S.C. Code Ann. § 6-9-5 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 9 / Section 6-9-5
SECTION 6-9-5. Public policy for building codes.
Status: in_force

(A) The public policy of South Carolina is to maintain reasonable standards of construction in buildings and other structures in the State consistent with the public health, safety, and welfare of its citizens. To secure these purposes, a person performing building codes enforcement must be certified by the South Carolina Building Codes Council, and this act is necessary to provide for certification. (B) To clarify the intent of the General Assembly and address questions which might arise or have arisen with respect to provisions of the nationally known codes which have been or are in place, only those portions or provisions of the nationally known building and safety codes which relate to building standards and safety are binding upon a state or local governmental entity or agency which adopts the building and safety codes authorized or required by this chapter. (C) To further clarify the intent of the General Assembly, Chapter 9, Title 23 continues to apply to a person who may act under authority of the State Fire Marshal and that the allocation of inspection duties among local officials is not dictated by Title 6 but remains a matter for the local authority. Code Commissioner's Note This section was classified as SECTION 6-9-5 at the direction of the Code Commissioner. Effect of Amendment The 2003 amendment designated the first and second undesignated paragraphs as subsections (A) and (B), substituted "this chapter" for "Chapter 9 of Title 6 of the South Carolina Code of Laws" and made a nonsubstantive change in subsection (B), and added subsection (C) relating to persons acting under the authority of the Fire Marshal and the allocation of inspection duties.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-29-1310 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 29 / Article 9 / Section 6-29-1310
SECTION 6-29-1310. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this article: (1) "Advisory committee" means the State Advisory Committee on Educational Requirements for Local Government Planning or Zoning Officials and Employees; (2) "Appointed official" means a planning commissioner, board of zoning appeals member, or board of architectural review member; (3) "Clerk" means the clerk of the local governing body; (4) "Local governing body" means the legislative governing body of a county or municipality; (5) "Planning or zoning entity" means a planning commission, board of zoning appeals, or board of architectural review; (6) "Professional employee" means a planning professional, zoning administrator, zoning official, or a deputy or assistant of a planning professional, zoning administrator, or zoning official.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-9-90 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 9 / Section 6-9-90
SECTION 6-9-90. Imposition of fees upon vote; exceptions.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the governing body of a county or municipality may impose fees necessary and consistent with Section 6-9-30(B) to implement and continue the programs required by this chapter upon a vote of a simple majority of the governing body unless a super majority vote is required by local ordinance. Effect of Amendment The 2003 amendment added "and consistent with Section 6-9-30(B)" preceding "to implement" and deleted "(1)" preceding "a super majority", ", or" after "ordinance", and clauses (2) and (3) relating other exceptions to this section following "local ordinance".
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-13-670 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 13 / Article 7 / Section 6-13-670
SECTION 6-13-670. Fiscal year, audit and annual report.
Status: in_force

The district shall conduct its affairs on the fiscal year basis employed by the State. As shortly after the close of its fiscal year as may be practicable, an audit of its affairs shall be made by certified public accountants of good standing, to be designated by the district. Copies of such audits incorporated into an annual report of the district shall be filed with the Auditor and Treasurer of Fairfield County, and the Auditor and Treasurer of Chester County, and with the secretary to the Legislative Delegation of Fairfield County and Chester County.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-16-50 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 16 / Section 6-16-50
SECTION 6-16-50. Representatives to joint agency; application to Secretary of State; Secretary to examine application; corporate certificate; agency deemed valid.
Status: in_force

Upon fulfilling the requirements set forth in SECTION 6-16-40, each governing body which determines that its participation in the proposed joint agency is in its best interest shall by resolution appoint one representative to the proposed joint agency. Any two or more representatives shall file with the Secretary of State an application signed by the representative of each proposed member setting forth: (a) The names of all the proposed members and their respective appointed representatives; (b) A certified copy of (i) the resolution or ordinance of each member determining it is in its best interest to participate in the proposed joint agency and (ii) the resolution appointing such member's representative; (c) The desire that the joint agency be organized as a public body and a body corporate and politic under this chapter; (d) The name which is proposed for the joint agency. The Secretary of State shall file the application if after examining it and determining that it complies with the requirements set forth above and that the proposed name of the joint agency is not identical with that of any other corporation of the State or any agency or instrumentality or so nearly similar as to lead to confusion and uncertainty. After the application has been made and filed, the Secretary of State shall issue a corporate certificate which shall be filed with the application and the joint agency shall then be constituted a public body corporate and politic under the name proposed in the application. The corporate certificate shall set forth the names of the members and the name of the joint agency. Notice of the issuance of such corporate certificate shall be given to all members of the joint agency by the Secretary of State. In any suit, action or proceeding involving the validity or enforcement of, or relating to, any contract of a joint agency, the joint agency in the absence of establishing fraud shall be conclusively deemed to have been established in accordance with the provisions of this chapter upon proof of the issuance of the certificate by the Secretary of State. A copy of such certificate, duly certified by the Secretary of State, shall be admissible in evidence in any such suit, action or proceeding and shall be conclusive proof of the filing and contents.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-13-280 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 13 / Article 3 / Section 6-13-280
SECTION 6-13-280. Wilful damage or destruction of district property, pollution of waters or obtaining water illegally.
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for any person to wilfully injure or destroy, or in any manner hurt, damage, tamper with, or impair the system of the district, or any part thereof, or any machinery, apparatus or equipment of the district, or to pollute the water in any part of its system, or to obtain water therefrom except in accordance with the regulations promulgated by the district. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned for not more than thirty days, in the discretion of the court, and shall be further liable to pay all damages suffered by the district.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-610 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 3 / Section 6-11-610
SECTION 6-11-610. Changes in district commissions pursuant to modification of districts.
Status: in_force

If the county board shall have found that by reason of its action in enlarging, diminishing or consolidating, there should be a new commission or changes made in the personnel of the old commission for the special purpose district to result from its action in order to provide for the proper functioning of the special purpose district, then in such event it shall advise the Governor of its recommendations. The number of commissioners shall be not less than three nor more than nine. All members of any commission so altered shall hold office for terms to begin upon their appointment and to end two years from the January first following the date of the action of the county board, and the term of all other members of the commission shall extend to and end on such date. All new members to any commission shall be appointed by the Governor upon recommendation of a majority of the legislative delegation of the county, including the resident Senator or Senators, if any. Vacancies in office shall be filled in like manner for the balance of the term of the person whom the appointee is replacing. Following the expiration of the term of office of all members of the commission (whether appointed pursuant to this article or otherwise) successors shall be appointed in the manner provided by this section. All members of any commission shall hold office until their successors shall have been appointed and shall have qualified. In instances where two or more special purpose districts petition the county board for consolidation such petitions may prescribe that the members of the commission of the consolidated special purpose district shall be selected in the manner in which the members of the commission of any petitioning special purpose district have heretofore been selected and for terms of office commensurate with the terms of office of the members of the commission of any petitioning special purpose district; provided, that if the members of the commission of any of the petitioning special purpose districts have been elected by popular election, the members of the commission of the consolidated special purpose district shall be elected by such election for terms of office commensurate with the terms of office of the members of the commission of any of the petitioning special purpose districts.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-13-270 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 13 / Article 3 / Section 6-13-270
SECTION 6-13-270. Fiscal year, audit and annual report.
Status: in_force

The district shall conduct its affairs on the fiscal year basis employed by the State. As shortly after the close of its fiscal year as may be practicable, an audit of its affairs shall be made by certified public accountants of good standing, to be designated by the district. Copies of such audits incorporated into an annual report of the district shall be filed with the Auditor and Treasurer of Oconee County, and the Auditor and Treasurer of Anderson County, and with the secretary to the Legislative Delegation of Oconee County and Anderson County.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-9-50 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 9 / Section 6-9-50
SECTION 6-9-50. Adoption by reference of nationally recognized codes and standards; outdoor burning exception.
Status: in_force

(A) The council shall adopt by reference and amend only the latest editions of the following nationally recognized codes and the standards referenced in those codes for regulation of construction within this State: building, residential, gas, plumbing, mechanical, fire, and energy codes as promulgated, published, or made available by the International Code Council, Inc. and the National Electrical Code as published by the National Fire Protection Association. The appendices of the codes provided in this section may be adopted as needed, but the specific appendix or appendices must be referenced by name or letter designation at the time of adoption. However, the provisions of the codes referenced in this section which concern the qualification, removal, dismissal, duties, responsibilities of, and administrative procedures for all building officials, deputy building officials, chief inspectors, other inspectors, and assistants do not apply unless they have been adopted by the municipal or county governing body. (B) The governing body of a county may not enforce that portion of a nationally recognized fire prevention code it has adopted which may regulate outdoor burning for forestry, wildlife, and agricultural purposes as regulated by the South Carolina Forestry Commission. Editor's Note 2009 Act No. 46 SECTION 3, effective July 1, 2009, provides as follows: "The provisions of this act do not apply to projects which have received the proper permits as required by law before the effective date of this act." Effect of Amendment The 2003 amendment rewrote subsection (A) and added subsections (D), relating to public accessibility through the Internet to referenced codes adopted by the council, and (E), relating to homes with three floors of living space being considered a three-story building. The 2009 amendment deleted subsections (C) through (E) relating to compliance by residential buildings.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-410 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 3 / Section 6-11-410
SECTION 6-11-410. Definitions.
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Special purpose district" shall mean any district created by act of the General Assembly prior to March 7, 1973, and to which has been committed prior to March 7, 1973, any local governmental function. (b) "County board" shall mean the governing bodies of the several counties of the State as now or hereafter constituted. (c) "Commission" shall mean the governing body of any special purpose district as now or hereafter constituted.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-29-330 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 29 / Article 1 / Section 6-29-330
SECTION 6-29-330. Areas of jurisdiction; agreement for county planning commission to act as municipal planning commission.
Status: in_force

(A) A municipality may exercise the powers granted under the provisions of this chapter in the total area within its corporate limits. A county may exercise the powers granted under the provisions of this chapter in the total unincorporated area or specific parts of the unincorporated area. Unincorporated areas of the county or counties adjacent to incorporated municipalities may be added to and included in the area under municipal jurisdiction for the purposes of this chapter provided that the municipality and county councils involved adopt ordinances establishing the boundaries of the additional areas, the limitations of the authority to be exercised by the municipality, and representation on the boards and commissions provided under this chapter. The agreement must be formally approved and executed by the municipal council and the county councils involved. (B) The governing body of a municipality may designate by ordinance the county planning commission as the official planning commission of the municipality. In the event of the designation, and acceptance by the county, the county planning commission may exercise the powers and duties as provided in this chapter for municipal planning commissions as are specified in the agreement reached by the governing authorities. The agreement must specify the procedures for the exercise of powers granted in the chapter and shall address the issue of equitable representation of the municipality and the county on the boards and commissions authorized by this chapter. This agreement must be formally stated in appropriate ordinances by the governing authorities involved.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-37-10 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 37 / Section 6-37-10
SECTION 6-37-10. Citation of chapter.
Status: repealed

This chapter may be cited as the "Beaufort-Jasper Water and Sewer Authority Act". Editor's Note 2009 Act No. 55 SECTION 2 provides a follows: "The provisions of this act are intended to supersede all other legislative acts or actions of a county council which are inconsistent with this act. Therefore, all other legislative acts or actions of a county council taken to date concerning the establishment of the authority that are inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistencies."
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-960 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 5 / Section 6-11-960
SECTION 6-11-960. Interest on bonds.
Status: in_force

Bonds issued pursuant to this article shall bear interest at a rate or rates determined by the commission within the limitations of SECTION 11-9-350.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-810 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 5 / Section 6-11-810
SECTION 6-11-810. Definitions.
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Commission" shall mean the governing body of any special purpose district. (b) "County board" shall mean the governing body of the several counties of this State as now or hereafter constituted, and where a special purpose district is in more than one county shall mean the governing body of each county wherein the special purpose district shall be located. (c) "Bonds" shall mean obligations of a special purpose district for the payment of all or any part of the principal and interest of which ad valorem taxes are to be levied. (d) "Special purpose district" shall mean any district created by act of the General Assembly prior to March 7 1973, and to which has been committed prior to March 7 1973, any local governmental power or function. (e) "Power" shall mean any power or function committed to any special purpose district in effect on March 7 1973.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-24-50 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 24 / Section 6-24-50
SECTION 6-24-50. Appointment of representatives; application to Secretary of State; issuance and legal effect of corporate certificate.
Status: in_force

(A) Upon fulfilling the requirements of Section 6-24-40, each governmental entity participating in the proposed joint agency shall appoint by resolution one representative to the proposed joint agency. Two or more appointed representatives shall file with the Secretary of State an application signed by the representative of each of the proposed members. The application must include: (1) names of all the proposed members and their respective appointed representatives; (2) a certified copy of: (i) the resolution of each member determining it is in its best interests or the best interests of those it serves to participate in the proposed joint agency; and (ii) the resolution appointing the member's representative; (3) the statement of desire that the joint agency be organized as a public body and a body corporate and politic pursuant to this chapter; (4) the proposed name for the joint agency; and (5) the method of appointment of the board of directors, including the number of directors appointed by each member. (B) The Secretary of State shall file the application after examining it and determining that it complies with the requirements of subsection (A) and that the proposed name of the joint agency is not identical to that of another corporation of the State or an agency or instrumentality, or so similar as to lead to confusion and uncertainty. (C) The Secretary of State then shall issue a corporate certificate. The corporate certificate must include the names of the members and the name of the joint agency. The existence of the joint agency as a public body corporate and politic under the proposed name begins when the corporate certificate is issued by the Secretary of State. Notice of the issuance of the corporate certificate must be given to all members of the joint agency by the Secretary of State. (D) In any suit, action, or proceeding involving the validity or enforcement of or otherwise relating to a contract of a joint agency, the joint agency is presumed conclusively to have been established in accordance with the provisions of this chapter upon proof of the issuance of the certificate by the Secretary of State, absent a showing of fraud. A copy of the certificate, duly certified by the Secretary of State, is admissible in evidence in any suit, action, or proceeding and is conclusive proof of the filing and contents.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-15-120 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 15 / Section 6-15-120
SECTION 6-15-120. Enforcement of contracts.
Status: in_force

Any contract authorized pursuant to this chapter may provide for the enforcement of its terms and provisions through the means of specific performance, and any court of competent jurisdiction shall be fully empowered to enforce such contract according to its terms and conditions, and may utilize the process of injunction or mandamus to effect the enforcement thereof; and one contracting party may compel another contracting party to enforce the collection of sewer service charges where the agreement to impose sewer service charges is an obligation of any contract.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-5-20 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 5 / Section 6-5-20
SECTION 6-5-20. Delegation of investment authority.
Status: in_force

The governing body may delegate the investment authority provided by SECTION 6-5-10 to the treasurer or other financial officer or any fiscal agent or corporate trustee charged with custody of the funds of the local government, who shall thereafter assume full responsibility for such investment transaction until the delegation of authority terminates or is revoked.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-29-740 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 29 / Article 5 / Section 6-29-740
SECTION 6-29-740. Planned development districts.
Status: in_force

In order to achieve the objectives of the comprehensive plan of the locality and to allow flexibility in development that will result in improved design, character, and quality of new mixed use developments and preserve natural and scenic features of open spaces, the local governing authority may provide for the establishment of planned development districts as amendments to a locally adopted zoning ordinance and official zoning map. The adopted planned development map is the zoning district map for the property. The planned development provisions must encourage innovative site planning for residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial developments within planned development districts. Planned development districts may provide for variations from other ordinances and the regulations of other established zoning districts concerning use, setbacks, lot size, density, bulk, and other requirements to accommodate flexibility in the arrangement of uses for the general purpose of promoting and protecting the public health, safety, and general welfare. Amendments to a planned development district may be authorized by ordinance of the governing authority after recommendation from the planning commission. These amendments constitute zoning ordinance amendments and must follow prescribed procedures for the amendments. The adopted plan may include a method for minor modifications to the site plan or development provisions.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-9-80 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 9 / Section 6-9-80
SECTION 6-9-80. Mandamus and injunctive relief for violation of code or regulation; penalties.
Status: in_force

(A) For a violation of the building codes or regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter, the local building officials, municipal or county attorneys, or other appropriate authorities of a political subdivision, or an adjacent or neighboring property owner who would be damaged by the violation, in addition to other remedies, may apply for injunctive relief, mandamus, or other appropriate proceeding. A court may grant temporary injunctive relief upon receipt of a verified complaint of an imminent danger or emergency situation. (B) A person found to be in violation of a building code or regulation adopted pursuant to the provisions of this chapter must be cited and fined, by civil fine, in an amount not more than two hundred dollars. Before being charged with a second violation, the person must be given seven calendar days to remedy the violation or submit a plan for correcting the violation. (C) A person who fails to correct a violation or submit a plan for correcting a violation within seven calendar days after citation or written notice must be cited and fined, by civil fine, in an amount not to exceed two thousand dollars. Each day a violation continues is a separate offense. 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. Effect of Amendment The 2003 amendment designated the existing undesignated paragraph as subsection (A) and added the second sentence of new subsection (A), relating to granting injunctive relief upon complaint of imminent danger or emergency, and subsections (B) and (C), relating to penalties for violations of the building code and the failure to correct or submit a plan to correct violations.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-13-420 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 13 / Article 5 / Section 6-13-420
SECTION 6-13-420. Service area.
Status: in_force

The district shall include and be comprised of the following territory which shall be known as the service area: Beginning at a point in the center line of the Saluda River, joint corner of Anderson, Pickens and Greenville Counties; thence down the center line of the Saluda River in a southerly direction to the mouth of Brushy Creek; thence up the center line of Brushy Creek in a northerly direction for a distance of one mile; thence along a straight line in a southwesterly direction to the intersection of the center lines of Interstate Highway No. 85 and South Carolina Highway No. 86; thence in a northwesterly direction along the center line of South Carolina Highway No. 86 to the intersection of the center lines of such highway and a paved county road, the intersection being 0.5 miles southeast of the junction of South Carolina Highways No. 8 and No. 86; thence along a straight line in a northerly direction to the intersection of the center lines of Road S-4-485 and Brushy Creek; thence along the center line of Brushy Creek in a northerly direction across the Anderson-Pickens County line to a point; thence N 60° E to the intersection of the center lines of Roads S-39-29 and S-39-133; thence in a northeasterly direction along the center line of Road S-39-133 to its intersection with the center line of Road S-39-28; thence in an easterly direction along the center line of Road S-39-28 to its intersection with the center line of a paved county road, the intersection being 0.3 miles west of the junction of Roads S-29-28 and S-39-39; thence in a northerly direction along the center line of the county road to the intersection of its center line with the center lines of U. S. Highway No. 123 and Road S-39-189; thence in a northerly direction along the center line of Road S-39-189 to its intersection with the center line of the Southern Railway right-of-way; thence in a northeasterly direction along the center line of the Southern Railway right-of-way to its intersection with Georges Creek; thence up Georges Creek in a northwesterly direction to the center of the mouth of Burdine Creek; thence northeasterly in a straight line to the intersection of the center lines of South Carolina Highway No. 183 and a paved county road at the old Vineland School site; thence in a northerly direction to the intersection of the center lines of Roads S-39-110 and S-39-205 at Hunts Church; thence due east to a point in the center line of the Saluda River; thence down the center line of the Saluda River to the point of beginning.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-450 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 3 / Section 6-11-450
SECTION 6-11-450. Hearing.
Status: in_force

Such hearing shall be conducted publicly and both proponents and opponents of the proposed action shall be given full opportunity to be heard.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-290 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 6-11-290
SECTION 6-11-290. Construction of article; no effect on Department of Health and Environmental Control.
Status: in_force

This article being necessary for the public health, safety and welfare, it shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes thereof. But all functions, powers and duties of the Department of Health and Environmental Control shall remain unaffected by this article.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-17-60 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 17 / Section 6-17-60
SECTION 6-17-60. Terms and form of refunding bonds.
Status: in_force

The refunding bonds may be issued in one or more series, may bear such date or dates, may mature at such time or times not exceeding the period of usefulness of the enterprise, as determined by the governing body in its discretion, nor in any event exceeding forty years from their respective dates, may bear such rate or rates of interest as the governing body shall determine, may be in such denomination or denominations, may be in such form, either coupon or registered, may carry such registration and conversion privileges, may be executed in such manner, may be payable in such medium of payment, at such place or places, may be subject to such terms of redemption, with or without premium, may be declared or become due before the maturity date thereof, may provide for the replacement of mutilated, destroyed, stolen or lost bonds, may be authenticated in such manner and upon compliance with such conditions, and may contain such other terms and covenants, as may be provided by resolution or resolutions of the governing body of the municipality. Notwithstanding the form or tenor thereof, and in the absence of an express recital on the face thereof that the bond is nonnegotiable, all refunding bonds shall at all times be, and shall be treated as, negotiable instruments for all purposes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-1-650 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 1 / Article 6 / Section 6-1-650
SECTION 6-1-650. Notice of dropped rental property.
Status: in_force

Real estate agents, brokers, corporations, or listing services required to remit fees under this section must notify the appropriate governing body if rental property, previously listed by them, is dropped from their listings.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-351 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 2 / Section 6-11-351
SECTION 6-11-351. Referendum request by governing body of special purpose district.
Status: in_force

The governing body of a special purpose district may by resolution adopted by majority vote of all members of the governing body request a referendum on the question of election of governing body members be held in accordance with the provisions of this article. If adopted, a certified copy of the resolution and a map clearly setting out the lines of the district in the county must be presented to the county election commission prior to August first of a general election held in an even-numbered year in order for the referendum to be held on the date of the general election in November of that year.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-5-30 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 5 / Section 6-5-30
SECTION 6-5-30. Assistance of State Treasurer.
Status: in_force

The State Treasurer is authorized to assist local governments in investing funds that are temporarily in excess of operating needs by: (1) Explaining investment opportunities to such local governments through publication and other appropriate means; (2) Acquainting such local governments with the State's practice and experience in investing short-term funds; and (3) Providing technical assistance in investment of idle funds to local governments that request such assistance.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-1-1040 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 1 / Article 9 / Section 6-1-1040
SECTION 6-1-1040. Collection of development impact fees.
Status: in_force

A governmental entity may provide in a development impact fee ordinance the method for collection of development impact fees including, but not limited to: (1) additions to the fee for reasonable interest and penalties for nonpayment or late payment; (2) withholding of the certificate of occupancy, or building permit if no certificate of occupancy is required, until the development impact fee is paid; (3) withholding of utility services until the development impact fee is paid; and (4) imposing liens for failure to pay timely a development impact fee.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-17-140 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 17 / Section 6-17-140
SECTION 6-17-140. Effect on validity of bonds of proceedings or contracts for improving enterprise; effect of recital in resolution.
Status: in_force

The validity of the authorization and issuance of the refunding bonds shall not be dependent on or affected in any way by proceedings taken for the improving of any enterprise for the refinancing and improving of which the refunding bonds are to be issued or by contracts made in connection with the improving of any such enterprise. Any resolution authorizing refunding bonds may provide that any such refunding bond may contain a recital that such refunding bond is issued pursuant to this chapter and any refunding bond containing such recital under authority of any such resolution shall be conclusively deemed to be valid and to have been issued in conformity with the provisions of this chapter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-24-20 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 24 / Section 6-24-20
SECTION 6-24-20. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter: (1) "Cost", with respect to a project, means: (a) all costs of planning, designing, constructing, and financing the project, including fees for professional services, costs of insurance, and costs for principal and interest, during planning, designing, and construction and for up to one year after completion of construction; (b) all costs associated with establishing necessary or desirable reserves in connection with a project; and (c) other expenditures of the joint agency incidental, necessary, or convenient to the acquisition, construction, implementation, reconstruction, improvement, enlargement, or extension of a project. If a project does not involve the acquisition or construction of a facility, "cost" includes all costs of the undertaking or funding of the undertaking. In either case, "cost" may include those administrative expenses a joint agency considers appropriate. (2) "Governing body" means the duly constituted governing body of a governmental entity. (3) "Governmental entity" means a special purpose district created by the General Assembly of this State for the principal purpose of furnishing natural gas to the residents, businesses, and industries of the service area as defined in and fully described in the act of the General Assembly that created and established the special purpose district, and in amendments to that act. (4) "Joint agency" means a public body and body corporate and politic organized in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. (5) "Member" of a joint agency means each of those governmental entities which have agreed to create a joint agency to undertake the ownership, operation, maintenance, financing, or contractual use of a project. (6) "Project", "undertaking", or " facility" means a project or other undertaking pursued by a joint agency for a purpose that is a public and corporate purpose of a member of a joint agency and also means any plant, works, system, facility, and real and personal property of any kind, together with all parts of it and appurtenances to it, and any contract rights, relating to the storage, acquisition, exploration, production, distribution, enrichment, transmission, purchase, sale, exchange, or interchange of gas and relating to the acquisition, extraction, conversion, transportation, storage, or reprocessing of fuel of any kind for those purposes, or any interest in, or right to the use, services, enrichment, output, or capacity of the plant, works, system, or facilities. "Project" or "undertaking" is intended to include contracts and contract rights as well as tangible property. (7) "State" means the State of South Carolina.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-1-50 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 1 / Article 1 / Section 6-1-50
SECTION 6-1-50. Financial report required.
Status: in_force

Counties and municipalities receiving revenues from state aid, currently known as Aid to Subdivisions, shall submit annually to the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office a financial report detailing their sources of revenue, expenditures by category, indebtedness, and other information as the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office requires. The Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office shall determine the content and format of the annual financial report. The financial report for the most recently completed fiscal year must be submitted to the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office by March fifteenth of each year. If an entity fails to file the financial report by March fifteenth, then the chief administrative officer of the entity shall be notified in writing that the entity has thirty days to comply with the requirements of this section. The Director of the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office may, for good cause, grant a local entity an extension of time to file the annual financial report. Notification by the Director of the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office to the Comptroller General and the State Treasurer that an entity has failed to file the annual financial report thirty days after written notification to the chief administrative officer of the entity must result in the withholding of ten percent of subsequent payments of state aid to the entity until the report is filed. The Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office is responsible for collecting, maintaining, and compiling the financial data provided by counties and municipalities in the annual financial report required by this section. Code Commissioner's Note At the direction of the Code Commissioner, references in this section to the offices of the former State Budget and Control Board, Office of the Governor, or other agencies, were changed to reflect the transfer of them to the Department of Administration or other entities, pursuant to the directive of the South Carolina Restructuring Act, 2014 Act No. 121, SECTION 5(D)(1). Effect of Amendment The 2006 amendment rewrote this section. The 2007 amendment, in the third sentence, substituted "January" for "November" in two places. 2018 Act No. 246, SECTION 5, in the third and fourth sentences, substituted "March fifteenth" for "January fifteenth", and in the sixth sentence, inserted "and the State Treasurer" following "Comptroller General".
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-10-20 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 10 / Section 6-10-20
SECTION 6-10-20. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter, unless a different meaning is clearly indicated by the context: (1) "Addition" means the extension or increase in floor area or height of a building. (2) "Building" means any combination of materials, which comprises a structure affording facilities or shelter for any occupancy. The word "building" must be construed wherever used in this chapter as if followed by the words "or part or parts of the building and all equipment in the building" unless the context clearly requires a different meaning. The term "building" includes manufactured buildings but not manufactured housing or buildings heated to less than fifty degrees Fahrenheit. (3) "Building inspection department" means the agency of a local jurisdiction with authority to make energy related building inspections and to enforce state and local laws, ordinances, and regulations applicable to the construction of buildings. (4) "Construction" means the erection, fabrication, reconstruction, alteration, conversion, or repair of a building, or the installation of equipment in a building. (5) "Equipment" means components associated with plumbing, heating, electrical, ventilating, air conditioning, lighting and refrigerating systems, and elevators, dumbwaiters, escalators, boilers, and pressure vessels. (6) "Local jurisdiction" means a county, city, municipality, or other political subdivision of this State. (7) "One- or two-family dwelling" means a building which contains one or two units, each providing complete, independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for sleeping, cooking, and sanitation. (8) "Renovations" means the condition where within any twelve-month period, alterations or repairs costing in excess of fifty percent of the then physical value of the building are made to an existing building. Effect of Amendment The 2009 amendment rewrote this section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-16-120 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 16 / Section 6-16-120
SECTION 6-16-120. Approval of governing bodies required for projects financed by bonds.
Status: in_force

No joint agency may undertake a project required to be financed, in whole or in part, with the proceeds of bonds without the approval of the governing bodies of each member contracting with the joint agency for services relating to the project.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-35-115 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 35 / Section 6-35-115
SECTION 6-35-115. Improvements pertaining to schools.
Status: in_force

If an improvement or a collective improvement is, or directly pertains to, a school including, but not limited to, new construction or additions to existing construction, then the proposed improvement or the collective improvement must be approved by the governing body of the school district prior to the adoption of the resolution required by Section 6-35-120.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-24-300 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 24 / Section 6-24-300
SECTION 6-24-300. Limitation on retail sales of services.
Status: in_force

This chapter does not empower a joint agency to make retail sales of services to residential, commercial, or industrial consumers beyond the service areas of its members, as those areas may be constituted from time to time, nor does it alter the service area of a governmental entity as it now exists.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-2070 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 15 / Section 6-11-2070
SECTION 6-11-2070. Authorization of referendum; when held.
Status: in_force

Upon receipt of a petition pursuant to Section 6-11-2050, and provided that the governing body of the district has received all necessary resolutions or ordinances conforming with Section 6-11-2030 from each successor provider, the governing body shall within thirty days of the petition action adopt a resolution by which it authorizes a referendum to be held on the question of the dissolution of the district. The referendum must be held on the date of the general election in November of the even-numbered year if the governing body has received all required resolutions or ordinances and the petition by one hundred twenty days before that election. If all required resolutions or ordinances and the petition are not received by that deadline, the governing body must schedule the referendum for the next following general election.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-27-10 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 27 / Section 6-27-10
SECTION 6-27-10. Short title.
Status: in_force

This chapter may be cited as the "State Aid to Subdivisions Act". Editor's Note 2019 Act No. 84, SECTION 2, provides as follows: "SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor and first applies to the annual general appropriations bill process for Fiscal Year 2020-2021." Effect of Amendment 2019 Act No. 84, SECTION 1, inserted quotations marks around "State Aid to Subdivisions Act".
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-31-110 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 31 / Section 6-31-110
SECTION 6-31-110. Validity and duration of agreement entered into prior to incorporation or annexation of affected area; subsequent modification or suspension by municipality.
Status: in_force

(A) Except as otherwise provided in Section 6-31-130 and subject to the provisions of Section 6-31-140, if a newly-incorporated municipality or newly-annexed area comprises territory that was formerly unincorporated, any development agreement entered into by a local government before the effective date of the incorporation or annexation remains valid for the duration of the agreement, or eight years from the effective date of the incorporation or annexation, whichever is earlier. The parties to the development agreement and the municipality may agree that the development agreement remains valid for more than eight years; provided, that the longer period may not exceed fifteen years from the effective date of the incorporation or annexation. The parties to the development agreement and the municipality have the same rights and obligations with respect to each other regarding matters addressed in the development agreement as if the property had remained in the unincorporated territory of the county. (B) After incorporation or annexation the municipality may modify or suspend the provisions of the development agreement if the municipality determines that the failure of the municipality to do so would place the residents of the territory subject to the development agreement, or the residents of the municipality, or both, in a condition dangerous to their health or safety, or both. (C) This section applies to any development agreement which meets all of the following: (1) the application for the development agreement is submitted to the local government operating within the unincorporated territory before the date that the first signature was affixed to the petition for incorporation or annexation or the adoption of an annexation resolution pursuant to Chapter 1 or 3 of Title 5; and (2) the local government operating within the unincorporated territory enters into the development agreement with the developer before the date of the election on the question of incorporation or annexation, or, in the case of an annexation without an election before the date that the municipality orders the annexation.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-31-100 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 31 / Section 6-31-100
SECTION 6-31-100. Amendment or cancellation of development agreement by mutual consent of parties or successors in interest.
Status: in_force

A development agreement may be amended or canceled by mutual consent of the parties to the agreement or by their successors in interest.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-7-157 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 7 / Article 3 / Section 6-7-157
SECTION 6-7-157. Spending plan prior to receipt of funds by regional council; annual audit.
Status: in_force

Before receipt of state funds, each regional council of government shall submit a plan for the expenditure of appropriated funds to the Executive Budget Office. Within ninety days following the end of the fiscal year, each council of government shall submit to the office a copy of an audit of appropriated funds to be performed by an independent certified public accountant. 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).
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-7-15 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 7 / Article 1 / Section 6-7-15
SECTION 6-7-15. Church-related activities; zoning ordinances in single family residences.
Status: in_force

(A) For purposes of this section, "church-related activities" does not include regularly scheduled worship services. (B) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no zoning ordinance of a municipality or county may prohibit church-related activities in a single-family residence.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-16-40 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 16 / Section 6-16-40
SECTION 6-16-40. Creation of joint agency; findings prerequisite to creation; notice.
Status: in_force

Any two or more governing bodies may by resolution or ordinance as appropriate determine that it is in the best interests of themselves and their residents to create a joint agency for the purpose of undertaking the planning, financing, development, acquisition, purchase, construction, reconstruction, improvement, enlargement, ownership, sale, lease, operation or maintenance of a project to provide for the present and future needs of the inhabitants and residents of their service areas as an alternative to or supplementary of severally and individually assuming the responsibilities of ownership in a project. Each resolution or ordinance shall be premised upon a finding that the creation of a joint agency is in the best interests of the governing body and its residents for one or more of the following reasons: (a) That a joint agency may be able to finance the cost of a project in a more efficient and economical manner; (b) That a better financial market acceptance may result if one entity is responsible for issuing all of the bonds and incurring all other debt required for a project in a timely and orderly manner; (c) That fiscal savings and other advantages may be obtained by providing a separate entity responsible for the acquisition, purchase, construction, ownership and operation of a project. If the creation of a joint agency is found to be in the best interests of a governing body, notice of the adoption of such ordinance or resolution shall be published once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation within the county in which such governing body is located. Any person affected by the action of such governing body may institute an action in the circuit court for the county in which such governing body is located within twenty days following the last publication of the notice prescribed challenging the action of such governing body.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-24-60 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 24 / Section 6-24-60
SECTION 6-24-60. Board of directors; election of officers; quorum; compensation.
Status: in_force

(A) Management and control of the joint agency is vested in a board of directors consisting of the number of directors specified in the application as filed or as amended. The governing body of each member of the joint agency shall appoint the number of representatives provided, and each appointed representative is a director of the joint agency. The governing body of a member may provide that a representative be an officer or employee of the member and also serve ex officio as a member of the board of directors of the joint agency. Each director has at least one vote and has additional votes as a majority of the members of the joint agency may determine. Each director, who serves at the pleasure of the governing body by which he was appointed, before entering upon his duties shall take and subscribe to an oath, before a person authorized by law to administer oaths, to execute the duties of his office faithfully and impartially. A record of each oath must be filed with the governing body of the appointing governmental entity. (B) The board of directors of the joint agency shall elect annually, with each director having one vote, one of the directors as chairman, another as vice-chairman, and other persons who may be, but need not be, directors as treasurer, secretary, and, if desired, assistant secretary. The office of treasurer may be held by the secretary or assistant secretary. The board of directors also may appoint additional officers as it considers necessary. The secretary or assistant secretary of the joint agency shall keep a record of the proceedings of the joint agency and the secretary is the custodian of all books, records, documents, and papers filed with the joint agency, the minute book or journal of the joint agency, and its official seal. (C) A majority of the directors of the joint agency constitutes a quorum. A vacancy on the board of directors of the joint agency does not impair the right of a quorum to exercise all rights and perform all duties of the joint agency. An action taken by the joint agency pursuant to this chapter must be authorized by resolution at a regular or special meeting held pursuant to notice in accordance with bylaws of the joint agency, and each resolution takes effect immediately, without publication or posting. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter or in the bylaws of the joint agency, a majority of the votes which the directors present are entitled to cast, with a quorum present, is necessary and sufficient to take any action or to pass a resolution. A director of a joint agency may not receive compensation solely for the performance of duties as a director, but each director may be paid per diem, mileage, and subsistence expenses as provided by law for state boards, committees, and commissions.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-29-780 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 29 / Article 5 / Section 6-29-780
SECTION 6-29-780. Board of zoning appeals; membership; terms of office; vacancies; compensation.
Status: in_force

(A) As a part of the administrative mechanism designed to enforce the zoning ordinance, the zoning ordinance may provide for the creation of a board to be known as the board of zoning appeals. Local governing bodies with a joint planning commission and adopting a common zoning ordinance may create a board to be known as the joint board of appeals. All of these boards are referred to as the board. (B) The board consists of not less than three nor more than nine members, a majority of which constitutes a quorum, appointed by the governing authority or authorities of the area served. The members shall serve for overlapping terms of not less than three nor more than five years or after that time until their successors are appointed. A vacancy in the membership must be filled for the unexpired term in the same manner as the initial appointment. The governing authority or authorities creating the board of zoning appeals may remove any member of the board for cause. The appointing authorities shall determine the amount of compensation, if any, to be paid to the members of a board of zoning appeals. None of the members shall hold any other public office or position in the municipality or county.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-24-220 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 24 / Section 6-24-220
SECTION 6-24-220. Issuance of refunding bonds.
Status: in_force

A joint agency may provide by resolution for the issuance of refunding bonds of the joint agency for the purpose of refunding outstanding bonds issued pursuant to this chapter, including the payment of a redemption premium on them and interest accrued to the date of their redemption. The refund of outstanding bonds may be exercised as considered desirable by the board of the joint agency. The issuance of the bonds, their maturities and other terms, the rights of their holders, and the rights, duties, and obligations of the joint agency in respect to the bonds must be governed by the provisions of this chapter relating to the issuance of bonds to the extent those provisions apply.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-13-90 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 13 / Article 1 / Section 6-13-90
SECTION 6-13-90. Wilful damage to system, pollution of water or unlawfully obtaining water; penalties.
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for any person to wilfully injure or destroy, or in any manner hurt, damage, tamper with, or impair the system of the district, or any part thereof, or any machinery, apparatus or equipment of the district, or to pollute the water in any part of its system, or to obtain water therefrom except in accordance with the regulations promulgated by the district. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned for not more than thirty days, in the discretion of the court, and shall be further liable to pay all damages suffered by the district.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-24-120 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 24 / Section 6-24-120
SECTION 6-24-120. Power to incur debt and enter into supply and financial management agreements.
Status: in_force

A joint agency may incur debt for its purposes, which includes defraying the cost of a project, and may issue bonds pledging the revenues derived from all or any of its projects and additions and betterments or extensions or contributions or advances from its members to the payment of both principal and interest and other obligations. A joint agency may enter into, amend, and terminate agreements in the nature of forward supply agreements, agreements for the management of interest rate risks or risks posed by the fluctuation of the cost of gas supplies, agreements for the management of cash flow, and other similar agreements.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-13-15 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 13 / Article 1 / Section 6-13-15
SECTION 6-13-15. Authority to provide service; sewerage collection, treatment, and disposal facilities.
Status: in_force

(A)(1) A rural water district established pursuant to this chapter prior to March 7, 1973, may provide sewer service to the area within its boundaries and its legal service area if, prior to the district utilizing the provisions of this section: (a) the district's board has been selected from an area that encompasses the boundaries and the entire legal service area to which service has been extended by the district; (b) the district has received permission, by written resolution, from the governing body of the county in which the district is located; and (c) the provision of sewer service authorized by this section is consistent with any comprehensive plan or land use plan adopted pursuant to Chapter 29 of Title 6. (2) A rural water district established pursuant to this chapter prior to March 7, 1973, utilizing the provisions of this section, must not provide sewer service to: (a) areas outside the district's boundaries and legal service area at the time the district's governing body determines to utilize the provisions of this section; or (b) those parts of the area within the district's boundaries and legal service area where sewer service is being provided by another private or governmental entity at the time the district's governing body determines to utilize the provisions of this section. (B) The water district may build, acquire, construct, operate, and maintain sewage collection, treatment, and disposal facilities or contract for the use of any facilities as are, in the opinion of the governing body of the water district, necessary for the district. The district may impose such schedule of rates and charges for the use of sewage collection, treatment, and disposal facilities as the governing body of the district shall from time to time approve. The governing body of the district may place into effect and revise, whenever it wishes or is required, a schedule of rates for the sewer service made available by it to persons, firms, and corporations within the district. The powers of the district granted in Section 6-13-50 shall apply to the provision of sewer service by the district except for Section 6-13-50(23). (C) Unless they are owned by another political subdivision or other entity, the treatment and disposal facilities, transmission and collection lines, pump stations and their several component parts, and all other apparatus, equipment, and property incident to the provision of sewer service or used or useful in the provision of sewer service and all additions, improvements, extensions, and enlargements to any of them shall constitute a portion of the system belonging to the water district. (D) The powers provided to a water district by this section are in addition to all other powers authorized by law.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-17-210 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 17 / Section 6-17-210
SECTION 6-17-210. Powers and duties of receiver.
Status: in_force

The receiver so appointed shall forthwith, directly or by his agents and attorneys (a) enter into and upon and take possession of the enterprise and each and every part thereof and if the court so directs may exclude the municipality, its governing body, officers, agents and employees and all persons claiming under them wholly therefrom, (b) have, hold, use, operate, manage and control the enterprise and each and every part thereof and in the name of the municipality or otherwise, as the receiver may deem best and (c) exercise all the rights and powers of the municipality with respect to the enterprise as the municipality itself might do. Such receiver shall also (a) maintain, restore, insure and keep insured the enterprise and from time to time shall make all such necessary or proper repairs as to such receiver may seem expedient, (b) establish, levy, maintain and collect such fees, tolls, rentals and other charges in connection with the enterprise as such receiver may deem necessary or proper and reasonable and (c) collect and receive all revenues, deposit them in a separate account and apply such revenues so collected and received in such manner as the court shall direct.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-271 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 6-11-271
SECTION 6-11-271. Millage levy for special purpose district.
Status: in_force

(A) For purposes of this section, "special purpose district" means any special purpose district or public service authority, however named, created prior to March 7, 1973, by or pursuant to an act of the General Assembly of this State. (B)(1) This subsection applies only to those special purpose districts the governing bodies of which are not elected but are presently authorized by law to levy for operations and maintenance in each year millage up to or not exceeding a given amount and did impose this levy in fiscal year 1997-98. (2) There must be levied annually in each special purpose district described in item (1) of this subsection, beginning with the levy for fiscal year 1999, ad valorem property tax millage in the amount equal to the millage levy imposed in fiscal year 1998. (C)(1) This subsection applies only to those special purpose districts, the governing bodies of which are not elected but are presently authorized by law to levy for operations and maintenance in each year millage without limit as to amount. (2) There must be levied annually in each special purpose district described in item (1) of this subsection, beginning with the levy for fiscal year 1999, ad valorem property tax millage in the amount equal to the millage levy imposed in that special purpose district for operations and maintenance for fiscal year 1998. (D) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any special purpose district within which taxes are authorized to be levied for maintenance and operation in accordance with the provisions of subsections (B) or (C) of this section, or otherwise, may request the commissioners of election of the county in which the special purpose district is located to conduct a referendum to propose a modification in the tax millage of the district. Upon receipt of such request, the commissioners of election shall schedule and conduct the requested referendum on a date specified by the governing body of the district. If approved by referendum, such modification in tax millage shall remain effective until changed in a manner provided by law. (E)(1) All special purpose districts located wholly within a single county and within which taxes are authorized to be levied for maintenance and operation in accordance with the provisions of subsections (B) or (C) of this section, or otherwise, are authorized to modify their respective millage limitations, provided the same is first approved by the governing body of the district and by the governing body of the county in which the district is located by resolutions duly adopted. Any increase in millage effectuated pursuant to this subsection is effective for only one year. (2) Any millage increase levied pursuant to the provisions of item (1) of this subsection must be levied and collected by the appropriate county auditor and county treasurer.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-29-1610 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 29 / Article 13 / Section 6-29-1610
SECTION 6-29-1610. Short title.
Status: in_force

This article may be cited as the "Federal Defense Facilities Utilization Integrity Protection Act". Code Commissioner's Note Redesignated from SECTION 6-29-1510 to SECTION 6-29-1610 at the direction of the Code Commissioner.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-1-500 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 1 / Article 5 / Section 6-1-500
SECTION 6-1-500. Short title.
Status: in_force

This article may be cited as the "Local Accommodations Tax Act".
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-21-330 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 21 / Section 6-21-330
SECTION 6-21-330. Statutory lien of bondholders on system or project.
Status: in_force

There shall be created in the authorizing ordinance a statutory lien upon any such system or project and the appurtenances and extensions thereto so to be purchased, constructed, improved, enlarged, extended or repaired to and in favor of the holders of the bonds and each of them and to and in favor of the holders of the coupons of the bonds and each of them; provided, however, that when a borrower purchases, constructs, improves, enlarges, extends or repairs any system or project named in SECTION 6-21-50 such statutory lien may be created and declared to be upon the whole of such combined system or project with appurtenances and extensions thereto, if the governing body so determines.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-15-60 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 15 / Section 6-15-60
SECTION 6-15-60. Sewer charges authorized.
Status: in_force

The General Assembly confirms the right of any governmental entity to impose upon all those to whom sewer service is rendered, (a) a sewer service charge therefor, which may, in the discretion of its governing body, be sufficient to provide for all or any part of the cost of operating and maintaining the sewer facilities and to provide debt service on bonds or other obligations of the governmental entity issued to provide any type of sewer collection, disposal, or treatment service, and (b) a sewer connection charge, or connection fee or tapping fee designed to adequately reimburse the governing body for effecting the connection to provide sewer service.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-17-300 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 17 / Section 6-17-300
SECTION 6-17-300. Debts of municipality are not authorized.
Status: in_force

Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed in any way to authorize any municipality to do anything in any manner or for any purpose which would result in the creation or incurring of a debt or indebtedness or the issuance of any instrument which would constitute a bond or debt within the meaning of any provision, limitation or restriction of the Constitution relating to the creation or incurring of a debt or indebtedness or the issuance of an instrument constituting a bond or a debt.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-25-112 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 25 / Section 6-25-112
SECTION 6-25-112. Trust agreements or resolutions providing for issuance of bonds.
Status: in_force

In the discretion of the commission of the joint system, any bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter may be secured by a trust agreement by and between the joint system and a corporate trustee, which may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within or without the State. The trust agreement or the resolution providing for the issuance of the bonds may contain provisions for protecting and enforcing the rights and remedies of the bondholders and of the trustees as may be reasonable and proper and not in violation of law, and may restrict the individual right of action by bondholders. The trust agreement or the resolution providing for the issuance of the bonds may contain covenants including, but not limited to, the following: (1) the pledge of the revenue derived from the project to be financed by the bonds or from the water system or facilities of a joint system; (2) the rents, rates, fees, and charges to be established, maintained, and collected, and the use and disposal of revenues, gifts, grants, and funds received or to be received by the joint system; (3) the setting aside of reserves and the investment, regulation, and disposition of the reserves; (4) the custody, collection, securing, investment, and payment of any monies held for the payment of bonds; (5) limitations or restrictions on the purposes to which the proceeds of sale of bonds then or thereafter issued may be applied; (6) limitations or restrictions on the issuance of additional bonds; the terms upon which additional bonds may be issued and secured; or the refunding of outstanding or other bonds; (7) the procedure to amend the terms of a contract with bondholders, the percentage of bonds the bondholders of which must consent thereto, and the manner in which the consent may be given; (8) events of default and the rights and liabilities arising on default, the terms and conditions upon which a bond issued under this chapter becomes or may be declared due before maturity, and the terms and conditions upon which the declaration and its consequences may be waived; (9) the preparation and maintenance of a budget; (10) the retention or employment of engineers, independent auditors, and other technical consultants; (11) limitations on or the prohibition of free service to any public or private person; (12) the acquisition and disposal of property, but no project or part of a project may be mortgaged by the trust agreement or resolution; (13) provisions for insurance and for accounting reports and the inspection and audit of them; (14) the continuing operation and maintenance of the project; or (15) conditions under which the bonds may be defeased. Effect of Amendment The 2007 amendment redesignated items (a) to (o) as items (1) to (15) and made nonsubstantive changes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-2520 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 17 / Section 6-11-2520
SECTION 6-11-2520. Termination procedures; contents.
Status: in_force

(A) Each special purpose or public service district furnishing electricity or natural gas to residents of this State must establish written procedures for termination of service due to nonpayment for a special needs account customer at any time and for all residential customers during weather conditions marked by extremely cold or hot temperatures. Each special purpose or public service district must submit its procedures to the Office of Regulatory Staff by November 1, 2006. Any subsequent revisions must be submitted semiannually by March first or September first. (B) The procedures for termination must include the following: (1) notification procedures so that the customer is made aware of an impending termination and the time within which he must make arrangements for payment prior to termination; (2) arrangements for a payment arrangement plan to enable a residential customer, who has a satisfactory payment history as determined by the special purpose or public service district, to pay by installments where the customer is unable to pay the full amount due for electric service; (3) a procedure to advise customers who are unable to pay the full amount due or who are not approved for a payment arrangement plan that they may contact local social service agencies to determine the availability of public or private assistance with the payment of electric bills; (4) a schedule of termination that takes into account the availability of the acceptance of payment and the reconnection of service; and (5) the standards for determining weather conditions marked by extremely cold or hot temperatures.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-27-40 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 27 / Section 6-27-40
SECTION 6-27-40. Distribution of monies appropriated to Local Government Fund; use of funds distributed.
Status: in_force

(A) No later than thirty days after the end of the calendar quarter, the State Treasurer shall distribute the monies appropriated to the Local Government Fund as follows: (1) Eighty-three and two hundred seventy-eight thousandths percent must be distributed to counties. Of the total distributed to counties, each county must receive an amount based on the ratio that the county's population is of the whole population of this State according to the most recent United States Census. (2) Sixteen and seven hundred twenty-two thousandths percent must be distributed to municipalities. Of the total distributed to municipalities, each municipality must receive an amount based on the ratio that the municipality's population is of the population of all municipalities in this State according to the most recent United States Census. (B) In making the quarterly distribution to counties, the State Treasurer must notify each county of the amount that must be used for educational purposes relating to the use of alcoholic liquors and for the rehabilitation of alcoholics and drug addicts. Counties may pool these funds with other counties and may combine these funds with other funds for the same purposes. The amount that must be used as provided in this subsection is equal to twenty-five percent of the revenue derived pursuant to Section 12-33-245 allocated on a per capita basis according to the most recent United States Census. Editor's Note 2019 Act No. 84, SECTION 2, provides as follows: "SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor and first applies to the annual general appropriations bill process for Fiscal Year 2020-2021." Effect of Amendment 2019 Act No. 84, SECTION 1, in (A), made a nonsubstantive change.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-25-150 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 25 / Section 6-25-150
SECTION 6-25-150. Contracts with federal and state government and agencies.
Status: in_force

The commission of any joint system may make application for grants and enter into contracts for and accept grants in aid and loans from the federal and state governments and their agencies in connection with the planning, acquiring, constructing, expanding, maintaining, and operating any project, or participating in any research or development program in connection therewith. The commission may agree to comply with any reasonable conditions which are imposed upon such grants, loans, or aids, and may accept such without a contract. Effect of Amendment The 2007 amendment reprinted this section with no apparent change.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-29-910 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 29 / Article 5 / Section 6-29-910
SECTION 6-29-910. Contempt; penalty.
Status: in_force

In case of contempt by a party, witness, or other person before the board of architectural review, the board may certify the fact to the circuit court of the county in which the contempt occurs and the judge of the court, in open court or in chambers, after hearing, may impose a penalty as authorized by law.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-23-240 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 23 / Section 6-23-240
SECTION 6-23-240. Certification required.
Status: in_force

The joint agency shall be required to obtain the necessary certification as appropriate under the "Utility Facility Siting and Environmental Protection Act", SECTIONS 58-33-10 to 58-33-430 of the 1976 Code.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-25-35 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 25 / Section 6-25-35
SECTION 6-25-35. Extension of provisions applicable to water.
Status: in_force

A reference to the purpose of a project in this chapter pertaining specifically to water includes all the purposes as provided in Sections 6-25-20(3) and 6-25-25 and a power or authority provided for in this chapter to a joint system or a member of a joint system may be exercised with respect to any project or purpose of the joint system. Effect of Amendment The 2007 amendment made nonsubstantive and conforming changes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-13-1010 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 13 / Article 9 / Section 6-13-1010
SECTION 6-13-1010. Penalties; prohibited acts.
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for any person to wilfully injure or destroy, or in any manner hurt, damage, tamper with, or impair the facilities of the authority, or any part of such facilities, or any machinery, apparatus, or equipment of the authority, or to pollute the water in any part of its service area, or to obtain water therefrom except in accordance with the regulations promulgated by the authority. Any person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or shall be imprisoned for not more than thirty days at the discretion of the court, and shall be further liable to pay all damages suffered by the authority. Code Commissioner's Note This section was codified at the direction of the Code Commissioner in 2012. Effect of Amendment 2023 Act No. 44, SECTION 2, in the second sentence, substituted "not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars" for "not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars", and made nonsubstantive changes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-24-180 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 24 / Section 6-24-180
SECTION 6-24-180. Enforcement of bonds.
Status: in_force

A holder of bonds issued pursuant to this chapter and the trustee pursuant to a trust agreement, except to the extent the rights are restricted by the trust agreement or the resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds, may protect and enforce, either at law or in equity, by suit, action, mandamus, or other proceeding, all rights and compel performance of all duties arising out of the law of the State or terms of the trust agreement or resolution or other contract.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-17-250 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 17 / Section 6-17-250
SECTION 6-17-250. Rights and remedies of holders of bonds.
Status: in_force

Subject to any contractual limitations binding upon the holders of any issue of refunding bonds, or trustee therefor, including, but not limited to, the restriction of the exercise of any remedy to a specified proportion or percentage of such holders, any holder of refunding bonds, or trustee therefor, may for the equal benefit and protection of all holders of refunding bonds similarly situated: (1) By mandamus or other suit, action or proceeding at law or in equity enforce his rights against the municipality, its governing body and any of its officers, agents and employees and require and compel such municipality, governing body or officer, agent or employee to perform and carry out its or his duties and obligations under this chapter and its or his covenants and agreements with the bondholders; (2) By action or suit in equity require the municipality and the governing body thereof to account as if they were the trustee of an express trust; (3) By action or suit in equity enjoin any acts or things which may be unlawful or in violation of the rights of the bondholders; or (4) Bring suit upon the refunding bonds.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-21-440 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 21 / Section 6-21-440
SECTION 6-21-440. Segregation of revenues to several funds.
Status: in_force

In the authorizing ordinance the governing body of the borrower shall set aside monthly (or more often if deemed advisable) and shall pledge either the gross revenues or net revenues of the system, project, or combined system, as the governing body of the borrower may determine, into separate and special funds as follows: Out of the revenues there shall be set aside a sum sufficient to pay the principal of and the interest upon the bonds as and when they become due and payable. If the revenues of any calendar, operating, or fiscal year shall be insufficient to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds maturing in any such calendar, operating, or fiscal year, an additional amount sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on such bonds outstanding and unpaid shall be set aside out of the revenues of the next succeeding calendar, operating, or fiscal year and applied to the payment of the principal of and interest on such outstanding and unpaid bonds. This fund shall be designated the "bond and interest redemption fund". Out of the revenues there also shall be set aside a sum sufficient to provide for the payment of all expenses of administration and operation and such expenses for maintenance as may be necessary to preserve the system, project or combined system in good repair and working order. This fund shall be designated the "operation and maintenance fund". If the pledge made is of gross revenues, the order of the foregoing set asides shall be first to the bond and interest redemption fund and next to the operation and maintenance fund; if the pledge is of net revenues, the order of the foregoing set asides shall be first to the operation and maintenance fund and next to the bond and interest redemption fund. Out of the remaining revenues there shall be next set aside a sum sufficient to build up a reserve for depreciation of the existing system or combined system. This fund shall be designated the "depreciation fund". Out of the remaining revenues there shall be next set aside a sum sufficient to build up a reserve for improvements, betterments, and extensions to the existing system, project, or combined system, other than those necessary to maintain it in good repair and working order as herein provided. This fund shall be designated the "contingent fund". Any surplus revenues thereafter remaining shall be disposed of by the governing body of the borrower as it may determine from time to time to be for the best interest of the borrower. In the event the proceedings for the issuance of bonds provide for their repayment in whole or in part from front-foot assessments, the borrower need not make the payments provided for in this section for application for the payment of principal and interest on a monthly basis but may make them at least annually, provided that the payments shall be in such amounts and at such times that sufficient funds will be available to pay the principal and interest upon the bonds as and when they become due and payable.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-25-127 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 25 / Section 6-25-127
SECTION 6-25-127. Enforcement of bondholder and construction note holder rights.
Status: in_force

Any holder of bond or construction notes issued under the provisions of this chapter or any of the coupons appertaining to them, and the trustee under any trust agreement, except to the extent the rights given by this chapter may be restricted by the trust agreement or the resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds or construction notes, may, either at law or in equity, by suit, action, mandamus, or other proceeding, protect and enforce any and all rights under the laws of the State or granted under this chapter, or, to the extent permitted by law, under the trust agreement or resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds or under any agreement or other contract executed by the joint system pursuant to this chapter, and may enforce and compel the performance of all duties required by this chapter or by the trust agreement or resolution to be performed by any joint system or authority or by their officers, including the fixing, charging, and collecting of rents, fees, and charges. Effect of Amendment The 2007 amendment substituted "authority" for "municipality".
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-500 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 3 / Section 6-11-500
SECTION 6-11-500. Manner in which bonds shall be issued.
Status: in_force

General obligation bonds of any special purpose district issued following authorization of the county board, given pursuant to this article, shall be issued by the commission on behalf of the special purpose district in accordance with the provisions of SECTIONS 6-11-490 through 6-11-600.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-1-740 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 1 / Article 7 / Section 6-1-740
SECTION 6-1-740. Cumulative rate of local hospitality tax.
Status: in_force

The cumulative rate of county and municipal hospitality taxes for any portion of the county area may not exceed two percent, unless the cumulative total of such taxes was in excess of two percent or were authorized to be in excess of two percent prior to December 31, 1996, in which case the cumulative rate may not exceed the rate that was imposed or adopted as of December 31, 1996.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-29-1155 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 29 / Article 7 / Section 6-29-1155
SECTION 6-29-1155. Pre-litigation mediation; notice; settlement approval; effect on real property; unsuccessful mediation.
Status: in_force

(A) If a property owner files a notice of appeal with a request for pre-litigation mediation, the request for mediation must be granted, and the mediation must be conducted in accordance with South Carolina Circuit Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Rules and this section. A person who is not the owner of the property may petition to intervene as a party, and this motion must be granted if the person has a substantial interest in the decision of the planning commission. (B) The property owner or his representative, any other person claiming an ownership interest in the property or his representative, and any other person who has been granted leave to intervene pursuant to subsection (A) or his representative must be notified and have the opportunity to attend the mediation. The governmental entity must be represented by at least one person for purposes of mediation. (C) Within five working days of a successful mediation, the mediator must provide the parties with a signed copy of the written mediation agreement. (D) Before the terms of a mediation settlement may take effect, the mediation settlement must be approved by: (1) the local legislative governing body in public session; and (2) the circuit court as provided in subsection (G). (E) Any land use or other change agreed to in mediation which affects existing law is effective only as to the real property which is the subject of the mediation, and a settlement agreement sets no precedent as to other parcels of real property. (F) If mediation is not successful or if the mediated settlement is not approved by the local legislative governing body, a property owner may appeal by filing a petition in writing setting forth plainly, fully, and distinctly why the decision is contrary to law. The petition must be filed with the circuit court within thirty days of: (1) the report of an impasse as provided in the South Carolina Circuit Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Rules; or (2) the failure to approve the settlement by the local governing body. (G) The circuit court judge must approve the settlement if the settlement has a rational basis in accordance with the standards of this chapter. If the mediated settlement is not approved by the court, the judge must schedule a hearing for the parties to present evidence and must issue a written opinion containing findings of law and fact. A party may appeal from the decision: (1) in the same manner as provided by law for appeals from other judgments of the circuit court; or (2) by filing an appeal pursuant to subsection (F).
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-13-10 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 13 / Article 1 / Section 6-13-10
SECTION 6-13-10. Authority to establish and functions of water districts.
Status: in_force

There may be created in the counties of this State water districts which shall be bodies corporate and politic of perpetual succession. It shall be the purpose and function of any district created under the provisions of this article to acquire, construct and operate a waterworks system, utilizing therefor water from available sources, by purchase or otherwise, at such convenient points as the district shall select, to provide a flow of water through pipes for domestic, commercial or industrial users who can be conveniently and economically served within or without the service area as may be created. To this end the district shall perform the functions prescribed by this article, and shall be vested with the powers herein granted and all other powers that may be necessary or incidental in carrying out the functions herein prescribed and exercising the powers herein granted. The water mains, distribution facilities, tanks, their several component parts, and all apparatus, equipment and property incident thereto or used or useful in the operation thereof and all additions, improvements, extensions and enlargements to any of them shall be referred to in this article as the system.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-220 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 6-11-220
SECTION 6-11-220. Signature of bonds.
Status: in_force

All bonds issued under and in pursuance of the provisions of this article shall be signed by the chairman of the board of commissioners of the electric light, water supply, fire protection or sewerage district and by the county supervisor of the county in which such district is situated. The names on the coupons attached to the bonds may be lithographed, which shall constitute a proper and sufficient signing thereof.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-16-140 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 16 / Section 6-16-140
SECTION 6-16-140. Annual report.
Status: in_force

Each joint agency shall, following the closing of each fiscal year, submit an annual report of its activities for the preceding year to each member. Each report shall set forth a complete operating and financial statement covering the operations of the joint agency during the year. The joint agency shall cause an audit of its books of record and accounts to be made at least once in each year by a certified public accountant and the cost may be treated as a part of the cost of construction of a project or otherwise as part of the expense of administration of a project covered by such audit.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-7-185 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 7 / Article 3 / Section 6-7-185
SECTION 6-7-185. Allocation of appropriation to regional councils.
Status: in_force

Fifty percent of the amount appropriated in the annual general appropriations act for the regional councils of governments must be divided equally among the ten districts. The remaining fifty percent must be allocated in proportion to the population of each district according to the most recent United States census.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-29-1140 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 29 / Article 7 / Section 6-29-1140
SECTION 6-29-1140. Development plan to comply with regulations; submission of unapproved plan for recording is a misdemeanor.
Status: in_force

After the local governing authority has adopted land development regulations, no subdivision plat or other land development plan within the jurisdiction of the regulations may be filed or recorded in the office of the county where deeds are required to be recorded, and no building permit may be issued until the plat or plan bears the stamp of approval and is properly signed by the designated authority. The submission for filing or the recording of a subdivision plat or other land development plan without proper approval as required by this chapter is declared a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, is punishable as provided by law.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-13-430 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 13 / Article 5 / Section 6-13-430
SECTION 6-13-430. Creation and membership of Saluda Valley Rural Water District Board of Pickens and Anderson Counties.
Status: in_force

The district shall be operated and managed by a board of directors to be known as the Saluda Valley Rural Water District Board of Pickens and Anderson Counties which shall constitute the governing body of the district. The board shall consist of five resident electors of the area who shall be appointed by the Governor upon the recommendation of a majority of those persons attending a meeting of residents of the area held pursuant to at least one week's notice in a local newspaper giving the time and place of the meeting. The chairman and secretary of the meeting shall certify the names of those recommended to the Governor. The initial board shall be selected as follows: one member from Anderson County and one member from Pickens County shall be selected to serve for terms of two years and one member from each of the two counties shall be selected to serve for terms of four years. One member from either of the two counties shall be selected to serve for a term of six years. The persons attending the meeting shall determine which of the counties the member shall represent. A meeting shall be held each two years for the purpose of selecting persons to be recommended for appointment as successors to members of the board, except successors to the director, initially appointed for six years, shall be appointed so that the counties represented shall be alternated each six years. All terms after the initial appointments shall be for six years. All appointees shall hold office until their successors shall have been appointed and qualify. The initial terms of office shall begin as of June 14, 1968. Any vacancy shall be filled in like manner as the original appointment for the unexpired portion of the term. Immediately after appointment, the board shall meet and organize by the election of one of its members as chairman, one as vice chairman, one as secretary and one as treasurer. The offices of the secretary and treasurer may be combined in the discretion of the board.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-13-660 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 13 / Article 7 / Section 6-13-660
SECTION 6-13-660. Exemption of evidences of indebtedness and district property from taxes.
Status: in_force

(1) Bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness issued pursuant to SECTION 6-13-640(22) and interest payable thereon are hereby exempted from any and all State, county, municipal and other taxation whatsoever under the laws of this State, and it shall be plainly stated on the face of each such obligation as follows: "The principal of and interest on this (bond, note, or other evidence of indebtedness) are exempted from any and all State, county, municipal and other taxation whatsoever under the laws of the State of South Carolina." (2) All property of the district shall be exempt from all ad valorem taxes levied by the State, county or any municipality, division, subdivision or agency thereof, direct or indirect.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-24-290 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 24 / Section 6-24-290
SECTION 6-24-290. Construction.
Status: in_force

The provisions of this chapter must be liberally construed.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-21-90 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 21 / Section 6-21-90
SECTION 6-21-90. Construction on private property.
Status: in_force

In the case of waterworks and sewerage systems any such municipality may construct mains and pipelines, bathrooms, bathhouses or toilet houses and fixtures therein and locate and maintain them on private property if it shall acquire the right so to do by easement, lease or otherwise.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-37-60 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 37 / Section 6-37-60
SECTION 6-37-60. Rates for services furnished.
Status: in_force

The rates charged for services furnished by the authority are not subject to supervision or regulation by any state bureau, board, commission, or like instrumentality, or agency thereof.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-35-10 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 35 / Section 6-35-10
SECTION 6-35-10. Citation of chapter.
Status: in_force

This chapter may be cited as the "South Carolina Residential Improvement District Act".
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-21-70 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 21 / Section 6-21-70
SECTION 6-21-70. Joint projects.
Status: in_force

Any municipalities desiring to obtain the benefit of the provisions of this chapter through uniting or cooperating in joint projects or undertakings serving joint community interests may cooperate with each other under agreements made by their governing authorities through resolutions or ordinances either with or without statutory enactments creating new districts for the purpose of such projects.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-1-815 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 1 / Article 8 / Section 6-1-815
SECTION 6-1-815. Implementation of article by municipality or county.
Status: in_force

(A) The governing body of a municipality or county by ordinance may implement the provisions of this article if it imposes the local accommodations tax provided pursuant to Article 5 of this title. This article applies in the applicable jurisdiction when a certified copy of the implementation ordinance is provided to the Director of the South Carolina Department of Revenue. (B) The provisions of this article do not apply to any residential real property lawfully assessed for property tax purposes pursuant to Section 12-43-220(c) when all rental income on the property is not included in gross income for federal income tax purposes pursuant to Internal Revenue Code Section 280A(g).
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-29-940 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 29 / Article 5 / Section 6-29-940
SECTION 6-29-940. Appeal to Supreme Court.
Status: in_force

A party in interest who is aggrieved by the judgment rendered by the circuit court upon the appeal may appeal in the manner provided by the South Carolina Appellate Court Rules.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-840 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 5 / Section 6-11-840
SECTION 6-11-840. Notice of hearing.
Status: in_force

The notice required by SECTION 6-11-830 shall be published once a week for three successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county. Such notice shall state: (a) The time of the public hearing, which shall be not less than sixteen days following the first publication of the notice. (b) The place of the hearing. (c) The proposed amount of bonds to be issued by the special purpose district. (d) A statement setting forth the purpose for which the proceeds of such bonds are to be expended. (e) A brief summary of the reasons for the issuance of such bonds and the method by which the principal and interest of such bonds are to be paid.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-29-1220 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 29 / Article 7 / Section 6-29-1220
SECTION 6-29-1220. Solar energy systems; development standards; proceedings; enforcement.
Status: in_force

Pursuant to 2025 Act No. 41, SECTION 8.B, for projects approved by a county, this section is effective on January 1, 2026. (A) For any county that has not adopted rural zoning or has not adopted ordinances establishing design and development standards for solar energy systems, and until such time as rural zoning or an ordinance for solar energy systems has been adopted, then the development and operation of solar energy systems that require a footprint of more than thirteen acres of land shall comply with the following design and development standards: (1) Site plans shall be prepared by a licensed land surveyor, landscape architect, or engineer in the State of South Carolina. Plans must be sealed. (2) Solar energy systems shall be set back fifty feet from adjoining property lines and road rights of way and two hundred feet from the nearest residence, church, or school. Setback distances are to the fence and are inclusive of the vegetation buffer. (3) Solar structures shall not exceed fifteen feet in height. This provision shall not include the interconnection poles, substation equipment, or other devices necessary for the electricity to be delivered to the public utility station. (4) Solar energy facilities shall be screened from adjacent public road rights of way, residences, churches, or schools with a vegetative buffer and fence or wall with the following specifications: (a) a vegetative buffer shall be installed adjacent to the solar energy system farm; (b) the vegetation shall be planted in two staggered rows at a spacing interval between eight feet and ten feet on center and reach at least six feet in height over a three-year growing season and not less than fifteen feet in height at maturity or two feet higher than the highest panel, whichever is greater; and (c) the vegetation shall include low lying vegetation to fill gaps between taller vegetation. (5) All lighting shall be shielded or directed in a downward position to prevent noxious glare. A light fixture is required at the ends of all turnarounds. (6) Fencing shall be at least six feet in height to secure the perimeter. The fence shall be secure at all times. (7) A warning sign concerning voltage must be placed at the main gate to include the address and name of the solar energy system operator and a twenty-four-hour phone number for the solar energy system in case of an emergency. (8) Solar collectors shall be designed with anti-reflective coating to minimize glare. Textured glass is optional. Mirrors are prohibited. (9) Submit and maintain an updated facility decommission plan consistent with the then current decommissioning requirements as required by the South Carolina Department of Environmental Services. (B) Upon receipt of a completed solar energy system plan by a county subject to the provisions in (A), the county shall set a date for a public hearing and send, by first class mail, a notice of the application to all property owners within two thousand six hundred forty feet of the proposed solar energy system. The notification shall include the projected date of the public hearing to be held by the county. Public notification includes posting in the local newspaper and mail notice to residents postmarked at least thirty days prior to the public hearing. (C) The Department of Environmental Services is charged with the enforcement of the provisions of this section. Upon the failure of the owner or operator that is given notice of violation of this section to remedy the violation within thirty days, the Department of Environmental Services may impose civil penalties and require remediation for violations of the provisions of this section. Penalties may be not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five thousand dollars for each day of noncompliance. Penalties may be waived by the department for good cause for noncompliance shown by the owner or operator. Editor's Note 2025 Act No. 41, SECTION 1, provides as follows: "SECTION 1. This act may be cited as the 'South Carolina Energy Security Act.' " 2025 Act No. 41, SECTION 8.B, provides as follows: "B. This SECTION takes effect for projects approved by a county on or after January 1, 2026." 2025 Act No. 41, SECTION 33, provides as follows: "SECTION 33. (A) To foster economic development and future jobs in this State resulting from the supply chains associated with the same while supporting the significant and growing energy and capacity needs of the State, enhance grid resiliency, and maintain reliability, the General Assembly finds that the State of South Carolina should take steps necessary to encourage the development of a diverse mix of long-lead, clean generation resources that may include nuclear and advanced nuclear, biomass as defined in Section 12-63-20(B)(2) of the S.C. Code, hydrogen-capable resources, fusion energy, and other technologies, and should preserve the option of efficiency development of such long-lead resources with timely actions to establish or maintain eligibility for or capture available tax or other financial incentives or address operational needs. "(B) For an electrical utility to capture available tax or other financial or operational incentives for South Carolina ratepayers in a timely manner, the commission may find that actions by an electrical utility in pursuit of the directives in Section 58-37-35(A) are in the public interest, provided that the commission determines that such proposed actions are in the public interest and reasonably balance economic development and industry retention benefits, capacity expansion benefits, resource adequacy and diversification and potential risks, costs, and benefits to ratepayers and otherwise comply with all other legal requirements applicable to the electrical utility's proposed action. For the South Carolina Public Service Authority, the Office of Regulatory Staff and the Public Service Authority's board of directors shall apply the same principles described in this subsection in evaluating and approving actions proposed by the management of the Public Service Authority to achieve the objectives of this section." 2025 Act No. 41, SECTION 41, provides as follows: "SECTION 41. (A) Five years after the effective date of this act, the Office of the Regulatory Staff shall prepare a report, to be filed with the Public Utilities Review Committee and the General Assembly, to address the implementation of Article 24, Chapter 27, Title 58 as it relates to the following areas: "(1) assessing the functioning of the procedures established by section with recommendation for any changes required to ensure their efficient functioning, to promote regulatory efficiency, and to make further the establishment of just, reasonable, and fair rates; "(2) assessing the effect of rates on ratepayers of all classes; "(3) assessing the reliability of the electric system and whether investments made by electric utilities increased reliability compared to any change in electric utility rates experienced by ratepayers within the same timeframe; and "(4) any other information requested by the General Assembly to be included within the report. "(B) The Office of Regulatory Staff may engage a qualified, independent third party to assist in preparation of the report. "(C) All expenses and charges incurred by the Office of Regulatory Staff in the performance of its duties within this section may be defrayed by assessments made by the Comptroller General against the regulated electrical utilities regulated and based upon twenty-five percent of the gross revenues collected by such electrical utilities from their business done wholly within this State in the manner set out in Section 58-4-60 for other corporations." 2025 Act No. 41, SECTION 42, provides as follows: "SECTION 42. Upon passage of this act, Dominion Energy shall evaluate the process for converting the Wateree Generating Station from coal-fired generation to biomass-fired generation. Biomass-fired generation includes, but is not limited to, generation from the firing of wood pellets and wood chips. Dominion Energy must make a report concerning the conversion process to the Public Service Commission and General Assembly by no later than January 13, 2026."
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-1-180 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 1 / Article 1 / Section 6-1-180
SECTION 6-1-180. Conditions under which special purpose districts may transfer works of art.
Status: in_force

(A) Notwithstanding another provision of law, a special purpose district that has acquired a work of art by gift, bequest, purchase, or other means, may transfer ownership of the object: (1) to a nonprofit corporation organized for the purpose of displaying works of art for the public; and (2) for the consideration and upon the terms the governing body of the special purpose district, in its discretion, finds to be sufficient and appropriate. (B) A transfer of a work of art by a special purpose district to a nonprofit corporation pursuant to this section must be documented by written agreement in which the nonprofit corporation must covenant that money proceeds, if any, which arise from its subsequent transfer of a work of art must be held by the nonprofit corporation and expended solely in furtherance of its purpose of displaying works of art for the public.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-630 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 3 / Section 6-11-630
SECTION 6-11-630. Powers to issue revenue bonds shall not be affected by article.
Status: in_force

The power to utilize the provisions of general laws empowering commissions to issue revenue bonds shall not be abrogated by the provisions of this article, but shall continue, and revenue bonds issued pursuant thereto shall be issued in accordance with the provisions of such general laws rather than in accordance with the provisions of SECTIONS 6-11-490 through 6-11-600 which relate only to general obligation bonds.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-25-20 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 25 / Section 6-25-20
SECTION 6-25-20. Definitions.
Status: in_force

For purposes of this chapter: (1) "Joint Authority Water and Sewer System" or "joint system" means a government entity organized under this chapter to undertake or acquire a water or sewer project. (2) "State" means the State of South Carolina. (3) "Project" means a project undertaken by a joint authority water and sewer system to: (a) impound, produce, treat, transmit, distribute, sell, and service water to a member, or to an authority that is not a member but who is engaged in providing water or sewer service, or to any other person or entity if water service is not otherwise available from any other source when approved by the governing body of each member; and (b) collect, transport, process, treat, dispose, and control municipal, domestic, industrial, or communal waste, flood water, or storm water, whether in fluid, solid, or composite state, including specifically the control, abatement, or reduction of pollution for a member, or for an authority that is not a member and is engaged in waste and wastewater collection, treatment, and disposal, or to any other person or entity if sewer service is not otherwise available from any other source when approved by the governing body of each member. (4) "Cost" or "cost of a project" means, but is not limited to, the cost of acquisition, construction, reconstruction, improvement, enlargement, or extension of any project, including the cost of studies, plans, specifications, surveys, and estimates of costs and revenues relating to the project; the cost of land, land rights, rights-of-way and easements, water rights, fees, permits, approvals, licenses, certificates, franchises, and the preparation of applications for and security for them; administrative, legal, professional, engineering, and inspection expenses; financing fees, expenses, and costs; working capital; insurance; interest on the bonds during the period of construction and for a reasonable period after construction as may be determined by the commission of the joint system; establishment of reserves; and all other expenditures of the joint system incidental, necessary, or convenient to the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, improvement, enlargement, or extension of any project and the placing of the project in operation. (5) "Governing body" means with respect to an authority; the board, commission, council, or other entity charged by law with governing the authority. (6) "Authority" includes: (a) a county or municipality incorporated under the laws of this State; (b) a consolidated political subdivision of this State; (c) a commission of public works; and (d) an agency or public body created under the laws of this State and authorized by legislation to be engaged in the sale and service of water for industrial and domestic purposes, or the collection for treatment of wastewater. (7) "Revenue bonds" and "bonds" mean bonds, notes, certificates, or other obligations of a joint system issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and include a refinancing or refunding of bonds, notes, certificates, or other obligations, but which must be paid solely from the revenue or another source of funds available to a joint system. (8) "Member of a joint system" means an authority that has taken the actions necessary to form or join the joint system. (9) "Construction note" or "note" means a note of a joint system issued to provide funding for the creation of a financing pool and the costs associated with it. (10) "Financing agreement" means an agreement entered into by a joint system organized to create a financing pool and a member of it in connection with the lending of the proceeds of construction notes or portion thereof by the joint system to the member so as to provide for the repayment of amounts loaned and interest on it by the member to the joint system. (11) "Financing pool" means a fund of money, obtained through the issuance of a construction note of a joint authority water and sewer system, which may be loaned to the members of it by way of interim financing. A joint system may not lend more than five percent of the principal amount of a financing pool to a not-for-profit corporation established pursuant to Chapter 35 of Title 33. (12) "Government" means the United States of America, acting through the United States Department of Agriculture, or its successor, and the agencies and divisions of it. (13) "Interim financing" means bond anticipation notes issued pursuant to the provisions of Sections 11-17-10 to 11-17-120 in anticipation of the issuance of bonds of an authority to be sold to the government. Effect of Amendment The 2007 amendment redesignated items (a) to (m) as items (1) to (13); and rewrote items (1), (3), (5), (6), (7), (8), (11) and (13).
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-29-840 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 29 / Article 5 / Section 6-29-840
SECTION 6-29-840. Determination of appeal; costs; trial by jury.
Status: in_force

(A) At the next term of the circuit court or in chambers, upon ten days' notice to the parties, the presiding judge of the circuit court of the county must proceed to hear and pass upon the appeal on the certified record of the board proceedings. The findings of fact by the board of appeals must be treated in the same manner as a finding of fact by a jury, and the court may not take additional evidence. In the event the judge determines that the certified record is insufficient for review, the matter may be remanded to the zoning board of appeals for rehearing. In determining the questions presented by the appeal, the court must determine only whether the decision of the board is correct as a matter of law. In the event that the decision of the board is reversed by the circuit court, the board is charged with the costs, and the costs must be paid by the governing authority which established the board of appeals. (B) When an appeal includes no issues triable of right by jury or when the parties consent, the appeal must be placed on the nonjury docket. A judge, upon request by any party, may in his discretion give the appeal precedence over other civil cases. Nothing in this subsection prohibits a property owner from subsequently electing to assert a pre-existing right to trial by jury of any issue beyond the subject matter jurisdiction of the board of appeals, such as, but not limited to, a determination of the amount of damages due for an unconstitutional taking. Effect of Amendment The 2003 amendment added subsection (B), designated the existing paragraph as subsection (A), and made nonsubstantive changes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-13-960 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 13 / Article 9 / Section 6-13-960
SECTION 6-13-960. Sale of water restricted.
Status: in_force

To the end that the Authority shall not unduly compete with the existing publicly operated water systems in the county, the Authority shall not sell water to be used by persons or private corporations within the corporate limits of municipalities which own and operate therein a municipal waterworks system or areas now served by such municipalities without the consent of the municipal officers of such municipalities, nor shall it sell water elsewhere than in Edgefield County and in a small area in the southwestern corner of Aiken County bounded on the cast by the eastern right of way of U.S. Highway No. 25 and on the south by the southern right of way of U.S. Interstate 20. Edgefield County and the above described area of Aiken County are hereby defined to be the service area of the Authority. Code Commissioner's Note This section was codified at the direction of the Code Commissioner in 2012. Effect of Amendment The 1970 amendment rewrote this section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-16-90 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 16 / Section 6-16-90
SECTION 6-16-90. Executive committee.
Status: in_force

The board of directors of a joint agency may create an executive committee, the composition of which shall be set forth in the bylaws of the joint agency. The composition of the executive committee shall afford a fair representation of the members. The executive committee may exercise such powers during intervals between the board's meetings as provided by the board. The terms of office of the members of the executive committee and the method of filling vacancies shall be fixed by the bylaws of the joint agency.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-21-300 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 21 / Section 6-21-300
SECTION 6-21-300. Deposit of and security for proceeds from bonds.
Status: in_force

The governing body, when practicable, shall require that the proceeds of the sale of bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter be deposited in a special account or accounts in a bank or banks which are members of the Federal Reserve System and shall require, in so far as practicable, that each such deposit be secured by United States Government securities having an aggregate market value at least equal to the sum at the time on deposit or, in any event, the proceeds shall be deposited in some bank or other depository, either within or without the State, which will secure such deposit satisfactorily to the governing body.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-10-40 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 10 / Section 6-10-40
SECTION 6-10-40. Appeal by local jurisdiction for variance based on special local conditions; factors considered.
Status: in_force

A local jurisdiction may appeal to the South Carolina Building Codes Council for a variance from the Energy Standard for application within its jurisdiction based on special local conditions. The council may approve variations if it is established to the council's satisfaction that the proposed variance: (1) is consistent with this chapter, so that its application will not reduce statewide uniformity of effective energy conservation; (2) does not discriminate against particular technologies, techniques, or materials; (3) does not unnecessarily increase the cost of construction and operation of the building in the jurisdiction; or (4) is necessary to protect the public health, safety, and welfare within the jurisdiction. Copies of an approved variance must be provided upon the request by the State Energy Office. Editor's Note 2009 Act No. 46 SECTION 3, effective July 1, 2009, provides as follows: "The provisions of this act do not apply to projects which have received the proper permits as required by law before the effective date of this act." Effect of Amendment The 2009 amendment rewrote this section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-19-40 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 19 / Section 6-19-40
SECTION 6-19-40. Applications for grants; rules for consideration and approval.
Status: in_force

(a) Application for a grant hereunder may be made to the advisory committee and accompanied by an application to the primary financial source and processed by the Department of Health and Environmental Control. The Department of Health and Environmental Control, on approval of the advisory committee, shall make the necessary rules and regulations for the consideration and processing of all State grant requests appropriated under this chapter, which shall generally conform to those used by Federal grant and loan agencies, which rules shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State. The rules shall contain, but shall not be limited to the following criteria: (1) Preliminary engineering costs study; (2) Bonded indebtedness of the district, authority or community; (3) Financial conditions of the district, authority or community; (4) Costs per connection; (5) Economic level in the district, area or community; (6) Ratio of contracted users to potential users which shall not be less than sixty-seven percent; (7) Conformity to overall State, regional or local plans; (8) Operation and maintenance costs identified and proper replacement costs; (9) Amount of connection charges and minimum user charges; and (10) Sustaining costs of rural water and sewer systems. (b) No funds shall be dispensed until the applicant furnishes evidence of a commitment from the primary financial source.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-1630 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 11 / Section 6-11-1630
SECTION 6-11-1630. Notification by new districts; issuance of directory; effect of non-compliance.
Status: in_force

(A) Notification as provided in SECTION 6-11-1620 must be forwarded to the Secretary of State and the auditor of the county in which the district is located within ninety days after the election of the governing body of a special purpose district created after the effective date of this article. (B) The Secretary of State shall issue each even-numbered year a directory of active and inactive special purpose districts in the State. The directory shall contain all information provided by the districts as required by the notification form. Inactive districts must be deleted after being listed for two consecutive report cycles. This directory must be mailed to all special purpose districts and general purpose governments in the State. (C) If the governing body of a public service district fails to report to the Secretary of State as provided by this article, the Secretary may determine that the district is nonfunctioning and notify the governing body of the county or municipality with a certified copy of the letter to any of the last known members of the governing body of the public service district. Thereafter, the district may not be registered with the Secretary of State and it must be declared inactive. (D) The governing body of any county or municipality so notified shall withhold any fees, taxes, or interest thereon collected for any special purpose district by the municipality or county until the special purpose district complies with the notification requirements of this article.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-4-20 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 4 / Section 6-4-20
SECTION 6-4-20. Administration account established; State Treasurer's duties; distribution of account revenues; exceptions to tourism spending mandate.
Status: in_force

(A) An accommodations tax account is created to be administered by the State Treasurer. (B) At the end of each fiscal year and before August first a percentage, to be determined by the State Treasurer, must be withheld from those county areas collecting four hundred thousand dollars or more from that amount which exceeds four hundred thousand dollars from the tax authorized by Section 12-36-2630(3), and that amount must be distributed to assure that each county area receives a minimum of fifty thousand dollars. The amount withheld from those county areas collecting four hundred thousand dollars or more must be apportioned among the municipalities and the county in the same proportion as those units received quarterly remittances in Section 12-36-2630(3). If the total statewide collections from the local accommodations tax exceeds the statewide collections for the preceding fiscal year then this fifty thousand dollar figure must be increased by a percentage equal to seventy-five percent of the statewide percentage increase in statewide collections for the preceding fiscal year. The difference between the fifty thousand dollars minimum and the actual collections within a county area must be distributed to the eligible units within the county area based on population as determined by the most recent United States census. (C) At the end of each fiscal year and before August first, the State Treasurer shall distribute to each county area collecting more than fifty thousand dollars but less than four hundred thousand dollars an additional fifteen thousand dollars. If the total statewide collections from the local accommodations tax exceed the statewide collections for the preceding fiscal year, this fifteen thousand dollar figure must be increased by a percentage equal to seventy-five percent of the statewide percentage increase in statewide collections for the preceding fiscal year. This amount must be distributed in the same manner as the fifty thousand dollars in subsection (B). The amount paid those qualified county areas under this subsection must be paid from the account created under this section. (D) The amount withheld in excess must be distributed to the county areas whose collections exceed four hundred thousand dollars based on the ratio of the funds available to the collections by each county area. (E) The accommodations tax funds received by a municipality or county in county areas collecting fifty thousand dollars or less are not subject to the tourism-related provisions of this chapter. (F) Two percent of the local accommodations tax levied pursuant to Section 12-36-2630(3) must be remitted quarterly and equally to the eleven agencies designated by law and regional organizations to administer multi-county tourism programs in the state tourism regions as identified in the promotional publications of the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism. This remittance is in addition to other funds that may be allocated to the agencies by local governments. (G) The State Treasurer may correct misallocations to counties and municipalities from accommodations tax revenues by adjusting subsequent allocations, but these adjustments may be made only in allocations made in the same fiscal year as the misallocation. Code Commissioner's Note 1991 Act No. 168, SECTION 2, originally amended this section by adding item "(5)." By direction of the Code Commissioner, the added text was redesignated as subsection "(G)" to conform to the designations in the earlier amendment of this section by 1991 Act No. 147, SECTION 1.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-180 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 6-11-180
SECTION 6-11-180. Issue of bonds for construction or acquisition.
Status: in_force

To meet the costs of construction or acquisition of the lighting system, waterworks system, fire protection system and sewerage system, the commissioners of any district may issue and sell serial coupon bonds for and in behalf of the township within which the district is located.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-23-250 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 23 / Section 6-23-250
SECTION 6-23-250. Projects and power as subject to taxation.
Status: in_force

A project owned by a joint agency shall not be exempt from property taxes or other taxes if applied to the sale of energy; provided, however, that if all or any portion of the joint agency is declared exempt from property taxation then the joint agency shall, in lieu of property taxes, pay to any governmental body authorized to levy property taxes the amount which would be assessed as taxes on real and personal property of a project if such project were subject to valuation and assessment by the respective governmental body authorized to levy property taxes the amount which would be assessed as taxes on real and personal property of a project if such project were subject to valuation and assessment by the respective governmental body. Such payments in lieu of taxes shall be due and shall bear interest if unpaid, as are added to taxes on taxable property in the governmental body. Payments in lieu of taxes if made hereunder shall be treated in the same manner as taxes for purposes of all procedural and substantive provisions of law. Power and energy sold by a joint agency shall be subject to taxes. Joint agencies are exempt from the tax imposed pursuant to Section 12-23-10.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-15-140 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 15 / Section 6-15-140
SECTION 6-15-140. Powers granted by chapter shall be cumulative.
Status: in_force

All powers granted by this chapter are intended to be supplementary to any powers now existing and not in abrogation thereof.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-25-30 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 25 / Section 6-25-30
SECTION 6-25-30. Creation of joint systems.
Status: in_force

(A) The governing body of an authority may join another authority to form a joint system after ascertaining by resolution that a joint system best serves the interests of the authority, its citizens, and its customers. (B) A joint system may be formed: (1) to plan, finance, develop, construct, acquire, improve, enlarge, sell, lease, maintain, and operate a project to service the needs of its service area; (2) to create a finance pool; or (3) both. (C) A governing body of a member of a joint system may plan and enter a contract in connection with a project of the joint system consistent with the terms of this chapter. (D) An authority may conduct a study to assess the necessity and feasibility of a project. Effect of Amendment The 2007 amendment rewrote this section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-21-320 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 21 / Section 6-21-320
SECTION 6-21-320. Payment of bonds before maturities.
Status: in_force

The governing body of the borrower authorizing bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter may make provision for any of such bonds to be called for payment on any interest payment date before maturity under such circumstances and upon such terms and conditions as the governing body may prescribe.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-23-90 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 23 / Section 6-23-90
SECTION 6-23-90. Rights and powers of joint agency.
Status: in_force

Each joint agency shall have all the rights and powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this chapter, including, but not limited to, the rights and powers: (a) To adopt bylaws for the regulation of the affairs and the conduct of its business, and to prescribe rules, regulations and policies in connection with the performance of its functions and duties; (b) To adopt an official seal and alter the same at pleasure; (c) To maintain an office at such place or places as it may determine; (d) To sue and be sued in its own name, and to plead and be impleaded; (e) To receive, administer and comply with the conditions and requirements respecting any gift, grant or donation of any property or money; (f) To acquire by purchase, lease, gift, or otherwise, or to obtain options for the acquisition of, any property, real or personal, improved or unimproved, including an interest in land less than the fee thereof in conformity with state law; (g) To sell, lease, exchange, transfer or otherwise dispose of, or to grant options for any such purposes with respect to, any real or personal property or interest therein in conformity with state law; (h) To pledge or assign any money, rents, charges, or other revenues and any proceeds derived by the joint agency from the sales of property, insurance or condemnation awards; (i) To issue bonds of the joint agency for the purpose of providing funds for any of its corporate purposes; (j)(1) To acquire by negotiated purchase or lease from an electric supplier any portion of a project or projects under construction on the date of approval of this chapter, or on which construction will commence subsequent to the date of approval of this chapter, either individually or jointly with one or more municipalities in any other state, owning electric generation, transmission, or distribution facilities, or with any political subdivisions or agencies of any other state and to pay all or any part of the cost of it from the proceeds of bonds of the joint agency or from any other funds available to the joint agency; (2) To, prior to and in connection with such acquisition of a project or projects, study, plan, finance, own, operate, and maintain such project or projects and after such acquisition, to study, plan, finance, acquire, construct, reconstruct, improve, enlarge, extend, own, operate and maintain one or more additional projects; (k) To authorize the construction, operation or maintenance of any project or projects by any person, firm or corporation, including political subdivisions and agencies of any state, of the United States; (l) a project under construction, or other property, either individually or jointly, with one or more municipalities in this State or any other state owning electric distribution facilities or with any political subdivisions or agencies of any other state or with other joint agencies created pursuant to this chapter; (m) To dispose of by negotiated sale or lease, an existing project, a project under construction, or other property either individually or jointly with one or more municipalities in this State or any other state owning electric distribution facilities or with any political subdivisions or agencies of any other state or with other joint agencies created pursuant to this chapter; (n) To fix, charge and collect rents, rates, fees and charges for electric power or energy and other services, facilities and commodities sold, furnished or supplied through any project; (o) To generate, produce, transmit, deliver, exchange, purchase, or sell for resale only, electric power or energy, and to enter into contracts for any or all such purposes; (p) To negotiate and enter into contracts for the purchase, exchange, interchange, wheeling, pooling, transmission, marketing, sale, or use, for resale only, of electric power and energy with any electric supplier within the State, or with any person, firm, or corporation, public or private, outside this State; (q) to negotiate and enter into contracts for the purchase, exchange, interchange, wheeling, pooling, transmission, marketing, sale, or use, for resale only, of electric power and energy, with any electric supplier within the State, or with any person, firm, or corporation, public or private, outside this State, and the contract may provide that the joint agency is to be obligated to make the payments required by the contract whether the facilities from which the contracted services are provided, are completed, operable or operating, notwithstanding the suspension, interruption, interference, reduction or curtailment of the output of the facilities, or the power and energy contracted for, and that the payments under the contract must not be subject to any reductions, whether by offset or otherwise, and are not conditioned upon the performance or nonperformance of any party to the contract; (r) To make and execute contracts and other instruments necessary or convenient in the exercise of the powers and functions of the joint agency under this chapter, including contracts with persons, firms, corporations and others; (s) To apply to the appropriate agencies of the State, the United States or any state thereof, and to any other proper agency for such permits, licenses, certificates or approvals as may be necessary, and to construct, maintain and operate projects in accordance with such licenses, permits, certificates or approvals, and to obtain, hold and use any license, permits, certificates or approvals, in the same manner as any other person or operating unit of any other person, previously obtained by such person; (t) To employ engineers, architects, attorneys, appraisers, financial advisors and such other consultants and employees as may be required in the judgment of the joint agency and to fix and pay their compensation from funds available to the joint agency therefor.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-24-230 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 24 / Section 6-24-230
SECTION 6-24-230. Rights of personnel.
Status: in_force

(A) Personnel employed or appointed by a member of a joint agency to work for it have the same authority, rights, privileges, and immunities, including coverage pursuant to workers' compensation laws, which the officers, agents, and employees of the appointing member enjoy within the territory of that member when they are acting within the scope of their authority or in the course of their employment. (B) Personnel employed or appointed directly by a joint agency may participate in the South Carolina Retirement System if they are residents of this State with the same rights, privileges, obligations, and responsibilities as if they were employees of a governmental entity.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-21-390 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 21 / Section 6-21-390
SECTION 6-21-390. Rates for service.
Status: in_force

Rates for services furnished by any such system, project or combined system shall be fixed prior to the issuance of the bonds. Such rates shall be sufficient to provide for the payment of the interest upon and the principal of all such bonds as and when they become due and payable, to create a bond and interest redemption fund therefor, to provide for the payment of the expenses of administration and operation and such expenses for maintenance of the system, project or combined system as are necessary to preserve it in good repair and working order, to build up a reserve for depreciation of the existing system, project or combined system and to build up a reserve for improvements, betterments and extensions to the existing system, project or combined system other than those necessary to maintain it in good repair and working order as herein provided. Such rates shall be fixed and revised from time to time so as to produce these amounts and the governing body shall covenant and agree in the ordinance authorizing the issuance of the bonds and on the face of each bond at all times to maintain such rates for services furnished by such system, project or combined system as shall be sufficient to provide for the foregoing.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-275 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 6-11-275
SECTION 6-11-275. Increase in millage limitation; collection.
Status: in_force

All special purpose districts totally located within a county, which were in existence prior to March 7, 1973, and which have the statutory authority to annually levy taxes for maintenance and operation are authorized to increase their respective millage limitations upon the written approval of the governing body of the county in which they are located. Any increase above the statutory limitation must be approved each year. Any such millage increase shall be levied and collected by the appropriate county auditor and county treasurer.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-830 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 5 / Section 6-11-830
SECTION 6-11-830. Hearing on issuance of bonds.
Status: in_force

If, upon its own finding or upon petition of any commission, the county board shall determine that it may be in the interest of any special purpose district to raise moneys for the furtherance of any power of such special purpose district, the county board may order a public hearing to be held upon the question of the issuance of bonds of such special purpose district.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-1-990 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 1 / Article 9 / Section 6-1-990
SECTION 6-1-990. Maximum impact fee; proportionate share of costs of improvements to serve new development.
Status: in_force

(A) The impact fee imposed upon a fee payor may not exceed a proportionate share of the costs incurred by the governmental entity in providing system improvements to serve the new development. The proportionate share is the cost attributable to the development after the governmental entity reduces the amount to be imposed by the following factors: (1) appropriate credit, offset, or contribution of money, dedication of land, or construction of system improvements; and (2) all other sources of funding the system improvements including funds obtained from economic development incentives or grants secured which are not required to be repaid. (B) In determining the proportionate share of the cost of system improvements to be paid, the governmental entity imposing the impact fee must consider the: (1) cost of existing system improvements resulting from new development within the service area or areas; (2) means by which existing system improvements have been financed; (3) extent to which the new development contributes to the cost of system improvements; (4) extent to which the new development is required to contribute to the cost of existing system improvements in the future; (5) extent to which the new development is required to provide system improvements, without charge to other properties within the service area or areas; (6) time and price differentials inherent in a fair comparison of fees paid at different times; and (7) availability of other sources of funding system improvements including, but not limited to, user charges, general tax levies, intergovernmental transfers, and special taxation.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-1-1000 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 1 / Article 9 / Section 6-1-1000
SECTION 6-1-1000. Fair compensation or reimbursement of developers for costs, dedication of land or oversize facilities.
Status: in_force

A developer required to pay a development impact fee may not be required to pay more than his proportionate share of the costs of the project, including the payment of money or contribution or dedication of land, or to oversize his facilities for use of others outside of the project without fair compensation or reimbursement.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-580 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 3 / Section 6-11-580
SECTION 6-11-580. Tax and pledge of taxing power for payment of bonds.
Status: in_force

For the payment of the principal and interest of all bonds issued pursuant to this article, as they respectively mature, and for the creation of such sinking fund as may be necessary therefor, the full faith, credit and taxing power of the special purpose district shall be irrevocably pledged, and there shall be levied annually by the auditor, and collected by the treasurer of the county in which the special purpose district is located in the same manner as county taxes are levied and collected, a tax without limit on all taxable property in the special purpose district sufficient to pay the principal and interest of such bonds as they respectively mature and to create such sinking fund as may be necessary therefor.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-29-1640 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 29 / Article 13 / Section 6-29-1640
SECTION 6-29-1640. Application to former or closing military installations.
Status: in_force

Nothing in this article is to be construed to apply to former military installations, or approaches or access related thereto, that are in the process of closing or redeveloping pursuant to base realignment and closure proceedings, including the former naval base facility on the Cooper River in and near the City of North Charleston, nor to the planned uses of, or construction of facilities on or near, that property by the South Carolina State Ports Authority, nor to the construction and uses of transportation routes and facilities necessary or useful thereto. Code Commissioner's Note Redesignated from SECTION 6-29-1540 to SECTION 6-29-1640 at the direction of the Code Commissioner.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-25-100 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 25 / Section 6-25-100
SECTION 6-25-100. Powers of joint system.
Status: in_force

A joint system shall have all the rights and powers of a public body politic and corporate of this State, necessary or convenient to carry out the provisions of this chapter, including, without limitation, the power or right to: (1) have perpetual succession; (2) sue and be sued; (3) adopt, use, and alter a corporate seal; (4) maintain a principal office; (5) make bylaws for the management and regulation of its affairs; (6) receive, administer, and comply with the conditions and requirements respecting any gift, grant, or donation of any property or money; (7) purchase, build, construct, maintain, rent, lease, and operate ditches, tunnels, culverts, equipment, flumes, conduits, mains, pipes, dykes, dams, reservoirs, water treatment facilities, and any facilities to impound, treat, produce, transmit, distribute, operate, service, or sell water or to collect and treat wastewater in connection with the project; (8) acquire and operate machines, appliances, or appurtenances necessary or useful to construct, operate, or maintain the system; (9) enter contracts to purchase or sell water or provide sewer service; (10) prescribe rates or regulations under which water is sold; (11) make contracts and execute instruments or documents necessary or convenient to carry on the business of the joint system; (12) sell, lease, exchange, transfer, or otherwise dispose of or to grant an option concerning an interest in property in conformity with state law; (13) acquire by purchase, lease, gift, or otherwise, or to obtain an option for the acquisition of property, real or personal, improved or unimproved, including an interest in land less than the fee in conformity with state law; (14) borrow money and issue revenue bonds or notes of the joint system, to loan the proceeds of any borrowing to any member of the joint system to be paid solely from revenues of the system, the loan repayments of members, and such other funds as may be available therefor with a favorable vote of two-thirds of the commissioners. A bond or note may not be issued, the payment for which depends upon a contract or agreement with a member except with the approval of the governing body of such member, by resolution of the governing body of the member. The requirements of this item are satisfied and no further action is required with respect to a bond or note issued to finance a project that has been approved by the governing body of the member as provided in Section 6-25-110. The approval of a note or bond under this chapter shall include an issuance in one or more series and any refunding or refinancing of them so that only the original issuance of the debt must be approved. The members of a joint system may prescribe additional procedures and requirements as they determine appropriate to issue a note or bond in the bylaws of a joint system; (15) pledge or assign money, rents, charges, or other revenue and proceeds derived by the joint system from the sale of property, insurance, or a condemnation award; (16) authorize the construction, operation, or maintenance of a project by a person, firm, or corporation, including a political subdivision and agency of a state of the United States; (17) apply to the appropriate agencies of the State, the United States or another state, and to another proper agency to obtain a permit, license, certificate, or approval as necessary; and to construct, maintain, and operate the project in accordance with such a license, permit, certificate, or approval; (18) appoint officers, agents, employees, and servants to prescribe the duties of such, to fix their compensation, and to determine if and to what extent they shall be bonded for the faithful performance of their duties; (19) employ engineers, architects, attorneys, appraisers, financial advisors, or other consultants or employees required, and to fix and pay their compensation from funds available to the joint system; (20) make use of county and state highway rights-of-way in which to lay pipes and lines, in such manner and under such conditions as the appropriate officials in charge of such rights-of-way shall approve; (21) exercise the power of eminent domain as provided by the laws of this State; (22) before, and in connection with the acquisition of a project, study, plan, finance, own, operate, and maintain the project, and after the acquisition, to study, plan, finance, acquire, construct, reconstruct, improve, enlarge, extend, own, operate, and maintain an additional project; (23) acquire by negotiated purchase or lease an existing project, a project under construction, or other property, either individually or jointly, with another authority in this State or another state owning a water or sewer facility or with a political division or agency of another state, or another joint system created pursuant to this chapter; (24) dispose of by negotiated sale or lease, an existing project, a project under construction, or other property, either individually or jointly, with one or more authority in this State or another state owning a water or sewer facility or with a political subdivision or agency of another state or with another joint system created pursuant to this chapter; (25) fix, charge, and collect rents, rates, fees, and charges for water or sewage services, and commodities sold, furnished, or supplied through a project; and (26) acquire and operate a water treatment system, water distribution system, or sewer system, including the system of a member if its consent is first obtained and referendum approval is obtained in those instances where required by law. Provided, that the provisions of (7), (8), (9), (11), (17), (18), (21), (22), (23), (24), (25), and (26) do not apply to a joint system organized solely for the purpose of creating a financing pool. Effect of Amendment The 2007 amendment redesignated items (a) et seq. as items (1) et seq.; deleted items (i) relating to contracts to sell water to member and nonmember municipalities, (z) relating to contracts with joint systems and municipalities, and (bb) relating to sale of water at retail and wholesale; and made conforming amendments throughout.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-25-50 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 25 / Section 6-25-50
SECTION 6-25-50. Agreement as to number of commissioners each member may appoint; application filed with Secretary of State; corporate certificate.
Status: in_force

(A) The governing bodies of the members of a joint system shall form an agreement specifying the number of commissioners each member may appoint to a commission created to govern the joint system pursuant to Section 6-25-60. (B) Two or more commissioners shall file with the Secretary of State an application signed by the commissioner of each proposed member setting forth: (1) the names of all proposed members and their respective appointed commissioners; (2) a certified copy of: (a) the resolution of each member determining it is in its best interest to participate in the proposed joint system; and (b) the resolution appointing the member's commissioner; (3) the desire that the joint system be organized as a public body corporate and politic under this chapter; (4) the name which is proposed for the joint system; and (5) the purpose for creation of the joint system. The Secretary of State shall file the application if after examining it and determining that it complies with the requirements in this section and that the proposed name of the joint system is not identical with that of any other corporation of the State or any agency or instrumentality or so nearly similar as to lead to confusion and uncertainty. After the application has been filed, the Secretary of State shall issue a corporate certificate that must be filed with the application, and the joint system then must be constituted a public body corporate and politic under the name proposed in the application. The corporate certificate shall set forth the names of all voting members and of the name of the joint system. There also must be stated upon the corporate certificate the purpose for which it has been created, as set forth in the application. Notice of the issuance of such corporate certificate must be given to all members of the joint system by the Secretary of State. In any suit, action, or proceeding involving the validity or enforcement of, or relating to, contract of a joint system, the joint system in the absence of establishing fraud shall be conclusively considered to have been established in accordance with the provisions of this chapter upon proof of the issuance of the certificate by the Secretary of State. A copy of the certificate, duly certified by the Secretary of State, is admissible in evidence in any suit, action, or proceeding and is conclusive proof of the filing and contents. Effect of Amendment The 2007 amendment designated the first sentence as subsection (A) and rewrote it; designated the second sentence and items (a) to (e) as subsection (B), redesignated items (a) to (e) as paragraphs (1) to (5) and substituted "commissioner" for "representative" throughout; and made nonsubstantive changes in the second and third undesignated paragraphs.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-17-270 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 17 / Section 6-17-270
SECTION 6-17-270. Effect of waiver or delay in invoking remedy.
Status: in_force

No waiver of any default or breach of duty or contract, whether by any holder of refunding bonds, or any trustee therefor, shall extend to or shall affect any subsequent default or breach of duty or contract or shall impair any rights or remedies thereon. No delay or omission of any bondholder or any trustee therefor to exercise any right or power accruing upon any default shall impair any such right or power or shall be construed to be a waiver of any such default or acquiescence therein.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-8-50 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 8 / Section 6-8-50
SECTION 6-8-50. Violations of chapter; injunction.
Status: in_force

If the council has reason to believe that a person is violating or intends to violate a provision of this chapter, in addition to other remedies, it may order the person to refrain from the conduct. The council may apply to the Administrative Law Court for an injunction restraining the person from the conduct. The court may issue a temporary injunction ex parte not to exceed ten days and upon notice and full hearing may issue other orders in the matter it considers proper. No bond is required of the council by the court as a condition to the issuance of an injunction or order pursuant to this section. Effect of Amendment The 2009 amendment in the first sentence deleted "immediately" preceding "to refrain" and in the second sentence substituted "Administrative Law Court" for "court of common pleas".
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-920 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 5 / Section 6-11-920
SECTION 6-11-920. Redemption of bonds before maturity.
Status: in_force

Any bonds issued pursuant to this article may be issued with a provision for their redemption prior to their maturity at par and accrued interest, plus such redemption premium as may be prescribed by the commission, but no bond shall be redeemable before maturity unless it contains a statement to that effect. In the proceedings authorizing the issuance of the bonds, provisions shall be made specifying the manner of call and the notice thereof that must be given.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-29-915 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 29 / Article 5 / Section 6-29-915
SECTION 6-29-915. Pre-litigation mediation; notice; settlement approval; effect on real property; unsuccessful mediation.
Status: in_force

(A) If a property owner files a notice of appeal with a request for pre-litigation mediation, the request for mediation must be granted and the mediation must be conducted in accordance with South Carolina Circuit Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Rules and this section. A person who is not the owner of the property may petition to intervene as a party, and this motion must be granted if the person has a substantial interest in the decision of the board of architectural review. (B) The property owner or his representative, any other person claiming an ownership interest in the property or his representative, and any other person who has been granted leave to intervene pursuant to subsection (A) or his representative must be notified and have the opportunity to attend the mediation. The governmental entity must be represented by at least one person for purposes of mediation. (C) Within five working days of a successful mediation, the mediator must provide the parties with a signed copy of the written mediation agreement. (D) Before the terms of a mediation settlement may take effect, the mediation settlement must be approved by: (1) the local legislative governing body in public session; and (2) the circuit court as provided in subsection (G). (E) Any land use or other change agreed to in mediation which affects existing law is effective only as to the real property which is the subject of the mediation, and a settlement agreement sets no precedent as to other parcels of real property. (F) If mediation is not successful or if the mediated settlement is not approved by the local legislative governing body, a property owner may appeal by filing a petition in writing setting forth plainly, fully, and distinctly why the decision is contrary to law. The petition must be filed with the circuit court within thirty days of: (1) the report of an impasse as provided in the South Carolina Circuit Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Rules; or (2) the failure to approve the settlement by the local governing body. (G) The circuit court judge must approve the settlement if the settlement has a rational basis in accordance with the standards of this chapter. If the mediated settlement is not approved by the court, the judge must schedule a hearing for the parties to present evidence and must issue a written opinion containing findings of law and fact. A party may appeal from the decision: (1) in the same manner as provided by law for appeals from other judgments of the circuit court; or (2) by filing an appeal pursuant to subsection (F).
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-100 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 6-11-100
SECTION 6-11-100. General powers and duties of commissioners.
Status: in_force

The boards of commissioners of these districts must be bodies politic and shall exercise and enjoy all the rights and privileges of such. They may purchase and build or contract for building electric light, water supply, fire protection, and sewerage systems, and may lease, own, hold, and acquire all necessary equipment and property for that purpose. They may operate it and may contract with existing light and water companies and municipalities for light, water, and fire protection, or contract and connect with existing sewerage systems of municipalities or other districts. They may supply and furnish lights and water and provide for fire protection and sewerage disposal to citizens of these districts and may require an exact payment of rates, tolls, rentals, and charges they may establish for the use of lights, water, fire protection, and the sewerage plant. Property purchased by the boards of commissioners may be held in either the name of the commission or the name of the district. Effect of Amendment The 2012 amendment inserted "Property purchased by the boards of commissioners may be held in either the name of the commission or the name of the district." and made other, nonsubstantive, changes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-35-95 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 35 / Section 6-35-95
SECTION 6-35-95. Disclosure to prospective purchasers that property subject to assessment.
Status: in_force

The owner or developer of the real property in a residential improvement district must disclose to prospective purchasers of residential real property in the improvement district that the property is subject to an assessment under the provisions of this chapter and the maximum annual amount and duration of the assessments.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-25-113 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 25 / Section 6-25-113
SECTION 6-25-113. Revenues from which bonds payable; statement of restriction.
Status: in_force

The bonds are special obligations of the joint system issuing them. The principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the bonds are not payable from the general funds of the joint system, nor do they constitute a legal or equitable pledge, charge, lien, or encumbrance upon any of its property or upon any of its income, receipts, or revenues, except the funds which are pledged under the resolution authorizing the bonds or the trust agreement securing the bonds. Neither the faith and credit nor the taxing power of the State or an authority is, or may be, pledged for the payment of the principal of or interest on the bonds, and no holder of the bonds has the right to compel the exercise of the taxing power by the State or an authority or the forfeiture of any of its property in connection with any default. However, the provisions of this section do not affect the ability of any member county or authority from providing a pledge of all or part of any revenues derived as payments in lieu of taxes with respect to a project. Every bond must recite in substance that the principal of and interest on the bond is payable solely from the revenues and other funds pledged to its payment and that the joint system is not obligated to pay the principal or interest except from such revenues and funds so pledged. Effect of Amendment The 2007 amendment substituted "authority" for "municipality" throughout.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-31-145 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 31 / Section 6-31-145
SECTION 6-31-145. Applicability to local government of constitutional and statutory procedures for approval of debt.
Status: in_force

In the event that any of the obligations of the local government in the development agreement constitute debt, the local government shall comply at the time of the obligation to incur such debt becomes enforceable against the local government with any applicable constitutional and statutory procedures for the approval of this debt.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-13-460 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 13 / Article 5 / Section 6-13-460
SECTION 6-13-460. Exemption of evidences of indebtedness and district property from taxes.
Status: in_force

(1) Bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness issued pursuant to SECTION 6-13-440(22) and interest payable thereon are hereby exempted from any and all State, county, municipal and other taxation whatsoever under the laws of this State, and it shall be plainly stated on the face of each such obligation as follows: "The principal of and interest on this (bond, note or other evidence of indebtedness) are exempted from any and all State, county, municipal and other taxation whatsoever under the laws of the State of South Carolina." (2) All property of the district shall be exempt from all ad valorem taxes levied by the State, county or any municipality, division, subdivision or agency thereof, direct or indirect.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-4-12 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 4 / Section 6-4-12
SECTION 6-4-12. Housing impact analysis.
Status: in_force

(A) If a local government intends to use the funds for the development of workforce housing, then the local government shall prepare a housing impact analysis prior to giving second reading to the ordinance. (B) The analysis required by subsection (A) must include: (1) information about the effect of the ordinance on housing, including the effect of the ordinance on each of the following: (a) the cost of developing, construction, rehabilitating, improving, maintaining, or owning single-family or multifamily dwellings; (b) the purchase price of new homes or the fair market value of existing homes; (c) the cost and availability of financing to purchase or develop housing; (d) housing costs; and (e) the density, location, setback, size, or height development on a lot, parcel, land division, or subdivision; and (2) an analysis of the relative impact of the ordinance on low- and moderate-income households. (C) The following applies to information on housing costs required to be included in the analysis conducted pursuant to subsection (B)(1)(d): (1) the analysis must include reasonable estimates of the effect of the ordinance on housing costs, expressed in dollar amounts. The local government shall include a brief summary of, or worksheet demonstrating, the computations used in determining the dollar amounts. However, if the local government determines that it is not possible to make an estimate expressed in dollar amounts, then the analysis must include a statement setting forth the reasons for the local government's determination; and (2) the analysis must include descriptions of both the immediate effect and, to the extent ascertainable, the long-term effect of the ordinance on housing costs. (D) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a housing impact analysis required pursuant to this section must be based on costs associated with the development, construction, financing, purchasing, sale, ownership, or availability of a median-priced single-family residence. However, the analysis may include estimates for larger developments as part of an analysis of the long-term effects of the ordinance. (E) A local government may request information from any state agencies, local units of government, universities or colleges, organizations, or individuals as necessary to prepare a housing impact analysis pursuant to this section. (F) The local government shall provide the housing impact analysis for an ordinance to the members of the legislative body of the local government, the Department of Revenue, and the Tourism Expenditure Revenue Committee before the ordinance is considered by the legislative body. The Department of Revenue may not disburse any accommodations taxes to the local government for purposes of development of workforce housing unless and until the local government has provided the housing impact analysis to the parties required pursuant to this subsection. Editor's Note 2023 Act No. 57, SECTION 9, provides as follows: "SECTION 9. Before the beginning of the 2030 Legislative Session, the Director of the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce and the Commissioner of Agriculture, shall issue a report to the General Assembly detailing the effects on tourism and workforce housing resulting from the codified provisions of this act."
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-35-118 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 35 / Section 6-35-118
SECTION 6-35-118. Petition to create improvement district and impose assessment.
Status: in_force

Only the owner of real property may request by petition the governing body to create a district consisting of such real property and to impose assessments therein to defray the cost of improvements. The petition must: (1) be signed by owners of all real property within the proposed district as of the date of submission of the petition; (2) contain a legal description of such real property; and (3) contain: (a) an improvement plan; (b) the projected time schedule for the accomplishment of the improvement plan; (c) the estimated cost; and (d) the amount of the cost to be derived from assessments or from bonds or other obligations secured by assessments, together with the proposed basis and rates of assessments to be imposed within the district.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-23-130 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 23 / Section 6-23-130
SECTION 6-23-130. Issuance of bonds authorized.
Status: in_force

A joint agency may issue bonds pledging to the payment thereof as to both principal and interest the revenues, or any portion thereof, derived or to be derived from all or any of its projects, and any additions and betterments thereto or extensions thereof, or contributions or advances from its members. Bonds of a joint agency shall be authorized by resolution adopted by its board of directors.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-7-1280 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 7 / Article 13 / Section 6-7-1280
SECTION 6-7-1280. Procedure for obtaining exemption of property from restrictions of official map.
Status: in_force

After adoption of any official map by the governing authority of the municipality or the governing authority of the county any property owner owning property located within the mapped lines of any street or highway, public building site, public utility line, or public open space as shown on the official map, may apply to the local planning commission for exemption of such property from the restrictions of the official map. When such application has been made the following procedure shall be utilized: (1) The local planning commission shall evaluate the application and make a report within thirty days to the governing authority and to any other appropriate public agency. If no report is made within thirty days, the planning commission shall be deemed to have recommended that the application be granted. (2) The local planning commission's report shall recommend: (a) That the governing authority take official action to exempt the affected property from the restrictions of the official map; or (b) That the governing authority initiate appropriate action to acquire the property. (3) Upon receipt of the report of the local planning commission the governing authority shall within seventy-five days: (a) Take official action to exempt the affected property from the restrictions of the official map; provided, that such exemption shall have no effect on any applicable zoning restrictions pertaining to permitted uses; or (b) Either enter into an agreement to acquire or institute condemnation proceedings to acquire the property affected. Action to acquire such property may be instituted by the governing authority or other appropriate public agency. Failure of the governing authority to act within seventy-five days of the receipt of the report of the local planning commission shall be deemed to constitute granting of the application.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-29-830 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 29 / Article 5 / Section 6-29-830
SECTION 6-29-830. Notice of appeal; transcript; supersedeas.
Status: in_force

(A) Upon the filing of an appeal with a petition as provided in Section 6-29-820(A) or Section 6-29-825(F), the clerk of the circuit court must give immediate notice of the appeal to the secretary of the board and within thirty days from the time of the notice, the board must file with the clerk a duly certified copy of the proceedings held before the board of appeals, including a transcript of the evidence heard before the board, if any, and the decision of the board including its findings of fact and conclusions. (B) The filing of an appeal in the circuit court from any decision of the board does not ipso facto act as a supersedeas, but the judge of the circuit court may in his discretion grant a supersedeas upon such terms and conditions as may seem reasonable and proper. Effect of Amendment The 2003 amendment, in subsection (A) inserted "with a petition as provided in Section 6-29-820(A) or Section 6-29-825(F)" preceding ", the clerk of circuit court", substituted "the appeal" for "it", inserted "duly" preceding "certified copy", and substituted "the board" for "it", in subsection (B) substituted "any" for "a" and "does" for "shall", and in subsections (A) and (B) made nonsubstantive changes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-510 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 3 / Section 6-11-510
SECTION 6-11-510. Maturity of bonds.
Status: in_force

All bonds issued pursuant to this article shall mature in such annual series or installments as the commission shall prescribe, except that the first maturing bonds of any issue shall mature not later than three years from the date as of which they shall be issued; no bond shall mature later than thirty years from the date as of which it shall be issued.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-16-10 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 16 / Section 6-16-10
SECTION 6-16-10. Short title.
Status: in_force

This chapter may be cited as the "Solid Waste Disposal—Resource Recovery Facilities Act".
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-37-30 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 37 / Section 6-37-30
SECTION 6-37-30. Function and powers.
Status: in_force

(A) The Beaufort-Jasper Water and Sewer Authority is a body corporate and politic whose function is to acquire supplies of water and to distribute such water within its service area. To that end, the authority is empowered to construct such reservoirs, wells, treatment facilities, impounding dams or dykes, canals, conduits, aqueducts, tunnels, water distribution facilities, water mains and water lines, and appurtenant facilities, as in the opinion of the authority as may be considered necessary, and to acquire such land, rights of way, easements, machinery, apparatus, and equipment as is considered useful. (B) The authority shall acquire, construct, operate, maintain, improve, and enlarge facilities which provide for the collection, treatment, disposal, and recycling of water and wastewater at any point within its service area, wherever such facilities are found by the authority to be necessary for the public health and the protection of the environment; to make such facilities available to private persons, private corporations, and governmental entities as authorized by this chapter; and to finance the cost of such facilities by the means made available to the authority by the provisions of this chapter. (C) In order to perform services and functions related to the provision of water and waste water collection, treatment, and disposal services and related public works activities, the authority is authorized to contract with any of the following counties and any political subdivision therein: Beaufort, Jasper, Hampton, and Colleton Counties. (D) Without in any way limiting the provisions of this section, the service territory of the authority shall be Beaufort and Jasper Counties.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-1010 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 5 / Section 6-11-1010
SECTION 6-11-1010. Disposition of proceeds of bonds.
Status: in_force

The proceeds derived from the sale of any bonds issued pursuant to this article shall be paid to the treasurer of the county in which the special purpose district is located, to be deposited in a bond account fund for the special purpose district, and shall be expended and made use of by the commission as follows: (a) Any accrued interest shall be applied to the payment of the first installment of interest to become due on such bonds. (b) Any premium shall be applied to the payment of the first installment of principal of the bonds. (c) The remaining proceeds shall be used to defray the cost of issuing bonds authorized hereby, to pay the cost of acquiring and constructing the necessary improvements in the special purpose district, and, if the commission shall so prescribe, to fund the interest to become due on the bonds issued under this article during not exceeding the first three years following the date of the bonds. (d) If any balance remains, it shall be held by the treasurer of the county in which the special purpose district is located in a special fund and used to effect the retirement of bonds authorized hereby.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-13-680 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 13 / Article 7 / Section 6-13-680
SECTION 6-13-680. Wilful damage or destruction of district property, pollution of waters or obtaining water illegally.
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for any person to wilfully injure or destroy, or in any manner hurt, damage, tamper with, or impair the system of the district, or any part thereof, or any machinery, apparatus or equipment of the district, or to pollute the water in any part of its system, or to obtain water therefrom except in accordance with the regulations promulgated by the district. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned for not more than thirty days, in the discretion of the court, and shall be further liable to pay all damages by the district.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-60 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 6-11-60
SECTION 6-11-60. Electors shall vote on establishment of district and on election of commissioners.
Status: in_force

At such election the qualified voters shall vote "Yes" or "No" on the establishment of such electric light, water supply, fire protection and sewerage district and of the electric light, water supply, fire protection and sewerage plant and at the same election they shall vote on the election of three commissioners of the district who shall hold office for a period of six years and until their successors are elected and qualified, the members of the first commission, however, to have terms of office of two, four and six years. Thereafter a commissioner shall be elected at each State biennial election.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-29-320 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 29 / Article 1 / Section 6-29-320
SECTION 6-29-320. Bodies authorized to create local planning commissions.
Status: in_force

The city council of each municipality may create a municipal planning commission. The county council of each county may create a county planning commission. The governing body of a consolidated government may create a planning commission. Any combination of municipal councils and a county council or any combination of municipal councils may create a joint planning commission.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-1-1050 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 1 / Article 9 / Section 6-1-1050
SECTION 6-1-1050. Permissible agreements for payments or construction or installation of improvements by fee payors and developers; credits and reimbursements.
Status: in_force

A fee payor and developer may enter into an agreement with a governmental entity, including an agreement entered into pursuant to the South Carolina Local Government Development Agreement Act, providing for payments instead of impact fees for facilities or services. That agreement may provide for the construction or installation of system improvements by the fee payor or developer and for credits or reimbursements for costs incurred by a fee payor or developer including interproject transfers of credits or reimbursement for project improvements which are used or shared by more than one development project. An impact fee may not be imposed on a fee payor or developer who has entered into an agreement as described in this section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-7-1230 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 7 / Article 13 / Section 6-7-1230
SECTION 6-7-1230. Establishment of official map.
Status: in_force

The governing authority of a municipality may establish an official map of the municipality. The governing authority of a county may establish an official map of the unincorporated areas of the county. Such official maps may show the location of existing or proposed public street, highway and utility rights-of-way, public building sites, and public open spaces. The official map may include the whole or any part or parts of the municipality or county within the jurisdiction of the establishing governing authority. The governing authority shall certify the fact of the establishment of the official maps to the clerk of the circuit court of the county. The official map may consist of any number of separate maps which need not be drawn to the same scale; however, such maps shall be indexed on a single map depicting the area of jurisdiction of the governing authority.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-1-620 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 1 / Article 6 / Section 6-1-620
SECTION 6-1-620. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this article: (1) "Beach preservation fee" means a fee imposed on the gross proceeds derived from the rental or charges for accommodations furnished to transients for consideration within the jurisdiction of the governing body which are subject to the tax imposed pursuant to Section 12-36-920(A). (2) "Governing body" means the governing body of a qualified coastal municipality. (3) "Qualified coastal municipality" means a municipality bordering on the Atlantic Ocean that has a public beach within its corporate limits and which imposes a local accommodations tax pursuant to Section 6-1-520 that does not exceed one and one-half percent pursuant to the limitations imposed pursuant to Section 6-1-540.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-7-1210 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 7 / Article 13 / Section 6-7-1210
SECTION 6-7-1210. "Official map" defined.
Status: in_force

"Official map" means a map or maps showing the location of existing or proposed public street, highway, and public utility rights-of-way, public building sites and public open spaces adopted by the governing authority of a municipality or county in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. A public building site is one on which a building is to be constructed for public use with public funds.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-7-1240 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 7 / Article 13 / Section 6-7-1240
SECTION 6-7-1240. Creation of maps by planning commission showing recommended lines of streets or highways, public building sites, public utilities or public open space.
Status: in_force

After the local planning commission shall have prepared and adopted a comprehensive plan or at least the major street portion of such plan and upon receiving approval thereof by the appropriate governing authority, the local planning commission may make or cause to be made surveys for the exact location of the lines of proposed new, extended, widened and otherwise improved streets and highways in the whole or in any portion of the municipality or county and to make and certify to the governing authority a map or maps of the area thus surveyed on which are indicated the lines recommended by the local planning commission as the mapped lines of the rights-of-way required for future streets and highways and for future extensions, widenings and other improvements to existing streets and highways. After the local planning commission shall have prepared and adopted a comprehensive plan or at least the public building sites, public open spaces or public utilities portion of such comprehensive plan, and upon receiving approval thereof by the appropriate governing authority, the local planning commission may make or cause to be made, from time to time, surveys of the exact location of the boundary lines of proposed new and enlarged sites for public buildings, public parks, public playgrounds, public utilities and other public open spaces in the whole or in any portion of the municipality or county and to make and certify to the governing authority of the municipality or to the governing authority of the county maps of the areas thus surveyed on which are indicated the locations of the lines recommended by the planning commission as the mapped boundary lines of future public building sites, public parks, public playgrounds, public utilities and other future open space areas. The making or certifying of such maps by the planning commission shall be in the form of a recommendation and shall not of itself constitute the opening or establishment of any street or highway or public building site or public park, public playground, public utility or other public open space or the taking or acceptance of any land for such purpose.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-353 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 2 / Section 6-11-353
SECTION 6-11-353. Notice of referendum.
Status: in_force

Notice of the referendum must be published by the governing body of the special purpose district at least three times prior to the referendum, including (i) not less than sixty days prior to the date of the referendum, (ii) two weeks after the first date of publication, and (iii) a date not more than fifteen and not less than ten days prior to the date of the referendum. The notice must appear in a newspaper of general circulation within the special purpose district and contain at a minimum the following: (1) the full name of the district and its governing body; (2) the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of the members of the district's governing body; (3) the existing means of appointment of members of the district's governing body; (4) the act by which the district was initially created and the year effective; (5) a brief description of the governmental services provided by the district; (6) a description of the taxing authority of the district, if any, and the limitations on that taxing authority; (7) a map showing generally the boundaries of the district; (8) a list of precincts and polling places in which ballots may be cast; (9) the purpose of the referendum and the question to be presented to qualified electors; (10) an explanation of the procedure to be followed for election of members of the district's governing body if the result of the referendum is favorable; and (11) other additional information required by the general law of the State relating to notices of elections.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-35-30 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 35 / Section 6-35-30
SECTION 6-35-30. Authority to exercise powers and provisions of chapter.
Status: in_force

A county or municipality, only with the approval of the owners of all real property situated within a proposed district, as further provided in Section 6-35-118, may exercise the powers and provisions of this chapter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-13-630 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 13 / Article 7 / Section 6-13-630
SECTION 6-13-630. Creation and membership of Mitford Rural Water District Board of Fairfield and Chester Counties.
Status: in_force

The district shall be operated and managed by a board of directors to be known as the Mitford Rural Water District Board of Fairfield and Chester Counties which shall constitute the governing body of the district. The board shall consist of five resident electors of the area who shall be appointed by the Governor, upon the recommendation of a majority of those persons attending a meeting of residents of the area held pursuant to at least one week's notice in a local newspaper giving the time and place of the meeting. The chairman and secretary of the meeting shall certify the names of those recommended to the Governor. The original appointments shall be for a term of two years for two appointees, for four years for two appointees, and for six years for one appointee. All terms after the initial appointments shall be for six years. All appointees shall hold office until their successors shall have been appointed and qualified. The initial terms of office shall begin as of April 12, 1965. Any vacancy shall be filled in like manner as the original appointment for the unexpired portion of the term. Immediately after appointment, the board shall meet and organize by the election of one of its members as chairman, one as vice chairman, one as secretary and one as treasurer. The offices of the secretary and treasurer may be combined in the discretion of the board.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-21-360 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 21 / Section 6-21-360
SECTION 6-21-360. Appointment and powers of receiver.
Status: in_force

If there be any default in the payment of the principal of or interest upon any of the bonds any court having jurisdiction in any proper action may appoint a receiver to administer and operate the system, project or combined system so encumbered on behalf of the borrower with power to fix and charge rates and collect revenues sufficient to provide for the payment of any bonds or other obligations outstanding against the system, project or combined system and for the payment of the expenses of operating and maintaining it and to apply the income and revenues of the system, project or combined system in conformity with this chapter and the ordinance providing for the issuance of the bonds.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-23-220 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 23 / Section 6-23-220
SECTION 6-23-220. Issuance of refunding bonds authorized.
Status: in_force

A joint agency is hereby authorized to provide by resolution for the issuance of refunding bonds of the joint agency for the purpose of refunding any bonds then outstanding which shall have been issued under the provisions of this chapter, including the payment of any redemption premium thereon and any interest accrued or to accrue to the date of redemption of such bonds. The issuance of such bonds, the maturities and other details thereof, the rights of the holders thereof, and the rights, duties and obligations of the joint agency in respect to the same shall be governed by the provisions of this chapter which relate to the issuance of bonds, insofar as such provisions may be appropriate therefor.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-31-150 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 31 / Section 6-31-150
SECTION 6-31-150. Invalidity of all or part of SECTION 6-31-140 invalidates chapter.
Status: in_force

If Section 6-31-140 or any provision therein or the application of any provision therein is held invalid, the invalidity applies to this chapter in its entirety, to any and all provisions of the chapter, and the application of this chapter or any provision of this chapter, and to this end the provisions of Section 6-31-140 of this chapter are not severable.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-1-90 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 1 / Article 1 / Section 6-1-90
SECTION 6-1-90. Authorization of gifts to certain volunteer service personnel.
Status: in_force

(A) Notwithstanding another provision of law, the governing body of a local government may authorize the distribution of a gratuitous year-end or holiday monetary or other type of gift to the following categories of volunteer service personnel: (1) reserve law enforcement officers; (2) volunteer firefighters; or (3) volunteer emergency medical service personnel. (B) If the governing body of a local government elects to authorize the distribution of a gratuitous year-end or holiday monetary or other type of gift, it shall ensure all personnel in that respective category bequeathed pursuant to this section are treated equally. Editor's Note 2013 Act No. 76, SECTION 1, provides as follows: "SECTION 1. This act shall be known as the 'Volunteer Service Personnel Appreciation Act'."
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-24-240 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 24 / Section 6-24-240
SECTION 6-24-240. Annual report; audit.
Status: in_force

At the close of each fiscal year, a joint agency shall submit an annual report of its activities for the preceding year to each member, including a complete operating and financial statement covering the operations of the joint agency during the year. The joint agency shall cause an audit of its books of record and accounts to be made at least once a year by a certified public accountant, and the cost of the audit may be treated as a part of the cost of construction of a project or otherwise as part of the expense of administration of a project covered by the audit.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-29-825 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 29 / Article 5 / Section 6-29-825
SECTION 6-29-825. Pre-litigation mediation; notice; settlement approval; effect on real property; unsuccessful mediation.
Status: in_force

(A) If a property owner files a notice of appeal with a request for pre-litigation mediation, the request for mediation must be granted, and the mediation must be conducted in accordance with South Carolina Circuit Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Rules and this section. A person who is not the owner of the property may petition to intervene as a party, and this motion must be granted if the person has a substantial interest in the decision of the board of appeals. (B) The property owner or his representative, any other person claiming an ownership interest in the property or his representative, and any other person who has been granted leave to intervene pursuant to subsection (A) or his representative must be notified and have the opportunity to attend the mediation. The governmental entity must be represented by at least one person for purposes of mediation. (C) Within five working days of a successful mediation, the mediator must provide the parties with a signed copy of the written mediation agreement. (D) Before the terms of a mediation settlement may take effect, the mediation settlement must be approved by: (1) the local legislative governing body in public session; and (2) the circuit court as provided in subsection (G). (E) Any land use or other change agreed to in mediation which affects existing law is effective only as to the real property which is the subject of the mediation, and a settlement agreement sets no precedent as to other parcels of real property. (F) If mediation is not successful or if the mediated settlement is not approved by the local legislative governing body, a property owner may appeal by filing a petition in writing setting forth plainly, fully, and distinctly why the decision is contrary to law. The petition must be filed with the circuit court within thirty days of: (1) the report of an impasse as provided in the South Carolina Circuit Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Rules; or (2) the failure to approve the settlement by the local governing body. (G) The circuit court judge must approve the settlement if the settlement has a rational basis in accordance with the standards of this chapter. If the mediated settlement is not approved by the court, the judge must schedule a hearing for the parties to present evidence and must issue a written opinion containing findings of law and fact. A party may appeal from the decision: (1) in the same manner as provided by law for appeals from other judgments of the circuit court; or (2) by filing an appeal pursuant to subsection (F).
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-1240 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 7 / Section 6-11-1240
SECTION 6-11-1240. Circumstances in which sewer service charges shall constitute lien on real estate; other methods of collection shall not be precluded.
Status: in_force

If the notice or notices prescribed by paragraph (1) of SECTION 6-11-1230 shall have been given and any hearing requested pursuant thereto shall have been held, all sewer service charges imposed by the commission following that procedure under authority of this article and not paid when due and payable shall be and constitute a lien upon the real estate to which the sewage service concerned relates so long as the sewer service charges remain unpaid. In addition to such other rights and remedies as may be available to the commission in law or in equity for the collection of the sewer service charges, the lien may be enforced by the commission in the same manner and fashion as the lien of property taxes on real estate. The lien herein provided shall be superior to all other liens except liens for unpaid property taxes. The method provided in this article for the enforcement of the collection of past due sewer service charges shall not be the exclusive method of enforcing such collections and the commission is fully empowered to enforce the collection of any such sewer service charges in any other lawful manner in all or any part of the district, including particularly by way of a contract with a water distribution agency as authorized under paragraph (2) of SECTION 6-11-1230.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-16-30 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 16 / Section 6-16-30
SECTION 6-16-30. Powers of joint agency; action by single governing body.
Status: in_force

In addition to the powers granted to governing bodies, any two or more governing bodies may form a joint agency to plan, finance, develop, acquire, purchase, construct, reconstruct, improve, enlarge, own, lease, sell, operate or maintain a project situated within this State. Each governing body may severally make such plans and enter into such contracts in connection with the foregoing, not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, as are necessary or appropriate. Nothing contained herein shall be construed to prevent a single governing body from undertaking studies to determine whether there is a need for a project or whether such project is feasible or undertaking the project or facilities similar to a project singly and individually.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-330 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 6-11-330
SECTION 6-11-330. Special purpose districts providing fire protection services authorized to provide emergency medical services.
Status: in_force

(A) A special purpose district that was empowered as of March 7, 1973, to provide fire protection services to the area within its boundaries may provide emergency medical services to the area within its boundaries if it has received permission, by written resolution, from the governing body of the county or counties in which the district is located, provided that these emergency medical services may not be provided to those parts of the district's area where emergency medical services are being provided by a governmental entity at the time the district's governing body determines to utilize the provisions of this section. The district may build, acquire, construct, operate, and maintain such facilities, contract for the use of these facilities, acquire or lease such equipment, and hire, train, and employ the personnel as are in the opinion of the governing body of the special purpose district necessary to or helpful in the provision of emergency medical services by the district. The district may impose such schedule of rates and charges for the provision of emergency medical services as the governing body of the district shall from time-to-time approve. The governing body of the district may place into effect and revise, whenever it wishes or is required, a schedule of rates for the emergency medical services made available by it. (B) All other powers of a special purpose district shall continue and are not considered to be changed by the provisions of this section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-1-315 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 1 / Article 3 / Section 6-1-315
SECTION 6-1-315. Limitation on imposition or increase of business license and real estate professional and auctioneer fees.
Status: in_force

(A) By ordinance adopted by a positive majority vote, a local governing body may impose a business license tax or increase the rate of a business license tax, authorized by Sections 4-9-30(12) and 5-7-30. (B)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the governing body of a county or municipality may not impose a license, occupation, or professional tax or fee upon real estate licensees, except upon the broker-in-charge at the place where the real estate licensee shall maintain a principal or branch office. The license, occupation, or professional tax or fee shall permit the broker-in-charge and the broker's affiliated associate brokers, salespersons, and property managers to engage in all of the brokerage activities described in Chapter 57 of Title 40 without further licensing or taxing, other than the state licenses issued pursuant to Chapter 57 of Title 40 or pursuant to other provisions of law. No license, occupation, or professional tax or fee shall be required of the affiliated associate brokers, salespersons, or property managers of a broker-in-charge for such gross receipts upon which a license, occupation, or professional tax or fee has already been paid. (2) Brokered transactions of real property in counties or municipalities other than those in which the broker-in-charge maintains a principal or branch office create a nexus for imposition of a license, occupation, or professional tax or fee only with respect to gross receipts derived from transactions of property located in that county or municipality. (3) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the governing body of a county or municipality may not impose a license, occupation, or professional tax or fee upon the gross proceeds of an auctioneer licensed under Chapter 6 of Title 40 for the first three auctions conducted by the auctioneer in the county or municipality, unless the auctioneer maintains a principal or branch office in the county or municipality. Effect of Amendment The 2008 amendment designated subsection (A) and added subsection (B) relating to real estate professionals and auctioneers.