S.C. Code Ann. § 5-21-690 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 21 / Article 7 / Section 5-21-690
SECTION 5-21-690. Place of payment.
Status: in_force

The bonds shall be made payable at such place or places, within or without the State, as the municipal council shall provide.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-15-50 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 15 / Section 5-15-50
SECTION 5-15-50. Establishment of municipal ward lines and time for general and special elections; public notice of elections.
Status: in_force

Each municipal governing body may by ordinance establish municipal ward lines and the time for general and special elections within the municipality. Public notice of the elections shall be given at least sixty days prior to such elections.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-1720 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 17 / Section 5-31-1720
SECTION 5-31-1720. Assessments for costs of extensions.
Status: in_force

Any municipality, as provided in SECTION 5-31-1710, may provide by ordinance for the payment of the costs of extending its water or sewer system, any one or both, to any property owner by assessments as herein provided.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-1150 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 9 / Section 5-25-1150
SECTION 5-25-1150. Repairs to roofs within fire limits.
Status: in_force

All repairs to roofs within the fire limits shall be by the use of incombustible materials.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-670 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 7 / Section 5-31-670
SECTION 5-31-670. Furnishing water for compensation; sewerage charge.
Status: in_force

Any city or town or special service district may, after acquiring a waterworks or sewer system, furnish water to persons for reasonable compensation and charge a minimum and reasonable sewerage charge for maintenance or construction of such sewerage system within such city or town or special service district.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-1510 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 15 / Section 5-31-1510
SECTION 5-31-1510. Extension and assessment therefor.
Status: in_force

Upon the written request of any property owner requesting the city or town to extend to him water and sewer service and agreeing to pay the cost thereof the city or town may provide such service and levy an assessment against the property of the owner so requesting such service for the costs thereof.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-15-110 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 15 / Section 5-15-110
SECTION 5-15-110. Filing with municipal election commission of nomination petition by candidates nominated by petition.
Status: in_force

Candidates for municipal offices in any partisan or nonpartisan general election nominated by petition shall file the necessary petition with the municipal election commission seventy-five days before the general election concerned. The commission shall examine the petition and determine its validity not later than sixty days before the general election concerned. A nomination petition must bear the signatures of not less than five percent of the qualified electors of the geographical area of the office for which he offers as a candidate.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-10 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 1 / Section 5-25-10
SECTION 5-25-10. Application of chapter.
Status: in_force

None of the provisions of this chapter, except SECTIONS 5-25-20, 5-25-40, and 5-25-160 to 5-25-210, shall apply to towns of less than five thousand inhabitants, nor shall any of the provisions of this chapter, except SECTIONS 5-25-20, 5-25-30, 5-25-40 and 5-25-160 to 5-25-210, apply to municipalities of five thousand or more inhabitants which shall have adopted the Southern Building Code by ordinance. Editor's Note Under the provisions of Chapter 34, Title 1, an agency is required to adopt the latest edition of a nationally recognized code which it is charged by statute or regulation with enforcing by giving notice in the State Register.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-340 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 5 / Section 5-25-340
SECTION 5-25-340. Right to enter premises.
Status: in_force

The local inspector shall at all times have the right to enter any dwelling, store or other building and premises to inspect them, without molestation from anyone. Provided, that a private dwelling or premise may not be entered without permission, unless there exists probable cause to believe that a violation of provisions respecting fire laws, or there exists imminent danger to the occupant thereof.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-39-240 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 39 / Article 5 / Section 5-39-240
SECTION 5-39-240. Receipt of gifts, devises, bequests and the like for care of graves.
Status: in_force

Any such commission may receive by gift, devise, bequest or settlement in trust any sum of money from any person turned over to it in trust to be invested and the income used in the upkeep and care of any grave or graves as may be then or thereafter designated by the person turning such fund over to it.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-360 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 5 / Section 5-25-360
SECTION 5-25-360. Quarterly inspections of premises within fire limits; reports.
Status: in_force

Once in every three months the inspector or his deputy shall make a personal inspection of every building and premises within the fire limits and shall especially inspect the basement and garret and he shall make such other inspections as may be required by the State Fire Marshal. He shall report to the city council and to the Marshal all defects found by him in any building and all dangerous conditions on premises upon a blank furnished by the Marshal. The inspector shall notify the owner or occupant of buildings of any defects and notify them to correct them within a reasonable time.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-3-300 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 3 / Section 5-3-300
SECTION 5-3-300. Annexation procedure.
Status: in_force

(A) In addition to other methods of annexation authorized by this chapter, any area which is contiguous to a municipality may be annexed to the municipality by the filing of a petition with the council signed by twenty-five percent or more of the qualified electors who are residents within the area proposed to be annexed. (B) The petition must contain a description of the area to be annexed, the signature of the qualified elector, the address of residence, and the act or code section pursuant to which the proposed annexation is to be accomplished. (C) If the municipal council finds that the petition has been signed by twenty-five percent or more of the qualified electors resident within the area proposed to be annexed, the council may certify that fact to the county election commission of the county in which the area is situated. Upon receipt of a written resolution certifying that the petition meets the requirements of this section, the county election commission shall order an election to be held within the area proposed to be annexed to the municipality on the question of extension of the corporate limits of the municipality by annexation of the area proposed to be annexed. (D) The election ordered pursuant to this section is a special election and not a municipal election and must be held, regulated, and conducted with the provisions prescribed by Chapters 13 and 17 of Title 7, except as otherwise provided in this section. The county election commission shall give at least thirty days' notice in a newspaper of general circulation within the area proposed to be annexed to the municipality. Registered qualified electors residing within the area proposed to be annexed to the municipality shall have the same qualifications to vote in this election as are required of registered qualified electors to vote in state and county general elections. At the election, the registered qualified electors residing within the area proposed to be annexed shall vote in a box or boxes to be provided for the purpose within the area proposed to be annexed by the county election commission. The county election commission shall certify the result of the election to the municipal council of the municipality. If a majority of the votes cast by the qualified electors of the area proposed to be annexed are in favor of the annexation, the council by written resolution must publish the result of the election. (E) After publishing the result of the election, the municipal council shall publish in a newspaper of general circulation within the municipality a notice which must contain: (1) a description of the area to be annexed; (2) the act or code section pursuant to which the proposed annexation is to be accomplished; (3) a statement that the qualified electors of the area to be annexed voted to be annexed to the municipality; and (4) a statement that the municipal council will approve the annexation of the area unless a petition signed by five percent or more of the qualified electors within the municipality is presented to the municipal council within thirty days from the date of the notice requesting that the municipal council order an election to be held within the municipality on the question of extension of the corporate limits by annexation of the area proposed to be annexed. (F) The municipal council may give final reading approval to an ordinance declaring the area annexed not less than thirty days from the date of the publication of the notice required by subsection (E). However, if within thirty days from the date of the publication of the notice required by subsection (E), a petition signed by five percent or more of the qualified electors within the municipality is presented to the municipal council requesting an election to be held within the municipality on the question of extension of the corporate limits by annexation of the area proposed to be annexed, the municipal council shall delay final reading approval of the ordinance declaring the area annexed until the results of the election within the municipality are published. (G) If within thirty days from the date of the publication of the notice required by subsection (E), a petition is presented to the municipal council requesting an election to be held within the municipality on the question of extension of the corporate limits by annexation of the area proposed to be annexed, the municipal council, after verifying that at least five percent of the qualified electors within the municipality have signed the petition, shall certify that fact to the municipal election commission and order an election. The election ordered pursuant to this subsection is a municipal election and must be held, regulated, and conducted by the municipal election commission pursuant to provisions prescribed by Chapters 13 and 17 of Title 7, except as otherwise provided in this subsection. The municipal election commission shall give at least thirty days' notice prior to the date set for the election by publishing the notice in a newspaper of general circulation within the municipality. Registered qualified electors residing within the municipality shall have the same qualifications to vote in this election as are required of registered qualified electors to vote in the state and county general elections. The municipal election commission shall certify the result of the election to the municipal council. (H) If a majority of the votes cast by the qualified electors of the municipality are in favor of the annexation, the council shall give final reading approval to the ordinance declaring the area annexed. If a majority of the votes cast by the qualified electors of the municipality are in opposition to the annexation, the municipal council shall publish the result of the election and table the proposed ordinance. (I) When the procedure for annexation provided for in this section is followed, any freeholder owning real property in the area to be annexed equal to twenty-five percent or more of the total assessed value of all real property of the area proposed to be annexed and any freeholder owning agricultural real property in the area to be annexed shall receive written notice of the proposed annexation by certified mail, return receipt requested, from the municipal clerk. Unless the freeholder files written notice with the municipal clerk at least ten days before the election provided for in subsection (D), the freeholder's property must be considered as part of the area proposed to be annexed for the purposes of the annexation election. If the freeholder files written notice objecting to the inclusion of his property in the area to be annexed with the municipal clerk at least ten days before the election provided for in subsection (D), the freeholder's property must be excluded from the area to be annexed. For purposes of this section, "agricultural real property" means: (1) land used to grow timber, if the size of the tract is ten acres or more. Tracts of timberland of less than ten acres which are contiguous to or are under the same management system as a tract of timberland which meets the minimum acreage requirement are treated as part of the qualifying tract. Tracts of timberland of less than ten acres are agricultural real property when they are owned in combination with other tracts of nontimberland agricultural real property that qualify as agricultural real property. For purposes of this item, tracts of timberland must be actively devoted to growing trees for commercial use; (2) all other agricultural real property, if the size of the tract is ten acres or more. Tracts of other than timberland of less than ten acres which are contiguous to a tract which meets the minimum acreage requirement are treated as part of the qualifying tract; (3) tracts of other than timberland not meeting the acreage requirement qualify if the freeholder reported at least one thousand dollars of gross farm income on his federal income tax return Schedule E or F for at least three of the five taxable years preceding the year of the annexation. The municipal clerk may require the freeholder (a) to give written authorization consistent with privacy laws allowing the clerk to verify farm income from the South Carolina Department of Revenue or the Internal Revenue Service and (b) to provide the Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) farm identification number of the tract and allow verification with the ASCS office.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-7-220 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 7 / Section 5-7-220
SECTION 5-7-220. Appointment and duties of municipal clerk.
Status: in_force

The council under the council and mayor-council forms of government or city manager under the council-manager form shall appoint an officer of the municipality who shall have the title of municipal clerk. The municipal clerk shall give notice of council meetings to its members and the public, keep the minutes of its proceedings and perform such other duties as are assigned by council.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-37-30 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 37 / Section 5-37-30
SECTION 5-37-30. Improvements authorized; funding sources.
Status: in_force

The governing body is authorized to acquire, own, construct, establish, install, enlarge, improve, expand, operate, maintain and repair, and sell, lease, and otherwise dispose of any improvement and to finance such acquisition, construction, establishment, installation, enlargement, improvement, expansion, operation, maintenance, and repair, in whole or in part, by the imposition of assessments in accordance with this chapter, by special district bonds, by general obligation bonds of the municipality, by revenue bonds of the municipality, or from general revenues from any source not restricted from such use by law, or by any combination of such funding sources. In addition to any other authorization provided herein or by other law, the governing body of a municipality may issue its special district bonds or revenue bonds of the municipality under such terms and conditions as the governing body may determine by ordinance subject to the following: such bonds may be sold at public or private sale for such price as is determined by the governing body; such bonds may be secured by a pledge of and be payable from the assessments authorized herein or any other source of funds not constituting a general tax as may be available and authorized by the governing body; such bonds may be issued pursuant to and secured under the terms of a trust agreement or indenture with a corporate trustee and the ordinance authorizing such bonds or trust agreement or indenture pertaining thereto may contain provisions for the establishment of a reserve fund, and such other funds or accounts as are determined by the governing body to be appropriate to be held by the governing body or the trustee. The proceeds of any bonds may be applied to the payment of the costs of any improvements, including expenses associated with the issuance and sale of the bonds and any costs for planning and designing the improvements or planning or arranging for the financing and any engineering, architectural, surveying, testing, or similar costs or expenses necessary or appropriate for the planning, designing, and construction or implementation of any plan in connection with the improvements.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-15-160 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 15 / Section 5-15-160
SECTION 5-15-160. Term of office of commissioner of public works may be extended.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, a municipal council is authorized by ordinance to provide that the term of office of any commissioner of public works of any municipality of this State which now expires at a time other than the time of the general election for municipal officials in such municipality shall be extended until fifteen days after the general election for municipal officials of such municipality next succeeding the expiration of such commissioner's present term of office. No municipal council shall adopt an ordinance as provided by this section unless it has been requested by the Board of Commissioners of Public Works of such municipality. The term of office of each succeeding commissioner shall be for a period of six years, and until his successor is elected and qualified.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-7-10 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 7 / Section 5-7-10
SECTION 5-7-10. Scope of chapter.
Status: in_force

The provisions of this chapter provide for the structure, organization, powers, duties, functions and responsibilities of municipalities under all forms of municipal government provided for in Chapters 9, 11 and 13 unless otherwise specifically provided for in those chapters. The powers of a municipality shall be liberally construed in favor of the municipality and the specific mention of particular powers shall not be construed as limiting in any manner the general powers of such municipalities.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-15-30 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 15 / Section 5-15-30
SECTION 5-15-30. Procedure for changing number of or method of election of council members.
Status: in_force

If by action of a majority of council, or if fifteen percent of the registered municipal electors present to the municipal election commission a duly executed petition on which none of the signatures is more than six months old, in which an election is sought to change the number of council members to a number authorized by the form of government under which the municipality is then operating or to change the method of election of council members, then the municipal governing body shall call a referendum not later than ninety days nor earlier than thirty days after the petition has been certified and delivered to the governing body by the municipal election commission. A petition must be certified as valid or rejected by the municipal election commission within sixty days after it has been delivered to the commission. There may be only one question framed by the municipal governing body for the referendum in a format similar to that provided by Section 5-5-40, and no other election on the same question may be held for two years after that time. If more than one petition is received before publication of a notice of special election, the change sought in the petition bearing the highest number of qualified signatures must be submitted on the ballot. A change receiving a majority of the votes cast is effective at the next general election of the municipality.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-21-10 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 21 / Article 1 / Section 5-21-10
SECTION 5-21-10. Prerequisites to creating debts or endorsing or guaranteeing notes and the like in cities over 45,000.
Status: in_force

No city council of any city of over forty-five thousand inhabitants shall create any debt beyond the municipal income of the current year or endorse or guarantee the notes, bonds or obligations or accept the drafts of any person for any purpose whatsoever, unless the following terms and conditions be first observed and complied with: (1) A resolution declaring the intention of the city council to create such indebtedness or incur such liability and specifying the amount thereof shall first have been passed at a regular meeting of the city council by a vote of two thirds of the whole body; (2) The proposition, after being adopted in such manner by the city council, shall have been submitted to the qualified voters of the city at an election held under resolution of the city council after ninety days' notice thereof and two thirds of the number of qualified voters voting at such election shall have voted affirmatively; and (3) The proposition shall have been submitted to the General Assembly for approval and approved by the General Assembly.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-7-60 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 7 / Section 5-7-60
SECTION 5-7-60. Municipality authorized to perform any of its functions or to furnish any of its services; charges and financing.
Status: in_force

Any municipality may perform any of its functions, furnish any of its services, except services of police officers, and make charges therefor and may participate in the financing thereof in areas outside the corporate limits of such municipality by contract with any individual, corporation, state or political subdivision or agency thereof or with the United States Government or any agency thereof, subject always to the general law and Constitution of this State regarding such matters, except within a designated service area for all such services of another municipality or political subdivision, including water and sewer authorities, and in the case of electric service, except within a service area assigned by the Public Service Commission pursuant to Article 5 of Chapter 27 of Title 58 or areas in which the South Carolina Public Service Authority may provide electric service pursuant to statute. For the purposes of this section designated service area shall mean an area in which the particular service is being provided or is budgeted or funds have been applied for as certified by the governing body thereof. Provided, however, the limitation as to service areas of other municipalities or political subdivisions shall not apply when permission for such municipal operations is approved by the governing body of the other municipality or political subdivision concerned.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-3-140 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 3 / Section 5-3-140
SECTION 5-3-140. Alternate method when entire area proposed to be annexed owned by Federal or State Government.
Status: in_force

If the territory proposed to be annexed belongs entirely to the federal government or to the State of South Carolina and is adjacent to a municipality, it may be annexed upon the petition of the federal government or of the State to the city or town council thereof. As used in this section, a petition by the State shall mean a petition executed by the State Fiscal Accountability Authority. Upon agreement of the city or town council to accept the petition and the passage of an ordinance to that effect, the annexation is complete. Code Commissioner's Note At the direction of the Code Commissioner, references in this section to the offices of the former State Budget and Control Board, Office of the Governor, or other agencies, were changed to reflect the transfer of them to the Department of Administration or other entities, pursuant to the directive of the South Carolina Restructuring Act, 2014 Act No. 121, SECTION 5(D)(1), effective July 1, 2015.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-21-480 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 21 / Article 5 / Section 5-21-480
SECTION 5-21-480. Use of bonds in payment of taxes.
Status: in_force

The municipal council may provide in the proceedings taken in connection with the issuance of bonds that the bonds or the coupons, either or both, shall be receivable for taxes due to the municipality during the years in which they respectively mature.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-2510 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 25 / Section 5-31-2510
SECTION 5-31-2510. Definitions.
Status: in_force

For purposes of this article: (1) "Licensed health care provider" means a licensed medical doctor, physician's assistant, nurse practitioner, or advanced-practice registered nurse. (2) "Special needs account customer" means the account of a residential customer: (a) when the customer can furnish to the municipality furnishing electricity or natural gas to its citizens a certificate on a form provided by the municipality and signed by a licensed health care provider that states that termination of electric or gas service would be dangerous to the health of the customer or a member of his household at the premises to which electric or natural gas service is rendered; or (b) who suffers from Alzheimer's disease or dementia as certified by a licensed health care provider. Effect of Amendment The 2012 amendment in subsection (2), added the subsection identifiers, added subsection (b) relating to Alzheimer's disease, and made other nonsubstantive changes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-21-470 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 21 / Article 5 / Section 5-21-470
SECTION 5-21-470. Exemption from taxes.
Status: in_force

Bonds issued under this article shall be exempt from all State, county, municipal, school district and other taxes or assessments, direct or indirect, general or special, whether imposed for the purpose of general revenue or otherwise.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-37-40 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 37 / Section 5-37-40
SECTION 5-37-40. Establishment of improvement districts; written consent of owners.
Status: in_force

(A) If the governing body finds that: (1) improvements would be beneficial within a designated improvement district; (2) the improvements would preserve or increase property values within the district; (3) in the absence of the improvements, property values within the area would be likely to depreciate, or that the proposed improvements would be likely to encourage development in the improvement district; (4) the general welfare and tax base of the city would be maintained or likely improved by creation of an improvement district in the city; and (5) it would be fair and equitable to finance all or part of the cost of the improvements by an assessment upon the real property within the district, the governing body may establish the area as an improvement district and implement and finance, in whole or in part, an improvement plan in the district in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. However, except in the case of an improvement district in which the sole improvements are the widening and dredging of canals and waterways that are connected to canals as described in Section 48-39-130(D)(10), owner-occupied residential property that is taxed, or will be taxed pursuant to Section 12-43-220(c), must not be included within an improvement district unless the owner, at the time the improvement district is created, gives the governing body written permission to include the property within the improvement district. (B) If an improvement district is located in a redevelopment project area created pursuant to Chapter 6, Title 31, the improvement district being created under the provisions of this chapter must be considered to satisfy items (1) through (5) of subsection (A). The ordinance creating an improvement district may be adopted by a majority of council after a public hearing at which the plan is presented, including the proposed basis and amount of assessment, or upon written petition signed by a majority in number of the owners of real property within the district that is not exempt from ad valorem taxation as provided by law. However, except in the case of an improvement district in which the sole improvements are the widening and dredging of canals and waterways that are connected to canals as described in Section 48-39-130(D)(10), owner-occupied residential property that is taxed, or will be taxed pursuant to Section 12-43-220(c), must not be included within an improvement district unless the owner, at the time the improvement district is created, gives the governing body written permission to include the property within the improvement district. Effect of Amendment The 2005 amendment, in item (A)(5) and subsection (B), in the last sentence added "or will be taxed" and "at the time the improvement district is created". The two 2010 amendments, in subsection (A)(5) and subsection (B), inserted "except in the case of an improvement district in which the sole improvements are the widening and dredging of canals,"; in the second sentence of paragraph (A)(5) substituted "pursuant to" for "under"; in the first sentence of subsection (B), substituted "pursuant to Chapter 6, Title 31," for "under Title 31, Chapter 6,"; and in the third sentence of subsection (B) substituted "pursuant to" for "under". The 2012 amendment inserted "and waterways that are connected to canals as described in Section 48-39-130(D)(10)" and made other, nonsubstantive, changes in subsections (A)(5) and (B).
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-860 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 9 / Section 5-31-860
SECTION 5-31-860. Sewerage commission; expenditures.
Status: in_force

No such sewerage commission shall expend more money in enlarging, extending or establishing the system of sewerage than has been appropriated therefor, according to law. All payments for material furnished and work performed shall be made by the treasurer of the city or town council on warrants issued by the commission and approved by the city or town council.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-39-10 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 39 / Article 1 / Section 5-39-10
SECTION 5-39-10. Acquisition and operation of cemeteries authorized; police powers outside municipality.
Status: in_force

The city or town council of every incorporated city or town in this State may purchase or otherwise acquire, own, hold, operate, subdivide and develop cemeteries or burial grounds in or near such city or town and lands for cemeteries or burial grounds in or near such city or town and dispose of lots or portions of such cemeteries or burial grounds and lots or portions of such lands under such terms and conditions as the city or town council may prescribe. All police powers of any such municipality shall extend to any cemetery or burial ground owned, operated or controlled by the municipality which lies outside the incorporated limits thereof.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-5-30 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 5 / Section 5-5-30
SECTION 5-5-30. Determination of form of government by governing body effective until changed by election; subsequent elections.
Status: in_force

Until changed by an election, the selection of the form of government as initially determined by the governing body by ordinance shall remain effective. The ordinance selecting the form of government shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State who shall issue an appropriate certificate of incorporation to the municipality. No other such election shall be held for a period of four years after an election is held pursuant to SECTION 5-5-20.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-19-30 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 19 / Article 1 / Section 5-19-30
SECTION 5-19-30. Other duties of commissioners.
Status: in_force

The civil service commissioners shall give attention to the work of all the departments within the civil service of the city and make reports to the council and such publications to the public as they may deem proper.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-850 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 9 / Section 5-31-850
SECTION 5-31-850. Sewerage commission; contracts with member.
Status: in_force

No member of any such commission shall be permitted to enter into any contract with such commission for furnishing materials or for the construction of any of the work of such sewerage system.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-7-36 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 7 / Section 5-7-36
SECTION 5-7-36. Assessments for additional police, fire, and garbage services on residential property in improvement districts.
Status: in_force

No assessment for the Improvement District improvements may be made on residential property for additional police, fire, and garbage services therein which are part of the plan. Provided, further, no assessment may be assessed against real property which qualifies for exemption from ad valorem taxes as a historic fort pursuant to the statutes of South Carolina.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-27-360 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 27 / Article 5 / Section 5-27-360
SECTION 5-27-360. Notice of transfer of property before extinguishment of assessment lien.
Status: in_force

Such cities or towns may, by ordinance, require the grantor and grantee of any property or part thereof sold or transferred after such assessment has been laid thereon and before such assessment lien has been extinguished, as provided herein, to file in writing with the city or town clerk, within ten days after every such sale or transfer, the name of such grantor and grantee, an accurate description of the property sold or transferred and the date of such sale or transfer.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-21-270 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 21 / Article 5 / Section 5-21-270
SECTION 5-21-270. Action on petition.
Status: in_force

Upon the occasion fixed in the notice a meeting of the municipal council shall be held for the purpose of determining the sufficiency of the petition and action thereon shall be taken at such meeting or some adjournment thereof. If the municipal council shall find: (1) That the petition is signed by a majority of the freeholders of the municipality; (2) That it seeks the issuance of bonds for corporate purposes of the municipality; and (3) That it seeks the issuance of bonds in an amount not prohibited by any constitutional limitation; The municipal council shall order such an election.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-21-290 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 21 / Article 5 / Section 5-21-290
SECTION 5-21-290. Notice of the holding of the election.
Status: in_force

Notice of the holding of the election shall be published in some newspaper having general circulation in the municipality on not less than two occasions. The first publication shall appear not less than fifteen days prior to the occasion of the holding of the election and the second publication shall appear within the week prior to the election. Such notice shall specify: (1) The time of the holding of the election; (2) The location of the several polling places; (3) The qualifications imposed upon persons desirous of voting; (4) The amount of bonds to be issued; and (5) A brief description of the purposes for which the proceeds of the bonds are to be applied.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-21-800 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 21 / Article 7 / Section 5-21-800
SECTION 5-21-800. Bond holder's right to require levying of taxes and to enforce covenants.
Status: in_force

If the municipal council shall fail to levy the taxes required to be levied or to perform the covenants undertaken in the issuance of the bonds, any holder of any of the bonds or coupons may require the levy of such taxes and enforce the performance of such covenants by mandamus in any of the courts of this State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-1-40 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 1 / Section 5-1-40
SECTION 5-1-40. Joint Legislative Committee on Municipal Incorporation recommendation; submission of subsequent application.
Status: in_force

(A) The Joint Legislative Committee on Municipal Incorporation shall return the copy of filing to the Secretary of State with a written decision of its recommendation concerning the application for municipal incorporation. (B) The Secretary of State shall provide the applicant with a copy of the committee's written decision. (C) A recommendation by the committee or a determination by the Secretary of State that the requirements of Section 5-1-30 have not been met does not preclude the area seeking from submitting a subsequent application. Effect of Amendment The 2005 amendment rewrote this section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-870 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 7 / Section 5-25-870
SECTION 5-25-870. Restrictions as to openings in a roof for admission of light or air.
Status: in_force

All openings in roofs for the admission of light or air, other than those provided for in SECTIONS 5-25-660 and 5-25-680, shall have incombustible frames and sash glazed with wired glass, but ordinary glass may be used if protected above and below by galvanized steel wire screens with a mesh not exceeding one inch and the wire not smaller than No. 12 gauge. The top screen shall be installed as specified in SECTION 5-25-850.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-39-220 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 39 / Article 5 / Section 5-39-220
SECTION 5-39-220. Bond and compensation.
Status: in_force

The commissioners shall each give bond in such sum as the city or town council shall fix, the premiums therefor to be paid out of the funds left with them, each fund bearing its proportion of such expense. The commissioners shall receive no compensation except such as may be allowed the secretary and treasurer, to be paid by the city or town, and the position of commissioner shall not be such office as defined or held in this State to prevent the holding of any office or position of honor, profit or trust.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-380 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 5 / Section 5-25-380
SECTION 5-25-380. Procedure in case of defective or illegal construction.
Status: in_force

Whenever the inspector finds any defects in any new building or finds that such building is not being constructed or has not been constructed in accordance with the provisions of this chapter or that an old building, because of its condition, is dangerous and likely to cause fire, he shall notify the owner of such building of such defects or of such failure to comply with the provisions of this chapter and such owner or builder shall immediately remedy the defect and make the building comply with the provisions of this chapter. The owner or builder may appeal from the decision of the inspector to the city council.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-21-730 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 21 / Article 7 / Section 5-21-730
SECTION 5-21-730. Sale of bonds.
Status: in_force

Such bonds shall be sold at public sale, after advertisement of the sale in a newspaper having general circulation in the State or in a financial publication published in the city of New York or, in the discretion of the municipal council, in both such publications. Such advertisement shall appear not less than ten days prior to the occasion set for such sale. The bonds may be disposed of at private sale if there are no bids received or if all bids are rejected. The provisions of this section shall not prevent a sale at private sale to the United States or any agency thereof.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-7-290 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 7 / Section 5-7-290
SECTION 5-7-290. Municipal ordinances to be codified; public inspection.
Status: in_force

Each municipal council shall provide by ordinance for the codification and indexing of all ordinances, either typewritten or printed, and the maintenance of ordinances in a current form reflecting all amendments and repeals. All ordinances as codified shall be available for public inspection at reasonable times.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-37-80 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 37 / Section 5-37-80
SECTION 5-37-80. Assessments upon property owners.
Status: in_force

The financing of improvements by assessments, bonds, or other revenues, and the proportions thereof, shall be in the discretion of the governing body; and the rates of assessments upon property owners within the improvement district need not be uniform but may vary in proportion to improvements made immediately adjacent to or abutting upon the property of each owner therein, as well as other bases as provided in Section 5-37-20.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-5-20 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 5 / Section 5-5-20
SECTION 5-5-20. Petition or ordinance calling for special election to determine form of government after date of official council action.
Status: in_force

After the date of official council action if a petition executed by fifteen percent of the qualified electors is presented to the municipal governing body, certified by the county election commission, for an election to determine or change the form of government or if the municipal governing body shall by ordinance call for such an election, the municipal governing body shall conduct a special election not later than ninety days nor earlier than thirty days after the receipt of the certified petition or the passage of the council ordinance; provided, however, that no referendum shall be held pursuant to ordinance of the municipal council sooner than two years following the date the form of municipal government is initially selected pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-15-170 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 15 / Section 5-15-170
SECTION 5-15-170. Ratification of actions of commissioner.
Status: in_force

Any and all actions taken by a commissioner of public works whose term of office expired prior to the adoption of the ordinance provided for by SECTION 5-15-160 are ratified, validated and confirmed.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-7-280 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 7 / Section 5-7-280
SECTION 5-7-280. Adoption of standard codes or technical regulations in ordinances.
Status: in_force

The council may adopt any standard code or technical regulations authorized under SECTION 6-9-60 by reference thereto in the adopting ordinance; provided, that the council shall hold at least one public hearing before the adoption of any such standard code or technical regulations. The procedure and requirements governing such ordinance shall be as prescribed for ordinances listed in SECTION 5-7-260 and subject to the provisions of SECTION 5-7-270. Copies of any adopted code or technical regulations shall be made available by the municipal clerk for distribution or for purchase at a reasonable price.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-2320 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 23 / Section 5-31-2320
SECTION 5-31-2320. Authority to expend funds collected by front-foot or per-parcel assessments for sewer improvements.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a political subdivision by resolution or ordinance duly adopted may provide for the expenditure of funds collected by way of front-foot assessments or per-parcel assessments for sewer improvements in accordance with this article.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-1320 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 13 / Section 5-31-1320
SECTION 5-31-1320. Security from proposed purchaser.
Status: in_force

Prior to the ordering of such election, such city or town council may take from the proposed purchaser such security as it may deem sufficient for the performance of the offer of purchase in the event of its acceptance.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-770 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 7 / Section 5-25-770
SECTION 5-25-770. Combustible floors under coal ranges.
Status: in_force

Combustible floors under coal ranges and similar appliances without legs such as are mentioned in SECTION 5-25-780, in which hot fires are maintained, shall be protected by a sheet of metal or a one-eighth inch layer of asbestos building lumber, which shall be covered with not less than four inches of masonry set in cement mortar. Such masonry shall consist of one course of four-inch hollow terra cotta, at least one of which shall be hollowed and be laid to preserve a free circulation of air throughout the whole course. Concrete may be substituted for a course of solid brick if desired. The masonry work shall be covered by sheet metal of not less than No. 26 gauge, so arranged as not to obstruct the ventilating passages beneath. Such hearths shall extend at least twenty-four inches in front and twelve inches on the sides and back of the range or similar heating appliance. All coal stoves or ranges, with legs, shall be set on incombustible material, which shall extend at least twelve inches in front.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-7-145 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 7 / Section 5-7-145
SECTION 5-7-145. Lifeguard and safety services provided by coastal municipalities.
Status: in_force

(A) Each municipality bordering on the Atlantic Ocean is authorized to provide lifeguard and other safety related services on and along the public beaches within its corporate limits. A coastal municipality may enact and enforce regulations it determines necessary for the safety of all persons on the beach. (B) Lifeguard services may be provided using municipal employees or by service agreement with a private beach safety company. If the municipality elects to provide the services by an agreement with a private beach safety company, the following conditions apply: (1) the municipality shall follow the procedures of the State Procurement Code, as found in Chapter 35 of Title 11, or the procedures of the municipal procurement code, in the awarding of contracts with private beach safety companies; (2) the agreement between the municipality and private beach safety company may last no longer than seven years; (3) the municipality may grant the exclusive right to the beach safety company to rent only the beach equipment and to sell only the items to the public on the beach that are allowed by the municipality on the effective date of this section; provided, however, that on and after the effective date of this section there shall be no granting of the right to rent any additional tangible items, or to sell any beverages to the public on the beach, or otherwise, unless and until additional personnel are hired for the additional rentals and additional activities sufficient in number so that employees already employed on the effective date of this section will not be unduly burdened as determined by the appropriate municipal governing body; (4) lifeguard personnel employed by the private beach safety company must be tested and certified as required by the municipality; and (5) the conduct of the limited commercial activities granted to the private beach safety company shall not prevent or interfere in a substantial way with the peaceful, recreational use of the public beach by the general public. (C) Nothing in this section enlarges, restricts, or infringes upon the existing rights of the owners of private property adjacent to the public beaches.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-470 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 5 / Section 5-25-470
SECTION 5-25-470. Fees for inspections; compensation of inspectors.
Status: in_force

For every inspection of a new building or of an old building repaired or altered the following fees shall be charged: Two dollars for each mercantile store room, livery stable or building for manufacturing of one story, and fifty cents per room. But the inspection fee shall in no case exceed five dollars. Before issuing any building permit such fee shall be paid to the city treasurer. The building inspector shall be paid adequate compensation by the city or town for inspections made under the terms of this chapter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-840 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 7 / Section 5-25-840
SECTION 5-25-840. Door openings in stair and elevator enclosures.
Status: in_force

All door openings in stair and elevator enclosures shall be protected by fire doors mounted with wrought iron or steel hardware and shall be securely attached to the wall or partition or to substantial incombustible frames anchored thereto. If glass panels be used in such doors, they shall be of wired glass not exceeding seven hundred and twenty square inches in area. Interior shaft windows shall not be permitted. Doors opening into stairway shafts shall swing in the direction of exit travel, shall be self-closing and shall be at least thirty-six inches wide. If in the opinion of the inspector or other designated official it is necessary to preserve an open elevator or hoistway in a building in existence on February 20 1917, the floor opening through which it passes shall be equipped with automatically closing trap doors not less than one and one-half inches thick, made of two thicknesses of matched boards, covered on the under side with tin. Such trap doors, when closed, shall extend beyond the openings on all sides. Such trap doors shall be protected by a substantial guard or gate, which shall be kept closed at all times except when in actual use.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-3-10 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 3 / Section 5-3-10
SECTION 5-3-10. Power to extend corporate limits.
Status: in_force

Any city or town council may extend the corporate limits of the municipality in the manner set forth in this chapter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-3-314 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 3 / Section 5-3-314
SECTION 5-3-314. Obligation may not be disturbed.
Status: in_force

In no event under any plan or otherwise may the obligation between the district and its general obligation bondholders or, in the case of a special tax or assessment district, the obligation between the district and the holders of the county bonds issued on its behalf, be disturbed. If adequate provision is not made for the levy of taxes or for payment of the principal and interest on such bonds, it is the duty of the auditor of the county to levy, and of the treasurer of the county to collect, an ad valorem tax, without limit as to rate or amount, upon all taxable property within the district as it was constituted on the dates those bonds were issued sufficient to pay principal and interest as they become due. Only bondholders or agents or trustees acting on their behalf may proceed at law or in equity to enforce this requirement.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-15-10 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 15 / Section 5-15-10
SECTION 5-15-10. Municipal primary, general and special elections conducted mutatis mutandi.
Status: in_force

Municipal primary, general and special elections shall be conducted pursuant to Title 7, mutatis mutandi, except as otherwise provided for specifically in Chapters 1 through 17.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-1120 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 11 / Section 5-31-1120
SECTION 5-31-1120. Interfering with property or appurtenances.
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for any person to interfere or tamper with any of the property or appurtenances belonging to a municipality or controlled by the commissioners of public works or other body charged with the duties of commissioners of public works in municipalities which have no such commissioners in connection with the waterworks system or to turn on or off the supply of water to any premises at and with the curb cock, without first having obtained the proper permit so to do from the authorized representatives of such municipality or the commissioners of public works or other such body.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-15-125 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 15 / Section 5-15-125
SECTION 5-15-125. Municipal elections resulting in tie.
Status: in_force

If any municipal election results in a tie, the municipal election commission or the municipal party committee shall conduct a runoff election to break the tie two weeks following that election. In the tie-breaking runoff, the laws of this State apply, mutatis mutandi. If the date for the tie-breaking runoff election falls on a legal holiday, it must be set for the same day of the first week following which is not a legal holiday. If a tie-breaking runoff election is required, any remaining municipal elections required are postponed for two weeks. If the date of a postponed election falls on a legal holiday, it must be set for the same day of the first week following which is not a legal holiday.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-33-40 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 33 / Section 5-33-40
SECTION 5-33-40. Sale of ice plant.
Status: in_force

Should the city council of any city in this State which owns its ice plant or any board which controls any such plant at any time receive an offer for such plant, the city council or board may order a special election in the city for the purpose of determining whether or not such offer shall be accepted.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-690 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 7 / Section 5-31-690
SECTION 5-31-690. Restrictions on interruption of electric or gas services to residential customer for nonpayment of bill; exceptions.
Status: in_force

(A) Except as provided in subsection (B) of this section, a municipality must not interrupt electric or gas service to any residential customer for nonpayment of a bill until twenty-five days have elapsed from the date of billing. (B) A municipality may interrupt electric or natural gas service to any residential customer who has voluntarily enrolled in a prepay program if the prepay program allows the customer to monitor his consumption of electricity or natural gas and his account balance on a daily basis and the balance of that customer's prepay account is zero, provided that the following conditions are met: (1) at the time the residential customer enrolls in the prepay program, the residential customer is informed and agrees that his electric or natural gas service may be interrupted when the balance of his prepay account reaches zero; (2) electric or natural gas service must not be interrupted before 10:00 a.m. on the next business day following an attempt by the municipality to give the customer notice of the impending interruption by telephone or electronically; and (3) electric or natural gas service must not be interrupted except during hours when the municipality is accepting cash payments. For purposes of this subsection, a business day is a day in which the municipality, or an agent, is accepting cash payments. (C) Nothing contained herein shall be construed so as to relieve a municipality of the requirements of Act 313 of 2006. (D) Any person aggrieved by a violation of this section may petition the courts of this State for redress in accordance with applicable law and notwithstanding Section 58-27-210, the Public Service Commission shall have no jurisdiction over a municipality by reason of this section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-5-40 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 5 / Section 5-5-40
SECTION 5-5-40. Preparation of election ballot; majority of votes cast by qualified electors required to effect change in form of government.
Status: in_force

In any election to determine a change of a form of government of a municipality, the question must be framed by the governing body and printed on the prepared ballot in the following form: "Shall the municipality of (name of municipality) change its form of government from (form selected by council or by prior election) to (form or forms requested by petition or by ordinance)? Yes [] No [] Those in favor of the question shall deposit a ballot with a check or cross mark in the square after the word 'YES', and those voting against the question shall deposit a ballot with a check or cross mark in the square after the word 'NO'." To effect a change in the form of government a proposed form must receive a majority of the votes cast by the qualified electors of the municipality in the election.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-27-370 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 27 / Article 5 / Section 5-27-370
SECTION 5-27-370. Provisions not effective locally until approved by local elections.
Status: in_force

The provisions of SECTIONS 5-27-310, 5-27-320, 5-27-330, 5-27-340, 5-27-350 and 5-27-360 shall not apply or become operative in any city or town until upon being submitted to the qualified electors thereof by the city or town council for approval, a majority of the qualified electors voting on the question of such approval vote in favor thereof at any general municipal election or at any special municipal election, whether called and held for that purpose or not, when the question of such approval of said sections is submitted and voted on separately and the ballots thereon deposited in a separate box properly labeled and provided for that purpose.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-1160 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 11 / Section 5-31-1160
SECTION 5-31-1160. Tapping water main without permit.
Status: in_force

It shall not be lawful for any person to extend service pipes attached to the mains and water supply on any premises within or without a municipality without first obtaining permission therefor in writing from the municipality or the commissioners of public works or other body charged with the duties of commissioners of public works in municipalities which have no such commissioners and before any workman or plumber shall perform any work connected with the extension of such service pipes written permission for such extension shall be obtained.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-7-200 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 7 / Section 5-7-200
SECTION 5-7-200. Grounds for forfeiture of office of mayor or councilman; filling vacancies in office.
Status: in_force

(a) A mayor or councilman shall forfeit his office if he (1) lacks at any time during his term of office any qualification for the office prescribed by the general law and the Constitution; (2) violates any express prohibition of Chapters 1 to 17; or (3) is convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude. (b) A vacancy in the office of mayor or council shall be filled for the remainder of the unexpired term at the next regular election or at a special election if the vacancy occurs one hundred eighty days or more prior to the next general election.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-21-630 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 21 / Article 7 / Section 5-21-630
SECTION 5-21-630. Declaration of purpose.
Status: in_force

This article is designed to furnish a method by which incorporated cities and towns to which there are due sums of money represented by unpaid and unmatured assessments levied for improvements benefiting real property may realize such sums at once through the issuance and sale of paving bonds.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-330 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 5 / Section 5-25-330
SECTION 5-25-330. Permit for moving building.
Status: in_force

No building shall be moved until a permit has been obtained from the inspector, and such official shall not issue such a permit if in his judgment the proposed new location of the building would seriously increase the fire hazard of the surrounding buildings.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-200 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 3 / Section 5-25-200
SECTION 5-25-200. Procedure when municipality fails to appoint inspector.
Status: in_force

If the governing body of any municipality shall fail or refuse to appoint an officer to make the investigation required, the State Fire Marshal shall make such appointment.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-1520 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 15 / Section 5-31-1520
SECTION 5-31-1520. Extension beyond city limits.
Status: in_force

Any city or town may extend its system to any property beyond the city limits provided that both the water and sewer systems are extended to such property.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-220 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 3 / Section 5-31-220
SECTION 5-31-220. Special provisions for cities over 50,000.
Status: in_force

In cities of fifty thousand inhabitants or more, in addition to the three commissioners of public works to be elected as provided in SECTION 5-31-210, the mayor and the chairman of the committee on water supply, if there be such a committee, shall be ex officio commissioners of public works. In such cities such commissioners of public works shall serve without compensation. The board of commissioners of public works in any such city shall fill any vacancy occurring in the commission by appointment for the unexpired term, appointment to be made by the remaining commissioners, except in the case of an ex officio member of the commission.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-37-140 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 37 / Section 5-37-140
SECTION 5-37-140. Appeals from decisions of governing body.
Status: in_force

Upon the confirmation of an assessment, if any, the governing body shall mail a written notice to all persons who have filed written objections as hereinabove provided of the amount of the assessment finally confirmed. Such property owner may appeal such assessment only if he shall, within twenty days after the mailing of the notice to him confirming the assessment, give written notice to the governing body of his intent to appeal his assessment to the court of common pleas of the county in which the property is situate; but no such appeal shall delay or stay the construction of improvements or affect the validity of the assessments confirmed and not appealed. Appeals shall be heard and determined on the record in the manner of appeals from administrative bodies in this State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-2330 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 23 / Section 5-31-2330
SECTION 5-31-2330. Application of funds to maintenance, repair and replacement of lines; conditions.
Status: in_force

In the event that a political subdivision, pursuant to special or general act, has collected funds by way of front-foot assessments or per-parcel assessments to defray the cost of construction of sewer collection lines, these funds may be applied by the political subdivision to the maintenance, repair, and replacement of the lines as long as the following conditions are satisfied: (1) the construction of all sewer collection lines for which the assessments were imposed and collected has been completed; and (2) any obligations issued to finance the construction of the sewer collection lines have been discharged.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-33-10 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 33 / Section 5-33-10
SECTION 5-33-10. Acquisition and operation of ice plant authorized upon vote of electors.
Status: in_force

The municipal authorities of any incorporated city or town in this State may acquire, by construction or purchase, and operate manufactories or plants for making ice and may furnish ice at wholesale or retail for reasonable compensation. But no such purchase or construction shall be made except upon a majority vote of the electors in such cities or towns who are qualified to vote on a proposed increase of the bonded indebtedness of any such city or town.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-700 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 7 / Section 5-25-700
SECTION 5-25-700. Stovepipe construction.
Status: in_force

No stovepipe shall pass through any roof window or weatherboarding and no stovepipe in any building with wood or combustible floors, ceilings or partitions shall enter any flue unless such pipe shall be at least twelve inches from such floors, ceilings or partitions, or unless it is properly protected by a metal shield, in which case the distance shall not be less than six inches. When stovepipes pass through wooden partitions of any kind or other woodwork, they shall be guarded by either a double collar of metal, with at least three inches air space and holes for ventilation, or by a soapstone or burnt-clay ring not less than one inch in thickness extending through the partition or other woodwork.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-830 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 7 / Section 5-25-830
SECTION 5-25-830. Stair and elevator shafts; partitions.
Status: in_force

In all buildings erected after February 20 1917, except private dwellings, which are used above the first floor for business purposes or public assemblages, or for any purpose whatever if over three stories high, the stair shafts shall be separately and continuously enclosed by incombustible partitions, unless such buildings are provided with outside fire escapes. Elevator shafts in all buildings erected after said date shall be enclosed in the same manner. The partitions shall be constructed of brick or other fire-resistive material, approved by the inspector or other designated official, and all mortar used in the construction shall be cement mortar. No such hollow partition shall be less than six inches thick. No brick partition shall be less than eight inches thick and no other solid partition less than four inches thick. Except as herein stated, the stair, elevator or hoistway shafts in all buildings over two stories high in existence on February 20 1917 of the class described in this section shall be separately enclosed by incombustible partitions as above specified or the shafts may be enclosed (a) by approved hollow or solid partition blocks not less than three inches thick, set in portland cement mortar, (b) by four-inch stud partitions covered on each side with not less than three-quarter inch of portland cement plaster on metal lath or (c) by two-inch solid metal lath and portland cement plaster partitions. The metal framework of such partitions shall be securely fastened to both floor and ceiling. All lath used for such partitions shall be of galvanized steel, weighing not less than fifty-four ounces per square yard. Wire lath shall not be less than No. 20 gauge and sheet metal lath not less than No. 24 gauge. All such partitions erected in buildings in existence on February 20 1917 shall be firestopped with incombustible material the full depth of the floor beams at each floor level. The enclosure walls for all elevator shafts shall extend at least three feet above the roof and at least three fourths of the area shall be covered with a skylight constructed as specified in SECTION 5-25-850.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-21-420 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 21 / Article 5 / Section 5-21-420
SECTION 5-21-420. Covenants permissible if revenues are pledged.
Status: in_force

If revenues are pledged pursuant to the provisions of SECTION 5-21-410, the municipality may covenant and agree: (1) That the schedule of rates and charges for the services rendered by the utility shall be designed at all times to produce not less than the amount needed to discharge the covenants and obligations undertaken by the municipality in the proceedings authorizing the issuance of such bonds; (2) That it will operate the utility in an efficient and economical manner; (3) That it will segregate the revenues therefrom into funds designed to (a) operate and maintain the utility, (b) pay the principal and interest of the bonds secured by such pledge, (c) establish a cushion or reserve fund to insure the timely payment of such principal and interest and (d) provide for contingencies and for depreciation; and (4) That upon its failure to pay any instalment of interest or principal as it becomes due and payable or to observe the covenants and obligations undertaken in issuing the bonds any court having jurisdiction thereof may appoint a receiver to operate and administer such utility.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-3-270 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 3 / Section 5-3-270
SECTION 5-3-270. Time within which contest on extension of municipal limits must be instituted.
Status: in_force

When the limits of a municipality are ordered extended, no contest thereabout shall be allowed unless the person interested therein files, within sixty days after the result has been published or declared, with both the clerk of the municipality and the clerk of court of the county in which the municipality is located, a notice of his intention to contest the extension, nor unless, within ninety days from the time the result has been published or declared an action is begun and the original summons and complaint filed with the clerk of court of the county in which the municipality is located.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-1150 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 11 / Section 5-31-1150
SECTION 5-31-1150. Use of water without contract is a misdemeanor.
Status: in_force

Any person who has no contract, agreement, license or permission with or from any municipality or the commissioners of public works thereof or other body charged with the duties of commissioners of public works in municipalities which have no such commissioners, for the use of water belonging to or furnished by such municipality, commissioners or other such body, who shall willfully withdraw or cause to be withdrawn in any manner and appropriate such water from the water mains or pipes of such municipality, commissioners or other such body or any water mains or pipes connected therewith, for his own use or for the use of any other person, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as provided in SECTION 5-31-1170.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-39-110 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 39 / Article 3 / Section 5-39-110
SECTION 5-39-110. Appointment and term.
Status: in_force

Any city or town council of any city or town in this State which has a population of more than two thousand and less than five thousand according to the latest census of the United States Government may create by ordinance for such city or town a cemetery commission to be composed of three resident qualified electors of such city or town and may elect three commissioners, the term of their office to run as follows: One commissioner for two years, one commissioner for four years and one commissioner for six years. At the expiration of each of such terms such city or town council shall elect a successor whose term of office shall be six years, so that not more than one of such commissioners' terms of office shall expire every two years.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-15-70 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 15 / Section 5-15-70
SECTION 5-15-70. Duty of governing body of municipality to enact ordinances relating to time requirements for nominations, primaries and the like.
Status: in_force

Each municipal governing body shall determine by ordinance the time for filing nominating petitions, holding primary elections or conventions, the time for entry of candidates for nominations in municipal party primary elections or conventions, the time for closing of entries, and the time and manner of filing by candidates in nonpartisan elections. The municipal governing body may determine by ordinance that either filing a statement of candidacy or a petition with the municipal election commission is required to place the name of the candidate on the ballot in nonpartisan general elections. However, no candidate's name may be placed on the ballot by petition in a general election conducted in accordance with the provisions of Section 5-15-63. If the municipal council determines that the petition method is used, the percentage of electors required on these petitions may not be less than five percent of the qualified electors of the geographical area of the office for which he offers as a candidate. When a candidate's name is to be placed on the ballot by virtue of a primary election or convention, the party concerned shall certify the candidacy to the municipal election commission not later than sixty days prior to the election. When the filing by statement of candidacy is authorized, the individual candidate shall file the statement with the commission not later than sixty days prior to the election and the commission shall place the name of the candidate upon the ballot. If the petition method is authorized, the candidate shall file the necessary petition with the municipal clerk seventy-five days prior to the general election concerned and the clerk shall deliver the petition to the commission. The commission shall examine the petition and determine its validity not later than sixty days prior to the general election concerned and when so validated, the commission shall place the name of the petition candidate upon the ballot. For nonpartisan special elections, if the petition method is authorized, the candidate shall file the petition with the municipal clerk not later than twelve o'clock noon, sixty days prior to the election. The commission shall determine the validity of the petition not later than forty-five days prior to the election and when so validated, shall place the candidate's name on the ballot. If the statement of candidacy is authorized, these statements must be filed not later than twelve o'clock noon, forty-five days prior to the election. For partisan special elections, petitions must be submitted pursuant to Section 7-13-190(B).
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-750 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 7 / Section 5-25-750
SECTION 5-25-750. Registers, register boxes and cold-air ducts for hot-air furnaces.
Status: in_force

Every hot-air furnace shall have at least one register without valve or louvres. A register box placed in the floor over a portable furnace shall have an open space around it of not less than four inches on all sides and be supported by an incombustible border. Hot-air registers placed in any woodwork or combustible floors shall be surrounded with borders of incombustible material, not less than two inches wide, securely set in place. The register boxes shall be of metal and be double and the distance between the two shall be not less than one inch, or they may be single, if covered with asbestos, not less than one-eighth inch in thickness and if all woodwork within two inches be covered with tin. Cold-air ducts for hot-air furnaces shall be made of incombustible material.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-33-20 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 33 / Section 5-33-20
SECTION 5-33-20. Supervisor of plant; bond; removal.
Status: in_force

The mayor and council of any city or the mayor or intendant and wardens or council of any town acquiring an ice plant under the provisions of this chapter may appoint such suitable and competent person or persons as may be necessary to operate such ice plant, at salaries to be fixed by such municipal authorities, and the person or persons so appointed may be required to give bond for the faithful performance of their duties in a sum to be fixed by such municipal authorities. Such person or persons may be removed at the will and pleasure of such municipal authorities.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-13-40 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 13 / Section 5-13-40
SECTION 5-13-40. Councilmen prohibited from holding other offices during term, appointing or removing employees whom manager is empowered to appoint and dealing with employees under control and supervision of manager.
Status: in_force

(a) Except where authorized by law, no councilman shall hold any other municipal office or municipal employment while serving the term for which he was elected to the council. (b) Neither the council nor any of its members shall in any manner be involved in the appointment or removal of any municipal administrative officers or employees whom the manager or any of his subordinates are empowered to appoint. (c) Except for the purpose of inquiries and investigations, neither the council nor its members shall deal with municipal officers and employees who are subject to the direction and supervision of the manager except through the manager, and neither the council nor its members shall give orders to any such officer or employee, either publicly or privately.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-39-280 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 39 / Article 5 / Section 5-39-280
SECTION 5-39-280. Liability of cities.
Status: in_force

No liability shall attach to any city or town for any funds herein referred to or by reason of the handling or expenditure of such funds.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-19-160 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 19 / Article 3 / Section 5-19-160
SECTION 5-19-160. Mayor, city council or any committee from city council may attend commission meetings.
Status: in_force

The mayor, the city council or any committee from the city council may sit in at any regular commission meeting and join in the discussion, but shall not be permitted to vote on matters herein delegated to the commission.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-40 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 1 / Section 5-25-40
SECTION 5-25-40. Fire alarm boxes in hospitals and public schools.
Status: in_force

Each hospital operating over ten beds and all public schools located in a city or town in this State in which there is a general fire alarm station and an electrically operated fire alarm system shall be equipped with a fire alarm box of the type and character used in such city or town, to be located on the premises at such place as the chief of the fire department may direct, and when such box is installed by such hospital or public school, the municipal authorities shall connect such box with the general fire alarm system and shall thereafter maintain such box in good repair, and such municipal authorities or their agents may enter every such hospital or school at any reasonable time for the purpose of inspecting and repairing any such box. The failure so to install and equip any such hospital or public school shall be a misdemeanor and punishable by a fine of not less than fifty dollars and not more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for a period of not less than ten days and not more than thirty days at the discretion of the court.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-260 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 3 / Section 5-31-260
SECTION 5-31-260. Incurring indebtedness.
Status: in_force

No board of commissioners of public works may incur any indebtedness without the concurrence of the city or town council.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-1130 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 9 / Section 5-25-1130
SECTION 5-25-1130. No frame structures shall be built or moved within fire limits; exceptions.
Status: in_force

No frame or wood structure shall be built within such fire limits except the following, and all roofs placed upon such buildings or structures shall have an incombustible covering, (a) temporary one-story frame buildings for the use of builders and (b) wooden fences not over eight feet high. No frame building shall be moved from without to within the fire limits.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-240 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 3 / Section 5-31-240
SECTION 5-31-240. Qualification; organization; officers; vacancies.
Status: in_force

The mayor of the city or the mayor or intendant of the town shall notify the persons so elected as members of the commissioners of public works of their election, within ten days after the results of such election are declared. The persons elected or appointed to such office shall qualify by taking the same oath as the elected officers of the municipality take. At the first meeting of the commissioners after the election, and after any election for a full term, they shall organize by the election of one of their number as chairman. The clerk or recorder of the municipality shall act as secretary of the commissioners. The mayor and aldermen or council of the city or the mayor or intendant and the council or wardens of a town shall fill any vacancy occurring in the commission by appointment for the unexpired term.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-21-310 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 21 / Article 5 / Section 5-21-310
SECTION 5-21-310. Ballots.
Status: in_force

The form of ballot shall seek an answer to the question or questions as to whether the municipal council of the municipality shall be empowered to issue general obligation bonds of such municipality for the purpose specified in the petition. The question thus presented shall be followed with the words "YES" and "NO" and instructions shall appear on such ballot that those who wish the issuance of bonds shall strike through the word "NO" while those who oppose the issuance of bonds shall strike through the word "YES." As many questions may be submitted on a single ballot as there are purposes for which bonds are sought to be issued in the petition, but each question shall be separately stated, except that when bonds are sought to be issued for water and sewer purposes those questions may be combined. If more than one question appears on the ballot, the instructions shall make it clear to all voters that they may vote for one or more proposals and against the others or that they may vote for one or more proposals and not vote for or against the others.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-11-20 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 11 / Section 5-11-20
SECTION 5-11-20. Structure of council form of government; election of mayor and members of council.
Status: in_force

(a) Under the council form of government there shall be a municipal council composed of five, seven or nine members including the mayor. (b) The mayor and members of the council shall be elected in accordance with Chapter 15.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-1330 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 13 / Section 5-31-1330
SECTION 5-31-1330. Notice of election.
Status: in_force

In the event such election be ordered, six weeks' notice thereof shall be given by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in such city or town once each week for six weeks preceding the date of such election. Such notice shall contain in substance the terms of the offer for such property.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-37-90 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 37 / Section 5-37-90
SECTION 5-37-90. Improvements as property of municipality; use of special assessments.
Status: in_force

The improvements as defined in Section 5-37-20 are to be or become the property of the municipality, State, or other public entity and may at any time be removed, altered, changed, or added to, as the governing body may in its discretion determine; provided, that during the continuance or maintenance of the improvements, the special assessments on property therein may be utilized for the preservation, operation, and maintenance of the improvements and facilities provided in the improvement plan, and for the management and operation of the improvement district as provided in the improvement plan, and for payment of indebtedness incurred therefor.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-39-210 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 39 / Article 5 / Section 5-39-210
SECTION 5-39-210. Appointment and term.
Status: in_force

Any incorporated city in this State having a population of twenty thousand inhabitants or above and owning a cemetery or burying ground may create by ordinance a cemetery commission, to be composed of three discreet persons, residents of such city, whose terms of office shall be six years from the date of their respective appointments, except that at the creation of such commission one shall be appointed for two years, one for four and the other for six.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-7-180 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 7 / Section 5-7-180
SECTION 5-7-180. Mayor or councilman prohibited from holding other political office during term elected.
Status: in_force

Except where authorized by law, no mayor or councilman shall hold any other municipal office or municipal employment while serving the term for which he was elected.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-840 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 9 / Section 5-31-840
SECTION 5-31-840. Sewerage commission; duties.
Status: in_force

Any such sewerage commission shall have the construction of the sewerage system in charge and, subject to the approval of the city or town council, shall advertise for bids for at least thirty days in two or more newspapers for the work to be done and for material to be used therein, with the right to reject any and all bids, and shall enter into contracts with the lowest responsible bidders thereon and secure competent persons, if deemed advisable, to superintend the construction and counsel and advise in matters relating thereto.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-880 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 7 / Section 5-25-880
SECTION 5-25-880. Required means of egress.
Status: in_force

In every building erected after February 20 1917, except in private dwellings, each floor area above the first shall be provided with at least two means of egress, remote from each other, one of which shall be an enclosed stairway as provided by SECTIONS 5-25-830 and 5-25-840, an outside iron fire escape, a doorway in a fire wall leading to another floor area separately provided with adequate stairs or other independent means of exit. Such doorway serving as an emergency exit in a fire wall shall be protected by an automatic and self-closing fire door. No portion of any floor area shall be more than one hundred feet from a place of egress. Elevators shall not be considered as a means of egress as specified in this section. The term "floor area" as used in this section, shall mean the entire floor space between exterior walls and fire walls.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-30 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 1 / Section 5-31-30
SECTION 5-31-30. Investment of proceeds of sale of public utilities; sinking funds for outstanding bonds.
Status: in_force

Whenever any city or town in this State had prior to February 7 1927 issued bonds for the acquisition, by construction, purchase or otherwise, of any waterworks, lighting plant or other public utility and sells such utility prior to the maturity of such bonds, the governing body of such city or town may invest an amount of the proceeds of sale of such utility equal to the amount of outstanding bonds in duly secured notes of the purchaser of such utility or otherwise, as the governing body may determine. Upon any such investment being made, such governing body may, by resolution, set apart such investment as a sinking fund for the retirement of such outstanding bonds and when such investment is so made and set apart any other sinking funds on hand for the retirement of such bonds shall become freed of their character as sinking funds and may be lawfully diverted to any other legal municipal purpose; and no further annual tax levy for the repayment of such bonds shall be necessary.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-3-20 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 3 / Section 5-3-20
SECTION 5-3-20. Municipality may not annex real property owned by professional sports team.
Status: in_force

No municipality may annex, under the provisions of this chapter, any real property owned by a professional sports team as defined in Section 12-6-3360(M)(17) without prior written consent of the professional sports team. Editor's Note 2019 Act No. 83, SECTION 9.B, provides as follows: "B. The provisions of Sections 4-9-30 and 5-7-30 relating to a professional sports team, and the provisions of Section 5-3-20 only apply so long as the job and payroll provisions of Section 12-6-3360(M)(17) and (P) continue to be met by the professional sports team."
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-480 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 5 / Section 5-25-480
SECTION 5-25-480. Inspection fees in cities of 70,000 or more.
Status: in_force

Cities having a population of seventy thousand or more, according to the official United States census, may establish a schedule of fees for the inspection of new buildings and the inspection of repairs to or alterations of existing buildings, which shall not exceed two dollars for any construction, repairs or alterations costing less than two thousand dollars, and shall not exceed one dollar for each and every one thousand dollars of cost of construction, repairs or alterations costing in excess of two thousand dollars.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-21-300 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 21 / Article 5 / Section 5-21-300
SECTION 5-21-300. Qualified voters.
Status: in_force

Only those persons, residents of the municipality, qualified under the applicable constitutional provisions to vote in such elections shall be entitled to vote.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-1350 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 13 / Section 5-31-1350
SECTION 5-31-1350. Sale if majority favors.
Status: in_force

In the event the result of the election is in favor of the acceptance of the offer so submitted to the people, the city or town council of such city or town shall accept such offer and complete the sale by the conveyance to the purchaser of the property purchased, executing and delivering all proper deeds of conveyance therefor.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-21-500 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 21 / Article 5 / Section 5-21-500
SECTION 5-21-500. Diversion of and payment of funds; penalties.
Status: in_force

Any member of any municipal council or any commissioner who shall vote to divert money applicable to the payment of principal or interest of bonds or to the sinking fund or cushion fund for them and any disbursing officer who shall pay out any moneys applicable thereto, whether or not such payment has been ordered by the municipal council, the commissioners or any officer or agent of either, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of not less than thirty days nor more than one year and by a fine of not less than two hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, either or both, within the discretion of the court.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-50 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 1 / Section 5-31-50
SECTION 5-31-50. Exclusive municipal franchises for furnishing water or waste disposal service.
Status: in_force

All cities and towns of this State may grant to persons the exclusive franchise of furnishing water or waste disposal service to such cities and towns and the inhabitants thereof for a period not exceeding forty years. No such franchise shall be valid unless it shall first receive the vote of two thirds of the governing body of the city or town granting it and be subsequently confirmed by a vote of a majority of the qualified electors of such city or town, voting at an election to be called specially for the purpose. Any ordinance or resolution granting such a franchise shall prescribe a method for determining rates for furnishing water, both for public and private consumption, and for waste disposal service, and make provision for periodic renewal of such franchises. No such franchise shall exceed a period of forty years from the initial delivery of water or the commencement of waste disposal services or affect any existing contractual rights.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-3-290 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 3 / Section 5-3-290
SECTION 5-3-290. "Municipality" defined.
Status: in_force

The word "municipality" as used in this chapter shall be construed to mean any incorporated city or town located within this State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-39-230 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 39 / Article 5 / Section 5-39-230
SECTION 5-39-230. Officers.
Status: in_force

Every such commission shall once in every two years elect from its number a chairman and a secretary and treasurer.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-810 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 9 / Section 5-31-810
SECTION 5-31-810. Establishment of municipal sewerage system.
Status: in_force

Any city or town in this State may incur bonded indebtedness and own and possess property to any amount within the discretion of the municipal authorities of such city or town for the purposes of purchase, establishment and maintenance of sewerage systems; provided, that the question of such purchase, establishment or indebtedness shall be submitted to an election and no such purchase, or establishment or indebtedness shall be made except upon the vote in favor thereof of a majority of the electors of such city or town who are qualified to vote on the bonded indebtedness of such city or town; and provided, further, that the question of incurring such indebtedness be submitted with favorable results to the freeholders of such municipalities by petition.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-9-20 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 9 / Section 5-9-20
SECTION 5-9-20. Structure of mayor-council form of government; election of council members.
Status: in_force

(a) Under the mayor-council form of government there shall be a municipal council composed of a mayor and not less than four council members. (b) The members of council shall be elected in accordance with Chapter 15.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-680 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 7 / Section 5-25-680
SECTION 5-25-680. Construction of flues.
Status: in_force

All flues shall extend at least three feet above the roof and always above the comb of the roof and shall be coped with well-burnt terra cotta, stone, cast iron or cement. In all buildings erected after February 20 1917 the stone or brickwork of all flues and the chimney shafts of all furnaces, boilers, bakers' ovens, large cooking ranges and laundry stoves and all flues used for similar purposes shall be at least eight inches in thickness, with the exception of smoke flues which are lined with fire-clay lining or cast iron. These may be four inches in thickness, but this shall not apply to metal stacks or boiler houses where properly constructed and arranged at a safe distance from wood or other inflammable material. All buildings erected after said date shall have smoke flues constructed, either in walls of eight inches thickness or with smoke flues lined with cast-iron or fire-clay lining, the walls of which may be four inches in thickness, the lining to commence at the bottom of the flue or at the throat of the fireplace and to be carried up continuously the entire height of the flue. All joints shall be closely fitted, and the lining shall be built in as the flue is carried up. All chimneys which shall be dangerous in any manner whatever shall be repaired and made safe or taken down.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-37-120 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 37 / Section 5-37-120
SECTION 5-37-120. Notice of assessment to owners; filing of objections.
Status: in_force

As soon as practicable after the completion of the assessment roll and prior to the publication of the notice provided in Section 5-37-110, the governing body shall mail by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, to the owner or owners of each lot or parcel of land against which an assessment is to be levied, at the address appearing on the records of the city or county treasurer, a notice stating the nature of the improvement, the total proposed cost thereof, the amount to be assessed against the particular property and the basis upon which the assessment is made, together with the terms and conditions upon which the assessment may be paid. The notice shall contain a brief description of the particular property involved, together with a statement that the amount assessed shall constitute a lien against the property superior to all other liens except property taxes. The notice shall also state the time and place fixed for the hearing of objections in respect to the assessment. Any property owner who fails to file with the municipal council a written objection to the assessment against his property within the time provided for hearing such objections shall be deemed to have consented to such assessment, and the published and written notices prescribed in this chapter shall so state. If all of the owners of property upon which an assessment is to be levied consent in writing to the imposition of such assessment, the provisions of this section shall be deemed satisfied.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-1360 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 13 / Section 5-31-1360
SECTION 5-31-1360. Operating agreement with purchaser; maximum rates.
Status: in_force

In connection with such sale, such city or town council may make and enter into an agreement with the purchaser for the operation of the property so purchased and the furnishing to the people of the city or town of electric current or water or both, as the case may be, and may fix maximum rates therefor during such period as may then be agreed upon.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-19-110 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 19 / Article 3 / Section 5-19-110
SECTION 5-19-110. Authorization.
Status: in_force

Any municipality in this State which does not operate under the commission form of government and which had a population of (a) not more than sixty-five thousand and not less than ten thousand, (b) not more than seven thousand and not less than six thousand five hundred or (c) not more than six thousand and not less than five thousand five hundred, according to the United States census of 1970, may by ordinance provide for a civil service commission for such municipality, to be administered by not more than five commissioners to be elected by the city council of such municipality, with the duties, powers and authority conferred and authorized by this article. One member of the first commission so created under this article shall be chosen for one year, one for two years and the other for three years. Thereafter at the expiration of each respective term of office the city council shall elect a commissioner for the term of three years so that the term of office of one member shall expire each year. Vacancies shall be filled by the city council for the unexpired term. If a municipality chooses to have five commissioners, of those initially elected one shall be elected for one year, one for two years, one for three years, one for four years and one for five years. Their successors shall be elected to serve for terms of five years and until their successors are elected and qualify.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-7-140 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 7 / Section 5-7-140
SECTION 5-7-140. Extension of police jurisdiction and authority of municipalities bordering on high tide line or high water mark of navigable body of water.
Status: in_force

(A) The corporate limits of any municipality bordering on the high-tide line of the Atlantic Ocean are extended to include all that area lying between the high-tide line and one mile seaward of the high-tide line. These areas are subject to all the ordinances and regulations that may be applicable to the areas lying within the corporate limits of the municipality, and the municipal courts have jurisdiction to punish individuals violating the provisions of the municipal ordinances where the misdemeanor occurred in the area defined in this section. (B) The corporate limits of any municipality bordering on the high-water mark of a navigable body of water, other than the Atlantic Ocean, are extended to include all that area lying between the high-water mark and the low-water mark. These areas are subject to all of the ordinances and regulations that may be applicable to the areas lying within the corporate limits of the municipality, and the municipal courts have jurisdiction to punish individuals violating the provisions of the municipal ordinances where the misdemeanor occurred in the areas defined in this section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-37-150 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 37 / Section 5-37-150
SECTION 5-37-150. Powers are cumulative.
Status: in_force

Nothing contained herein shall be construed to limit or restrict the powers of any incorporated municipality, but the authorizations herein contained shall be in addition to any such powers.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-7-30 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 7 / Section 5-7-30
SECTION 5-7-30. Powers conferred upon municipalities; surtax for parking spaces.
Status: in_force

Each municipality of the State, in addition to the powers conferred to its specific form of government, may enact regulations, resolutions, and ordinances, not inconsistent with the Constitution and general law of this State, including the exercise of powers in relation to roads, streets, markets, law enforcement, health, and order in the municipality or respecting any subject which appears to it necessary and proper for the security, general welfare, and convenience of the municipality or for preserving health, peace, order, and good government in it, including the authority to levy and collect taxes on real and personal property and as otherwise authorized in this section, make assessments, and establish uniform service charges relating to them; the authority to abate nuisances; the authority to provide police protection in contiguous municipalities and in unincorporated areas located not more than three miles from the municipal limits upon the request and agreement of the governing body of such contiguous municipality or the county, including agreement as to the boundaries of such police jurisdictional areas, in which case the municipal law enforcement officers shall have the full jurisdiction, authority, rights, privileges, and immunities, including coverage under the workers' compensation law, which they have in the municipality, including the authority to make arrests, and to execute criminal process within the extended jurisdictional area; provided, however, that this shall not extend the effect of the laws of the municipality beyond its corporate boundaries; grant franchises for the use of public streets and make charges for them; grant franchises and make charges for the use of public beaches; engage in the recreation function; levy a business license tax on gross income, but a wholesaler delivering goods to retailers in a municipality is not subject to the business license tax unless he maintains within the corporate limits of the municipality a warehouse or mercantile establishment for the distribution of wholesale goods; and a business engaged in making loans secured by real estate is not subject to the business license tax unless it has premises located within the corporate limits of the municipality and no entity which is exempt from the license tax under another law nor a subsidiary or affiliate of an exempt entity is subject to the business license tax; and a business engaged in operating a professional sports team as defined in Section 12-6-3360(M)(17) is not subject to the business license tax; borrow in anticipation of taxes; and pledge revenues to be collected and the full faith and credit of the municipality against its note and conduct advisory referenda. The municipal governing body may fix fines and penalties for the violation of municipal ordinances and regulations not exceeding five hundred dollars or imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or both. If the person or business taxed pays a business license tax to a county or to another municipality where the income is earned, the gross income for the purpose of computing the tax must be reduced by the amount of gross income taxed in the other county or municipality. For the purpose of providing and maintaining parking for the benefit of a downtown commercial area, a municipality may levy a surtax upon the business license of a person doing business in a designated area in an amount not to exceed fifty percent of the current yearly business license tax upon terms and conditions fixed by ordinance of the municipal council. The area must be designated by council only after a petition is submitted by not less than two-thirds of the persons paying a business license tax in the area and who paid not less than one-half of the total business license tax collected for the preceding calendar year requesting the designation of the area. The business within the designated area which is providing twenty-five or more parking spaces for customer use is required to pay not more than twenty-five percent of a surtax levied pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph. Editor's Note 2019 Act No. 83, SECTION 9.B, provides as follows: "B. The provisions of Sections 4-9-30 and 5-7-30 relating to a professional sports team, and the provisions of Section 5-3-20 only apply so long as the job and payroll provisions of Section 12-6-3360(M)(17) and (P) continue to be met by the professional sports team." Effect of Amendment The 2008 amendment, in the first undesignated paragraph, added the third sentence relating to reduction of the amount of gross income taxed. 2019 Act No. 83, SECTION 3, in the first undesignated paragraph, in the first sentence, inserted "and a business engaged in operating a professional sports team as defined in Section 12-6-3360(M)(17) is not subject to the business license tax;".
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-230 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 3 / Section 5-31-230
SECTION 5-31-230. Municipalities in which there are no board of commissioners of public works.
Status: in_force

The following cities and towns shall have no board of commissioners of public works: Abbeville, Allendale, Barnwell, Beaufort, Belton, Bennettsville, Blackville, Bluffton, Bowman, Branchville, Camden, Central, Chapin, Cheraw, Cherry Grove Beach, Chesnee, Chester, Clemson, Clinton, Clio, Clover, Conway, Cowpens, Crescent Beach, Denmark, Dillon, Donalds, Due West, Duncan, Edgefield, Elgin, Estill, Fairfax, Forest Acres, Fort Mill, Fountain Inn, Georgetown, Goose Creek, Govan, Great Falls, Hampton, Hardeeville, Heath Springs, Hemingway, Hilda, Honea Path, Irmo, Iva, Jamestown, Johnston, Kingstree, Lake City, Lamar, Lancaster, Landrum, Lane, Latta, Lexington, Liberty, Little Mountain, Lodge, Loris, Lyman, Marion, McCall, Moneta, Mullins, Myrtle Beach, Newberry, North Augusta, Norway, Ocean Drive Beach, Orangeburg, Pelion, Pelzer, Pickens, Prosperity, Quinby, Ridgeland, Ridge Spring, Ridgeville, Rock Hill, St. George, St. Stephen, Salem, Salley, Scranton, Sharon, Simpsonville, Smoaks, Society Hill, Springfield, Sumter, Swansea, Tega Cay, Timmonsville, Trenton, Union, Varnville, Walhalla, Walterboro, Ware Shoals, West Columbia, West Greenville, West Union, Westminster, Williams, Windy Hill Beach, Winnsboro, and York. In these cities and towns, the duties, powers, and responsibilities vested in a board of commissioners of public works must be vested in the respective city or town council, except that: (a) in the cities of Marion and Newberry and in the town of Landrum, they must be vested in the mayor and aldermen; (b) in the cities and towns of Beaufort, Bennettsville, Blackville, Branchville, Chesnee, Clio, Clover, Dillon, Due West, Hampton, Johnston, Kingstree, Lancaster, Myrtle Beach, North Augusta, Prosperity, Rock Hill, Salley, Union, Walhalla, West Columbia, West Union, and York, they must be vested in the mayor and city or town council or in the intendant and wardens, as applicable; (c) in the town of Winnsboro, they must be vested in the mayor and commissioners; (d) in the city of Forest Acres, they are devolved upon a director of public works until June 30, 1975, and after that time are devolved upon the city council; and (e) in the city of Westminster, they are devolved upon the city council on July 1, 2005. Effect of Amendment The 2005 amendment reworded this section to divide it into two sentences and in the first sentence, added "Westminster" and in the second sentence redesignated items (d) and (e) as items (c) and (d) and added item (e) relating to the city of Westminster. The 2012 amendment added "Tega Cay"; and substituted "after that time" for "thereafter" in subsection (d).
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-40 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 1 / Section 5-31-40
SECTION 5-31-40. Powers under certain sections cumulative.
Status: in_force

The powers conferred by SECTIONS 5-31-210 to 5-31-270, 5-31-430, 5-31-610 to 5-31-640, and 5-31-660 upon the cities and towns of the State are, and shall be taken, deemed and construed to be, in addition to the powers now enjoyed by such cities and towns.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-19-260 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 19 / Article 3 / Section 5-19-260
SECTION 5-19-260. Complaints and trials.
Status: in_force

A complaint against any officer or employee of either department may be orally or in writing lodged with the commission or any member thereof. The commission or any member may investigate the charge, and if a prima facie case is found to exist, the officer or employee may be brought to trial by the commission. But the commission, five days before any such trial, shall have served upon the officer or employee a written statement of the charges upon which the trial is to be had. In or for the conduct of such trial, the commissioners shall have the power to secure by summons both the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books and papers relevant to such trial. And the accused shall have the same right. At any such trial both the commission and the accused may be heard in person or by counsel, and the city council may employ counsel to prosecute the case and fix the fee to be paid for such services.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-920 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 9 / Section 5-31-920
SECTION 5-31-920. Contracts with public agency to provide municipalities with primary, secondary or tertiary sewage treatment or to dispose of solid waste; terms and conditions.
Status: in_force

Each municipality, subject to compliance with the provisions of SECTION 5-31-930, is authorized to enter into contracts with any public agency in order to provide such municipality with primary, secondary or tertiary sewage treatment or in order to dispose of solid waste, upon such terms and conditions as its council shall deem appropriate, including, without limitation, the following: (a) that the municipality unconditionally obligates itself to pay a stipulated or ascertainable amount for a designated period of time; (b) that the obligation of the municipality under the contract is secured by a pledge of the municipality's full faith, credit and taxing power for the payment of which an unlimited ad valorem tax shall be levied upon all taxable property in the municipality; (c) that the obligation of the municipality under the contract is primarily payable from designated revenues other than revenues derived from ad valorem taxes; (d) that the obligation of the municipality under the contract is primarily payable from designated revenues other than revenues derived from ad valorem taxes and such obligation is guaranteed to the extent such revenues are insufficient by a pledge of the municipality's full faith, credit and taxing power for the payment of which an unlimited ad valorem tax shall be levied upon all taxable property in the municipality.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-33-70 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 33 / Section 5-33-70
SECTION 5-33-70. Sale authorized if election favorable; contract for operation; maximum rates.
Status: in_force

In the event the result of the election is in favor of the acceptance of the offer so submitted to the people, the city council or board shall accept such offer, complete the sale by the conveyance to the purchaser of the property purchased and execute and deliver proper deeds of conveyance therefor. In connection with such sale, such city council or board may make and enter into an agreement with the purchaser for the operation of the property so purchased and the furnishing to the people of ice and may fix maximum rates therefor during such period as may then be agreed upon.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-17-30 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 17 / Section 5-17-30
SECTION 5-17-30. Special election subsequent to council's failure or refusal to act upon initiative petition in manner desired by electors.
Status: in_force

If the council shall fail to pass an ordinance proposed by initiative petition or shall pass it in a form substantially different from that set forth in the petition therefor or if the council fail to repeal an ordinance for which a petition has been presented, the adoption or repeal of the ordinance concerned shall be submitted to the electors not less than thirty days nor more than one year from the date the council takes its final vote thereon. The council may, in its discretion, and if no regular election is to be held within such period, provide for a special election.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-3-30 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 3 / Section 5-3-30
SECTION 5-3-30. Consolidation of two or more municipal corporations without petition.
Status: in_force

When two or more municipal corporations propose to consolidate, no petition shall be required and each municipal corporation desiring to consolidate may call for the election hereinafter provided by ordinance.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-13-70 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 13 / Section 5-13-70
SECTION 5-13-70. Term of employment and compensation of manager; removal of manager by council.
Status: in_force

The term of employment of the manager shall be at the pleasure of the council and he shall be entitled to such compensation for his services as the council may determine. The council may, in its discretion, employ the manager for a definite term. If the council determines to remove the manager he shall be given a written statement of the reasons alleged for the proposed removal and the right to a hearing thereon at a public meeting of the council. Within five days after the notice of removal is delivered to the manager, he may file with the council a written request for a public hearing. This hearing shall be held at a council meeting not earlier than twenty days nor later than thirty days after the request is filed. The manager may file with the council a written reply not later than five days before the hearing. The removal shall be stayed pending the decision at the public hearing.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-1340 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 11 / Section 5-25-1340
SECTION 5-25-1340. Conveyance or transfer of real estate prohibited unless smoke detectors have been installed and are functioning.
Status: in_force

No person may convey a title to real estate which includes a dwelling to which the article applies pursuant to Section 5-25-1310(A) or transfer possession of a building to which this article applies pursuant to Section 5-25-1310(A) unless smoke detectors have been installed and are functioning in accordance with this article. The purchaser may inspect the detectors at any reasonable time prior to closing to verify that they have been properly installed and are functioning in accordance with this article. The seller shall provide to the purchaser at closing an affidavit stating that the smoke detectors have been installed and are functioning in accordance with this article. Compliance with this section relieves the seller of any further liability after closing with respect to the performance of the smoke detectors. Violation of the provisions of this section does not affect the validity of the conveyance.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-235 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 3 / Section 5-31-235
SECTION 5-31-235. Abolition of commissions of public works.
Status: in_force

(A) If the commissioners of public works unanimously, by resolution, petition the municipal council to abolish the commission, the municipal council may, after a public hearing, adopt an ordinance abolishing the commission of public works. (B) The municipal council of any municipality shall, upon receiving a petition signed by thirty percent of the registered voters of the qualified voters of the municipality, call for a binding referendum to determine whether or not the Commission of Public Works must be abolished. The referendum must be held in accordance with the general election laws of this State. The question on the ballot must be as follows: "Shall the Commission of Public Works of the municipality of (name of the appropriate municipality) be abolished?" Yes [] No [] (C) If a majority of the voters who vote in that referendum determines that the Commission of Public Works be abolished, then the municipal council shall adopt an ordinance abolishing the Commission of Public Works and the municipality shall assume all the rights, duties, responsibilities, assets, and liabilities of the former Commission of Public Works. The Commission of Public Works shall cease to exist as of the date of the final passage of the ordinance abolishing it, and the municipality shall assume the rights, duties, responsibilities, assets, and liabilities of the former Commission of Public Works at the same instant. The referendum provided for in subsection (B), whether successful or unsuccessful, may not be conducted more often than every thirty-six months. (D) As an alternative to the procedure provided in subsections (B) and (C), a commission of public works may be abolished by an affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the commission transferring the rights, duties, responsibilities, assets, and liabilities of the former commission to a municipality. The transfer is effective when the municipality adopts an ordinance accepting the transfer. (E) The provisions of subsections (B), (C), and (D) of this section apply only to a municipality which has been created as a result of the consolidation of two or more municipalities.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-15-20 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 15 / Section 5-15-20
SECTION 5-15-20. Methods of election of council; mayor elected at large; qualifications.
Status: in_force

Each municipality in this State shall provide by ordinance for the election of its council. Councils shall select any one of the following methods of election of council: (1) Members of the council elected from the municipality at large. (2) One member elected from each ward of the municipality by the qualified electors of the ward. Candidates seeking office from a particular ward shall be residents of the ward during their entire terms of office. (3) Some members elected from wards as provided for in (2) and the remainder elected from the municipality at large. (4) Members required to be residents of particular wards but be elected from the municipality at large. (5) Some members may be required to be residents of particular wards and others may be residents of the municipality without regard to a particular ward and all members shall be elected from the municipality at large. Regardless of the form adopted by the municipality, the mayor shall be elected at large. Mayors and councilmen shall be qualified electors of the municipality and, if they are elected subject to residential or ward requirements as provided in this section, they shall be qualified electors of the ward prescribed for their election qualification.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-7-240 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 7 / Section 5-7-240
SECTION 5-7-240. Municipal audits.
Status: in_force

(A) The council of each municipality having total recurring revenues at or above the threshold in Section 5-7-240(D) shall provide for an annual audit of financial statements. The council may, without requiring competitive bids, designate a certified public accountant or public accounting firm annually or for a period not exceeding four years, provided, that the designation for any particular fiscal year shall be made no later than thirty days after the beginning of such fiscal year. (B) The council of each municipality having total recurring revenues below the threshold in Section 5-7-240(D) may elect to provide for either an audit of financial statements or a compilation of financial statements in lieu of an audit as follows: (1) annually for municipalities that have a court system; or (2) at least once every three years for municipalities that do not have a court system. (C) The audit or compilation must be performed by an independent certified public accountant or a firm of certified public accountants. The report of the audit or compilation shall be made available for public inspection. Financial statements of municipalities with a court system must include the requirements of Section 14-1-208. A municipality that exceeds the threshold in the current fiscal year but was below the threshold in the previous fiscal year must begin submitting audited financial statements annually beginning no later than the fiscal year following the year in which its total revenues exceed the threshold. (D) Beginning with the municipality fiscal year which begins after January 1, 2024, the reporting threshold is $500,000 of the total recurring revenue of a municipality. As soon as practicable at the beginning of each subsequent calendar year, the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office must determine the increase or decrease in the ratio of the Consumer Price Index to the index as of December 31 of the previous year and the threshold must be increased accordingly. If the average of the twelve-month consumer price index experiences a negative percentage, the average is deemed to be zero. For purposes of this subsection, "Consumer Price Index" means the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers as published by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. Effect of Amendment 2023 Act No. 71, SECTION 1, rewrote the section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-21-20 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 21 / Article 1 / Section 5-21-20
SECTION 5-21-20. Exceptions to 5-21-10.
Status: in_force

Nothing in SECTION 5-21-10 contained shall apply to any debt contracted or to any note, bond, draft or obligation executed, indorsed or guaranteed by the city council of such city and approved and confirmed by a two-thirds vote of the whole of such city council, at a regular meeting thereof, for the purpose of (a) the establishment of a sewage system, (b) securing a supply of water or light for its public use, by contract or (c) the lease, purchase, construction or operation by the city council of any plant for waterworks or lighting purposes, one or both. For any of such purposes the city council may create debts and incur liabilities beyond the municipal income of the current year, upon the same being approved and confirmed by a two-thirds vote of the whole of the city council at a regular meeting thereof. But no purchase or construction of any such plant for waterworks or lighting purposes shall be made by the city council except upon a majority vote of the electors in such city who are qualified to vote on the bonded indebtedness of the city.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-7-130 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 7 / Section 5-7-130
SECTION 5-7-130. Conflict of interests of municipal officer or employee.
Status: in_force

Any municipal officer or employee who has a substantial financial interest in any business which contracts with the municipality for sale or lease of land, materials, supplies, equipment or services or who personally engages in such matters shall make known that interest and refrain from voting upon or otherwise participating in his capacity as a city officer or employee in matters related thereto. Any city officer or employee who wilfully conceals such a substantial financial interest or wilfully violates the requirements of this section shall constitute malfeasance in office and upon conviction shall forfeit his office or position. Violation of this section with the knowledge express or implied of the person or corporation contracting with or making a sale to the city shall render the contract or sale voidable by the municipal governing body.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-7-110 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 7 / Section 5-7-110
SECTION 5-7-110. Municipal police officers; contracting to provide police protection beyond corporate limits of municipality.
Status: in_force

Any municipality may appoint or elect as many police officers, regular or special, as may be necessary for the proper law enforcement in such municipality and fix their salaries and prescribe their duties. Police officers shall be vested with all the powers and duties conferred by law upon constables, in addition to the special duties imposed upon them by the municipality. Any such police officers shall exercise their powers on all private and public property within the corporate limits of the municipality and on all property owned or controlled by the municipality wheresoever situated; provided, that the municipality may contract with any public utility, agency or with any private business to provide police protection beyond the corporate limits. Should the municipality provide police protection beyond its corporate limits by contract, the legal description of the area to be served shall be filed with the State Law Enforcement Division, the office of the county sheriff and the Department of Public Safety.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-11-40 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 11 / Section 5-11-40
SECTION 5-11-40. Establishment of municipal departments, offices or agencies; employment of administrator; administrative officers appointed and controlled by council; annual budget; taxes.
Status: in_force

(a) The council may establish municipal departments, offices or agencies in addition to those created by Chapters 1 through 17 and may prescribe the functions of all departments, offices and agencies. The council may hire an administrator to assist the council. (b) All departments, offices and agencies may be administered by an officer appointed by and subject to the direction and supervision of the council. (c) The municipal council shall adopt annually, prior to the beginning of the fiscal year, operating and capital budgets for the operation of city government and shall in such budgets identify the sources of anticipated revenue including taxes necessary to meet the financial requirements of the budgets adopted. The council shall further provide for the levy and collection of taxes necessary to meet all budget requirements except as provided for by other revenue sources.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-21-360 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 21 / Article 5 / Section 5-21-360
SECTION 5-21-360. Negotiability; registration.
Status: in_force

Bonds issued hereunder shall be in the form of negotiable coupon bonds, payable to bearer, with the privilege to the holder of having them registered on the books of the treasurer of the municipality and the principal thus made payable to the registered holder, unless the last registered transfer shall have been to bearer, upon such conditions as the municipal council may prescribe. Unless registered such bonds shall have all the qualities of negotiable instruments under the law merchant and the Uniform Commercial Code.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-5-50 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 5 / Section 5-5-50
SECTION 5-5-50. Notice, expenses and conduct of elections.
Status: in_force

Notice of all special elections relating to a change in form of government shall be published at least three weeks in advance in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality in which such election is to be held. The municipality shall pay all expenses incurred in the conduct of any election. Elections shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of general law regulating special elections as they apply to referendums in this State, mutatis mutandi.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-7-170 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 7 / Section 5-7-170
SECTION 5-7-170. Salaries and expenses of mayor and councilmen determined by council through ordinance.
Status: in_force

The council may determine the annual salary of its members by ordinance; provided, that an ordinance establishing or increasing such salaries shall not become effective until the commencement date of the terms of two or more members elected at the next general election following the adoption of the ordinance, at which time it will become effective for all members whether or not they were elected in such election. The mayor and council members may also receive payment for actual expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties within limitations prescribed by ordinance.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-27-340 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 27 / Article 5 / Section 5-27-340
SECTION 5-27-340. Assessment as lien; enforcement.
Status: in_force

Such assessments shall be entered in a book kept by the city or town clerk, to be entitled "assessment liens," stating the names of the owners, the location of the property and the amount of the assessment and the time or times of payment. When so entered such assessments shall constitute and be a lien upon the property so assessed and payment thereof may be enforced as the payment of city or town taxes is enforced. Such lien shall continue from the date of entry on such book until the expiration of five years from the date when final payment is due and payable, unless sooner paid. Upon default in the payment of any installment or deferred portion of any assessment, at the time and in accordance with the terms and conditions fixed by ordinance, the total amount of any such assessment then unpaid, including deferred installments or payments and interest, shall immediately become due and collectible as city or town taxes are collected and with such penalties and costs as are now provided for the payment of such taxes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-1530 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 15 / Section 5-31-1530
SECTION 5-31-1530. Ordinance to provide for payment of costs.
Status: in_force

Any incorporated city or town of this State may provide by ordinance for the payment of the costs of extending its water and sewer system to any property owner as herein provided.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-27-140 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 27 / Article 3 / Section 5-27-140
SECTION 5-27-140. Erection of poles, posts and the like on streets in towns under 5,000.
Status: in_force

In towns of less than five thousand inhabitants, incorporated under the provisions of Chapter 1 of Title 5 of the 1976 Code of Laws of South Carolina, the town council may, in its discretion, authorize the erection of poles, posts and any other obstruction which, without legislative sanction, either mediately or immediately given, would constitute nuisances in, upon or under the highways, streets and roads of said town.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-11-30 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 11 / Section 5-11-30
SECTION 5-11-30. Legislative and administrative powers of municipality vested in municipal council.
Status: in_force

All legislative and administrative powers of the municipality and the determination of all matters of policy shall be vested in the municipal council. Each member of council, including the mayor, shall have one vote.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-19-240 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 19 / Article 3 / Section 5-19-240
SECTION 5-19-240. Employees shall be removable only for cause; suspension pending investigation.
Status: in_force

No officer or employee of the fire or police department, including the chiefs thereof, shall be dismissed, removed, or discharged except for cause. But the commission may suspend any officer or employee pending an investigation of charges against him not to exceed fifteen days at any one time.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-7-210 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 7 / Section 5-7-210
SECTION 5-7-210. Council as judge of election and qualifications of its members and of grounds for forfeiture of their office.
Status: in_force

The council shall be the judge of the election and qualifications of its members and of the grounds for forfeiture of their office and for that purpose shall have power to subpoena witnesses, administer oaths and require the production of evidence. A member charged with conduct constituting grounds for forfeiture of his office shall be entitled to a public hearing, and notice of such hearing shall be published in one or more newspapers of general circulation in the municipality at least one week in advance of the hearing. Decisions made by the council under this section may be appealed to the court of common pleas.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-17-10 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 17 / Section 5-17-10
SECTION 5-17-10. Electors of municipality permitted to propose ordinances.
Status: in_force

The electors of a municipality may propose any ordinance, except an ordinance appropriating money or authorizing the levy of taxes. Any initiated ordinance may be submitted to the council by a petition signed by qualified electors of the municipality equal in number to at least fifteen percent of the registered voters at the last regular municipal election and certified by the municipal election commission as being in accordance with the provisions of this section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-19-150 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 19 / Article 3 / Section 5-19-150
SECTION 5-19-150. Meetings.
Status: in_force

The commission shall hold meetings at least once during each month at a fixed and stated time, as well as such special or extra meetings as may be called by the chairman or a majority of the commission.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-15-63 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 15 / Section 5-15-63
SECTION 5-15-63. Determination of election results under nonpartisan primary election and general election method.
Status: in_force

(a) In municipalities whose elections are nonpartisan and which use the nonpartisan primary election and general election method, there shall be a primary election to reduce the field of candidates to two candidates for each position to be filled, if when the filing period closes there are more than two candidates for a single office or the number of candidates for a group of offices exceeds twice the number of positions to be filled. If only one or two candidates file for a single office, no primary election shall be held for that office and the candidates shall be declared nominated. (b) In the primary election the two candidates for a single office receiving the highest number of votes and those candidates for a group of offices receiving the highest number of votes, equal to twice the number of positions to be filled, shall be declared nominated. (c) In the election, the names of those candidates declared nominated without a primary election and those candidates nominated in the primary election shall be placed on the ballot. The candidate for a single office receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected. Those candidates for a group of offices receiving the highest number of votes, equal in number to the number of positions to be filled, shall be declared elected.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-21-210 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 21 / Article 5 / Section 5-21-210
SECTION 5-21-210. Short title.
Status: in_force

This article may be cited as the "Municipal Bond Act."
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-2020 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 21 / Section 5-31-2020
SECTION 5-31-2020. Definitions.
Status: in_force

For all purposes of this article: (a) The term "municipality" shall mean any incorporated city or town now or hereafter existing; (b) The term "council" shall mean the governing body of any municipality as now or hereafter constituted; (c) The term "water distribution agency" shall mean any public or private agency operating a water distribution system within any municipality or any portion thereof; (d) The term "sewage" shall mean domestic or industrial waste requiring collection, disposal and treatment; (e) The term "sewer service charge" shall mean the monthly, quarterly or annual charge imposed by any municipality for the collection, treatment and disposal of sewage irrespective of whether the same shall be collected by a water distribution agency or whether it shall be assessed against the property served as provided by SECTION 5-31-2030; (f) The term "sewer connection charge" shall mean the charge imposed upon property owners as a condition to authorizing them to connect to and discharge sewage into any public sewer system; and (g) The term "front-foot assessment" shall mean the assessment levied to reimburse a municipality for that portion of the cost of installing sewer laterals (collection lines) imposed by the council on a front-foot basis.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-7-310 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 7 / Section 5-7-310
SECTION 5-7-310. Provisions of Section 4-9-55 apply to general laws which affect municipalities.
Status: in_force

The provisions of Section 4-9-55 apply to general laws enacted by the General Assembly which affect municipalities.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-5-60 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 5 / Section 5-5-60
SECTION 5-5-60. Service of existing members of governing body after adoption of or change to one of alternate forms of government.
Status: in_force

Upon initial adoption of or on any change to one of the alternate forms of government, all members of the existing governing body shall continue to serve their elected terms and until their successors are elected and qualify.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-27-130 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 27 / Article 3 / Section 5-27-130
SECTION 5-27-130. Prisoners may be required to work on roads in municipalities of over 1,000.
Status: in_force

Every person sentenced to imprisonment in any such city or town, either directly or in consequence of a failure to pay a fine imposed, shall be subject to work upon the public roads of such city or town of over one thousand inhabitants or of the county in which such city or town is situate during the term of such imprisonment.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-1120 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 9 / Section 5-25-1120
SECTION 5-25-1120. Manner in which buildings in fire limits shall be constructed.
Status: in_force

Every building hereafter erected or enlarged within the fire limits shall be enclosed on all sides with walls constructed wholly of stone, well-burned brick, terra cotta, concrete or other equivalent incombustible materials and shall have the roof and the roof top and sides of all roof structures, including dormer windows, covered with incombustible material. All cornices shall be of incombustible material.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-29-20 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 29 / Section 5-29-20
SECTION 5-29-20. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter: (1) The term "municipality" shall mean any incorporated city or town in this State. (2) The term "Revenue Bond Act" shall mean SECTIONS 6-21-10 through 6-21-570, as the same are now constituted, or as the same shall hereafter be amended. (3) The term "Refunding Revenue Bond Act" shall mean SECTIONS 6-17-10 through 6-17-320, as the same are now constituted, or as the same shall hereafter be amended. (4) The term "off-street parking facilities" shall mean motor vehicular parking facilities of all sorts, including parking lots, buildings or ramps. (5) The term "on-street parking facilities" shall mean any system of parking meters, curb line or other, regulating the parking of motor vehicles on any street within the corporate limits of any municipality, requiring the payment of a charge for the right to make use of any portion of any street set apart for motor vehicular parking.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-20 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 1 / Section 5-31-20
SECTION 5-31-20. Interference with sewers, waterworks and the like prohibited.
Status: in_force

No person shall turn, remove, raise or in any manner tamper with any cover of any manhole, filter, bed or other appurtenance of any public sewer without a written permit from the proper authorities of such works and no person except those engaged by the proper authorities shall enter any public sewer without a special written permit. And no person shall, either within or without any city or town, obstruct, damage or injure any pipe, ditch, drain, filter, beds or appurtenance of any waterworks, sewerage or drainage of any such city or town. Every person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, be subject to a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars or imprisonment for thirty days.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-900 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 9 / Section 5-31-900
SECTION 5-31-900. General ordinances, rules and regulations.
Status: in_force

Any such municipal corporation may enact all necessary ordinances, rules and regulations consistent with law for the establishment, construction, maintenance, operation, protection, use, control and repairing of its system of sewerage, both within and without its corporate limits.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-210 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 3 / Section 5-25-210
SECTION 5-25-210. Penalties; enforcement.
Status: in_force

An officer so appointed who, after accepting such appointment, shall fail to carry out the provisions of SECTIONS 5-25-160 and 5-25-170 shall be liable to a penalty of twenty-five dollars, recoverable before a magistrate, and to dismissal from office. The State Fire Marshal shall enforce the provisions of SECTIONS 5-25-160 to 5-25-210.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-15-61 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 15 / Section 5-15-61
SECTION 5-15-61. Determination of election results under nonpartisan plurality method.
Status: in_force

In conducting nonpartisan elections and using the plurality method, election results shall be determined in accordance with the following rules: (1) When more than one person is seeking election to a single office, the candidate who receives the highest number of votes shall be declared elected. (2) When more persons are seeking election to two or more offices (constituting a group) than there are offices to be filled, those candidates receiving the highest number of votes, equal in number to the number of offices to be filled, shall be declared elected.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-430 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 5 / Section 5-31-430
SECTION 5-31-430. Powers of municipalities with respect to acquisition of property and operation of water and electric works.
Status: in_force

Cities and towns may purchase and hold suitable lands and water and erect aqueducts, dams, canals, buildings, machine shops, and other works and construct and lay conduits, mains, and pipes as may be necessary to obtain and secure a supply of water and power for operating the waterworks and electric light works. They may erect poles and wires along any of the adjacent highways and in the cities and towns and may condemn (a) any property and lands, the drainage from which would contaminate the water supply of the city or town, (b) streams, lakes, or lands as may be required for the water supply of the city or town, or (c) rights-of-way to enable them to lay mains and pipes for water, sewerage, or drainage, and erect and operate the aqueducts, dams, canals and water and electrical works and electric lines after paying to the owner just compensation for the property or rights-of-way to be condemned, as determined in the manner provided by the Eminent Domain Procedure Act (Chapter 2 of Title 28).
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-630 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 7 / Section 5-25-630
SECTION 5-25-630. Openings in walls; standard fire doors; windows.
Status: in_force

No opening in any interior masonry wall shall exceed eight feet by ten feet. If the opening be in a party or fire wall, it shall have a standard automatic fire door on each side of the wall. If an opening in a fire wall is made to serve as an emergency exit, it shall not exceed forty-eight square feet in area and a self-closing fire door shall be substituted for one of the automatic fire doors. The total openings in a fire wall shall not exceed twenty-five per cent in lineal length of the wall. Every building within the fire limits, except churches, dwellings, tenement houses, dormitories and lodging houses, shall have standard fire doors, shutters or wired glass in incombustible frames and sashes on every exterior opening above the first story, except when fronting on a street not less than thirty-five feet wide, or when no other building is within thirty-five feet of such opening. The wall of a building in the same plane as that in which the opening is situated shall not be considered as coming within the intent of this rule. All openings in the side and rear walls of the first story, except show windows, shall be protected as prescribed in this section when within thirty-five feet of another building. All windows more than seventy-five feet above the curb shall have incombustible frames and sash glazed with wired glass. Occupants of buildings shall close all exterior and interior fire doors, shutters and windows at the close of business of each day.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-37-45 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 37 / Section 5-37-45
SECTION 5-37-45. Inclusion in improvement district of area in which the proposed improvements have been constructed or are under construction; exceptions.
Status: in_force

(A)(1) The governing body may include within an improvement district an area within the municipality in which the proposed improvements have been constructed or are under construction at the time of the establishment of the improvement district. (2) Before the commencement of the construction of these improvements, a written agreement with the owner of the area to be improved must be entered into by the municipality authorizing the construction of the improvements in anticipation of the inclusion of the area which is improved in the improvement district upon such terms and conditions as the governing body agrees, including the reimbursement, as a cost of constructing improvements under this chapter, of any monies expended for the construction before and subsequent to the establishment of the improvement district. Any agreement providing for the construction of the improvements before the establishment of the improvement district must be authorized by an ordinance of the governing body, notice of which must be given by publication in a newspaper of general circulation within the municipality, at least seven days before the final adoption of the ordinance. Any agreements entered into in accordance with the foregoing conditions before the effective date of this section are ratified and confirmed and the area improved declared eligible for inclusion in the improvement district as proposed in the agreement. (B) The provisions of item (2) of subsection (A) do not apply to any area proposed for inclusion within an improvement district which, within three years prior to the date of the adoption of the resolution required by Section 5-37-50, is subject to a development agreement pursuant to the South Carolina Local Government Development Agreement Act.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-7-40 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 7 / Section 5-7-40
SECTION 5-7-40. Ownership and disposition of property by municipalities.
Status: in_force

All municipalities of this State may own and possess property within and without their corporate limits, real, personal or mixed, without limitation, and may, by resolution of the council adopted at a public meeting and upon such terms and conditions as such council may deem advisable, sell, alien, convey, lease or otherwise dispose of personal property and in the case of a sale, alienation, conveyance, lease or other disposition of real or mixed property, such council action must be effected by ordinance.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-27-320 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 27 / Article 5 / Section 5-27-320
SECTION 5-27-320. Prerequisites to assessment.
Status: in_force

No such assessment shall be so laid upon the abutting property owners until such improvements have been ordered pursuant to such ordinance upon the written consent, signed and filed with the city or town clerk, of not less than two thirds in number of the owners of the property abutting upon the street, sidewalk or part of either proposed to be improved and provision made for the payment by the corporate authorities of such city or town of not less than one half of the cost of such improvement. The times and terms of payment and rates of interest on deferred payments of assessments by such property owners shall be such as may be prescribed by ordinance.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-720 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 7 / Section 5-25-720
SECTION 5-25-720. Foundry chimneys.
Status: in_force

Iron cupola or other chimneys of foundries shall extend at least ten feet above the highest point of any roof within a radius of fifty feet of such cupola or chimney.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-250 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 3 / Section 5-31-250
SECTION 5-31-250. Powers.
Status: in_force

The board of commissioners of public works of any city or town may purchase, build or contract for building any waterworks or electric light plant authorized under Article 7 of this chapter and may operate them and shall have full control and management of them. It may supply and furnish water to citizens of the city or town and also electric, gas or other light and may require payment of such rates, tolls and charges as it may establish for the use of water and light.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-1760 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 17 / Section 5-31-1760
SECTION 5-31-1760. Entry of satisfaction of assessments.
Status: in_force

The municipality shall require the town clerk to make entry of satisfaction on the water and sewer assessment liens book as soon as full payment is made, and the lien shall be thereby extinguished, and the municipality shall adopt a suitable ordinance to require this duty of the clerk.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-1130 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 11 / Section 5-31-1130
SECTION 5-31-1130. Injury or obstructions to systems; pollution of water.
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for any person to remove, obstruct, deface or injure, within or without the corporate limits of any municipality, any of the fire hydrants, public drinking fountains or valve covers or any pipe, ditch, drain or appurtenances of the waterworks of any municipality or to pollute the water supply of any municipality of this State, controlled by such municipality or by the commissioners of public works of such municipality or other body charged with the duties of commissioners of public works in municipalities which have no such commissioners.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-19-230 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 19 / Article 3 / Section 5-19-230
SECTION 5-19-230. Promotions; appointments of department chiefs.
Status: in_force

All promotions in the fire or police department of any such municipality shall be by the chief of each respective department, by and with the approval of the commission, except for the office of chief of these departments, which offices shall be filled by the commission, subject to confirmation and approval by the city council. But no person shall be eligible for such appointment as chief unless he has been a member of such department for a period of at least two years prior to such appointment, except that if the commission is unable to secure from the personnel of the department an acceptable person, then it may apply to the city council for permission to elect such officer or officers from outside the department, and, if such approval is granted, the commission may name such official from qualified applicants outside the personnel of the department.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-740 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 7 / Section 5-25-740
SECTION 5-25-740. Heater pipes.
Status: in_force

All heater pipes from hot-air furnaces, where passing through combustible partitions or floors, must be doubled in tin pipes with at least one inch air space between them. Horizontal hot-air pipes leading from the furnace shall not be less than six inches from any woodwork, unless the woodwork be covered with loose fitting tin or the pipe be covered with at least half an inch of corrugated asbestos, in which latter cases the distance from the woodwork may be reduced to not less than three inches. No hot-air pipe shall be placed in a wooden stud partition or any wooden enclosure unless it be at least eight feet horizontal distance from the furnace. Hot-air pipes contained in combustible partitions shall be placed inside another pipe arranged to maintain half an inch of air space between the two on all sides or be securely covered with half an inch of corrugated asbestos. Neither the outer pipe nor the covering shall be within one inch of wooden studding, and no wooden lath shall be used to cover the portion of the partition in which the hot-air pipe is located. Hot-air pipes in closets shall be double, with a space of at least one inch between them on all sides.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-1-20 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 1 / Section 5-1-20
SECTION 5-1-20. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in Chapters 1 through 17 of this title, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) "Municipality" means a city or town issued a certificate of incorporation, or township created by act of the General Assembly. (2) "Publicly-owned property" means any federally-owned, state-owned, or county-owned land or water area. Effect of Amendment The 2005 amendment rewrote the introductory statement, designated paragraphs (1) and (2), made nonsubstantive language changes in paragraph (1), and added paragraph (2).
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-35-30 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 35 / Section 5-35-30
SECTION 5-35-30. Notification of proposed plan and fill levels.
Status: in_force

The municipality shall first notify each private owner interested of the plan proposed and of the level up to which such lots are to be filled and of the general plan proposed and such private owners may, if they see fit, arrange to fill up their lands at their own expense, such filling up to be done either prior to or contemporaneously with the filling done by the city, and to be in accord with the general plan adopted. And the owner of any such land shall be entitled to use the mud or soil in the bed of the river in front of such land for the purpose of filling up his land, in preference to any other, to the extent necessary to fill such lands.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-29-60 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 29 / Section 5-29-60
SECTION 5-29-60. Additional powers of municipalities as to bonds.
Status: in_force

Any municipality may: (1) Provide that any revenue bonds issued under this chapter shall be payable, both as to principal and interest, from such portions of the revenues of either or both of its off-street parking facilities and its on-street parking facilities as the municipality shall prescribe in the proceedings adopted in the issuance of bonds pursuant to this chapter but any pledge with respect to revenues derived from on-street parking facilities shall reserve the right in the municipality to discontinue the use of on-street parking facilities whenever traffic conditions so require; (1A) Additionally secure the payment of the principal and interest of bonds issued pursuant to this chapter by a pledge of so much of the moneys as the municipality shall derive from business license taxes as may be necessary to pay the principal of and interest on any bonds issued under this chapter, and covenant and agree that all powers granted to such municipality to impose business license taxes shall be exercised to such degree as will enable the municipality to discharge the covenant herein first authorized; (2) Covenant and agree that upon its being adjudged in default as to the payment of any installment of principal or interest upon any bond issued by it, or in default as to the performance of any covenant or undertaking made by it, that in such event, the principal of all bonds of such issue may be declared forthwith due and payable, notwithstanding that any of them may not have then matured; (3) Confer upon a corporate trustee the power to make disposition of the proceeds from all borrowings and also of all revenues derived from the operation of either or both of its off-street parking facilities and its on-street parking facilities, in accordance with and in the order of priority prescribed by the proceedings adopted by the municipality as an incident to the issuance of any bonds; (4) Dispose of its bonds at public or private sale, and upon such terms and conditions as it shall approve; (5) Make such provision for the redemption of bonds issued by it prior to their stated maturity, with or without premium, and on such terms and conditions as the municipality shall approve; (6) Covenant and agree that any cushion fund established to further secure the payment of the principal and interest of any bonds shall be in a fixed amount; (7) Covenant and agree that no free service will be furnished to any person, firm, corporation, municipal corporation, or any subdivision or division of the State, or limit the conditions under which free service may be made available; (8) Prescribe the procedure, if any, by which the terms of the contract with the holders of its bonds may be amended, the number of bonds whose holders must consent thereto, and the manner in which such consent shall be given; and (9) Prescribe the events of default and the terms and conditions upon which all or any bonds shall become or may be declared due before maturity and the terms and conditions upon which such declaration and its consequences may be waived.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-21-710 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 21 / Article 7 / Section 5-21-710
SECTION 5-21-710. Execution of bonds.
Status: in_force

Such bonds and the coupons annexed thereto shall be executed in the manner provided for by the municipal council.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-27-120 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 27 / Article 3 / Section 5-27-120
SECTION 5-27-120. Repair of streets, ways and bridges in municipalities of over 1,000.
Status: in_force

The city or town council of any city or town of over one thousand inhabitants shall keep in good repair all the streets, ways and bridges within the limits of the city or town and for such purpose it is invested with all the powers, rights and privileges within the limits of such city or town that are given to the governing bodies of the several counties of this State as to the public roads.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-790 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 7 / Section 5-25-790
SECTION 5-25-790. Gas, gasoline, oil or charcoal stoves or heating devices.
Status: in_force

All gas, gasoline, oil or charcoal-burning stoves or heating devices shall be placed on iron stands at least six inches above combustible supports, unless the burners are at least five inches above the base, with metal guard placed four inches below the burners. No open-flame heating or lighting device shall be used in any room where gasoline or other volatile inflammable fluids are stored or handled.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-39-270 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 39 / Article 5 / Section 5-39-270
SECTION 5-39-270. Disbursements and reports.
Status: in_force

No disbursement shall be made except by check, and at the end of each calendar year the commission shall make up and file with the city council a report showing all of its acts and doings and the funds received and disbursed during such year. All checks and vouchers shall be signed by the secretary and treasurer and one other member of the commission.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-21-330 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 21 / Article 5 / Section 5-21-330
SECTION 5-21-330. Issuance of bonds as single issue or as several separate issues; time limit for issuance of bonds.
Status: in_force

The bonds authorized as a consequence of the favorable result of such an election may be issued either as a single issue or from time to time as several separate issues, but no bonds shall be issued subsequent to five years following the occasion on which the election was held.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-27-310 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 27 / Article 5 / Section 5-27-310
SECTION 5-27-310. Authorization for assessment.
Status: in_force

Any incorporated city or town of this State may provide by ordinance for the payment of the cost of the permanent improvements of its streets and sidewalks by levying upon the owners of property immediately abutting on the streets and sidewalks or parts of either so improved an assessment in proportion to the frontage only of such property on such streets or sidewalks or parts of either so improved of not exceeding in the aggregate one half of the cost of such improvements.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-39-440 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 39 / Article 7 / Section 5-39-440
SECTION 5-39-440. City empowered to contract for service.
Status: in_force

Any such city may contract with any person for the maintenance, care and keeping in repair of any tomb, burial lot or grave in any such cemetery for such consideration and upon such terms and conditions as may be fixed by any such city.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-21-450 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 21 / Article 5 / Section 5-21-450
SECTION 5-21-450. Deposit and use of proceeds.
Status: in_force

The proceeds derived from the sale of any such bonds shall be deposited in a special fund, separate and distinct from all other funds, and applied solely to the purposes for which the bonds are issued, except that the premium, if any, shall be placed in the sinking fund established by SECTION 5-21-400 and the accrued interest, if any, shall be used to discharge in part the first interest to become due on such bonds. Should any surplus remain it shall be deposited in the sinking fund required by the provisions of SECTION 5-21-400 to be established for the payment of the bonds.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-39-410 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 39 / Article 7 / Section 5-39-410
SECTION 5-39-410. Acceptance of trust for maintenance of burial lots, graves, tombs and the like.
Status: in_force

Any incorporated city in this State having a population of more than five thousand inhabitants and owning a cemetery may receive by gift, devise, bequest or settlement in trust any sum of money from any person when such sum is turned over to it in trust to be invested and the annual income used in maintaining, caring for or keeping in repair any tomb, burial lot, grave or graves as may be then or thereafter designated by the person creating such trust fund and agreed to by such city.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-1-110 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 1 / Section 5-1-110
SECTION 5-1-110. Time limit for bringing suit challenging incorporation procedures of municipal corporation.
Status: in_force

A suit to challenge the incorporation procedures of a municipal corporation pursuant to the provisions of Chapters 1 through 17 must be brought within sixty days after the issuance of the certificate of incorporation. Effect of Amendment The 2005 amendment made nonsubstantive changes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-3-120 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 3 / Section 5-3-120
SECTION 5-3-120. Alternate method when entire area proposed to be annexed owned by corporation.
Status: in_force

If the entire area proposed to be annexed belongs to a corporation only, it may be annexed on the petition of the stockholders of the corporation. Upon agreement of the governing body of the municipality to accept the petition and the passage of an ordinance to that effect by the municipality, the annexation is complete.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-880 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 9 / Section 5-31-880
SECTION 5-31-880. Use of streets, highways and public buildings for sewerage purposes.
Status: in_force

Any municipal corporation in this State, for the purpose of enlarging, extending or establishing a system of sewerage, may use any of the streets of such municipal corporation, and any of the public buildings, roads and highways of the county in which the municipality is located for the purpose of constructing, operating, repairing and protecting such system. But it shall restore all highways to as good a condition as they were in prior to such use without any unnecessary delay and with the least possible inconvenience to the public.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-19-180 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 19 / Article 3 / Section 5-19-180
SECTION 5-19-180. Examinations of applicants for positions in fire and police departments; temporary and clerical employees; minimum age for applicants for positions in fire departments.
Status: in_force

All applicants for position in the fire or police departments shall be subjected to an examination by the commission which shall be competitive and free to all resident persons possessing the right of suffrage and meeting the requirements prescribed by the commission, subject to reasonable limitations as to residence, age, health, education and moral character. Such examinations shall be practical in their nature and shall relate to those matters which fairly test the relative capacity and fitness of the persons examined to discharge the duties of the position to which they seek to be appointed. But no such applicants shall be examined concerning their political or religious opinions or affiliations. In the conduct of such examinations the commission may call to its assistance the aid of such persons as it may desire either from within or without the personnel of the department affected. With the approval of the city council special and temporary policemen or firemen may be appointed by the commission to serve at its pleasure, such employees not to be subject to the provisions of this section having reference to competitive examinations. And employees performing strictly clerical work for either department or the commission, if there be any such, shall likewise not be subject to the provisions of this section having reference to competitive examinations, and such employees shall also be appointed with the approval of the city council and hold office at the pleasure of the commission. Provided, as to age, applicants for positions in fire departments within this article shall have a minimum age of eighteen years.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-1910 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 19 / Section 5-31-1910
SECTION 5-31-1910. Authorization for cities and towns to furnish water and electric current beyond corporate limits.
Status: in_force

Any city or town in this State owning a water or light plant may, through the proper officials of such city or town, enter into a contract with any person without the corporate limits of such city or town but contiguous thereto to furnish such person electric current or water from such water or light plant of such city or town and may furnish such water or light upon such terms, rates and charges as may be fixed by the contract or agreement between the parties in this behalf, either for lighting or for manufacturing purposes, when in the judgment of the city or town council it is for the best interest of the municipality so to do. No such contract shall be for a longer period than two years but any such contract may be renewed from time to time for a like period.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-39-430 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 39 / Article 7 / Section 5-39-430
SECTION 5-39-430. Ordinance shall provide terms of acceptance.
Status: in_force

Any such city desiring to avail itself of the provisions of SECTIONS 5-39-410 and 5-39-420 shall by ordinance or resolution provide the terms and conditions upon which any such trust funds will be received and administered by it, and no such city shall be liable to account for any such trust funds so long as such city shall substantially comply with such terms and conditions.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-3-310 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 3 / Section 5-3-310
SECTION 5-3-310. Annexation of special purpose district.
Status: in_force

When all or part of the area of a special purpose district as defined in Section 6-11-1610 or a special taxing district created pursuant to Section 4-9-30 or Section 4-19-10, et seq. or an assessment district created pursuant to Chapter 15 of Title 6, or any other special purpose district or special taxing or assessment district is annexed into a municipality under the provisions of Section 5-3-150 or 5-3-300, the following provisions apply: (1) At the time of annexation or at any time thereafter the municipality may elect at its sole option to provide the service formerly provided by the district within the annexed area. The transfer of service rights must be made pursuant to a plan formulated under the provisions of Sections 5-3-300 through 5-3-315. (2) Until the municipality upon reasonable written notice elects to displace the district's service, the district must be allowed to continue providing service within the district's annexed area. (3) Annexation does not divest the district of any property; however, subject to the provisions of item (4) below, real or tangible personal property located within the area annexed must be transferred to the municipality pursuant to a plan formulated under the provisions of Sections 5-3-300 through 5-3-315. (4) In any case in which the municipality annexes less than the total service area of the district, the district may, at its sole discretion, retain ownership and control of any asset, within or without the annexed area, used by or intended to be used by residents within the district's unannexed area or used or intended to be used to provide service to residents in the unannexed area of the district. (5) Upon annexation of less than the total area of the district, the district's boundaries must be modified, if at all, by the plan formulated pursuant to the provisions of Sections 5-3-300 through 5-3-315. The plan must specify the new boundaries of the district.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-1360 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 11 / Section 5-25-1360
SECTION 5-25-1360. Enforcement of article by State Fire Marshal or local fire official.
Status: in_force

Upon entry into a dwelling on official business by invitation of the owner or occupant or in response to an emergency, the State Fire Marshal or a local fire official, or both, shall enforce this article.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-1920 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 19 / Section 5-31-1920
SECTION 5-31-1920. Special provision for cities over 70,000, 1940 census.
Status: in_force

The limitation of two years imposed by SECTION 5-31-1910 shall not apply to cities having a population of over seventy thousand according to the 1940 United States census, and such cities may enter into a contract as set forth in said section with persons, other cities, towns, public service commissions or political subdivisions without the corporate limits of the city, whether contiguous to the corporate limits or not, either for lighting or manufacturing or any other purposes, for any period or periods not exceeding fifty years, and such contracts may include options for extending the existence thereof beyond the date of their expiration for any additional period or periods, not exceeding fifty years, and for similar extensions beyond the date of any such extended period or periods.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-37-25 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 37 / Section 5-37-25
SECTION 5-37-25. Consent required to use revenues for improvements outside municipality where improvement district is located.
Status: in_force

A municipality must obtain the consent of the county governing body and any other municipality where the improvement is located to use revenue collected pursuant to this chapter for improvements located outside the municipal boundaries in which the improvement district is located.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-7-120 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 7 / Section 5-7-120
SECTION 5-7-120. Municipalities authorized to send law enforcement officers to other political subdivisions of State upon request in emergency situations.
Status: in_force

(A) The governing body of any municipality may upon the request of the governing body of any other political subdivision of the State, send any law enforcement officers to the requesting political subdivision in cases of emergency. A complete record of the request, together with the names of the officers sent, must be recorded in the minutes of the next regular or special meeting of the governing bodies of both the requesting and the sending political subdivisions. Failure to record the request at the next regular or special meeting of the governing bodies does not affect the applicability of the tort liability coverage. Expenses of the requested services may be borne by the requesting municipality. (B) When law enforcement officers are sent to another municipality pursuant to this section, the jurisdiction, authority, rights, privileges, and immunities, including coverage under the workmen's compensation laws, and tort liability coverage obtained pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 78 of Title 15, which they have in the sending municipality are extended to and include the area in which like benefits, authorities, and tort liability coverage are or could be afforded to the law enforcement officers of the requesting political subdivision. When so sent they have the same authority to make arrests and to execute criminal process as is vested by law in the law enforcement officers of the requesting political subdivision, but this section does not extend the effect of the laws of the sending political subdivision.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-21-720 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 21 / Article 7 / Section 5-21-720
SECTION 5-21-720. Exemption from taxes.
Status: in_force

Bonds issued under this article shall be exempt from all State, county, municipal, school district and other taxes or assessments, direct or indirect, general or special, whether imposed for the purpose of general revenue or otherwise.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-1380 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 11 / Section 5-25-1380
SECTION 5-25-1380. Failure to comply with article does not create cause of action or basis for insurance company to deny coverage.
Status: in_force

Failure to comply with the provisions of this article does not create a cause of action for a per se statutory violation for liability, or for negligence-based liability, for death, injury, or damages. Nor shall failure to comply with the provisions of this article be used by any insurance company to deny coverage, void a policy, or deny a claim.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-19-290 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 19 / Article 3 / Section 5-19-290
SECTION 5-19-290. Effect of provisions of article upon powers of city council.
Status: in_force

No clause or provision of this article shall be so construed as to deprive the city council of such municipality of its control over the operations of the police and fire departments or the right to prescribe and require the performance of the duties of the personnel of such departments, nor so as to deprive such city council of the right to control the finances and fix the number of employees in the departments and the compensation to be paid each and to exercise the exclusive right to purchase all equipment and supplies for such departments.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-19-200 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 19 / Article 3 / Section 5-19-200
SECTION 5-19-200. Register of successful applicants; re-examinations.
Status: in_force

The commission shall prepare and keep a register of persons successfully passing such examination, and such register shall determine the order of appointments under the rules and regulations established by the commission, except that after the expiration of one year from the date of such examination the commission may require further satisfactory examination on one or more of the points covered by the original examination before naming an applicant to a position in either department.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-27-180 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 27 / Article 3 / Section 5-27-180
SECTION 5-27-180. Names of streets and numbers of lots in counties with cities between 85,000 and 100,000.
Status: in_force

In any county containing a city having a population of more than eighty-five thousand and less than one hundred thousand, according to the latest official United States census, the city engineer of such city and the county engineer of such county may name any street or road beyond the borders of such incorporated city or town and may change and give a number to designate each lot of land facing and fronting on such street or road for a distance of every twenty-six feet. A copy of the plat, and any revisions thereof, showing the street or road to be named and lots to be numbered shall be filed with the county engineer before he or the city engineer may name any street or road or give a number to any lot thereon. The street or road shown on such plat shall be located and referenced with an existing named street or road or a fixed or natural marker. Any such name or any number designating such a lot facing on a street or road, when made, shall be certified to the office of the clerk of court of such county for recording.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-1-60 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 1 / Section 5-1-60
SECTION 5-1-60. Election managers' sworn returns of election results.
Status: in_force

The managers of the election shall make their sworn returns of the result of the election to the commissioners. The returns must show the total number of those voting in the election, together with the number of those voting on each question proposed. Effect of Amendment The 2005 amendment made nonsubstantive changes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-370 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 5 / Section 5-25-370
SECTION 5-25-370. Annual inspections required.
Status: in_force

At least once in each and every year the inspector or his deputy shall make a general inspection of all buildings in the corporate limits and ascertain if the provisions of this chapter are being complied with. The local inspector shall notify the occupant and owner of any premises of any defects found in this general inspection and shall see that they are properly corrected and that dangerous inflammable conditions on the premises are removed. Provided, that the inspector may enter a private dwelling or premise only with the permission of the owner or occupant, unless there exists probable cause to believe that there exists a violation of provisions respecting fire laws, or imminent danger to occupants thereof.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-21-650 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 21 / Article 7 / Section 5-21-650
SECTION 5-21-650. Maturities of bonds.
Status: in_force

Each issue of such paving bonds shall mature in annual installments of equal or unequal amounts, beginning not more than one year from the date of the bonds and ending not more than two years following the occasion when the last installment of the assessments, in anticipation of whose collection such bonds are issued, shall fall due. In fixing the dates or amounts of annual installments the municipal council shall consider the probable amounts to be collected in each year upon the assessments and shall endeavor, so far as may be practicable, to make the bonds mature in such amounts that the principal of the bonds will be paid by means of the assessments.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-1710 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 17 / Section 5-31-1710
SECTION 5-31-1710. Authorization for municipalities having populations between 3,000 and 4,000 to extend water or sewer disposal facilities beyond city limits.
Status: in_force

Any municipal corporation in this State having a population of between three thousand and four thousand based upon the latest United States census is hereby authorized and empowered, through action of its town council, to extend its water or sewer disposal facilities, any one or both, to any persons or corporations without the corporate limits of such municipality and to enter into contracts with such persons or corporations, or both, for the furnishing of water or sewage disposal facilities, any one or both, upon such terms, rates and charges as may be fixed by town council, either for domestic or industrial purposes, or both, when in the judgment of the town council it is for the best interest of the municipality so to do. No such contract shall be for a longer period than ten years but any such contract may be renewed from time to time for successive periods of ten years.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-660 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 7 / Section 5-25-660
SECTION 5-25-660. Construction of fireplaces and chimneys.
Status: in_force

All fireplaces and chimneys in stone or brick walls in any building erected after February 20 1917 and any chimneys or flues altered or repaired after said date shall have the joints struck smooth on the inside, and the firebacks of all fireplaces erected after said date shall be not less than eight inches in thickness of solid masonry, the chimney walls to be not less than four inches thick and the top of the chimney to extend not less than five feet above the roof for flat roofs and two feet above the ridge of any pitched roof. No woodwork or timber shall be placed under any fireplace or under the brickwork of any chimney. All floor beams, joists and headers shall be kept at least two inches clear of any wall enclosing a fire flue or chimney breast.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-7-12 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 7 / Section 5-7-12
SECTION 5-7-12. School resource officers; procedures for certain arrests; jurisdiction; employment rights.
Status: in_force

(A) The governing body of a municipality or county may upon the request of another governing body or of another political subdivision of the State, including school districts, designate certain officers to be assigned to the duty of a school resource officer and to work within the school systems of the municipality or county. The person assigned as a school resource officer shall have statewide jurisdiction to arrest persons committing crimes in connection with a school activity or school-sponsored event. In all circumstances in which a school resource officer arrests a student for a misdemeanor offense, the officer may issue a courtesy summons to appear to a student involved in the particular incident in connection with a school activity or school-sponsored event. Notwithstanding another provision of law, a student arrested for a misdemeanor offense by a school resource officer must have a bond hearing in magistrates court within twenty-four hours of his arrest. When acting pursuant to this section and outside of the sworn municipality or county of the school resource officer, the officer shall enjoy all authority, rights, privileges, and immunities, including coverage under the workers' compensation laws that he would have enjoyed if operating in his sworn jurisdiction. (B) For purposes of this section, a "school resource officer" is defined as a person who is a sworn law enforcement officer pursuant to the requirements of any jurisdiction of this State, who has completed the basic course of instruction for School Resource Officers as provided or recognized by the National Association of School Resource Officers or the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy, and who is assigned to one or more school districts within this State to have as a primary duty the responsibility to act as a law enforcement officer, advisor, and teacher for that school district. Effect of Amendment The 2008 amendment, in subsection (A), in the first sentence substituted "another" for "any other" in two places and added the third and fourth sentences relating to student arrests.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-27-110 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 27 / Article 3 / Section 5-27-110
SECTION 5-27-110. Maintenance and repair of streets and ways in towns of less than 1,000.
Status: in_force

Every town council of a town of less than one thousand inhabitants shall keep all streets and ways which may be necessary for public use within the limits of the town open and in good repair and for that purpose they are hereby invested with the powers, rights and privileges granted by law to the governing body of the county without the limits of the town. For neglect of duty they shall be liable to the pains and penalties imposed by SECTION 57-17-80 upon governing bodies of counties for like neglect.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-1600 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 15 / Section 5-31-1600
SECTION 5-31-1600. Certificates of indebtedness against assessments.
Status: in_force

The city or town council of any such city or town may issue certificates of indebtedness showing the amounts of money due to such city or town by property owners as deferred payments or installments upon such assessments and may sell any such certificates of indebtedness or borrow money by pledging any of them as collateral security for the payment of such debt or debts and, in the event of either a sale or collateral pledge of such certificates, or any of them, may pledge the faith and credit of such city or town for the payment thereof and guarantee the payment thereof for and in the name of such city or town. In any such case it shall not be necessary for a separate certificate of indebtedness to be issued showing the amount due from each property owner, but such certificates may be issued in denominations of one hundred dollars, or any multiple thereof. Nor shall it be necessary for the maturities of such certificates of indebtedness to correspond exactly to the maturities of such deferred payments or installments of the assessments and such certificates may be issued having fixed dates of maturities, but, in the event of payment of the assessments before the maturity of the certificates, the amount of such assessments so paid shall be placed in a sinking fund and held solely for the payment of the certificates of indebtedness issued against them.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-19-140 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 19 / Article 3 / Section 5-19-140
SECTION 5-19-140. Chairman and secretary.
Status: in_force

On the creation of such commission and each year thereafter when the expiring term has been filled, the commissioners shall elect from their number a chairman. The city clerk of such city or his assistant shall serve as secretary for the commission. The chairman shall enforce the orders of the commission and preside at its meetings. The secretary shall be the custodian of all the records of the commission and shall keep accurate minutes and records of all regular and special meetings of the commission.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-21-110 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 21 / Article 3 / Section 5-21-110
SECTION 5-21-110. Property subject to municipal taxes.
Status: repealed

All municipal taxes levied by cities and towns in this State shall be levied on all property, real and personal, not exempt by law from taxation, situate within the limits of such cities and towns. All clauses of charters of cities or towns restricting taxation in such cities or towns to real estate only are hereby repealed.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-21-240 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 21 / Article 5 / Section 5-21-240
SECTION 5-21-240. Municipal councils authorized to issue bonds; extent of issue.
Status: in_force

The municipal council of any municipality may issue general obligation bonds of such municipality for any corporate purpose of such municipality to any amount not exceeding the constitutional debt limitation applicable, if such there be, under the conditions prescribed by this article.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-19-250 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 19 / Article 3 / Section 5-19-250
SECTION 5-19-250. Suspension of employees by superior officers.
Status: in_force

An employee of either department may be suspended for a period not exceeding five days by his chief for the commission of any of the offenses referred to in SECTION 5-19-270, but such suspension shall be reported to the commission within twenty-four hours, and it may remove such suspension or shorten the term thereof.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-3-311 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 3 / Section 5-3-311
SECTION 5-3-311. Committee to formulate plan in absence of agreement.
Status: in_force

The plan contemplated by Sections 5-3-300 through 5-3-315 may be formulated by agreement of the district and the annexing municipality. If, however, the district and municipality do not agree on such a plan within ninety days following a favorable vote at the last referendum election required to be held to authorize the annexation, the district and the municipality must appoint a committee to formulate such a plan in accordance with the following: (1) The district and municipality shall each select a member of the committee and the two members so selected shall select a third member. (2) If the two members fail to select a third member within thirty days after the second of them is appointed, either member may petition the court of common pleas for the county in which the annexed area or any part thereof lies to appoint a third member. (3) Within ten days after appointment of a third member, the three members must select a committee chairman from among themselves. (4) Within sixty days after selection of a chairman, the committee must develop a plan and present it to the district and the municipality. (5) If either the annexing municipality or the district objects to the plan, it may appeal the plan to the court of common pleas for the county in which the annexed area or any part thereof lies. The appeal must be instituted within thirty days of the date the district or municipality receives the committee's plan. (6) The court may modify the plan forwarded by the committee only upon finding an error of law, abuse of discretion, or arbitrary or capricious action by the committee. (7) The fact that a plan has not been finalized may not in any way alter or delay the effective date of annexation; however, the district shall retain the right to operate its existing system, collect revenues, and collect taxes from or within the area annexed until such time as the municipality and the district agree on a plan or a plan is presented to the municipality and the district under item (4) above. In the event a plan is appealed to the courts, the court of common pleas for the county in which the annexed area or any part thereof lies may enter such orders under its general equitable powers as are necessary to protect the rights of parties pending final resolution of any appeal.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-140 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 3 / Section 5-25-140
SECTION 5-25-140. Electrical inspector.
Status: in_force

The city council of any incorporated city or town may, in its discretion, appoint an electrical inspector in addition to the building inspector, and when such electrical inspector is so appointed, he shall do and perform all things herein set out for the building inspector to do and perform in regard to electrical wiring and certificates for such wiring, and in such cases the building inspector shall be relieved of such duties.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-170 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 3 / Section 5-25-170
SECTION 5-25-170. Report to State Fire Marshal.
Status: in_force

After making a complete inquiry upon such fire any such inspector of buildings shall make a report in writing to the State Fire Marshal upon blanks to be furnished by the Marshal, showing how, in his opinion, the fire originated.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-1570 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 15 / Section 5-31-1570
SECTION 5-31-1570. Effect of default in payment of installment.
Status: in_force

Upon default in the payment of any installment or deferred portion of any assessment, at the time and in accordance with the terms and conditions fixed by ordinance, the total amount of such assessment then unpaid, including deferred installments or payments and interest, shall immediately become due and collectible, at the option of the city or town, and shall be collectible as city or town taxes are collected, with such penalties and costs as are provided for the payment of such taxes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-21-700 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 21 / Article 7 / Section 5-21-700
SECTION 5-21-700. Interest rates.
Status: in_force

Such bonds shall bear interest at the rate or rates to be named by the municipal council.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-640 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 7 / Section 5-31-640
SECTION 5-31-640. Petition prerequisite to election.
Status: in_force

Before any election shall be held under the provisions of this article at least twenty-five per cent of the resident freeholders of the city or town, as shown by its tax books, shall petition the city or town council that such election be ordered.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-410 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 5 / Section 5-31-410
SECTION 5-31-410. Purchase of lands for public works within corporate limits.
Status: in_force

Any municipal corporation desiring to become the owner of any land, situate within the corporate limits of such municipal corporation, in this State, for the erection of a public building for the use of the corporation or the purpose of procuring a supply of water or establishing a sewerage system or other public works for the use of the corporation, may purchase such land from the owner thereof and pay for it in such manner as such municipal corporation may determine.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-15-130 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 15 / Section 5-15-130
SECTION 5-15-130. Procedures for contesting results of election.
Status: in_force

Within forty-eight hours after the closing of the polls, any candidate may contest the result of the election as reported by the managers by filing a written notice of such contest together with a concise statement of the grounds therefor with the Municipal Election Commission. Within forty-eight hours after the filing of such notice, the Municipal Election Commission shall, after due notice to the parties concerned, conduct a hearing on the contest, decide the issues raised, file its report together with all recorded testimony and exhibits with the clerk of court of the county in which the municipality is situated, notify the parties concerned of the decisions made, and when the decision invalidates the election the council shall order a new election as to the parties concerned. Neither the mayor nor any member of council shall be eligible to pass on the issues arising in any contest in which he is a party.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-1340 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 13 / Section 5-31-1340
SECTION 5-31-1340. Persons entitled to vote; conduct of election.
Status: in_force

The city or town council shall conduct the election, appoint managers therefor and canvass and declare the result thereof in the manner provided by law in reference to general elections in such city or town. All qualified electors of such city or town shall be entitled to vote in the election.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-2530 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 25 / Section 5-31-2530
SECTION 5-31-2530. Third party notification program.
Status: in_force

Each municipality furnishing electricity or natural gas to its citizens must consider establishing and maintaining a third-party notification program to allow a residential customer to designate a third party to be notified if the electric or natural gas service is scheduled for termination.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-21-780 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 21 / Article 7 / Section 5-21-780
SECTION 5-21-780. Credit pledged for payment; levy of taxes to pay.
Status: in_force

The full faith, credit and taxing power of the municipality shall be pledged for the punctual payment of the principal and interest of all bonds issued pursuant to this article as such principal and interest become due. The municipal council shall levy annually on all taxable property in the municipality a tax sufficient to pay such principal and interest as they respectively become due. Such tax, however, shall be reduced in each year by the amount of moneys in the special fund provided for by SECTION 5-21-790 which are applicable to the payment of such principal and interest then due or falling due in such year, and such tax shall be entirely suspended for such year in case such moneys on hand and applicable as aforesaid are sufficient to pay such principal and interest then due or falling due in such year and remaining unpaid.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-920 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 7 / Section 5-25-920
SECTION 5-25-920. Rows of frame houses.
Status: in_force

In rows of frame houses, the dividing walls or partitions between houses shall be built of brick, terra cotta, concrete or other incombustible material or they may be built with four-inch studs, filled solidly with brickwork laid in mortar or with other incombustible material. If lath be used on such partitions, it shall be metal lath. Such dividing partitions shall rest on masonry walls and shall extend to the underside of roof boards. A flush mortar joint shall be made between the roof boards and the wall or partition. In rows of more than three houses, every alternate division wall or partition shall be constructed of solid brickwork not less than eight inches in thickness. Buildings with wooden framework, clad with sheet metal or veneered with brick, shall be classed as frame buildings.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-440 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 5 / Section 5-25-440
SECTION 5-25-440. Records kept by inspector.
Status: in_force

The inspector shall keep the following records: (1) A book indexed and kept so that it will show readily by reference all such buildings as are approved, that is, the name and residence of the owner, the location of the building, how it is or is to be occupied, the date of inspection, what defects were found and when remedied and date of the building certificate; (2) A record which shall show the date of every general inspection, defects discovered and when remedied; (3) A record which shall show the date, circumstances and origin of every fire that occurs, the name of the owner and occupant of the building in which the fire originated and the kind and value of property destroyed or damaged; and (4) A record of inspection of electrical wiring and certificates issued.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-50 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 25 / Article 1 / Section 5-25-50
SECTION 5-25-50. Amount of explosives, inflammable liquids and matches that may be kept.
Status: in_force

Explosives, inflammable liquids and matches may be kept within the corporate limits only in such quantities and in such manner as shall not cause an increase in the insurance rate on any property affected thereby.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-21-350 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 21 / Article 5 / Section 5-21-350
SECTION 5-21-350. Redemption privilege.
Status: in_force

All bonds maturing subsequent to fifteen years from their date shall be subject to redemption not later than fifteen years from their date and on all subsequent interest payment dates prior to their respective maturities. Bonds may be issued with a provision permitting their redemption on any interest payment date prior to their respective maturities. Bonds made subject to redemption prior to their stated maturities may contain a provision requiring the municipality to pay a premium for the privilege of exercising the right of redemption, in such amount as the municipal council shall have prescribed in the proceedings taken to authorize the issuance of such bonds. All bonds that are subject to redemption shall contain a statement to that effect on the face of each bond. In the proceedings authorizing the issuance of such bonds, provision shall be made specifying the manner of call and the notice thereof that must be given.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-31-870 — SC Code / Title 5 / Chapter 31 / Article 9 / Section 5-31-870
SECTION 5-31-870. Sewerage commission; records.
Status: in_force

A permanent record shall be made and kept by each sewerage commission of all its proceedings, contracts and other matters done and performed by it, including an accurate plan of the work done, showing the situation of the sewerage pipes, manholes, water flushes and all other things relating thereto that should be shown. And such records shall be open at all times to the inspection of any citizen of such municipality and to the city or town council thereof and shall be turned over to such city or town council as a permanent record thereof, with all convenient speed, on the completion of the work.