S.C. Code Ann. § 6-13-50 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 13 / Article 1 / Section 6-13-50
SECTION 6-13-50. Powers of district.
Status: in_force

The district, acting through its governing body, is hereby vested with all such powers as may be necessary or incidental to carry out its purposes, functions, and responsibilities including, but without limiting the following: (1) To have perpetual succession. (2) To sue and be sued. (3) To adopt, use and alter a corporate seal. (4) To define a quorum for meetings. (5) To maintain a principal office. (6) To make bylaws for the management and regulation of its affairs. (7) To build, construct, maintain and operate ditches, tunnels, culverts, flumes, conduits, mains, pipes, dikes, dams and reservoirs. (8) To build, construct, maintain and operate distribution systems for the distribution of water for domestic or industrial use. (9) To acquire and operate any type of machinery, appliances or appurtenances, necessary or useful in constructing, operating and maintaining the system. (10) To contract for or otherwise acquire a supply of water and sell water for industrial or domestic use. (11) To prescribe rates and regulations under which such water shall be sold for industrial and domestic use. (12) To enter into contracts of long duration for the sale of water with persons, private corporations, municipal corporations or public bodies or agencies. (13) To prescribe such regulations as it shall deem necessary to protect from pollution all water in its pipes, tanks, reservoirs, distribution systems or elsewhere within its system. Provided, that prior to the adoption of any regulation, the district shall hold a public meeting for the consideration thereof, and shall advertise in a newspaper of general circulation in the district the time and place of such meeting, and the general nature and scope of the regulation to be considered for adoption, and such notice shall be published on two occasions prior to such meeting, and at least ten days prior thereto. (14) To make contracts of all sorts and to execute all instruments necessary or convenient for the carrying on of the business of the district, including contracts and franchise agreements with nonprofit corporations to provide water and sewerage service for periods up to forty years. (15) To acquire, purchase, hold, use, lease, mortgage, sell, transfer and dispose of any property, real, personal or mixed, or any interest therein. (16) To 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. (17) Subject always to the limitations of SECTION 15, Article VIII, of the Constitution of this State, to make use of all the streets and public ways of an incorporated municipality for the purpose of laying pipes and lines. (18) To alter and change county and State highways wherever necessary to construct the system under such conditions as the appropriate officials in charge of such highways shall approve. (19) To exercise the power of eminent domain for any corporate function. The power of eminent domain may be exercised through any procedure prescribed by SECTIONS 28-5-10 through 28-5-390 and 57-5-310 through 57-5-590, as now or hereafter constituted, it being the intent of this provision that further amendments and modifications of these Code provisions shall be deemed to amend and revise correspondingly the powers granted by this paragraph. The provisions of this item shall not apply to public utilities and railroads which have the power of eminent domain. (20) To 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. (21) To make contracts for construction and other services; provided, that such contracts shall be let on competitive bidding and shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. (22) To borrow money and to make and issue negotiable bonds, notes and other evidences of indebtedness, payable from all or any part of the revenues derived from the operation of its system. The sums borrowed may be those needed to pay all costs incident to the construction and establishment of the system, and any extensions, additions and improvements thereto, including engineering costs, legal costs, construction costs; the sum needed to pay interest during the period prior to which the system or any extension, addition or improvement thereof, shall be fully in operation; such sum as is needed to supply working capital to place the system in operation; and all other expenses of any sort that the district may incur in establishing, extending or enlarging the system. Neither the full faith and credit of the State of South Carolina, nor the county, shall be pledged for the payment of the principal and interest of the obligations, and there shall be on the face of each obligation a statement, plainly worded, to that effect. Neither the members of the board, nor any person signing the obligations, shall be personally liable thereon. To the end that a convenient procedure for borrowing money may be prescribed, the district shall be fully empowered to avail itself of all powers granted by Chapters 17 and 21 of this title, as now or hereafter constituted, it being the intent of this provision that further amendments and modifications of the Code provisions shall be deemed to amend and revise correspondingly the powers granted by this paragraph. In exercising the power conferred upon the district by such Code provisions, the district may make or omit all pledges and covenants authorized by any provision thereof, and may confer upon the holders of its securities all rights and liens authorized by law. Notwithstanding contrary provisions in the Code, the district may: (a) Disregard any provision requiring that bonds have serial maturities, and issue bonds in such form and with such maturities as the district shall determine. (b) Provide that its bonds, notes or other evidence of indebtedness be payable, both as to principal and interest, from the net revenues derived from the operation of its system, as such net revenues may be defined by the district. (c) Covenant and agree that upon it being adjudged in default as to the payment of any installment of principal or interest upon any obligation issued by it, or in default as to the performance of any covenant or undertaking made by it, in such event the principal of all obligations of such issue may be declared forthwith due and payable, notwithstanding that any of them may not have then matured. (d) Confer upon a corporation trustee the power to make disposition of the proceeds from all borrowings and of all revenues derived from the operation of the system, in accordance with the resolution adopted by the authority as an incident to the issuance of any notes, bonds or other types of securities. (e) Dispose of bonds, notes or other evidence of indebtedness at public or private sale, and upon such terms and conditions as it shall approve. (f) Make provision for the redemption of any obligations issued by it prior to their stated maturity, with or without premium, and on such terms and conditions as the district shall approve. (g) Covenant and agree that any cushion fund established to further secure the payment of the principal and interest of any obligation shall be in a fixed amount. (h) Covenant and agree that no free service will be furnished to any person, municipal corporation, or any subdivision or division of the State. (i) Prescribe the procedure, if any, by which the terms of the contract with the holders of its obligations may be amended, the number of obligations whose holders must consent thereto, and the manner in which such consent shall be given. (j) Prescribe the events of default and the terms and conditions upon which all or any obligations shall become or may be declared due before maturity and the terms and conditions upon which such declarations and their consequences may be waived. (23) To extend its system or systems beyond the defined limits of the district, within or without the county, but contiguous to the district, to provide services to those living outside the district and outside any incorporated municipality when, in the discretion of the board, it is feasible and practicable so to do, in which case any person or agency receiving such service shall be subject to the same rules, regulations and requirements concerning services being received from the district as persons residing within the district. The board may, in its discretion, establish rates and charges higher than those within the district for the extension of its system and the provision of services beyond the limits of the district.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-29-900 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 29 / Article 5 / Section 6-29-900
SECTION 6-29-900. Appeal from board of architectural review to circuit court; pre-litigation mediation; filing requirements.
Status: in_force

(A) A person who may have a substantial interest in any decision of the board of architectural review or any officer, or agent of the appropriate governing authority may appeal from any decision of the board to the circuit court in and for the county by filing with the clerk of court a petition in writing setting forth plainly, fully, and distinctly why the decision is contrary to law. The appeal must be filed within thirty days after the affected party receives actual notice of the decision of the board of architectural review. (B) A property owner whose land is the subject of a decision of the board of architectural review may appeal either: (1) as provided in subsection (A); or (2) by filing a notice of appeal with the circuit court accompanied by a request for pre-litigation mediation in accordance with Section 6-29-915. A notice of appeal and request for pre-litigation mediation must be filed within thirty days after the decision of the board is postmarked. (C) Any filing of an appeal from a particular board of architectural review decision pursuant to the provisions of this chapter must be given a single docket number, and the appellant must be assessed only one filing fee pursuant to Section 8-21-310(C)(1). Effect of Amendment The 2003 amendment added subsections (B) and (C) and designated the existing paragraph as subsection (A).
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-21-350 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 21 / Section 6-21-350
SECTION 6-21-350. Enforcement of lien of bondholders.
Status: in_force

Such system, project or combined system so purchased, constructed, improved, enlarged, extended or repaired shall remain subject to such statutory lien until payment in full of the principal of and interest upon the bonds. Any holder of any of such bonds or of any of the coupons representing interest accrued thereon may, either at law or in equity, by suit, action, mandamus or other proceedings, protect and enforce such statutory lien and may, by suit, action, mandamus or other proceedings, enforce and compel performance of all duties of the officials of the borrower, including the fixing of sufficient rates, the collection of revenues, the proper segregation of the revenues of the project or combined system and the proper application thereof. But such statutory lien shall not be construed to give any such bond or coupon holder authority to compel the sale of the project or combined system or any part thereof.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-7-170 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 7 / Article 3 / Section 6-7-170
SECTION 6-7-170. Appropriation of funds for expenses of council; audit; annual report.
Status: in_force

The member local governments may appropriate funds to meet the expenses of the regional council of government. The council shall keep books of account which shall be independently audited at least once in each calendar year. A copy of the audit report shall be provided to the member cities and counties. The regional council of government shall make an annual report of its activities to the member cities and counties.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-29-960 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 29 / Article 5 / Section 6-29-960
SECTION 6-29-960. Conflict with other laws.
Status: in_force

When the regulations made under authority of this chapter require a greater width or size of yards, courts, or other open spaces, or require a lower height of building or smaller number of stories, or require a greater percentage of lot to be left unoccupied, or impose other more restrictive standards than are required in or under another statute, or local ordinance or regulation, the regulations made under authority of this chapter govern. When the provisions of another statute require more restrictive standards than are required by the regulations made under authority of this chapter, the provisions of that statute govern.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-19-60 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 19 / Section 6-19-60
SECTION 6-19-60. Restrictions on use of funds.
Status: in_force

Grant funds shall not be used for easements or rights-of-way or for the administrative costs of the applicant or for land purchase unless land purchase is for an integral part of the treatment process, intake sites, or storage sites.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-16-190 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 16 / Section 6-16-190
SECTION 6-16-190. Waiver of immunity from suit.
Status: in_force

The General Assembly waives and withdraws from the joint agencies authorized by this chapter their immunity from suit of every kind and description whether the suit is in tort, contract or otherwise when the suits arise out of or are in any way connected with the development, ownership, operation, maintenance or otherwise of a project or the doing, or failure to do, of anything authorized by this chapter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-29-1160 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 29 / Article 7 / Section 6-29-1160
SECTION 6-29-1160. Recording unapproved land development plan or plat; penalty; remedies.
Status: in_force

The county official whose duty it is to accept and record real estate deeds and plats may not accept, file, or record a land development plan or subdivision plat involving a land area subject to land development regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter unless the development plan or subdivision plat has been properly approved. If a public official violates the provisions of this section, he is, in each instance, subject to the penalty provided in this article and the affected governing body, private individual, or corporation has rights and remedies as to enforcement or collection as are provided, and may enjoin any violations of them.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-1-1080 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 1 / Article 9 / Section 6-1-1080
SECTION 6-1-1080. Exemptions; water or wastewater utilities.
Status: in_force

The provisions of this chapter do not apply to a development impact fee for water or wastewater utilities, or both, imposed by a city, county, commissioners of public works, special purpose district, or nonprofit corporation organized pursuant to Chapter 35 or 36 of Title 33, except that in order to impose a development impact fee for water or wastewater utilities, or both, the city, county, commissioners of public works, special purpose district or nonprofit corporation organized pursuant to Chapter 35 or 36 of Title 33 must: (1) have a capital improvements plan before imposition of the development impact fee; and (2) prepare a report to be made public before imposition of the development impact fee, which shall include, but not be limited to, an explanation of the basis, use, calculation, and method of collection of the development impact fee; and (3) enact the fee in accordance with the requirements of Article 3 of this chapter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-29-715 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 29 / Article 5 / Section 6-29-715
SECTION 6-29-715. Church-related activities; zoning ordinances for 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. § 6-11-930 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 5 / Section 6-11-930
SECTION 6-11-930. Form of bonds.
Status: in_force

The bonds issued pursuant to this article shall be in the form of negotiable coupon bonds, payable to bearer, but may be issued with the privilege to any holder of having them registered as to principal on the books of the treasurer of the county in which the special purpose district is located, upon such conditions as the commission may prescribe. Except when so registered, all coupon bonds issued pursuant to this article shall have all attributes of negotiable instruments.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-1830 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 13 / Section 6-11-1830
SECTION 6-11-1830. Proper training and equipment required.
Status: in_force

When providing mutual aid, any municipality, fire district, fire protection agency, or other emergency service entity must be properly trained and equipped and is subject to all provisions of federal, state, or local laws which govern the incident location.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-1000 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 5 / Section 6-11-1000
SECTION 6-11-1000. Bonds exempt from taxes.
Status: in_force

The principal and interest of bonds issued pursuant to this article shall have the tax-exempt status prescribed by SECTION 12-1-60.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-21-5 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 21 / Section 6-21-5
SECTION 6-21-5. Transportation authorities; power to establish and finance.
Status: in_force

In furtherance of the powers granted to the counties of this State pursuant to the provisions of Section 4-9-30, and Section 6-21-10 et seq., of the 1976 Code, each of the counties of this State is authorized to establish transportation authorities and to finance, following the public hearing and referendum required in Chapter 37, Title 4, the cost of acquiring, designing, constructing, equipping and operating highways, roads, streets, and bridges, and other transportation-related projects, either alone or in partnership with other governmental entities including, but not limited to, the South Carolina Department of Transportation. Editor's Note Before its codification as SECTION 6-21-05 in this volume, the contents of Section 1, Act No. 52 of 1995, were included as a note following SECTION 6-21-10.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-7-155 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 7 / Article 3 / Section 6-7-155
SECTION 6-7-155. Disbursement of funds to regional councils of government.
Status: in_force

The State Treasurer shall remit to each regional council of government its share of state funds upon approval by the Executive Budget Office. 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. § 6-16-110 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 16 / Section 6-16-110
SECTION 6-16-110. Agency may incur debt and issue bonds.
Status: in_force

A joint agency may incur debt for any of its purposes and may issue bonds pledging to the payment as to both principal and interest the revenues, or any portion, derived or to be derived from all or any of its projects and any additions and betterments or extensions or contributions or advances from its members.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-16-160 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 16 / Section 6-16-160
SECTION 6-16-160. Eminent domain.
Status: repealed

Any joint agency shall possess the power of eminent domain within the jurisdictional limits of any of its members in accordance with SECTION 5-7-50 and Chapter 2 of Title 28 of the 1976 Code in order to effectuate the purposes of this chapter and shall exercise such power in accordance with Chapter 2 of Title 28 of the 1976 Code. Code Commissioner's Note This section, as enacted by 1980 Act No. 491, contained references to Chapter 9 of Title 28. Chapter 9 of Title 28 was repealed in 1987. At the direction of the Code Commissioner, the references to Chapter 9 have been replaced with references to Chapter 2 of Title 28.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-6-20 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 6 / Section 6-6-20
SECTION 6-6-20. Adoption of accounting principles and regulations; investments.
Status: in_force

The treasurer shall adopt accounting procedures from which the exact interest of the monies combined for investment can be determined and may adopt regulations as may be necessary to administer the provisions of this chapter. He may invest the monies of the fund in the same types of investments provided for in SECTIONS 6-5-10, 11-9-660, and 11-9-661.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-29-1370 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 29 / Article 9 / Section 6-29-1370
SECTION 6-29-1370. Sponsorship and funding of programs; compliance and exemption; certification as public records.
Status: in_force

(A) The local governing body is responsible for: (1) sponsoring and providing approved education programs; or (2) funding approved education programs provided by a sponsor other than the local governing body for the appointed officials and professional employees in the jurisdiction. (B) The clerk must keep in the official public records originals of: (1) all filed forms and documentation that certify compliance with educational requirements for three years after the calendar year in which each form is filed; and (2) all filed forms and documentation that certify an exemption for the tenure of the appointed official or professional employee.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-17-200 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 17 / Section 6-17-200
SECTION 6-17-200. Appointment of receiver of enterprise.
Status: in_force

If the municipality shall default in the payment of the principal or interest on any of the refunding bonds after such principal or interest shall become due, whether at maturity or upon call for redemption, and such default shall continue for a period of thirty days, or if the municipality, the governing body or the officers, agents or employees thereof shall fail or refuse to comply with the essential provisions of this chapter or shall default in any material respect in any agreement made with the holders of the refunding bonds, any holder of refunding bonds, or trustee therefor, may apply in an appropriate judicial proceeding to a State court exercising equitable jurisdiction or any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a receiver of the enterprise, whether or not all refunding bonds have been declared due and payable and whether or not such holder or trustee therefor is seeking or has sought to enforce any other right or exercise any remedy in connection with such refunding bonds. Upon such application, if it deem such action necessary for the protection of the refunding bondholders, such a State court exercising equitable jurisdiction may and, if the application is made by the holder of twenty-five per cent in principal amount of such refunding bonds then outstanding or any trustee for holders of such refunding bonds in such principal amount, shall appoint a receiver of the enterprise.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-1020 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 5 / Section 6-11-1020
SECTION 6-11-1020. Power 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 this article which are declared to relate to bonds only.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-1-150 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 1 / Article 1 / Section 6-1-150
SECTION 6-1-150. Derelict mobile homes; removal and sale.
Status: in_force

(A) For purposes of this section: (1) "Derelict mobile home" means a mobile home: (a) that is: (i) not connected to electricity or not connected to a source of safe potable water supply sufficient for normal residential needs, or both; (ii) not connected to a Department of Health and Environmental Control approved wastewater disposal system; or (iii) unoccupied for a period of at least thirty days and for which there is clear and convincing evidence that the occupant does not intend to return on a temporary or permanent basis; and (b) that is so damaged, decayed, dilapidated, unsanitary, unsafe, or vermin-infested that it creates a hazard to the health or safety of the occupants, the persons using the mobile home, or the public. (2) "Landowner" means the owner of real property on which a derelict mobile home is located. (3) "Local governing body" means the governing body of a county or municipality. (4) "Local official" means the office or agency that is responsible for inspecting or zoning property in a county or a municipality. (5) "Mobile home" means a structure, not including a modular home, designed for temporary or permanent habitation and constructed to permit its transport on wheels, temporarily or permanently attached to its frame, from its place of construction or sale to a location where it is intended to be a housing unit or a storage unit. For purposes of this section only, "mobile home" includes both mobile and manufactured homes. (B)(1) If a landowner seeks to have a mobile home removed from his property and sold, the landowner may apply to a magistrate and follow the procedures in Section 29-15-10. The landowner does not have to have the mobile home determined to be a derelict mobile home in order to have it removed from his property and sold following the procedures of Section 29-15-10. (2) If a landowner seeks to have a mobile home determined to be derelict so it may be removed from the landowner's property and destroyed, the landowner must: (a) apply to the local official to have the mobile home inspected; (b) receive written confirmation from the local official that the mobile home has been inspected and meets the requirements for removal and disposal and provided in this section; (c) file the required pleadings with the magistrate to seek to have the mobile home removed from the property and destroyed, and follow the procedures in Section 29-15-10 to notify the owner of the mobile home and any lienholders that the local official has determined the mobile home is a derelict mobile home and that the matter is the subject of a proceeding in the magistrates court; and (d) post a notice on each door of the mobile home for thirty consecutive days reading substantially as follows: "NOTICE This mobile home is the subject of a proceeding in the magistrates court to determine if it will be removed from this property. For further information, please contact: (name and telephone number of landowner seeking removal) or (name and telephone number of magistrates court where action is pending). (Date of Notice)" (3) If, in a court proceeding with the proper notice, the magistrate determines that the mobile home is derelict, as provided in this section, and orders the derelict mobile home to be removed and destroyed, the landowner must remove and dispose of the derelict mobile home and send proof of the removal and disposal to the county auditor as provided in Section 12-49-85(D). (C)(1) If a local official determines that a derelict mobile home has value for which it may be sold, the local official may apply to a magistrate and follow the procedures in Section 29-15-10 to notify the owner of the mobile home and any lienholders that the local official has determined the mobile home is a derelict mobile home and has filed the required pleadings with the magistrate to seek to have the mobile home removed from the property and sold. (2) If a local official seeks to remove and destroy a derelict mobile home, the local official must follow the procedures in Section 29-15-10 to notify the owner of the mobile home and any lienholders that the local official has determined the mobile home is a derelict mobile home and has filed the required pleadings with the magistrate to seek to have the mobile home removed from the property and destroyed. (3) In addition to the notice requirements in the magistrates court, in order to (a) remove and sell, or (b) remove and destroy a derelict mobile home, a local official must post a notice on each door of the mobile home for thirty consecutive days reading substantially as follows: "NOTICE This mobile home is the subject of a proceeding in the magistrates court to determine if it will be removed from this property. For further information, please contact: (name and telephone number of local government office seeking removal) or (name and telephone number of magistrates court where action is pending). (Date of Notice)" (4) In a court proceeding with the proper notice, a magistrate must determine whether a derelict mobile home may be either (a) removed and sold, or (b) removed and destroyed. In order for the mobile home to be removed and destroyed, it must meet the requirements of a derelict mobile home as defined in this section. (5) If the magistrate determines that the mobile home is derelict and is to be removed and sold, the local official must follow the procedures in Section 29-15-10. (6) If the magistrate determines that the mobile home is derelict and is to be removed and destroyed, the local official or the landowner must remove and dispose of the derelict mobile home and send proof of the removal and disposal to the county auditor as provided in Section 12-49-85(D). (D)(1) All costs of removal and disposal are the responsibility of the owner of the derelict mobile home, and may be waived only by order of the magistrates court or if a local governing body has a program that covers removal and disposal costs. (2) A lienholder of the derelict mobile home is not responsible for the costs of removal and disposal unless the lienholder or his agent effects a recovery of the mobile home under its lien and subsequently the lienholder or his agent knowingly abandons the mobile home on the property and allows the mobile home to become a derelict mobile home. (3) If the landowner is the owner of the derelict mobile home and is unwilling or unable to pay the costs of removal and disposal, a lien for the costs of removal and disposal may be placed on the landowner's real property where the derelict mobile home was located. (E) To defray the costs of location, identification, and inspection of derelict mobile homes, a local governing body may impose a registration fee of no more than twenty-five dollars to be paid when a manufactured home or mobile home is registered with the county or municipality. This fee may be in addition to all other fees and charges relating to a manufactured home or mobile home and may be required to be paid before electrical connection.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-7-140 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 7 / Article 3 / Section 6-7-140
SECTION 6-7-140. Powers and duties of regional councils.
Status: in_force

In discharging its responsibilities, the regional council of government shall have the power and duty to: (1) Prepare studies and make recommendations on such matters as it deems appropriate; (2) Coordinate and promote cooperative programs and action with and among its members and other governmental and nongovernmental entities, including those of other states; (3) Study and make recommendations on matters affecting the public health, safety, general welfare, education, recreation, pollution control, utilities, planning, development and such other matters as the common interest of the participating governments may dictate; (4) Provide continuing technical assistance, and information to the member local governments and other agencies and individuals; (5) In general, the regional council of government shall have the power to carry on such planning activities and the development of such studies and programs as it deems to be in the interest of the area; (6) Acquire and dispose of real and personal property necessary to the conduct of its business; (7) After coordination with the appropriate State, local and Federal agencies, the regional council of government may adopt such plans and programs as it may from time to time prepare. Such plans and programs as are adopted shall constitute the recommendations of the regional council of government.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-175 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 6-11-175
SECTION 6-11-175. Construction of elevated water storage facility; notice and hearing.
Status: in_force

Prior to beginning to construct an elevated water storage facility, the district must hold a public meeting to explain the details of the project and take comments from members of the public. The district must advertise in a newspaper of general circulation in the district the time and place of the meeting and the general nature and scope of the proposed project. The notice must be published on two occasions prior to the meeting, and at least ten days prior to the meeting.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-21-550 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 21 / Section 6-21-550
SECTION 6-21-550. Effect of chapter on existing contracts and liens.
Status: in_force

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as authorizing any borrower to impair or commit a breach of the obligation of any valid lien or contract created or entered into by it, the intention hereof being to authorize the pledging, setting aside and segregation of gross revenues only when consistent with outstanding obligations of such borrower.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-23-270 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 23 / Section 6-23-270
SECTION 6-23-270. Annual reports; audits.
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 the governing bodies of its member municipalities. Each such report shall set forth a complete operating and financial statement covering the operations of the joint agency during such 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 thereof may be treated as a part of the cost of construction of a project or projects, or otherwise as part of the expense of administration of a project covered by such audit.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-13-80 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 13 / Article 1 / Section 6-13-80
SECTION 6-13-80. Audits; annual reports.
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 the county, and with the secretary to the legislative delegation of the county.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-35-50 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 35 / Section 6-35-50
SECTION 6-35-50. Assessments.
Status: in_force

(A)(1) An assessment may be imposed and collected by the governing body only upon compliance with the procedures set forth in this chapter. (2) The amount of the assessment must be based on actual costs of the improvements or reasonable estimates of those costs, to include, but not be limited to, interest expense, bond issuance costs, architectural and engineering costs, furniture, fixtures and equipment costs, and costs associated with the administration of the district. (B) A governing body that has not adopted a comprehensive plan pursuant to Chapter 29 of this title may not impose an assessment. A governing body that has adopted a comprehensive plan may only impose an assessment pursuant to this chapter. (C) A governing body shall prepare and publish an annual report describing, for each district, the amount of all assessments collected, appropriated, or spent during the preceding year. An annual summary must be made publicly available at the time that property tax bills are disseminated to property owners within the district. (D) Payment of an assessment may result in an incidental benefit to property owners or residents within the service area other than the payor. Under no circumstances shall assessments or the burden of funding an improvement be charged to any property located outside of the district. The provisions of this section do not apply to projects or undertakings designated by a governing body as a "system" under Section 6-21-40.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-25-114 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 25 / Section 6-25-114
SECTION 6-25-114. Issuance of refunding bonds.
Status: in_force

A joint system may provide by resolution for the issuance of refunding bonds of the joint system for the purpose of refunding outstanding bonds that have been issued under the provisions of this chapter, including the payment of any redemption premium and interest accrued or to accrue to the date of redemption of the bond. The issuance of the bonds, their maturities, and other details, the rights of their holders, and the rights, duties, and obligations of the joint system in respect to the bonds are governed by the provisions of this chapter that relate to the issuance of bonds. Effect of Amendment The 2007 amendment made nonsubstantive changes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-10-10 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 10 / Section 6-10-10
SECTION 6-10-10. Short title.
Status: in_force

This chapter may be cited as the Energy Standard Act. 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 substituted "Energy Standard Act" for "South Carolina Building Energy Efficiency Standard Act".
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-550 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 3 / Section 6-11-550
SECTION 6-11-550. Interest on bonds.
Status: in_force

Bonds issued pursuant to this article shall bear interest at a rate or rates determined by the commission.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-13-990 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 13 / Article 9 / Section 6-13-990
SECTION 6-13-990. Tax exempt.
Status: in_force

All property of the Authority shall be exempt from all ad valorem taxes levied by the State, county or any municipality, division, subdivision or agency thereof, direct or indirect. Code Commissioner's Note This section was codified at the direction of the Code Commissioner in 2012.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-1-310 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 1 / Article 3 / Section 6-1-310
SECTION 6-1-310. Prohibition on imposition of new local taxes.
Status: in_force

A local governing body may not impose a new tax after December 31, 1996, unless specifically authorized by the General Assembly.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-27-20 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 27 / Section 6-27-20
SECTION 6-27-20. Local Government Fund.
Status: in_force

There is created the Local Government Fund administered by the State Treasurer. This fund is part of the general fund of the State. The Local Government Fund must be financed as provided in this chapter. Code Commissioner's Note At the direction of the Code Commissioner, references in this section to the offices of the former State Budget and Control Board, Office of the Governor, or other agencies, were changed to reflect the transfer of them to the Department of Administration or other entities, pursuant to the directive of the South Carolina Restructuring Act, 2014 Act No. 121, SECTION 5(D)(1), effective July 1, 2015. 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, deleted the third, fourth, and fifth sentences, which exempted the fund from mid-year cuts, with an exception.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-520 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 3 / Section 6-11-520
SECTION 6-11-520. 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. § 6-25-155 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 25 / Section 6-25-155
SECTION 6-25-155. Bonds, interest coupons and construction notes as investment securities.
Status: in_force

Whether or not the bonds and interest coupons appertaining to them and construction notes are of a form and character as to be investment securities under Chapter 8 of Title 36, all bonds and interest coupons appertaining to them and construction notes issued under this chapter are hereby made investment securities within the meaning of and for all the purposes of Chapter 8 of Title 36, subject only to the provisions of the bonds and construction notes pertaining to registration. Effect of Amendment The 2007 amendment reprinted this section with no apparent change.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-10-90 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 10 / Section 6-10-90
SECTION 6-10-90. Penalties.
Status: in_force

(A) When a violation of the provisions of this chapter is discovered, the person in violation must be granted thirty days to correct the violation. A person who fails to correct a violation is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days for each offense. (B) A separate violation is deemed to have occurred with respect to each building not in compliance with this chapter. Each day the violation continues constitutes a separate violation. 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. § 6-29-340 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 29 / Article 1 / Section 6-29-340
SECTION 6-29-340. Functions, powers, and duties of local planning commissions.
Status: in_force

(A) It is the function and duty of the local planning commission, when created by an ordinance passed by the municipal council or the county council, or both, to undertake a continuing planning program for the physical, social, and economic growth, development, and redevelopment of the area within its jurisdiction. The plans and programs must be designed to promote public health, safety, morals, convenience, prosperity, or the general welfare as well as the efficiency and economy of its area of jurisdiction. Specific planning elements must be based upon careful and comprehensive surveys and studies of existing conditions and probable future development and include recommended means of implementation. The local planning commission may make, publish, and distribute maps, plans, and reports and recommendations relating to the plans and programs and the development of its area of jurisdiction to public officials and agencies, public utility companies, civic, educational, professional, and other organizations and citizens. All public officials shall, upon request, furnish to the planning commission, within a reasonable time, such available information as it may require for its work. The planning commission, its members and employees, in the performance of its functions, may enter upon any land with consent of the property owner or after ten days' written notification to the owner of record, make examinations and surveys, and place and maintain necessary monuments and marks on them, provided, however, that the planning commission shall be liable for any injury or damage to property resulting therefrom. In general, the planning commission has the powers as may be necessary to enable it to perform its functions and promote the planning of its political jurisdiction. (B) In the discharge of its responsibilities, the local planning commission has the power and duty to: (1) prepare and revise periodically plans and programs for the development and redevelopment of its area as provided in this chapter; and (2) prepare and recommend for adoption to the appropriate governing authority or authorities as a means for implementing the plans and programs in its area: (a) zoning ordinances to include zoning district maps and appropriate revisions thereof, as provided in this chapter; (b) regulations for the subdivision or development of land and appropriate revisions thereof, and to oversee the administration of the regulations that may be adopted as provided in this chapter; (c) an official map and appropriate revision on it showing the exact location of existing or proposed public street, highway, and utility rights-of-way, and public building sites, together with regulations to control the erection of buildings or other structures or changes in land use within the rights-of-way, building sites, or open spaces within its political jurisdiction or a specified portion of it, as set forth in this chapter; (d) a landscaping ordinance setting forth required planting, tree preservation, and other aesthetic considerations for land and structures; (e) a capital improvements program setting forth projects required to implement plans which have been prepared and adopted, including an annual listing of priority projects for consideration by the governmental bodies responsible for implementation prior to preparation of their capital budget; and (f) policies or procedures to facilitate implementation of planning elements.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-13-20 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 13 / Article 1 / Section 6-13-20
SECTION 6-13-20. Procedure for creation of district.
Status: in_force

In order to create a district under the provisions of this article, at least twenty-five owners of real property residing within the boundaries of the proposed district shall file a petition with the governing body of the county which, among other things, shall propose a name for the district. The petition shall set forth a full description of the area of the district. Upon receipt of the petition, the governing body shall call for an election to be held within the area within sixty days. Notice of the election shall be published in a newspaper having general circulation within the area for at least two consecutive weeks prior to the election. The governing body shall have prepared and distributed a sufficient number of ballots, including absentee ballots, if requested. The ballots shall contain the question regarding the formation of the district and such other instructions as the governing body deems necessary. The governing body shall appoint managers for the election and such other personnel as it deems necessary and shall canvass the results of the ballots. The final result shall be filed in the office of the clerk of court and, if favorable, also in the offices of the Secretary of State and the Code Commissioner, together with a full description of the district. Should a majority of those voting in the election vote in favor of the creation of the district, it shall become immediately effective.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-1-980 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 1 / Article 9 / Section 6-1-980
SECTION 6-1-980. Calculation of impact fees.
Status: in_force

(A) The impact fee for each service unit may not exceed the amount determined by dividing the costs of the capital improvements by the total number of projected service units that potentially could use the capital improvement. If the number of new service units projected over a reasonable period of time is less than the total number of new service units shown by the approved land use assumptions at full development of the service area, the maximum impact fee for each service unit must be calculated by dividing the costs of the part of the capital improvements necessitated by and attributable to the projected new service units by the total projected new service units. (B) An impact fee must be calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-1-930 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 1 / Article 9 / Section 6-1-930
SECTION 6-1-930. Developmental impact fee.
Status: in_force

(A)(1) Only a governmental entity that has a comprehensive plan, as provided in Chapter 29 of this title, and which complies with the requirements of this article may impose a development impact fee. If a governmental entity has not adopted a comprehensive plan, but has adopted a capital improvements plan which substantially complies with the requirements of Section 6-1-960(B), then it may impose a development impact fee. A governmental entity may not impose an impact fee, regardless of how it is designated, except as provided in this article. However, a special purpose district or public service district which (a) provides fire protection services or recreation services, (b) was created by act of the General Assembly prior to 1973, and (c) had the power to impose development impact fees prior to the effective date of this section is not prohibited from imposing development impact fees. (2) Before imposing a development impact fee on residential units, a governmental entity shall prepare a report which estimates the effect of recovering capital costs through impact fees on the availability of affordable housing within the political jurisdiction of the governmental entity. (B)(1) An impact fee may be imposed and collected by the governmental entity only upon the passage of an ordinance approved by a positive majority, as defined in Article 3 of this chapter. (2) The amount of the development impact fee must be based on actual improvement costs or reasonable estimates of the costs, supported by sound engineering studies. (3) An ordinance authorizing the imposition of a development impact fee must: (a) establish a procedure for timely processing of applications for determinations by the governmental entity of development impact fees applicable to all property subject to impact fees and for the timely processing of applications for individual assessment of development impact fees, credits, or reimbursements allowed or paid under this article; (b) include a description of acceptable levels of service for system improvements; and (c) provide for the termination of the impact fee. (C) A governmental entity shall prepare and publish an annual report describing the amount of all impact fees collected, appropriated, or spent during the preceding year by category of public facility and service area. (D) Payment of an impact fee may result in an incidental benefit to property owners or developers within the service area other than the fee payor, except that an impact fee that results in benefits to property owners or developers within the service area, other than the fee payor, in an amount which is greater than incidental benefits is prohibited.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-24-160 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 24 / Section 6-24-160
SECTION 6-24-160. Payment of bonds, expenses and other obligations; pledge and resulting lien.
Status: in_force

(A) The joint agency may fix, charge, and collect rents, rates, fees, and charges for services provided by the agency or the use of a project so as to provide revenues, for so long as the bonds are outstanding and unpaid, at least sufficient together with other available funds to: (1) pay all costs of and charges and expenses in connection with the proper operation and maintenance of its projects and for all necessary repairs, replacements, or renewals; (2) pay when due the principal and interest and any premiums on all bonds payable from the revenues; (3) create and maintain reserves and comply with covenants required by a resolution or trust agreement authorizing and securing bonds; and (4) pay amounts which the joint agency may be obligated by law or contract to pay from the revenues. (B) A pledge made by a joint agency pursuant to this chapter is valid and binding from the date the pledge is made. The revenues, securities, and other monies pledged and held or received afterwards by the joint agency or fiduciary are subject immediately to the lien of the pledge without physical delivery of it or other act, and the lien of the pledge is valid and binding as against all parties having claims in tort, contract, or otherwise against the governmental entity or joint agency without regard to whether the parties have notice of it.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-25-145 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 25 / Section 6-25-145
SECTION 6-25-145. Investment by fiduciaries in bonds and construction notes.
Status: in_force

It is lawful for any executor, administrator, guardian, committee, or other fiduciary to invest any monies in his hand in bonds and construction notes issued under the provisions of this chapter. Effect of Amendment The 2007 amendment reprinted this section with no apparent change.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-16-170 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 16 / Section 6-16-170
SECTION 6-16-170. Enumerated powers deemed supplemental to existing laws.
Status: in_force

The foregoing sections shall be deemed to provide an additional method for doing the things authorized and shall be deemed and construed to be supplemental to powers conferred by existing laws and shall not be regarded in derogation of any powers now existing. If any provisions of this chapter are inconsistent with the provisions of other general, special or local laws, the provisions of this chapter shall be controlling.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-8-20 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 8 / Section 6-8-20
SECTION 6-8-20. South Carolina Building Codes Council; powers and duties.
Status: in_force

(A) The South Carolina Building Codes Council is responsible for the registration of a building codes enforcement officer, contract inspector, and special inspector pursuant to this chapter. The council or its designated representative may conduct hearings and proceedings required by law or considered necessary by the council. The Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation shall employ and supervise personnel needed to administer this chapter. The council may promulgate regulations for the proper enforcement of this chapter. (B) The council shall keep a record of its hearings and proceedings and publish a roster of its registrants. A registrant shall notify the council of a change in required information within ten days of the change. Effect of Amendment The 2009 amendment rewrote this section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-10-80 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 10 / Section 6-10-80
SECTION 6-10-80. Injunctions.
Status: in_force

The building official may obtain injunctive relief from a court of competent jurisdiction to enjoin the offering for sale, delivery, use, occupancy, erection, alteration, or installation of a building covered by this chapter, upon an affidavit from the building official specifying the manner in which the building does not conform to the requirements of this chapter. 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 substituted "The building official" for "Any local enforcement agency of the Council", "the building official" for "such agency", deleted from the end "or the South Carolina Building Energy Efficiency Standard", and made nonsubstantive changes throughout.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-13-470 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 13 / Article 5 / Section 6-13-470
SECTION 6-13-470. 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 Pickens County, and the Auditor and Treasurer of Anderson County, and with the secretary to the Legislative Delegation of Pickens County and with the secretary to the Legislative Delegation of Anderson County.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-10 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 6-11-10
SECTION 6-11-10. Authority to establish special purpose or public service districts.
Status: in_force

In order to protect the public health, electric lighting districts, water supply districts, fire protection districts, and sewer districts may be established pursuant to this section for the purpose of supplying lights, water, providing fire protection with or without rescue response services related to the provision of fire services, a sewerage collection system, and a sewage treatment plant to a portion of any county in this State which is not included in an incorporated city or town. Effect of Amendment The 2012 amendment inserted "with or without rescue response services related to the provision of fire services," and made other, nonsubstantive, changes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-25-130 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 25 / Section 6-25-130
SECTION 6-25-130. Employment or appointment of personnel; rights, privileges, and benefits.
Status: in_force

Personnel employed or appointed by a member to work for a joint system shall have the same authority, rights, privileges, and immunities including coverage under the Workers' Compensation laws which the officers, agents, and employees of the appointing member enjoy within the territory of that member whether within or without the territory of the appointing member when they are acting within the scope of their authority or in the course of their employment. Personnel employed or appointed directly by a joint system shall be qualified for participation in the South Carolina Retirement System with the same rights, privileges, obligations, and responsibilities as they would have if they were employees of an authority, if they are residents of this State. Effect of Amendment The 2007 amendment, in the second undesignated paragraph, substituted "an authority" for "a municipality".
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-335 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 6-11-335
SECTION 6-11-335. Additional members.
Status: in_force

(A) For purposes of this section: (1) "membership" means the governing body of a public service district created prior to 1975, located wholly in one county, and providing water, sewer, or fire service; and (2) "additional members" means the persons who increase the membership as provided by this section. (B) The membership may seek to authorize additional members not to exceed a total of ten by petitioning: (1) the county legislative delegation if the membership is appointed by or upon the recommendation of the county legislative delegation; or (2) the county governing body, if the membership is elected or appointed by or upon the recommendation of the county governing body or an entity other than the county legislative delegation. (C) The petition must be in writing and include reasons for the increase in membership. (D) If the county legislative delegation or the county governing body has not affirmatively disapproved the petition within sixty days of receiving the petition, the membership may file the petition with the Office of the Secretary of State. Upon certification by the Secretary of State that additional members have been authorized, the membership shall be increased. (E) If the membership is elected, the additional members shall be elected at the next regularly scheduled election for the membership in the same manner as the membership is elected and to serve for terms of the same length and until their successors are elected and qualify; provided, that of the additional members first elected: (1) if an even number of additional members is elected, one-half of the additional members receiving the highest number of votes shall serve initial terms of the same length as the membership, and the remaining additional members receiving the next highest number of votes shall serve initial terms of one-half that length; or (2) if an odd number of additional members is elected, one-half plus one of the additional members receiving the highest number of votes shall serve initial terms of the same length as the membership and the remaining additional members receiving the next highest number of votes shall serve initial terms of one-half that length. Thereafter, the successors of the additional members must be elected for terms of the same length as the membership. (F) If the membership is appointed, the additional members may be appointed in the same manner the membership is appointed with at least one-half of the additional members to serve initial terms of the same length as the membership, and the remaining additional members to serve initial terms of one-half that length. The initial terms of all additional members must be designated by their appointing authority. Thereafter, their successors must be appointed for terms of the same length as the membership. (G) All members shall serve until their successors are elected or appointed and qualify.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-870 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 5 / Section 6-11-870
SECTION 6-11-870. Publication of action by board.
Status: in_force

The county board shall thereupon cause notice of its action to be published for three successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county which shall state: (a) The results of its action; (b) The extent to which bonds of the special purpose district are to be issued and the method to be provided for their payment; and (c) Whether or not an election shall be ordered in the special purpose district upon the question of the issuance of bonds of the special purpose district.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-1-170 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 1 / Article 1 / Section 6-1-170
SECTION 6-1-170. Preemption of local ordinance relating to immigration; civil actions.
Status: in_force

(A) For purposes of this section, "political subdivision" includes, but is not limited to, a municipality, county, school district, special purpose district, or public service district. (B) A political subdivision of this State may not enact any ordinance or policy that limits or prohibits a law enforcement officer, local official, or local government employee from seeking to enforce a state law with regard to immigration. (C) A political subdivision of this State may not enact any ordinance or policy that limits or prohibits a law enforcement officer, local official, or local government employee from communicating to appropriate federal or state officials with regard to the immigration status of any person within this State. (D) A city, county, municipality, or other local government or political subdivision may not enact any ordinance, policy, regulation, or other legislation pertaining to the employment, licensing, permitting, or otherwise doing business with a person based upon that person's authorization to work in the United States that exceeds or otherwise conflicts with federal law or that is in conflict with state law. An enactment found to be in conflict with federal or state law is void. (E)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a resident of a political subdivision in this State may bring a civil action in the circuit court in which the resident and political subdivision are located to enjoin: (a) an enactment by the political subdivision of any ordinance or policy that intentionally limits or prohibits a law enforcement officer, local official, or local government employee from seeking to enforce a state law with regard to immigration; (b) an enactment by the political subdivision of any ordinance or policy that intentionally limits or prohibits a law enforcement officer, local official, or local government employee from communicating to appropriate federal or state officials regarding the immigration status of a person within this State; or (c) an enactment by the political subdivision of any ordinance, policy, regulation, or other legislation pertaining to the employment, licensing, permitting, or otherwise doing business with a person based upon that person's authorization to work in the United States, which intentionally exceeds or conflicts with federal law or that intentionally conflicts with state law. (2) A person who is not a resident of the political subdivision may not bring an action against the political subdivision pursuant to this subsection. The action must be brought against the political subdivision and not against an employee of the political subdivision acting in the employee's individual capacity. (3) If the court finds that the political subdivision has intentionally violated this section, the court shall enjoin the enactment, action, policy, or practice, and may enter a judgment against the political subdivision of not less than one thousand dollars nor more than five thousand dollars for each day that the enactment, action, policy, or practice remains or remained in effect. The proceeds from any such judgment must be used to reimburse the resident's reasonable attorney's fees. Any remaining proceeds must be used to cover the administrative costs of implementing, investigating, and enforcing the provisions of Chapter 8, Title 41. Effect of Amendment The 2011 amendment added subsection (E).
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-4-35 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 4 / Section 6-4-35
SECTION 6-4-35. Tourism Expenditure Review Committee.
Status: in_force

(A) There is established the Tourism Expenditure Review Committee consisting of eleven members as follows: (1) one member appointed by the Speaker of the House; (2) one member appointed by the President of the Senate; (3) the Director of the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism, or his designee, ex officio; (4) eight members appointed by the Governor as follows: (a) one member on the recommendation of the South Carolina Association of Tourism Regions; (b) one member on the recommendation of the South Carolina Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus; (c) one member on the recommendation of the South Carolina Travel and Tourism Coalition; (d) one member on the recommendation of the Municipal Association of South Carolina; (e) one member on the recommendation of the South Carolina Association of Counties; (f) one member on the recommendation of the Hospitality Association of South Carolina; (g) one member on the recommendation of the South Carolina Arts Commission; and (h) one member at large. Appointed members shall serve for terms of four years and until their successors are appointed and qualify, except that of those first appointed by the Governor, four shall serve for a term of two years and the term must be noted on the appointment. Regardless of the date of appointment, all terms expire July first of the applicable year. Members shall serve without compensation but may receive the mileage, subsistence, and per diem allowed by law for members of state boards, committees, and commissions. Vacancies must be filled in the manner of original appointment for the unexpired portion of the term. (B)(1)(a) The Tourism Expenditure Review Committee shall serve as the oversight authority on all questionable tourism-related expenditures and to that end, all reports filed pursuant to Section 6-4-25(D)(3) must be forwarded to the committee for review to determine if they are in compliance with this chapter. The municipality or county must be notified if an expenditure is questioned, and the committee may consider any further supporting information the municipality or county may provide. If the committee finds an expenditure to be in noncompliance, it shall certify the noncompliance to the State Treasurer, who shall withhold the amount of the expenditure found in noncompliance from subsequent distributions in accommodations tax revenue otherwise due the municipality or county. An appeal from an action of the committee under this subitem lies with the Administrative Law Judge Division. (b) If the committee determines that a municipality or county has failed to file the reports required pursuant to Section 6-4-25(D)(3), it may impose a fee of five hundred dollars a month or part of a month for each month the report is not filed, but not more than five thousand dollars. The committee shall certify the penalty to the State Treasurer, who shall withhold the amount of the penalty from subsequent distributions otherwise due the municipality or county. An appeal from an action of the committee under this subitem lies with the Administrative Law Judge Division. (c) Allocations withheld must be reallocated proportionately to all other recipients. (2) The committee has jurisdiction to investigate and research facts on written complaints submitted to it with regard to the appropriate tourism-related expenditures and resolve these complaints as provided in item (1) of this subsection. (3) The committee shall forward copies of information submitted by the local governments and regional tourism agencies pursuant to Section 6-4-25 arising under the tourism provisions of this chapter to the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism, which shall publish an annual report on the information submitted. Editor's Note 2004 Act No. 202, SECTION 3, provides as follows: "Wherever the term 'Administrative Law Judge Division' appears in any provision of law, regulation, or other document, it must be construed to mean the Administrative Law Court established by this act." Effect of Amendment The 2003 amendment, in subsection (A) substituted "eleven" for "nine" in the introductory paragraph, substituted "eight" for "six" in paragraph (4), added paragraphs (4)(g) and (4)(h), and made nonsubstantive changes. 2019 Act No. 1, SECTION 31, in (A)(2), substituted "President of the Senate" for "President Pro Tempore of the Senate".
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-21-30 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 21 / Section 6-21-30
SECTION 6-21-30. "Municipality" defined.
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter the term "municipality" shall, unless the context otherwise indicates, include counties, townships, cities, incorporated towns, school districts and other political subdivisions of the State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-31-130 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 31 / Section 6-31-130
SECTION 6-31-130. Agreement to be modified or suspended to comply with later-enacted state or federal laws or regulations.
Status: in_force

In the event state or federal laws or regulations, enacted after a development agreement has been entered into, prevent or preclude compliance with one or more provisions of the development agreement, the provisions of the agreement must be modified or suspended as may be necessary to comply with the state or federal laws or regulations.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-35-20 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 35 / Section 6-35-20
SECTION 6-35-20. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter: (1) "Assessment" means a charge against the real property belonging to an owner within an improvement district created pursuant to this chapter. The assessment must be made upon real property located within the district, other than property constituting improvements within the meaning of this section, and may be based upon assessed value, front footage, area per parcel basis, the value of improvements to be constructed within the district, or a combination of them, or another basis agreed to between the owner and the governing body, as the basis is determined by the governing body of the county. An assessment imposed under this chapter remains valid and enforceable in accordance with the provisions of this chapter even if there is a later subdivision and transfer of the relevant property or a part of it. An improvement plan may provide for a change in the basis of assessment upon the subdivision or transfer of real property, or upon such other event as may be deemed appropriate by the governing body. The rates of assessments within a district need not be uniform. The owner and the governing body shall agree upon the rates of assessment across different sections of, or uses within, the district. (2) "Improvements" include, but are not limited to, public infrastructure improvements, such as a parkway, park, and playground; a recreation facility, athletic facility, and pedestrian facility; sidewalk; parking facility ancillary to another public facility; facade redevelopment; storm drain; the relocation, construction, widening, and paving of a street, road, and bridge including demolition of them; underground utility dedicated or to be dedicated to public use; all improvements permitted under Chapter 35, Title 4 and Chapter 37, Title 5; a building or other facility for public use; public works eligible for financing under the provisions of Section 6-21-50; and things incidental to an improvement including, but not limited to, planning, engineering, promotion, marketing, administrative fees, and acquisition of necessary easements and land, and may include a facility for lease or use by a private person, firm, or corporation. Improvements also include the construction of a new public school and the renovation and expansion of an existing public school. However, except as otherwise provided in this item, maintenance and an operational expense are not considered to be improvements. The construction of the improvements must comply with applicable state and federal law and regulations governing the construction of similar public improvements installed or constructed by a private entity. Improvements may be designated by the governing body as public works eligible for revenue bond financing pursuant to Section 6-21-50, and these improvements, taken in the aggregate, may be designated by the governing body as a "system" of related projects within the meaning of Section 6-21-40. The governing body, after due investigation and study, may determine that improvements located outside the boundaries of a district confer a benefit upon property inside a district or are necessary to make improvements within the district effective for the benefit of property inside the district. Improvements must service primarily an owner of the property within the district. This requirement is met if the improvements are situated within: (a) the district; or (b) a designated service area that benefits the district. (3) "Improvement plan" means an overall plan by which the governing body proposes and the owner accepts to effect improvements within a district and service area to preserve property values, prevent deterioration of urban areas, and preserve the tax base, and includes an overall plan by which the governing body proposes to effect improvements within an improvement district in order to encourage and promote private or public development within the improvement district. (4) "District" means an area within the county or municipality designated by the governing body and proposed by petition and approved by the governing body pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and within which an improvement plan is to be accomplished. A district may be comprised of noncontiguous parcels of land. A district may be made up of varying proposed land uses including, but not limited to, residential, commercial, industrial, institutional, or a combination of some or all of those. A district may not include the grounds of the State House in the City of Columbia. Multiple districts may not be formed over the same property at the same time. (5) "Governing body" means, as appropriate, the county council or the municipal council or councils with authority over the geographic area in which the district lies and acting under this chapter. School boards are not included within the definition of governing body under this chapter. (6) "Government entity" means the county or municipality in which the district is located and the governing body of which acts under this chapter to create such district and impose assessments therein. (7) "Owner" means any person eighteen years of age, or older, or the proper legal representative for any person younger than eighteen years of age or otherwise incapacitated person as defined in Section 62-5-101(1), and any firm or corporation, who or which owns legal title to a present possessory interest in real estate equal to a life estate or greater, expressly excluding leaseholds, easements, equitable interests, inchoate rights, dower rights, and future interests, and who owns, at the date of the petition required by Section 6-35-118, at least an undivided one-tenth interest in a single tract and whose name appears on the county tax records as an owner of real estate, and any duly organized group whose total interest is equal to at least a one-tenth interest in a single tract. (8) "Service area" means, based on sound planning or engineering principles, or both, a defined geographic area served by a particular improvement. A provision in this chapter may not be interpreted to alter, enlarge, or reduce the service area or boundaries of a political subdivision that is authorized or set by law. A service area may consist of tracts in more than one state, county, or municipality, provided that each relevant governing body approves the creation of the service area and the district. Each improvement may have its own specific service area. Editor's Note Article 5 of Title 62 was rewritten by 2017 Act No. 87, SECTION 5.A, effective January 1, 2019. For Section 62-5-101(1), referenced in (7), see now, Section 62-5-101(12).
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-9-70 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 9 / Section 6-9-70
SECTION 6-9-70. Omitted by 2003 Act No. 83, SECTION 1, eff July 2, 2003.
Status: in_force

Editor's Note Former SECTION 6-9-70 was entitled "Penalties for violation of code or regulation; opportunity to remedy certain violations" and was derived from 1962 Code SECTION 14-400.587; 1972 (57) 2607; Amended by 1984 Act No. 481, SECTION 2, eff June 20, 1984; 1997 Act No. 123, SECTION 1", eff June 13, 1997.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-29-1550 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 29 / Article 11 / Section 6-29-1550
SECTION 6-29-1550. Vested right attaches to real property; applicability of laws relating to public health, safety and welfare.
Status: in_force

A vested right pursuant to this section is not a personal right, but attaches to and runs with the applicable real property. The landowner and all successors to the landowner who secure a vested right pursuant to this article may rely upon and exercise the vested right for its duration subject to applicable federal, state, and local laws adopted to protect public health, safety, and welfare including, but not limited to, building, fire, plumbing, electrical, and mechanical codes and nonconforming structure and use regulations which do not provide for the grandfathering of the vested right. This article does not preclude judicial determination that a vested right exists pursuant to other statutory provisions. This article does not affect the provisions of a development agreement executed pursuant to the South Carolina Local Government Development Agreement Act in Chapter 31 of Title 6.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-3-30 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 3 / Section 6-3-30
SECTION 6-3-30. Chapter shall be controlling.
Status: in_force

The provisions of this chapter shall control and be supreme in the event it shall be employed notwithstanding any statutory, charter or ordinance provision to the contrary or in conflict herewith.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-560 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 3 / Section 6-11-560
SECTION 6-11-560. Execution of bonds.
Status: in_force

The bonds, and the coupons to be thereunto attached, shall be executed in such manner as the commission shall by resolution prescribe.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-13-210 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 13 / Article 3 / Section 6-13-210
SECTION 6-13-210. Creation and purpose of Pioneer Rural Water District of Oconee and Anderson Counties.
Status: in_force

There is hereby created a body corporate and politic of perpetual succession to be known as the Pioneer Rural Water District of Oconee and Anderson Counties (hereinafter called the district). It shall be the purpose and function of the district 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 to the areas described in SECTION 6-13-220, and to such other domestic, commercial or industrial users who can be conveniently and economically served within or without the service area as herein provided. 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. § 6-11-295 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 6-11-295
SECTION 6-11-295. Violations; penalties.
Status: in_force

Violations of ordinances or regulations of special purpose districts or public service districts relating to garbage or trash collection are unlawful, and a person convicted of a violation is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars or imprisoned for not more than ten days. This section applies only to ordinances or regulations of districts which have governing bodies elected by the qualified electors of the district.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-19-30 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 19 / Section 6-19-30
SECTION 6-19-30. Source of funds; administration of grants; appointment and duties of advisory committee.
Status: in_force

The fund for such grants must be from either revenue-sharing trust funds or from general appropriations to the Department of Health and Environmental Control, which shall administer the grants for intermission to public water supply authorities or districts, sewer authorities or districts, water and sewer authorities, rural community water or sewer systems, nonprofit corporations, or municipal sewer systems to which the grant is made. The Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint an advisory committee composed of seven members, one from each congressional district of the State. In addition an employee of the Department of Health and Environmental Control, designated by the commissioner thereof, shall serve ex officio as a member of the committee. The Governor may invite a director, or his representative, from an agency providing water and sewer funds to serve as an advisory nonvoting member to the committee. All members must be appointed for terms of three years. In the event of a vacancy a successor shall be appointed for the unexpired term in the manner of original appointment. The advisory committee shall meet as soon after its appointment as may be practicable and shall organize by electing a chairman, vice chairman, secretary, and such other officers as it may deem desirable. The advisory committee shall select the projects to be funded pursuant to Section 6-19-40. Funds also may be expended from gifts or grants from any source which are made available for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter. Appropriations made to the fund but not expended at the end of the fiscal year for which appropriated shall not revert to the general fund but shall accrue to the credit of the fund. Grants must be made only for water supply and waste water facilities projects on which construction was not commenced before April 1, 1974. Editor's Note 2012 Act No. 279, SECTION 33, provides as follows: "Due to the congressional redistricting, any person elected or appointed to serve, or serving, as a member of any board, commission, or committee to represent a congressional district, whose residency is transferred to another district by a change in the composition of the district, may serve, or continue to serve, the term of office for which he was elected or appointed; however, the appointing or electing authority shall appoint or elect an additional member on that board, commission, or committee from the district which loses a resident member as a result of the transfer to serve until the term of the transferred member expires. When a vacancy occurs in the district to which a member has been transferred, the vacancy must not be filled until the full term of the transferred member expires. Further, the inability to hold an election or to make an appointment due to judicial review of the congressional districts does not constitute a vacancy." Effect of Amendment The 2012 amendment changed the number of members from six to seven and deleted the provisions relating to initial appointees.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-29-860 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 29 / Article 5 / Section 6-29-860
SECTION 6-29-860. Financing of board of zoning appeals.
Status: in_force

The governing authority may appropriate such monies, otherwise unappropriated, as it considers fit to finance the work of the board of appeals and to generally provide for the enforcement of any zoning regulations and restrictions authorized under this chapter which are adopted and may accept and expend grants of money for those purposes from either private or public sources, whether local, state, or federal.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-570 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 3 / Section 6-11-570
SECTION 6-11-570. Sale of bonds.
Status: in_force

Bonds issued pursuant to this article shall be sold at a price of not less than par and accrued interest to the date of their respective deliveries. All bonds authorized by this article shall be sold at public sale, after public advertisement of the sale in a newspaper of general circulation in South Carolina or a financial journal published in the city of New York. The published notice shall appear not less than seven days prior to the occasion set for opening bids.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-29-820 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 29 / Article 5 / Section 6-29-820
SECTION 6-29-820. Appeal from zoning board of appeals to circuit court; pre-litigation mediation; filing requirements.
Status: in_force

(A) A person who may have a substantial interest in any decision of the board of appeals or an officer or agent of the appropriate governing authority may appeal from a decision of the board to the circuit court in and for the county, by filing with the clerk of the court a petition in writing setting forth plainly, fully, and distinctly why the decision is contrary to law. The appeal must be filed within thirty days after the decision of the board is mailed. (B) A property owner whose land is the subject of a decision of the board of appeals may appeal either: (1) as provided in subsection (A); or (2) by filing a notice of appeal with the circuit court accompanied by a request for pre-litigation mediation in accordance with Section 6-29-825. Any notice of appeal and request for pre-litigation mediation must be filed within thirty days after the decision of the board is postmarked. (C) Any filing of an appeal from a particular board of appeals decision pursuant to the provisions of this chapter must be given a single docket number, and the appellant must be assessed only one filing fee pursuant to Section 8-21-310(C)(1). Effect of Amendment The 2003 amendment added subsections (B) and (C) and designated the existing paragraph as subsection (A).
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-23-280 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 23 / Section 6-23-280
SECTION 6-23-280. Participation of joint agency in grant-in-aid and loan programs.
Status: in_force

The board of directors of a joint agency is hereby authorized to make application and to enter into contracts for and to accept grants-in-aid and loans from the federal and State governments and their agencies for planning, acquiring, constructing, expanding, maintaining and operating any project or facility, or participating in any research or development program, or performing any function which such municipality or joint agency may be authorized by general or local law to provide or perform. In order to exercise the authority granted by this section, the board of directors of a joint agency may: (a) Enter into and carry out contracts with the State or federal government or any agency or institution thereof under which government, agency or institution grants financial or other assistance to the municipality or joint agency; (b) Accept such assistance or funds as may be granted or loaned by the state or federal government with or without such a contract; (c) Agree to and comply with any reasonable conditions which are imposed upon such grants or loans; (d) Make expenditures from any funds so granted.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-1-540 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 1 / Article 5 / Section 6-1-540
SECTION 6-1-540. Cumulative rate of local accommodations tax.
Status: in_force

The cumulative rate of county and municipal local accommodations taxes for any portion of the county area may not exceed three percent, unless the cumulative total of such taxes were in excess of three percent prior to December 31, 1996, in which case the cumulative rate may not exceed the rate that was imposed as of December 31, 1996.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-19-20 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 19 / Section 6-19-20
SECTION 6-19-20. Purposes for which funds may be used.
Status: in_force

The grants may be made to districts, authorities, nonprofit corporations or communities to assist in financing of, but not limited to, engineering and legal service costs, specific projects for construction, be it original or enlargement of supply, treatment, purification, storage and distribution facilities for water systems and collection, treatment, forced mains, lift stations and disposal facilities for sewer systems or any other item necessary for the physical operation of the water or sewer systems, where grant funds are necessary to reduce the project cost per user to a reasonable level. The grants may be made to supplement funds from loan proceeds or other private or public sources when such grants are not available through any other state or federal agency. Grants authorized under the provisions of this chapter may be applied to National Demonstration Water Projects upon the approval of the advisory committee.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-19-50 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 19 / Section 6-19-50
SECTION 6-19-50. Maximum amount of grants.
Status: in_force

In any case, the grant shall not be in excess of six hundred dollars per connection or twenty-five percent of the total project cost, whichever is less, or a maximum of four hundred thousand dollars, and no district or authority system may receive more than one grant for any purpose in any one-year period.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-240 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 6-11-240
SECTION 6-11-240. Maturity date of bonds issued by water or sewer districts.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any water or sewer district of this State may, on May 26 1975 issue bonds which mature not later than forty years from the date of issue.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-21-420 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 21 / Section 6-21-420
SECTION 6-21-420. Accounting basis of system or project.
Status: in_force

The ordinance authorizing the issuance of such bonds shall definitely determine whether such system, project or combined system shall be operated upon a calendar, operating or fiscal year basis and the dates of the beginning and ending thereof.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-21-200 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 21 / Section 6-21-200
SECTION 6-21-200. Bonds shall not be subject to certain limitations.
Status: in_force

The bonds authorized hereunder shall not be subject to any limitations or provisions of the municipal bond laws or the bond laws for counties.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-23-30 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 23 / Section 6-23-30
SECTION 6-23-30. Planning, construction, and ownership of electric distribution facilities.
Status: in_force

In addition and supplemental to the powers granted to municipalities of the State, and in order to accomplish the purpose of this chapter, a municipality may plan, finance, develop, acquire, purchase, construct, reconstruct, improve, enlarge, own, operate, and maintain an undivided interest as a tenant-in-common in a project situated within or without the State 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, and may make these plans and enter into these contracts in connection with them, not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, as are necessary or appropriate; provided, all municipal tenants-in-common must be located within the area generally served by the same electric supplier. The acquisition of a project or projects by municipalities as tenants-in-common by purchase is limited to a project or projects under construction on the date of approval of this chapter, or a project or projects on which construction will commence subsequent to the date of approval of this chapter. The amount of capacity and output of a project purchased by municipal tenants-in-common may not be less than ten percent of the rated capacity of the project. Municipal tenants-in-common pursuant to the provisions of this section, by contract, may waive their right of partition either in kind or by sale. The power and right to enter into agreements to waive the right of judicial partition authorized by this section are in addition to these powers and rights already authorized by the laws of South Carolina. Nothing contained in this section prevents a municipality or municipalities from undertaking studies to determine whether there is a need for a project or whether the project is feasible. Effect of Amendment The 2007 amendment, in the first undesignated paragraph, in the second sentence substituted "is" for "from an electric supplier generally serving the area in which the municipal tenants in common are located; provided, further, such purchase shall be", and made nonsubstantive language changes throughout the section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-150 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 6-11-150
SECTION 6-11-150. Hearing prior to establishment of rates.
Status: in_force

No such rates or charges shall be established until after a public hearing at which all the users of the works and the owners of property served or to be served thereby shall have an opportunity to be heard concerning the proposed rates. Notice of such hearing, setting forth the proposed schedule of such rates, shall be given by one publication in a newspaper published in the county wherein the district is located at least ten days before the date fixed in such notice for the hearing. After such hearing the rate shall be passed upon by the board of commissioners and put into effect.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-37-20 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 37 / Section 6-37-20
SECTION 6-37-20. "Authority".
Status: in_force

For purposes of this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, "authority" means the Beaufort-Jasper Water and Sewer Authority.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-21-500 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 21 / Section 6-21-500
SECTION 6-21-500. Disposition of surplus in contingent fund.
Status: in_force

If any surplus shall be accumulated in the contingent fund over and above that which the governing body shall find may be necessary for reasonable and proper improvements, betterments and extensions to the existing system, project or combined system during the current calendar, operating or fiscal year and the next ensuing calendar, operating or fiscal year, any such excess may be transferred to the bond and interest redemption fund or may be applied, in so far as possible, in the purchase or retirement of outstanding bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter and for that purpose the governing body may purchase bonds not due in the open market at not more than the fair market value thereof. When such bonds are purchased for investment the income from such investment shall be carried into the contingent fund.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-200 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 6-11-200
SECTION 6-11-200. Election on bond issue on petition of resident electors.
Status: in_force

Before any such bonds shall be issued the question of issuing them shall be first submitted to the qualified voters of the electric light, water supply, fire protection and sewerage district at an election to determine whether such bonds shall be issued or not, to be held upon the written petition or request of at least one third of the resident electors or a like proportion of the freeholders of the age of twenty-one years or over. Upon the receipt of such petition, the board of commissioners of the electric light, water supply, fire protection or sewerage district, as the case may be, shall order an election to be held at such place in the district as may be designated by the board of commissioners on the question as to whether such bonds shall be issued or not. In such election only qualified voters residing in such district shall be allowed to vote. The board of commissioners shall give notice of such election for at least ten days in a newspaper published in the county or by posting such notice in three public places in the district. It shall designate the time and place and appoint the managers of the election and receive the returns of the managers and declare the result. The ballots cast must have written or printed on them "for bonds" or "against bonds."
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-970 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 5 / Section 6-11-970
SECTION 6-11-970. Execution of bonds.
Status: in_force

The bonds, and the coupons to be thereunto attached, shall be executed in such manner as the commission shall by resolution prescribe.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-17-100 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 17 / Section 6-17-100
SECTION 6-17-100. Holders of refunding bonds may be given rights and remedies of owners.
Status: in_force

As additional security for any issue of refunding bonds hereunder, or any part thereof, any municipality may by resolution of its governing body confer upon the holders of the refunding bonds all rights, powers and remedies which the holders would be entitled to if they were the owners and had possession of the notes, bonds or other obligations for the refinancing of which such refunding bonds shall have been issued, including, but not limited to, the preservation of the lien of such notes, bonds or other obligations without extinguishment, impairment or diminution thereof. In the event any municipality exercises the power conferred by this section (a) each refunding bond shall contain a recital to the effect that the holder thereof has been granted the additional security provided by this section and (b) each note, bond, certificate or other obligation of the municipality to be refinanced by any such refunding bonds shall be kept intact and shall not be cancelled or destroyed until the refunding bonds, and interest thereon, have been finally paid and discharged but shall be stamped with a legend to the effect that such note, bond, certificate or other obligation has been refunded pursuant to The Revenue Bond Refinancing Act of 1937.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-1-820 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 1 / Article 8 / Section 6-1-820
SECTION 6-1-820. Sharing of data between implementing jurisdictions and Department of Revenue; notices in annual property tax notices; civil penalties.
Status: in_force

(A) When the provisions of this article apply in an implementing jurisdiction, the South Carolina Department of Revenue, and the implementing jurisdiction using returns and copies of returns and other documents filed with or otherwise available to them shall share data helpful to both the department and the implementing jurisdiction in determining possible instances of noncompliance. (B) Implementing jurisdictions shall include or cause to be included notices in annual property tax notices for parcels of residential real property assessed for property tax purposes pursuant to Section 12-43-220(e) as the implementing jurisdiction determines appropriate. These notices must provide details of local accommodations tax and state sales tax on accommodations required to be paid by persons renting residential real property to tourists in the implementing jurisdiction and the intention of the implementing jurisdiction vigorously to enforce these requirements. Details must include specific information on obtaining additional information with respect to these requirements and the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of officials of implementing jurisdictions that are able to answer questions, provide forms, and assist in compliance. Counties must be reimbursed by implementing municipalities for extra expenses incurred by a county in providing these notices. (C) In addition to other penalties and interest imposed by the ordinance of an implementing jurisdiction for failure to comply with local accommodations tax requirements imposed pursuant to Article 5 of this chapter required of owners in the business of renting residential accommodations to tourists, the jurisdiction may impose, with respect to a single rental property, a one-time civil penalty for noncompliance for failure to collect and remit local accommodations tax of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than two thousand dollars for each seven days the property was rented. This additional penalty may not be imposed unless the owner has received the notice provided pursuant to subsection (B). For purposes of enforcement and collection, this penalty is deemed property tax on the rental property.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-17-20 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 17 / Section 6-17-20
SECTION 6-17-20. Definitions.
Status: in_force

The following terms wherever used or referred to in this chapter shall have the following meanings, unless a different meaning appears from the context: (1) "Municipality" means a county, township, city, incorporated town, or special purpose district; (2) The term "governing body" shall mean the board, council or other legislative body having power to borrow money on behalf of a municipality; (3) The term "law" shall mean any act or statute, general, special or local, of this State, including, without being limited to, the charter of any municipality; (4) The term "enterprise" shall mean any work, undertaking or project which the municipality is or may hereafter be authorized to construct and from which the municipality has derived revenues, for the refinancing or the refinancing and improving of which enterprise refunding bonds are issued under this chapter, and such enterprise shall include all improvements, betterments, extensions and replacements thereto and all appurtenances, facilities, lands, rights in land, water rights, franchises and structures in connection therewith or incidental thereto; and such term shall likewise include a combination of any two or more projects, works, undertakings or systems which the governing body shall deem related to each other; (5) The term "Federal agency" shall include the United States of America, the President of the United States of America, or any agency, instrumentality or corporation of the United States of America which has been designated or created by or pursuant to any act or joint resolution of the Congress of the United States of America or which may be owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by the United States of America; (6) The term "improving" shall mean reconstructing, replacing, extending, repairing, bettering, equipping, developing, embellishing or otherwise improving or any one or more or all of the foregoing; (7) The term "refunding bonds" shall mean notes, bonds, certificates or other obligations of a municipality issued pursuant to this chapter or pursuant to any other law, as supplemented by or in conjunction with this chapter; (8) The term "refinancing" shall mean funding, refunding, paying or discharging, by means of refunding bonds or the proceeds received from the sale thereof, all or any part of any notes, bonds or other obligations issued to finance or to aid in financing the acquisition, construction or improving of an enterprise, issued under this chapter for any purpose allowed hereunder and payable solely from all or any part of the revenues derived from the operations of any enterprise herein defined, including interest thereon in arrears or about to become due, whether or not represented by coupons or interest certificates; (9) The term "revenue" shall mean all fees, tolls, rates, rentals and charges to be levied and collected in connection with, and all other income and receipts of whatever kind or character derived by the municipality from, the operation of any enterprise or arising from any enterprise; and (10) The term "holder of bonds" or "bondholders" or any similar term shall mean any person who shall be the bearer of any outstanding refunding bond or refunding bonds registered to bearer or not registered or the registered owner of any such outstanding bond or bonds which shall at the time be registered other than to bearer.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-25-10 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 25 / Section 6-25-10
SECTION 6-25-10. Short title.
Status: in_force

This chapter may be cited as the "Joint Authority Water and Sewer Systems Act". Effect of Amendment The 2007 amendment substituted "Joint Authority Water and Sewer" for "Joint Municipal Water".
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-24-210 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 24 / Section 6-24-210
SECTION 6-24-210. Bonds as special obligations; revenues pledged to payment.
Status: in_force

The bonds issued pursuant to this chapter are special obligations of the joint agency issuing them. The principal and interest and any premium on the bonds are not payable from the general fund of the joint agency, nor are they a legal or equitable pledge, charge, lien, or encumbrance upon any of its property, income, receipts, or revenues, except the funds which are pledged pursuant to the resolution authorizing the bonds or the trust agreement securing the bonds. A bond must recite in substance that the principal of and interest on the bond is payable only from the revenues pledged to its payment and that the joint agency is not obligated to pay the principal or interest except from those revenues.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-2130 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 15 / Section 6-11-2130
SECTION 6-11-2130. Adoption of confirming resolution or ordinance by successor provider.
Status: in_force

Upon receipt of a certified copy of the declaration of results of the referendum, a successor provider must adopt a resolution or ordinance, as appropriate, confirming its prior action in agreeing to serve as successor provider within ninety days of receipt of a certified declaration of results. This confirming resolution or ordinance must be forwarded to the governing body of the district and to every other successor provider.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-1050 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 5 / Section 6-11-1050
SECTION 6-11-1050. Issuance of additional revenue bonds.
Status: in_force

The governing body of any recreation district in this State that has authority to issue revenue bonds is authorized to issue additional revenue bonds upon the written consent of a majority of the public officials who are authorized to make recommendations to the Governor for appointment of members of the governing body of the district.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-850 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 5 / Section 6-11-850
SECTION 6-11-850. Proponents and opponents of bond issue shall be heard.
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. § 6-11-2120 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 15 / Section 6-11-2120
SECTION 6-11-2120. Notice of approval to subsequent provider.
Status: in_force

If the question presented in the referendum is approved as provided in Section 6-11-2110, the governing body of the district shall declare the results of the referendum in writing and within ten days following the referendum provide certified copies of the declaration of results to each successor provider.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-590 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 3 / Section 6-11-590
SECTION 6-11-590. Bonds exempt from taxes.
Status: in_force

The principal and interest of bonds issued pursuant to this article shall have the tax exempt status prescribed by SECTION 12-1-60.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-29-880 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 29 / Article 5 / Section 6-29-880
SECTION 6-29-880. Powers of board of architectural review.
Status: in_force

The board of architectural review has those powers involving the structures and neighborhoods as may be determined by the zoning ordinance. Decisions of the zoning administrator or other appropriate administrative official in matters under the purview of the board of architectural review may be appealed to the board where there is an alleged error in any order, requirement, determination, or decision.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-16-100 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 16 / Section 6-16-100
SECTION 6-16-100. Rights and powers of joint agency.
Status: in_force

Each joint agency shall have all the rights and powers of a public body politic and corporate of this State, including, without limitation, all the rights and powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the provisions of this chapter, including but not limited to, 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 it at pleasure; (c) To maintain an office at such place 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 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) To authorize the construction, operation, or maintenance of any project by any person, firm or corporation, including political subdivisions and agencies of any state of the United States; (k) To acquire by negotiated purchase or lease one or more projects which may be an existing project, project under construction or other property, either individually or jointly, with one or more other governing bodies or joint agencies in this State; (l) To fix, charge and collect rents, rates, fees and charges for solid waste disposal and other services, facilities and commodities sold, furnished or supplied through any project; (m) To generate, produce, transmit, deliver, exchange, purchase or sell electric power or energy or other form of energy derived from a project and to enter into contracts for any or all such purposes, subject to the provisions of SECTION 6-16-110; (n) To negotiate and enter into contracts for the acquisition of solid wastes from any county, other governmental unit, or private businesses; (o) To negotiate and enter into contracts for the sale of any recoverable resources derived from solid waste; (p) To own, operate or maintain or provide for the ownership, operation or maintenance of any transportation, compacting or other facilities necessary or desirable for the collection and transport of solid waste to any of its projects; (q) To own, operate and maintain a landfill or system of landfills or other similar facilities for the disposal of solid waste; (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 licenses, 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. § 6-17-95 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 17 / Section 6-17-95
SECTION 6-17-95. Municipalities providing hospital, nursing home, or care facilities; mortgages.
Status: in_force

Under the revenue bond refinancing act, in the case of a municipality providing hospital, nursing home, or care facilities, the municipality may utilize the provisions of Section 44-7-60 to secure payment on any indebtedness purchased by any federal agency or any indebtedness guaranteed by any federal agency.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-1-1010 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 1 / Article 9 / Section 6-1-1010
SECTION 6-1-1010. Accounting; expenditures.
Status: in_force

(A) Revenues from all development impact fees must be maintained in one or more interest-bearing accounts. Accounting records must be maintained for each category of system improvements and the service area in which the fees are collected. Interest earned on development impact fees must be considered funds of the account on which it is earned, and must be subject to all restrictions placed on the use of impact fees pursuant to the provisions of this article. (B) Expenditures of development impact fees must be made only for the category of system improvements and within or for the benefit of the service area for which the impact fee was imposed as shown by the capital improvements plan and as authorized in this article. Impact fees may not be used for: (1) a purpose other than system improvement costs to create additional improvements to serve new growth; (2) a category of system improvements other than that for which they were collected; or (3) the benefit of service areas other than the area for which they were imposed.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-31-70 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 31 / Section 6-31-70
SECTION 6-31-70. Agreement and development must be consistent with local government comprehensive plan and land development regulations.
Status: in_force

A development agreement and authorized development must be consistent with the local government's comprehensive plan and land development regulations.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-15-90 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 15 / Section 6-15-90
SECTION 6-15-90. Levy of assessment for annual sewer service charge.
Status: in_force

In the event that it is impractical to provide for the collection of all or any part of the sewer service charge jointly with charges rendered by a private or public agency for water service, then in such event the governing body shall be fully empowered to levy an assessment for the annual sewer service charge. Prior to the making of any sewer connection or the furnishing of any sewage disposal service for which the prescribed sewer service charge shall pursuant to SECTION 6-15-100 become a lien on the property affected and prior to any subsequent increase in any sewer service charge not less than ten days' written notice shall be given to each affected property owner notifying him of the nature and quantum of the sewer service charge and providing such property owner an opportunity, if desired and requested, to appear and be heard in person or by counsel before the governing body. Following such hearing, if such be requested and held, action shall be taken by the governing body and notice of its decision shall be given to the property owner concerned or his counsel as the case may be not less than ten days prior to the effective date of the sewer service charge. Any property owner aggrieved by the action of the governing body may proceed by appeal in the court of common pleas for the county in which his property or any part thereof lies, to have such court review the action taken by the governing body at which time the court will determine the validity and reasonableness of the sewer service charge. Sewer service charges not intended to become liens in the case of nonpayment may be imposed and subsequently increased upon any user without such notice and hearing. The appeal provided for herein shall be pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 7 of Title 18, providing for appeals to the court of common pleas.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-23-20 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 23 / Section 6-23-20
SECTION 6-23-20. Definitions.
Status: in_force

The terms used in this chapter have the following meaning unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: (1) "Area generally served by the same electric supplier" means that area located in any county or counties of this State and assigned to an electric supplier by the Public Service Commission pursuant to the provisions of Section 58-27-640 and to the Public Service Authority by Article 3 of Title 58. (2) "Bonds" mean electric revenue bonds, notes, certificates, or other obligations of indebtedness of a joint agency issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and include refunding bonds. (3) "Cost" or "cost of a project" means, but is not limited to, the cost of acquisition, construction, reconstruction, improvement, enlargement, or extension of a project, including the cost of studies, plans, specifications, surveys, and estimates of costs and revenues relating to it; 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 securing these; administrative, legal, engineering, and inspection expenses; financing fees, expenses, and costs; working capital; initial fuel costs; interest on the bonds during construction and for a reasonable time after that is determined by the joint agency; establishment of reserves; and other expenditure of the joint agency incidental, necessary, or convenient to the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, improvement, enlargement, or extension of any project and the placing of them in operation. (4) "Governing body" means, with respect to a municipality, the board, council, commission, or other legislative body charged by law with governing the municipality. (5) "Electric supplier" means an electric utility regulated by the Public Service Commission, electric cooperative, or municipal electric system authorized to do business within the State or the Public Service Authority. (6) "Joint agency" means a public body and body corporate and politic organized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. (7) "Municipality" means a city or town created pursuant to the laws of the State, or agency, board, commission, or council of it, that has owned for at least ten years a system or facilities for the generation, transmission, or distribution of electric power and energy for public and private uses. (8) "Project" means a system or facilities for the generation, transmission, and transformation, not distribution, of electric power and energy by any means including, but not limited to, any one or more electric generating units situated at a particular site or any interest in any of them or any right to the output, capacity, use, or services of it. (9) "State" means the State of South Carolina. Effect of Amendment The 2007 amendment redesignated items (a) to (i) as items (1) to (9) and made nonsubstantive language changes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-23-100 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 23 / Section 6-23-100
SECTION 6-23-100. Electric generating facilities as interrelated; responsibility for dispatching capacity and output and scheduling maintenance of project.
Status: in_force

Because of pooling and reserve-sharing agreements between electric suppliers, public and private electric utilities and electric cooperatives, the General Assembly determines that electric generating facilities within the State are interrelated; therefore, it is necessary that the electric supplier generally serving the area in which the members of the joint agency are located be responsible for the dispatching of capacity and output and the scheduling of maintenance of a project owned by a joint agency in keeping with established utility practice, subject to contracts entered into for such capacity and output.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-21-40 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 21 / Section 6-21-40
SECTION 6-21-40. "System" defined.
Status: in_force

The word "system" as used in this chapter shall include all of the projects and undertakings referred to in SECTION 6-21-50. The water and sewer systems of any municipality shall constitute one system and any two or more projects or undertakings described in SECTION 6-21-50 which are in any way related, as in the case of a waterworks system and a sewer system, may be deemed a single system or project for the purposes of this chapter if the governing body of the municipality establishing it shall so determine either in the ordinance authorizing the issuance of bonds pursuant to this chapter or in any other ordinance passed prior to the issuance of the bonds. Any city owning and operating a municipal airport may combine such airport with any harbor improvement plan, including one providing docking and other facilities common to marinas or yacht basins, into a single system for all of the purposes of this chapter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-15-100 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 15 / Section 6-15-100
SECTION 6-15-100. Lien for sewer service charge.
Status: in_force

If the notice or notices prescribed by SECTION 6-15-90 shall have been given and any hearing requested pursuant thereto shall have been held all connection or tapping fees, sewer service charges and other charges imposed by the governing body following that procedure under authority of this chapter and not paid when due and payable, shall constitute a lien upon the real estate to which the sewage service concerned relates so long as the fees or charges remain unpaid. In addition to such other rights and remedies as may be available to the governing body in law or in equity for the collection of such fees and charges, the lien may be enforced by the governing body in the same manner and fashion as the lien of property taxes on real estate.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-8-10 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 8 / Section 6-8-10
SECTION 6-8-10. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter: (1) "Building codes enforcement officer" means a person employed by a local jurisdiction, who is responsible for administering a building inspection department, enforcement or rendering interpretations of building, residential, plumbing, electrical, mechanical, fuel gas and energy conservation codes, performing building plan reviews, or performing inspections on one or more building systems. (2) "Construction trade discipline" means a discipline, other than any activity regulated by Chapter 13, Title 46, related to the construction of a building including, but not limited to, building, electrical, gas, plumbing, mechanical, or energy services. (3) "Contract inspector" means a person certified to perform a building inspection, other than a special inspection, in a construction trade discipline within a local jurisdiction on a contract basis. (4) "Local jurisdiction" means a municipality or county of this State. (5) "Special inspector" means a person certified to perform special inspections in one or more construction trade disciplines pursuant to the International Building Code. (6) "Special registration" means a current authorization issued by the South Carolina Building Codes Council for a person who holds a certification by a recognized code organization, approved by the council, in no more than one construction trade discipline. (7) "General registration" means a current authorization issued by the South Carolina Building Codes Council for a person certified in multiple construction trade disciplines by a code organization recognized and approved by the council. Effect of Amendment The 2009 amendment rewrote this section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-2060 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 15 / Section 6-11-2060
SECTION 6-11-2060. Petition to be forwarded to successor providers.
Status: in_force

Upon receipt of the commissioners of election, and if the certificate demonstrates that at least forty percent of the qualified electors of the district have signed a petition conforming to this article, the governing body of the district shall forward it to each political subdivision which is named by the petition as a successor provider.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-9-55 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 9 / Section 6-9-55
SECTION 6-9-55. Council to promulgate certain regulations.
Status: in_force

(A) The council shall promulgate as regulations, in accordance with the procedure and requirements contained in Article 1, Chapter 23, Title 1, any provision of or amendment to any building code that would affect construction requirements for one-family or two-family dwellings. No building code provision that would otherwise become effective after the effective date of this section concerning construction requirements for one-family or two-family dwellings shall be enforced until the effective date of the regulations required to be promulgated by this section. (B) Notwithstanding subsection (A), a regulation mandating the installation of an automatic residential fire sprinkler system in one-family or two-family dwellings shall not become effective at any time before July 1, 2015. (C) Notwithstanding subsection (A), Section 501.3 of the 2012 International Residential Code must not be enforced. Effect of Amendment The 2013 amendment, in subsection (B), substituted "July 1, 2015" for "January 1, 2014", and added subsection (C) relating to the International Residential Code. 2015 Act No. 17, SECTION 1, substituted "enforced" for "enforced at any time before July 1, 2015".
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-29-1180 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 29 / Article 7 / Section 6-29-1180
SECTION 6-29-1180. Surety bond for completion of site improvements.
Status: in_force

In circumstances where the land development regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter require the installation and approval of site improvements prior to approval of the land development plan or subdivision plat for recording in the office of the county official whose duty it is to accept and record the instruments, the developer may be permitted to post a surety bond, certified check, or other instrument readily convertible to cash. The surety must be in an amount equal to at least one hundred twenty-five percent of the cost of the improvement. This surety must be in favor of the local government to ensure that, in the event of default by the developer, funds will be used to install the required improvements at the expense of the developer.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-21-270 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 21 / Section 6-21-270
SECTION 6-21-270. Bonds shall be tax exempt.
Status: in_force

The bonds and interest coupons issued hereunder 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 bond as follows: "The principal of and interest on this bond are exempted from any and all State, county, municipal and other taxation whatsoever under the laws of the State of South Carolina."
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-24-110 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 24 / Section 6-24-110
SECTION 6-24-110. Contracts between joint agencies and governmental entities.
Status: in_force

(A) A governmental entity may contract with the joint agency for its present or future service requirements, including the capacity, supply, and output of one or more specified projects. The contract may provide that the contracting governmental entity is obligated to make the payments required by the contract whether or not a project is completed, operable, or operating and that payments pursuant to the contract are not subject to reduction, whether by offset or otherwise, and are not conditioned upon the performance or nonperformance of the joint agency or a member of the joint agency pursuant to the contract or other instrument. A contract entered into between a joint agency and its members also may provide that the remaining members of the joint agency shall assume on a proportional basis the obligations of a defaulting member if one or more of the members defaults in the payment of the obligations. (B) A contract entered into between a governmental entity and a joint agency may be in the form of an obligation or bond issued under another statute authorizing or permitting the incurring of indebtedness by the governmental entity. The provisions of another statute authorizing or permitting the incurring of indebtedness by the governmental entity do not apply to the extent they would prohibit or limit the sale of the obligation by negotiation to a joint agency and the form of the obligation as a single instrument payable to the joint agency on terms as the joint agency considers appropriate. If the statute requires the establishment or maintenance of reserves or other funds or accounts, intended as security for the holders of the obligations, the joint agency may elect to eliminate or waive those requirements. To the extent any statute provides a lien or permits the pledge of property or revenues as security for obligations issued under it, the joint agency may be the direct beneficiary of the lien or pledge or to waive it. (C) Notwithstanding the provisions of another law to the contrary, a contract between a governmental entity and a joint agency may extend for a period not exceeding fifty years from the date services are first provided pursuant to the contract, and the execution and effectiveness of the contract are not subject to authorizations or approvals by the State or any agency, commission, or instrumentality or political subdivision of the State. (D) Except as specifically provided by the terms of the contract, payments by a governmental entity pursuant to a contract with a joint agency are not a legal or equitable pledge, charge, lien, or encumbrance upon property of the governmental entity or upon its income, receipts, or revenues. (E) A governmental entity may authorize a joint agency to act on its behalf in the same manner and to the same extent as any agency, commission, or employee of the governmental entity. A governmental entity may exercise its governmental powers on behalf of a joint agency in instances where the exercise of the power cannot be delegated.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-37-40 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 37 / Section 6-37-40
SECTION 6-37-40. Members; appointment; terms; compensation.
Status: in_force

(A) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 6-11-610 or any other provision of law, the authority is comprised of eleven members, seven of whom shall be resident electors of Beaufort County and four of whom shall be resident electors of Jasper County. (B) The seven Beaufort County members of the authority shall be appointed by the Governor upon the recommendation of a majority of the Legislative Delegation of Beaufort County. Of the Beaufort County members, the respective governing bodies of the City of Beaufort, the Town of Bluffton, and the Town of Port Royal shall each recommend to the Legislative Delegation of Beaufort County one person who may in turn be recommended by the Legislative Delegation of Beaufort County to the Governor for appointment and the Beaufort County Council shall recommend to the Legislative Delegation of Beaufort County three persons who may in turn be recommended by the Legislative Delegation of Beaufort County to the Governor for appointment. One person shall be recommended by the Legislative Delegation of Beaufort County to the Governor for appointment without recommendation by any other entity. (C) The four Jasper County members of the authority shall be appointed by the Governor upon the recommendation of a majority of the Legislative Delegation of Jasper County. Of the Jasper County members, the respective governing bodies of the Town of Ridgeland and the City of Hardeeville shall each recommend to the Legislative Delegation of Jasper County one person who may in turn be recommended by the Legislative Delegation of Jasper County to the Governor for appointment. (D) The terms of office for all members and their successors of the authority shall be for six years. All members of the authority shall hold office until their successors have been appointed and qualify. Any vacancy occurring for any reason among the members of the authority shall be filled for the remainder of the unexpired term by the same procedure for appointment. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 6-11-610, the seating of additional members of the authority shall not affect the terms of other members serving upon the effective date of this section. (E) The members of the authority may fix or change the compensation or other benefits, including insurance benefits and per diem for the members of the authority. Reimbursable expenses actually incurred while on official business must not exceed the amounts authorized for members of state boards, committees, and commissions, and insurance benefits must not exceed those provided for state employees.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-1-530 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 1 / Article 5 / Section 6-1-530
SECTION 6-1-530. Use of revenue from local accommodations tax.
Status: in_force

(A) The revenue generated by the local accommodations tax must be used exclusively for the following purposes: (1) tourism-related buildings including, but not limited to, civic centers, coliseums, and aquariums; (2) tourism-related cultural, recreational, or historic facilities; (3) beach access, renourishment, or other tourism-related lands and water access; (4) highways, roads, streets, and bridges providing access to tourist destinations; (5) advertisements and promotions related to tourism development; (6) water and sewer infrastructure to serve tourism-related demand; or (7) development of workforce housing, which must include programs to promote home ownership. However, a county or municipality may not expend or dedicate more than fifteen percent of its annual local accommodations tax revenue for the purposes set forth in this item. The provisions of this item are no longer effective after December 31, 2030. (B)(1) In a county in which at least nine hundred thousand dollars in accommodations taxes is collected annually pursuant to Section 12-36-920, the revenues of the local accommodations tax authorized in this article may also be used for the operation and maintenance of those items provided in (A)(1) through (6) including police, fire protection, emergency medical services, and emergency-preparedness operations directly attendant to those facilities. (2) In a county in which less than nine hundred thousand dollars in accommodations taxes is collected annually pursuant to Section 12-36-920, an amount not to exceed fifty percent of the revenue in the preceding fiscal year of the local accommodations tax authorized pursuant to this article may be used for the additional purposes provided in item (1) of 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." Effect of Amendment The 2006 amendment, in subsection (B), designated subparagraph (1) and added subparagraph (2). The 2010 amendment, in paragraph (B)(2), substituted "fifty" for "twenty". 2023 Act No. 57, SECTION 1, in (A), inserted (7) and made nonsubstantive changes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-29-530 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 29 / Article 3 / Section 6-29-530
SECTION 6-29-530. Adoption of plan or elements; public hearing.
Status: in_force

The local planning commission may recommend to the appropriate governing body and the body may adopt the plan as a whole by a single ordinance or elements of the plan by successive ordinances. The elements shall correspond with the major geographical sections or divisions of the planning area or with functional subdivisions of the subject matter of the comprehensive plan, or both. Before adoption of an element or a plan as a whole, the governing authority shall hold a public hearing on it after not less than thirty days' notice of the time and place of the hearings has been given in a newspaper having general circulation in the jurisdiction.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-23-80 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 23 / Section 6-23-80
SECTION 6-23-80. 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 member municipalities. The executive committee shall have and shall exercise such of the powers and authority of the board of directors during the intervals between the board's meetings in accordance with the board's bylaws, rules, motions or resolutions. The terms of office of the members of the executive committee and the method of filling vacancies therein shall be fixed by the bylaws of the joint agency.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-285 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 6-11-285
SECTION 6-11-285. Civil penalties for violations of permit conditions or regulations of public entities which operate wastewater plants or treatment facilities, water treatment facilities, or water distribution systems; hearings and appeals.
Status: in_force

(A) For purpose of this section: (1) "Political subdivision" means any municipality, county, public service district, special service district, or other public entity charged with the operation and maintenance of wastewater plants or treatment facilities, water treatment facilities, or with the operation and management of any water distribution system; (2) "Person" means a person as defined in item (1) of SECTION 48-1-10. (B) Any person violating any ordinance or regulation of a political subdivision or any permit, permit condition, or final determination of any political subdivision as required by state or federal law is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed two thousand dollars for each day of violation. (C) Any political subdivision, prior to the imposition of any civil penalty, shall issue a rule to show cause requiring the person to appear and show cause why civil penalties should not be imposed and specifying which violations are charged. A hearing upon the rule must be held before a hearing officer designated by the governing body of the political subdivision. (D) All penalties assessed under the provisions of this section must be held as debt and payable to the political subdivision by the person against whom they have been charged and shall constitute a lien against the property of the person. (E) The hearing procedure required under the provisions of this section must be in accordance, as practicably possible, with that procedure as prescribed by Regulation 61-72 of the Department of Health and Environmental Control. (F) All appeals from the decision of the hearing officer under the provisions of this section must be heard in the court of common pleas in the county in which the political subdivision is located.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-24-280 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 24 / Section 6-24-280
SECTION 6-24-280. Relation of Chapter to existing laws.
Status: in_force

This chapter provides an additional method for accomplishing the acts authorized, and is supplemental to powers conferred by existing laws and not in derogation of powers now existing. If a provision of this chapter is inconsistent with the provisions of other general, special, or local law, the provisions of this chapter control.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-25-128 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 25 / Section 6-25-128
SECTION 6-25-128. Contracts between authority and joint system; duration.
Status: in_force

An authority may contract to buy from the joint system water required for its present or future requirements, including the capacity and output, or a portion or share of one or more specified projects. An authority also may contract for the collection or treatment of wastewater, including present or future capacity, or a portion or share of another project. The creation of a joint system is an alternative method whereby an authority may obtain the benefits and assume the responsibilities of ownership in a project, so a contract may provide that the authority forming the contract is obligated to make a payment required by the contract whether or not a project is completed, operable, or operating notwithstanding the suspension, interruption, interference, reduction, or curtailment of the output of a project or the water contracted for, and that the payments under the contract are not subject to reduction, whether by offset or otherwise, and are not conditioned upon the performance or nonperformance of the joint system or any other member of the joint system under the contract or any other instrument. A contract with respect to the sale or purchase of capacity or output, or a portion or share of them, of a project entered into between a joint system and its member authorities also may provide that if an authority or authorities default in the payment of its or their obligations with respect to the purchase of the capacity or output, or a portion or share of them, in that event the remaining member authorities which are purchasing capacity and output under the contract are required to accept and pay for and are entitled proportionately to and may use or otherwise dispose of the capacity or output which was to be purchased by the defaulting authority. A contract concerning the sale or purchase of capacity and output from a project may extend for a period not exceeding fifty years from the date of the contract and may be renewable and extended upon terms as the parties may agree for not exceeding an additional fifty years; and the execution and effectiveness is not subject to any authorizations or approvals by the State or any agency, commission, or instrumentality or political subdivision of them. Payments by an authority under a contract for the purchase of capacity and output from a joint system may be made from the revenues derived from the ownership and operation of the water system of the authority or from such other sources of funds as may be available, including any amounts received as payments in lieu of taxes. An authority may not pledge its full faith, credit, and taxing power to secure its obligations to the joint system or the bonds of the joint system. An authority is obligated to fix, charge, and collect rents, rates, fees, and charges for water or sewer services, facilities, and commodities sold, furnished, or supplied through its water or sewer system sufficient to provide revenues adequate to meet its obligations under any contract and to pay any and all other amounts payable from or constituting a charge and lien upon the revenues, including amounts sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on general obligation bonds, if any, heretofore or hereafter issued by the authority for purposes related to its water or sewer system. An authority that is a member of a joint system may furnish the joint system with money derived from the ownership and operation of its water or sewer system or facilities and provide the joint system with personnel, equipment, and property, both real and personal, and from any other sources legally available to it for such purposes. An authority also may provide services to a joint system. A member of a joint system may contract for, advance, or contribute funds derived from the ownership and operation of its water or sewer system or facilities or from another legal source to a joint system as agreed upon by the joint system and the member, and the joint system shall repay the advances or contributions from the proceeds of bonds, operating revenue, or other funds of the joint system, together with interest as agreed upon by the member and the joint system. Effect of Amendment The 2007 amendment, in the first undesignated paragraph, added the second sentence relating to wastewater; in the third undesignated paragraph, in the third sentence added "or sewer" in two places; and substituted "authority" for "municipality" and made nonsubstantive changes throughout.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-273 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 6-11-273
SECTION 6-11-273. Tax levy referendums.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any special purpose district created by an act of the General Assembly which is authorized to levy taxes for the operation of the district may request the commissioners of election of the county in which the district is located to conduct a referendum to propose a change 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 a majority of the qualified electors of the district voting in the referendum vote in favor of the proposed tax millage change, the governing body of the district shall by resolution adopt the new millage rate which shall thereupon have the full force and effect of law.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-2010 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 15 / Section 6-11-2010
SECTION 6-11-2010. Definitions.
Status: in_force

For purposes of this article: (1) "Special purpose district" or "district" means any district, including a public service district, created by or pursuant to an act of the General Assembly before March 7, 1973, and to which has been committed before March 7, 1973, any governmental function, including those districts created by general or special legislation and those districts created by referenda held pursuant to general or special legislation, the boundaries of which are wholly within a single county and which are not expressly governed by Chapter 9 of Title 4 or Chapter 7 of Title 5. (2) "Commissioners of election" means the commissioners of registration and election of a county. In a county where the functions of voter registration and conducting elections are not combined, the petition referred to in Section 6-11-2030 must be filed with the body responsible for voter registration in that county. This body is responsible for taking the action required by Section 6-11-2040, and with the commissioners of election or other body charged by law with conducting elections within the county, which shall undertake all other actions required of the "commissioners of election" in this article.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-70 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 6-11-70
SECTION 6-11-70. Date for election of board members; implementation of section; statement of candidacy or petition for nomination; number of signatures; certain counties exempt.
Status: in_force

(A) When a special purpose district elects its board members, the board members must be elected in the November general election held in an even-numbered year. To implement the provisions of this section, the governing body of a county shall by ordinance or resolution extend terms, for necessary periods, of persons to be elected to permit the persons to be elected in accordance with the provisions of this section, but no elected term may be shortened for that purpose. (B) Notwithstanding any provision of Title 7 or other provision of law, in such a district a candidate is required to file a statement of candidacy or obtain on a petition the signatures of five percent of the qualified electors of the district in order to have his name placed on the ballot for election as a commissioner of a special purpose district within the county. (C) The provisions of subsection (A) do not apply to districts in counties that have adopted, by ordinance, uniform election dates for districts within those counties before the effective date of this section. The provisions of subsections (A) and (B) do not apply to districts in which the commissioners are elected pursuant to a petition and referendum provided for in Article 2 of Chapter 11 of Title 6.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-9-130 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 9 / Section 6-9-130
SECTION 6-9-130. Codes applicable to building inspections.
Status: in_force

(A) Buildings must be inspected in accordance with the codes in effect for the locality on the date of the issuance of the original building permit, except that: (1) If no date of issuance of original building permit can be found, the date of submission of the completed application to the local authority must be used. (2) If no date of application for, or date of issuance of, building permit is available, the director of the applicable county planning and development service (or similar agency) shall determine the nearest possible date by using available documents, such as transfer of property records, mortgage records, tax records, or rent records. (B) A building inspection conducted in conjunction with any change in structure must be performed in accordance with the applicable code in effect on date of application or date of permit. (C) A building inspection conducted in conjunction with a change of use for the building or space must be performed in accordance with the applicable code in effect on the date of the inspection. This inspection should be done with the intention of avoiding extreme hardship to the owner whenever practical. Effect of Amendment The 2003 amendment designated the existing undesignated paragraph as subsection (A); in new subsection (A) substituted "in accordance with" for "according to" and added "original" preceding "building" and ", except that:" at the end; and added subsections (A)(1) and (A)(2), relating to exceptions to subsection (A), and subsections (B) and (C), relating to inspections conducted in conjunction with a change in structure or change in the use of a building.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-23-230 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 23 / Section 6-23-230
SECTION 6-23-230. Bonds tax exempt.
Status: in_force

The principal of and interest on the bonds issued pursuant to this act shall have the tax exempt status prescribed by SECTION 12-1-60 of the 1976 Code.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-21-185 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 21 / Section 6-21-185
SECTION 6-21-185. Special purpose districts providing hospital, nursing home, or care facilities; mortgages.
Status: in_force

Under the revenue bond act for utilities in the case of a special purpose district providing hospital, nursing home, or care facilities, the special purpose district is authorized to provide a mortgage on any real or personal property to secure the purchase of any indebtedness by any federal agency or the guarantee of any indebtedness by any federal agency. Effect of Amendment The 2010 amendment rewrote the section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-10-50 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 10 / Section 6-10-50
SECTION 6-10-50. Enforcement by local building officials or jurisdictions; examination and approval of plans; permit requirement; inspection during construction; certificate of occupancy.
Status: in_force

(A) Local building officials shall enforce the provisions of the Energy Standard. (B) In areas of the State without a building official, the local jurisdiction may designate its engineer, director of public works, or chief fire inspector to enforce the provisions of the Energy Standard. Upon request, the State Energy Office shall provide local jurisdictions a brief synopsis of the Energy Standard, the Residential Energy Efficiency Requirements that apply to South Carolina, and penalties. (C) The building officials are responsible for examination and approval or disapproval of plans and specifications, the issuance and revocation of building permits, licenses, certificates, and similar documents, and the inspection of buildings pursuant to the provisions of the Energy Standard. (D) Except as otherwise provided in the Energy Standard, the construction of a building must not begin until a building permit is issued. Upon submission of an application to the building official, if the building proposed to be erected will comply with this chapter, a permit must be issued. The building official may suspend or revoke a building permit if the building under construction pursuant to that building permit does not comply with this chapter. (E) The building official periodically shall inspect, or cause to be inspected, all construction undertaken pursuant to permits issued by the building official to assure compliance with this chapter. If a building is found not to comply with the Energy Standard, the building official shall notify the permit holder in writing to bring the building into compliance with the standard or to secure it from entry or both; if the permit holder fails to comply with the notification, the building official shall revoke the permit. (F) A building constructed after the effective date of the Energy Standard must not be used or occupied until a certificate of occupancy has been issued. 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. 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. § 6-11-276 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 6-11-276
SECTION 6-11-276. Authority to borrow in anticipation of taxes.
Status: in_force

Each special purpose district referred to in SECTION 6-11-275 is authorized to borrow funds in anticipation of any annual tax levy, not to exceed seventy-five percent, with the written approval of the county governing body.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-15-40 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 15 / Section 6-15-40
SECTION 6-15-40. Contract provisions for financing sewer facilities; bonds issued shall be for corporate purpose.
Status: in_force

Contracts made pursuant to this chapter may provide that the funds required for sewer facilities be furnished by each of the contracting parties or by one or more of them, or may further provide that any one or more of the contracting parties shall furnish funds therefor at stated intervals. Any and all bonds issued by any contracting party pursuant to such contract shall be issued for a corporate purpose of such issuer for which both general obligation and revenue bonds may be issued. Such contracts may provide that each contracting party shall pay a portion of the cost of operating and maintaining such sewer facilities and shall either provide that each contracting party shall pay a specified percentage of such operation and maintenance, or shall provide that the use of the sewer facilities be ascertained by metering or other device measuring the quantum of the use of each contracting party as a means of providing the share of the cost of operation and maintenance, and the parties may agree to periodic review and revision of such costs.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-1-70 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 1 / Article 1 / Section 6-1-70
SECTION 6-1-70. Prohibition on real estate transfer fees; exceptions.
Status: in_force

(A) Except as provided in subsection (B), the governing body of each county, municipality, school district, or special purpose district may not impose any fee or tax of any nature or description on the transfer of real property unless the General Assembly has expressly authorized by general law the imposition of the fee or tax. (B) A municipality that originally enacted a real estate transfer fee prior to January 1, 1991 may impose and collect a real estate transfer fee, by ordinance, regardless of whether imposition of the fee was discontinued for a period after January 1, 1991.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-120 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 6-11-120
SECTION 6-11-120. Filing of plat of district.
Status: in_force

The commission shall cause a copy of the plat showing the limits of the proposed district to be filed in the office of the auditor of the county in which the district is located.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-13-260 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 13 / Article 3 / Section 6-13-260
SECTION 6-13-260. 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 6-13-240 (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. § 6-37-70 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 37 / Section 6-37-70
SECTION 6-37-70. Exemption of property from ad valorem taxes.
Status: in_force

All property of the authority is exempt from all ad valorem taxes levied by the State, county, or any municipality, division, subdivision, or agency thereof, directly or indirectly.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-2150 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 15 / Section 6-11-2150
SECTION 6-11-2150. Cost of referendum.
Status: in_force

The cost of any referendum held under the provisions of this article and all costs of dissolution must be borne by the district, provided, however, that the district is not responsible for any costs associated with the preparation or circulation of any petition calling for a referendum under this article.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-7-20 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 7 / Article 1 / Section 6-7-20
SECTION 6-7-20. Effect of chapter on certain planning organizations.
Status: in_force

This chapter shall not have any effect upon the powers and duties of any planning organization, either local or regional, existing prior to July 3, 1967.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-9-110 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 9 / Section 6-9-110
SECTION 6-9-110. Ordinances or regulations requiring purchase or acquisition of permit or license; inapplicability to certain state and school district projects; jurisdiction of deputy state fire marshals and certified State Engineer's Office personnel.
Status: repealed

(A) A county, municipal, or other local ordinance or regulation which requires the purchase or acquisition of a permit, license, or other device utilized to enforce any building standard does not apply to a: (1) state department, institution, or agency permanent improvement project, construction project, renovation project, or property; or (2) school district facility, permanent improvement project, construction project, renovation project, or property which is reviewed and approved by the State Department of Education; except that the State Department of Education or a local school district may direct that the local ordinance or regulation apply to a particular facility, project, or property. (B) After successful completion of all requirements, the State Fire Marshal shall certify personnel of the State Engineer's Office of the State Fiscal Accountability Authority designated by the State Engineer. The certified personnel and deputy state fire marshals, including resident state fire marshals, have exclusive jurisdiction over state buildings, including schools, in the exercise of the powers and jurisdictional authority of the State Fire Marshal under Sections 23-9-20, 23-9-30, and 23-9-50. Code Commissioner's Note At the direction of the Code Commissioner, references in this section to the offices of the former State Budget and Control Board, Office of the Governor, or other agencies, were changed to reflect the transfer of them to the Department of Administration or other entities, pursuant to the directive of the South Carolina Restructuring Act, 2014 Act No. 121, SECTION 5(D)(1), effective July 1, 2015. At the direction of the Code Commissioner in 2016, in (B), "State Fiscal Accountability Authority" was substituted for "Department of Administration", to conform to the directive of the South Carolina Restructuring Act, 2014 Act No. 121, SECTION 5(D)(1), effective July 1, 2015. Editor's Note Section 23-9-40, previously referenced in (B), was repealed by 2022 Act No. 170, SECTION 12. See, now, Section 23-9-20. Effect of Amendment The 2003 amendment made no apparent changes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-430 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 3 / Section 6-11-430
SECTION 6-11-430. Exercise of powers by county board; public hearing.
Status: in_force

Each county board may, on its own motion, and shall, upon the petition of the commissions of the special purpose districts to be affected, take the action authorized by this article to enlarge, diminish or consolidate any special purpose districts lying within such county. In each such instance, by resolution duly adopted, the county board shall order a public hearing to be held for the purpose of making a determination as to whether and to what extent a special purpose district shall be enlarged, diminished or consolidated.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-25-126 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 25 / Section 6-25-126
SECTION 6-25-126. Temporary investment of funds pending disbursements.
Status: in_force

The resolution authorizing the bonds or construction notes of any issue or the trust agreement securing the bonds or construction notes may provide that any of the monies may be temporarily invested and reinvested pending disbursements and the securities and other investments provided in the resolution or trust agreement, and must provide that any bank or trust company with which the monies are deposited shall act as trustee of the monies and shall hold and apply them for the purposes of this chapter, subject to regulation as this chapter and the resolution or trust agreement may provide. Effect of Amendment The 2007 amendment reprinted this section with no apparent change.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-1650 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 11 / Section 6-11-1650
SECTION 6-11-1650. Annual financial audit.
Status: in_force

Each special purpose district shall provide an annual financial audit performed by a certified public accountant or public accountant to the county auditor in which the district resides. Where the boundaries of the district lie in more than one county, the audit must be made to each auditor in which the district is located.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-25-140 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 25 / Section 6-25-140
SECTION 6-25-140. Annual system audit; reports.
Status: in_force

There shall be an annual audit of each joint system and reports given to the governing body of each of the members. The costs shall be considered as part of the construction costs or part of expenses of administration. Effect of Amendment The 2007 amendment reprinted this section with no apparent change.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-7-150 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 7 / Article 3 / Section 6-7-150
SECTION 6-7-150. Cooperation with and acceptance of funds from other agencies.
Status: in_force

A regional council of government may cooperate with, contract with, and accept funds from Federal, State, or local governments, public or semi-public agencies or private individuals or corporations. It may expend such funds and it may carry out such cooperative undertakings and contracts.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-35-120 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 35 / Section 6-35-120
SECTION 6-35-120. Resolution by public body describing proposed district and improvement plan; description of payment of costs; public hearing.
Status: in_force

(A) The governing body, by resolution, shall describe the proposed district and the improvement plan; the projected time schedule for the accomplishment of the improvement plan; the estimated cost; and 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. (B) The governing body may provide by resolution for the payment of the cost of the improvements and facilities to be constructed within the service area by assessments, by the issuance of special district bonds or other obligations secured by assessments, from general revenues from any source not restricted from such use by law, or from any combination of such financing sources as may be provided in the improvement plan. (C) The resolution also must establish the time and place of a public hearing to be held. The public hearing must take place: (1) in a county, no earlier than thirty days nor more than forty-five days following the adoption of the resolution; or (2) in a municipality, no earlier than twenty days nor more than forty days following the adoption of the resolution.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-15-30 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 15 / Section 6-15-30
SECTION 6-15-30. Execution and filing of contracts.
Status: in_force

Any contract made between governmental entities shall be executed on behalf of each contracting party, after it has been approved by resolution or other action taken by the governing body. Wherever any such contract shall be the basis for the issuance of revenue bonds or general obligation bonds by any of the contracting parties, such contract shall become a part of the transcript of proceedings incident to the issuance of such bonds and shall be filed in the manner prescribed by SECTION 11-15-10. Copies of all contracts made pursuant to this chapter shall also be filed with the Department of Health and Environmental Control.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-31-40 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 31 / Section 6-31-40
SECTION 6-31-40. Developed property must contain certain number of acres of highland; permissible durations of agreements for differing amounts of highland content.
Status: in_force

A local government may enter into a development agreement with a developer for the development of property as provided in this chapter provided the property contains twenty-five acres or more of highland. Development agreements involving property containing no more than two hundred fifty acres of highland shall be for a term not to exceed five years. Development agreements involving property containing one thousand acres or less of highland but more than two hundred fifty acres of highland shall be for a term not to exceed ten years. Development agreements involving property containing two thousand acres or less of highland but more than one thousand acres of highland shall be for a term not to exceed twenty years. Development agreements involving property containing more than two thousand acres and development agreements with a developer which is a redevelopment authority created pursuant to the provisions of the Military Facilities Redevelopment Law, regardless of the number of acres of property involved, may be for such term as the local government and the developer shall elect.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-1820 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 13 / Section 6-11-1820
SECTION 6-11-1820. Utilization of incident commander, and Incident Command System, at emergency incidents.
Status: in_force

Any municipality, fire district, fire protection agency, or other emergency service entity requesting mutual aid assistance from any emergency service delivery system in South Carolina shall utilize an incident commander, and the Incident Command System, at all emergency incidents.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-13-610 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 13 / Article 7 / Section 6-13-610
SECTION 6-13-610. Creation and purpose of Mitford Rural Water District of Fairfield and Chester Counties.
Status: in_force

There is hereby created a body corporate and politic of perpetual succession to be known as the Mitford Rural Water District of Fairfield and Chester Counties (hereinafter called the district). It shall be the purpose and function of the district to acquire, construct and operate a water works 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 to the areas described in SECTION 6-13-620, and to such other domestic, commercial or industrial users who can be conveniently and economically served within or without the service area as herein provided. 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. § 6-1-550 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 1 / Article 5 / Section 6-1-550
SECTION 6-1-550. Local accommodations tax revenue upon annexation.
Status: in_force

In an area of the county where the county has imposed a local accommodations tax that is annexed by a municipality, the municipality must receive only that portion of the revenue generated in excess of the county local accommodations tax revenue for the previous twelve months in the area annexed.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-900 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 5 / Section 6-11-900
SECTION 6-11-900. Manner in which bonds shall be issued.
Status: in_force

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 6-11-900 through 6-11-1010.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-16-130 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 16 / Section 6-16-130
SECTION 6-16-130. Status of joint agency personnel; participation in South Carolina Retirement System.
Status: in_force

Personnel employed or appointed by a member to work for a joint agency shall have the same authority, rights, privileges and immunities (including coverage under the workmen's compensation laws) which the officers, agents and employees of the appointing member enjoy within the territory of that member whether within or without the territory of the appointing member when they are acting within the scope of their authority or in the course of their employment. Personnel employed or appointed directly by a joint agency shall be qualified for participation in the South Carolina Retirement System, with the same rights, privileges, obligations and responsibilities as they would have if they were employees of a municipality, if they are residents of this State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-25-5 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 25 / Section 6-25-5
SECTION 6-25-5. Legislative findings.
Status: in_force

The General Assembly finds that: (1) The availability of water and sewer services to assist economic development and to provide for the health, safety, and welfare of its people is a very critical matter for this State. (2) It is appropriate to make it possible for a member of a joint authority water system to utilize certain sources of revenues available to them, including payments in lieu of taxes, to assist in the development of additional water and sewer treatment capacity and the provision of collection and distribution lines. (3) It is desirable to facilitate a joint authority water and sewer system in accommodating the desires of its members in projects and financings that affect only those members. Code Commissioner's Note This section was classified at the direction of the Code Commissioner. Effect of Amendment The 2007 amendment, in item (2), substituted "authority" for "municipal"; and, in item (3), substituted "joint authority water and sewer system" for "joint water system".
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-340 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 6-11-340
SECTION 6-11-340. Protection of special purpose district facilities; public safety departments; appointment and training of public safety officers.
Status: in_force

(A) The General Assembly finds that the public interest requires the safeguarding and protection of facilities owned by special purpose districts, such as water treatment plants, water storage tanks, wastewater treatment plants, pumping stations, and natural gas storage facilities. The health, safety, and protection of human life is dependent, in part, upon these facilities being properly protected from attack by terrorists or others seeking to disrupt the proper operation of facilities. (B) For purposes of this section, "special purpose district" means a special purpose district charged with the operation and maintenance of natural gas distribution facilities, wastewater plants or treatment facilities, or water treatment facilities, or with the operation and management of any water distribution system. (C) Each special purpose district is authorized to establish a public safety department to protect and police the facilities owned by the district under such reasonable rules and regulations as the district may from time to time promulgate. The district may appoint and commission as many public safety officers as necessary for the proper security, general welfare, and convenience of the facilities. The public safety officers must be vested with all powers and duties conferred by law upon constables in addition to duties imposed upon them by the governing body of the district. The jurisdiction of these public safety officers is limited to the property of the special purpose district and the streets and roads through and contiguous to the property, except that these officers may not make an incidental arrest of a person for, or issue a ticket for, a traffic violation. (D) The public safety officers appointed and commissioned by a special purpose district must be law enforcement officers trained and certified pursuant to Chapter 23, Title 23 in accordance with the training and certification standards established for officers performing similar duties. The expense of the training must be paid by the special purpose district by which that person is employed and the Criminal Justice Academy is authorized to establish and collect a fee for this training. Effect of Amendment The 2006 amendment, in subsection (D), in the second sentence substituted "Law Enforcement Training Council" for "South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy Division of the Department of Public Safety". The 2008 amendment, in subsection (D), in the first sentence substituted "Chapter 23, Title 23" for "Article 9, Chapter 6, Title 23".
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-23-60 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 23 / Section 6-23-60
SECTION 6-23-60. Filing of petition prior to acquisition of project; action by Commission; appeal.
Status: in_force

(A) Prior to the proposed acquisition of a project for the generation or transmission of electric power and energy by a joint agency, a petition must be filed with the Public Service Commission setting forth the material necessary to permit the Public Service Commission to make the determination required by this section. Notice of the filing of the petition must be given by the Public Service Commission once a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the State. A hearing on the petition is to be conducted as provided by law. (B) The Public Service Commission is authorized to approve or disapprove the proposed acquisition by a joint agency of a project or projects which consist of an electric generating plant or plants and associated facilities designed for, or capable of, operation at a capacity of more than seventy-five megawatts, or which consist of electric transmission lines and associated facilities of a designed operating voltage of one hundred twenty-five kilovolts or more. There is no requirement for approval by the Public Service Commission for a project or projects for other transmission or generating facilities, or for facilities for distribution or transformation, or any of them, of electric power and energy. However, the joint agency may not acquire or purchase projects or capacity if, after the purchase or acquisition, the joint power agency would own, contract for, or control generating resources exceeding one hundred eighty-five percent of the member municipalities historical territorial peak. In determining whether it is beneficial to the joint agency, the Public Service Commission shall take into consideration, but is not limited to, the following: (1) the economies and efficiencies to be achieved in constructing on a large scale, facilities for the generation and transmission of electric power and energy; (2) the municipalities' needs for reserve and peaking capacity and to meet obligations under pooling and reserve-sharing agreements reasonably related to its needs for power and energy to which it is or may become a party; (3) the estimated useful life of the project; (4) the estimated time necessary for the planning, development, acquisition, or construction of the project and the length of time required in advance to obtain, acquire, or construct additional power supplies; (5) the reliability and availability of existing or alternative power supply sources and the costs of the existing or alternative power supply sources; (6) the load forecast of capacity of a project and the utilization of the capacity by the joint agency for a reasonable period of time subsequent to the date of commercial operation of the project; and (7) the effect of the proposed acquisition on the ability of the joint agency to satisfy existing financial and contractual obligations that it may have incurred in the acquisition of any previously acquired projects. (C) Any party in interest may appeal the commission's action pursuant to Sections 58-27-2310 to 58-27-2340 of the 1976 Code. Effect of Amendment The 2007 amendment added paragraph (B)(7).
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-890 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 5 / Section 6-11-890
SECTION 6-11-890. Special elections may be held.
Status: in_force

The county board may, but shall not be required to, condition the issuance of general obligation bonds upon the results of a special election held in the special purpose district; and such election, if so ordered, shall be conducted in the manner and under the procedure applicable to the issuance of general obligation bonds of the counties of the State by the provisions of Chapter 15, Title 4.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-7-120 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 7 / Article 3 / Section 6-7-120
SECTION 6-7-120. Terms of regional council agreement.
Status: in_force

Such agreements herein provided for shall describe the area served by the organization, provisions for representation, financing, and other matters not inconsistent with the provisions of this article.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-820 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 5 / Section 6-11-820
SECTION 6-11-820. County boards may authorize issuance of bonds by special purpose district commissions.
Status: in_force

The county boards of all counties wherein special purpose districts exist shall be empowered to authorize the commission of such special purpose district to issue bonds whose proceeds shall be used in furtherance of any power of the special purpose district under the procedures herein prescribed.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-7-180 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 7 / Article 3 / Section 6-7-180
SECTION 6-7-180. Appropriation of funds, facilities and equipment for council by political subdivisions.
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of the local governmental entities within the designated geographic area of each council of governments may appropriate funds, loan, lease, or sell facilities, equipment and supplies to the council of government.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-13-930 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 13 / Article 9 / Section 6-13-930
SECTION 6-13-930. Compensation.
Status: in_force

Members of the authority are authorized a per diem of fifty dollars and may be reimbursed for the use of their personal automobile in traveling on necessary official business at the rate of twenty-one cents a mile and for any actual expenses incurred in connection with the business of the authority. Code Commissioner's Note This section was codified at the direction of the Code Commissioner in 2012. Effect of Amendment The 1986 amendment rewrote this section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-21-55 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 21 / Section 6-21-55
SECTION 6-21-55. Debt service on bonds for municipal improvements not to be imposed on property not located in improvement district.
Status: in_force

The debt service on bonds authorized by this chapter issued by a municipality to finance improvements under and permitted by the Municipal Improvement Act of 1999 shall not impose or be derived from in whole or in part a tax or assessment on property not located in the improvement district. The provisions of this section do not apply to projects or undertakings designated by a municipal governing body as a "system" under Section 6-21-40.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-1450 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 9 / Section 6-11-1450
SECTION 6-11-1450. Interference with operations of fire authority.
Status: in_force

Any person who obstructs the operations of the Fire Authority in connection with extinguishing any fire, or other emergency, or disobeys any lawful command of the fire official or officer of the Fire Authority who may be in charge at such a scene, or any part thereof, or any police officer assisting the Fire Authority, is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, may be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-24-170 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 24 / Section 6-24-170
SECTION 6-24-170. Investment of monies from bond.
Status: in_force

The resolution authorizing the bonds of an issue or the trust agreement securing the bonds may provide that the monies may be invested temporarily and reinvested pending disbursement in securities and other investments provided in the resolution or trust agreement. The resolution or trust agreement must provide that a bank or trust company with which the monies are deposited shall act as trustee of the monies and hold and apply them for the purposes of this joint agency, subject to regulation as this chapter and the resolution or trust agreement provide.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-11-80 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 6-11-80
SECTION 6-11-80. Organization of and vacancies on commission.
Status: in_force

As soon as practicable after the election the commissioners shall meet and organize as the board of electric light, water supply, fire and sewerage commissioners, as the case may be, for such district. They shall draw by lot the commissioners who shall hold the two, four and six year terms respectively. At the organizational meeting they shall elect one of their number as chairman. In the event of any vacancy on the commission the remaining members of the commission shall elect a commissioner to fill the unexpired term.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-1-1060 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 1 / Article 9 / Section 6-1-1060
SECTION 6-1-1060. Article shall not affect existing laws.
Status: in_force

(A) The provisions of this article do not repeal existing laws authorizing a governmental entity to impose fees or require contributions or property dedications for capital improvements. A development impact fee adopted in accordance with existing laws before the enactment of this article is not affected until termination of the development impact fee. A subsequent change or reenactment of the development impact fee must comply with the provisions of this article. Requirements for developers to pay in whole or in part for system improvements may be imposed by governmental entities only by way of impact fees imposed pursuant to the ordinance. (B) Notwithstanding another provision of this article, property for which a valid building permit or certificate of occupancy has been issued or construction has commenced before the effective date of a development impact fee ordinance is not subject to additional development impact fees.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-5-15 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 5 / Section 6-5-15
SECTION 6-5-15. Securing deposits of funds by local entities.
Status: in_force

(A) As used in this section, "local entity" means the governing body of a municipality, county, school district, other local government unit or political subdivision, or a county treasurer. (B) A qualified public depository, as defined in subsection (G), upon the deposit of funds by a local entity, must secure these deposits by deposit insurance, surety bonds, investment securities, or letters of credit to protect the local entity against loss in the event of insolvency or liquidation of the institution or for any other cause. (C) To the extent that these deposits exceed the amount of insurance coverage provided by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the qualified public depository at the time of deposit must: (1) furnish an indemnity bond in a responsible surety company authorized to do business in this State; or (2) pledge as collateral: (a) obligations of the United States; (b) obligations fully guaranteed both as to principal and interest by the United States; (c) general obligations of this State or any political subdivision of this State; or (d) obligations of the Federal National Mortgage Association, the Federal Home Loan Bank, Federal Farm Credit Bank, or the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation; or (3) provide an irrevocable letter of credit issued by the Federal National Mortgage Association, the Federal Home Loan Bank, Federal Farm Credit Bank, or the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, in which the local entity is named as beneficiary and the letter of credit otherwise meets the criteria established and prescribed by the local entity. (D) The local entity must exercise prudence in accepting collateral securities or other forms of deposit security. (E)(1) A qualified public depository has the following options: (a) to secure all or a portion of uninsured funds under the Dedicated Method where all or a portion of the uninsured funds are secured separately. The qualified public depository shall maintain a record of all securities pledged, with the record being an official record of the qualified public depository and made available to examiners or representatives of all regulatory agencies. The local entity shall maintain a record of the securities pledged for monitoring purposes; (b) to secure all or the remainder of uninsured funds under the Pooling Method where a pool of collateral is established by the qualified public depository under the direction of the State Treasurer for the benefit of local entities. The depository shall obtain written approval from each entity before pooling an entity's collateral. The depository shall maintain a record of all securities pledged, with the record being an official record of the qualified public depository and made available to examiners or representatives of all regulatory agencies. The State Treasurer shall determine the requirements and operating procedures for this pool. The State Treasurer is responsible for monitoring and ensuring a depository's compliance and providing monthly reports to each local entity in the pool. (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of item (1), the local entity, when other federal or state law applies, may require a qualified public depository to secure all uninsured funds separately under the Dedicated Method. (F) A qualified public depository shall not accept or retain any funds that are required to be secured unless it has deposited eligible collateral equal to its required collateral with some proper depository pursuant to this chapter. (G) "Qualified public depository" means a national banking association, state banking association, federal savings and loan association, or federal savings bank located in this State and a bank, trust company, or savings institution organized under the law of this State that receives or holds funds that are secured pursuant to this chapter. (H) In addition to the investments authorized for local entities in Section 6-5-10 and notwithstanding another provision of law, a local entity may deposit all or a portion of surplus public funds in its control or possession in accordance with the following conditions: (1) the funds are initially deposited in a qualified public depository selected by the local entity; (2) the selected qualified public depository arranges for depositing the funds in one or more federally insured banks or savings and loan associations, wherever located, for the account of the local entity; (3) the full amount of the principal and accrued interest of each deposit is insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; and (4) the selected qualified public depository acts as custodian for the local entity with respect to each deposit. Effect of Amendment The 2008 amendment in subsection (B) substituted "qualified public depository, as defined in subsection (G) of this section" for "bank or savings loan association", in subsection (C) substituted "qualified public depository" for "bank or saving and loan association", and added subsections (E) to (G) regarding qualified public depositories. 2015 Act No. 28, SECTION 1, added (H); and made nonsubstantive changes in (B), (E), and (G).
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-31-10 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 31 / Section 6-31-10
SECTION 6-31-10. Short title; legislative findings and intent; authorization for development agreements; provisions are supplemental to those extant.
Status: in_force

(A) This chapter may be cited as the "South Carolina Local Government Development Agreement Act". (B)(1) The General Assembly finds: The lack of certainty in the approval of development can result in a waste of economic and land resources, can discourage sound capital improvement planning and financing, can cause the cost of housing and development to escalate, and can discourage commitment to comprehensive planning. (2) Assurance to a developer that upon receipt of its development permits it may proceed in accordance with existing laws and policies, subject to the conditions of a development agreement, strengthens the public planning process, encourages sound capital improvement planning and financing, assists in assuring there are adequate capital facilities for the development, encourages private participation in comprehensive planning, reduces the economic costs of development, allows for the orderly planning of public facilities and services, and allows for the equitable allocation of the cost of public services. (3) Because the development approval process involves the expenditure of considerable sums of money, predictability encourages the maximum efficient utilization of resources at the least economic cost to the public. (4) Public benefits derived from development agreements may include, but are not limited to, affordable housing, design standards, and on and off-site infrastructure and other improvements. These public benefits may be negotiated in return for the vesting of development rights for a specific period. (5) Land planning and development involve review and action by multiple governmental agencies. The use of development agreements may facilitate the cooperation and coordination of the requirements and needs of the various governmental agencies having jurisdiction over land development. (6) Development agreements will encourage the vesting of property rights by protecting such rights from the effect of subsequently enacted local legislation or from the effects of changing policies and procedures of local government agencies which may conflict with any term or provision of the development agreement or in any way hinder, restrict, or prevent the development of the project. Development agreements will provide a reasonable certainty as to the lawful requirements that must be met in protecting vested property rights, while maintaining the authority and duty of government to enforce laws and regulations which promote the public safety, health, and general welfare of the citizens of our State. (C) It is the intent of the General Assembly to encourage a stronger commitment to comprehensive and capital facilities planning, ensure the provision of adequate public facilities for development, encourage the efficient use of resources, and reduce the economic cost of development. (D) This intent is effected by authorizing the appropriate local governments and agencies to enter into development agreements with developers, subject to the procedures and requirements of this chapter. (E) This chapter must be regarded as supplemental and additional to the powers conferred upon local governments and other government agencies by other laws and must not be regarded as in derogation of any powers existing on the effective date of this chapter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-13-250 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 13 / Article 3 / Section 6-13-250
SECTION 6-13-250. Rates shall not be regulated.
Status: in_force

The rates charged for services furnished by the system, as constructed, improved, enlarged, and extended, shall not be subject to supervision or regulation by any state bureau, board, commission, or like instrumentality or agency thereof. However, the board must provide to the Office of Regulatory Staff by July first each year, for information purposes, in such form as the Office of Regulatory Staff may designate, schedules showing all rates, service rules and regulations, and forms of service contract established by the board. Effect of Amendment The 2012 amendment added the second sentence, and made other nonsubstantive changes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 6-21-400 — SC Code / Title 6 / Chapter 21 / Section 6-21-400
SECTION 6-21-400. Rates shall not be subject to regulations; permits shall not be required.
Status: in_force

Rates charged for services furnished by any system, project or combined system purchased, constructed, improved, enlarged, extended or repaired under the provisions of this chapter shall not be subject to supervision or regulation by any State bureau, board, commission or other like instrumentality or agency of the State and it shall not be necessary for any borrower operating under the provisions of this chapter to obtain any franchise or other permit from any State bureau, board, commission or other instrumentality of the State in order to construct, improve, enlarge, extend or repair any system, project or combined system named in this chapter. But the functions, powers and duties of the Department of Health and Environmental Control shall remain unaffected by this chapter.