S.C. Code Ann. § 30-5-40 — SC Code / Title 30 / Chapter 5 / Section 30-5-40
SECTION 30-5-40. Validation of certain instruments executed between May 11, 1972 and June 22, 1973.
Status: in_force

(1) Any deed or other instrument purporting to convey an interest in or lien upon real estate executed after May 11, 1972 and prior to June 22, 1973, which in all other respects meets the requirements of law, whether executed within or without this State, and whether or not such instrument was executed in the presence of and subscribed by two or more witnesses, as provided in SECTION 27-7-10, is hereby validated as to execution from the time of such execution and entitled to recordation if: (a) The execution thereof was acknowledged in a form substantially identical to the forms set forth in SECTION 26-3-70, Uniform Recognition of Acknowledgments Act; or (b) The execution thereof was acknowledged in a form conforming substantially to the provisions of SECTION 30-5-30, subsection (3), as amended in 1972. (2) The recordation of any such instrument is hereby validated and declared to have constituted legal notice from the time of such recordation, if such instrument complies with the recording of statutes of this State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 30-9-10 — SC Code / Title 30 / Chapter 9 / Section 30-9-10
SECTION 30-9-10. Indexes to records of registry.
Status: in_force

To the records of the registry, reference shall be had by means of two indexes, both containing the year of registry, names of parties, record and page, the alphabetical arrangement of one being according to the names of the parties who executed the writings and of the other according to the names of the parties to whom they were executed.
S.C. Code Ann. § 30-2-10 — SC Code / Title 30 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 30-2-10
SECTION 30-2-10. Short title.
Status: in_force

This chapter shall be designated as the "Family Privacy Protection Act of 2002".
S.C. Code Ann. § 30-2-20 — SC Code / Title 30 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 30-2-20
SECTION 30-2-20. Privacy policies and procedures required of all state entities.
Status: in_force

All state agencies, boards, commissions, institutions, departments, and other state entities, by whatever name known, must develop privacy policies and procedures to ensure that the collection of personal information pertaining to citizens of the State is limited to such personal information required by any such agency, board, commission, institution, department, or other state entity and necessary to fulfill a legitimate public purpose.
S.C. Code Ann. § 30-7-80 — SC Code / Title 30 / Chapter 7 / Section 30-7-80
SECTION 30-7-80. Manner and form of recordation of instruments conveying an interest in or lien on personal property.
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided by statute, the recordation of the assignments, satisfactions, releases, contracts in the nature of subordinations, waivers, and extensions of chattel mortgages or other instruments conveying an interest in or creating a lien on personal property must be upon the record of the recorded mortgage or other written instrument, except that the instrument may be recorded elsewhere in the book for the recordation of mortgages should there be no place upon the record of the recorded mortgage or other written instrument sufficient for the recordation of the assignment, satisfaction, release, contract in the nature of subordination, waiver, or extension of the lien, in which event there must be entered on the margin of the recorded mortgage or other written instrument whose assignment, satisfaction, release, contract in the nature of subordination, waiver, or extension has been thus recorded elsewhere an appropriate reference to the recordation, giving the names of the parties to the recordation, the date, and the book and page where the instrument is recorded. In any county where the records are photographed, microphotographed, or filmed, and there is no place upon the record of the recorded mortgage or other written instrument, or upon the margin of the recorded mortgage or other written instrument sufficient for the recordation of the assignments, satisfactions, releases, contracts in the nature of subordinations, waivers, and extensions of chattel mortgages or other instruments, the documents may be separately recorded as other instruments, and notation of the place of the recordation must be entered on the index for the mortgage or other written instrument or in a legible manner in the jacket or other container for the photograph, microphotograph, or film. Any assignment, satisfaction, release, contract in the nature of subordination, waiver, or extension of a chattel mortgage or other instrument conveying an interest in or creating a lien on personal property, to be entitled to be recorded as herein provided must be in writing and witnessed, as mortgages of personal property are required to be witnessed and not probated when it is upon the original mortgage or other instrument itself, but when it is upon a separate piece then it must be probated in the same way as is required for the probating of mortgages of personal property.
S.C. Code Ann. § 30-5-90 — SC Code / Title 30 / Chapter 5 / Section 30-5-90
SECTION 30-5-90. Recordation of marriage settlements, conveyances, mortgages, and other writings.
Status: in_force

The register of deeds is required to record in the order of the times at which they may be brought to his office, all marriage settlements and all conveyances and mortgages, renunciations of dower and other writings concerning the titles to lands situate in his county which may be lodged with him to be recorded if the execution of any such writing shall be proved by affidavit of a subscribing witness, or otherwise, as herein provided. Every such writing shall be recorded within thirty days after its lodgment and the recording shall bear even date with the lodgment. On every such writing shall be endorsed a certificate, to be signed by the register or his deputy, specifying the time when and book and page where it was recorded. Code Commissioner's Note 1997 Act No. 34, SECTION 1, directed the Code Commissioner to change all references to "Register of Mesne Conveyances" to "Register of Deeds" wherever appearing in the 1976 Code of Laws. Editor's Note 2022 Act No. 213, SECTION 4, provides as follows: "SECTION 4. If a quo warranto action is brought in accordance with Section 15-63-60 alleging (a) a register of deeds has a pattern of failing to record in the time and manner prescribed in Section 30-5-90, and (b) the pattern of failing to record occurred only prior to the effective date of this act, then the register of deeds may assert as an affirmative defense to the action that, on the date the action is filed and for thirty consecutive days thereafter, no properly delivered and executed document remains unrecorded in the office for more than thirty days after its receipt." Effect of Amendment 2022 Act No. 213, SECTION 2, in the second sentence, substituted "thirty days" for "one month".
S.C. Code Ann. § 30-5-60 — SC Code / Title 30 / Chapter 5 / Section 30-5-60
SECTION 30-5-60. Validity of instruments recorded without impressed seals of officers administering oaths.
Status: in_force

Any instrument heretofore or hereafter recorded in this State, which does not have affixed the impressed seal of the authorized officer who administered the oath or affirmation contained therein, shall be valid and constitute notice as though such impressed seal were affixed.
S.C. Code Ann. § 30-11-60 — SC Code / Title 30 / Chapter 11 / Section 30-11-60
SECTION 30-11-60. Satisfaction of mortgage.
Status: in_force

When any such mortgage so filed shall be fully satisfied, the mortgagee shall note such satisfaction on the margin of the copy on file or declare the mortgage to be satisfied in a separate instrument in writing to be filed as provided in SECTION 30-11-40 under a penalty of five hundred dollars to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction at the suit of the mortgagor, his assignees or any other party aggrieved thereby.
S.C. Code Ann. § 30-5-20 — SC Code / Title 30 / Chapter 5 / Section 30-5-20
SECTION 30-5-20. Certified copies of recorded instruments; effect of furnishing incorrect copy.
Status: in_force

The register of deeds, or his deputy, shall be required, on application, to give a certified copy of any writing recorded in his office, the fees for such copy being first paid in advance, if required or tendered, as the case may be. If the register or his deputy shall furnish an incorrect transcript of any deed recorded, he shall forfeit and pay to the party the damages that may accrue in consequence thereof. Code Commissioner's Note 1997 Act No. 34, SECTION 1, directed the Code Commissioner to change all references to "Register of Mesne Conveyances" to "Register of Deeds" wherever appearing in the 1976 Code of Laws.
S.C. Code Ann. § 30-5-200 — SC Code / Title 30 / Chapter 5 / Section 30-5-200
SECTION 30-5-200. Certificate on recorded instruments.
Status: in_force

Whenever any instrument in writing required by law to be filed and recorded has been so recorded, the clerk or register shall endorse on such instrument a certificate showing the date and the book and page where recorded and for this certificate no fee shall be charged or collected.
S.C. Code Ann. § 30-5-100 — SC Code / Title 30 / Chapter 5 / Section 30-5-100
SECTION 30-5-100. Procedure for transfer of recording when instrument was recorded in wrong county.
Status: in_force

(1) When any instrument conveying an interest in real property is recorded in one county and it is subsequently determined that property described therein is in fact located in another county, a copy of the instrument certified by the clerk of court of the county of original recordation may be recorded in the county of correct property location and such recording shall thereafter constitute full legal notice according to the tenor of the instrument being recorded. (2) When the recordation of any instrument is transferred from one county to another in the manner authorized in subsection (1), there shall be inscribed on the certified copy of the instrument a certificate of the county auditor or his counterpart that the property described in the rerecorded instrument is in fact located in the county of rerecordation. (3) The procedures provided for in this section for the transfer of recordation of instruments shall in no way affect the existing law which permits the recording of an original instrument in more than one county.
S.C. Code Ann. § 30-9-20 — SC Code / Title 30 / Chapter 9 / Section 30-9-20
SECTION 30-9-20. Separate indexes.
Status: in_force

The clerks and registers of deeds of the several counties shall provide separate indexes for the different sets of records provided for them. Code Commissioner's Note 1997 Act No. 34, SECTION 1, directed the Code Commissioner to change all references to "Register of Mesne Conveyances" to "Register of Deeds" wherever appearing in the 1976 Code of Laws.
S.C. Code Ann. § 30-5-250 — SC Code / Title 30 / Chapter 5 / Section 30-5-250
SECTION 30-5-250. Effect of reference in deed or other instrument to recorded plats.
Status: in_force

When any recorded deed, mortgage or other instrument conveying an interest in, or creating a lien on, real property, refers to the boundaries, metes, courses or distances of such real estate delineated or shown on any such plat or blueprint, tracing, photostatic or other copy of such plat, recorded and indexed as herein authorized, and such deed, mortgage or other instrument states the office, book and page of recordation of any such plat or blueprint, tracing, photostatic or other copy thereof, such reference shall be equivalent to setting forth in extenso in such deed, mortgage or other instrument the boundaries, metes, courses or distances of such real estate as may be delineated or shown on any such plat or blueprint, tracing photostatic or other copy thereof.