S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-1930 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 17 / Section 14-7-1930
SECTION 14-7-1930. Judge to ascertain juror qualifications; lists of excused or disqualified jurors; jurors not served with writs.
Status: in_force

On the first day of the term of court on or after January first and July first of each year, the presiding judge shall ascertain the qualifications of those jurors as have appeared pursuant to the writs of venire facias. No juror may be excused or disqualified except in accordance with existing law as determined by the presiding judge. The clerk of court shall maintain a list of all jurors who are excused or disqualified by the presiding judge and state the reasons given by the presiding judge for excusing or disqualifying the jurors. The sheriff of the county also shall report to the presiding judge the names of those persons who were not served with writs of venire facias, and that reasonable effort was made to obtain service. The clerk of court shall maintain a list of the jurors who were not served with the writs of venire facias and the reasons service was not effected.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-27-70 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 27 / Section 14-27-70
SECTION 14-27-70. Duties.
Status: in_force

The Judicial Council shall have the following duties: (1) To make a continuous study and survey of the administration of justice in this State, and of the organization, procedure, practice, rules and methods of administration and operation of each and all of the courts of the State, whether of record or not of record, and of each and all of the agencies, boards, commissions, bodies and officers of the State having and exercising quasi-judicial functions and powers; (2) To receive and to consider and, in its discretion, to investigate criticisms and suggestions pertaining to the administration of justice in the State; (3) To collect, compile, analyze and publish statistical and other information concerning the work of the courts of the State and such other information as the Council may prescribe from time to time; and (4) To recommend to the General Assembly or to the courts of the State or to any officer or department of the State, either upon request or upon the Council's own motion, such changes in the law or in the rules, organization, operation or methods of conducting the business of the courts, and of each and all of the agencies, boards, commissions, bodies and offices of the State having and exercising quasi-judicial functions and powers, or with respect to any other matter pertaining to the administration of justice, as it may deem desirable.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-1-201 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-201
SECTION 14-1-201. Distribution of additional assessment charged to persons convicted of driving under influence of intoxicating liquors or drugs.
Status: in_force

The revenue from the twelve dollar additional assessments imposed pursuant to Section 56-5-2995 must be distributed as follows: (1) eighty-four percent to the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities for the Head and Spinal Cord Injuries Family Support Program; and (2) sixteen percent to the Department of Health and Environmental Control for Emergency Medical Services - Aid to Counties, restricted. Code Commissioner's Note At the direction of the Code Commissioner, certain references in the S.C. Code to the State Department of Mental Health, South Carolina Mental Health Commission, Department of Disabilities and Special Needs, Department of Disabilities and Special Needs Commission, Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services, and other related terms were changed to reflect the restructuring of these agencies into component offices under the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, pursuant to 2025 Act No. 3, SECTION 18.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-830 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 7 / Section 14-7-830
SECTION 14-7-830. Exclusion from jury service of members of grand jury which found indictment.
Status: in_force

No member of the grand jury which has found an indictment may be put upon the jury for the trial thereof. Editor's Note Prior Laws: Former SECTION14-7-830 was titled Names of persons guilty of crime or immorality withdrawn from jury box, and had the following history: 1962 Code SECTION 38-102; 1952 Code SECTION 38-102; 1942 Code SECTION 628; 1932 Code SECTION 628; Civ. P. '22 SECTION 568; Civ. C. '12 SECTION 4036; Civ. C. '02 SECTION 2934; G. S. 2242; R. S. 2379; 1871 (14) 691; omitted by 1986 Act No. 340, SECTION 2.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-8-70 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 8 / Article I / Section 14-8-70
SECTION 14-8-70. Presiding in certain cases prohibited.
Status: in_force

In addition to the prohibitions of Section 14-1-130, no judge shall sit in any case in which he may be interested or in which he may have been counsel or has presided in any inferior court.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-9-160 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 9 / Section 14-9-160
SECTION 14-9-160. Forms of pleading and practice.
Status: in_force

The same form of pleading and the same rules of procedure, practice and evidence shall obtain in the county court as is provided by law for the conduct and trial of cases, civil and criminal, in the circuit courts, except that criminal cases wherein the punishment does not exceed a fine of one hundred dollars and imprisonment for thirty days shall be tried without presentment by a grand jury on information filed by the county solicitor.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-8-240 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 8 / Article III / Section 14-8-240
SECTION 14-8-240. Records.
Status: in_force

The Court shall be a court of record, and the records thereof shall at all times be subject to public inspection.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-8-210 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 8 / Article III / Section 14-8-210
SECTION 14-8-210. Review by Supreme Court.
Status: in_force

(a) The decisions of a panel of the court and of the court sitting en banc shall be final and not subject to further appeal, except by petition for review or by other exercise of discretionary review by the Supreme Court. (b) In any case pending before the court of appeals, the Supreme Court may in its discretion, on motion of any party to the case, on request by the court of appeals, or on its own motion, certify the case for review by the Supreme Court before it has been determined by the court of appeals. Certification is appropriate where the case involves an issue of significant public interest or a legal principle of major importance, or in other cases the court considers appropriate. The effect of the certification shall be to transfer jurisdiction over the case to the Supreme Court for all purposes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-1360 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 11 / Section 14-7-1360
SECTION 14-7-1360. Verdict may be set aside on gratuity given to juror by party.
Status: in_force

If either party in a case in which a verdict is returned during the same term of the court, before the trial, gives to any of the jurors who try the cause anything by way of treat or gratuity the court may, on the motion of the adverse party, set aside the verdict and award a new trial of the cause.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-3-110 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 14-3-110
SECTION 14-3-110. Messenger and attendant.
Status: in_force

The Supreme Court shall appoint a messenger of the court and an attendant to hold for the term of four years, subject to removal by the court, and shall prescribe the duties of the officers so appointed.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-1010 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 9 / Section 14-7-1010
SECTION 14-7-1010. Ascertainment of qualifications of jurors by presiding judge; maintenance of list of excused or disqualified jurors; transfer of juror to subsequent term by clerk of court.
Status: in_force

The presiding judge shall at each term of court ascertain the qualifications of the jurors. The presiding judge shall determine whether any juror is disqualified or exempted by law and only he shall disqualify or excuse any juror as may be provided by law. The clerk of court shall maintain a list of all jurors excused or disqualified and the reasons provided therefor by the presiding judge, which list must be signed by the presiding judge. In no case shall the jury commissioners excuse or disqualify any juror for any reason whatsoever; provided that the clerk of court may, without court approval, transfer any juror to a subsequent term upon good and sufficient cause.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-8-50 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 8 / Article I / Section 14-8-50
SECTION 14-8-50. Salary; prohibition on holding other offices.
Status: in_force

The Chief Judge and the associate judges shall receive such annual salary as may be provided by the General Assembly. They shall not be allowed any fees or perquisites of office, nor shall they hold any other office of honor, trust, or profit.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-840 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 7 / Section 14-7-840
SECTION 14-7-840. Exemption from jury service; requirement of direction by court; maintenance of list of persons excused.
Status: in_force

No person is exempt from service as a juror in any court of this State except men and women sixty-five years of age or over. Notaries public are not considered state officers and are not exempt under this section. A person exempt under this section may be excused upon telephone confirmation of date of birth and age to the clerk of court or the chief magistrate. The jury commissioners shall not excuse or disqualify a juror under this section. The clerk of court shall maintain a list of persons excused by the court and the reasons the juror was determined to be excused. Editor's Note Provisions excluding grand jury members from jury service at a trial on an indictment found by the grand jury, which formerly appeared in this section, can now be found in SECTION 14-7-830.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-23-710 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 23 / Article 5 / Section 14-23-710
SECTION 14-23-710. Authority to make investments and loans; interest notes.
Status: in_force

Any judge of probate may invest in, or lend money on the security of: Federal farm loan bonds issued by Federal land banks pursuant to the Federal Farm Loan Act as amended; bonds issued by the Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation pursuant to the provisions of an act of Congress known as the "Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation Act"; Federal Intermediate Credit Bank debentures issued pursuant to the Federal Farm Loan Act as amended; and debentures issued by Central Bank for Cooperatives and regional banks for cooperatives, organized under the Farm Credit Act of 1933, and any notes, bonds, debentures, or other similar obligations, consolidated or otherwise, issued by farm credit institutions pursuant to authorities contained in the Farm Credit Act of 1971 (Public Law 92-181) or by any of such banks. A judge of probate making an investment or loan authorized by this section shall not be chargeable in his account for a greater rate of interest than the amount actually received on the investment or loan.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-3-410 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Article 3 / Section 14-3-410
SECTION 14-3-410. Court of record; public inspection of records.
Status: in_force

The Supreme Court shall be a court of record, and the records thereof shall at all times be subject to the inspection of the citizens of the State or other persons interested. The records shall be kept in a manner prescribed by the justices of the court.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-1140 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 9 / Section 14-7-1140
SECTION 14-7-1140. Effect on verdict of irregularity in venire or drawing of jurors.
Status: in_force

No irregularity in any writ of venire facias or in the drawing, summoning, returning, or impaneling of jurors is sufficient to set aside the verdict, unless the party making the objection was injured by the irregularity or unless the objection is made before the returning of the verdict.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-15-20 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 15 / Article 1 / Section 14-15-20
SECTION 14-15-20. Assistant court stenographers may be appointed for certain judicial circuits; use as substitutes in other circuits.
Status: in_force

In all judicial circuits of the State which have a population of more than one hundred seventy-five thousand persons, as determined by the latest official United States census, the resident circuit judge may appoint an assistant court stenographer whose duties, compensation and term of office shall be the same as provided for chief stenographers in Sections 14-15-10, 14-15-30 and 14-15-40. Provided, that assistant court stenographers shall be available for assignment in other judicial circuits to substitute for regular stenographers who are sick or otherwise incapacitated. The Chief Justice shall make such assignments.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-1780 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 15 / Section 14-7-1780
SECTION 14-7-1780. Availability of space for grand jury; State Law Enforcement Division to provide services; cost of state grand juries.
Status: in_force

The Attorney General shall make available suitable space for state grand juries to meet. The State Law Enforcement Division also shall provide service as the state grand juries require. The other costs associated with the state grand jury system, including juror per diem, mileage, and subsistence must be paid from funds appropriated to the Attorney General's office for this purpose by the General Assembly in the annual general appropriations act. Nothing herein authorizes the Attorney General to expend general funds above the level of appropriations authorized annually in the general appropriations act or acts supplemental thereto.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-3-310 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Article 3 / Section 14-3-310
SECTION 14-3-310. Original jurisdiction of Supreme Court.
Status: in_force

The Supreme Court shall have power to issue writs or orders of injunction, mandamus, quo warranto, prohibition, certiorari, habeas corpus and other remedial and original writs.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-29-30 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 29 / Section 14-29-30
SECTION 14-29-30. Veterans treatment court programs may be established.
Status: in_force

Each circuit solicitor may establish a veterans treatment court program. Each circuit solicitor that accepts state funding for the implementation of a veterans treatment court program must establish and administer at least one veterans treatment court program for the circuit within one hundred eighty days of receipt of funding. The circuit solicitor must administer the program and ensure that all eligible persons are permitted to apply for admission to the program.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-210 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 3 / Section 14-7-210
SECTION 14-7-210. Discharge of jury prohibited.
Status: in_force

Whenever a jury is charged with a case, it must not be discharged by reason of anything in Section 14-7-200 contained until a verdict is found or a mistrial ordered in such case. Editor's Note Prior Laws: Former SECTION14-7-210 was titled Names shall be placed in "tales box"; exceptions as to certain counties, and had the following history: 1962 Code SECTION 38-60; 1952 Code SECTION 38-60; 1942 Code SECTION 609; 1932 Code SECTION 609; Civ. P. '22 SECTION 549; Civ. C. '12 SECTION 4018; 1902 (23) 1066; 1921 (32) 276; 1939 (41) 27; 1941 (42) 70; 1955 (49) 22, 66, 72, 534; 1957 (50) 12; 1959 (51) 487; 1960 (51) 1759; 1962 (52) 1718, 1880; 1967 (55) 8, 81; 1968 (55) 2252; 1969 (56) 20, 354, 928; 1970 (56) 2288, 2358, 2430; 1971 (57) 3, 121, 442, 2018; 1972 (57) 2202; omitted by 1986 Act No. 340, SECTION 1.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-5-720 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 5 / Article 7 / Section 14-5-720
SECTION 14-5-720. Continuing general sessions term in seventh circuit.
Status: in_force

If the business of the court of general sessions is not concluded at the end of any week, except the second week in January at Spartanburg, the petit jury drawn for that term of the sessions court shall be continued for the next week or until the business of the sessions court is completed.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-3-120 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 14-3-120
SECTION 14-3-120. Reporter.
Status: in_force

The Supreme Court shall appoint a reporter for a term of four years, who shall take the constitutional oath before any one of the justices or the clerk of the Supreme Court.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-1-100 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-100
SECTION 14-1-100. Rights in court not affected by race or color.
Status: in_force

Whenever authority has heretofore been conferred by law upon any free white person or persons to institute any suit or proceedings or to prefer any information or complaint in any matter, civil, penal or criminal, the same rights shall be enjoyed by and the same remedies shall be applicable to all persons whatsoever, regardless of race or color, subject to the same conditions and none other.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-5-340 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 5 / Article 5 / Section 14-5-340
SECTION 14-5-340. Appeals from magistrates or municipal courts; notice of hearing.
Status: in_force

Circuit judges may hear appeals from magistrates' courts and municipal courts to the court of general sessions and the court of common pleas, upon notice as required by law being given for the hearing of such appeals.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-11-30 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 14-11-30
SECTION 14-11-30. Compensation of master-in-equity.
Status: in_force

The governing body of the county or counties in which a master-in-equity serves shall provide the salary, equipment, facilities, and supplies of the master-in-equity, together with the salaries of support personnel and all other costs for the necessary and proper operation of the master-in-equity's office. The salaries of the masters-in-equity are as follows: (1) Where the area served has a population of up to thirty-four thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine, according to the latest official United States Decennial Census, the master-in-equity serving that area is part time and must be paid a salary equal to ten percent of that of a circuit judge. (2) Where the area served has a population of between thirty-five thousand and forty-nine thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine, according to the latest official United States Decennial Census, the master-in-equity serving that area is part time and must be paid a salary equal to fifteen percent of that of a circuit judge. (3) Where the area served has a population of between fifty thousand and seventy-nine thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine, according to the latest official United States Decennial Census, the master-in-equity serving that area is part time and must be paid a salary equal to twenty-five percent of that of a circuit judge. (4) Where the area served has a population of between eighty thousand and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine, according to the latest official United States Decennial Census, the master-in-equity serving that area is part time and must be paid a salary equal to forty-five percent of that of a circuit judge. (5) Where the area served has a population of between one hundred thousand and one hundred twenty-nine thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine, according to the latest official United States Decennial Census, the master-in-equity serving that area is part time and must be paid a salary equal to fifty-five percent of that of a circuit judge. (6) Where the area served has a population of between one hundred thirty thousand and one hundred forty-nine thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine, according to the latest official United States Decennial Census, the master-in-equity serving that area is full time and must be paid a salary equal to seventy-five percent of that of a circuit judge. (7) Where the area served has a population of between one hundred fifty thousand and one hundred ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine, according to the latest official United States Decennial Census, the master-in-equity serving that area is full time and must be paid a salary equal to eighty percent of that of a circuit judge. (8) Where the area served has a population of between two hundred thousand and two hundred forty-nine thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine, according to the latest official United States Decennial Census, the master-in-equity serving that area is full time and must be paid a salary equal to eighty-five percent of that of a circuit judge. (9) Where the area served has a population of over two hundred fifty thousand, according to the latest official United States Decennial Census, or where the area served is located in a county which generates four million dollars or more in accommodations tax revenue, the master-in-equity serving that area is full time and must be paid a salary equal to ninety percent of that of a circuit judge. No sitting master-in-equity, whether full time or part time, may have his salary reduced during his tenure in office. Tenure in office continues at the expiration of a term if the incumbent master-in-equity is reappointed. Editor's Note 1979 Act No. 164, Part II , SECTION 22, provides as follows: "Notwithstanding the provisions of this PART the salaries of masters-in-equity serving on the effective date of this act shall not be reduced during their current terms."
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-1320 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 11 / Section 14-7-1320
SECTION 14-7-1320. Jury may view place, property, or thing; expenses.
Status: in_force

The jury in any case may, at the request of either party, be taken to view the place or premises in question or any property, matter or thing relating to the controversy between the parties when it appears to the court that such view is necessary to a just decision, if the party making the motion advances a sum sufficient to pay the actual expenses of the jury and the officers who attend them in taking the view, which shall be afterwards taxed like other legal costs if the party who advanced them prevails in the suit.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-5-820 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 5 / Article 7 / Section 14-5-820
SECTION 14-5-820. Terms of court in sixteenth circuit.
Status: in_force

The courts of the sixteenth judicial circuit shall be held for a term of one week, unless otherwise specified, as hereinafter provided. (1) Union County. - The court of common pleas for Union County shall be held at Union on the second Monday of February for two weeks, on the first Monday of May for two weeks, on the first Monday of September for two weeks, and on the first Monday of December. The court of general sessions shall be held at Union the fourth Monday of February, the third Monday of May, the third Monday of September and the second Monday of December. (2) York County. - The court of common pleas for York County shall be held at York the fourth Monday of January, the fifth Monday of January when there is a fifth Monday, the third Monday in March for two weeks, the third Monday in April for two weeks, the first Monday in June for two weeks, the third Monday in July, the first Monday in October for two weeks, the first Monday in November for two weeks, and the fifth Monday in November when there is a fifth Monday. The court of general sessions shall be held at York on the first Monday in January for three weeks, the first Monday in February, the first Monday in March for two weeks, the first Monday in April for two weeks, the fourth Monday in May, the third Monday in June for two weeks, the fourth Monday in July, the fourth Monday in September, the fifth Monday in September when there is a fifth Monday, the third Monday in October for two weeks, the third Monday in November for two weeks, and the third Monday in December.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-11-80 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 14-11-80
SECTION 14-11-80. General duties.
Status: in_force

The master shall make all such sales as the circumstances may require or as the court may order him to make in granting equitable relief and shall execute all proper conveyances thereof. Such sales shall be conducted at the county courthouse or at such other public places in the county designated in the notice of sale. He shall execute and perform all orders of the court upon references to him conformably to the practice of the court. Editor's Note 1988 Act No. 678, Part II, SECTION 2, effective January 1, 1989, provides as follows: "The master-in-equity for each county presently holding office continues to serve as master-in-equity until the expiration of his term of office at which time his successor may be selected as provided by law."
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-17-70 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 17 / Article 1 / Section 14-17-70
SECTION 14-17-70. Procurement of seal and blank books.
Status: in_force

Each clerk's office shall be furnished with a seal of office and such blank books for the various records as may be needed from time to time, to be procured by the clerk and the expenses thereof defrayed by the governing body of the county.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-8-80 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 8 / Article I / Section 14-8-80
SECTION 14-8-80. Court to sit in panels or as a whole; administration by Chief Justice; assignment of members to panels; distribution of cases; quorum; concurrence required for reversals.
Status: in_force

(a) The Court shall sit in three panels of three judges each. However, nothing in this section may be construed to prevent the Court from sitting as a whole. (b) The Chief Judge is responsible for the administration of the Court, subject to the provisions of Article V, Section 4 of the Constitution of this State. The Chief Judge shall assign the members of the panels and shall systematically rotate and interchange the members of the panels in accordance with rules promulgated by the Supreme Court. The Chief Judge shall preside over the panel of which he is a member and in his absence the judge senior in service and present shall preside. The judge senior in service and present on the other panel shall preside over the other panel. For the five associate judges whose terms begin on July 1, 1985, the determination of their length of service shall be based on their order of election, with the associate judge who is elected first being the associate judge senior in service; provided, however, that seniority among the judges on an interim Court of Appeals shall continue on the permanent Court of Appeals established by the provisions of this chapter and service on that Court shall be included in determining the length of service on the Court herein established. (c) Cases must be distributed between the three panels by the Chief Judge in accordance with rules promulgated by the Supreme Court; however, the Chief Judge may transfer cases from one panel to the other in order to maintain approximately equal caseloads for the three panels. (d) On a panel, three judges shall constitute a quorum, and the concurrence of a majority of the judges is necessary for the reversal of the judgment below.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-5-310 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 5 / Article 5 / Section 14-5-310
SECTION 14-5-310. Rules of court.
Status: in_force

The circuit courts may make and establish all necessary rules for the orderly conducting of business in said courts, provided such rules are not repugnant to the laws of the State or the rules prescribed by the justices of the Supreme Court and circuit judges.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-25-145 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 25 / Article 1 / Section 14-25-145
SECTION 14-25-145. Commissioners to prepare jury box.
Status: in_force

The jury commissioners shall, within the first thirty days of each year, prepare a box to be known as the jury box. Such box shall contain two compartments, designated as "A" and "B", respectively. Editor's Note This section contains provisions dealing with matters formerly dealt with by SECTIONS 14-25-510 and 14-25-630.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-5-170 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 5 / Article 3 / Section 14-5-170
SECTION 14-5-170. Appointment of special judge to fill vacancy.
Status: in_force

In the event there be no other disengaged circuit judge available to hold such courts, then the Governor shall immediately commission as special judge some person learned in the law, as shall be recommended by the Supreme Court or by the Chief Justice thereof if the Supreme Court be not in session, to hold the courts of any such circuit or to hold any special session thereof which may be ordered by the Chief Justice as aforesaid. Whenever a special judge shall be appointed to hold any court he shall have and exercise all the powers and duties that a regular judge would have if presiding.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-17-330 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 17 / Article 3 / Section 14-17-330
SECTION 14-17-330. Clerk shall keep record of all persons elected to office.
Status: in_force

Each of the clerks of courts of the various counties in this State shall keep a book in his office in which he shall record the name of each person elected to any office, together with the date of their election whenever such facts are obtainable. Such book shall be furnished by the governing body of the county, without cost to the clerk of court.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-11-190 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 14-11-190
SECTION 14-11-190. Books of office.
Status: in_force

The master shall keep a reference book in which he shall record all references held by him and the proceedings therein and a ledger in which shall be kept the account of all cases in his hands to the credit of which he may receive funds. When he shall cease to be master these books shall be deposited in the office of the clerk of the court of common pleas of his county.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-15-50 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 15 / Article 1 / Section 14-15-50
SECTION 14-15-50. Rules for stenographers in the seventh circuit.
Status: in_force

The resident circuit judge of the seventh judicial circuit may appoint some competent stenographer for the courts of general sessions for the seventh judicial circuit, who shall receive, in addition to his salary, the fees fixed by law for all transcripts furnished by him. When the stenographer of the court of common pleas does not furnish transcripts as promptly as required by law and otherwise perform his duties, then the stenographer of the court of general sessions shall at once perform the duties of the stenographer of the court of common pleas until the stenographer of the court of common pleas shall have furnished all transcripts required and the stenographer of the court of general sessions shall receive the compensation and the fees of the stenographer of the court of common pleas while performing the duties as aforesaid.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-1330 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 11 / Section 14-7-1330
SECTION 14-7-1330. Procedure when jury fails to agree.
Status: in_force

When a jury, after due and thorough deliberation upon any cause, returns into court without having agreed upon a verdict, the court may state anew the evidence or any part of it and explain to it anew the law applicable to the case and may send it out for further deliberation. But if it returns a second time without having agreed upon a verdict, it shall not be sent out again without its own consent unless it shall ask from the court some further explanation of the law.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-9-120 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 9 / Section 14-9-120
SECTION 14-9-120. Jurisdiction of county court.
Status: in_force

Any such county court shall have jurisdiction to try and determine all criminal cases, except cases for murder, manslaughter, rape and attempt to rape, arson, common-law burglary, bribery and perjury. It shall likewise have jurisdiction to try and determine all civil cases and special proceedings, both at law and in equity, when the value of the property in controversy or the amount claimed does not exceed one thousand dollars, and it shall hear and determine appeals taken from judgments rendered by magistrates. But it shall not have jurisdiction to try any action involving the title to real estate.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-1370 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 11 / Section 14-7-1370
SECTION 14-7-1370. Compensation of jurors in circuit courts.
Status: in_force

Jurors serving in the circuit courts of this State shall, in addition to mileage at the rate of five cents per mile going to and returning from court, receive a per diem in the several counties of this State, as follows: (1) In the counties of Anderson, Calhoun, Clarendon, Dillon, Edgefield, Greenville, Greenwood, Lancaster, Laurens, Marion, Marlboro, Richland and York, two dollars; provided, that in Marlboro County petit jurors shall receive, in addition to the per diem, two dollars for each night when detained on jury duty after ten o'clock P.M.; (2) In Union County, two dollars and fifty cents; provided, that petit jurors shall receive, in addition to the per diem, two dollars and fifty cents for each night when detained on jury duty after ten o'clock P. M.; (3) In the counties of Bamberg, Barnwell, Cherokee, Chester, Colleton, Fairfield, Jasper, Lexington, Oconee and Orangeburg, three dollars; provided, that if any juror in Chester County is kept on duty after eleven o'clock at night, he shall be paid for an additional day; provided, further, that in Orangeburg County each juror shall receive mileage for going to and returning from court for each day of attendance at court; (4) In Kershaw and Spartanburg Counties, four dollars; (5) In Abbeville County, ten dollars; (6) In Berkeley, Fairfield, Horry, McCormick, Newberry and Sumter Counties, five dollars; provided, however, that: (a) Jurors in Berkeley County shall be paid mileage at the rate of ten cents per mile going to and returning from court; (b) If in Newberry County any juror serving upon any case is detained by such jury service after twelve o'clock midnight, it shall be considered that the jury shall have entered into a new day of jury service; and if a juror in either such county is discharged from jury service before one o'clock P. M. on any day he shall be paid only two dollars and fifty cents; (c) Jurors in Chesterfield County shall be paid mileage at seven cents per mile for each day's attendance on court; (d) In Horry County petit jurors shall receive an additional five dollars per night when detained on jury duty after eleven o'clock P. M.; and if any juror in Horry County is excused from jury service at his own request he shall not be paid compensation as a juror but shall only be entitled to receive compensation for mileage; (e) In Georgetown County, jurors shall be paid mileage at the rate of seven cents per mile going to and from court; (7) The pay for all jurors of Darlington County shall be as follows: The foreman of a grand jury, five dollars per day and ten cents mileage one way; all other jurors, grand and petit, three dollars per day and ten cents mileage one way, and the county auditor of Darlington County shall levy and the treasurer and the tax collector shall collect sufficient funds for the purposes of this paragraph; (8) In Saluda County, seven dollars per day and mileage for each trip going to and returning from court; (9) In Aiken County, six dollars; and (10) In Allendale County, seven dollars; (11) In Charleston County the circuit court grand and petit jurors shall receive seven dollars per day whether or not they are discharged from jury service before one o'clock P. M. on any day, and mileage at the rate of ten cents per mile for going to and returning from court for each day of attendance at court; (12) In Beaufort County, twelve dollars and fifty cents, and if any juror serving upon any case is detained by such jury service after twelve o'clock midnight, it shall be considered that the jury shall have entered into a new day of jury service. In addition jurors shall be paid mileage for going to and returning from court for each day of attendance at court at the same rate as authorized by law for an employee of the State. Such mileage shall be paid each day. (13) In Chesterfield County, eight dollars; (14) In Hampton and Georgetown Counties, ten dollars; and (15) In Lee County, seven dollars. (16) In Pickens and Florence Counties, ten dollars and if any juror serving upon any case is detained by such jury service after twelve o'clock midnight, it shall be considered that the jury shall have entered into a new day of jury service. Jurors shall be paid mileage at the rate of ten cents per mile for going to and returning from court for each day of attendance at court. (17) In Edgefield County ten dollars and mileage at the rate of ten cents per mile going to and returning from court for each day's attendance at court. (18) In Dorchester County ten dollars per day and mileage at the rate of ten cents per mile going to and returning from court for each weekly session. (19) In Williamsburg County, twelve dollars, and if any juror serving upon any case is detained by such jury service after twelve o'clock midnight, it shall be considered that the jury shall have entered into a new day of jury service. In addition jurors shall be paid mileage for going to and returning from court for each day of attendance at court at the rate of ten cents per mile. Such mileage shall be paid each day.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-17-300 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 17 / Article 3 / Section 14-17-300
SECTION 14-17-300. Clerk shall execute laws respecting jurors.
Status: in_force

The clerk shall diligently and uprightly put in execution the laws in force directing the drawing, balloting, empaneling and summoning of jurors, so far as his cooperation may be required.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-1-213 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-213
SECTION 14-1-213. Surcharge on monetary penalties imposed for drug offenses; apportionment and use of funds; examination of financial records by State Auditor.
Status: in_force

(A) In addition to all other assessments and surcharges required to be imposed by law, a one hundred fifty dollar surcharge is also levied on all fines, forfeitures, escheatments, or other monetary penalties imposed in general sessions court or in magistrates or municipal court for misdemeanor or felony drug offenses. No portion of the surcharge may be waived, reduced, or suspended. (B) The revenue collected pursuant to subsection (A) must be retained by the jurisdiction that heard or processed the case and paid to the State Treasurer within thirty days of receipt. The State Treasurer shall transmit these funds to the Prosecution Coordination Commission which shall then apportion these funds among the sixteen judicial circuits on a per capita basis equal to the population in that circuit compared to the population of the State as a whole based on the most recent official United States census. The funds must be used for drug treatment court programs only. (C) It is the intent of the General Assembly that the amounts generated by this section are in addition to any amounts presently being provided for drug treatment court programs and may not be used to supplant funding already allocated for these services. (D) The State Treasurer may request the State Auditor to examine the financial records of a jurisdiction which he believes is not timely transmitting the funds required to be paid to the State Treasurer pursuant to subsection (B). The State Auditor is further authorized to conduct these examinations and the local jurisdiction is required to participate in and cooperate fully with the examination.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-1-210 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-210
SECTION 14-1-210. Periodic audits of county and municipal treasurers and clerks of court to determine whether mandated fees collected and remitted; reports; collection and distribution of assessments, training.
Status: in_force

(A) Based upon a random selection process, the State Auditor shall periodically examine the books, accounts, receipts, disbursements, vouchers, and any records considered necessary of the county treasurers, municipal treasurers, county clerks of court, magistrates, and municipal courts to report whether or not the assessments, surcharges, fees, fines, forfeitures, escheatments, or other monetary penalties imposed or mandated, or both, by law in family court, circuit court, magistrates court, and municipal court are properly collected and remitted to the State. In addition, these audits shall determine if the proper amount of funds have been reported, retained, and allocated for victim services in accordance with the law. These audits must be performed in accordance with standard auditing practices to include the right to respond to findings before the publishing of the audit report. The State Auditor shall submit a copy of the completed audit report to the chairmen of the House Ways and Means Committee, Senate Finance Committee, House Judiciary Committee, Senate Judiciary Committee, and the Governor. If the State Auditor finds that a jurisdiction has over remitted the state's portion of the funds collected by the jurisdiction or over reported or over retained crime victim funds, the State Auditor shall notify the State Treasurer to make the appropriate adjustment to that jurisdiction. If the State Auditor finds that a jurisdiction has under remitted, incorrectly reported, incorrectly retained, or incorrectly allocated the State or victim services portion of the funds collected by the jurisdiction, the State Auditor shall determine where the error was made. If the error is determined to have been made by the county or municipal treasurer's office, the State Auditor shall notify the Office of the Attorney General, South Carolina Crime Victim Services Division, Department of Crime Victim Compensation for the crime victim portion and the chief administrator of the county or municipality of the findings and, if full payment has not been made by the county or municipality within ninety days of the audit notification, the State Treasurer shall adjust the jurisdiction's State Aid to Subdivisions Act funding in an amount equal to the amount determined by the State Auditor to be the state's portion; or equal to the amount incorrectly reported, retained, or allocated pursuant to Sections 14-1-206, 14-1-207, 14-1-208, and 14-1-211. If an error is determined to have been made at the magistrate, municipal, family, or circuit courts, the State Auditor shall notify the responsible office, their supervising authority, and the Chief Justice of the State. If full payment has not been made by the court within ninety days of the audit notification, the chief magistrate or municipal court or clerk of court shall remit an amount equal to the amount determined by the State Auditor to be the state's portion or the crime victim fund portion within ninety days of the audit notification. (B) The State Auditor shall conduct these examinations and the local authority is required to participate in and cooperate fully with the examination. The State Auditor may subcontract with independent auditors on audits required pursuant to subsection (A) of this section. The State Auditor shall create an audit team to perform these audits. The State Treasurer shall transfer, in each fiscal year, the first $10,900 received from the General Sessions Court pursuant to Section 14-1-206, the first $136,600 received from magistrates court pursuant to Section 14-1-207, and the first $102,500 received from municipal court pursuant to Section 14-1-208 for a total of $250,000 to the State Auditor's Office to fund these audits as required pursuant to subsection (A) of this section. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a state agency or local governmental entity receiving assessments, surcharges, fees, fines, forfeitures, escheatments, or other monetary penalties imposed or mandated, or both, by law in family court, circuit court, magistrates court, and municipal court may use any of its funds to assist the State Auditor's Office in funding these audits. (C) Each municipality shall submit a copy of its annual audit report as provided pursuant to Section 5-7-240 without charge to both the Office of the State Treasurer and the State Auditor's Office within thirty days of the report being made public. If a municipality fails to provide the copy of the annual audit within the time provided, the Office of the State Treasurer may withhold the municipality's State Aid to Subdivisions Act distribution until the annual audit report is properly filed. (D) The Office of the State Treasurer and South Carolina Court Administration shall make available annually training on the collection and distribution of assessments, surcharges, fees, fines, forfeitures, escheatments, or other monetary penalties imposed or mandated, or both, by law in family court, circuit court, magistrates court, and municipal court for the counties, municipalities, and court employees. (E) The State Treasurer shall transfer, in each fiscal year, $2,000 received from the General Sessions Court pursuant to Section 14-1-206, $5,000 received from magistrates court pursuant to Section 14-1-207, and $3,000 received from municipal court pursuant to Section 14-1-208 for a total of $10,000 to fund annual training on the collection and distribution of assessments, surcharges, fees, fines, forfeitures, escheatments, or other monetary penalties imposed or mandated, or both, by law in family court, circuit court, magistrates court, and municipal court for the counties, municipalities, and court employees. The Office of the State Treasurer and South Carolina Court Administration are responsible for the annual training prescribed by this section. Effect of Amendment 2017 Act No. 96, Pt. II, SECTION 4.G, in (A), substituted "Office of the Attorney General, South Carolina Crime Victim Services Division, Department of Crime Victim Compensation" for "State Office of Victim Assistance", and made a nonsubstantive change.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-5-210 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 5 / Article 3 / Section 14-5-210
SECTION 14-5-210. Clerk shall adjourn court in absence or indisposition of judge.
Status: in_force

Whenever it shall so happen that any circuit court in this State cannot be held at the time appointed, in consequence of the absence or indisposition of the judge, the clerk of such court or his deputy shall open and adjourn the court from day to day until the court shall meet or until he may receive due notice that the judge will not be present, when he shall adjourn the court until the first day of the succeeding term.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-11-160 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 14-11-160
SECTION 14-11-160. Master may sell real estate in any county under order by consent.
Status: in_force

Whenever real estate is adjudged to be sold by a master such sale may take place by consent of the parties to the cause or their attorneys or, when infants are parties, by the consent of the guardians ad litem of such infants or their attorneys in any county which the court may direct. All such sales heretofore made and otherwise valid are hereby confirmed.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-1-208 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-208
SECTION 14-1-208. Additional assessment, municipal court; remittance; disposition; annual audits.
Status: in_force

(A) A person who is convicted of, or pleads guilty or nolo contendere to, or forfeits bond for an offense occurring after June 30, 2008, tried in municipal court must pay an amount equal to 107.5 percent of the fine imposed as an assessment. This assessment must be paid to the municipal clerk of court and deposited with the city treasurer for remittance to the State Treasurer. The assessment is based upon that portion of the fine that is not suspended, and assessments must not be waived, reduced, or suspended. The assessment may not be imposed on convictions for violations of Sections 56-3-1970, 56-5-2510, and 56-5-2530, or another state law, municipal ordinance, or county ordinance restricting parking in a prohibited zone or in a parking place clearly designated for handicapped persons. (B) The city treasurer must remit 11.16 percent of the revenue generated by the assessment imposed in subsection (A) to the municipality to be used for the purposes set forth in subsection (D) and remit the balance of the assessment revenue to the State Treasurer on a monthly basis by the fifteenth day of each month and make reports on a form and in a manner prescribed by the State Treasurer. Assessments paid in installments must be remitted as received. (C) After deducting amounts provided pursuant to Section 14-1-210, the State Treasurer shall deposit the balance of the assessments received as follows: (1) 14.04 percent for programs established pursuant to Chapter 21 of Title 24 and the Shock Incarceration Program as provided in Article 13, Chapter 13, Title 24; (2) 13.89 percent to the Law Enforcement Training Council for training in the fields of law enforcement and criminal justice; (3) .36 percent to the Department of Public Safety to defray the cost of erecting and maintaining the South Carolina Law Enforcement Officers Hall of Fame. When funds collected pursuant to this item exceed the necessary costs and expenses of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Officers Hall of Fame operation and maintenance as determined by the Department of Public Safety, the department may retain, carry forward, and expend the surplus for the purpose of defraying the costs of maintaining and operating the Hall of Fame; (4) 10.38 percent for the Office of the Attorney General, South Carolina Crime Victim Services Division, Department of Crime Victim Compensation, Victim Compensation Fund; (5) 11.53 percent to the general fund; (6) 10.56 percent to the Office of Indigent Defense for the defense of indigents; (7) .89 percent to the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities to be used exclusively for the treatment and rehabilitation of drug addicts within the Office of Mental Health's addiction center facilities; (8) .54 percent to the Office of the Attorney General for a fund to provide support for counties involved in complex criminal litigation. For the purposes of this item, "complex criminal litigation" means criminal cases in which the State is seeking the death penalty and has served notice as required by law upon the defendant's counsel and the county involved has expended more than one hundred thousand dollars for a particular case in direct support of operating the court of general sessions and for prosecution-related expenses. The Attorney General shall develop guidelines for determining what expenses are reimbursable from the fund and shall approve all disbursements from the fund. Funds must be paid to a county for all expenditures authorized for reimbursement under this item except for the first one hundred thousand dollars the county expended in satisfying the requirements for reimbursement from the fund; however, money disbursed from this fund must be disbursed on a "first received, first paid" basis. When revenue in the fund reaches five hundred thousand dollars, all revenue in excess of five hundred thousand dollars must be credited to the general fund of the State. Unexpended revenue in the fund at the end of the fiscal year carries over and may be expended in the next fiscal year; (9)(a) 9.16 percent to the Department of Public Safety for the programs established pursuant to Section 56-5-2953(E); and (b) 1.31 percent to SLED for the programs established pursuant to Section 56-5-2953(E); (10) 13.61 percent to the Governor's Task Force on Litter and in the expenditure of these funds, the provisions of Chapter 35, Title 11 do not apply; (11) 13.61 percent to the Department of Juvenile Justice. The Department of Juvenile Justice must apply the funds generated by this item to offset the nonstate share of allowable costs of operating juvenile detention centers so that per diem costs charged to local governments utilizing the juvenile detention centers do not exceed twenty-five dollars a day. Notwithstanding this provision of law, the director of the department may waive, reduce, defer, or reimburse the charges paid by local governments for juvenile detention placements. The department may apply the remainder of the funds generated by this item, if any, to operational or capital expenses associated with regional evaluation centers; and (12) .12 percent to the Office of the State Treasurer to defray the administrative expenses associated with the collecting and distributing the revenue of these assessments. (D) The revenue retained by the municipality under subsection (B) must be used for the provision of services for the victims of crime including those required by law. These funds must be appropriated for the exclusive purpose of providing victim services as required by Article 15, Chapter 3, Title 16; specifically, those service requirements that are imposed on local law enforcement, local detention facilities, prosecutors, and the summary courts. First priority must be given to those victims' assistance programs which are required by Article 15, Chapter 3, Title 16 and second priority must be given to programs which expand victims' services beyond those required by Article 15, Chapter 3, Title 16. All unused funds must be carried forward from year to year and used exclusively for the provision of services for victims of crime. All unused funds must be separately identified in the governmental entity's adopted budget as funds unused and carried forward from previous years. (E) To ensure that fines and assessments imposed pursuant to this section and Section 14-1-209(A) are properly collected and remitted to the State Treasurer, the audit or compilation performed for each municipality pursuant to Section 5-7-240 must include a Uniform Supplemental Schedule Form detailing all fines and assessments collected at the court level, the amount remitted to the municipal treasurer, and the amount remitted to the State Treasurer. (1) To the extent that records are made available in the format determined pursuant to subsection (E)(4), the Uniform Supplemental Schedule Form developed by the Office of the Attorney General, South Carolina Crime Victim Services Division, must be used by all counties and municipalities to report their crime victim services funds and must include the following elements: (a) all fines collected by the clerk of court for the municipal court; (b) all assessments collected by the clerk of court for the municipal court; (c) the amount of fines retained by the municipal treasurer; (d) the amount of assessments retained by the municipal treasurer; (e) the amount of fines and assessments remitted to the State Treasurer pursuant to this section; and (f) the total funds, by source, allocated to victim services activities, how those funds were expended, and any balances carried forward. (2) For municipalities required to provide for an annual audit of financial statements pursuant to Section 5-7-240, the Uniform Supplemental Schedule Form must be included in the external auditor's report as required by generally accepted auditing standards when information accompanies the basic financial statements in auditor submitted documents. (3) For municipalities allowed to provide for a compilation of financial statements pursuant to Section 5-7-240, the Uniform Supplement Schedule Form must be included in the compilation report as supplemental information. In addition, the municipality is required to engage the external accountant to perform agreed upon procedures related to the supplemental schedule as established annually by the Office of the State Treasurer and approved by the Office of the State Auditor. (4) Within thirty days of issuance of the audited or compiled financial statement, the municipality must submit to the State Treasurer a copy of the audited or compiled financial statement and a statement of the actual cost associated with the preparation of the Uniform Supplemental Schedule Form required in this section and, if applicable, the agreed upon procedures. Upon submission to the State Treasurer, the municipality may retain and pay from the fines and assessments collected pursuant to this section the actual expense charged by the external auditor or accountant associated with the Uniform Supplemental Schedule Form required in this subsection, not to exceed two thousand dollars each year. (5) The clerk of court and municipal treasurer shall keep records of fines and assessments required to be reviewed pursuant to this subsection in the format determined by the municipal governing body and make those records available for review. Code Commissioner's Note At the direction of the Code Commissioner, certain references in the S.C. Code to the State Department of Mental Health, South Carolina Mental Health Commission, Department of Disabilities and Special Needs, Department of Disabilities and Special Needs Commission, Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services, and other related terms were changed to reflect the restructuring of these agencies into component offices under the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, pursuant to 2025 Act No. 3, SECTION 18. Effect of Amendment 2017 Act No. 96, Pt. II, SECTION 4.F, in (C)(1), substituted "Chapter 13, Title 24" for "Chapter 13 of Title 24", in (C)(4), substituted "Office of the Attorney General, South Carolina Crime Victim Services Division, Department of Crime Victim Compensation, Victim Compensation Fund" for "State Office of Victim Assistance", and in (C)(10), substituted "Chapter 35, Title 11" for "Chapter 35 of Title 11"; and in (D), substituted "Article 15, Chapter 3, Title 16" for "Article 15 of Title 16" in three places. 2017 Act No. 96, Pt. III, SECTION 12.C, in (E), substituted "Uniform Supplemental Schedule Form" for "supplementary schedule"; in (E)(1), substituted "Uniform Supplemental Schedule Form developed by the Office of the Attorney General, South Carolina Crime Victim Services Division," for "supplementary schedule", and inserted "be used by all counties and municipalities to report their crime victim services funds and must"; in (E)(2), substituted "Uniform Supplemental Schedule Form" for "supplementary schedule", and deleted "by an 'in relation to' paragraph" following "report"; and, in (E)(3), substituted "Uniform Supplemental Schedule Form" for "supplementary schedule" twice. 2023 Act No. 71, SECTION 2, rewrote (E).
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-1130 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 9 / Section 14-7-1130
SECTION 14-7-1130. Juror may take affirmation instead of oath.
Status: in_force

Any juror in any court of this State may make solemn and conscientious affirmation and declaration, according to the form of his religious belief or profession, as to any matter or thing whereof an oath is required and this affirmation and declaration must be held as valid and effectual as if the person had taken an oath on the Holy Bible.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-23-660 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 23 / Article 5 / Section 14-23-660
SECTION 14-23-660. Manner of filing papers; index.
Status: in_force

In filing papers in the judge of probate's office the case shall be divided into convenient apartments, which shall be numbered from one forward. The papers relating to the same estate shall be wrapped in an envelope as a package, shall bear a number and shall be endorsed in the name of the estate. A convenient number of packages shall be embraced in a strong envelope and constitute a bundle, bearing the number of the apartment of the case containing it. A complete alphabetical index shall be constructed with reference to the surname of the deceased person to whose estate the papers relate and of the executors and administrators. Opposite each name in such index shall be two columns, the one expressing the number of the apartment where the bundle is to be found and the other expressing the number of the package in such bundle which contains the papers relating to the estate named in the index.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-8-260 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 8 / Article III / Section 14-8-260
SECTION 14-8-260. Notice of intent to appeal; determination of cases assigned to Court of Appeals.
Status: in_force

In all cases within the jurisdiction of the court as provided in this chapter, the notice of appeal must be filed with the court of appeals in the manner provided by the South Carolina Appellate Court Rules. In the event the court of appeals determines that a notice of appeal involves a matter over which it lacks jurisdiction pursuant to Section 14-8-200(b), it shall issue an order transferring the case to the Supreme Court. In the event the Supreme Court determines that a notice of appeal should have been filed with the court of appeals, it shall issue an order transferring the case to the court of appeals.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-17-325 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 17 / Article 3 / Section 14-17-325
SECTION 14-17-325. Clerk shall report disposition of each case in Court of General Sessions.
Status: in_force

(A) Every clerk of court shall report the disposition of each case in the Court of General Sessions to the State Law Enforcement Division within five days of disposition, weekends and holidays excluded. (B) Every clerk of court shall also report to the State Law Enforcement Division, within five days, the issuance, rescission, or termination of any: (1) criminal indictments; (2) permanent restraining orders; (3) orders of state firearms prohibition pursuant to Section 16-25-30; and (4) other restraining orders, orders of protection, or other orders that prohibit a person from legally purchasing or possessing a firearm, but only upon being directed to transmit such orders by the appropriate judge. For any orders, the Court Administration must provide the form. (C) The reporting required by this section must be in a format approved by the State Law Enforcement Division and Court Administration. Editor's Note 2021 Act No. 66, SECTION 1, provides as follows: "SECTION 1. This act may be cited as the 'Open Carry With Training Act'." Effect of Amendment 2021 Act No. 66, SECTION 10.A, rewrote the section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-1-202 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-202
SECTION 14-1-202. Authority to collect or compromise a court-ordered delinquent debt.
Status: in_force

(A) The clerk of the appropriate court, or county treasurer or municipal treasurer, as appropriate, is authorized to collect any fine, penalty, cost, fee, assessment, surcharge, service charge, restitution, or other amount imposed by a court or as a direct consequence of a court order. (B) The clerk of the appropriate court, or county treasurer or municipal treasurer, as appropriate, may compromise any fine, penalty, cost, fee, assessment, surcharge, service charge, restitution, or other amount imposed by a court or as a direct consequence of a court order to the extent necessary to collect these items. If a clerk or treasurer compromises an amount pursuant to this subsection, the proceeds representing the collected amount must be distributed pro rata to the entities that otherwise would have received the original amount.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-8-100 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 8 / Article I / Section 14-8-100
SECTION 14-8-100. Reporting of opinions and decisions by Supreme Court reporter; appointment of assistant reporter.
Status: in_force

The Supreme Court reporter shall report the opinions and decisions of the Court of Appeals in all respects as he is now or hereafter may be required by law to report the decisions and opinions of the Supreme Court. An assistant reporter for the Court of Appeals may be appointed by the judges of such Court to aid the reporter in his duties. Editor's Note Provisions of this section concerning the reporting of opinions were formerly contained in SECTION 14-8-130.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-17-40 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 17 / Article 1 / Section 14-17-40
SECTION 14-17-40. Bond.
Status: in_force

Before receiving their commissions the several clerks shall enter into bond, to be approved, recorded and filed as prescribed in Sections 8-3-130 to 8-3-150 in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-5-700 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 5 / Article 7 / Section 14-5-700
SECTION 14-5-700. Terms of court in sixth circuit.
Status: in_force

The courts of the sixth judicial circuit shall be held for a term of one week, unless otherwise specified, as hereinafter provided. (1) Chester County. - The court of general sessions for the county of Chester shall be held at Chester on the second Monday in January, on the first Monday in March, the third Monday in June and the second Monday in October. The court of common pleas for the county shall be held at Chester the third Monday in February, the second Monday in April, the fourth Monday in May, the fourth Monday in September and the first Monday in December. (2) Fairfield County. - The court of general sessions for Fairfield County shall be held at Winnsboro on the fourth Monday in January, the second Monday in June, the Tuesday following the first Monday in September, and on the first Monday in November. The court of common pleas for the county shall be held at Winnsboro on the second Monday in March, the third Monday in May, the first Monday in October and the fourth Monday in November. (3) Lancaster County. - The court of general sessions for Lancaster County shall be held at Lancaster on the first Monday in February for a two-week term, the fourth Monday in April, the third Monday in September and the second Monday in November for a two-week term. The court of common pleas shall be held in Lancaster beginning on the third Monday in January, the third Monday in March, the first Monday in April, the second Monday in May, the second Monday in September, the fourth Monday in October and the second Monday in December.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-1-205 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-205
SECTION 14-1-205. Disposition of costs, fees, fines, penalties, forfeitures, and other revenues; restitution charge to Victim Compensation Fund.
Status: in_force

Except as provided in Sections 17-15-260, 34-11-90, and 56-5-4160, on January 1, 1995, fifty-six percent of all costs, fees, fines, penalties, forfeitures, and other revenues generated by the circuit courts and the family courts, except the one-hundred-dollar-filing fee prescribed in Section 8-21-310(C)(1) must be remitted to the county in which the proceeding is instituted and forty-four percent of the revenues must be delivered to the county treasurer to be remitted monthly by the fifteenth day of each month to the State Treasurer on forms and in a manner prescribed by him. When a payment is made to the county in installments, the state's portion must be remitted to the State Treasurer by the county treasurer on a monthly basis. The forty-four percent remitted to the State Treasurer must be deposited as follows: (1) 72.93 percent to the general fund; (2) 16.73 percent to the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities to be used exclusively for the treatment and rehabilitation of drug addicts within the Office of Mental Health's addiction center facilities; (3) 10.34 percent to the Office of the Attorney General, South Carolina Crime Victim Services Division, Department of Crime Victim Compensation, Victim Compensation Fund. In any court, when sentencing a person convicted of an offense which has proximately caused physical injury or death to the victim, the court may order the defendant to pay a restitution charge commensurate with the offense committed, not to exceed ten thousand dollars, to the Office of the Attorney General, South Carolina Crime Victim Services Division, Department of Crime Victim Compensation, Victim Compensation Fund. Code Commissioner's Note At the direction of the Code Commissioner, certain references in the S.C. Code to the State Department of Mental Health, South Carolina Mental Health Commission, Department of Disabilities and Special Needs, Department of Disabilities and Special Needs Commission, Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services, and other related terms were changed to reflect the restructuring of these agencies into component offices under the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, pursuant to 2025 Act No. 3, SECTION 18. Effect of Amendment 2017 Act No. 96, Pt. II, SECTION 4.C, in the first undesignated paragraph, deleted "50-1-150, 50-1-170," following "34-11-90", substituted "one-hundred-dollar-filing" for "seventy dollar filing" and "county treasurer" for "County Treasurer"; in (3), substituted "Office of the Attorney General, South Carolina Crime Victim Services Division, Department of Crime Victim Compensation, Victim Compensation Fund" for "State Office of Victim Assistance under the South Carolina Victim's Compensation Fund"; and in the second undesignated paragraph, substituted "Office of the Attorney General, South Carolina Crime Victim Services Division, Department of Crime Victim Compensation, Victim Compensation Fund" for "Victim's Compensation Fund".
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-1730 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 15 / Section 14-7-1730
SECTION 14-7-1730. Jurisdiction of presiding judge.
Status: in_force

(A) Except for the prosecution of cases arising from indictments issued by the state grand jury, and subject to the provisions and standards provided in Sections 14-7-1630 and 14-7-1650, the presiding judge has jurisdiction to hear all matters arising from the proceedings of a state grand jury, including, but not limited to, matters relating to the impanelment or removal of state grand jurors, the quashing of subpoenas, the punishment for contempt, and the matter of bail for persons indicted by a state grand jury. (B) A person indicted by a state grand jury for a bailable offense must have a bond hearing before the end of the second business day following the day he was arrested in the State of South Carolina for that offense or the day he was delivered within the State of South Carolina following extradition for that offense from another State or jurisdiction, and must be released within a reasonable time, not to exceed four hours, after the bond is delivered to the incarcerating facility. If the presiding judge or acting presiding judge is not available, the initial bond hearing following arrest for a state grand jury indictment may be conducted by any circuit judge of competent jurisdiction in the county where the grand jury was impaneled. A "business day" pursuant to this subsection is any day in which the county courthouse is open in the county where the grand jury was impaneled.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-3-430 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Article 3 / Section 14-3-430
SECTION 14-3-430. Review of intermediate orders.
Status: in_force

Upon an appeal under item (3) of Section 14-3-330 the court may review any intermediate order involving the merits and necessarily affecting the order appealed from.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-17-370 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 17 / Article 3 / Section 14-17-370
SECTION 14-17-370. Clerk shall furnish certificates of liens on property of certain sureties.
Status: in_force

The clerk shall furnish, free of charge, to the governing body of the county, when required, an official certificate of all liens that may be of record in his office on the property of any individual who may be offered as surety to the bond of any public officer, whether by judgment, mortgage or otherwise.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-17-240 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 17 / Article 3 / Section 14-17-240
SECTION 14-17-240. Clerk shall not act as sheriff or deputy sheriff.
Status: in_force

Clerks shall not act as sheriffs or deputy sheriffs, except as provided by Section 23-11-100.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-1680 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 15 / Section 14-7-1680
SECTION 14-7-1680. Issuance of subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum; contempt for failure to respond.
Status: in_force

The clerk of the state grand jury, upon the request of the Attorney General or his designee, shall issue subpoenas or subpoenas duces tecum to compel individuals, documents, or other materials to be brought from anywhere in this State to a state grand jury. In addition, a state grand jury may proceed in the same manner as provided by the subpoena rules of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure and Sections 19-9-10 through 19-9-130, except where either is inconsistent with the provisions of this article; provided the subpoena rules of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure and Sections 19-9-10 through 19-9-130 are not considered a limitation upon this section, but supplemental thereto. The subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum may be for investigative purposes and for the retention of documents or other materials so subpoenaed for proper criminal proceedings. Any law enforcement officer with appropriate jurisdiction is empowered to serve these subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum and receive these documents and other materials for return to a state grand jury. Any person violating a subpoena or subpoena duces tecum issued pursuant to this article, or who fails to fully answer all questions put to him before proceedings of a state grand jury where the response thereto is not privileged or otherwise protected by law, including the granting of immunity as authorized by Section 14-7-1760, may be punished by the presiding judge for contempt. To this end, where the violation or failure to answer is alleged to have occurred, the Attorney General or his designee may petition the presiding judge to compel compliance by the person alleged to have committed the violation or who has failed to answer. If the presiding judge considers compliance is warranted, he may order this compliance and may punish the individual for contempt where the compliance does not occur. The clerk of the state grand jury also may issue subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum to compel individuals, documents, or other materials to be brought from anywhere in this State to the trial of any indictment returned by a state grand jury or the trial of any civil forfeiture action arising out of an investigation conducted by a state grand jury.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-25-15 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 25 / Article 1 / Section 14-25-15
SECTION 14-25-15. Appointment of municipal judge; training program, certification examination and continuing education requirements.
Status: in_force

(A) Each municipal judge must be appointed by the council to serve for a term set by the council of not less than two years but not more than four years and until his successor is appointed and qualified. His compensation must be fixed by the council. (B) The council shall notify South Carolina Court Administration of any persons appointed or reappointed as municipal judges. (C) Before entering upon the discharge of the duties of his office, each judge shall take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed by Article VI, Section 5 of the South Carolina Constitution. (D) Notwithstanding any other provision of law relating to the terms and qualifications of municipal judges: (1) All municipal judges shall complete a training program or pass certification or recertification examinations, or both, pursuant to standards established by the Supreme Court of South Carolina. The examination must be offered at least three times each year. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall establish guidelines for exempting municipal judges from taking an examination based upon experience or education factors. (a) Municipal judges appointed for the first time on or after the effective date of this act shall complete the training program and pass the certification examination within one year after taking office, or before April 30, 2001, whichever is later. (b) Municipal judges serving in the counties of Abbeville, Allendale, Bamberg, Beaufort, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Colleton, Dillon, Edgefield, Florence, Greenville, Hampton, Jasper, Lancaster, Lee, Marion, McCormick, Oconee, Pickens, Saluda, Sumter, and Williamsburg, as of the effective date of this section, shall pass a certification examination before April 30, 2001. (c) Municipal judges serving in the counties of Aiken, Anderson, Barnwell, Berkeley, Charleston, Chester, Darlington, Dorchester, Fairfield, Georgetown, Greenwood, Horry, Kershaw, Laurens, Lexington, Marlboro, Newberry, Orangeburg, Richland, Spartanburg, Union, and York, as of the effective date of this section, shall pass a certification examination before April 30, 2002. (d) Every municipal judge shall pass a recertification examination within eight years after passing the initial certification examination and at least once every eight years thereafter. (2) If any municipal judge does not comply with these training or examination requirements, his office is declared vacant on the date the time expires or when he is notified, as provided in subsection (E), whichever is earlier. (E) Upon written notification of the Supreme Court or its designee to the affected municipal judge and the council of the failure of the municipal judge to complete the training program or pass the certification examination required pursuant to subsection (D), the municipal judge's office is declared vacant, the municipal judge does not hold over, and the council shall appoint a successor, as provided in Section 14-25-25; however, the council shall not reappoint the current municipal judge who failed to complete the training program or pass the certification examination required pursuant to subsection (D) to a new term or to fill the vacancy in the existing term. (F) No municipal judge who is admitted to practice in the courts of this State shall practice law in the municipal court for which he is appointed. (G) All municipal judges shall attend annually the number of approved continuing education hours in criminal law and subject areas related to municipal judges' duties which are required by the Supreme Court of South Carolina. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall establish guidelines for exempting municipal judges from the continuing education hours required by this section based upon experience or education factors. Editor's Note This section contains provisions dealing with matters formerly dealt with by SECTION 14-25-920. 2004 Act No. 238, SECTION 3, provides as follows: "This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor and applies to municipal judges appointed on or after this act's effective date."
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-17-260 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 17 / Article 3 / Section 14-17-260
SECTION 14-17-260. Clerk shall issue all processes and sign all judgments.
Status: in_force

The clerk shall (a) issue every execution, bench warrant or other process issuable or directed to be issued by the courts of sessions, in the name of the Attorney General or solicitor of the circuit, (b) issue all rules and notices ordered in the common pleas, (c) attest in his own name under the seal of the court, all writs and processes issued either in the common pleas or sessions and (d) sign officially all judgments and state the time when each is signed and entered.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-3-660 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Article 5 / Section 14-3-660
SECTION 14-3-660. Sheriff shall provide place of hearing; expenses.
Status: in_force

If at any term of the Supreme Court proper and convenient room both for the consultation of the judges and the holding of the court, with furniture, attendants, fuel, lights and stationery suitable and sufficient for the transaction of its business, be not provided for in the place where by law the court may be held, the court may order the sheriff of the county to make such provision, and the expenses incurred by him in carrying the order into effect shall be paid from the State Treasury.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-1120 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 9 / Section 14-7-1120
SECTION 14-7-1120. Challenges and strikes of alternate jurors.
Status: in_force

In criminal cases the prosecution is entitled to one and the defendant to two peremptory challenges for each alternate juror called under the provisions of Section 14-7-320 and in civil cases, each party shall have one strike for each alternate juror.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-2-10 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 2 / Section 14-2-10
SECTION 14-2-10. Abolition of single county and multi-county family courts, juvenile courts, domestic relations courts, and juvenile and domestic relations courts.
Status: in_force

All single county and multi-county family courts, juvenile courts, domestic relations courts, juvenile and domestic relations courts, shall be abolished on July 1, 1977, and the jurisdiction of such courts devolved upon the statewide family court system as established by this title. Editor's Note 1976 Act No. 690, Article XI, SECTION 2, provides: "The Supreme Court in its discretion by rule or order may delay in whole or in part for a period of up to one year the abolition of any court scheduled to be abolished as provided by this act." 1978 Act No 659, eff June 23, 1978, provides as follows: "Section 1. The General Assembly finds that employment inequities have arisen in the past, and may arise in the future because of the transfer of county employees to state employment pursuant to Act 690 of 1976 (The Judicial Reform Act). It further finds that it was not the intention of the General Assembly in legislating this transfer of employment that any person would lose sick leave and seniority benefits earned in faithful service as a county employee. The purpose of this act is to correct employment inequities resulting from the transfer of county employees to state employment pursuant to Act 690 of 1976. "Section 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, persons employed by a county who, after transfer to state employment pursuant to Act 690 of 1976, continue to perform substantially the same duties as a state employee shall be credited by the state agency employing them with the sick leave balances they had acquired as county employees, up to the limits authorized for state employees. Such transferred employees shall retain credit for prior years of county service which shall be applied to their employment status under the state personnel and classification system. The status of any employee under the provisions of this act shall be determined by the Director of the State Personnel Division."
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-3-670 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Article 5 / Section 14-3-670
SECTION 14-3-670. Places to hold court; adjournment.
Status: in_force

The Supreme Court may be held in other buildings than those designated by law as places for holding courts and at a different place, at the same city or town, from that at which it is appointed to be held. Any one or more of the judges may adjourn the court with the like effect as if all were present.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-23-230 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 23 / Article 3 / Section 14-23-230
SECTION 14-23-230. Adjournment of court.
Status: in_force

A probate court may be adjourned as occasion may require. When the judge is absent at the time for holding a court the clerk may adjourn it.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-9-170 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 9 / Section 14-9-170
SECTION 14-9-170. Grand jury.
Status: in_force

The grand jury as drawn in accordance with law for service upon the court of general sessions in each of the counties shall constitute the grand jury for the county court and shall meet with the county court at each of its terms, except the term next succeeding each session of the circuit court, at which term the grand jury need not meet with the county court.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-23-340 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 23 / Article 3 / Section 14-23-340
SECTION 14-23-340. Guardianship proceedings to be held in court of county where guardian was appointed.
Status: in_force

All proceedings in relation to the property or estate of any person under guardianship shall be had in the court of probate of the county in which the guardian was appointed.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-870 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 7 / Section 14-7-870
SECTION 14-7-870. Procedures applicable to excused jurors.
Status: in_force

Whenever a juror is so excused, unless the cause of the excuse is permanent physical disability of the juror or the juror is a member of one of the classes of persons set forth in Section 14-7-840, the name of the juror must be placed by the jury commissioners on the succeeding panel of the same term, or the next term or a subsequent term of court. The name of the juror so placed on any panel must be in addition to the seventy-five names required to be placed on the panel under the provisions of Section 14-7-200, and the juror shall attend the court on the first day of the week for which he has been so designated without the issuance or service of any further process. He shall serve as a substitute on the panel in the stead and place of any one of the jurors drawn on the panel whose attendance cannot then be procured or who may be excused from attendance on the panel for cause as provided in this article. Editor's Note A provisions to the effect that no person is subject to jury service in any court more often than once a year, which formerly appeared in this section, can now be found in SECTION 14-7-850.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-9-260 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 9 / Section 14-9-260
SECTION 14-9-260. Counties excepted.
Status: in_force

The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to the counties of Abbeville, Anderson, Bamburg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Cherokee, Chester, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Dorchester, Edgefield, Fairfield, Florence, Georgetown, Greenville, Greenwood, Horry, Kershaw, Lancaster, Laurens, Lexington, Marion, Marlboro, Oconee, Orangeburg, Pickens, Richland, Saluda, Spartanburg, Sumter, Union, Williamsburg and York.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-17-760 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 17 / Article 7 / Section 14-17-760
SECTION 14-17-760. Clerk shall account for moneys at each session of common pleas.
Status: in_force

At each stated session of the court of common pleas the clerk thereof shall present an account to the court of all moneys remaining therein or subject to the order thereof, stating particularly on account of what cause or causes such moneys are deposited, which account and the vouchers thereof shall be filed in court.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-23-1030 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 23 / Article 9 / Section 14-23-1030
SECTION 14-23-1030. Associate judges.
Status: in_force

In addition to the judge of probate, there shall be one or more associate judges of probate in any county whose governing body appropriates the funds therefor. Associate judges of probate shall be appointed by the judge of probate to serve at his pleasure for a term coterminous with his term. The associate judges have jurisdiction to hear and decide all matters assigned to them by the judge which are within the jurisdiction of the court. The judge is accountable and responsible for all acts of his associates within the scope of their duties.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-23-260 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 23 / Article 3 / Section 14-23-260
SECTION 14-23-260. Jurisdiction shall not be collaterally impeached.
Status: in_force

The jurisdiction assumed by any probate court in any case, so far as it depends on the place of residence or the location of the estate, shall not be contested in any suit or proceeding whatever, except in an appeal from the probate court in the original case or when the want of jurisdiction appears on the record.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-5-690 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 5 / Article 7 / Section 14-5-690
SECTION 14-5-690. Days for pretrial and nonjury matters in fifth circuit.
Status: in_force

The first day of each term of the court of common pleas provided for in the fifth circuit shall be set aside for pretrial motions and all matters not requiring a jury, except those two terms in Richland County of which an entire week is designated for that purpose as herein provided for. When the first day of the term of the court of common pleas is set aside for pre-trial motions and matters not requiring a jury, as herein provided, the jury for said court of common pleas shall not be summoned to appear on the first day of the term but shall be summoned to appear on the second day of the term.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-17-595 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 17 / Article 5 / Section 14-17-595
SECTION 14-17-595. Clerks of court may maintain records on computers; paper or microfilm records required in certain instances.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding the provisions of this article or any other provision of law, a public record required to be kept by a clerk of court including, but not limited to, a book, journal, index, paper, writing, written record, and written findings may be maintained in a computer system provided that a paper or microfilm record must be maintained on all permanently valuable records.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-1800 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 15 / Section 14-7-1800
SECTION 14-7-1800. Rules for operation of state grand jury system.
Status: in_force

The Supreme Court may promulgate rules as are necessary for the operation of the state grand jury system established herein.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-17-730 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 17 / Article 7 / Section 14-17-730
SECTION 14-17-730. Penalty for not paying over funds, fines, and forfeitures; penalty for failure to give notice to county.
Status: in_force

If any clerk fail to pay over fines and forfeitures received by him or any moneys paid to him by order or permission of the court within five days after demand of the person entitled to receive the same, he shall forfeit and pay five per cent per month until the same shall be paid over, to be recovered, together with such amount received, by action on his official bond, besides being liable to rule and attachment as for contempt. If he shall fail to give to some member of the governing body of the county the notice required by law to be given he shall forfeit and pay double the amount so detained without notice.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-11-310 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 11 / Article 3 / Section 14-11-310
SECTION 14-11-310. Masters-in-equity to collect certain fees.
Status: in_force

Masters-in-equity shall collect the following fees which must be deposited in the general fund of the county: (1) in actions for partitions, foreclosure of liens upon real property, or sales of real property, either in private or by auction, a fee of one hundred dollars. If the matter requires more than one day of hearing, there is a thirty-five dollar charge for each additional day or portion of the day until the matter is concluded; (2) for the preparation of a deed, a fee of twenty-five dollars; (3) on sales of land, a fee equal to one percent of the bid or of the funds passing through the court, whichever is greater. The minimum commission collectible under this item is twenty-five dollars, and the maximum commission is two thousand, five hundred dollars; (4) for a supplemental proceeding, a fee of twenty-five dollars; (5) in all other cases, fifty dollars for the first day's hearing or any portion of the day and for each day after the first day, thirty-five dollars. The fees must be assessed at the time of the order or report of the master-in-equity. The fees provided for in this section, including the first day's fee provided for in item (5) and excluding the commission on sale, must be paid at the time the order of reference is signed and is nonrefundable unless so ordered by the master-in-equity on proper cause being shown. The cost of transcribing the record is in addition to the fees provided for in this section and must be assessed at the rate prescribed for circuit courts.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-5-810 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 5 / Article 7 / Section 14-5-810
SECTION 14-5-810. Terms of court in fifteenth circuit.
Status: in_force

The courts of the fifteenth judicial circuit shall be held as hereinafter provided. (1) Horry County. The Court of General Sessions for Horry County shall be held at Conway on the second Monday in January for one week, on the first Monday in March for two weeks, on the first Monday in June for two weeks, and on the first Monday in October for two weeks. The Court of Common Pleas for Horry County shall be held at Conway on the first Monday in January for one week, on the first Monday in February for two weeks, on the first Monday in April for two weeks, on the first Monday in May for two weeks, on the first Monday in September for two weeks, on the first Monday in November for one week, and on the third Monday in November for two weeks, and on the second Monday in December for one week. (2) Georgetown County. The Court of General Sessions for Georgetown County shall be held at Georgetown on the third Monday in March for one week, on the third Monday in June for one week, on the third Monday in September for one week and on the first Monday in December for one week. The Court of Common Pleas for Georgetown County shall be held at Georgetown on the third Monday in January for two weeks, on the third Monday in February for two weeks, on the fourth Monday in March for one week, on the third Monday in April for two weeks, on the third Monday in May for one week, on the fourth Monday in September for one week, on the third Monday in October for two weeks, and on the second Monday in November for one week. Provided, however, that beginning on the fourth Monday in March and September, the court of general sessions may be concurrently held with the court of common pleas for a period of one week.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-25-55 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 25 / Article 1 / Section 14-25-55
SECTION 14-25-55. Powers and duties of chief of police and police officers.
Status: in_force

The chief of police of the municipality for which a court is established, or someone designated by him, shall attend upon the sessions of the court. The chief of police and the police officers of such municipality shall be subject to the orders of the court and shall execute the orders, writs, and mandates thereof and perform such other duties in connection therewith as may be prescribed by the ordinances of the municipality. The chief of police and police officers shall also be invested with the same powers and duties as are provided for magistrates' constables. Editor's Note This section contains provisions dealing with matters formerly dealt with by SECTION 14-25-950.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-5-940 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 5 / Article 9 / Section 14-5-940
SECTION 14-5-940. Matters which may be considered at special session of general sessions; automatic removal of pending cases not tried.
Status: in_force

At any special session of the court of general sessions provided for and held under the provisions of this article all cases duly docketed shall be subject to trial and all processes, writs and recognizances of every kind, whether respecting juries, witnesses, bail or otherwise, which relate to the cases to be tried at the special session shall be considered as belonging to such session in the same manner as if they had been issued or taken in reference thereto. And all cases pending for trial at any special session of the court which are not tried or otherwise disposed of shall at the close thereof be considered as of course removed to the next stated term of court.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-1100 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 9 / Section 14-7-1100
SECTION 14-7-1100. Impaneling jury in criminal case.
Status: in_force

In impaneling juries in criminal cases, the jurors must be called, sworn, and impaneled anew for the trial of each case, according to the established practice.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-5-800 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 5 / Article 7 / Section 14-5-800
SECTION 14-5-800. Terms of court in fourteenth circuit.
Status: in_force

The courts in the fourteenth judicial circuit shall be held as hereinafter provided. (1) Allendale County. - The courts of general sessions for Allendale County shall be held at Allendale on the third Monday in April for one week, on the second Monday in July for one week and on the third Monday in October for one week. The court of common pleas for the county shall be held at Allendale on the fourth Monday in April for two weeks and on the second Monday in November for one week. In addition to the terms of the court of common pleas above provided for there shall be terms of such court during each of the weeks in which there are fixed terms of court for the court of general sessions, and immediately upon the conclusion of the business of the court of general sessions the court of common pleas shall open, and the petit jurors drawn to serve in the court of general sessions shall serve as petit jurors in the court of common pleas, and at such terms any and all business may be transacted as may be done at any other term of the court of common pleas. (2) Beaufort County. - The courts of general sessions for Beaufort County shall be held at Beaufort on the first Monday in March for one week, on the third Monday in June and continuing until the Saturday before the second Monday in July and on the third Monday in November for one week. The courts of common pleas for the county shall be held at Beaufort on the third Monday in January and continue until the Saturday before the first Monday in February, on the third Monday in March and continue until the Saturday before the first Monday in April, on the third Monday in June as soon as the court of general sessions shall have concluded during the remainder of the term, on the third Monday in July for two weeks, on the second Monday in September for one week and on the first Monday in November for one week. (3) Colleton County. - The courts of general sessions for Colleton County shall be held at Walterboro on the second Monday in January for one week, on the first Monday in April for two days, on the second Monday in June for one week and on the third Monday in September for one week. The courts of common pleas for the county shall be held at Walterboro on Wednesday following the first Monday in April for the remainder of the week, on the second Monday in April for one week, on the fourth Monday in May for one week, on the fourth Monday in October and continue until the Saturday before the first Monday in November and on the second Monday in December for one week. At the court of general sessions to be held on the second Monday in January of each year at Walterboro the court may dispose of equity cases, motions, demurrers and nonjury matters arising in any of the several counties of the fourteenth judicial circuit. (4) Hampton County. - The courts of general sessions for Hampton County shall be held at Hampton on the third Monday in February, on the first Monday in June and on the second Monday in October, in each case for one week. The court of common pleas for the county shall be held at Hampton on the first Monday in February for two weeks, the second Monday in March for one week, immediately upon the conclusion of the business of the court of general sessions in June for the remainder of the week and on the fourth Monday in September and continue until the Saturday before the second Monday in October. (5) Jasper County. - The courts of general sessions for Jasper County shall be held at Ridgeland on the fourth Monday in February, the third Monday in May, and the fourth Monday in November, in each case for one week. The courts of common pleas for the county shall be held at Ridgeland as soon as the courts of general sessions shall have concluded, except that during the week commencing the third Monday in November there shall be no regular term of the court of common pleas. There shall also be terms of the court of common pleas for the county on the second Monday in May and the first Monday in December, in each case for one week, and the Tuesday following the first Monday in September for the remainder of the week.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-1350 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 11 / Section 14-7-1350
SECTION 14-7-1350. Petit jurors may be held beyond period for which summoned.
Status: in_force

All jurors summoned to serve at any term of the courts of general sessions or common pleas may be held beyond the period for which they were summoned until all cases in both of such courts to be tried by jury are disposed of or until another jury shall have been empanelled to try such cases.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-5-220 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 5 / Article 3 / Section 14-5-220
SECTION 14-5-220. Clerk shall notify authorities and jurors of special terms.
Status: in_force

When notified of the appointment of a special judge to hold a special term, the clerk of the court shall notify the proper authorities and the grand jury shall be summoned to attend, if it be a court of sessions, and a petit jury shall be drawn and summoned, if jury cases are to be tried, in the regular manner, for the purpose of such court and as the same may be necessary. The clerk shall notify the special judge of the time fixed for holding the special term of court.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-3-20 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 14-3-20
SECTION 14-3-20. Qualification; administration of oath of office.
Status: in_force

The justices of the Supreme Court shall qualify within twelve months after the date of their election by taking the constitutional oath or the office shall be declared vacant by the Governor. The oath shall be administered by a justice of said court or by a circuit judge.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-1610 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 15 / Section 14-7-1610
SECTION 14-7-1610. Legislative findings and intent; applicability.
Status: in_force

(A) It is the intent of the General Assembly to enhance the grand jury system and to improve the ability of the State to detect and eliminate criminal activity. The General Assembly recognizes the great importance of having the federal authorities available for certain investigations. The General Assembly finds that crimes involving narcotics, dangerous drugs, or controlled substances, trafficking in persons, as well as crimes involving obscenity, often transpire or have significance in more than one county of this State. When this occurs, these crimes are most effectively detected and investigated by a grand jury system with the authority to cross county lines. (B) The General Assembly finds that there is a critical need to enhance the grand jury system to improve the ability of the State to prevent, detect, investigate, and prosecute crimes involving criminal gang activity or a pattern of criminal gang activity pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 of Chapter 8, Title 16. Crimes involving criminal gang activity or a pattern of criminal gang activity transpire at times in a single county, but often transpire or have significance in more than one county of this State. The General Assembly believes criminal gang activity poses an immediate, serious, and unacceptable threat to the citizens of the State and therefore warrants the state grand jury possessing considerably broader investigative authority. (C) The General Assembly finds that there is a need to enhance the grand jury system to improve the ability of the State to detect and eliminate public corruption. Crimes involving public corruption transpire at times in a single county, but often transpire or have significance in more than one county of this State. The General Assembly believes that a state grand jury, possessing considerably broader investigative authority than individual county grand juries, should be available to investigate public corruption offenses in South Carolina. (D) The General Assembly finds it fundamentally necessary to improve the ability of the State to prevent, detect, investigate, and prosecute crimes that involve the depiction of children under the age of eighteen in sexual activity, and obscenity crimes that are directed toward or involve children under the age of eighteen. The serious and unacceptable threat that these crimes pose to children is self-evident and impacts the State as a whole even if the actual criminal act occurs only in one county of the State. An effective effort to eliminate these heinous crimes requires a coordinated effort, which is accomplished more effectively through the state grand jury system. The effective prevention, detection, investigation, and prosecution of these crimes may require the use and application of state obscenity statutes or common law offenses not specifically directed toward the prevention and punishment of obscenity crimes involving children. Because many of these crimes involve computers, statewide jurisdiction over these crimes is consistent with the jurisdiction of a state grand jury over offenses defined in the Computer Crime Act. The General Assembly concludes that a state grand jury must be available to employ its broad investigative powers in the investigation of child-related obscenity by enabling the state grand jury to investigate all obscenity offenses, regardless of their multi-county impact, or whether they transpire or have significance in more than one county of this State. (E) The General Assembly finds that there is a need to enhance the grand jury system to improve the ability of the State to detect and investigate crimes involving the election laws including, but not limited to, those named offenses as specified in Title 7, or common law crimes involving the election laws where not superseded, or a crime arising out of or in connection with the election laws, or attempt, aiding, abetting, solicitation, or conspiracy to commit a crime involving the election laws. (F) The General Assembly finds that there is a need to enhance the grand jury system to improve the ability of the State to detect and investigate knowing and wilful crimes which result in actual and substantial harm to the environment. These crimes include knowing and wilful offenses specified in Titles 13, 44, and 48, or any knowing and wilful crime arising out of or in connection with environmental laws, or any attempt, aiding, abetting, solicitation, or conspiracy to commit a knowing and wilful crime involving the environment if the anticipated actual damages including, but not limited to, the cost of remediation, are two million dollars or more, as certified by an independent environmental engineer who shall be contracted by the Department of Health and Environmental Control. (1) The General Assembly finds that the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control possesses the expertise and knowledge to determine whether there has occurred an alleged environmental offense as defined in this article. (2) The General Assembly finds that, because of its expertise and knowledge, the Department of Health and Environmental Control must play a substantial role in the investigation of any such alleged environmental offense. (3) The General Assembly finds that, while the Department of Health and Environmental Control must not make prosecutorial decisions regarding such alleged environmental offense as defined in this article, the department must be integrally involved in the investigation of any such alleged environmental offense before and after the impaneling of a state grand jury pursuant to Section 14-7-1630. (4) The General Assembly finds that it is in the public interest to avoid duplicative and overlapping prosecutions to the extent that the Attorney General considers possible. Therefore, the Attorney General shall consult with and advise the Environmental Protection and Enforcement Coordinating Subcommittee and cooperate with other state and federal prosecutorial authorities having jurisdiction over environmental enforcement in order to carry out the provisions of Sections 14-7-1630(A)(8) and 14-7-1630(C). (G) The General Assembly finds that related criminal activity often arises out of or in connection with crimes involving narcotics, dangerous drugs or controlled substances, criminal gang activity, obscenity, public corruption, or environmental offenses and that the mechanism for detecting and investigating these related crimes must be improved. (H) Accordingly, the General Assembly concludes that a state grand jury should be allowed to investigate certain crimes related to narcotics, dangerous drugs, or controlled substances, criminal gang activity, trafficking in persons, and obscenity and also should be allowed to investigate crimes involving public corruption, election laws, and environmental offenses. (I) This section does not limit the authority of a county grand jury, solicitor, or other appropriate law enforcement personnel to investigate, indict, or prosecute offenses within the jurisdiction of the state grand jury.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-5-640 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 5 / Article 7 / Section 14-5-640
SECTION 14-5-640. Terms of court in third circuit.
Status: in_force

The courts of the third judicial circuit shall be held as hereinafter provided. (1) Clarendon County. - The court of general sessions for Clarendon County shall be held at Manning on the fourth Monday in January, the third Monday in June and the second Monday in September, each for one week. The court of common pleas for the county shall be held at Manning on the first Monday in March for two weeks, the fourth Monday in April for one week, the fourth Monday in June for one week and the third Monday in October for two weeks. (2) Lee County. - The court of general sessions for Lee County shall be held at Bishopville on the first Monday in February, on the second Monday in June and on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in September, each for one week. The court of common pleas for the county shall be held at Bishopville on the fourth Monday in March for one week, the first Monday in May for one week, the fourth Monday in September for one week and the first Monday after the fourth Monday in November for one week. But there shall be no jury trials at the summer term of the court of general sessions unless a majority of the Lee County Bar Association deems it advisable and so notifies the judge of the circuit. (3) Sumter County. - The court of general sessions for Sumter County shall be held at Sumter on the second Monday in February for two weeks, on the second Monday in May for two weeks, on the fourth Monday in July for two weeks, on the first Monday in November for two weeks and on the second Monday in December for one week. The court of common pleas for the county shall be held at Sumter on the first Monday in January for three weeks, on the first Monday in April for three weeks, and on the first Monday after the fourth Monday in September for two weeks. Provided, that in each year that September has five Mondays the last term of common pleas court shall be for three weeks. (4) Williamsburg County. - The court of general sessions for Williamsburg County shall be held at Kingstree on the second Monday after the second Monday in February, on the first Monday in June and on the third Monday in September, each for one week. The court of common pleas shall be held at Kingstree on the third Monday in March for one week, on the fourth Monday in May for one week, on Wednesday first succeeding the first Monday in June for one week and on the third Monday in November for two weeks. But no jury trial of civil cases shall be had at the June term except by consent. The petit jurors for the first and third terms of the court of general sessions shall not be required to attend the first, second and fourth terms of the court of common pleas, but separate juries shall be drawn and summoned for such courts.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-1030 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 9 / Section 14-7-1030
SECTION 14-7-1030. Time for making objections to jurors.
Status: in_force

All objections to jurors called to try prosecutions, actions, issues, or questions arising out of actions or special proceedings in the various courts of this State, if not made before the juror is impaneled for or charged with the trial of the prosecution, action, issue, or question arising out of an action or special proceeding, is waived, and if made thereafter is of no effect.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-3-610 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Article 5 / Section 14-3-610
SECTION 14-3-610. Terms; notice of time and place of additional terms.
Status: in_force

The Supreme Court shall hold at least nine terms in each year at the seat of government, commencing on the second Monday in each month except the months of July, August and September. Each of such terms shall be continued for so long a period as the public interest may require. The court may also hold such additional terms or sessions as the public interest may require, the time and place therefor to be appointed and fixed by the court. Ten days' notice of such time and place shall be given to the attorneys or counsel appearing in the cases docketed in such manner as the court by its rules or orders may provide.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-1-180 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-180
SECTION 14-1-180. Jurors for inferior courts in counties containing a city of more than 70,000.
Status: in_force

In each county containing a city having more than seventy thousand population, according to the official United States census, all jurors for courts inferior to the circuit court and having both civil and criminal jurisdiction shall be drawn from the jury box and tales box provided for such counties under Sections 14-7-170 and 14-7-210.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-23-360 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 23 / Article 3 / Section 14-23-360
SECTION 14-23-360. Enrollment of order or decree for payment of money.
Status: in_force

Any party in whose favor an order or decree for the payment of money may be made by a court of probate may cause such order or decree to be enrolled at any time within one year after the making of the same and for that purpose shall prepare and deliver to the judge of probate a brief or abstract, setting forth the title of the proceedings wherein such order or decree was made, the parties thereto, the date when the same was made and the names of the parties bound thereby, together with such other particulars as may be necessary to identify the order with the proceedings and to exhibit the grounds for making the same and the operation and effect thereof. The judge of probate shall annex thereto the order or decree or an exact copy thereof, certified by him, together with the time when the same was made and entered, shall endorse on the record the day of the month and year when the brief or abstract was lodged in his office and shall deposit the same in a case in his office with the records pertaining to the cause.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-11-170 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 14-11-170
SECTION 14-11-170. Deposit of funds.
Status: in_force

The master shall deposit all funds in his hands in some bank located in the county.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-17-310 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 17 / Article 3 / Section 14-17-310
SECTION 14-17-310. Clerk shall make out roll of jurors and constables in attendance; certificates.
Status: in_force

Immediately after the adjournment of any court of common pleas and general sessions the clerk thereof shall (a) make out a roll of the grand jurors, petit jurors and constables who shall have attended the same, exhibiting the name, time of service and amount due each juror and constable and the term at which the service was performed, (b) enter the same on the journals of the court of the term when such service shall be performed, (c) forthwith transmit to the governing body of the county a certified copy of such roll and (d) furnish each juror and constable with a certificate, in the following form: STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA: I, A. B. Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions for __________ County, in the said State, do certify that __________ attended as a __________ juror (or actually served as a constable, as the case may be) for said county __________ days at __________ Term, A. D. __________, and is entitled to receive for the same __________ dollars, and ___ cents. Such certificate shall be signed by the clerk of court, who shall issue the same, and be countersigned by the sheriff of the county. All certificates so issued and executed shall be valid.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-8-130 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 8 / Article I / Section 14-8-130
SECTION 14-8-130. Sheriff to serve and execute order or process.
Status: in_force

The Court of Appeals may require the sheriff of each county to whom any order or process issuing from such court may be directed to serve and execute such order or process and shall have the same power to enforce such service and execution and punish default thereon as is vested in circuit courts on processes issuing therefrom. Editor's Note Provisions concerning the reporting of opinions formerly contained in SECTION 14-8-130, see SECTION 14-8-100.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-15-60 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 15 / Article 1 / Section 14-15-60
SECTION 14-15-60. Appointment and compensation of special stenographers.
Status: in_force

The circuit judges of this State may appoint a special court stenographer to act in the place and stead of the regular court stenographer in case of the sickness, absence or inability to act of the regular court stenographer at any term or part of a term of either the court of common pleas or general sessions. Such stenographer, when so appointed, shall receive not more than the sum of seven and one-half dollars per day for each day he may be in attendance upon the court. The presiding judge shall certify the number of days any such special stenographer may be engaged in the court as such and upon this certificate the Comptroller General shall draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer for the amount due such stenographer for his services and the said State Treasurer may pay the same.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-150 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 3 / Section 14-7-150
SECTION 14-7-150. Preparation of jury box.
Status: in_force

The jury box of a county shall contain the same number of capsules or containers as there are names on the jury list prepared by the jury commissioners from the latest official list furnished to the county by the State Election Commission each year and provided to the clerk of court of each county not later than December first of the calendar year. The capsules or containers must be small, opaque, and as similar in size, shape, and color as possible at the time of original purchase or the repurchase of additional capsules. By a slip of paper placed therein, each capsule or container must be numbered, beginning with number "one" and continuing consecutively through the number of qualified electors on the jury list prepared by the jury commissioners as hereinbefore provided. All these papers must be of similar kind, color, and weight so as to resemble each other as much as possible without distinguishing marks. The capsules or containers so prepared must be placed in the jury box constructed as required by law. Editor's Note Prior Laws: Former SECTION14-7-150 was titled Jury lists in counties containing cities of more than 70,000, and had the following history: 1962 Code SECTION 38-53; 1952 Code SECTION 38-53; 1942 Code SECTION 608; 1932 Code SECTION 608; Civ. P. '22 SECTION 548; Civ. C. '12 SECTION 4017; 1902 (23) 1066; 1915 (29) 76; 1933 (38) 446; 1939 (41) 27, 332, 543; 1941 (42) 70; 1942 (43) 263; 1957 (50) 11; omitted by 1986 Act No. 340, SECTION 1.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-25-175 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 25 / Article 1 / Section 14-25-175
SECTION 14-25-175. Disposition of names drawn.
Status: in_force

Upon the adjournment of the court, the clerk having the custody of the names drawn under any method in this chapter shall take the names or numbers of the jurors who appeared and shall return these ballots or numbers to Compartment "B" of the jury box, and the ballots or numbers corresponding to the names of the jurors who were unable to appear or who were excused by the municipal judge shall be returned to Compartment "A" of the jury box. When all names or numbers in Compartment "A" have been exhausted, the names or numbers from Compartment "B" shall be returned to Compartment "A" and thereafter juries shall continue to be drawn therefrom in the manner provided herein. Editor's Note This section contains provisions dealing with matters formerly dealt with by SECTIONS 14-25-540 and 14-25-670.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-3-40 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 14-3-40
SECTION 14-3-40. Vacancies; term of incumbent.
Status: in_force

All vacancies in the Supreme Court shall be filled by elections as herein prescribed; provided, that if the unexpired term does not exceed one year such vacancy may be filled by executive appointment. When a vacancy is so filled by either appointment or election, the incumbent shall hold only for the unexpired term of his predecessor.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-5-950 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 5 / Article 9 / Section 14-5-950
SECTION 14-5-950. Cause will be tried at special session of common pleas only if previously docketed; exception.
Status: in_force

At any special session of the court of common pleas provided for and held under the provisions of this article no cause shall be tried unless the same shall have been previously docketed upon some one of the calendars of the last preceding regular term of court; provided, that any cause may be docketed and tried by mutual consent of attorneys of record of such cause.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-3-30 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 14-3-30
SECTION 14-3-30. Salaries.
Status: in_force

The Chief Justice shall receive such annual salary as may be provided by the General Assembly and the associate justices shall receive such annual salary as may be provided by the General Assembly. They shall not be allowed any fees or perquisites of office, nor shall they hold any other office of trust or profit under the State, the United States, or any other power.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-23-1080 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 23 / Article 9 / Section 14-23-1080
SECTION 14-23-1080. Judges shall not sit in certain cases.
Status: in_force

No judge or associate judge shall sit in any case in which he has a vested interest, or in which he is biased or prejudiced in favor of or against any interested party, or in which he has been counsel or a material witness, or in the determination of any cause or proceeding in the administration or settlement of any estate under a will that he has prepared, or of any estate of any person in which he is interested as heir, legatee, executor, administrator, guardian or trustee. In every such case the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall appoint a special judge to sit in the matter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-280 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 3 / Section 14-7-280
SECTION 14-7-280. Duty of circuit judge in case of irregularities.
Status: in_force

When at any time it is determined by the circuit judge of any circuit, upon complaint made to him, that an irregularity has occurred in the drawing of the juries for any court within his circuit or that any act has been done whereby the validity of any jury drawn or to be drawn may be questioned, the circuit judge may issue his order to the jury commissioners for each county for which the court is to be held, at least five days before the sitting thereof, to proceed to draw jurors for the term or take measures as may be necessary to correct the error. Editor's Note Provisions relative to selection of jurors by drawing, which formerly appeared in this section, can now be found in SECTION 14-7-240.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-3-320 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Article 3 / Section 14-3-320
SECTION 14-3-320. Appellate jurisdiction in chancery; review of findings of fact of Family Court.
Status: in_force

The Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction only in cases of chancery, and in such appeals they shall review the findings of fact as well as the law, except in chancery cases when the facts are settled by a jury and the verdict not set aside; provided, that in cases which arise out of the Family Court, except those cases dealing with juvenile misconduct, review by the Supreme Court of the findings of fact of the Family Court shall be limited to a determination of whether or not there is substantial evidence to sustain such facts. Editor's Note The Supreme Court of South Carolina declared SECTION 14-3-320 unconstitutional to the extent this section purported to limit the scope of appellate review in domestic cases, in Rutherford v Rutherford (1992, SC) 414 SE2d 157.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-2-20 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 2 / Section 14-2-20
SECTION 14-2-20. Service of judges of abolished courts as masters-in-equity, standing masters, or special referees.
Status: in_force

Any judge of a court abolished pursuant to the provisions of Section 14-2-10 who also served as master-in-equity, standing master or special referee shall unless elected family court judge continue to serve as such master or special referee until July 1, 1979. If such judge is elected family court judge, a vacancy in such office shall exist and shall be filled as provided by law. Editor's Note 1976 Act No. 690, Article XI, SECTION 3, provides: "Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the event any vacancy occurs in the office of judge in any existing family court for any reason, the vacancy must be filled by an election of the General Assembly. In the event that the vacancy occurs when the General Assembly is not in session, the Governor of South Carolina shall appoint the family court judge to serve until the General Assembly convenes. The General Assembly shall elect a replacement for the interim family court judge within thirty days after convening."
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-3-420 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Article 3 / Section 14-3-420
SECTION 14-3-420. Costs and disbursements in actions and proceedings brought in original jurisdiction.
Status: in_force

In all actions and proceedings brought in the Supreme Court in its original jurisdiction the court may provide, by rule, order or otherwise, for the payment of reasonable costs and disbursements of the case by the losing party or otherwise as in the judgment of the court may be just and proper, such costs and disbursements to be taxed and adjusted by the clerk of said court under direction of the court. When the clerk has taxed such costs and disbursements under the direction of the court he shall certify the taxation to the clerk of the court of common pleas for the county in which the party resides against whom such costs and disbursements have been taxed. Such clerk of the court of common pleas shall enter judgment therefor, as other judgments are entered, and shall issue execution for the enforcement of such judgment. The judgment so entered shall have the same force and effect in all respects as judgments rendered by the court of common pleas.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-23-1010 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 23 / Article 9 / Section 14-23-1010
SECTION 14-23-1010. Establishment.
Status: in_force

There is established in each of the counties of this State a probate court, which must be located at the county seat and must be open for the transaction of its business at all reasonable hours. The probate court of each county is part of the unified judicial system of this State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-3-400 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Article 3 / Section 14-3-400
SECTION 14-3-400. Notice to circuit judges of assignments.
Status: in_force

Immediately thereupon the Chief Justice or, in his absence or inability to act, the senior associate justice shall direct the clerk of the Supreme Court to furnish each of the circuit judges, as well as the Chief Justice and senior associate justice, with a certified copy of such order which shall be sufficient notice to the circuit judges of their assignments aforesaid, and they shall proceed to hold the courts in the circuits to which they are respectively assigned at the time appointed by law for the several circuit courts to be held. The clerk of the Supreme Court shall also forthwith transmit a certified copy of said order to the clerk of every circuit court of the State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-3-370 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Article 3 / Section 14-3-370
SECTION 14-3-370. Times when circuit judges shall sit with Supreme Court.
Status: in_force

Whenever, upon the hearing of any cause or question before the Supreme Court in the exercise of its original or appellate jurisdiction, (a) it shall appear to the justices thereof or any three of them that there is involved a question of constitutional law or of conflict between the Constitution and laws of this State and of the United States or between the duties and obligations of her citizens under the same, upon the determination of which the entire court is not agreed or (b) the justices of said court, or any two of them, desire it, the Chief Justice, or in his absence the presiding associate justice, shall call to the assistance of the Supreme Court all the judges of the circuit courts, except that when the matter to be submitted is involved in an appeal from a circuit court the circuit judge who tried the case shall not sit.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-23-300 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 23 / Article 3 / Section 14-23-300
SECTION 14-23-300. Judge may administer oaths, and take depositions, affidavits, and other instruments; fees.
Status: in_force

The judge of probate, while in office, may administer oaths and take depositions, affidavits and probate of deeds and other instruments as fully and effectually as is done by clerks of court and notaries public, and his fees therefor shall be the same as those allowed by law to other officers for similar services.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-25-165 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 25 / Article 1 / Section 14-25-165
SECTION 14-25-165. Drawing and composing juries; single trials; trial terms; peremptory challenges.
Status: in_force

(a)(1) The drawing and composing of juries for single trials or terms of court must be conducted, with necessary changes, according to the statutes relating to the drawing and composing of juries in magistrates courts, except as otherwise specifically provided by this chapter. (2) A person appointed by the municipal judge who is not connected with the trial of the case for either party must draw out of Compartment "A" of the jury box at least thirty but not more than one hundred names, and the list of names drawn must be delivered to each party or to the attorney for each party. (3) If a court has experienced difficulty in drawing a sufficient number of jurors from the qualified electors of the area, and, before implementing a process pursuant to this item, seeks and receives the approval of South Carolina Court Administration, the person selected by the presiding municipal judge may draw at least one hundred names but not more than a number determined sufficient by court administration for the jury list, and must deliver this list to each party or the attorney for each party. (b)(1) In addition to the procedure for drawing a jury list as provided for in subsection (a), in those courts which schedule terms for jury trials, the judge may select a jury list in the manner provided by this subsection. (2) At least ten but not more than forty-five days before a scheduled term of jury trials, a person selected by the presiding judge must draw at least forty but not more than one hundred jurors to serve one week only. (3) If a court has experienced difficulty in drawing a sufficient number of jurors from the qualified electors of the area, and, before implementing a process pursuant to this item, seeks and receives the approval of South Carolina Court Administration, the person selected by the presiding municipal judge may draw at least one hundred names but not more than a number determined sufficient by court administration to serve one week only. (4) Immediately after the jurors are drawn, the judge must issue a writ of venire facias for the jurors requiring their attendance on the first day of the week for which they have been drawn. This writ must be delivered to the chief of police or may be served by regular mail by the clerk of court. (c) The names drawn pursuant to either subsection (a) or (b) must be placed in a box or hat and individual names randomly drawn out one at a time until six jurors and four alternates are selected. Each party has a maximum of six peremptory challenges as to primary jurors and four peremptory challenges as to alternate jurors and any other challenges for cause the court permits. If for any reason it is impossible to select sufficient jurors and alternates from the names drawn, names must be drawn randomly from Compartment "A" until sufficient jurors and alternates are selected. Editor's Note This section contains provisions dealing with matters formerly dealt with by SECTIONS 14-25-520 and 14-25-660.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-9-10 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 9 / Section 14-9-10
SECTION 14-9-10. Petition and order for election upon question of establishing county court.
Status: in_force

Whenever one third of the qualified registered electors of any county in this State shall file a petition with the clerk of the circuit court of such county praying for an election to be held in such county on the question of the establishment of a county court therein, the clerk shall within ten days make an order thereon and serve the same on the commissioners of election of such county requiring the commissioners to hold an election upon the question of establishing a county court in such county not later than sixty days nor earlier than forty days thereafter, after first giving at least thirty days' notice thereof in the newspapers of such county. The petition shall be accompanied by a certificate of the board of registration of the county that the names appearing upon the petition constitute one third of the qualified registered electors of such county.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-17-210 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 17 / Article 3 / Section 14-17-210
SECTION 14-17-210. Clerk shall have charge of courthouse; penalty for keeping courthouse open at night.
Status: in_force

Every clerk shall have charge of the courthouse within his county, open the same when required for public use and at all other times keep it closed. For every night any courthouse shall be kept open the clerk shall be liable to a penalty of five dollars for the use of the county, to be recovered by indictment.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-1380 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 11 / Section 14-7-1380
SECTION 14-7-1380. Cost of feeding juries paid by county.
Status: in_force

Whenever any circuit judge shall order food to be furnished by the sheriff to any jury charged with the consideration of a case, the expenses connected therewith shall be paid by the governing body of the county in which such case is being tried, upon presentation of the bill of the sheriff certified as correct by the presiding judge.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-9-70 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 9 / Section 14-9-70
SECTION 14-9-70. Appointment of stenographer; duties.
Status: in_force

The county judge in each of the counties wherein a county court is established shall appoint for the county court an official stenographer, who shall attend upon the sessions of the court and perform the same duties in connection therewith as are performed by circuit stenographers in the circuit courts.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-8-200 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 8 / Article III / Section 14-8-200
SECTION 14-8-200. Jurisdiction of Court; limitations.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as limited by subsection (b) and Section 14-8-260, the court has jurisdiction over any case in which an appeal is taken from an order, judgment, or decree of the circuit court, family court, a final decision of an agency, a final decision of an administrative law judge, or the final decision of the Workers' Compensation Commission. This jurisdiction is appellate only, and the court shall apply the same scope of review that the Supreme Court would apply in a similar case. The court has the same authority to issue writs of supersedeas, grant stays, and grant petitions for bail as the Supreme Court would have in a similar case. The court, to the extent the Supreme Court may by rule provide for it to do so, has jurisdiction to entertain petitions for writs of certiorari in post-conviction relief matters pursuant to Section 17-27-100. (b) Jurisdiction of the court does not extend to appeals of the following, the appeal from which lies of right directly to the Supreme Court: (1) a final judgment from the circuit court which includes a sentence of death; (2) a final decision of the Public Service Commission setting public utility rates pursuant to Title 58; (3) a final judgment involving a challenge on state or federal grounds, to the constitutionality of a state law or county or municipal ordinance where the principal issue is one of the constitutionality of the law or ordinance; however, in a case where the Supreme Court finds that the constitutional question raised is not a significant one, the Supreme Court may transfer the case to the court for final judgment; (4) a final judgment from the circuit court involving the authorization, issuance, or proposed issuance of general obligation debt, revenue, institutional, industrial, or hospital bonds of the State, its agencies, political subdivisions, public service districts, counties, and municipalities, or any other indebtedness authorized by Article X of the Constitution of this State; (5) a final judgment from the circuit court pertaining to elections and election procedure; (6) an order limiting an investigation by a state grand jury pursuant to Section 14-7-1630; and (7) an order of the family court relating to an abortion by a minor pursuant to Section 44-41-33. Editor's Note 2006 Act No. 387, SECTION 53, provides as follows: "This act is intended to provide a uniform procedure for contested cases and appeals from administrative agencies and to the extent that a provision of this act conflicts with an existing statute or regulation, the provisions of this act are controlling." 2006 Act No. 387, SECTION 57, provides as follows: "This act takes effect on July 1, 2006, and applies to any actions pending on or after the effective date of the act. No pending or vested right, civil action, special proceeding, or appeal of a final administrative decision exists under the former law as of the effective date of this act, except for appeals of Department of Health and Environmental Control Ocean and Coastal Resource Management and Environmental Quality Control permits that are before the Administrative Law Court on the effective date of this act and petitions for judicial review that are pending before the circuit court. For those actions only, the department shall hear appeals from the administrative law judges and the circuit court shall hear pending petitions for judicial review in accordance with the former law. Thereafter, any appeal of those actions shall proceed as provided in this act for review. For all other actions pending on the effective date of this act, the action proceeds as provided in this act for review."
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-17-750 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 17 / Article 7 / Section 14-17-750
SECTION 14-17-750. Clerk shall report all moneys collected; penalty for failure to report.
Status: in_force

Every clerk of the court is required, on the first Wednesday in each month or within ten days thereafter, to make in writing to the auditor and treasurer of his county a full and accurate statement of all moneys collected on account of licenses, fines, penalties and forfeitures during the past month on pain of indictment and, in case of conviction, of being fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than two months or both, at the discretion of the court.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-190 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 3 / Section 14-7-190
SECTION 14-7-190. Drawing of petit jurors to serve as jury pool during weeks in which more than one term of court requiring juries are scheduled.
Status: in_force

Not less than fifteen days nor more than thirty-five days before the first day of any week in which more than one term of court requiring juries is scheduled in a county, the jury commissioners shall draw a number of petit jurors to serve as a jury pool, from which the courts shall draw panels of jurors as needed according to the following schedule: (1) When two concurrent terms of court are scheduled, the commissioners shall draw ninety percent of the number of jurors which they would otherwise draw; (2) When three concurrent terms of court are scheduled, the commissioners shall draw eighty percent of the number of jurors which they would otherwise draw; (3) When four concurrent terms of court are scheduled, the commissioners shall draw seventy percent of the number of jurors which they would otherwise draw; or (4) When five or more concurrent terms of court are scheduled, the commissioners shall draw fifty percent of the number of jurors which they would otherwise draw. The jury commissioners shall not exclude or disqualify any juror drawn. Editor's Note Provisions relative to custody of jury box and keys thereto, which formerly appeared in this section, can now be found in SECTION 14-7-180.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-1810 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 15 / Section 14-7-1810
SECTION 14-7-1810. Severability clause.
Status: in_force

If any part of this article is declared invalid, unenforceable, or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, it is hereby declared severable from the remaining portions of this article which portions shall remain in full force and effect as if the invalid, unenforceable, or unconstitutional portion were omitted.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-17-230 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 17 / Article 3 / Section 14-17-230
SECTION 14-17-230. Clerks may act as attorneys and solicitors in other counties.
Status: in_force

Clerks may act as attorneys and solicitors in all the courts in the State, except in the courts of their respective counties, provided they shall have complied with the requirements of law regulating the admission of persons to practice as attorneys, solicitors and counselors in the courts of this State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-17-550 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 17 / Article 5 / Section 14-17-550
SECTION 14-17-550. Entries on and preservation of calendars.
Status: in_force

No cause shall be entered on the calendar except by the clerk or his deputy, nor by him until the pleadings are made up. The calendars for the court shall be regularly preserved as a record of the court.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-25-115 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 25 / Article 1 / Section 14-25-115
SECTION 14-25-115. Appointment of ministerial recorder; powers and duties.
Status: in_force

The council of a municipality may establish the office of ministerial recorder and appoint one or more full-time or part-time ministerial recorders, who shall hold office at the pleasure of the council. Before entering upon the discharge of the duties of the office of ministerial recorder, the person appointed shall take and subscribe the prescribed oath of office and shall be certified by the municipal judge as having been instructed in the proper method of issuing warrants and setting and accepting bonds and recognizances. Ministerial recorders shall have the power to set and accept bonds and recognizances and to issue summonses, subpoenas, arrest warrants, and search warrants in all cases arising under the ordinances of the municipality, and in criminal cases as are now conferred by law upon magistrates. Ministerial recorders shall have no other judicial authority. Editor's Note This section contains provisions dealing with matters formerly dealt with by SECTIONS 14-25-310 and 14-25-320.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-17-520 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 17 / Article 5 / Section 14-17-520
SECTION 14-17-520. Procurement of filing cases.
Status: in_force

The office of every clerk shall be furnished with suitable cases with proper partitions for filing papers, under appropriate labels.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-820 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 7 / Section 14-7-820
SECTION 14-7-820. Disqualification of county officers and court employees.
Status: in_force

No clerk or deputy clerk of the court, constable, sheriff, probate judge, county commissioner, magistrate or other county officer, or any person employed within the walls of any courthouse is eligible as a juryman in any civil or criminal case; provided, that no person may be disqualified under this section except as determined by the court.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-230 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 3 / Section 14-7-230
SECTION 14-7-230. Methods for drawing names of jurors.
Status: in_force

The clerk of court must use one of the following methods for drawing the names of jurors for the purpose of impaneling a jury: (1) drawing of the names of jurors by a responsible and impartial person designated by the clerk of court, with the approval of the presiding judge; or (2) drawing of the names of jurors by computer, subject to the provisions of Section 14-7-140. Editor's Note Prior Laws: Former SECTION14-7-230 was titled Drawing of petit jurors, see now, SECTION 14-7-200.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-9-30 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 9 / Section 14-9-30
SECTION 14-9-30. Court established on a majority vote.
Status: in_force

In the event a majority of the qualified electors voting at any such election shall vote "Yes" upon such question then such county court shall be established in and for such county in which a majority of the qualified electors so vote with such jurisdiction and powers as are herein provided.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-410 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 3 / Section 14-7-410
SECTION 14-7-410. Service of summons for jury duty by certified mail; alternate procedure.
Status: in_force

The clerk of court of any county may serve a summons for jury duty by certified mail with return receipt requested. Should the clerk of court of any county not choose to use the procedure for summoning jurors provided by this section, the sheriff must continue to serve jurors as provided by law. Editor's Note Provisions relative to obtaining jurors when jury commissioners are disqualified, which formerly appeared in this section, can now be found in SECTION 41-7-340.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-3-330 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Article 3 / Section 14-3-330
SECTION 14-3-330. Appellate jurisdiction in law cases.
Status: in_force

The Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction for correction of errors of law in law cases, and shall review upon appeal: (1) Any intermediate judgment, order or decree in a law case involving the merits in actions commenced in the court of common pleas and general sessions, brought there by original process or removed there from any inferior court or jurisdiction, and final judgments in such actions; provided, that if no appeal be taken until final judgment is entered the court may upon appeal from such final judgment review any intermediate order or decree necessarily affecting the judgment not before appealed from; (2) An order affecting a substantial right made in an action when such order (a) in effect determines the action and prevents a judgment from which an appeal might be taken or discontinues the action, (b) grants or refuses a new trial or (c) strikes out an answer or any part thereof or any pleading in any action; (3) A final order affecting a substantial right made in any special proceeding or upon a summary application in any action after judgment; and (4) An interlocutory order or decree in a court of common pleas granting, continuing, modifying, or refusing an injunction or granting, continuing, modifying, or refusing the appointment of a receiver.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-1-206 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-206
SECTION 14-1-206. Additional assessment, general sessions or family court; remittance; disposition; annual audits.
Status: in_force

(A) A person who is convicted of, pleads guilty or nolo contendere to, or forfeits bond for an offense occurring after June 30, 2008, tried in general sessions court must pay an amount equal to 107.5 percent of the fine imposed as an assessment. This assessment must be paid to the clerk of court in the county in which the criminal judgment is rendered for remittance to the State Treasurer by the county treasurer. The assessment is based upon that portion of the fine that is not suspended and assessments must not be waived, reduced, or suspended. (B) The county treasurer must remit 35.35 percent of the revenue generated by the assessment imposed in subsection (A) to the county to be used for the purposes set forth in subsection (D) and remit the balance of the assessment revenue to the State Treasurer on a monthly basis by the fifteenth day of each month and make reports on a form and in a manner prescribed by the State Treasurer. Assessments paid in installments must be remitted as received. (C) After deducting amounts provided pursuant to Section 14-1-210, the State Treasurer shall deposit the balance of assessments received as follows: (1) 42.08 percent for programs established pursuant to Chapter 21 of Title 24 and the Shock Incarceration Program as provided in Article 13, Chapter 13 of Title 24; (2) 14.74 percent to the Law Enforcement Training Council for training in the fields of law enforcement and criminal justice; (3) .45 percent to the Department of Public Safety to defray the cost of erecting and maintaining the South Carolina Law Enforcement Officers Hall of Fame. When funds collected pursuant to this item exceed the necessary costs and expenses of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Officers Hall of Fame operation and maintenance as determined by the Department of Public Safety, the department may retain, carry forward, and expend the surplus to defray the costs of maintaining and operating the Hall of Fame; (4) 14.46 percent to the Office of Indigent Defense for the defense of indigents; (5) 11.83 percent for the Office of the Attorney General, South Carolina Crime Victim Services Division, Department of Crime Victim Compensation, Victim Compensation Fund; (6) 15.39 percent to the general fund; (7) .89 percent to the Office of the Attorney General for a fund to provide support for counties involved in complex criminal litigation. For the purposes of this item, "complex criminal litigation" means criminal cases in which the State is seeking the death penalty and has served notice as required by law upon the defendant's counsel, and the county involved has expended more than two hundred fifty thousand dollars for a particular case in direct support of operating the court of general sessions and for prosecution related expenses. The Attorney General shall develop guidelines for determining what expenses are reimbursable from the fund and shall approve all disbursements from the fund. Funds must be paid to a county for all expenditures authorized for reimbursement under this item except for the first one hundred thousand dollars the county expended in satisfying the requirements for reimbursement from the fund; however, money disbursed from this fund must be disbursed on a "first received, first paid" basis. When revenue in the fund reaches five hundred thousand dollars, all revenue in excess of five hundred thousand dollars must be credited to the general fund of the State. Unexpended revenue in the fund at the end of the fiscal year carries over and may be expended in the next fiscal year; and (8) .16 percent to the Office of the State Treasurer to defray the administrative expenses associated with collecting and distributing the revenue of these assessments. (D) The revenue retained by the county under subsection (B) must be used for the provision of services for the victims of crime including those required by law. These funds must be appropriated for the exclusive purpose of providing victim services as required by Article 15, Chapter 3, Title 16; specifically, those service requirements that are imposed on local law enforcement, local detention facilities, prosecutors, and the summary courts. First priority must be given to those victims' assistance programs which are required by Article 15, Chapter 3, Title 16 and second priority must be given to programs which expand victims' services beyond those required by Article 15, Chapter 3, Title 16. All unused funds must be carried forward from year to year and used exclusively for the provision of services for victims of crime. All unused funds must be separately identified in the governmental entity's adopted budget as funds unused and carried forward from previous years. (E) To ensure that fines and assessments imposed pursuant to this section and Section 14-1-209(A) are properly collected and remitted to the State Treasurer, the annual independent external audit required to be performed for each county pursuant to Section 4-9-150 must include a review of the accounting controls over the collection, reporting, and distribution of fines and assessments from the point of collection to the point of distribution and a Uniform Supplemental Schedule Form detailing all fines and assessments collected by the clerk of court for the court of general sessions, the amount remitted to the county treasurer, and the amount remitted to the State Treasurer. (1) To the extent that records are made available in the format determined pursuant to subsection (E)(4), the Uniform Supplemental Schedule Form developed by the Office of the Attorney General, South Carolina Crime Victim Services Division, must be used by all counties and municipalities and must include the following elements: (a) all fines collected by the clerk of court for the court of general sessions; (b) all assessments collected by the clerk of court for the court of general sessions; (c) the amount of fines retained by the county treasurer; (d) the amount of assessments retained by the county treasurer; (e) the amount of fines and assessments remitted to the State Treasurer pursuant to this section; and (f) the total funds, by source, allocated to victim services activities, how those funds were expended, and any balances carried forward. (2) The Uniform Supplemental Schedule Form must be included in the external auditor's report as required by generally accepted auditing standards when information accompanies the basic financial statements in auditor submitted documents. (3) Within thirty days of issuance of the audited financial statement, the county must submit to the State Treasurer a copy of the audited financial statement and a statement of the actual cost associated with the preparation of the Uniform Supplemental Schedule Form required in this subsection. Upon submission to the State Treasurer, the county may retain and pay from the fines and assessments collected pursuant to this section the actual expense charged by the external auditor for the preparation of the Uniform Supplemental Schedule Form required in this subsection, not to exceed one thousand dollars each year. (4) The clerk of court and county treasurer shall keep records of fines and assessments required to be reviewed pursuant to this subsection in the format determined by the county council and make those records available for review. Effect of Amendment 2017 Act No. 96, Pt. II, SECTION 4.D, in (C)(5), substituted "Office of the Attorney General, South Carolina Crime Victim Services Division, Department of Crime Victim Compensation, Victim Compensation Fund" for "State Office of Victim Assistance"; and in (D), substituted "Article 15, Chapter 3, Title 16" for "Article 15 of Title 16" in three places. 2017 Act No. 96, Pt. III, SECTION 12.A, in (E), substituted "Uniform Supplemental Schedule Form" for "supplementary schedule"; in (E)(1), substituted "Uniform Supplemental Schedule Form developed by the Office of the Attorney General, South Carolina Crime Victim Services Division," for "supplementary schedule", and inserted "be used by all counties and municipalities and must"; in (E)(2), substituted "Uniform Supplemental Schedule Form" for "supplementary schedule", and deleted "by an 'in relation to' paragraph" following "report"; and, in (E)(3), substituted "Uniform Supplemental Schedule Form" for "supplementary schedule" twice.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-1-203 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-203
SECTION 14-1-203. Revenues from spousal and dependent children support actions.
Status: in_force

The revenue from the fee set in Section 63-3-370(C) must be remitted to the county in which the proceeding is instituted. Forty-four percent of the revenues must be remitted monthly by the fifteenth day of each month to the State Treasurer on forms in a manner prescribed by him. When payment is made to the county in installments, the state's portion must be remitted to the State Treasurer by the county treasurer on a monthly basis. The forty-four percent remitted to the State Treasurer must be deposited as follows: (1) 43.76 percent to the general fund; (2) 10.04 percent to the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities to be used exclusively for the treatment and rehabilitation of drug addicts within the Office of Mental Health's addiction center facilities; (3) 6.20 percent to the Office of the Attorney General, South Carolina Crime Victim Services Division, Department of Crime Victim Compensation, Victim Compensation Fund; and (4) 40.00 percent to the South Carolina Judicial Department. Code Commissioner's Note At the direction of the Code Commissioner, certain references in the S.C. Code to the State Department of Mental Health, South Carolina Mental Health Commission, Department of Disabilities and Special Needs, Department of Disabilities and Special Needs Commission, Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services, and other related terms were changed to reflect the restructuring of these agencies into component offices under the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, pursuant to 2025 Act No. 3, SECTION 18. Effect of Amendment 2017 Act No. 96, Pt. II, SECTION 4.A, in (3), substituted "Office of the Attorney General, South Carolina Crime Victim Services Division, Department of Crime Victim Compensation, Victim Compensation Fund" for "State Office of Victim Assistance under the South Carolina Victim's Compensation Fund".
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-1-10 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-10
SECTION 14-1-10. "Property" defined.
Status: in_force

The word "property," as used in this Title, includes property, real and personal.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-5-320 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 5 / Article 5 / Section 14-5-320
SECTION 14-5-320. Contempt of court.
Status: in_force

The circuit court may punish by fine or imprisonment, at the discretion of the court, all contempts of authority in any cause or hearing before the same.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-420 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 3 / Section 14-7-420
SECTION 14-7-420. Attendance and service in court of common pleas by jurors summoned to attend and serve in court of general sessions.
Status: in_force

In cases where the law provides for the opening and holding of the court of common pleas during the week in which a term of the court of general sessions is or may be held in any county, the jurors summoned to attend and serve in the court of general sessions shall also attend and serve as jurors in any court of common pleas. Editor's Note Provisions relative to the term of an extra or special panel drawn as a result of disqualification of jury commissioners, which formerly appeared in this section, can now be found in SECTION 14-7-350. For a local law making this section inapplicable to Charleston County, see Local Law Index.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-13-20 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 13 / Section 14-13-20
SECTION 14-13-20. Official reporter shall be responsible for maintaining records; proceeding may be recorded on discs or belts, or by direct electronic recordings.
Status: in_force

The official reporter of each judicial circuit or county court having criminal jurisdiction shall be charged with full responsibility for compiling, indexing, filing and safely keeping the records permanently. The reporter may record the proceedings onto discs or belts of a type which will preserve the record permanently, with discs or belts being filed as the permanent record of proceedings or by direct electronic recordings supplemented by either shorthand or stenotype.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-3-350 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Article 3 / Section 14-3-350
SECTION 14-3-350. Power of individual justices at chambers; appeal.
Status: in_force

Each of the justices of the Supreme Court shall have the same power at chambers to administer oaths, issue writs of habeas corpus, mandamus, quo warranto, certiorari and prohibition and interlocutory writs or orders of injunction as when in open court. But an appeal shall be allowed from the decision of any such justice to the Supreme Court.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-25-155 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 25 / Article 1 / Section 14-25-155
SECTION 14-25-155. Composition of jury list.
Status: in_force

(A) The jury list of the municipality must be composed of all names on the jury list prepared by the jury commissioners from the latest official list furnished to the municipality by the State Election Commission each year in the manner prescribed in Section 14-25-130. (B) Compartment "A" of the jury box shall contain a separate ballot or number for each name on the jury list.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-350 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 3 / Section 14-7-350
SECTION 14-7-350. Term of extra or special panel.
Status: in_force

The extra or special panel may be discharged as soon as the need for it ceases. Editor's Note Prior Laws: Former SECTION14-7-350 was titled Supplying deficiency in number of jurors in counties of between 50,000 and 53,000 population, and had the following history: 1962 Code SECTION 38-72.2; 1958 (50) 1994; omitted by 1986 Act No. 340, SECTION 1.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-15-30 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 15 / Article 1 / Section 14-15-30
SECTION 14-15-30. Duties of stenographers.
Status: in_force

Every stenographer so appointed, under the direction of the presiding judge of his circuit, shall take full stenographic notes of all proceedings including the rulings and charge of the court in every trial thereat. In case the presiding judge or the solicitor, for use in criminal cases, shall require a transcript of such stenographic notes the stenographer shall furnish the same written out in full.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-17-530 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 17 / Article 5 / Section 14-17-530
SECTION 14-17-530. Filing and endorsement of papers.
Status: in_force

The original papers of record in each cause wherein judgment may be signed or confessed or decree may be entered shall be filed according to the number of enrollment in the book of abstracts of judgments or decrees, placing all the papers in each cause together. Original papers in the sessions shall be filed according to the term at which they were disposed of, alphabetically arranged for each term according to defendants' names, all relating to the same cause together. Other papers required to be returned to or kept in the office shall be endorsed with the character, date of filing and number on file, numbering each kind from one onward and keeping all relating to the same matters together under the same number, and shall be filed according to date and number in appropriate boxes with suitable labels, put up in packages and dated according to the year in which they may be filed. Upon the envelope or card there shall be an endorsement of the description or kind of papers therein and reference to number under the following heads: Bonds in attachment, bonds of constables, certificates from the Supreme Court, appeals, commissions, inquests by the coroner, reports, etc., de lunatico inquirendo, naturalization, venire facias, dower, partition, escheats, affidavits, attachments for contempt and rules and sessions papers disposed of to be transferred after judgment when authorized. The following endorsements shall be made upon the record when the proceedings warrant it: (1) On the judgment roll, the date when filed, number on docket, date and amount of judgment in figures, amount of taxed cost, judgment when signed, execution, date of issuing and, at the top at some conspicuous place, the number roll; (2) On bills of indictment, the date and character of filing by grand jury, number on docket, arraignment, verdict or other disposition, date, amount of tax costs, execution, date of issuing and kind; and (3) On all papers returned by magistrates in the sessions their character and date of filing. On every execution before it leaves the clerk's office, shall be endorsed, near the top, the number roll or, if in the sessions, the term under which the case is filed and, in all instances when an execution is returned for renewal, the fact and date of such renewal shall be endorsed on the execution so returned and on the renewed execution shall be endorsed the date when first execution was lodged in the sheriff's office. All original papers in dower, partition of real estate and inquisitions shall be filed according to number roll, the papers pertaining to each case being placed together and the number roll plainly endorsed on the envelope or outside paper and also the book and page of record.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-11-40 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 14-11-40
SECTION 14-11-40. Accounting for fees and costs received.
Status: in_force

All fees and costs received and recovered by any master-in-equity shall be accounted for and paid into the general fund of the county as directed by the governing body thereof.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-3-100 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 14-3-100
SECTION 14-3-100. Effect of lack of quorum.
Status: in_force

If at any stated term of the court a quorum thereof shall not attend on the first day of the term, the justice or justices attending may adjourn the court from day to day for ten days after the time appointed for the commencement of the term, unless a quorum shall sooner attend or unless a sufficient number of men learned in the law, commissioned by the Governor as provided in Section 14-3-60, to make a quorum, shall sooner attend, and the business of the court shall not in such case be continued over to the next stated term thereof until the expiration of such ten days.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-11-150 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 14-11-150
SECTION 14-11-150. Master may sell lands in another county.
Status: in_force

Whenever the court of common pleas in any county shall have acquired jurisdiction over real estate lying in another county the master for the county in which the action is brought may sell such real estate in the county in which the land is situated and all such sales heretofore made, otherwise valid and not appealed from, are hereby confirmed.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-1-40 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-40
SECTION 14-1-40. "Clerk" defined.
Status: in_force

The word "clerk", as used in this title, signifies the clerk of the court where the action is pending and, in the Supreme Court or court of appeals, the clerk of the county mentioned in the title of the complaint or in another county to which the court may have changed the place of trial, unless otherwise specified.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-23-440 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 23 / Article 3 / Section 14-23-440
SECTION 14-23-440. Sheriff or constable shall execute orders or process.
Status: in_force

Any sheriff or constable in this State shall execute the orders or process of such court in the same manner as the orders or process of the circuit or Supreme Courts.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-1060 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 9 / Section 14-7-1060
SECTION 14-7-1060. Procedures to be employed by clerk to draw jury panel.
Status: in_force

If a computer is not used for the drawing of jurors pursuant to the provisions of Section 14-7-140, the clerk shall write or cause the names of the jurors in attendance to be written, each on a separate paper or ballot which must be white and plain, which must resemble each other as much as possible, and which must be so folded that the name written thereon is not visible on the outside. The clerk shall place each of the ballots or separate papers in a separate, small opaque capsule or container, which must be as uniform in size, shape, and color as possible at the time of original purchase or repurchase of the capsules or containers. Whenever a jury panel of twenty is to be drawn, these capsules or containers must be placed in a small rotating drum, cylindrical in shape, having a handle at the end thereof and resting on such supports that it can be turned by means of the handle, the drum, capsules, and other equipment to be furnished by the jury commissioners and approved by the resident judge. When the containers or capsules have been placed in the drum, it must be completely closed and securely fastened and rotated by means of the handle for a sufficient length of time necessary for a complete mixing of the containers or capsules and the required number of jurors must then be drawn, one by one, by a responsible and impartial person designated by the clerk of court, with the approval of the presiding judge. The names of the jurors so drawn must be returned to the capsules and replaced in the drum when the jurors are no longer actually engaged in service on a trial jury. Editor's Note Provisions requiring objections for cause prior to striking and requiring the clerk to furnish an additional list of jurors if disqualifications are discovered after the jury has been struck, which formerly appeared in this section, can now be found in SECTION 14-7-1070.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-23-410 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 23 / Article 3 / Section 14-23-410
SECTION 14-23-410. Prerequisites to issuance of executions.
Status: in_force

No execution shall be issued by any judge of probate to enforce the collection of money under any order or decree of a court of probate until an abstract or brief has been prepared and filed according to the direction of Sections 14-23-360 and 14-23-370, the proper minute thereof has been entered in the index of money decrees and the proper transcript of such minute has been filed in the office of the clerk of the circuit court for such county and entered upon the calendar of judgments of the court of common pleas kept in his office.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-1-209 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-209
SECTION 14-1-209. Payment of fine and assessment in installments.
Status: in_force

(A) If a payment for a fine and assessment levied in the circuit court is made in installments, the clerk of court must treat sixty-two percent of each installment as payment for a fine and distribute it pursuant to Section 14-1-205 and thirty-eight percent of each installment as payment for an assessment and distribute it pursuant to Section 14-1-206. (B) If a payment for a fine and assessment levied in the magistrate's court is made in installments, the magistrate must treat 47 percent of each installment as payment for an assessment and distribute it pursuant to Section 14-1-207. (C) If a payment for a fine and assessment levied in the municipal court is made in installments, the municipal court judge must treat 40 percent of each installment as payment for an assessment and distribute it pursuant to Section 14-1-208.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-1070 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 9 / Section 14-7-1070
SECTION 14-7-1070. Objections for cause to be made before striking; requirement of additional jury list where disqualifications are discovered after striking.
Status: in_force

When the list is prepared by the clerk and presented to the parties or their attorneys, objection for cause must be made before striking, and if the objection is sustained, the clerk shall fill up the list before it is stricken. If, after the jury has been struck as provided, it is discovered that any one or more of the jurors whose names remain upon the jury list are disqualified for any cause, the clerk shall furnish the parties or their attorneys with an additional list of three times as many jurors as may be found to be disqualified, to be drawn as the first list was drawn, from which the parties or their attorneys shall alternately strike, until there is left the number necessary to impanel the panel. Editor's Note Provisions relative to the effect of a jury's delay in rendering a verdict, which formerly appeared in this section, can now be found in SECTION 14-7-1080.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-845 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 7 / Section 14-7-845
SECTION 14-7-845. Postponement of jury service for students and school employees.
Status: in_force

(A) If a student selected for jury service during the school term requests, his service must be postponed to a date that does not conflict with the school term. For purposes of this subsection, a student is a person enrolled in high school or an institution of higher learning, including technical college. (B) If a public or private school employee, a person primarily responsible for the elementary or secondary education of a child in a home or charter school, or a person who is an instructor at an institution of higher learning including a technical college, selected for jury service during the school term requests, his service must be postponed to a date that does not conflict with the school term. For purposes of this subsection, a "school employee" is a person employed as a teacher, certified personnel at the building level, or bus driver by a school, a school system, or a school district offering educational programs to grades K-12 and to institutions of higher learning, including technical colleges. For purposes of this subsection, "school term" means the instructional school year, generally from September first until May thirtieth or not more than one hundred ninety days. (C) A person selected for jury service who requests a postponement pursuant to subsection (A) or (B) must provide evidence of school enrollment or employment, or evidence of educational responsibilities during a home or charter school term coinciding with the dates of jury duty.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-5-350 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 5 / Article 5 / Section 14-5-350
SECTION 14-5-350. Powers of judges at chambers generally; place of hearing.
Status: in_force

All regular and special judges shall have at chambers in any county within the circuit in which they are resident or in the circuit in which they are assigned to hold court all powers and jurisdiction which they have and exercise in open court in any county within such circuit, except for the determination of such matters as necessitate trial by jury. They may hear and determine actions for partition and foreclosure suits and all other equity matters concerning real estate whether within or without the county where the land in question lies. But no hearing, except with consent, shall be had outside the judicial circuit of the judge having jurisdiction.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-2-40 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 2 / Section 14-2-40
SECTION 14-2-40. Jurisdiction, duties and functions of magistrates and municipal courts unaffected.
Status: in_force

Except as provided in Section 22-3-10, the provisions of 1976 Act No. 690, as codified in this title and elsewhere in this Code, shall not affect the jurisdiction, duties or functions of the magistrate and municipal courts of this State. Editor's Note 1976 Act No. 690 adds new Code SECTIONS 1-7-325, 1-7-405, 1-7-570 to 1-7-670, 14-2-10 et seq., 14-21-410 to 14-21-500, and 14-23-1010 to 14-23-1150; amends existing Code SECTIONS 14-5-610, 14-21-140, 14-21-510, 14-21-1020, and 22-3-10; and contains sections appearing as Editor's Notes at Chapter 9 of Title 14, Chapter 11 of Title 14, Chapter 13 of Title 15, and SECTIONS 14-2-10, 14-2-20, 14-21-410 and 14-21-425.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-23-1110 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 23 / Article 9 / Section 14-23-1110
SECTION 14-23-1110. Practice of law by judges or associate judges.
Status: in_force

No judge or associate judge of probate shall act as attorney or counsel or receive fees as such in any matter pending or originating in his court.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-11-70 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 14-11-70
SECTION 14-11-70. Limitation on practice of law.
Status: in_force

No person while he holds the office of full time master shall practice or be a partner with anyone engaged in the practice of law in this State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-23-700 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 23 / Article 5 / Section 14-23-700
SECTION 14-23-700. Liability of retiring judge or representative for failure to account; appropriation of damages.
Status: in_force

Every judge of probate retiring from office, or his representatives, shall be liable to an action, in the name of his successor, for damages for any books, papers or furniture proved to have been in his possession but not appearing by such receipt to have been transferred to his successor. Such damages, when recovered, shall be appropriated to the replacing of such books, papers or furniture or to the benefit of the parties who may have been injured by the loss thereof and an order for appropriating such damages shall be made by the court before which such action may be tried.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-1-150 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-150
SECTION 14-1-150. Contempt of court; offenders to be heard.
Status: in_force

In case any person shall commit any misbehavior or contempt in any court of judicature in this State, by word or gesture, the judges of such court may set a fine on such offender in any sum not exceeding fifty dollars, for the use of this State, and may commit the offender till payment. But if any person shall in the presence and during the sitting of the court strike or use any violence therein, such person shall be fined at the discretion of the court and shall be committed till payment; provided, that no citizen of this State shall be sent to jail for any contempt of court or supposed contempt of court, committed during the sitting of the court and in disturbance of the court, until he be brought before the court and there be heard by himself or counsel or shall stand mute.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-1040 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 9 / Section 14-7-1040
SECTION 14-7-1040. Juror's liability to pay taxes not cause of challenge.
Status: in_force

In indictments and penal actions for the recovery of sum of money or other thing forfeited, it is not a cause of challenge to a juror that he is liable to pay taxes in any county, city, or town which may be benefited by recovery.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-1-230 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-230
SECTION 14-1-230. Recording of monthly submissions by State Treasurer; location and utilization of funds.
Status: in_force

The State Treasurer shall record, before the last day of that same month, the total monthly submissions of monies from the respective county treasurers and municipal clerks of courts, and the Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services shall deposit these monies into a separate and restricted account. Funds deposited to this account shall remain in the account from fiscal year to fiscal year and shall be available to the General Assembly for appropriation to programs established pursuant to Chapter 21 of Title 24.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-5-420 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 5 / Article 5 / Section 14-5-420
SECTION 14-5-420. Transacting common pleas business during general sessions court.
Status: in_force

The court of common pleas shall be open at all terms of the court of general sessions for the transaction of all business of regular terms of the court of common pleas except trial by jury, and cases in the court of common pleas may be tried by jury during the term of any court of general sessions on consent of the parties or their attorneys to any of such cases and when such trial does not conflict with the business of the court of general sessions.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-11-110 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 14-11-110
SECTION 14-11-110. Master shall take testimony on application of party; procedure.
Status: in_force

The master shall, upon the application of either party to any cause or proceedings in which equitable relief is demanded pending and at issue in his county, take in writing the testimony of any witness who may be produced before him by any party to the cause, ten days' notice of such application having been given to the opposite party. Such witness shall be subject to the same examination, cross-examination and reply and the same exceptions as to the admissibility of testimony may be taken as are allowed by law upon examination before the court except that in case any testimony be objected to the master shall receive the same subject to the exceptions, reporting the exceptions and his ruling thereon.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-25-95 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 25 / Article 1 / Section 14-25-95
SECTION 14-25-95. Appeals to Court of Common Pleas; procedures and time limits.
Status: in_force

Any party shall have the right to appeal from the sentence or judgment of the municipal court to the Court of Common Pleas of the county in which the trial is held. Notice of intention to appeal, setting forth the grounds for appeal, must be given in writing and served on the municipal judge or the clerk of the municipal court within ten days after sentence is passed or judgment rendered, or the appeal is considered waived. The party appealing shall enter into a bond, payable to the municipality, to appear and defend the appeal at the next term of the Court of Common Pleas or shall pay the fine assessed. Editor's Note This section contains provisions dealing with matters formerly dealt with by SECTIONS 14-25-150 and 14-25-1000.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-5-370 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 5 / Article 5 / Section 14-5-370
SECTION 14-5-370. Jurisdiction of judge of adjoining circuit.
Status: in_force

In case any judicial circuit is without a resident judge, by reason of death, absence, disqualification or otherwise, and no other judge, special or regular, is presiding therein, then jurisdiction in all matters arising in such circuit is conferred upon and shall be exercised by the resident judge of any adjoining circuit or by any judge presiding therein. Any judge exercising such jurisdiction shall first satisfy himself of the necessity of doing so by affidavit of the moving party.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-1-204 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-204
SECTION 14-1-204. Distribution of filing fee paid for filing complaints or petitions in civil actions in a court of record.
Status: in_force

(A) The one-hundred-dollar-filing fee for documents and actions described in Section 8-21-310(C)(1) must be remitted to the county in which the proceeding is instituted, and fifty-six percent of these filing fee revenues must be delivered to the county treasurer to be remitted monthly by the fifteenth day of each month to the State Treasurer. When a payment is made to the county in installments, the state's portion must be remitted to the State Treasurer by the county treasurer on a monthly basis. The fifty-six percent of the one-hundred-dollar fee prescribed in Section 8-21-310(C)(1) remitted to the State Treasurer must be deposited as follows: (1) 31.52 percent to the state general fund; (2) 7.23 percent to the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities to be used exclusively for the treatment and rehabilitation of drug addicts within the Office of Mental Health's addiction center facilities; (3) 4.47 percent to the Office of the Attorney General, South Carolina Crime Victim Services Division, Department of Crime Victim Compensation, Victim Compensation Fund; (4) 26.78 percent to the Defense of Indigents Per Capita Fund, administered by the Commission on Indigent Defense, which shall then distribute these funds on December thirty-first and on June thirtieth of each year to South Carolina organizations that are grantees of the Legal Services Corporation, in amounts proportionate to each recipient's share of the state's poverty population; and (5) 30.00 percent to the South Carolina Judicial Department. (B)(1) There is added to the fee imposed pursuant to Section 8-21-310(C)(1) an additional fee equal to fifty dollars. One hundred percent of the revenue from this additional fee must be remitted to the State Treasurer on the monthly schedule provided in subsection (A). The revenues from this additional fee must be allocated in each fiscal year to the following agencies in the amounts specified: (a) Judicial Department—67.96 percent; (b) Commission on Indigent Defense, Defense of Indigents per capita—14.56 percent; (c) Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services—11.30 percent; (d) Prosecution Coordination Commission—4.37 percent; and (e) Commission on Indigent Defense, Division of Appellate Defense—1.81 percent. (2) Fee revenues allocated pursuant to this subsection are to be retained, expended, and carried forward by the agencies specified. Code Commissioner's Note At the direction of the Code Commissioner, certain references in the S.C. Code to the State Department of Mental Health, South Carolina Mental Health Commission, Department of Disabilities and Special Needs, Department of Disabilities and Special Needs Commission, Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services, and other related terms were changed to reflect the restructuring of these agencies into component offices under the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, pursuant to 2025 Act No. 3, SECTION 18. Effect of Amendment 2017 Act No. 96, Pt. II, SECTION 4.B, in (A), in (3) substituted "Office of the Attorney General, South Carolina Crime Victim Services Division, Department of Crime Victim Compensation, Victim Compensation Fund" for "State Office of Victim Assistance under the South Carolina Victim's Compensation Fund", and made a nonsubstantive change.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-25-180 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 25 / Article 1 / Section 14-25-180
SECTION 14-25-180. Essential service to business excuse.
Status: in_force

Upon furnishing an affidavit to the clerk of court requesting to be excused from jury duty, a person either may be excused or transferred to another term of court by the municipal judge if the person performs services for a business, commercial, or agricultural enterprise, and the person's services are so essential to the operations of the business, commercial, or agricultural enterprise that the enterprise must close or cease to function if the person is required to perform jury duty.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-15-80 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 15 / Article 1 / Section 14-15-80
SECTION 14-15-80. Compensation of stenographer appointed for special term of court.
Status: in_force

The stenographer appointed under the provision of Section 14-15-70 shall receive the same compensation as that allowed by law to the official stenographer in proportion to the time of service, to be paid out of the county treasury upon the warrant of the clerk of the court, approved by the presiding judge, and also the usual fees for copies of testimony and reports of court proceedings to be paid by the parties ordering the same.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-2-30 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 2 / Section 14-2-30
SECTION 14-2-30. Jurisdictions of certain courts abolished.
Status: in_force

Any court inferior to the circuit court which has other jurisdiction in addition to its jurisdiction which is granted to the family courts as provided by Section 14-2-10 shall continue to have such other jurisdiction, including civil, criminal, or both, until July 1, 1979.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-9-190 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 9 / Section 14-9-190
SECTION 14-9-190. Board of jury commissioners; procedures for selecting jurors; attendance; excuse or discharge.
Status: in_force

The board of jury commissioners as constituted by law in each of the counties of the State for the drawing of jurors for the circuit courts shall constitute the board of jury commissioners for the drawing of jurors to attend upon the sessions of the county court and the law relating to the qualifications, drawing and summoning of jurors for attendance upon the circuit courts shall apply to the qualifications, drawing and summoning of jurors for the county court, except that not more than eighteen person shall be drawn and summoned to attend at the same time at any session of the county court, unless the court shall otherwise order. Jurors drawn and summoned shall appear and attend upon the sessions of the county court for which summoned until excused or discharged by the judge presiding.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-5-740 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 5 / Article 7 / Section 14-5-740
SECTION 14-5-740. Terms of court in ninth circuit.
Status: in_force

The courts of the ninth judicial circuit shall be held as hereinafter provided. (1) Berkeley County. - The court of general sessions for Berkeley County shall be held at Moncks Corner on the second Monday in May and on the second Monday in October, in each case for one week. The court of common pleas for the county shall be held at Moncks Corner on the third Monday in March for one week, the second Monday in June for two weeks and on the fourth Monday in September for two weeks. (2) Charleston County. - The court of general sessions for Charleston County shall be held at Charleston on the first Monday in January for one week, on the first Monday in March for two weeks, on the fourth Monday in May for two weeks, on the second Monday in September for two weeks, and on the first Monday in December for two weeks. The court of common pleas for the county shall be held at Charleston on the second Monday in January for one week for the disposal of motions, equity matters, and any other matters not requiring the attendance of a jury, on the first Monday in February for four weeks for the disposal of jury matters, on the fourth Monday in March for five weeks for jury matters, on the second Monday in July for three weeks for jury matters and on the third Monday in October for six weeks, the first of which shall be for the disposal of motions, equity matters, and any other matters not requiring the attendance of a jury, and the remaining five weeks for the disposal of jury matters.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-9-20 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 9 / Section 14-9-20
SECTION 14-9-20. Form of question to be submitted.
Status: in_force

At any such election the question of the establishment of such a county court shall be submitted to the electors in this form: "Shall a county court be established for the county of __________?" inserting the name of the county in which the electors voting are resident. Upon this question the electors shall vote "Yes" or "No."
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-1615 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 15 / Section 14-7-1615
SECTION 14-7-1615. Definitions.
Status: in_force

For purposes of this article: (A) the phrase "Attorney General or his designee" also includes: (1) the Attorney General or his designees; (2) the Attorney General and his designee or designees. (B) The term "public corruption" means any unlawful activity, under color of or in connection with any public office or employment, of: (1) any public official, public member, or public employee, or the agent, servant, assignee, consultant, contractor, vendor, designee, appointee, representative, or any other person of like relationship, by whatever designation known, of any public official, public member, or public employee under color of or in connection with any public office or employment; or (2) any candidate for public office or the agent, servant, assignee, consultant, contractor, vendor, designee, appointee, representative of, or any other person of like relationship, by whatever name known, of any candidate for public office.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-3-940 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Article 9 / Section 14-3-940
SECTION 14-3-940. Establishment of Court Register; manner in which Supreme Court rules become effective.
Status: in_force

There shall be established a "Court Register" which shall be published and maintained in current status with all proposed and final form rules promulgated by the Supreme Court. The Register shall be the responsibility of the Court Administrator. The Court Administrator shall transmit to the clerk of court of each county and to the Legislative Council a copy of the Court Register and all additions thereto when published. All rules promulgated by the Supreme Court shall become effective in the following manner: (a) All rules governing the administration of all courts of the State shall become effective upon publication of such rules in the Court Register. (b) Rules governing the practice and procedure of all courts of the State shall become effective upon publication in the Court Register and review by the General Assembly pursuant to the provisions of Section 14-3-950.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-9-250 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 9 / Section 14-9-250
SECTION 14-9-250. Compensation of jurors and witnesses.
Status: in_force

Grand and petit jurors in attendance upon the sessions of the county court shall receive as a compensation for their services one dollar per day and five cents per mile for necessary travel in going to and returning from the county seat. Witnesses in attendance upon the county court shall receive the same compensation as witnesses in attendance upon the circuit court.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-27-50 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 27 / Section 14-27-50
SECTION 14-27-50. Vacancies.
Status: in_force

When a vacancy occurs, it shall be filled for the remainder of the term.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-23-320 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 23 / Article 3 / Section 14-23-320
SECTION 14-23-320. Power to commit to jail for refusal or neglect to perform order, sentence, or decree of court.
Status: in_force

If any person shall refuse or neglect to perform any lawful order, sentence or decree of a probate court, such court may issue a warrant, directed to any sheriff or constable in the State, requiring him to apprehend and imprison such person in the common jail of the county or, if there be no jail in the county, then in the jail of the adjoining county, until he shall perform such order, sentence or decree or be delivered by due course of law.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-3-810 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Article 7 / Section 14-3-810
SECTION 14-3-810. Duties of clerk with respect to opinions; fees when published in other than official reports.
Status: in_force

The clerk of the Supreme Court shall, upon the rendition of an opinion by the Supreme Court, deliver forthwith to the reporter of said court a certified copy of such decision made by the court, together with a copy of the printed arguments and the briefs of counsel, for use in publishing the South Carolina Reports. Should any copies furnished by the clerk be used in the publication of any other reports than the official series of South Carolina Reports the publisher shall pay the clerk the fees provided by law for copies of opinions.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-1-190 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-190
SECTION 14-1-190. Monies received by jurors constitute expense allowance.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any monies received by a person for service as a juror in any court of this State shall be considered an expense allowance for such service.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-17-60 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 17 / Article 1 / Section 14-17-60
SECTION 14-17-60. Deputy.
Status: in_force

The clerk may appoint a deputy or deputies to be approved by the court of common pleas, a record of whose appointment shall be made in the clerk's office. Before entering on the duties of his appointment such deputy must take the oath prescribed by the Constitution. When so qualified the deputy may do and perform any and all of the duties appertaining to the office of his principal. Such appointment shall be evidenced by a certificate thereof, signed by the clerk, and shall continue during his pleasure. He may take such bond and security from his deputy as he shall deem necessary to secure the faithful discharge of the duties of the appointment but shall in all cases be answerable for the neglect of duty or misconduct in office of his deputy.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-27-30 — SC Code / Title 14 / Chapter 27 / Section 14-27-30
SECTION 14-27-30. Chief Justice shall appoint certain members; other shall serve ex officio.
Status: in_force

(A) The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall appoint the following members to the Judicial Council: the two circuit court judges; the two family court judges; the two probate judges; the two summary court judges; the two masters-in-equity; the Attorney General or one of the Assistant Attorneys General or one of the circuit solicitors; the Dean or member of the faculty of the Law School of the University of South Carolina; one person recommended by the Charleston School of Law; and the six remaining members of the Judicial Council. (B) The President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House or their designees, the Chairmen of the Senate Finance Committee, House Ways and Means Committee, Senate Judiciary Committee, and House Judiciary Committee or their designees, the Director of the Legislative Council, and the President of the South Carolina Bar or his designee all serve ex officio. Effect of Amendment 2019 Act No. 1, SECTION 90, inserted the (A) and (B) designators; and in (B), substituted "The President of the Senate" for "The Lieutenant Governor".