties of escheator devolved upon Secretary of State as agent of Department of Administration.
Status: in_force

The duties of escheator are devolved upon the Secretary of State as agent of the Department of Administration and as escheator the Secretary of State shall act under the direction and control of the Department of Administration and, under the direction of the department, may use such of the funds and the services of such subagents of the department as in its discretion may be necessary to efficiency in discovering, renting, litigating and realizing money from escheated lands under existing law. Code Commissioner's Note At the direction of the Code Commissioner, references in this section to the offices of the former State Budget and Control Board, Office of the Governor, or other agencies, were changed to reflect the transfer of them to the Department of Administration or other entities, pursuant to the directive of the South Carolina Restructuring Act, 2014 Act No. 121, SECTION 5(D)(1), effective July 1, 2015.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-1-40 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 1 / Section 27-1-40
SECTION 27-1-40. Party walls in cities and towns.
Status: in_force

Every person who shall erect in a city or town any building with brick shall have liberty to set half his partition wall on his next neighbor's ground, providing he leave a toothing in the corner of such wall for his neighbor to adjoin unto.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-2-10 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 2 / Section 27-2-10
SECTION 27-2-10. System adopted; title.
Status: in_force

The system of plane coordinates which has been established by the National Ocean Survey and the National Geodetic Survey for defining and stating the positions or location of points on the surface of the earth within this State may be cited as the "South Carolina Coordinate System Act." For the purpose of the use of this system the State is designated as one zone.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-32-345 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 32 / Article 3 / Section 27-32-345
SECTION 27-32-345. Public sale procedures; certificate of sale.
Status: in_force

(A) The sale of a timeshare estate by public auction must be held in the county in which the timeshare estate is located, on the date and at the time and place designated in the notice of sale. (B) Any person, including the lienholder, may bid at the sale. The trustee may bid for the lienholder but not for himself or herself. If the trustee designates another person to bid for the lienholder, the trustee may conduct the sale and act as the auctioneer. (C) The person conducting the sale may postpone the sale from time to time. In such case, notice of postponement must be given by oral public proclamation thereof by the person conducting the sale at the time and place last appointed for the sale. The notice of sale regarding the postponed sale must be mailed and recorded pursuant to Section 27-32-330. The effective date of the initial notice of sale for purposes of Section 27-32-330 is not affected by a postponed sale. (D) The buyer must pay in cash or certified funds at the day of sale the price bid to the person acting as the auctioneer. The lienholder must receive a credit on its bid for the amount set forth in the notice of sale as required by Section 27-32-330. (E) Upon the issuance of the trustee's deed, the buyer at the sale is entitled to possession and use of the timeshare estate in accordance with the timeshare instrument. Foreclosure by an assessment lienholder does not affect the interest of the mortgage lienholder except as provided in Section 27-32-320(C). Any other person thereafter claiming possession of the timeshare estate is considered to be a tenant at sufferance, and the buyer is entitled, upon application to a court of competent jurisdiction, to a writ of possession. (F) On the date of the sale and upon receipt of the amount bid, the trustee must issue to the buyer a certificate of sale stating that a foreclosure conforming to the requirements of this article has occurred, including the time, place, and date of the sale; that the property was sold; the amount of the mortgage lien or the assessment lien, as applicable; the amount of the purchase price; and the name and address of the successful bidder. A copy of the certificate of sale must be mailed by certified or registered mail, postage prepaid, to all persons entitled to receive a notice of sale under Section 27-32-330.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-31-150 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 31 / Article 1 / Section 27-31-150
SECTION 27-31-150. Administration of property; bylaws.
Status: in_force

The administration of the property constituted into horizontal property, whether incorporated or unincorporated, shall be governed by bylaws which shall be inserted in or appended to and recorded with the master deed or lease.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-50-220 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 50 / Article 2 / Section 27-50-220
SECTION 27-50-220. Scope of article.
Status: in_force

(A) This article applies to any rental management company acting on behalf of an owner or to any other persons or entities otherwise engaged in the renting or managing of residential property for vacation rental as defined in this article. (B) This article does not apply to: (1) lodging provided by hotels, motels, tourist camps, or campgrounds subject to regulation under Title 45, including hotels, motels, or condominiums with multiple owners owning and managing individual units or groups of units that rent units on a daily basis or longer, and provide a front desk or office for customer service, or provide a centralized telephone system, or provide housekeeping services at no additional charge; (2) any vacation timesharing accommodation as defined by Section 27-32-10(7) and (8); or (3) rental of residential property on a weekly or monthly basis pursuant to Chapter 40 of this title, the South Carolina Residential Landlord and Tenant Act.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-50-270 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 50 / Article 2 / Section 27-50-270
SECTION 27-50-270. Effect of failure to disclose vacation rental agreement to purchaser.
Status: in_force

Failure by the owner to disclose the existence of a vacation rental agreement to the purchaser, closing attorney, lender, or title insurer does not: (1) void the sales agreement; (2) create an encumbrance or defect in title; or (3) create a cause of action against the purchaser, closing attorney, lender, or title insurer for failure to discover the existence of the vacation rental agreement.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-47-510 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 47 / Article 5 / Section 27-47-510
SECTION 27-47-510. Codes; rent; notices; rental agreement and regulations; responsibility for guests.
Status: in_force

A resident shall: (1) comply with the obligations of applicable provisions of the building, housing, and health codes; (2) keep his manufactured home lot clean; (3) comply with regulations and the rental agreement and require other persons in the park with his consent to comply and conduct themselves in a manner that does not disturb other residents unreasonably or violate the rental agreement; (4) keep his rent current; (5) give written notice to the owner whether he desires to continue the tenancy beyond the original term within thirty days of receiving notice of a new rental rate under Section 27-47-420.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-39-20 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 39 / Article 1 / Section 27-39-20
SECTION 27-39-20. Validity of payment of rent for period longer than twelve months.
Status: in_force

Any payment made in anticipation of rent for a longer period than twelve months shall not be considered a valid discount against the claims and rights of third persons.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-3-40 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 3 / Section 27-3-40
SECTION 27-3-40. Effect of permission to use property for recreational purposes.
Status: in_force

Except as specifically recognized by or provided in SECTION 27-3-60, an owner of land who permits without charge any person having sought such permission to use such property for recreational purposes does not thereby: (a) Extend any assurance that the premises are safe for any purpose. (b) Confer upon such person the legal status of an invitee or licensee to whom a duty of care is owed. (c) Assume responsibility for or incur liability for any injury to person or property caused by an act of omission of such persons.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-5-100 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 5 / Section 27-5-100
SECTION 27-5-100. Right of entry of lawful owner or heirs against heirs of disseizor.
Status: in_force

The dying of any disseizor seized of or in any lands, tenements or other hereditaments, having no right or title therein, shall not be taken or deemed any such descent as to take away the entry of any such person or persons, or their heirs, as, at the time of such descent, had good and lawful title of entry into such lands, tenements or hereditaments unless such disseizor has had the peaceable possession of such lands, tenements or hereditaments for the space of ten years next after the disseizin therein by him committed, without entry or continual claim by or of such person or persons as had lawful title thereunto.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-33-10 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 33 / Section 27-33-10
SECTION 27-33-10. Definitions.
Status: in_force

(1) Domestic servant. —A person using or occupying real estate while serving another as a domestic servant shall be deemed a "domestic servant"; (2) Farm laborer. —A person using or occupying real estate while working either as a sharecropper or otherwise as a farm laborer shall be deemed a "farm laborer"; (3) Tenant at will. —Every person other than the owner of real estate, excepting a domestic servant and farm laborer, using or occupying real estate without an agreement, either oral or in writing, shall be deemed a "tenant at will"; (4) Tenant for a term. —A person other than the owner using or occupying real estate under a written or oral agreement shall be deemed a "tenant for a term"; (5) Tenant for years. —A person other than the owner using or occupying real estate under a written agreement for a term of one year or more shall be deemed a "tenant for years"; (6) Agricultural renter. —A person renting lands for agricultural purposes shall be deemed an "agricultural renter"; (7) Landlord.—"Landlord" shall be construed to include the owner or person in possession or entitled to possession of the real estate used or occupied by the tenant as well as the employer of farm laborers and domestic servants; and (8) Tenant.—"Tenant" shall be construed to mean tenant at will, tenant for a term, tenant for years, domestic servant, farm laborer, sharecropper and agricultural renter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-11-70 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 11 / Section 27-11-70
SECTION 27-11-70. Effect of possession of lands five years before July 4, 1776.
Status: in_force

An actual peaceable and quiet possession of lands five years previous to July 4, 1776 shall be deemed a good and sufficient title and any grant obtained since that time, or which may be obtained, for such land is hereby declared null and void.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-29-200 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 29 / Section 27-29-200
SECTION 27-29-200. Fees; land, books, and records subject to examination by commission; annual renewal reports.
Status: in_force

(a) For the registration of subdivided lands there shall be paid to the commission a registration fee of ten dollars, plus one-tenth of one percent of the maximum aggregate offering price of the registered subdivided lands to be offered in this State up to one hundred thousand dollars, plus one-twentieth of one percent of the amount in excess of one hundred thousand dollars and not exceeding four hundred thousand dollars, plus one-fortieth of one percent of the amount in excess of four hundred thousand dollars; but in no case shall such fee be greater than five hundred dollars for each registration. Provided, however, that the commission may prescribe a maximum amount of subdivided lands to be registered at any one time. If registration is denied or withdrawn before the offering of subdivided lands in this State, the commission shall refund all of the fee in excess of one hundred dollars. (b) the land and books and records of every person selling or offering for sale subdivided lands subject to the provisions of this chapter are subject to examination by the commission, or such other person as it may designate, and the examinee shall pay a fee for each examiner employed to make such examination of not to exceed twenty-five dollars for each day or fraction of it, plus the actual expenses, including the cost of transportation of the examiner, while he is absent from his office for the purpose of making the examination. (c) The commission may require any registrant under this chapter to file an annual renewal report containing such reasonable information as it may believe necessary regarding the financial condition of such registrant and the subdivided lands sold in this State by such person. Each renewal report must be accompanied by a renewal filing fee of one hundred dollars. (d) In order to carry out the provisions of this chapter the commission shall retain such fees and other funds which may come into its possession to defray expenses in the administration of this chapter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-47-240 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 47 / Article 1 / Section 27-47-240
SECTION 27-47-240. Notice.
Status: in_force

Notice must be given pursuant to Section 27-40-240.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-40-240 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 40 / Article 1 / Section 27-40-240
SECTION 27-40-240. Notice.
Status: in_force

(A) A person has notice of a fact if: (1) the person has actual knowledge of it; (2) the person has received a notice or notification of it; or (3) from all the facts and circumstances known to him at the time in question he has reason to know that it exists. A person "knows" or "has knowledge" of a fact if he has actual knowledge of it. (B) A person "notifies" or "gives" a notice or notification to another person by taking steps reasonably calculated to inform the other in ordinary course whether or not the other actually comes to know of it. A person "receives" a notice or notification when: (1) it comes to his attention; or (2) in the case of the landlord, it is delivered at the place of business of the landlord through which the rental agreement was made or at any place held out by the landlord as the place for receipt of the communication; or (3) in the case of the tenant, it is delivered in hand to the tenant or mailed by registered or certified mail to the tenant at the place held out by him as the place for receipt of the communication, or in the absence of the designation, to the tenant's last known place of residence. Proof of mailing pursuant to this subsection constitutes notice without proof of receipt. (C) "Notice", knowledge, or a notice or notification received by an organization is effective for a particular transaction from the time it is brought to the attention of the individual conducting that transaction, and in any event from the time it would have been brought to the individual's attention if the organization had exercised reasonable diligence. (D) The time within which an act is to be done must be computed by reference to South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-43-40 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 43 / Article 1 / Section 27-43-40
SECTION 27-43-40. Evidence of abandonment.
Status: in_force

The conveyance of the land upon which the cemetery or burying ground is situated without reservation of the cemetery or burying ground shall be evidence of abandonment for the purposes of this chapter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-19-380 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 19 / Article 5 / Section 27-19-380
SECTION 27-19-380. Application of chapter.
Status: in_force

Every part of this chapter and the mode herein prescribed for recovering and appropriating real and personal property escheated to the State shall be pursued and observed when any person shall hereafter die without an heir or become divested thereof by operation of law without leaving any legal representative.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-2-60 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 2 / Section 27-2-60
SECTION 27-2-60. Standards required for recordation; modification to meet local conditions.
Status: in_force

No coordinates based on the South Carolina Coordinate System, purporting to define the position of a point on a land boundary, may be presented to be recorded in public land records or deed records unless that point is established in accordance with Federal Geodetic Control Committee specification for second order-class two. The limitation may be modified by the South Carolina Geodetic Survey to meet local conditions.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-25-150 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 25 / Section 27-25-150
SECTION 27-25-150. Damages for failure to account or follow directions.
Status: in_force

The assignee's or assignees' and agent's or agents' failure or neglect to lay a statement of their proceedings before the creditors or their committee, as and when directed by SECTION 27-25-140, or whenever called on, or to obey or abide by their directions, renders them answerable for all damages resulting from their refusal or neglect, and they shall forfeit the commission they might otherwise be entitled to.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-45-100 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 45 / Section 27-45-100
SECTION 27-45-100. Application of chapter.
Status: in_force

The provisions of this chapter control the procedure and disposition of any property to which it applies in lieu of any other procedure as prescribed by law including the provisions of Chapter 17 of Title 27 as it pertains to the Disposition of Unclaimed Property.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-29-10 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 29 / Section 27-29-10
SECTION 27-29-10. Short title; definitions.
Status: in_force

This chapter may be cited as the "Uniform Land Sales Practice Act" and, when used herein, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Disposition" includes sale, lease, assignment, award by lottery, or any other transaction concerning a subdivision, if undertaken for gain or profit; (2) "Offer" includes any inducement, solicitation or attempt to encourage a person to acquire an interest in land, if undertaken for gain or profit; (3) "Person" means an individual, corporation, government, or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, unincorporated association, two or more of any of the foregoing having a joint or common interest, or any other legal or commercial entity; (4) "Purchaser" means a person who acquires or attempts to acquire or succeeds to an interest in land; (5) "Subdivider" means any owner of subdivided land who offers it for disposition or the principal agent of an inactive owner; (6) "Subdivision" and "subdivided lands" means any land situated outside the State of South Carolina which is divided or is proposed to be divided for the purpose of disposition into twenty-five or more lots, parcels, units or interests and also includes any land whether contiguous or not if twenty-five or more lots, parcels, units, or interests are offered as a part of a common promotional plan of advertising and sale.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-39-220 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 39 / Article 3 / Section 27-39-220
SECTION 27-39-220. Predistress hearing.
Status: in_force

The purpose of the predistress hearing is to protect the tenant's use and possession of property from arbitrary encroachment and to prevent unfair or mistaken deprivation of property. If the magistrate shall, after conducting the hearing, find that the landlord's right to distress is valid and the tenant has no overriding right to continue in possession of the property subject to distress, then the magistrate may issue his distress warrant naming the amount of rent due, with costs, and such warrant shall be delivered to an officer as set forth in SECTION 27-39-210.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-3-20 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 3 / Section 27-3-20
SECTION 27-3-20. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter: (a) "Aviation activities" means taking off, flying, or landing an airplane or aircraft. Aviation activities do not include airshows or any activity where the general public is invited. (b) "Land" means land, roads, water, watercourses, private ways and buildings, structures, and machinery or equipment when attached to the realty. (c) "Owner" means the possessor of a fee interest, a tenant, lessee, occupant, easement holder, or person in control of the premises. (d) "Recreational purpose" includes, but is not limited to, any of the following, or any combination thereof: hunting, fishing, swimming, boating, camping, picnicking, hiking, pleasure driving, nature study, water skiing, summer and winter sports, aviation activities, and viewing or enjoying historical, archaeological, scenic, or scientific sites. (e) "Charge" means the admission price or fee asked in return for invitation or permission to enter or go upon the land. (f) "Persons" means individuals regardless of age. Effect of Amendment 2014 Act No. 255, SECTION 1, added subsection (a), defining "aviation activities"; redesignated the subsections accordingly; in subsection (c), inserted "easement holder,"; and in subsection (d), inserted ", aviation activities,".
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-31-430 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 31 / Article 2 / Section 27-31-430
SECTION 27-31-430. Disclosure of physical condition of building.
Status: in_force

Whenever the lessee, sole owner, or co-owner of a building declares the undertaking of a conversion of rental units to condominium ownership through the recordation of a master deed or master lease, written disclosure shall be made within thirty days of the date of the recordation to all prospective purchasers, including tenants in possession, as to the physical condition of the building. The disclosure shall contain a written report prepared by an independent registered architect or engineer licensed to practice his profession in this State, describing the present condition of all general common elements. The report shall contain a good faith estimate of the remaining useful life to be expected for each item reported on, together with a list of any notices of uncured violations of building codes or other county or municipal regulations, together with the estimated cost of curing those violations. The good faith estimate of useful life shall not constitute a warranty and, as to an independent registered architect or engineer licensed to practice his profession in this State, shall not be deemed a representation of material fact or an inducement to purchase and shall not give rise to any cause of action at law or in equity against such architect or engineer. A failure to make the disclosure required by this section shall constitute a violation of the South Carolina Unfair Trade Practices Act.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-32-115 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 32 / Article 1 / Section 27-32-115
SECTION 27-32-115. Finder's fees; limitations on finder's activities.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding another provision of law, a seller may pay a finder's fee to a person who is not licensed pursuant to Chapter 57 of Title 40 and who owns an interest in the seller's vacation time sharing plan. This section does not permit a person who receives the finder's fee to advertise or promote the time sharing interest, show property, discuss terms and conditions of purchase, or otherwise participate in negotiations with regard to the time sharing interests, unless the person is a regular employee of the seller or properly licensed pursuant to Chapter 57 of Title 40.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-2-70 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 2 / Section 27-2-70
SECTION 27-2-70. Use of term "South Carolina Coordinate System" on map.
Status: in_force

The use of "South Carolina Coordinate System" on a map, report of survey, or other document, must be limited to coordinates based on the South Carolina Coordinate System as defined in this chapter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-40-210 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 40 / Article 1 / Section 27-40-210
SECTION 27-40-210. General definitions.
Status: in_force

Subject to additional definitions contained in subsequent articles of this chapter which apply to specific articles or parts of this chapter, and unless the context otherwise requires, in this chapter: (1) "action" includes recoupment, counterclaim, set-off, suit in equity, and any other proceeding in which rights are determined, including an action for possession; (2) "building and housing codes" include any law, ordinance, or governmental regulation concerning fitness for habitation, or the construction, maintenance, operation, occupancy, use, or appearance of any premise, or dwelling unit; (3) "dwelling unit" means a structure or the part of a structure that is used as a home, residence, or sleeping place by one person who maintains a household or by two or more persons who maintain a common household and includes landlord-owned mobile homes. Property that is leased for the exclusive purpose of being renovated by the lessee is not considered a dwelling unit within the meaning of this chapter; (4) "fair-market rental value" means the actual periodic rental payment for comparable rental property to which a willing landlord and a willing tenant would agree. In determining the fair-market rental value, the court may consider appraisals offered by the tenant, landlord, realty experts, licensed appraisers, and other relevant evidence; (5) "good faith" means honesty in fact in the conduct of the transaction concerned; (6) "landlord" means the owner, lessor, or sublessor of the premises, and it also means a manager of the premises who fails to disclose as required by SECTION 27-40-420; (7) "organization" includes a corporation, government, governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, two or more persons having a joint or common interest, and any other legal or commercial entity; (8) "owner" means one or more persons, jointly or severally, in whom is vested (i) all or part of the legal title to property or (ii) all or part of the beneficial ownership and a right to present use and enjoyment of the premises. The term includes a mortgagee in possession; (9) "person" includes an individual or organization; (10) "premises" means a dwelling unit and the structure of which it is a part and facilities and appurtenances therein and grounds, areas, and facilities held out for the use of tenants generally or whose use is promised to the tenant; (11) "rent" means the consideration payable for use of the premises including late charges whether payable in lump sum or periodic payments, excluding security deposits or other charges; (12) "rental agreement" means all agreements, written or oral, and valid rules and regulations adopted under SECTION 27-40-520 embodying the terms and conditions concerning the use and occupancy of a dwelling unit and premises; (13) "roomer" means a person occupying a dwelling unit that does not include a toilet and either a bathtub or a shower and a refrigerator, stove, and kitchen sink, all provided by the landlord, and where one or more of these facilities are used in common by occupants in the structure; (14) "single family residence" means a structure maintained and used as a single dwelling unit. Notwithstanding that a dwelling unit shares one or more walls with another dwelling unit, it is a single family residence if it has direct access to a street or thoroughfare and shares neither heating facilities, hot water equipment, nor any other essential facility or service with any other dwelling unit; (15) "tenant" means a person entitled under a rental agreement to occupy a dwelling unit to the exclusion of others; (16) "wilful" means an attempt to intentionally avoid obligations under the rental agreement or the provisions of this chapter; (17) "essential services" means sanitary plumbing or sewer services; electricity; gas, where it is used for heat, hot water, or cooking; running water, and reasonable amounts of hot water and heat, except where the building that includes the dwelling unit is not required by law to be equipped for that purpose, or the dwelling unit is so constructed that heat or hot water is generated by an installation within the exclusive control of the tenant and supplied by a direct public utility connection. (18) "security deposit" means a monetary deposit from the tenant to the landlord which is held in trust by the landlord to secure the full and faithful performance of the terms and conditions of the lease agreement as provided in Section 27-40-410.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-25-70 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 25 / Section 27-25-70
SECTION 27-25-70. Procedure when assignees neglect or refuse to call creditors together.
Status: in_force

If the assignee or assignees delay, neglect or refuse to assemble the creditors within the time herein prescribed and limited, the creditors may meet and appoint their agent or agents; and the agent or agents, on application to and by order of the judge of the court of common pleas, shall take into their hands and possession all the property assigned and of which the assignee would by law be entitled to the possession and shall sell and dispose of it agreeably to the deed of assignment.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-18-80 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 18 / Section 27-18-80
SECTION 27-18-80. Funds held or owing under life or endowment insurance policies or annuity contracts that have matured or terminated.
Status: in_force

(A) Funds held or owing under any life or endowment insurance policy or annuity contract that has matured or terminated are presumed abandoned if unclaimed for more than five years after the funds became due and payable as established from the records of the insurance company holding or owing the funds, but property described in subsection (C)(2) is presumed abandoned if unclaimed for more than two years. (B) If a person other than the insured or annuitant is entitled to the funds and an address of the person is not known to the company or it is not definite and certain from the records of the company who is entitled to the funds, it is presumed that the last known address of the person entitled to the funds is the same as the last known address of the insured or annuitant according to the records of the company. (C) For purposes of this chapter, a life or endowment insurance policy or annuity contract not matured by actual proof of the death of the insured or annuitant according to the records of the company is matured and the proceeds due and payable if: (1) the company knows that the insured or annuitant has died; or (2)(i) the insured has attained, or would have attained if he were living, the limiting age under the mortality table on which the reserve is based; (ii) the policy was in force at the time the insured attained, or would have attained, the limiting age specified in subparagraph (i); and (iii) neither the insured nor any other person appearing to have an interest in the policy within the preceding two years, according to the records of the company, has assigned, readjusted, or paid premiums on the policy, subjected the policy to a loan, corresponded in writing with the company concerning the policy, or otherwise indicated an interest as evidenced by a memorandum or other record on file prepared by an employee of the company. (D) For purposes of this chapter, the application of an automatic premium loan provision or other nonforfeiture provision contained in an insurance policy does not prevent a policy from being matured or terminated under subsection (A) if the insured has died or the insured or the beneficiary of the policy otherwise has become entitled to the proceeds thereof before the depletion of the cash surrender value of a policy by the application of those provisions. (E) If the laws of this State or the terms of the life insurance policy require the company to give notice to the insured or owner that an automatic premium loan provision or other nonforfeiture provision has been exercised and the notice given to an insured or owner whose last known address according to the records of the company is in this State, is undeliverable, the company shall make a reasonable search to ascertain the policyholder's correct address to which the notice must be mailed. (F) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, if the company learns of the death of the insured or annuitant and the beneficiary has not communicated with the insurer within four months after the death, the company shall take reasonable steps to pay the proceeds to the beneficiary. (G) Commencing two years after the effective date of this chapter, every change of beneficiary form issued by an insurance company under any life or endowment insurance policy or annuity contract to an insured or owner who is a resident of this State must request the following information: (1) the name of each beneficiary, or if a class of beneficiaries is named, the name of each current beneficiary in the class; (2) the address of each beneficiary; and (3) the relationship of each beneficiary to the insured.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-23-40 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 23 / Section 27-23-40
SECTION 27-23-40. Conveyances upon good consideration.
Status: in_force

Nothing contained in SECTIONS 27-23-10 to 27-23-30 shall extend or be construed to impeach, defeat, make void or frustrate any conveyance, assignment of lease, assurance, grant, charge, lease, estate, interest or limitation of use or uses of, in, to or out of any lands, tenements or hereditaments at any time had or made upon or for good consideration and bona fide to any person or body politic or corporate, anything mentioned to the contrary notwithstanding.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-47-440 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 47 / Article 3 / Section 27-47-440
SECTION 27-47-440. Approval or disapproval of manufactured home purchaser to become resident of park.
Status: in_force

(A) The purchaser of a manufactured home may not become a resident of a manufactured home park without the approval of the owner. Approval by the owner must not be withheld unreasonably. The purchaser has the burden of proof as to whether approval or disapproval is unreasonable. (B) The owner has fifteen days after receiving the purchaser's written application for entry to the park to notify him in writing of approval or disapproval. Notice is complete upon deposit in the United States mail addressed to the purchaser at the address stated in his application. If the owner fails to act within fifteen days, the application is approved.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-40-740 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 40 / Article 7 / Section 27-40-740
SECTION 27-40-740. Landlord's lien; distress proceeding.
Status: in_force

(a) A contractual lien or contractual security interest on behalf of the landlord in the tenant's household goods is not enforceable unless perfected before the effective date of this chapter. (b) A landlord may enforce collection of rent by distress only pursuant to Chapter 39, Title 27; however, the tenant may raise defenses to the issuance of a distress warrant pursuant to the provisions of this chapter or the rental agreement and may take advantage of the property exemptions found in SECTION 15-41-30. Code Commissioner's Note At the direction of the Code Commissioner, the reference was changed from SECTION 15-41-200 to SECTION 15-41-30 because Act 415 of 1988 renumbered SECTION 15-41-200 to 15-41-30.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-32-305 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 32 / Article 3 / Section 27-32-305
SECTION 27-32-305. Purpose.
Status: in_force

The purposes of this article are to: (1) recognize that timeshare estates are interests in real property used for vacation experience rather than for homestead purposes and that there are numerous timeshare estates in South Carolina; (2) recognize that the economic health and efficient operation of the vacation ownership industry are in part dependent upon the availability of an efficient and economical process for foreclosure; (3) recognize the need to assist vacation ownership resort owners' associations by simplifying and expediting the process of foreclosure of assessment liens and mortgage liens; (4) reduce court congestion and cost to taxpayers by establishing streamlined procedures for foreclosure of assessment liens and mortgage liens against timeshare estates; (5) establish those streamlined procedures by giving statutory recognition to the right of persons to privately contract for a power of sale as their remedy in lieu of a judicial foreclosure of liens on timeshare estates while specifically limiting the application of such nonjudicial foreclosure procedures to timeshare estates only.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-29-210 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 29 / Section 27-29-210
SECTION 27-29-210. Construction.
Status: in_force

This chapter shall be so construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law of those states which enact it.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-35-60 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 35 / Section 27-35-60
SECTION 27-35-60. Validity and effect of subleases.
Status: in_force

A sublease by a tenant without written consent of the landlord is a nullity insofar as the rights of the landlord are concerned, except that rent collected by a tenant from a subtenant shall be deemed to be held in trust by the tenant for the benefit of the landlord until the payment of the landlord's claim for rent. But when the premises have been sublet the sublessor, as between himself and the subtenant or sublessee, shall be deemed the landlord and the sublessee the tenant under him and the provisions of Chapters 33 through 37, SECTION 27-39-10 and Article 3 of Chapter 39 of this Title, other than SECTIONS 27-35-80, 27-35-170 and 27-35-180, 27-39-280 and 27-39-300 shall apply to sublessors and sublessees, as between themselves, as in other cases of landlord and tenant.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-18-290 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 18 / Section 27-18-290
SECTION 27-18-290. Destruction or disposal by administrator of property with insubstantial commercial value; immunity from liability.
Status: in_force

If the administrator determines after investigation that any property delivered under this chapter has insubstantial commercial value, the administrator may destroy or otherwise dispose of the property at any time. No action or proceeding may be maintained against the State or any officer or against the holder for or on account of any action taken by the administrator pursuant to this section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-40-660 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 40 / Article 7 / Section 27-40-660
SECTION 27-40-660. Tenant's remedies for landlord's unlawful ouster or exclusion.
Status: in_force

If a landlord unlawfully removes or excludes the tenant from the premises, or wilfully diminishes services to tenant by interrupting or causing interruption of essential services, the tenant may recover possession or terminate the rental agreement and, in either case, recover an amount equal to three months' periodic rent or twice the actual damages sustained by him, whichever is greater, and reasonable attorney's fees. If the rental agreement is terminated the landlord shall return security recoverable under SECTION 27-40-410.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-37-160 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 37 / Section 27-37-160
SECTION 27-37-160. Execution of writ of ejectment.
Status: in_force

In executing a writ of ejectment, the constable or deputy sheriff shall proceed to the premises, present to the occupants a copy of the writ and give the occupants twenty-four hours to vacate voluntarily. If the occupants refuse to vacate within twenty-four hours or the premises appear unoccupied, the constable or deputy sheriff shall announce his identity and purpose. If necessary, the deputy sheriff, but not a constable, may then enter the premises by force, using the least destructive means possible, in order to effectuate the ejectment. If the premises appear to be occupied and the occupant does not respond, the constable or deputy sheriff shall leave a copy of the writ taped or stapled at each corner and attached at the top of either the front or back door or in the most conspicuous place. Twenty-four hours following the posting of the writ, if the occupants have not vacated the premises voluntarily, the deputy sheriff, but not a constable, may then enter the premises by force, using the least destructive means possible, in order to effectuate the ejectment. Discretion may be exercised by the constable or deputy sheriff in granting a delay in the dispossession of ill or elderly tenants.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-32-200 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 32 / Article 1 / Section 27-32-200
SECTION 27-32-200. Vacation Time Sharing Recovery Fund.
Status: in_force

(A) There is created a special fund known as the " Vacation Time Sharing Recovery Fund", which must be maintained by the commission and funded as provided for the payment of claims to persons injured by the acts of persons registered or licensed pursuant to this chapter. (B) The funds must be held and accumulated from year to year in the State Treasury in a special fund for the commission, designated as the "South Carolina Vacation Time Sharing Recovery Fund". The fund is a continuing fund not subject to fiscal year limitations, and is under the administrative direction of the commission. Expenditures from this fund must be made in accordance with the provisions of this chapter without legislative appropriation. Warrants for expenditures from the fund must be drawn by the Comptroller General pursuant to claims approved and signed by the commission.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-32-110 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 32 / Article 1 / Section 27-32-110
SECTION 27-32-110. Prohibited practices.
Status: in_force

It is a violation of this chapter for a seller of vacation time sharing plans to: (1) use a promotional device including, but not limited to, sweepstakes, lodging certificates, gift awards, premiums, or discounts, without disclosing fully that the promotional device is used for the purpose of soliciting the sale of vacation time sharing plans; (2) use a promotional device as described in item (1) to obtain the names and addresses of prospective purchasers without fully and prominently disclosing that names and addresses are acquired for the purpose of soliciting the sale of the vacation time sharing plans; (3) misrepresent the amount of time or period of time the accommodations and facilities are available to a purchaser; (4) misrepresent or deceptively represent the location of the offered accommodations and facilities; (5) misrepresent the size, nature, extent, qualities, or characteristics of the offered accommodations and facilities; (6) misrepresent the nature or extent of services incident to the accommodations and facilities; (7) make misleading or deceptive representations with respect to the contents of the contract or the purchaser's rights, privileges, or benefits under it; (8) fail to honor and comply with all provisions of the contract with the purchaser; (9) misrepresent the conditions under which a purchaser may exchange his rights to an accommodation in one location for rights to an accommodation in another location; (10) include in a contract a provision purporting to waive a right or benefit provided for purchasers pursuant to this chapter, or seek or solicit such a waiver during the effective period of these rules; and (11) do any other act of fraud, misrepresentation, or failure to make a disclosure of a material fact.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-19-370 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 19 / Article 5 / Section 27-19-370
SECTION 27-19-370. Liability of Secretary of State for misconduct or fraudulent practices.
Status: in_force

If the Secretary of State shall fail to do his duty, as herein directed, on behalf of the State and any loss or damage shall accrue to the State by his misconduct or fraudulent practices, he shall be responsible for all such loss or damage and the court of common pleas may order a prosecution in the name of the State. A jury shall try the fact and assess the damage and, upon conviction, such Secretary of State shall be incapable forever thereafter from holding or exercising any office of trust or profit within this State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-40-450 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 40 / Article 3 / Section 27-40-450
SECTION 27-40-450. Limitation of liability.
Status: in_force

(a) Unless otherwise agreed, a landlord who conveys the premises that include a dwelling unit subject to a rental agreement in a good faith sale to a bona fide purchaser is relieved of liability under the rental agreement and this chapter as to events occurring after written notice to the tenant of the conveyance. However, he remains liable to the tenant for security recoverable by the tenant under SECTION 27-40-410, unless the security deposit is transferred from the seller to the purchaser and the tenant is notified in writing a reasonable time after the transaction in which case the purchaser is liable under SECTION 27-40-410. (b) Unless otherwise agreed, a manager of the premises that includes a dwelling unit is relieved of liability under the rental agreement and this chapter as to events occurring after written notice to the tenant of the termination of his management.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-32-180 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 32 / Article 1 / Section 27-32-180
SECTION 27-32-180. Registration of persons engaging in the sale of vacation time sharing plans; form and contents; exemption for regular employees of seller; fees; seller's supervision and control; renewal.
Status: in_force

(A) Except as provided in subsection (B) of this section, a person desiring to engage in the sale of vacation time sharing plans on behalf of a seller shall first register with the commission. The registration must be submitted to the commission by the person on a form prescribed by the commission and including the name, address, and telephone number of the person and additional information as requested by the commission. (B) Regular employees of the seller are exempt from the registration requirements of subsection (A) and from all licensing requirements of Chapter 57 of Title 40. (C) A person registering pursuant to this section shall pay an initial registration fee in the amount of one hundred dollars. This fee must accompany the registration application submitted to the commission. (D) The seller shall supervise, manage, and control all aspects of the offering and sale of a vacation time sharing plan. A violation of this chapter by a registrant employed by a seller as an independent contractor, either directly or through a third party, in connection with the offering or sales of interests in vacation time sharing plans may be considered to be a violation by the seller, as well as by the registrant who committed the violation, if the seller knew or should have known of the conduct constituting the violation. (E) The registration of a person registered pursuant to this section is subject to annual renewal, on or before June thirtieth, upon submission of a renewal application in a form as the commission prescribes and payment of a fifty-dollar renewal fee. Failure to timely renew results in cancellation of the registration.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-32-300 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 32 / Article 3 / Section 27-32-300
SECTION 27-32-300. Short title.
Status: in_force

This article may be cited as the "Timeshare Lien Foreclosure Act".
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-35-140 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 35 / Section 27-35-140
SECTION 27-35-140. Failure to pay rent.
Status: in_force

Failure to pay the rent agreed upon when due, or a reasonable rent for use and occupation when demanded, shall terminate all tenancies for a term, for years, from month to month and at will and the tenant shall forthwith vacate the premises without notice.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-50-230 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 50 / Article 2 / Section 27-50-230
SECTION 27-50-230. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this article: (1) "Residential property" means an apartment, condominium, single family home, townhouse, cottage, or other property devoted to residential use or occupancy by one or more persons for a definite or indefinite period. (2) "Rental management company" means a licensed property manager-in-charge or broker-in-charge and their associates and employees who manage vacation rentals. (3) "Vacation rental" means the lease, sublease, or other rental of residential property for a period of fewer than ninety days, except that it does not include rental of residential property on a weekly or monthly basis pursuant to Chapter 40 of this title, the South Carolina Residential Landlord and Tenant Act. (4) "Vacation rental agreement" means a written agreement between an owner or the owner's rental management company and a tenant, in which the tenant rents residential property belonging to the owner for a vacation rental. This definition includes electronically transmitted agreements, including, but not limited to, agreements entered into over the Internet and electronic facsimiles. (5) "Vacation rental management agreement" means a written agreement between an owner and the owner's rental management company, in which the rental management company manages residential property belonging to the owner for a vacation rental. This definition includes electronically transmitted agreements, including, but not limited to, agreements entered into over the Internet and electronic facsimiles.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-39-310 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 39 / Article 3 / Section 27-39-310
SECTION 27-39-310. Giving bond to free property from distraint.
Status: in_force

Within five days after such distraint the tenant may free the property from the lien of the distraint by giving a bond payable to the landlord in double the amount claimed, with sufficient surety or sureties approved by the court, and the issues thus joined shall be tried by the court. The landlord shall have the right to except to the surety or sureties and the surety or sureties shall justify before the magistrate as provided for justification for sureties in claim and delivery actions.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-31-210 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 31 / Article 1 / Section 27-31-210
SECTION 27-31-210. Lien for unpaid assessments; right of mortgagee or purchaser acquiring title at foreclosure sale.
Status: in_force

(a) All sums assessed by the administrator, or the board of administration, or other form of administration specified in the bylaws, but unpaid, for the share of common expenses chargeable to any apartment shall constitute a lien on such apartment prior to all other liens except only (i) tax liens on the apartment in favor of any assessing unit, and (ii) mortgage and other liens, duly recorded, encumbering the apartment. Such lien may be foreclosed by suit by the administrator, or the board of administration, or other form of administration specified in the bylaws, acting on behalf of the council of co-owners, in like manner as a mortgage of real property. In any such foreclosure the apartment owner shall be required to pay a reasonable rental for the apartment after the commencement of the foreclosure action and the plaintiff in such foreclosure shall be entitled to the appointment of a receiver to collect such rents. The administrator, or the board of administration, or other form of administration specified in the bylaws, acting on behalf of the council of co-owners, shall have the power to bid in the apartment at foreclosure sale and to acquire and hold, lease, mortgage and convey the same. Suit to recover a money judgment for unpaid common expenses may be maintainable without instituting foreclosure proceedings. (b) Where the mortgagee of any mortgage of record or other purchaser of an apartment obtains title at the foreclosure sale of such a mortgage, such acquirer of title, his successors and assigns, shall not be liable for the share of the common expenses or assessments by the co-owners chargeable to such apartment accruing after the date of recording such mortgage but prior to the acquisition of title to such apartment by such acquirer. Such unpaid share of common expenses or assessments shall be deemed to be common expenses collectible from all of the apartment owners, including such acquirer, his successors and assigns.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-11-50 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 11 / Section 27-11-50
SECTION 27-11-50. Estates of John Lord Carteret and lords proprietors shall not be altered, abridged, or revived.
Status: reserved

Nothing herein contained shall extend or be construed to alter or abridge the Right Honorable John Lord Carteret, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, or the lords proprietors or their heirs of any estate, right, title or interest whatsoever which have or has been saved and reserved unto said John Lord Carteret, or to the late lords proprietors, or any of them, in and by the act entitled "An Act for Establishing an Agreement with Seven of the lords proprietors of Carolina, for the Surrender of their Title and Interest in that Province to his Majesty"; nor to revive or enlarge any estate or right or interest whatsoever in the lords proprietors, or any of them, their or any of their heirs, of, in and to the estates aforesaid, or any part thereof, which they or any of them have granted and conveyed as aforesaid, to any person or persons whatsoever, or which they have surrendered by virtue of the aforesaid act.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-31-250 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 31 / Article 1 / Section 27-31-250
SECTION 27-31-250. Repair or reconstruction; vote of co-owners; application of insurance proceeds.
Status: in_force

(A) A portion of the property for which insurance is required pursuant to Section 27-31-240 and which is damaged or destroyed must be repaired or replaced promptly by the council of co-owners unless: (1) repair or replacement is illegal under a state statute or local health ordinance; or (2) eighty percent of the co-owners, including the owner of an apartment which is not to be rebuilt, vote not to rebuild; except that the property bylaws may expressly require a percentage greater, but not less than, eighty percent of the co-owners. (B) The cost of repair or replacement in excess of insurance proceeds and reserve must be considered a common expense. (C) If the entire property is not repaired or replaced, the insurance proceeds: (1) attributable to the damaged common elements must be used to restore the damaged area to a condition compatible with the remainder of the property; (2) attributable to apartments and limited common elements that are not rebuilt must be distributed to the owners of those apartments and to the owners of those apartments to which limited common elements were allocated, or to the lienholders, as their interests may appear; (3) remaining must be distributed to all of the co-owners or lienholders, as their interests may appear, in proportion to the percentage as described in Section 27-31-60. (D) If the co-owners vote not to rebuild an apartment, that apartment's allocated interest must be reallocated automatically upon the vote and the council of co-owners promptly shall prepare, execute, and record an amendment to the master deed reflecting the reallocations. Editor's Note 2006 Act No. 250, SECTION 2, provides as follows: "This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor and applies to all horizontal properties governed by the Horizontal Property Act, notwithstanding a provision in the master deed or bylaws to the contrary." Effect of Amendment The 2006 amendment rewrote this section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-37-90 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 37 / Section 27-37-90
SECTION 27-37-90. New trial.
Status: in_force

When a jury is had in an ejectment case the magistrate may grant a new trial as in any other civil case.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-32-150 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 32 / Article 1 / Section 27-32-150
SECTION 27-32-150. Fee for registration and renewal of vacation time sharing plans; examination of documentation pertaining to advertisement or sale; expenses for investigation and prosecution.
Status: in_force

(A) An initial filing fee of ten dollars per each seven-day use availability, but not exceeding a maximum initial filing fee of five hundred dollars, must accompany an application for registration of a vacation time sharing plan. Upon amending an existing registration to add interests in a vacation time sharing plan, a filing fee of five dollars for each seven-day use availability added by the amendment, but not exceeding a maximum filing fee of two hundred fifty dollars, must be submitted. The annual vacation time sharing plan renewal fee is two hundred fifty dollars. (B) All books, files, accounts, and other documents pertaining to the advertisement and sale of vacation time sharing plans located outside the State filed with the commission are subject to examination by the commission and the examinee shall pay a fee for each examiner employed to make such examination of fifty dollars per day or fraction of it, plus the actual expenses, including the cost of transportation of the examiner, while he is absent from his office for purposes of conducting the examination. (C) The commission shall retain fees and other funds that come into its possession to use to defray expenses in the administration and enforcement of this chapter. (D) If the commission determines that the registration, sale, or operation of a vacation time sharing plan violates this chapter in a manner that indicates bad faith or dishonesty, the commission, after notice and hearing, may assess all reasonable costs of investigation and prosecution of those violations.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-27-40 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 27 / Section 27-27-40
SECTION 27-27-40. Stay of judgment in first action; special verdict for betterments.
Status: in_force

The court, on the entry of such action, shall stay all proceedings upon the judgment obtained in the prior action, except the recovery of such lands, until the sale of the lands recovered as provided in SECTION 27-27-60. The final judgment shall be upon a special verdict by a jury, under the direction of the court, stating the value of the lands and tenements without the improvements put thereon in good faith by the defendant in the prior action and the value thereof with improvements. The defendant in the prior action shall be entitled for such betterments to a verdict for the value thereof, as of the date when the lands were recovered from him and interest on such verdict from such date.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-25-50 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 25 / Section 27-25-50
SECTION 27-25-50. Sales and transfers prior to appointment of agents.
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided, all sales and transfers of property made by the assignee or assignees prior to the appointment of the agent or agents of the creditors are hereby declared void and of no effect.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-40-420 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 40 / Article 3 / Section 27-40-420
SECTION 27-40-420. Disclosure.
Status: in_force

(a) A landlord or any person authorized to enter into a rental agreement on his behalf shall disclose to the tenant in writing at or before the commencement of the tenancy the name and address of an owner of the premises or a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner as agent, inter alia, for purposes of service of process and receiving or receipting notices or demands. (b) The information required to be furnished by this section must be kept current and this section extends to and is enforceable against any successor landlord, owner, or manager. (c) A person authorized to enter in a rental agreement on behalf of a landlord who fails to comply with subsection (a) with regard to a rental agreement entered into on behalf of the landlord becomes an agent of the landlord for purposes of that rental agreement for: (1) service of process and receiving and receipting for notices and demands; (2) performing the obligations of the landlord under this chapter and under the rental agreement and expending or making available for the performance of the obligations all rent collected from the premises and retained by the person on behalf of the landlord.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-40-720 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 40 / Article 7 / Section 27-40-720
SECTION 27-40-720. Noncompliance affecting health and safety.
Status: in_force

(a) If there is noncompliance by the tenant with Section 27-40-510 materially affecting health and safety that can be remedied by repair, replacement of a damaged item, or cleaning, and the tenant fails to comply as promptly as conditions require in case of emergency or within fourteen days after written notice by the landlord specifying the breach and requesting that the tenant remedy it within that period of time, the landlord may enter the dwelling unit and cause the work to be done in a workmanlike manner and the tenant shall reimburse the landlord for the cost and, in addition, the landlord shall have the remedies available under this chapter. (b) If there is noncompliance by the tenant with SECTION 27-40-510 materially affecting health and safety other than as set forth in subsection (a) above, and the tenant fails to comply as promptly as conditions require in case of emergency, or within fourteen days after written notice by the landlord if it is not an emergency, specifying the breach and requesting that the tenant remedy within that period of time, the landlord may terminate the rental agreement.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-29-100 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 29 / Section 27-29-100
SECTION 27-29-100. Public hearings; filing of advertising material; injunctive relief; intervention in certain suits; exemption of certain lots.
Status: in_force

(a) The commission shall prescribe reasonable rules after a public hearing with notice of it published once in a newspaper with statewide circulation not less than five days nor more than fifteen days before the hearing and mailed to all subdividers not less than five days nor more than fifteen days before the public hearing. The rules shall include, but not be limited to, provisions for advertising standards to assure full and fair disclosure; provisions for escrow or trust agreements or other means reasonably to assure that all improvements referred to in the application for registration and advertising will be completed and that purchasers will receive the interest in land contracted for; provisions for operating procedures; and other rules as are necessary and proper to accomplish the purpose of this chapter. (b) The commission by rule or by an order, after reasonable notice and hearing, may require the filing of advertising material relating to subdivided lands before its distribution. (c) If it appears that a person has engaged or is about to engage in an act or practice constituting a violation of a provision of this chapter, or a rule or order hereunder, the commission, with or without prior administrative proceedings may bring an action in the circuit court to enjoin the acts or practices and to enforce compliance with this chapter or any rule or order hereunder. Upon proper showing, injunctive relief or temporary restraining orders shall be granted, and a receiver or conservator may be appointed. The commission is not required to post a bond in any court proceedings. (d) The commission may intervene in a suit involving subdivided lands. In any suit by or against a subdivider involving subdivided lands, the subdivider promptly shall furnish the commission notice of the suit and copies of all pleadings. (e) The commission may: (1) accept registrations filed in other states or with the federal government; (2) contract with similar agencies in this State or other jurisdictions to perform investigative functions; (3) accept grants-in-aid from any source. (f) The commission shall cooperate with similar agencies in other jurisdictions to establish uniform filing procedures and forms, uniform public offering statements, advertising standards, rules, and common administrative practices. (g) The commission may exempt one hundred or fewer lots, parcels, units, or interests in a subdivision from the provisions of this chapter if it determines that the plan of promotion and disposition is primarily directed to persons in the local community in which the subdivision is situated.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-39-320 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 39 / Article 3 / Section 27-39-320
SECTION 27-39-320. Sale of distrained property.
Status: in_force

If the tenant fails to give bond as above prescribed then the officer may sell such property at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at a designated place of sale after posting a notice of such sale for five days upon the premises and two other public places in the county stating the time and place of such sale.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-11-60 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 11 / Section 27-11-60
SECTION 27-11-60. Grants, deeds and the like before August 20, 1731 shall not be impeached for certain causes.
Status: in_force

No grant, deed of feoffment, deed or bargain and sale, deed of gift or other conveyance of any lands or tenements whatsoever made prior to August 20, 1731 shall be impeached or set aside in any court of law or equity for want of attornment or of livery and seizin or enrollment thereof or because such conveyance has been made by way of assignment or endorsement on such deed or grant without other ceremony, nor for any other defect in the form or in the manner of the execution of such deed or grant or of the endorsement or assignment thereof, either by the first grantor or in any of the mesne conveyances derived therefrom, if the right was or would have been in the person conveying if such defects had not happened in the form of such grants, deeds or conveyances or in the manner of the execution of them as aforesaid.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-18-340 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 18 / Section 27-18-340
SECTION 27-18-340. Cooperation with other states concerning sharing of information, changing of rules, and enforcement of chapter.
Status: in_force

(A) The administrator may enter into agreements with other states to exchange information needed to enable this or another state to audit or otherwise determine unclaimed property that it or another state may be entitled to subject to a claim of custody. The administrator by rule may require the reporting of information needed to enable compliance with agreements made pursuant to this section and prescribe the form. (B) To avoid conflicts between the administrator's procedures and the procedures of administrators in other jurisdictions that enact the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act, the administrator, so far as is consistent with the purposes, policies, and provisions of this chapter, before adopting, amending, or repealing rules, shall advise and consult with administrators in other jurisdictions that enact substantially the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act and take into consideration the rules of administrators in other jurisdictions that enact the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act. (C) The administrator may join with other states to seek enforcement of this chapter against any person who is or may be holding property reportable under this chapter. (D) At the request of another state, the Attorney General of this State may bring an action in the name of the administrator of the other state in any court of competent jurisdiction to enforce the unclaimed property laws of the other state against a holder in this State of property subject to escheat or a claim of abandonment by the other state, if the other state has agreed to pay expenses incurred by the Attorney General in bringing the action. (E) The administrator may request that the Attorney General of another state or any other person bring an action in the name of the administrator in the other state. This State shall pay all expenses including attorney's fees in any action under this subsection. The administrator may agree to pay the person bringing the action attorney's fees based in whole or in part on a percentage of the value of any property recovered in the action. Any expenses paid pursuant to this subsection may not be deducted from the amount that is subject to the claim by the owner under this chapter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-18-175 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 18 / Section 27-18-175
SECTION 27-18-175. Application of chapter.
Status: in_force

This chapter does not apply to forfeited reservation deposits. For purposes of this chapter, the term "reservation deposit" means an amount of money paid to a business association to guarantee that the business association holds a specific service including, but not limited to, a room accommodation at a hotel, a vacation rental, seating at a restaurant, or an appointment with a doctor, for a specified date and place. The term "reservation deposit" does not include an application fee, a utility deposit, or a deposit made toward the purchase of real property.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-32-130 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 32 / Article 1 / Section 27-32-130
SECTION 27-32-130. Enforcement and implementation of chapter; regulations.
Status: in_force

The Real Estate Commission is responsible for the enforcement and implementation of this chapter and the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, at the request of the Real Estate Commission, shall prosecute a violation under this chapter. The commission shall promulgate regulations for the implementation of this chapter, subject to the State Administrative Procedures Act. The provisions of this section do not limit the right of a purchaser or lessee or a vacation time sharing association to bring a private action to enforce the provisions of this chapter. Effect of Amendment 2017 Act No. 90, SECTION 3, inserted "or a vacation time sharing association".
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-29-140 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 29 / Section 27-29-140
SECTION 27-29-140. Judicial review of orders.
Status: in_force

A person who has exhausted all administrative remedies available with the commission and who is aggrieved by an order pertaining to registration, a cease and desist order, an order of revocation, or any other final decision of the commission is entitled to review by an administrative law judge as provided under Article 5 of Chapter 23 of Title 1. This section does not limit utilization of or the scope of judicial review available under other means of review, redress, relief, or trial de novo provided by law. A preliminary, procedural, or intermediate commission action or ruling is immediately reviewable if review of the final commission decision would not provide an adequate remedy.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-30-310 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 30 / Article 3 / Section 27-30-310
SECTION 27-30-310. Short title.
Status: in_force

This article must be known and may be cited as the "Department of Consumer Affairs Services for Homeowners and Homeowners Associations Act".
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-41-10 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 41 / Section 27-41-10
SECTION 27-41-10. Recovery of rent from undertenant on death of life tenant.
Status: reserved

When any tenant for life shall happen to die before or on the day on which any rent was reserved or made payable upon any demise or lease of any lands, tenements or hereditaments to an undertenant which determined on the death of such tenant for life, the executors or administrators of such tenant for life shall and may recover of and from such undertenant of such lands, tenements or hereditaments the rent thereof as prescribed in SECTION 27-41-20.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-18-190 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 18 / Section 27-18-190
SECTION 27-18-190. Administrator's notice of abandoned property; publication; contents; exceptions.
Status: in_force

(A) The administrator shall publish a notice not later than April 30 of the year immediately following the report required by Section 27-18-180 at least once in a newspaper of general circulation in the county of this State in which is located the last known address of any person named in the notice. If a holder does not report an address for the apparent owner, or the address is outside this State, the notice must be published in the county in which the holder has its principal place of business within this State or another county that the administrator reasonably selects. (B) The notice must be in a form that, in the judgment of the administrator, is likely to attract the attention of the apparent owner of the unclaimed property. The form must contain: (1) the name of each person appearing to be the owner of the property, as set forth in the report filed by the holder; (2) the last known address or location of each person appearing to be the owner of the property, if an address or location is set forth in the report filed by the holder; (3) a statement explaining that property of the owner is presumed to be abandoned and has been taken into custody of the administrator; and (4) a statement that information about the property and its return to the owner is available to a person having a legal or beneficial interest in the property upon request to the administrator. (C) The administrator is not required to publish the name and address or location of property having a total value of less than fifty dollars or information concerning a traveler's check, money order, or similar instrument.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-18-50 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 18 / Section 27-18-50
SECTION 27-18-50. Travelers checks, money orders, or similar written instruments.
Status: in_force

(A) Subject to subsection (D), any sum payable on a travelers check that has been outstanding for more than fifteen years after its issuance is presumed abandoned unless the owner, within fifteen years, has communicated in writing with the issuer concerning it or otherwise indicated an interest as evidenced by a memorandum or other record on file prepared by an employee of the issuer. (B) Subject to subsection (D), any sum payable on a money order or similar written instrument, other than a third-party bank check, that has been outstanding for more than seven years after its issuance is presumed abandoned unless the owner, within seven years, has communicated in writing with the issuer concerning it or otherwise indicated an interest as evidenced by a memorandum or other record on file prepared by an employee of the issuer. (C) A holder may not deduct from the amount of a travelers check or money order any charge imposed by reason of the failure to present the instrument for payment unless there is a valid and enforceable written contract between the issuer and the owner of the instrument pursuant to which the issuer may impose a charge and the issuer regularly imposes such charges and does not regularly reverse or otherwise cancel them. (D) No sum payable on a travelers check, money order, or similar written instrument, other than a third-party bank check, described in subsections (A) and (B) may be subjected to the custody of this State as unclaimed property unless: (1) the records of the issuer show that the travelers check, money order, or similar written instrument was purchased in this State; (2) the issuer has its principal place of business in his State and the records of the issuer do not show the state in which the travelers check, money order, or similar written instrument was purchased; or (3) the issuer has it principal place of business in this State, the records of the issuer show the state in which the travelers check, money order, or similar written instrument was purchased and the laws of the state of purchase do not provide for the escheat or custodial taking of the property or its escheat or unclaimed property law is not applicable to the property. (E) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, subsection (D) applies to sums payable on travelers checks, money orders, and similar written instruments presumed abandoned on or after February 1, 1965, except to the extent that those sums have been paid over to a state prior to January 1, 1974.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-43-10 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 43 / Article 1 / Section 27-43-10
SECTION 27-43-10. Notice of proposed removal; due care required.
Status: in_force

A person who owns land on which is situated an abandoned cemetery or burying ground may remove graves in the cemetery or ground to a suitable plot in another cemetery or suitable location if: (1) It is necessary and expedient in the opinion of the governing body of the county or municipality in which the cemetery or burying ground is situated to remove the graves. The governing body shall consider objections to removal pursuant to the notice under item (2) or otherwise before it approves removal. (2) Thirty days' notice of removal is given to the relatives of the deceased persons buried in the graves, if they are known. If no relatives are known, thirty days' notice must be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county where the property lies. If no newspaper is published in the county, notice must be posted in three prominent places in the county, one of which must be the courthouse door. (3) Due care is taken to protect tombstones and replace them properly, so as to leave the graves in as good condition as before removal.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-31-60 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 31 / Article 1 / Section 27-31-60
SECTION 27-31-60. Property rights of apartment owner.
Status: in_force

(a) An apartment owner shall have the exclusive ownership of his apartment and shall have a common right to a share, with the other co-owners, in the common elements of the property, equivalent to the percentage representing the value of the individual apartment, with relation to the value of the whole property. This percentage shall be computed by taking as a basis the value of the individual apartment in relation to the value of the property as a whole. The percentage shall be expressed at the time the horizontal property regime is constituted, shall have a permanent character, and shall not be altered without the acquiescence of the co-owners representing all the apartments of the property. The basic value, which shall be fixed for the sole purpose of this chapter and irrespectively of the actual value, shall not prevent each co-owner from fixing a different circumstantial value to his apartment in all types of acts and contracts. (b) The owner of any apartment embraced in the master deed and building plan shall have the right to require specific performance of any proposed common elements for recreational purposes set out in the master deed which are included in the next stage of the development that applies to recreational facilities in the event the additional stages of erection do not develop.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-31-260 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 31 / Article 1 / Section 27-31-260
SECTION 27-31-260. Sharing expenses in case of fire or other disaster.
Status: in_force

Where the property is not insured or where the insurance indemnity is insufficient to cover the cost of reconstruction, the rebuilding costs shall be paid by all the co-owners directly affected by the damage, in proportion to the value of their respective apartments, or as may be provided in the bylaws; and if any one or more of those composing the minority shall refuse to make such payments, the majority may proceed with the reconstruction at the expense of all the co-owners benefited thereby, upon proper resolution setting forth the circumstances of the case and the cost of the works, with the intervention of the council of co-owners. The provisions of this section may be changed by unanimous resolution of the parties concerned, adopted subsequent to the date on which the fire or other disaster occurred.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-16-10 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 16 / Section 27-16-10
SECTION 27-16-10. Short title.
Status: in_force

This chapter is known as "The Catawba Indian Claims Settlement Act".
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-18-90 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 18 / Section 27-18-90
SECTION 27-18-90. Utility service deposits, advance payments, or ordered refunds.
Status: in_force

(A) A deposit, including any interest thereon, made by a subscriber with a utility to secure payment or any sum paid in advance for utility services to be furnished, less any lawful deductions, that remains unclaimed by the owner for more than one year after termination of the services for which the deposit or advance payment was made is presumed abandoned. (B) Any sum which a utility has been ordered to refund and which was received for utility services rendered in this State, together with any interest thereon, less any lawful charges, that has remained unclaimed by the person appearing on the records of the utility entitled thereto for more than five years after the date it became payable in accordance with the final determination or order providing for the refund is presumed abandoned.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-50-20 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 50 / Article 1 / Section 27-50-20
SECTION 27-50-20. Scope of article.
Status: in_force

This article applies to the following transfers of residential real property consisting of at least one but not more than four dwelling units: (1) sale or exchange; (2) installment land sales contract; or (3) lease with an option to purchase contract.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-21-10 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 21 / Section 27-21-10
SECTION 27-21-10. Sales of confiscated property; records thereof; disposition of proceeds.
Status: in_force

The sheriff of each county of this State shall sell at public auction at the courthouse of his county all barrels and other things of value confiscated by him and his deputies. At least seven days' notice shall be given by the sheriff prior to any such sale, such notice to be posted in the sheriff's office and on the bulletin board in the courthouse. All barrels and other things of value shall be sold for cash, at auction, called and conducted by the sheriff, the highest bidder to receive the property in each instance. The sheriff shall keep a record of such property confiscated and a record of all property sold, showing the amount received for it and the name of the purchaser. All funds derived from such sales shall be turned over to the treasurer of the county and credited to the general funds.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-25-60 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 25 / Section 27-25-60
SECTION 27-25-60. Calling creditors together.
Status: in_force

The assignee or assignees, within ten days after the execution of the deed of assignment, shall call the creditors together to proceed to the appointment of their agent or agents.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-6-20 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 6 / Section 27-6-20
SECTION 27-6-20. Nonvested property interest or power of appointment.
Status: in_force

(A) A nonvested property interest is invalid unless: (1) when the interest is created, it is certain to vest or terminate no later than twenty-one years after the death of an individual then alive; or (2) the interest either vests or terminates within three hundred sixty years after its creation. (B) A general power of appointment not presently exercisable because of a condition precedent is invalid unless: (1) when the power is created, the condition precedent is certain to be satisfied or become impossible to satisfy no later than twenty-one years after the death of an individual then alive; or (2) the condition precedent either is satisfied or becomes impossible to satisfy within three hundred sixty years after its creation. (C) A nongeneral power of appointment or a general testamentary power of appointment is invalid unless: (1) when the power is created, it is certain to be irrevocably exercised or to terminate no later than twenty-one years after the death of an individual then alive; or (2) the power is irrevocably exercised or terminates within three hundred sixty years after its creation. (D) In determining whether a nonvested property interest or a power of appointment is valid under subsection (A)(1), (B)(1), or (C)(1), the possibility that a child will be born to an individual after the individual's death is disregarded. (E) If, in measuring a period from the creation of a trust or other property arrangement, language in a governing instrument seeks to disallow the vesting or termination of any interest or trust beyond, seeks to postpone the vesting or termination of any interest or trust until, or seeks to operate in effect in any similar fashion upon, the later of: (1) the expiration of a period of time not exceeding twenty-one years after the death of a specified life or the survivor of specified lives, or upon the death of a specified life or the death of the survivor of specified lives in being at the creation of the trust or other property arrangement or (2) the expiration of a period of time that exceeds or might exceed twenty-one years after the death of the survivor of lives in being at the creation of the trust or other property arrangement, that language is inoperative to the extent it produces a period of time that exceeds twenty-one years after the death of the survivor of the specified lives. Effect of Amendment 2025 Act No. 25, SECTION 1, thrice substituted "three hundred sixty years" for "ninety years" throughout the section; and added (E).
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-2-105 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 2 / Section 27-2-105
SECTION 27-2-105. Clarification of county boundaries; role of South Carolina Geodetic Survey; contested case hearings.
Status: in_force

(A)(1) Where county boundaries are ill-defined, unmarked, or poorly marked, the South Carolina Geodetic Survey on a cooperative basis shall assist counties in defining and monumenting the locations of county boundaries and positioning the monuments using geodetic surveys. The South Carolina Geodetic Survey (SCGS) shall seek to clarify the county boundaries as defined in Chapter 3, Title 4. The SCGS shall analyze archival and other evidence and perform field surveys geographically to position all county boundaries in accordance with statutory descriptions. Physical and descriptive points defining boundaries must be referenced using South Carolina State Plane Coordinates. (2) If there is a boundary dispute between two or more counties, the SCGS shall act as the mediator to resolve the dispute. (3) Upon reestablishing all, or some portion, of a county boundary, the SCGS shall certify its work and within thirty days of that certification: (a) provide copies to the administrator of each affected county; (b) provide written notification to affected parties; (c) provide notice and copies to the public through its official website and or other means it considers appropriate; and (d) notify as it determines appropriate, other affected state and federal agencies. (4) For purposes of item (1), a certification for all or some portion of a county boundary means a plat signed and sealed by a licensed South Carolina Professional Land Surveyor and approved by the Chief of the SCGS. (B)(1) An affected party disagreeing with a boundary certified by the SCGS may file a request for a contested case hearing with the South Carolina Administrative Law Court according to the court's rules of procedure. An affected party has sixty calendar days from the date of a written notice sent to the affected party to file an appeal with the Administrative Law Court. (2) As used in this subsection an "affected party" means: (a) the governing body of an affected county; (b) the governing body of a political subdivision of this State, including a school district, located in whole or in part in the certification zone; (c) an elected official, other than a statewide elected official, whose electoral district is located in whole or in part in the certification zone; (d) a property owner or an individual residing in the certification zone; (e) a business entity located in the certification zone; or (f) a nonresident individual who owns or leases real property situated in the certification zone. (3) A "certification zone" means the actual territory in which the boundary certification changes from one affected county to another. (4) The decision of the Administrative Law Court may be appealed as provided in Section 1-23-610. (5) The certified county boundary plat described in subsection (A)(4) of this section takes effect for all purposes on the date provided in item (6). (6) When the certified boundary plat is no longer subject to appeal, the SCGS under cover of a letter signed by the Chief of the SCGS shall provide an appropriate revised boundary map to the Secretary of State, the South Carolina Department of Archives, and the register of deeds in each affected county. The date of the SCGS director's cover letter is the date the revised boundaries take effect. (7) When all portions of a county boundary are resolved, the SCGS shall prepare a unique boundary description for counties with boundaries affected by the operation of this section and forward that description in a form suitable for the General Assembly to amend county boundaries as described in Chapter 3, Title 4. (C) Nothing in this section may be construed as limiting or in any way restricting the plenary authority of the General Assembly by legislative enactment to adjust or otherwise clarify existing county boundaries, however, these boundaries may have been established. Effect of Amendment 2014 Act No. 262, SECTION 2, rewrote the section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-31-200 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 31 / Article 1 / Section 27-31-200
SECTION 27-31-200. Unpaid assessments; payment upon sale.
Status: in_force

Upon the sale or conveyance of an apartment, all unpaid assessments against a co-owner for his pro rata share in the expenses to which SECTION 27-31-190 refers shall first be paid out of the sales price or by the acquirer in preference over any other assessments or charges of whatever nature except the following: (a) Assessments, liens and charges for taxes past due and unpaid on the apartment; and (b) Payments due under mortgage instruments or encumbrances duly recorded.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-5-80 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 5 / Section 27-5-80
SECTION 27-5-80. Certain pension plans, annuity trusts, and the like of employers exempt from laws against perpetuities.
Status: in_force

Pension, profit sharing, stock bonus and annuity trusts, or combinations thereof, established by employers for the purpose of distributing both the principal and income thereof exclusively to eligible employees, or the beneficiaries of such employees, shall not be invalid as violating any laws or rules against perpetuities or restraints on the power of alienation of title to property; but such trust may continue for such period of time as may be required by the provisions thereof to accomplish the purposes for which they are established.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-25-110 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 25 / Section 27-25-110
SECTION 27-25-110. Appointment of umpire.
Status: in_force

In case of disagreement between the assignee or assignees and agent or agents, any of the judges of the courts of common pleas, at chambers, shall, on application of either of the parties, decide and, if deemed necessary, name and appoint an umpire to act jointly with the assignee or assignees and agent or agents.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-19-20 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 19 / Article 1 / Section 27-19-20
SECTION 27-19-20. Inquest by jury; certification and recording of verdict.
Status: in_force

The judge presiding at such court shall cause a jury, being first duly sworn, to proceed and make a true inquest of all such supposedly escheated lands which by the Secretary of State shall be subjected to their investigation and a true verdict made thereon. Thereupon the judge of the court shall certify such verdict, under his hand and the seal of the court, to the Secretary of State who shall record it in a book to be kept by him for that purpose and shall return the original within two months after the date thereof into the office of the clerk of the court, to be there filed and kept as a record thereof.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-32-250 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 32 / Article 1 / Section 27-32-250
SECTION 27-32-250. Sales or exchanges of vacation multiple ownership interests.
Status: in_force

(1) Trusts, partnership interests, undivided interests as tenants in common, corporate shares, or other membership or use interests in a dwelling unit, in which thirteen or fewer undivided interests, corporation shares, partnership interests, trust interests, or other membership or use interests are conveyed, are referred to in this section as vacation multiple ownership interests and are not considered a vacation time sharing plan or a time sharing unit for purposes of this chapter. Debts, encumbrances, or liens, except for purchaser financing, may not exist on the dwelling unit at the time fee simple title is conveyed to the tenants in common, corporation, trust, partnership, or other purchasing organization. The contract of sale and sale of a vacation multiple ownership must be handled by a real estate salesman duly licensed pursuant to Chapter 57 of Title 40 unless handled by a regular employee of the seller. It is a violation of this chapter for a seller of a vacation multiple ownership interest to sell, lease, encumber, or convey in any manner, or to solicit or advertise those transactions, unless the seller is in compliance with the provisions of Sections 27-32-20, 27-32-30, 27-32-40 , 27-32-50, 27-32-60, 27-32-70, 27-32-80, 27-32-100, 27-32-110, 27-32-120, 27-32-140, 27-32-150, and 27-32-190. Where the phrase "time sharing" is used in those sections, it also means "multiple ownership" for purposes of this section. (2) The sale or resale of a vacation multiple ownership interest and the exchange of an interest in a vacation multiple ownership interest is exempt from sales tax imposed by Chapter 36 of Title 12 pursuant to the provisions of Section 12-36-2120. (3) An owner selling vacation multiple ownership interests in not more than one dwelling unit a year is not subject to the provisions of this section. An individual or a corporation, trust, business, or partnership in which the individual is an owner, partner, stockholder, trustee, beneficiary, or affiliate is considered the owner of the dwelling unit for purposes of this section. (4) Funds received from purchasers of vacation multiple ownership interests must be placed in an escrow account with an insured institution and must not be disbursed until a sufficient number of vacation multiple ownership interests is sold to satisfy all outstanding debts, liens, and encumbrances on the dwelling unit, except for purchaser financing, and all furniture and furnishings in the dwelling unit, or until the posting with the Real Estate Commission of a bond, letter of credit, or other equivalent security satisfactory to the commission, to ensure payment of all outstanding debts, liens, and encumbrances on the dwelling unit and all furniture and furnishings in the dwelling unit. (5) Definitions: (a) The definitions contained in Section 27-32-10, items 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 13, and 16 are applicable to this section. (b) "Dwelling unit" means the actual accommodations and related facilities which are the subject of the vacation multiple ownership interest. (c) "Purchaser" means one who receives an undivided interest in a dwelling unit, a partner in a partnership that owns a dwelling unit, a shareholder in a corporation that owns a dwelling unit, a beneficiary in a trust that owns a dwelling unit, a holder of a leasehold interest in a dwelling unit, or a member of another organization that owns a dwelling unit.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-16-140 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 16 / Section 27-16-140
SECTION 27-16-140. Applicability of later-enacted federal law; chapter invalid if entire federal implementing legislation judicially invalidated; construction as between chapter and Settlement Agreement; copies of Settlement Agreement available.
Status: in_force

(A) The provisions of a federal law enacted after the date of enactment of the federal law implementing this agreement shall not apply in the State if the provision materially affects or preempts the application of the laws of the State, including application of the laws of the State to lands owned by or held in trust for Indians, Indian Nations, Indian tribes, or bands of Indians. However, the federal law shall apply within the State if the State grants its approval by a law or joint resolution enacted by the General Assembly of South Carolina and signed by the Governor. (B) If the entire federal implementing legislation is rendered invalid by a court, this chapter is invalid. (C) Whenever possible, this chapter must be construed in a manner consistent with the Settlement Agreement. If there is a conflict between this chapter and the Settlement Agreement, this chapter governs. The Settlement Agreement must be maintained on file and available for public inspection in the Office of the Secretary of State and in the offices of the Clerks of Court for York and Lancaster Counties. Copies must be made available upon request upon the payment of reasonable and normal copying fees.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-18-260 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 18 / Section 27-18-260
SECTION 27-18-260. Recovery by another state of property paid or delivered to administrator.
Status: in_force

(A) At any time after property has been paid or delivered to the administrator under this chapter another state may recover the property if: (1) the property was subjected to custody by this State because the records of the holder did not reflect the last known address of the apparent owner when the property was presumed abandoned under this chapter and the other state establishes that the last known address of the apparent owner or other person entitled to the property was in that state and under the laws of that state the property escheated to or was subject to a claim of abandonment by that state; (2) the last known address of the apparent owner or other person entitled to the property, as reflected by the records of the holder, is in the other state and under the laws of that state the property has escheated to or become subject to a claim of abandonment by that state; (3) the records of the holder were erroneous in that they did not accurately reflect the actual owner of the property and the last known address of the actual owner is in the other state and under the laws of that state the property escheated to or was subject to a claim of abandonment by that state; (4) the property was subjected to custody by this State under Section 27-18-40(6) and under the laws of the state of domicile of the holder the property has escheated to or become subject to a claim of abandonment by that state; or (5) the property is the sum payable on a travelers check, money order, or other similar instrument that was subjected to custody by this State under Section 27-18-50, and the instrument was purchased in the other state, and under the laws of that state the property escheated to or became subject to a claim of abandonment by that state. (B) The claim of another state to recover escheated or abandoned property must be presented in a form prescribed by the administrator, who shall decide the claim within ninety days after it is presented. The administrator shall allow the claim if he determines that the other state is entitled to the abandoned property under subsection (A). (C) The administrator shall require a state, before recovering property under this section, to agree to indemnify this State and its officers and employees against any liability on a claim for the property.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-23-50 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 23 / Section 27-23-50
SECTION 27-23-50. Leases, estates, or interests assigned, granted or surrendered by parol.
Status: in_force

No leases, estates or interests, either of freehold, term of years or uncertain interests, of, in, to or out of any lands, tenements or hereditaments shall at any time be assigned, granted or surrendered, unless it be by deed or note, in writing signed by the party so assigning, granting or surrendering them, or his agent thereunto lawfully authorized by writing or by act and operation of law.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-25-20 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 25 / Section 27-25-20
SECTION 27-25-20. Preferential transactions within ninety days of assignment.
Status: in_force

If any person, being insolvent, within ninety days before the making of any assignment by him of his property for the benefit of his creditors, with a view of giving a preference to any creditor or person having a claim against him or who is under any liability for him, procures or suffers any part of his property to be attached, sequestered or seized on execution or makes any payment, pledge, assignment, transfer or conveyance of any part of his property, either directly or indirectly, absolutely or conditionally, the person receiving such payment, pledge, assignment, transfer or conveyance of any part of his property, or to be benefited thereby or by such attachment, having reasonable cause to believe such person to be insolvent and that such attachment, sequestration, seizure, payment, pledge, assignment or conveyance is made in fraud of the provisions of this chapter, such attachment, sequestration, seizure, payment, pledge, assignment, transfer or conveyance so procured, suffered or made by such insolvent person shall be void and the assignee may recover the property, or the value of it, from the person so receiving it or so to be benefited. Nothing, however, in this section shall be construed to invalidate any loan of actual value, or the security therefor, made in good faith, upon a security taken in good faith, on the occasion of the making of such loan, or any security bona fide made for advances.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-40-230 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 40 / Article 1 / Section 27-40-230
SECTION 27-40-230. Unconscionability.
Status: in_force

(a) If the court as a matter of law, finds: (1) a rental agreement was unconscionable when made, the court may refuse to enforce the rental agreement; (2) any provision of a rental agreement was unconscionable when made, the court may enforce the remainder of the agreement without the unconscionable provision or limit the application of any unconscionable provision to avoid an unconscionable result; or (3) a settlement in which a party waives or agrees to forego a claim or right under this chapter or under a rental agreement was unconscionable when made, the court may refuse to enforce the settlement, enforce the remainder of the settlement without the unconscionable provision, or limit the application of any unconscionable provision to avoid an unconscionable result. (b) If unconscionability is put into issue by a party or by the court upon its own motion, the parties must be afforded a reasonable opportunity to present evidence as to the setting, purpose, and effect of the rental agreement or settlement to aid the court in making the determination.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-50-80 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 50 / Article 1 / Section 27-50-80
SECTION 27-50-80. Obligation of purchaser to inspect.
Status: in_force

This article does not limit the obligation of the purchaser to inspect the physical condition of the property and improvements that are the subject of a contract covered by this article. The real estate licensee, whether acting as listing agent or selling agent, has no duty to inspect the onsite or offsite conditions of the property and any improvements.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-2-50 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 2 / Section 27-2-50
SECTION 27-2-50. Coordinate System defined.
Status: in_force

For purposes of more precisely defining the South Carolina Coordinate System, the following definition by the National Ocean Survey and the National Geodetic Survey is adopted: The South Carolina Coordinate System is a Lambert conformal projection of the North American Datum, 1983, having standard parallels at north latitudes 32° 30' and 34° 50', along which parallels the scale must be exact. The origin of coordinates is at the intersection of the meridian 81° 00'west of Greenwich and the parallel 31° 50' north latitude. This origin is given the coordinates: * = 2,000,000 feet and y = 0 feet. For the purposes of the South Carolina Coordinate System, the foot is the International Foot with one inch being exactly equal to 2.54 centimeters. The position of South Carolina Coordinate System is as marked on the ground by monumented points of the North American Horizontal Geodetic Control Network established in conformity with standards adopted by the Federal Geodetic Control Committee for first-order and second-order work, whose geodetic positions have been rigidly adjusted on the North American Datum of 1983, and whose coordinates have been computed on the system defined in this section. Any such stations may be used for establishing a survey connection with the South Carolina Coordinate System.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-29-30 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 29 / Section 27-29-30
SECTION 27-29-30. Exceptions to application of chapter.
Status: in_force

(a) Unless the method of disposition is adopted for the purpose of evasion of this chapter, the provisions of this chapter do not apply to offers or dispositions of an interest in land: (1) by a purchaser of subdivided lands for his own account in a single or isolated transaction; (2) if fewer than twenty-five separate lots, parcels, units, or interests in subdivided lands are offered by a person in a period of twelve months; (3) on which there is a residential, commercial, or industrial building, or as to which there is a legal obligation on the part of the seller to construct such a building within two years from date of disposition; (4) to persons who are engaged in the business of construction of buildings for resale, or to persons who acquire an interest in subdivided lands for the purpose of engaging, and do engage in the business of construction of buildings for resale; (5) pursuant to court order; (6) by any government or governmental agency; (7) as cemetery lots or interests. (b) Unless the method of disposition is adopted for the purpose of evasion of this chapter, the provisions of this chapter do not apply to: (1) offers or dispositions of evidences of indebtedness secured by a mortgage or deed of trust of real estate; (2) offers or dispositions of securities or units of interest issued by a real estate investment trust regulated under any state or federal statute; (3) a subdivision as to which the plan of disposition is to dispose to ten or fewer persons; (4) a subdivision as to which the commission has granted an exemption as provided in Section 27-29-100.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-32-170 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 32 / Article 1 / Section 27-32-170
SECTION 27-32-170. Proceeds from sale or exchange exempt from sales tax.
Status: in_force

The gross proceeds from the sale or resale of a vacation time sharing plan and the exchange of an interest in a vacation time sharing plan are exempt from sales tax imposed by Chapter 36 of Title 12 pursuant to the provisions of Section 12-36-2120.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-30-120 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 30 / Article 1 / Section 27-30-120
SECTION 27-30-120. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this article: (1) "Board" means the representative body, regardless of name, designated in the governing documents to act on behalf of a homeowners association and govern the association. (2) "Declarant" means a person or group of persons acting in concert who: (a) as part of a common promotional plan, subdivide and offer to dispose of an interest the person or group has in a unit in real property; or (b) reserve or succeed to a special declarant right, which means a right created under the declaration or bylaws for the person or group to retain or exercise authority in addition to regular declarant rights in a unit of real property. (3) "Declaration" means the recorded instruments, however denominated, that create a homeowners association, including amendments to those instruments. (4) "Governing documents" means declaration, master deeds, or bylaws, or any amendments to the declaration, master deeds, or bylaws. (5) "Homeowner" means a declarant or other person who owns a unit in a homeowners association, but does not include a person having an interest in such a unit solely as security for an obligation. (6) "Homeowners association" or "association" means an entity developed to manage and maintain a planned community or horizontal property regime for which there is a declaration requiring a person, by virtue of his ownership of a separate property within the planned community or horizontal property regime, to pay assessments for a share of real estate taxes, insurance premiums, maintenance, or improvement of, or services or other expenses related to, common elements and other real estate described in that declaration. A "homeowners association" or "association" does not include a vacation time sharing plan organized and subject to the provisions of Chapter 32. (7) "Homeowners association management company" means a corporation, limited liability company, partnership, trust, association, sole proprietorship, or other similar organization engaging in the business of managing homeowners associations. (8) "Unit" means an apartment in a horizontal property regime, or a lot in a subdivision. Effect of Amendment 2019 Act No. 66, SECTION 4, in (6), in the second sentence, substituted "time sharing" for "timesharing" and deleted "only" following "and subject".
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-30-110 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 30 / Article 1 / Section 27-30-110
SECTION 27-30-110. Short title.
Status: in_force

This article may be cited as the "South Carolina Homeowners Association Act".
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-19-230 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 19 / Article 3 / Section 27-19-230
SECTION 27-19-230. Personal property of inmates dying in the Charleston Home.
Status: in_force

If any inmate of the Charleston Home die intestate leaving money or personal property, no one making claim for it within two years after the death of such inmate, such money or personal property shall become the property of the Home, to be expended by the board of commissioners for improvements and repairs of the premises of the Home.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-30-340 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 30 / Article 3 / Section 27-30-340
SECTION 27-30-340. Calls or written complaints from homeowners or homeowners associations.
Status: in_force

(A) The department shall receive and record data from any calls or written complaints from homeowners or homeowners associations. (B) When a call or written complaint is received, the department shall, at a minimum, include the following information to be completed on a form completed by a homeowner or homeowners association or, if received by telephone, on a form completed by a department employee who is identified on the form: (1) homeowner's name; (2) name of the homeowners association and their contact information, including the county and city where it is located; (3) name of the homeowners association management company, if any, and its contact information, including telephone number, owner's name, and street and mailing addresses; (4) whether a homeowner: (a) was informed of the requirement of membership in a homeowners association as a condition of home ownership, including when that information was provided and by whom; (b) received a copy of the governing documents of the homeowners association and if the copy was obtained before or after receiving title to the unit; (c) was denied access to the governing documents and, if so, what remedies the homeowner took to obtain the governing documents; (d) understands his rights and obligations under the governing documents; (5) the nature of the homeowner's or homeowners association's complaint; (6) whether the homeowner attempted to communicate his complaint to the homeowners association or homeowners association management company, if any, and whether the homeowner exhausted all of his remedies in accordance with any terms set out in the homeowners association governing documents or rules and regulations, what action, if any, the homeowners association or homeowners association management company, if any, took concerning the complaint; (7) whether the homeowner agrees or disagrees with the provisions of the governing documents; (8) whether the homeowner agrees or disagrees with how the provisions were enforced, his recommendations for changing the provisions or means of enforcement, and whether the homeowner feels that more or less enforcement is needed; and (9) any response received from a homeowners association or homeowner, relative to a specific complaint provided by the department and whether or not a response was provided by the applicable homeowners association or homeowner. (C) Upon receiving a homeowner's or homeowners association's complaint, the department shall provide the complaint to the homeowners association or the homeowner complained against in a manner that verifies receipt of such complaint by the homeowners association or homeowner, so the homeowner, board, or homeowners association may determine if the homeowner, board, or homeowners association desires to make a response to the complaint. (D) By January thirty-first of each year, the department shall make a report of all data collected from the full report categories collected and complaints received as provided in this section to: (1) the Governor and the General Assembly; and (2) the public through the department's website. The public report must include categorized, filterable, and searchable information compiled from the complaints and responses and redact any personal or private information, such as names, addresses, and telephone numbers, contained in the complaints and responses. This redaction requirement does not apply to information concerning a homeowners association and a homeowners association management company. (3) For data to be included in the report, the form must be executed by the homeowner, homeowners association, or department employee. (E) Under the provisions of this article, the department is prohibited from: (1) promulgating regulations or issuing guidelines concerning homeowners association administration, governance, or governing documents; or (2) serving as an arbiter in disputes between the homeowner and homeowners association.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-11-30 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 11 / Section 27-11-30
SECTION 27-11-30. Former patents, grants, and deeds, indented or poll, are valid notwithstanding certain designated errors.
Status: in_force

Such patents, grants and deeds, indented or poll, shall be held valid notwithstanding: (1) Any misnomer or omission of the names of any of the lords proprietors or their deputies, any want of significant and necessary words in law for conveying of such lands, any omission, commission or mistake whatsoever in such grants done, omitted or committed by all or any of the lords proprietors, their deputies or trustees commissioned by the lords proprietors for selling of lands in this State; (2) Any proper seal not being used or affixed by the proprietors, their governors, deputies, commissioners or trustees to any such patent, grant, indenture, deed or commission; (3) The lands granted or conveyed, or intended to be granted and conveyed, by such patents, grants and deeds, indented or poll, have not been sufficiently described or ascertained in such patents, grants or deeds, indented or poll, if, nevertheless, such lands, or some part thereof, have been surveyed or meted out, or ascertained by survey to such patentees, grantees or purchasers or to their heirs or assigns or to the heirs or assigns of the persons named as assigns in grants or deeds of assignment of any such patents, grants or deeds or to any of their attorneys or agents in their behalf by a survey of a sworn surveyor or surveyors, as part of such patent lands, or certified or returned into the office of the late surveyor general (now Secretary of State), by a sworn surveyor or surveyors thereto appointed, or if such lands, or some part thereof, have been described or ascertained by subsequent grants thereof, to such original patentees, grantees or to persons named as such, their heirs or assigns, or to under-purchasers by mesne conveyances from such original patentees, grantees or assignees or persons named as such, their heirs or assigns, or to persons claiming under them as such, or to their attorneys or agents in their or any of their behalf before August 20, 1731; (4) Any want of livery and seizin, enrollment, attornment or any other defect whatsoever in the execution of all or any such patents, grants or deeds, indented or poll, so made by the lords proprietors, or any of them, their governors, deputies or commissioners, in the not timely execution or for the nonexecution of the same, by reason of the first or former patentee or patentees dying before such lands were meted out to him or them, in part of such patents, or otherwise howsoever, if, nevertheless, the heir or heirs of the persons who were named as patentees or grantees, or purchasers in such patents, grants or deeds of assignment, or their heirs or assigns of such first or former patentee or patentees, or any person or persons whatsoever, claiming as such, under all or any of them, their agents or attorneys, did cause any part of such vacant and unoccupied lands to be meted out or ascertained to them, or any of them, their heirs or assigns, or persons named as such in such deeds of assignment, conveyances or last wills, or to their attorneys or agents in their behalf, by survey or surveys of a sworn surveyor or surveyors, or certified or returned into the late surveyor general's office, for and in part of such patent lands before conveyed or intended to be conveyed by such original patents, grants, indentures or deeds; or (5) Any other defect, omission or commission in form or substance, law or fact, in all or any such original patents, grants, indentures or deeds, or assignments of them, or in the execution thereof or any of them, if such lands, or some part of them, have been meted out or ascertained to such patentees, grantees or assigns or to persons named as such in any such patents, grants or deeds of assignment or to their attorneys or agents in their behalf or returned into the late surveyor general's office as aforesaid, at any time before August 20, 1731.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-35-90 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 35 / Section 27-35-90
SECTION 27-35-90. Time for payment of rents.
Status: in_force

Unless otherwise agreed upon rents shall be payable monthly and at the end of each calendar month, excepting rents for farm lands.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-32-315 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 32 / Article 3 / Section 27-32-315
SECTION 27-32-315. Who may serve as trustee; appointment of successor trustee; notice of substitution of trustee.
Status: in_force

(A) A trustee may be any: (1) attorney who is an active licensed member of the South Carolina Bar in good standing or a law firm whose members include such an attorney; or (2) title insurance company, title insurance agent, or title insurance agency licensed to do business in this State. (B) An attorney who is a trustee under subsection (A)(1) may represent the lienholder foreclosing under this article in addition to performing the duties of a trustee under a power of sale. (C) Successor trustees may be appointed by a lienholder at any time by recording a notice of substitution of trustee in the public records for the county in which the timeshare estate is located. From the time the substitution of trustee is recorded, the successor trustee succeeds to all the powers, duties, and authority of the original trustee and successor trustees, if any. (D) The recorded notice of substitution of trustee must identify: (1) the mortgage or timeshare instrument; (2) the names of the original parties to the mortgage or timeshare instrument; (3) the date of recordation of the mortgage or timeshare instrument; (4) the official record book and page number where the mortgage or timeshare instrument is recorded; (5) the name of the successor trustee; and (6) the name of the trustee being replaced. The notice must recite acceptance by the successor trustee of his or her duties and must be dated, signed, and acknowledged by the lienholder and the successor trustee. A notice of substitution of trustee is valid for purposes of this article when made and recorded in accordance with this section. A resignation of the original or prior trustee is not required. (E) The lienholder may not serve as the trustee.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-27-10 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 27 / Section 27-27-10
SECTION 27-27-10. Recovery for improvements made in good faith.
Status: in_force

After final judgment in favor of the plaintiff in an action to recover lands and tenements, if the defendant has purchased or acquired the lands and tenements recovered in such action or taken a lease thereof or those under whom he holds have purchased or acquired a title to such lands and tenements or taken a lease thereof, supposing at the time of such purchase or acquisition such title to be good in fee or such lease to convey and secure the title and interest therein expressed, such defendant shall be entitled to recover of the plaintiff in such action the full value of all improvements made upon such land by such defendant or those under whom he claims, in the manner provided in this chapter. Effect of Amendment The 2013 amendment inserted "or acquired" following "purchased" in two places and "or acquisition" following "purchase".
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-18-400 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 18 / Section 27-18-400
SECTION 27-18-400. Application and construction of chapter.
Status: in_force

This chapter must be applied and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this chapter among states enacting it.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-31-100 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 31 / Article 1 / Section 27-31-100
SECTION 27-31-100. Master deed or lease; contents.
Status: in_force

The master deed or lease creating and establishing the horizontal property regime shall be executed by the owner or owners of the real property making up the regime and shall be recorded with the register of mesne conveyance or clerk of court of the county where such property is located. The master deed or lease shall express the following particulars: (a) The description of the land whether leased or in fee simple, and the building or buildings in existence or to be constructed, if applicable, expressing their respective areas; (b) The general description and number of each apartment, expressing its area, location and any other data necessary for its identification; (c) The description of the general common elements of the property, and, in proper cases, of the limited common elements restricted to a given number of apartments, expressing which are those apartments; (d) The value of the property and of each apartment, and, according to these basic values, the percentage appertaining to the co-owners in the expenses of, and rights in, the elements held in common; and (e) The name by which the horizontal property regime is to be known followed by the words "HORIZONTAL PROPERTY REGIME." (f) A description of the full legal rights and obligations, both currently existing and which may occur, of the apartment owner, the co-owners, and the person establishing the regime. The master deed of any horizontal property regime developed under the provisions of this chapter that contains any submerged land shall contain a notice of restriction stating that all activities on or over and all uses of the submerged land or other critical areas are subject to the jurisdiction of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, including, but not limited to, the requirement that any activity or use must be authorized by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. The notice shall further state that any owner is liable to the extent of his ownership for any damages to, any inappropriate or unpermitted uses of, and any duties or responsibilities concerning any submerged land, coastal waters, or any other critical area. (g) In the event the owner of property submitting it for establishment of a horizontal property regime proposes to develop the property as a single regime but in two or more stages or proposes to annex additional property to the property described in the master deed, the master deed shall also contain a general description of the plan of development, including: (1) The maximum number of units in each proposed stage of development; (2) The dates by which the owner submitting such property to condominium ownership will elect whether or not he will proceed with each stage of development; (3) A general description of the nature and proposed use of any additional common elements which the owner submitting property to condominium ownership proposes to annex to the property described in the master deed, if such common elements might substantially increase the proportionate amount of the common expenses payable by existing unit owners; (4) A chart showing the percentage interest in the common elements of each original unit owner at each stage of development if the owner submitting property to condominium ownership elected to proceed with all stages of development. (h) Any restrictions or limitations on the lease of a unit including, but not limited to, the amount and term of the lease.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-13-30 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 13 / Section 27-13-30
SECTION 27-13-30. Limitation on alien land ownership.
Status: in_force

No alien or corporation controlled by aliens, either in his or its own right or as trustee, cestui que trust or agent, shall own or control within the limits of this State more than five hundred thousand acres of land. Nothing in this section shall apply to lands owned or controlled by any such person or corporation nor to lands mortgaged to such a person or corporation on March 9, 1896, nor shall this section apply to lands conveyed by an alien to a corporation controlled by such alien.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-32-30 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 32 / Article 1 / Section 27-32-30
SECTION 27-32-30. Materials to be kept among business records of seller of plans.
Status: in_force

It is a violation of this chapter for a person offering vacation time sharing plans for sale to the public to fail to keep among its business records a: (1) copy of each item required to be submitted to the commission pursuant to Section 27-32-20; (2) copy of the contract from each sale of the vacation time sharing plan, which contract must be retained for at least three years after parties to the vacation time sharing plan have completely performed all of their obligations under it; and (3) list of all employees, and their last known mailing addresses, which list must include all current employees and all previous employees whose employment was terminated within the preceding three years.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-31-160 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 31 / Article 1 / Section 27-31-160
SECTION 27-31-160. Provisions required in bylaws; modification of system of administration.
Status: in_force

The bylaws must necessarily provide for at least the following: (a) Form of administration, indicating whether this shall be in charge of an administrator or of a board of administration, or otherwise, and specifying the powers, manner of removal and, where proper, the compensation thereof; (b) Method of calling or summoning the co-owners to assemble; that a majority of at least fifty-one percent is required to adopt decisions; who is to preside over the meeting and who will keep the minutes book wherein the resolutions shall be recorded; (c) Care, upkeep and surveillance of the property and its general or limited common elements and services; (d) Manner of collecting from the co-owners for the payment of the common expenses; (e) Designation and dismissal of the personnel necessary for the works and the general or limited common services of the property. The sole owner of the property or, if there be more than one, the co-owners representing two thirds of the total value of the property, may at any time modify the system of administration, but each one of the particulars set forth in this section shall always be embodied in the bylaws. No such modification may be operative until it is embodied in a recorded instrument which shall be recorded in the same office and in the same manner as was the master deed or lease and original bylaws of the horizontal property regime involved.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-18-10 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 18 / Section 27-18-10
SECTION 27-18-10. Short title.
Status: in_force

This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act (1981).
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-29-120 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 29 / Section 27-29-120
SECTION 27-29-120. Unlawful practices; cease and desist orders.
Status: in_force

(a) If the commission determines after notice and hearing that a person has: (1) violated any provision of this chapter; (2) directly or through an agent or employee knowingly engaged in any false, deceptive, or misleading advertising, promotional, or sales methods to offer or dispose of an interest in subdivided lands; (3) made any substantial change in the plan of disposition and development of the subdivided lands subsequent to the order of registration without obtaining prior written approval from the commission; (4) disposed of any subdivided lands which have not been registered with the commission; (5) violated any lawful order or rule of the commission, it may issue an order requiring the person to cease and desist from the unlawful practice and to take such affirmative action as in the judgment of the commission will carry out the purposes of this chapter. (b) Whenever the commission has reason to believe that any person is violating or intends to violate any provision of this article, it may, in addition to all other remedies, order such person to immediately cease and desist and refrain from such conduct. The commission may apply to an administrative law judge as provided under Article 5 of Chapter 23 of Title 1 for an injunction restraining the person from such conduct. An administrative law judge may issue a temporary injunction ex parte, and upon notice and full hearing may issue any other order in the matter it deems proper. No bond shall be required of the commission by an administrative law judge as a condition to the issuance of any injunction or order contemplated by the provisions of this section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-39-290 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 39 / Article 3 / Section 27-39-290
SECTION 27-39-290. Reasonableness of distress.
Status: in_force

Any distress must be reasonable in respect to the amount of property distrained.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-6-40 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 6 / Section 27-6-40
SECTION 27-6-40. Reformation of property dispositions.
Status: in_force

Upon the petition of an interested person, a court shall reform a disposition in the manner that most closely approximates the transferor's manifested plan of distribution and is within the three hundred sixty years permitted by this chapter if: (1) a nonvested property interest or a power of appointment becomes invalid under Section 27-6-20; (2) a class gift is not but may become invalid under Section 27-6-20 and the time has arrived when the share of any class member is to take effect in possession or enjoyment; or (3) a nonvested property interest that is not validated by Section 27-6-20(A)(1) can vest but not within three hundred sixty years after its creation. Effect of Amendment 2025 Act No. 25, SECTION 2, twice substituted "three hundred sixty years" for "ninety years" and made other nonsubstantive changes throughout the section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-47-610 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 47 / Article 7 / Section 27-47-610
SECTION 27-47-610. Notification by new owner of change in ownership.
Status: in_force

If a park is sold but continues to operate as a park, the new owner shall notify residents of the change in ownership within thirty days after the date of closing of the sale.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-50-50 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 50 / Article 1 / Section 27-50-50
SECTION 27-50-50. Delivery of and effect of failure to provide disclosure statement; responsibility of listing or selling agent.
Status: in_force

(A) The owner of real property subject to this article shall deliver to the purchaser the disclosure form required by this article before a real estate contract is signed by the purchaser and owner, or as otherwise agreed in the real estate contract. (B) Failure to provide the disclosure form required by this article to the purchaser does not: (1) void the agreement; (2) create a defect in title; or (3) present a valid reason to delay or otherwise interfere with the closing of a real estate transaction by a party including a closing attorney or lender. (C) A real estate licensee acting as a listing agent or a selling agent is subject to the regulations governing his license and performance of his responsibilities as licensee, as provided by the commission. This article does not limit any other remedy available to the purchaser under law.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-23-70 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 23 / Section 27-23-70
SECTION 27-23-70. Validity of parol gifts.
Status: in_force

No parol gift of any chattel shall be valid against subsequent creditors, purchasers or mortgagees, except when the donee shall live separate and apart from the donor and actual possession shall, at the time of the gift, be delivered to and remain and continue in the donee, his executors, administrators or assigns.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-16-100 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 16 / Section 27-16-100
SECTION 27-16-100. Tribal ownership of realty outside Reservation.
Status: in_force

(A) The Tribe may acquire parcels of real estate outside the Reservation in the manner provided by the federal implementing legislation and the Settlement Agreement. These parcels must not be part of the Reservation, governed by the special jurisdictional provisions set forth in this chapter, or subject to other special attributes on account of their ownership by the Tribe as a corporate entity or by the Secretary as trustee for the Tribe, except as provided in this section. (1) If the ownership of the properties by the Secretary or the Tribe or a subentity of the Tribe removes the property from ad valorem taxation, payments must be made by the Tribe in lieu of taxation that are equivalent to the taxes that otherwise would be paid if the property were subject to levy. (2) The Tribe may lease, sell, mortgage, restrict, encumber, or otherwise dispose of non-Reservation lands in the same manner as other persons and entities under state law. The Tribe as landowner shall be subject to the same obligations and responsibilities as other persons and entities under state and local law, including local zoning and land use laws and regulations. (B) All non-Reservation properties and all activities conducted on the properties shall be subject to the laws, ordinances, taxes, and regulations of the State and its political subdivisions, except as specifically provided in this chapter and the federal implementing legislation. This general jurisdictional principle shall extend to non-Reservation properties held by the Tribe as a corporate entity and to properties held in trust by the United States designated as non-Reservation property when acquired. The laws, ordinances, taxes, and regulations of the State and its subdivisions shall apply to non-Reservation properties in the same manner as the laws, ordinances, taxes, and regulations apply to other properties held by non-Indians located in the same jurisdiction.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-40-430 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 40 / Article 3 / Section 27-40-430
SECTION 27-40-430. Landlord to deliver possession of dwelling unit.
Status: in_force

At the commencement of the term a landlord shall deliver possession of the premises to the tenant in compliance with the rental agreement and SECTION 27-40-440. The landlord may bring an action for possession against any person wrongfully in possession and may recover the damages provided in SECTION 27-40-760(c).
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-2-85 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 2 / Section 27-2-85
SECTION 27-2-85. Duties of South Carolina Geodetic Survey.
Status: in_force

The South Carolina Geodetic Survey established within the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office shall establish horizontal and vertical geodetic control within the State at a density that effectively will provide land and land-related items and records to be referenced to the national horizontal and vertical coordinate system, ensure the accuracy and integrity of new geodetic data entered into the state and national reference system, maintain geodetic files for the State, and disseminate geodetic information as necessary. Code Commissioner's Note At the direction of the Code Commissioner, references in this section to the offices of the former State Budget and Control Board, Office of the Governor, or other agencies, were changed to reflect the transfer of them to the Department of Administration or other entities, pursuant to the directive of the South Carolina Restructuring Act, 2014 Act No. 121, SECTION 5(D)(1). Effect of Amendment 2018 Act No. 246, SECTION 7, deleted "Office of Research and Statistics of the" preceding "Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office".
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-37-120 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 37 / Section 27-37-120
SECTION 27-37-120. Appeal.
Status: in_force

Either party may appeal in an ejectment case and such appeal shall be heard and determined as other appeals in civil cases from the magistrate's court.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-6-50 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 6 / Section 27-6-50
SECTION 27-6-50. Exceptions to rule.
Status: in_force

Section 27-6-20 does not apply to: (1) a nonvested property interest or a power of appointment arising out of a nondonative transfer, except a nonvested property interest or a power of appointment arising out of (i) a premarital or postmarital agreement, (ii) a separation or divorce settlement, (iii) a spouse's election, (iv) a similar arrangement arising out of a prospective, existing, or previous marital relationship between the parties, (v) a contract to make or not to revoke a will or trust, (vi) a contract to exercise or not to exercise a power of appointment, (vii) a transfer in satisfaction of a duty of support, or (viii) a reciprocal transfer; (2) a fiduciary's power relating to the administration or management of assets, including the power of a fiduciary to sell, lease, or mortgage property, and the power of a fiduciary to determine principal and income; (3) a power to appoint a fiduciary; (4) a discretionary power of a trustee to distribute principal before termination of a trust to a beneficiary having an indefeasibly vested interest in the income and principal; (5) a nonvested property interest held by a charity, government, or governmental agency or subdivision, if the nonvested property interest is preceded by an interest held by another charity, government, or governmental agency or subdivision; (6) a nonvested property interest in or a power of appointment with respect to a trust or other property arrangement forming part of a pension, profit-sharing, stock bonus, and health, disability, death benefit, income deferral, or other current or deferred benefit plan for one or more employees, independent contractors, or their beneficiaries or spouses, to which contributions are made for the purpose of distributing to or for the benefit of the participants or their beneficiaries or spouses the property, income, or principal in the trust or other property arrangement, except a nonvested property interest or a power of appointment that is created by an election of a participant or a beneficiary or spouse; or (7) a property interest, power of appointment, or arrangement that was not subject to the common law rule against perpetuities or is excluded by another statute of this State, including, but not limited to, the interests, powers, and arrangements coming within Sections 13-7-30, 27-5-70, 27-5-80, 33-53-30, 39-55-135, and 62-7-909. Code Commissioner's Note At the direction of the Code Commissioner, the reference in item (7) to 62-7-409 was changed to 62-7-909 to conform to the South Carolina Uniform Principal and Income Act of 2005.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-5-110 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 5 / Section 27-5-110
SECTION 27-5-110. Entry on land.
Status: in_force

No person shall make any entry into any lands and tenements but in case entry is given by law; and in such case not with strong hand nor with multitude of people, but only in peaceable and easy manner.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-7-20 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 7 / Section 27-7-20
SECTION 27-7-20. Warranty and additional clauses in conveyances.
Status: in_force

Section 27-7-10 shall be so construed as not to oblige any person to insert the clause of warranty or to restrain him from inserting any other clause in conveyances, as may be deemed proper and advisable by the purchaser and seller, or to invalidate the forms formerly in use within this State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-32-90 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 32 / Article 1 / Section 27-32-90
SECTION 27-32-90. Escrow accounts; provisions; refunds; audits and examinations; disputed funds; investments and interest; record keeping; financial assurances.
Status: in_force

(A) A seller of a vacation time sharing plan shall deposit into an escrow account maintained by an independent third-party agent one hundred percent of the funds received from the purchasers of the plans. The deposit of the funds must be evidenced by an executed escrow agreement between the escrow agent and the seller, which must include provisions that: (1) funds may be disbursed to the seller by the escrow agent from the escrow account only after the expiration of the purchaser's cancellation period and in accordance with the purchase contract, subject to subsection (B) of this section; and (2) if the purchaser properly cancels the contract pursuant to its terms, the funds must be paid to the purchaser pursuant to Section 27-32-40 or 27-32-50. (B) If a seller contracts to sell an interest in a vacation time sharing plan and the construction of the property in which the interest of the vacation time sharing plan is located has not been substantially completed, the seller, upon expiration of the cancellation period, shall continue to maintain in an escrow account all funds received by or on behalf of the seller from the purchaser under the contract. Funds must be released from escrow as follows, if: (1) a purchaser properly cancels the contract pursuant to its terms, the funds must be paid to the purchaser; (2) the purchaser defaults in the performance of his obligations under the contract, the funds must be paid to the seller; (3) the seller defaults in the performance of his obligations under the contract, the funds must be paid to the purchaser; and (4) the funds of a purchaser have not been previously disbursed in accordance with the provisions of this subsection, they may be disbursed to the seller by the escrow agent upon the issuance of acceptable evidence of substantial completion of construction. (C) The commission may audit or examine the escrow account. The seller shall make available documents relating to the escrow account or escrow obligation to the commission upon the commission's request. The seller shall maintain disputed funds in the escrow account until either: (1) receipt of written direction agreed to by signature of all parties; or (2) deposit of the funds with a court of competent jurisdiction in which a civil action regarding the funds has been filed. (D) An escrow agent holding funds escrowed pursuant to this section may invest the escrowed funds in securities of the United States government, or an agency of it, or in savings or time deposits in an institution insured by an agency of the United States government. Interest generated by the investments must be paid to the party to whom the escrowed funds are paid, unless otherwise specified by contract. (E) An escrow agent holding funds escrowed pursuant to this section shall maintain separate books and records for each time sharing plan in accordance with generally acceptable accounting practices. (F) Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section, the commission may accept from the seller a surety bond, irrevocable letter of credit, or other financial assurance acceptable to the commission in an amount equal to or in excess of the funds that otherwise would be placed in escrow.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-19-10 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 19 / Article 1 / Section 27-19-10
SECTION 27-19-10. Notification of supposedly escheated lands by Secretary of State to judge of circuit court.
Status: in_force

The Secretary of State, in every case when, on his knowledge or belief or on the information of another, certain lands have been escheated to the State by the death of the person last seized in fee simple, either in law or in fact, without leaving any person who can lawfully claim such lands either by purchase or descent from such former proprietor, shall, on such knowledge or information or the order of any court of record, issue his notification of such supposedly escheated lands to one of the judges of the circuit court at least two months previous to the next session of such court to be held in the county where such lands lie.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-40-750 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 40 / Article 7 / Section 27-40-750
SECTION 27-40-750. Remedy after termination.
Status: in_force

If the rental agreement is terminated, the landlord has a right to possession and for rent and a separate claim for actual damages for breach of the rental agreement and reasonable attorney's fees.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-19-220 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 19 / Article 3 / Section 27-19-220
SECTION 27-19-220. Advertising of moneys or property; vesting of property in State.
Status: in_force

The State Treasurer shall advertise such moneys or other personal property in some newspaper once in every month for six months in like manner as lands are herein directed to be advertised, and if no person shall appear and make good title to such personal estate within two years thereafter other than as executor or administrator or their legal representatives, then such moneys or other personal estate shall become vested in and applied to the use of the State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-47-110 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 47 / Article 1 / Section 27-47-110
SECTION 27-47-110. Applicability of this chapter and Chapter 40 of Title 27.
Status: in_force

This chapter applies to, regulates, and determines the rights, obligations, and remedies under a rental agreement for a residential manufactured home park lot located within this State. The provisions of the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act in Chapter 40 of Title 27 shall apply to tenancies in manufactured home parks if such application is not inconsistent with or contrary to the provisions of this chapter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-50-210 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 50 / Article 2 / Section 27-50-210
SECTION 27-50-210. Short title.
Status: in_force

This article may be cited as the "South Carolina Vacation Rental Act".
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-31-170 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 31 / Article 1 / Section 27-31-170
SECTION 27-31-170. Compliance with bylaws, rules, and regulations; remedy for noncompliance.
Status: in_force

Each co-owner shall comply strictly with the bylaws and with the administrative rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto, as either of the same may be lawfully amended from time to time, and with the covenants, conditions and restrictions set forth in the master deed or lease or in the deed or lease to his apartment. Failure to comply with any of the same shall be grounds for a civil action to recover sums due for damages or injunctive relief, or both, maintainable by the administrator or the board of administration, or other form of administration specified in the bylaws, on behalf of the council of co-owners, or in a proper case, by an aggrieved co-owner.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-6-10 — SC Code / Title 27 / Chapter 6 / Section 27-6-10
SECTION 27-6-10. Short title.
Status: in_force

This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities.