S.C. Code Ann. § 3-1-30 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 1 / Section 3-1-30
SECTION 3-1-30. Exemption from taxation.
Status: in_force

All lands and tenements which may be granted to the United States pursuant to the provisions of Section 3-1-10 shall be and continue, so long as the same shall be used for the purposes in said section mentioned, exonerated and discharged from all taxes, assessments and other charges which may be imposed under the authority of the State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-5-70 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 3-5-70
SECTION 3-5-70. Uses for which property is condemned declared to be for purposes paramount to other uses.
Status: in_force

In such condemnation proceedings the uses for which such easements or property are condemned are hereby declared to be for a purpose paramount to all other public uses and the fact that any portion of it has previously been condemned by a railroad company, canal company, telephone or telegraph company or other public service corporation or by any political subdivision of the State for public uses or has been conveyed by any person for any such public uses shall in no way affect the right of the State or of the United States Government to condemn such lands, property and property rights as herein provided.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-1-440 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 7 / Section 3-1-440
SECTION 3-1-440. National Forest Land Board.
Status: in_force

The South Carolina National Forest Land Board is hereby created to consist of the Governor, the chairman of the Senate committee on agriculture, the chairman of the House committee on agriculture, the director of the South Carolina State extension service at Clemson University and the State Forester.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-80 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-80
SECTION 3-3-80. Marshland in Beaufort County for inland navigation.
Status: in_force

There has been granted to the United States a strip of marshland not exceeding seven hundred feet in width, lying and being in Beaufort County between the tidal streams known as Ramshorn Creek and Cooper River, and being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point "A" near the north bank of Ramshorn Creek, said point being a permanent triangulation station the location of which is recorded in the United States engineer office, Savannah, Ga.; thence 800 feet N. 47° 00' E. (true) to a point "B" near the south bank of Cooper River, said point being a permanent triangulation station; thence N. 47° 00' E. (true) to a point "C," said point being at the low-water line in Cooper River; thence following the low-water line in Cooper River to a point "D"; thence approximately 2300 feet S. 47° 00' W. (true) to a point "E," said point being a permanent triangulation station (the line from point "D" to point "E" being parallel 700 feet from the line between point "A" and point "B"); thence approximately 385 feet west at a point "F," said point being at the low-water line in Ramshorn Creek; thence following the low-water line in Ramshorn Creek to a point "G"; thence N. 47° 00' E. to the point of beginning. Said grant was made in order to facilitate the improvement of inland navigation and the United States may dredge, cut, fill in, occupy and use said strip of marshland in any way that may be necessary to execute any project for said improvement which the Department of Defense or Congress, may adopt and for no other purpose.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-50 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-50
SECTION 3-3-50. Sites in cities of Columbia, Spartanburg, Rock Hill, and Georgetown.
Status: in_force

The consent of the State has been given in accordance with the 17th clause of the 8th section of article I of the Constitution of the United States to the acquisition by the United States, by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, of the several lots or parcels of land in this State hereinafter mentioned or described, to wit: (1) A site in or near the city of Columbia, Richland County, for a weather bureau for the government; (2) A site in the city of Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, for a post office and courthouse, described as follows: Beginning at the southwest corner of North Church and Walnut Streets in said city and running thence westerly with Walnut Street one hundred forty-one and two tenths feet to a stake; thence S. 29° E. 147 feet to a stake; thence easterly to North Church Street one hundred thirty-nine and six tenths feet; and thence northerly with North Church Street one hundred forty-seven and five tenths feet to the beginning corner, being the lot conveyed to the United States by J. F. and J. B. Cleveland, by deed dated April 24 1903; (3) A site in the city of Rock Hill, York County, for a post office and courthouse, described as follows: Beginning on the east corner of Caldwell and Main Streets and running along Caldwell Street one hundred and thirty-six feet to corner; thence along the line of the Roach lot one hundred and thirty feet to corner; thence along the line of the lot formerly owned by the estate of Fannie B. Reid to a corner on Main Street one hundred and thirty-five feet; thence to the beginning corner one hundred and thirty feet; bounded by said streets, the Roach lot and lands formerly of the estate of Fannie B. Reid, being the identical lot conveyed to the United States of America by the heirs of the estate of John Roach; and (4) A site in the city of Georgetown, Georgetown County, for a public building for the purposes of the government, described as follows: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land situate, lying and being at the corner of King and Front Streets in said city of Georgetown and measuring on King Street one hundred and twenty feet and on Front Street one hundred and thirty feet and bounded by Front Street, King Street and on all other sides by lands formerly owned by the estate of George R. Congdon, deceased, being the same premises conveyed by said George R. Congdon, in his lifetime, to the United States by deed bearing date May 9 1903, and duly recorded in the office of the register of deeds for Georgetown County, in book V, page 317. Jurisdiction of State ceded; condition. The right, title and interest of this State to, and its jurisdiction over, said lots or parcels of land were ceded to the United States but the jurisdiction so ceded was on condition that it would not vest until the United States acquired the title to such lands by purchase, condemnation or otherwise and that such jurisdiction should continue so long as such lands remained the property of the United States. Service of process. This State shall retain jurisdiction for the execution within such lands of all process, civil or criminal, lawfully issued by the authority of this State and not incompatible with such cession. Lands exempt from State taxation. Such lands and all the buildings and structures of every kind which may be erected thereon shall be exempt from all State, county and municipal taxation, assessments or other charges which may be levied or imposed under the authority of this State so long as they shall remain the property of the United States.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-5-140 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 3-5-140
SECTION 3-5-140. Review of and appeal of damage determinations; recording final award.
Status: repealed

If the person in whose favor or the person against whom such determination is made shall be dissatisfied therewith, such person may apply to an Administrative Law Judge to review the determination. An appeal from the decision of the Administrative Law Judge may be taken to the Coastal Zone Management Appellate Panel. An appeal from the decision of the Panel may be taken to the court of common pleas for the county in which the oyster beds lie. The Court shall review the award in the same manner as reports of a master in equity are reviewed by the court and the determination of the amount of the award by the court of common pleas shall be final. Before a review shall be granted to the person against whom the award is made, such person shall pay to the person in whose favor the award is made, one half of the amount of the said award, and shall file with the said clerk of court a bond conditioned for the payment of the remaining half of the award or so much thereof as may be finally awarded, such bond to be approved by the clerk of court of the county in which the oyster beds lie as to form, surety and amount. The final award shall be entered on record in the office of the clerk of court of common pleas for the county in which the oyster beds lie and when so entered shall have the force and effect of a judgment. The amount of the award shall be limited to the direct actual damage suffered by the person owning in fee or in leasehold the oyster beds and the oysters growing therein. Editor's Note Section 48-39-40, which created the Coastal Zone Management Appellate Panel, was repealed by 2018 Act No. 167, SECTION 1, eff May 3, 2018. Effect of Amendment The 1993 amendment rewrote this section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-5-100 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 3-5-100
SECTION 3-5-100. Areas leased for cultivation and gathering of oysters; rights of lessees.
Status: in_force

If any of the lands or property, the use of which is acquired for the rights-of-way and spoil disposal areas has been leased by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources to any person for the cultivation and gathering of oysters, the Department of Natural Resources shall substitute for the leased areas lying within the rights-of-way and spoil disposal areas other equal areas lying without the rights-of-way and spoil disposal areas that also are suitable for the cultivation and gathering of oysters. The Department of Health and Environmental Control may reimburse the person for any direct actual losses resulting from the transfer of leased oyster beds. If for any reason the Department of Natural Resources is unable to reach an agreement with the owner of the leased oyster beds, the Department of Health and Environmental Control, acting for the State, may condemn the rights and property of the lessees in the leased areas. Effect of Amendment The 1987 Amendment deleted a reference to section 3-3-50 prescribing the manner for condemning rights-of-way, and made grammatical changes. The 1993 amendment substituted "Department of Health and Environmental Control" for "South Carolina Coastal Council", and "Department of Natural Resources" for "Wildlife and Marine Resources Commission."
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-200 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-200
SECTION 3-3-200. Land for Charleston jetties.
Status: in_force

So much land of the State, not exceeding one hundred and fifty acres, as may be needed for the permanent construction of the shore end of the jetties in Charleston Harbor lying on and next adjacent to Morris' Island and the creeks and marshes contiguous thereto has been granted to the United States for the purpose of the erection and construction of the shore end of such jetties. But nothing contained in such grant shall be construed to impair or affect the rights of any owner or of any private individuals claiming such lands or any part thereof.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-5-20 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 3-5-20
SECTION 3-5-20. Right of United States to use previously submerged lands raised by projects.
Status: in_force

Whenever in the construction or maintenance of such intracoastal waterway from Winyah Bay, South Carolina, to the State boundary line in the Savannah River, and its tributaries, or the Ashley River or Shipyard River projects, lands theretofore submerged shall be raised above the water by the deposit of excavated material, the United States of America shall have a perpetual right and easement to enter upon, excavate, cut away and remove any and all of such land, including submerged land, composing a part of the prism required for the channels, anchorage areas and turning basin, and their slopes and berms, as may be required at any time for construction and maintenance of such intracoastal waterway and any changes, modifications or extensions thereto and any tributaries thereof and of said Ashley River or Shipyard River projects and to maintain the portion so excavated and the channels, anchorage areas and turning basin thereby created, as a part of the navigable waters of the United States, and a further perpetual right and easement to enter upon, occupy and use any portion of such land, including submerged lands, composing a part of the spoil disposal area not so cut away and converted into public navigable waters, as aforesaid, for the deposit of dredged material and for such other purposes as may be useful in the construction, maintenance and improvement of said intracoastal waterway and any changes, modifications or extensions thereto and any tributaries thereof and of the Ashley River and Shipyard River projects, if within the limits of such rights of way or spoil disposal areas.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-30 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-30
SECTION 3-3-30. Other beacon or lighthouse sites.
Status: in_force

There has been ceded to the United States: (1) A site for a beacon to range with Charleston lighthouse and a site for a day beacon for St. Helena Sound in Beaufort County; (2) Two sites for two beacons, to serve as a range for Calibogue Sound in Beaufort County; (3) A site for a lighthouse and beacon light on the mainland at North Edisto in Charleston County; (4) A site for a lighthouse and beacon light on the north point of Hunting Island in Beaufort County; and (5) A site for a lighthouse and beacon light on or near Hilton Head in Beaufort County. None of the sites so ceded, as described in this section, exceed fifty acres in any one case and such sites shall be forever exempt from any taxes to be paid to this State. The same restrictions are attached thereto as are attached to the cession of a lot on South Island as set forth in Section 3-3-290. The cession of said sites shall not be construed to authorize their use for any other purpose than the purposes specified, nor to exclude or prevent any process, civil or criminal, issuing from the courts of this State from being served or executed within the limits thereof.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-11-400 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 11 / Section 3-11-400
SECTION 3-11-400. Applicability to United States and foreign-flagged vessels; surcharges on gambling vessel ticket sales; enactment of prohibiting ordinance.
Status: in_force

(A) This chapter does not apply to any gambling activity conducted on United States-flagged or foreign-flagged vessels during travel from a foreign nation or another state or possession of the United States up to the point of first entry into South Carolina waters or during travel to a foreign nation or another state or possession of the United States from the point of departure from South Carolina waters, provided that such vessels make intervening stops as defined in this chapter. Nothing herein precludes prosecution for any other offense that is unlawful. (B) The provisions of this chapter must not be construed to: (1) repeal or modify any other provision of law relating to gambling, or any existing county or municipal ordinance regulating or prohibiting gambling or gambling vessels; (2) repeal or modify any law with regard to bingo or the operation of a device or machine pursuant to Section 12-21-2720(A)(3); (3) allow or permit gambling aboard any vessel, gambling vessel, or passenger cruise liner within the territorial waters of the State; (4) preclude prosecution for any other applicable gambling offense under state law; or (5) preclude prosecution for violations of 15 U.S.C. Sections 1172, 1173, 1174, or 1175, to the extent not otherwise prohibited by provisions of the South Carolina Constitution. (C)(1) For purposes of this section, "gross proceeds" means the total amount wagered or otherwise paid, in cash or credit, by a passenger or user of a gambling device aboard a gambling vessel. (2) If a county or municipality does not adopt an ordinance prohibiting a gambling vessel from operating, or if a gambling vessel other than a passenger cruise liner is permitted to operate because that gambling vessel, on each cruise, makes an intervening stop in another State, possession of the United States, or foreign country, the county or municipality may assess a surcharge of up to ten percent of each ticket sold per gambling cruise, and a surcharge of up to five percent of the gross proceeds of each gambling vessel. (3)(a) If a county or municipality assesses the surcharges set forth in item (2), then the proceeds of the surcharges are to be paid to the county or municipality from which the gambling vessel originates its cruise. The county or municipality is responsible for setting forth the procedures by which the proceeds are paid to the county or the municipality. (b)(i) Each gambling vessel must report to the Department of Revenue, on a monthly basis, the average daily percentage of winnings to losses for each gambling device used on a gambling vessel. The report must be delivered to the Department of Revenue on the twentieth day of the month for the preceding month, in a form and format determined by the department. If no gambling devices are used, the gambling vessel must report to the department that no gambling devices were used. The department must perform an annual audit to verify the accuracy of the reports. (ii) A gambling vessel that fails to deliver the report of winnings and losses to the department may be assessed a civil penalty up to the amount of one hundred dollars per day per gambling device for each day that the report is late. (iii) The department must make this information available, on a quarterly basis, to the governing body of the county or municipality from which the gambling vessel originates and to the general public. In addition, quarterly reports must be submitted to the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. (iv) The department is authorized to promulgate regulations to implement the provisions of this subsection. (D) When a county or municipality enacts an ordinance pursuant to Sections 3-11-200 or 3-11-300 prohibiting gambling vessels, and a gambling vessel business operating as of January 1, 2005, would cease operation because of enforcement of this ordinance, then the county or municipality must allow the continued operation of the gambling vessel business for a period of five years from the effective date of the county or municipal ordinance. If, after the enactment of an ordinance pursuant to Sections 3-11-200 or 3-11-300 prohibiting gambling vessels, a county or municipality subsequently enacts an ordinance allowing gambling vessels and then enacts a later ordinance prohibiting gambling vessels and a gambling vessel business, the county or municipality must allow the continued operation of the gambling vessel business for a period of five years from the effective date of the county or municipal ordinance. The gambling vessel business must only operate in the same location with no more than the number of vessels that were operating as of January 1, 2005. The provisions of this subsection are also applicable to a county or municipal ordinance substantially described in Section 3-11-500(A). Editor's Note 2005 Act No. 104, SECTION 3, provides as follows: "The exceptions for passenger cruise lines and Section 3-11-400(D) in this act are so connected with the other sections of the act that they are mutually dependent on each other as conditions and considerations for each other, so that the General Assembly would not have adopted this act without them; therefore, should these exceptions be found unconstitutional or invalid, it is the intent of the General Assembly that the entire act be found invalid." Effect of Amendment 2019 Act No. 1, SECTION 28, in (C)(3)(b)(iii), in the second sentence, substituted "President of the Senate" for "President Pro Tempore of the Senate".
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-270 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-270
SECTION 3-3-270. Lot in Florence for erecting public buildings.
Status: reserved

The right, title and interest of this State to, and the jurisdiction of this State over, the following described lot or parcel of land has been granted and ceded to the United States for the erection of a public building, to wit: That lot of land in the city of Florence, county of Florence, situate on the northwestern corner of Evans and Irby Streets, fronting on each street one hundred and fifty feet, and known on the plat of the city of Florence, made by J. W. Brunson, surveyor, May 5, 1896, as the eastern part of lot No. 21, in sectional block C, and bounded north by lot No. 20, east by Irby Street, south by Evans Street and west by part of lot No. 21. There was reserved to this State a concurrent jurisdiction for the execution within said lot of all process, civil or criminal, lawfully issued by the courts of this State and not incompatible with such cession.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-7-150 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 7 / Article 3 / Section 3-7-150
SECTION 3-7-150. Basis of payments of sums in lieu of taxes.
Status: in_force

The amount of any payment of sums in lieu of taxes may be based on the estimated costs to each political subdivision, for and on whose behalf an agreement is entered into, of performing services for the benefit of a project during the period of an agreement, after taking into consideration the benefits to be derived by the political subdivision from such project, but shall not be in excess of the taxes which would result to the political subdivision for such period if the real property of the project within the political subdivision were taxable.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-160 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-160
SECTION 3-3-160. Fifty feet on South Battery in Charleston for beacon or harbor light.
Status: in_force

A site, restricted to fifty feet square, on South Battery in the City of Charleston has been ceded to the United States for a beacon or harbor light. Such site shall be forever exempt from any taxes to be paid to this State and shall be subject to the same restriction as was attached to the cession of a lot on South Island as set forth in Section 3-3-290.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-230 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-230
SECTION 3-3-230. Fortification sites on Sullivan's Island, James Island and Shutes Folly Island in Charleston County.
Status: in_force

The lands, forts, fortifications and sites for the erection of forts on Sullivan's Island, James Island and Shutes Folly Island in Charleston County, as delineated in a plan of survey made by Robert Q. Pinckney on November 17 1846, under the direction of commissioners appointed under a resolution of 1845, have been ceded to the United States. Such lands, sites, forts and fortifications so ceded shall be exempt from any tax to be paid to this State. But all process, civil or criminal, issued under the authority of this State or any officer thereof shall and may be served and executed on any part of the lands, sites, forts and fortifications so ceded and on any person there being and implicated in matters of law. And nothing in such cession contained shall be construed to interfere with the rights and property of the citizens or so as to affect any of the streets, thoroughfares or public landings on said islands.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-1-10 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 1 / Section 3-1-10
SECTION 3-1-10. Jurisdiction ceded.
Status: in_force

The jurisdiction of the State is hereby ceded to the United States over so much land as is necessary for the public purposes of the United States; provided, that the jurisdiction hereby ceded shall not vest until the United States shall have acquired the title to the lands by grant or deed from the owner thereof and the evidences thereof shall have been recorded in the office where, by law, the title to such land is recorded. The United States is to retain such jurisdiction so long as such lands shall be used for the purposes aforementioned and no longer.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-5-190 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 3-5-190
SECTION 3-5-190. Compensation for damage to oysters precludes further claims for damage.
Status: in_force

Any person, his heirs, executors, administrators, successors or assigns, who may be compensated for damage to oysters during the construction or maintenance of said intracoastal waterway and its tributaries and the Ashley River and Shipyard River projects, whether by the Department of Health and Environmental Control, the contractor engaged on the work or the United States, shall be estopped from making further claim for damage to oysters in or upon the same area on account of dredging operations during maintenance or further improvement of the waterway and its tributaries or Ashley River or Shipyard River. Effect of Amendment The 1993 amendment substituted "Department of Health and Environmental Control" for "South Carolina Coastal Council."
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-190 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-190
SECTION 3-3-190. Lighthouse on Middle Bay Island in Charleston Harbor.
Status: in_force

The lighthouse on Middle Bay Island, within the bar of Charleston Harbor, has been ceded to the United States and is bounded to the north by a small inlet passing between said island and Morris Island; to the south, by an inlet called Folly Inlet; to the east, by the Atlantic Ocean; and to the west, by a sound or creek passing between the said Middle Bay Island and the other island aforesaid; together with the lands and tenements thereunto belonging and together with the jurisdiction of said island as far as such jurisdiction shall be incident and essential for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards and other needful buildings, the appointment of officers and the general regulation of the lighthouse, forts, magazines, arsenals and dockyards, in fee simple in as full, ample and effectual manner as the premises could be granted, aliened, transferred, conveyed and confirmed by any deed or devise in due form of law. But said island was so ceded upon the special proviso and condition, nevertheless, that the United States shall sufficiently support, maintain, keep in good repair and rebuild, when necessary, the lighthouse, from time to time and at all times hereafter and shall also erect, or cause to be erected, proper leading marks to and for, or as appending to, the lighthouse and cause buoys to be stationed in fit places for further and better facilitating and securing the navigation and that all expenses which shall accrue in, for and about the lighthouse or the leading marks and buoys above mentioned shall be defrayed out of the treasury of the United States.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-60 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-60
SECTION 3-3-60. One acre on Otter Island in Colleton County; one acre on Station Creek in Beaufort County; one acre on Bob's Island in Beaufort County.
Status: in_force

One acre of land on Otter Island in Colleton County has been ceded to the United States for a lighthouse, one acre of land on the north side of Station Creek, near St. Helena Island, in Beaufort County has been ceded to the United States for the erection of a beacon light and one acre of land on Bob's Island, at the entrance of Scull Creek, in Beaufort County has been ceded to the United States for the erection of a beacon light. But said lands and every person or officer residing or employed thereon, whether in the service of the United States or not, shall be subject and liable to the government of this State and the jurisdiction, laws and authority thereof in the same manner as if the cession had never been made and the United States shall exercise no more authority or power within the limits of such lands than it might have done previously to the cession thereof or than may be necessary for the building, erection, repairing or internal government of the lighthouse and the regulation and management of the lighthouse and the beacon lights that may be built and erected on such lands and of the officers and persons by them to be employed in and about the same. Such lands shall be forever exempt from any taxes to be paid to this State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-170 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-170
SECTION 3-3-170. Lands in Charleston County for naval purposes.
Status: in_force

The jurisdiction and control of this State have been granted and ceded to the United States in and over the several following described pieces, parcels and tracts of land and land covered with water hereinafter described, to wit: (1) All that tract or parcel of land and land covered with water, situate, lying and being on the west bank of Cooper River, in Charleston County measuring and containing seven hundred and sixty acres, more or less, abutting and bounded to the north by lands formerly of Mrs. W. W. Lawton and by the Cooper River, on the east by the Cooper River, on the south by Ship Yard Creek and on the west by Ship Yard Creek, as is delineated on a map of the city of Charleston and vicinity, made by J. H. Dingle, city surveyor, December 1900, conveyed by J. Adger Smyth, as mayor of the city of Charleston, by deed, dated August 12, 1901, and recorded in the office of the register of deeds for said county at page 247 of book X 23 to the United States for the purpose of a naval station in accordance with the limitations set forth in the act of the General Assembly approved February 8, 1901 (Acts 1901, p. 607); (2) All that certain piece, parcel and tract of land, containing one hundred and seventy-one and three one-hundredths (171.03) acres, bounded on the north by Noisette Creek, on the east by Cooper River, on the south by lands formerly of Cecilia Lawton and on the west by other lands belonging to the city of Charleston, constituting a portion of Chicora Park and specifically shown and designated on the plat of said park made by A. J. Menocal, engineer, United States Navy, being wholly within the red lines laid down on said plat, conveyed to the United States by deed of said J. Adger Smyth, mayor, dated August 12, 1901, recorded in the office aforesaid in book X 23 at page 245; (3) All that certain piece, parcel and tract of land, situate, lying and being in said county of Charleston on the west bank of the Cooper River, containing two hundred and fifty-eight and eleven one-hundredths (258.11) acres, more or less, bounded on the north by lands of the city of Charleston known as Chicora Park, on the east by Cooper River, on the south by lands formerly of Mappus and J. C. H. Claussen and the Old Clement's Ferry Road and a body of marshland, and on the south by lands formerly of said Cecilia Lawton, being the tract of land conveyed by said Cecilia Lawton to the United States by deed dated August 14, 1901, recorded in the office aforesaid in book X 23 at page 234; and (4) All that certain piece, parcel and tract of land situate, lying and being in Charleston County westward of and adjoining the United States navy yard and containing ninety-six and one-half (96.5) acres, more or less, and having such shape, metes, marks, bounds, dimensions and distances as is represented on a plat thereof made by J. W. G. Walker, civil engineer, United States Navy, on September 9 1902 and being the parcel conveyed to the United States by said J. Adger Smyth, mayor, by deed dated July 12, 1902, recorded in the office aforesaid in book F 24 at page 30; Excepting, however, that portion of one or more of such tracts or parcels of land that the United States, through the Secretary of the Navy of the United States, did by deed dated April 16, 1903, recorded in the office aforesaid at page 156 of book F 24 reconvey in fee simple unto the city of Charleston more particularly described as follows: All that certain piece, parcel and tract of land situate, lying and being in Charleston County on the south bank of Noisette Creek, containing one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six and seven-tenths square feet, more or less, and bounded as follows, that is to say: On the north by Noisette Creek, on the southeast by a line running in continuation of the northwestern boundary line of the naval hospital tract from the point where such line intersects the western boundary line of the navy yard tract to said creek and on the southwest by the western boundary line of the navy yard tract, from the point where said line is intersected by the northwestern boundary line of the naval hospital tract to said creek. Service of process. This State retains and shall retain jurisdiction, concurrent with that of the United States, in and over said pieces, parcels and tracts of land and land covered with water so far as that civil process and writs in all cases not affecting the real and personal property of the United States and any and all criminal or other process and writs lawfully issued in the name and under the authority of this State against any person charged with crimes, felonies or misdemeanors committed against the peace and dignity of the State within and without the limits of said pieces, parcels and tracts of land and land covered with water and not incompatible with the cession may be executed at any and all times within the limits of said pieces, parcels and tracts of land and land covered with water in the same manner as if no jurisdiction had been so granted and ceded. Exemption from taxation. Said pieces, parcels and tracts of land and land covered with water, so long as they shall be and remain the property of the United States and shall be used for the purposes for which they have been heretofore granted and conveyed as aforesaid, shall be and continue wholly exempt and exonerated from and of any and all taxes, assessments and other charges whatsoever which might otherwise be imposed by and under the authority of this State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-1-430 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 7 / Section 3-1-430
SECTION 3-1-430. Retention of concurrent jurisdiction for service of civil and criminal process.
Status: in_force

The State shall retain a concurrent jurisdiction with the United States in and over such land so far that civil process in all cases and such criminal process as may issue under the authority of the State against any person charged with the commission of any crime without or within such jurisdiction may be executed thereon in like manner as if this article had not been passed.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-1-40 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 1 / Section 3-1-40
SECTION 3-1-40. Property on military base used for military housing exempt from property tax.
Status: in_force

There is exempt from ad valorem taxation any real property, and improvements thereon, located within a military base or installation that is used or owned by the United States Armed Forces and is used as military housing for military-affiliated personnel and their families. Military housing includes ancillary facilities that support the military housing. This exemption continues to apply if the real property is improved, maintained, or leased to a party that would otherwise subject the real property to tax, so long as there is a contractual agreement by and between a branch of the United States Armed Forces and the lessee which requires the lessee to use the property for military housing. Editor's Note 2014 Act No. 289, SECTION 2.B, provides as follows: "B. This section takes effect upon approval by the Governor and applies for property tax years beginning after 2013."
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-5-350 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 3 / Section 3-5-350
SECTION 3-5-350. Uses for which property is condemned declared to be for purposes paramount to other uses.
Status: in_force

In such condemnation proceedings the uses for which such land or property is condemned are hereby declared to be for a purpose paramount to all other public uses and the fact that any portion thereof has theretofore been condemned by a railroad company, canal company, telephone or telegraph company or other public service corporation or by any political subdivision of the State for public uses or has been conveyed by any person for any such public uses shall in no way affect the right of the State or the United States Government to condemn such lands and property as herein provided.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-1-140 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 3 / Section 3-1-140
SECTION 3-1-140. Exemption from taxation.
Status: in_force

So long as any land acquired by the United States pursuant to the consent given by Section 3-1-110 shall remain the property of the United States, and no longer, such lands shall be and continue exempt and exonerated from all State, county and municipal taxation, assessments or other charges which may be levied or imposed under the authority of this State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-11-200 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 11 / Section 3-11-200
SECTION 3-11-200. Delegation of power to regulate gambling vessels to counties and municipalities; exception.
Status: in_force

(A) Except as provided for in subsection (B), the General Assembly delegates to a county for the unincorporated areas of a county, and to a municipality for the municipality, the authority conferred to this State by the United States Congress pursuant to the Johnson Act, as amended, 15 U.S.C. Sections 1171 through 1177. The authority delegated herein includes the power to regulate or prohibit gambling aboard gambling vessels while such vessels are outside the territorial waters of the State, when such vessels embark or disembark passengers within their respective jurisdictions for voyages that depart from the territorial waters of the State, sail into United States or international waters, and return to the territorial waters of the State without an intervening stop. (B) The General Assembly specifically retains and does not delegate to a county or municipality the authority to regulate or prohibit gambling on passenger cruise liners, as defined in this chapter, which is conferred to this State by the United States Congress pursuant to the Johnson Act, as amended, 15 U.S.C. Sections 1171 through 1177. (C) The authority delegated to a county or municipality under subsection (A) is delegated pursuant to Chapter 9 of Title 4 and Chapter 7 of Title 5, Code of Laws of South Carolina.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-9-30 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 9 / Section 3-9-30
SECTION 3-9-30. Fees and charges.
Status: in_force

Any charges made or fees assessed by the Division of General Services for the acquisition, warehousing, distribution, or transfer of any property of the United States of America for educational, public health, or civil defense purposes, including research for any such purpose, or for any purpose which may now be or hereafter become eligible under the act, shall be limited to those reasonably related to the costs of care and handling in respect to its acquisition, receipt, warehousing, distribution, or transfer. Effect of Amendment 2014 Act No. 121, SECTION 7.H, made nonsubstantive changes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-210 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-210
SECTION 3-3-210. Lands in Charleston County for migratory bird refuge.
Status: in_force

Subject to the rights of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources or its successors to lease and subject to the rights of the people of the State to gather oysters and other shellfish on any of the lands hereinafter described, there has been granted to the United States all of the marshlands, sand banks, shores, edges and lands uncovered by water at low tide which are included within the outside boundaries of the premises hereinafter described or which are contiguous and adjacent to such boundaries, to wit: (1) All that plantation or tract of land containing a body of marshland, in all seven thousand five hundred and sixty-eight (7,568) acres, situate in and around Bull Bay, in the county of Charleston, embracing those islands known as White Banks, being the premises granted to Richard T. Morrison, September 1, 1860, by grants recorded in book Q No. 6, pages 218 and 219, in the office of the Secretary of State, plats of which tracts are also recorded in volume 57, page 429 and page 430, in the office of the Secretary of State; (2) All those fifteen islands, together containing sixteen thousand nine hundred and ninety-two (16,992) acres, situate near Bull Bay in Charleston County, which islands as a group bound east on the Atlantic Ocean, to the west partly on Bull Bay, to the northward on creeks and marshes, names unknown, and to the southward on Raccoon Keys, being the islands granted to John Bowman, August 1, 1791, by grant recorded in grant book No. 5, page 205, in the office of the Secretary of State aforesaid, and subsequently conveyed to H. P. Jackson by deed recorded in book Y-20, page 216, in the R.M.C. office for Charleston County aforesaid, a plat of which islands is recorded in plat book 1, page 205, in the office of the Secretary of State aforesaid and also in plat book B, page 136, in the R.M.C. office aforesaid; (3) All that tract of land, marsh and sandbank, known as the Casinas, containing three hundred and sixty (360) acres, more or less, near Cape Romain in Charleston County, being the tract granted to John Lee, William Lee and Charles E. Lee, August 3, 1840, by grant recorded in grant book O No. 6, page 485, in the office of the Secretary of State aforesaid, and subsequently conveyed to Henry P. Jackson, by deed recorded in book Y-20, page 214, in the R.M.C. office aforesaid, a plat of which tract is recorded in volume 42, page 68, in the office of the Secretary of State aforesaid and in book B, page 133, in the R.M.C. office aforesaid; (4) All that tract of land known as Cape Romain and Bird Bank containing nine hundred and seventy (970) acres, situated in Charleston County, being the premises granted to John Lee, William Lee and Charles E. Lee, by grant recorded in grant book O No. 6, page 486, in the office of the Secretary of State aforesaid and subsequently conveyed to H. P. Jackson by deed recorded in book Y-20, page 215, in the R.M.C. office aforesaid, a plat of which is recorded in plat book B, page 131, in the R.M.C. office aforesaid; (5) All that tract of land containing five thousand five hundred and sixty (5,560) acres on an island known as Big and Little Raccoon Keys, situate in Charleston County, which island bounds eastward on Cape Romain Inlet, southward on the Atlantic Ocean and westward on Bull Bay, being the island granted to John Vinyard, October 7, 1816, by grant recorded in volume 61, page 86, in the office of the Secretary of State aforesaid, and subsequently conveyed to H. P. Jackson by deed recorded in book Y-20, page 213, in the R.M.C. office aforesaid; and (6) All that tract of land and marshland containing one thousand and forty (1,040) acres, more or less, situate in Christ Church Parish in Charleston County, bounded on the north and northeast by Palmetto Creek, to the north and northwest by lands late of the estate of Whitesides, C. B. Northrop, Hodge and Kelly, south and southwest by lands late of Moses Whitesides, Esq., south and southeast by a creek known as No Man's Friend Creek, being the tract granted to C. B. Northrop, July 2, 1855, by grant recorded in book Q No. 6, page 67, in the office of the Secretary of State and subsequently conveyed to H. P. Jackson by deed recorded in book Y-20, page 217, in the R.M.C. office aforesaid, a plat of which tract is recorded in State record volume 43, page 270, and also in book B, page 132, in the R.M.C. office aforesaid. Jurisdiction; migratory bird refuge. Subject to the rights of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources as provided above the United States shall have exclusive jurisdiction on the lands so granted for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the act of Congress approved February 18, 1929, known as the "Migratory Bird Conservation Act" and all acts hereafter amendatory thereof, and for the purpose of the preservation and conservation of all migratory birds which are or hereafter may be under the jurisdiction of the United States. Service of process. Nothing contained in said grant shall be construed to exclude or prevent any process, civil or criminal, issuing from the courts of this State from being served or executed within the limits of said grant. Reverter when no longer used for game refuge. The lands so granted shall revert to the State in the event the United States shall cease to use said lands for the purpose of a migratory bird refuge. Consent to conveyance of part of such lands. The consent of the State has also been given to the conveyance by the United States or its duly authorized agency, to I. W. Limbaker of tract "A," as shown on plat of the Intercoastal Waterway, Winyah Bay-Charleston, Canal Prism and Spoil Disposal Areas, prepared by the United States engineer office, Charleston, South Carolina, February 6, 1939, and on file in the United States engineer office aforesaid in file No. 42-4, said tract "A" having been a portion of the lands granted the United States as aforesaid, in exchange for the conveyance by I. W. Limbaker to the United States or its duly authorized department, or tract "B," as shown on said plat, the granting clause of said conveyance from I. W. Limbaker reading as follows: "That the said deeded land shall revert to the State of South Carolina in the event the United States of America ceases to use the said lands for the purpose of a migratory bird refuge." And it is hereby specifically declared that said tract "A" shall not revert to the State on account of said conveyance, but having been conveyed to I. W. Limbaker as so authorized, shall be freed of the provision for reversion contained in the cession of said property to the United States. Effect of Amendment The 1993 amendment substituted "Department of Natural Resources" for "Wildlife and Marine Resources Commission."
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-240 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-240
SECTION 3-3-240. Lands on Sullivan's Island for Fort Moultrie.
Status: reserved

The right, title and interest of this State to, and the jurisdiction and control of this State over, the following described tracts or parcels of land and land covered with water situated on Sullivan's Island (those described in items (1) to (14) below being in the town of Moultrieville) in Charleston County have been granted and ceded to the United States as sites for the location, construction and prosecution of works of fortifications and coast defenses in the case of the lands described in items (1), (2) and (3) below, as sites for the location, construction and prosecution of works of fortifications and coast defense and for the use of the garrison in the case of the lands described in items (4) and (5) below, for military purposes in the case of the land described in item (6) below, for the enlargement of the military reservations on said island in the case of the lands described in items (7), (8), (9), (10) and (11) below, for the location, construction and prosecution of works of fortifications and coast defenses, the enlargement of the military reservations on said island and generally for any military purposes whatsoever in the case of the lands described in items (12) and (13) below, for the purpose of affording a clear field of view from the fire-control station pertaining to the defenses at Fort Moultrie and for such other purposes as shall render its use needful or desirable in connection with the works of fortification and at Fort Moultrie established by the United States Government on Sullivan's Island in the case of the land described in item (14) below, and for the purposes of the United States Government as permitted and directed by statute in the case of the lands described in item (15) below, to wit: (1) Beginning at the point of intersection of the eastern boundary line of Fort Moultrie military reservation with the line of the southern side of Beach Avenue and running thence along the southern side of Beach Avenue in an easterly direction to its intersection with the western side of Sumter Street; thence along the western side of Sumter Street extended, in a southerly direction, to a point in the sea one hundred yards beyond low-water mark; thence in a westerly direction, following the meanderings or intersections of a line in the sea one hundred yards beyond low-water mark to the eastern boundary line of the Fort Moultrie military reservation extended and thence along the eastern boundary line of the Fort Moultrie military reservation extended and along said eastern boundary line in a northerly direction to the place of beginning; (2) Beginning at a point in the sea on the prolongation or extension, in a southerly direction, of the dividing line between lot T and lot U, as laid down on the plan of the town of Moultrieville, one hundred yards beyond low-water mark and running thence in a northerly direction, along the prolongation or extension of said dividing line and the line that divides lot No. 224 from lot No. 225, as laid down on the plan of the town of Moultrieville, to the southerly side of Ion Street; thence in an easterly direction, along the southerly side of Ion Street, to the point of intersection of the southerly side of that street with the dividing line between lot No. 256 and lot No. 257, as laid down on the plan of the town of Moultrieville; thence in a southerly direction, along the dividing line between said lots 256 and 257 and the dividing line between lot No. 260 and lot No. 261, as laid down on the plan of the town of Moultrieville, and the prolongation or extension of said dividing lines to a point in the sea one hundred yards beyond low-water mark; thence in a southwesterly direction following the meanderings or indentations of a line in the sea one hundred yards beyond low-water mark to the place of beginning, excepting from the tract or parcel of land so described and ceded the United States jetty reservation; (3) Beginning at a point in the sea on the prolongation or extension, in a northerly direction, of the easterly side of Horry Street, one hundred yards beyond low-water mark, and running thence in a southerly direction along the prolongation of the easterly side of Horry Street and along the easterly side of said street to its intersection with the northerly side of East Middle Street or Beach Avenue; thence in an easterly direction along the northerly side of East Middle Street or Beach Avenue to the point of intersection of the northerly side of that street with the dividing line between lot No. 269 and lot No. 270, as laid down on the plan of the town of Moultrieville; thence in a northerly direction along the dividing line between said lots Nos. 269 and 270 and the dividing line between lot No. 265 and lot No. 266, as laid down on the plan of the town of Moultrieville, and the prolongation of said dividing lines to a point in the sea one hundred yards beyond low-water mark; thence in a southwesterly direction, following the meanderings or indentations of a line in the sea one hundred yards beyond low-water mark to the place of beginning; (4) Beginning at a point on the prolongation or extension in a northerly direction of the westerly line of lot 159, as laid down on the plan of the town of Moultrieville, on the back beach, one hundred yards beyond high-water line; thence in an easterly direction following the meanderings or indentations of a line one hundred yards beyond said high-water line to the intersection of the prolongation or extension in a northerly direction of the western line of Petigru Street; thence in a southerly direction along said prolongation or extension of the westerly line of Petigru Street, along the westerly line of Petigru Street and along the prolongation or extension in a southerly direction of the westerly line of Petigru Street to a point one hundred yards beyond low-water line in the sea; thence in a westerly direction following the meanderings or indentations of a line in the sea one hundred yards beyond low-water line to its intersection with the prolongation or extension, in a southerly direction, of the eastern side of Marion Street; thence in a northerly direction along the prolongation or extension of the eastern side of Marion Street and along the eastern side of Marion Street to its intersection with the northern side of Central Avenue; thence in a westerly direction along the northern side of Central Avenue to the southwest corner of lot 159 aforesaid; and thence in a northerly direction along the western line of said lot 159 and along the prolongation or extension, in a northerly direction, of the western line of said lot 159 to the place of beginning; excepting from the area described those portions which are occupied and in use by the public as highways, known as Central Avenue and Beach Avenue; (5) Beginning at a point on the prolongation or extension, in a northerly direction, of the westerly line of lot 131, as laid down on the plan of the town of Moultrieville, on the back beach, and one hundred yards beyond high-water line; thence in an easterly direction following the meanderings or indentations of a line one hundred yards beyond said high-water line to the intersection of the prolongation or extension, in a northerly direction, of the eastern line of Marion Street; thence in a southerly direction along said prolongation or extension of said easterly line of Marion Street, along said easterly line of Marion Street and along the prolongation or extension in a southerly direction of the easterly line of Marion Street to a point one hundred yards beyond low-water line in the sea; thence in a westerly direction following the meanderings or indentations of a line in the sea one hundred yards beyond the low-water line to its intersection with the prolongation or extension in a southerly direction of the eastern side of Sumter Street; thence in a northerly direction along the prolongation or extension of the eastern side of Sumter Street and along the eastern side of Sumter Street to the place of beginning; excepting from the area described those portions which are occupied and in use by the public as highways, known as Central Avenue and Beach Avenue; (6) The lands comprising those portions of Central Avenue and Beach Avenue, in the town of Moultrieville, Sullivan's Island, which lie between Petigru and Sumter Streets; (7) Bounded on the west by the former boundary of Fort Moultrie reservation and parade ground; on the south by lands acquired by the United States for fortification purposes; on the east by lands acquired by the United States for garrison purposes; and on the north by a line following the meanderings or indentations of a line in the sea one hundred yards beyond high-water line; the easterly and westerly boundaries to be extended to meet this last-mentioned line; (8) All that tract or parcel of land and land covered with water on the eastern end of Sullivan's Island lying to the south of the right of way of the seashore division of the Charleston Consolidated Railway, Gas and Electric Company and east of the street known as Sixth Street and of said street extended southward to low-water mark on the plan of Moultrieville made by Lamble, surveyor, in 1899 and recorded in the office of the register of deeds for Charleston County; (9) All those pieces or parcels or tracts of land, lying and being in said town of Moultrieville and comprising not only the two lots designated by the letters "O" and "P" on a plan of Moultrieville compiled from official maps and surveys by H. S. Lamble, civil engineer, in April 1902, and recorded July 15, 1902, at page 189 of plat book D in the office of the register of deeds for the county of Charleston, on which or a part of which is located the lifesaving station, but also the land of the same width as that of said two lots together and extending in front of and from said two lots down to mean low-water mark, said two lots "O" and "P" together measuring two hundred (200) feet, more or less, from rear to front and two hundred and twenty-five (225) feet, more or less, in width and abutting and bounding northeastwardly on Patrick Street, northwestwardly on Ion Street, southwestwardly on the lot designated by the letter "N" on said plan and southeastwardly on Atlantic Street or the front beach; (10) All those pieces or parcels of land lying and being in the town of Moultrieville, shown on a plan of Moultrieville compiled from official maps and surveys made by H. S. Lamble, civil engineer, in April 1902, and recorded July 15, 1902, at page 189 of plat book D, in the office of the register of deeds for the county of Charleston, comprising all the land lying to the westward of the United States Government reservations at old Fort Moultrie and contained between said reservations on the east and the town lots numbers 73, 74 and 77 on the west, embracing lots numbers 78, 79 and 80, the town hall lot, portions of West Fort Street, Main Street and Middle Street, and marshlands to the north of lot 78, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at low-water mark in the cove on the north side of Sullivan's Island at the former northwest corner of United States Government reservation and extending approximately south 21 degrees 35 minutes west 1,170 feet following the former west line of said United States Government reservation to its western corner to the north of Middle Street; thence approximately south 52 degrees 15 minutes west 65 feet to the corner stone at the northwest corner of the old Fort Moultrie reservation; thence following the boundaries of this reservation approximately south 17 degrees west 126 feet to a corner stone, approximately north 75 degrees west 82.4 feet to a corner stone and approximately south 15 degrees 30 minutes west 580 feet to the low-water line on the south or ocean side of Sullivan's Island; thence westward along the low-water line approximately 100 feet to the extension of the west line of West Fort Street; thence along the west line of West Fort Street approximately north 12 degrees 30 minutes east 695 feet to the southeast corner of lot No. 74; thence approximately south 77 degrees 30 minutes east 80.8 feet along Middle Street to the eastern corner of the public square; thence approximately north 6 degrees east 90 feet to the southeast corner of lot No. 73 on West Fort Street, thence along the west side of West Fort Street and its extension northward approximately north 12 degrees 30 minutes east 1,030 feet to low-water mark on the cove or north side of Sullivan's Island; thence along low-water mark eastward to the original point of beginning; (11) The streets and avenues between the east and west lines of the original reservations of Fort Moultrie as said reservations existed on January 1, 1894; (12) Beginning at a point on the prolongation or extension in a northerly direction of the westerly line of Petigru Street, as laid down on the plan of the town of Moultrieville, made by H. S. Lamble in 1902, on the back beach and one hundred yards beyond high-water line; thence in an easterly direction following the meanderings or indentations of a line one hundred yards beyond said high-water line to the intersection of the prolongation or extension in a northerly direction of the western line of Frost Street; thence in a southerly direction along said prolongation or extension of the westerly line of Frost Street, along the westerly line of Frost Street and along the prolongation or extension in a southerly direction of the westerly line of Frost Street to a point one hundred yards below low-water line in the sea; thence in a westerly direction following the meanderings or indentations of a line in the sea one hundred yards beyond low-water line to its intersection with the prolongation or extension in a southerly direction of the western side of Petigru Street; thence in a northerly direction along said prolongation or extension of the western side of Petigru Street and along said western side of Petigru Street in a northerly direction and along the prolongation or extension in a northerly direction of the western line of said Petigru Street to the place of beginning; (13) All that piece, parcel or tract of land and the wharf or wharves thereon situate on the extreme western end of Sullivan's Island, formerly owned by the Charleston Isle of Palms Traction Company, being wharf sites one (1), two (2) and four (4) and also the lot of wharf site number three (3), between wharf sites two and four aforesaid, as per plat made by Louis Y. Dawson, engineer, November 29, 1912, being traced from a plat of Sullivan's Island by William Hume, dated July 1871, and such other property in the neighborhood thereof and contiguous thereto as may be needed by the United States Government for the purposes for which such cession was made as hereinabove set forth; (14) Beginning at the southeast corner of the main United States Government reservation on Sullivan's Island, such point being located on the extension of the west line of Petigru Street in the town of Moultrieville one hundred yards to seaward from low-water line in the Atlantic Ocean (wherever such low-water line may now or hereafter be); thence northerly along the easterly boundary of said United States Government reservations (said boundary line being the west line of Petigru Street) to a point in the line with the southerly boundary of lots M, N, O and P, as shown on the Lamble map, recorded in the office of the register of deeds July 15, 1902, in plat book "D"; thence easterly along said southerly boundary of said lots M, N, O and P to the east side of Patrick Street, a distance of 500 feet, more or less; thence southerly along the west boundary of lot Q, shown on said Lamble map, a distance of 150 feet, more or less; thence easterly along the southerly boundary of lots Q, R, S and T, shown on the above-mentioned Lamble map, crossing Wharf Street, to the United States Government reservation known as Thomson reservation, a distance of 490 feet, more or less; thence southerly along the boundary of said Thomson reservation to a point one hundred yards to seaward from the low-water line in the Atlantic Ocean (wherever such low-water line may now or hereafter be); thence westerly along a line in the Atlantic Ocean at all points one hundred yards to seaward from low-water line (wherever such low-water line may now or hereafter be) to the point of beginning; containing in all, above low-water line, at the time of the original cession, eleven acres, more or less; and (15) All that tract, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being on the western end of Sullivan's Island, in Charleston County, being all the land lying to the northward and westward of the western boundary of the road leading to Cove Inlet Bridge and to the northward and westward of the west line of Church Street, including specifically lots numbered 1 through 17 inclusive, including the half lots, and also including all that portion of Middle Street which lies to the northward and westward of the west boundary of Church Street extended, together with the water lots and marshes; all of which is shown on the map of Sullivan's Island waterworks, made by the John McCrady Company, dated November 1937 and on file in the office of the board of township commissioners for Sullivan's Island. Reservation of driveway. The cessions of the lands described in items (8), (9), (12), (13), (14) and (15) above were subject to the following reservations and exceptions, to wit: That such portion of the front beach of Sullivan's Island included within the limits described in said items as lies below a line drawn along said beach twenty (20) feet above high-water mark and parallel thereto, limited, however, in the case of the cession of the lands described in item (15) above to such portions as are adjacent to lots Nos. 8, 10, 11, 15 and 16 as shown on the map aforesaid, shall be always open to the public as a footway and driveway, so that the public shall have the free and unobstructed right of passage by foot and vehicle upon, over and across it, subject to the right of the United States Government to close and exclusively occupy it, so far as these reservations are concerned, at the following times and under the following circumstances, to wit: (a) during hours of actual target practice in, over or upon such portion of said premises, during which time (and prior thereto in the case of the lands described in items (9) and (15) above) due and proper notice thereof shall be given to the public; (b) during hours of actual military drill in, over and upon such portion of said premises, except the portion thereof included within the land described in item (14) above; and (c) during time of war. Effect of grant on streets. The portion of Beach Avenue so ceded and all other streets, roads and highways within said tracts or parcels of land were vacated and discontinued as and from the time such cessions, respectively, became effectual except: (a) Central Avenue (but not excepting any portion of Central Avenue, if any, within the lands described in items (8), (9) and (13) above); (b) The portions of the streets and avenues within the land described in item (10); (c) The portion of East Middle Street included in the land described in item (12) above; and (d) The streets and avenues within the land described in item (14) above. The portions of Central Avenue so ceded (except any portions thereof, if any, included within the lands described in items (8), (9), (13) and (15) above) and the portions of East Middle Street included within the lands described in item (12) above shall be forever kept open as a public street and such portions of Central Avenue (other than the portions lying within the lands described in item (12) above), together with the continuation of Central Avenue through the government reservation, shall be kept in proper condition and repair by the United States Government; and such cession shall in no way interfere with any private rights or franchises heretofore legally granted with reference to Central Avenue nor shall the cessions of the tracts described in items (10) and (12) above in any way interfere with any such right or franchise with reference to any portion of Middle Street included within the lands described in item (10) or any portion of East Middle Street included within the lands described in item (12). The State also reserved the right to authorize the laying and maintaining of tracks for railroad or traction purposes on and across the portion of Central Avenue described in all items above except (8), (9), (13) and (15) and on or across the portions of East Middle Street within the lands described in item (12) above or on lands contiguous thereto and lying within fifteen feet thereof. And all streets and avenues, within the boundaries of the lands described in item (14) marked and indicated at the time of the cessions thereof on said plat of Lamble and the extensions thereof, on and over such lands shall be forever kept open and unobstructed as highways for the passage of the public to and from the beach and other portions of Sullivan's Island and more particularly the extension of Atlantic Street from lot "Q" westward to the main government reservation and the extension of Bayonne Avenue eastward from the extension of Patrick Street to the extension of Wharf Street and thence by a line parallel with the north line of the lands so described to the west line of said Thomson reservation. Compensation required. The cessions of lands described in this section were made upon the condition that they should not be effectual as to any portion of the premises embraced therein in which any person then had any right, title or interest or upon which any person then owned or had any structures or improvements until the United States compensated such person for such right, title and interest or for such buildings, structures and improvements and acquired the title of such person thereto, nor until the United States further compensated the persons who, at and before the cession of such jetty reservations, owned like interests or owned structures and improvements upon the territory theretofore ceded by this State to the United States for jetty reservations. Determinations of amount when not agreed. In case of the failure of the United States and any persons interested as aforesaid or owner as aforesaid to agree upon the proper compensation to be paid as above provided the United States may have the same determined by the verdict of a jury upon application by petition to the court of common pleas for Charleston County, which shall be served as by law a summons in a civil action in said court is required to be served. Such application shall be heard without delay at a term of said court and under the direction of the presiding judge thereof, and such determination shall be final and without appeal. And upon the amount so found being paid, with the cost of clerk and sheriff, if any, the right and title of the parties thereto shall vest in the United States. Service of process. There was also reserved to this State a concurrent jurisdiction for the execution within said lands mentioned in this section of all process, civil or criminal, lawfully issued by the courts of the State and not incompatible with such cessions.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-140 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-140
SECTION 3-3-140. Fort Mechanic in Charleston County for maintenance of military post.
Status: in_force

The lots or tracts of land whereon Fort Mechanic is erected and such other lots and parcels of land as may be considered necessary to that establishment have been ceded to the United States for all purposes necessary to the maintenance of a military post. But nothing in such cession shall be construed to prevent any process, civil or criminal, issuing from any of the courts of this State or any other competent authority from being served or executed within the limits of such lots or tracts of land nor to impair the rights and privileges vested in the city council of Charleston, under their charter of incorporation. But said city council may relinquish its right or jurisdiction in and over the land aforesaid.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-11-210 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 11 / Section 3-11-210
SECTION 3-11-210. Penalties under ordinances adopted pursuant to Section 3-11-200.
Status: in_force

A county or municipality adopting an ordinance regulating or prohibiting gambling vessels pursuant to Section 3-11-200 may assess only a civil penalty of not more than one hundred dollars per passenger for each violation, with an aggregate total in penalties not to exceed fifty thousand dollars per vessel for a twenty-four hour period. Additionally, a county or municipality may obtain injunctive relief against a person for violation of an ordinance regulating or prohibiting gambling vessels pursuant to Section 3-11-200.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-40 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-40
SECTION 3-3-40. Sites in cities of Chester, Anderson, and Greenwood.
Status: in_force

The consent of this State has been given, in accordance with the 17th clause of the 8th section of article I of the Constitution of the United States, to the acquisition by the United States, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, of the several lots or parcels of land in this State hereinafter mentioned or described to wit: (1) A site in the city of Chester for a post-office or courthouse building, described as follows: Beginning at the north corner of the intersection of Main and Wylie Streets, thence N. 46° 00' W. 130 feet along Wylie Street to west corner, thence N. 44° 15' E. 120 feet to north corner, thence S. 46° 00' E. 127 feet and 5 inches to east corner, thence N. 44° 40' W. 120 feet to the beginning corner, being the south corner of said lot, bounded by said Main and Wylie Streets and the lands formerly owned by John J. Hemphill and G. Brown White; (2) A site in the city of Anderson for a post-office building, at the northwest corner of North Main and Federal Street beginning at the intersection of said streets and running along Federal Street S. 79° W. 135 feet to corner on Federal Street, thence N. 11° W. 150 feet to corner, thence N. 79° E. 135 feet to corner on Main Street, thence S. 11° E. 150 feet along Main Street to the beginning corner; and (3) A site in the city of Greenwood for a post-office building, described as follows: That certain lot or parcel of land situate on the northwestern corner of Main and Oregon Streets, of the city of Greenwood, Greenwood County, containing thirty-five one-hundredths of an acre and bounded north one hundred and twenty feet by a lot formerly owned by Mrs. C. T. Bailey; east one hundred and thirty feet by Main Street; south one hundred and twenty feet by Oregon Street; and west one hundred and thirty feet by a lot formerly owned by Mrs. C. T. Bailey. Title ceded. The right, title and interest of this State to, and its jurisdiction over, said lots or parcels of land were ceded to the United States of America on condition that the jurisdiction so ceded would not vest until the United States acquired the title to said lands, by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, and would continue so long as the lands remained the property of the United States. Service of process. This State shall retain jurisdiction for the execution within said lands of all process, civil or criminal, lawfully issued by the authority of this State and not incompatible with such cession. Exemption from taxation. Said lands and all the buildings and structures of every kind which may be erected thereon shall be exempt from all State, county and municipal taxation, assessments or other charges which may be levied or imposed under the authority of this State so long as they shall remain the property of the United States.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-5-340 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 3 / Section 3-5-340
SECTION 3-5-340. Condemnation by United States of lands needed from private persons or public service companies.
Status: in_force

If the United States Government shall so determine, it may condemn and use all lands and property which may be needed for the purposes set forth in Section 3-5-310 under the authority of the United States Government and according to the provisions existing in the Federal statutes for condemning lands and property for the use of the United States Government. In case the United States Government shall so condemn such lands and property, the Department of Health and Environmental Control may pay all expenses of the condemnation proceedings and any award that may be made thereunder out of any moneys appropriated or which may be appropriated for such purposes. Effect of Amendment The 1993 amendment substituted "Department of Health and Environmental Control" for "South Carolina Coastal Council."
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-9-10 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 9 / Section 3-9-10
SECTION 3-9-10. Authority and duties of Division of General Services of Department of Administration.
Status: in_force

(a) The Division of General Services of the Department of Administration is authorized: (1) to acquire from the United States of America under and in conformance with the provisions of Section 203 (j) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended, hereafter referred to as the "act," such property, including equipment, materials, books, or other supplies under the control of any department or agency of the United States of America as may be usable and necessary for purposes of education, public health or civil defense, including research for any such purpose, and for such other purposes as may now or hereafter be authorized by federal law; (2) to warehouse such property; and (3) to distribute such property within the State to tax-supported medical institutions, hospitals, clinics, health centers, school systems, schools, colleges and universities within the State, to other nonprofit medical institutions, hospitals, clinics, health centers, schools, colleges and universities which are exempt from taxation under Section 501 (c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1954, to civil defense organizations of the State, or political subdivisions and instrumentalities thereof, which are established pursuant to State law, and to such other types of institutions or activities as may now be or hereafter become eligible under Federal law to acquire such property. (b) The Division of General Services of the Department of Administration is authorized to receive applications from eligible health and educational institutions for the acquisition of Federal surplus real property, investigate the applications, obtain expression of views respecting the applications from the appropriate health or educational authorities of the State, make recommendations regarding the need of such applicant for the property, the merits of its proposed program of utilization, the suitability of the property for the purposes, and otherwise assist in the processing of the applications for acquisition of real and related personal property of the United States under Section 203 (k) of the act. (c) For the purpose of executing its authority under this chapter, the Division of General Services is authorized to adopt, amend or rescind rules and regulations and prescribe such requirements as may be deemed necessary; and take such other action as is deemed necessary and suitable, in the administration of this chapter, to assure maximum utilization by and benefit to health, educational and civil defense institutions and organizations within the State from property distributed under this chapter. (d) The Department of Administration is authorized to appoint advisory boards or committees, and to employ such personnel and prescribe their duties as are deemed necessary and suitable for the administration of this chapter. (e) The Director of the Division of General Services is authorized to make such certifications, take such action and enter into such contracts, agreements and undertakings for and in the name of the State (including cooperative agreements with any Federal agencies providing for utilization of property and facilities by and exchange between them of personnel and services without reimbursement), require such reports and make such investigations as may be required by law or regulation of the United States of America in connection with the receipt, warehousing, and distribution of personal property received by him from the United States of America. (f) The Division of General Services is authorized to act as clearinghouse of information for the public and private nonprofit institutions, organizations and agencies referred to in subparagraph (a) of this section and other institutions eligible to acquire federal surplus personal property, to locate both real and personal property available for acquisition from the United States of America, to ascertain the terms and conditions under which such property may be obtained, to receive requests from the above-mentioned institutions, organizations, and agencies and to transmit to them all available information in reference to such property, and to aid and assist such institutions, organizations, and agencies in every way possible in the consummation of acquisitions or transactions hereunder. (g) The Division of General Services, in the administration of this chapter, shall cooperate to the fullest extent consistent with the provisions of the act and with the departments or agencies of the United States of America, file a State plan of operation, and operate in accordance therewith, take such action as may be necessary to meet the minimum standards prescribed in accordance with the act, make such reports in such form and containing such information as the United States of America or any of its departments or agencies may from time to time require, and comply with the laws of the United States of America and the rules and regulations of any of the departments or agencies of the United States of America governing the allocation, transfer, use or accounting for, property donable or donated to the State. Effect of Amendment 2014 Act No. 121, SECTION 7.H, in subsections (a) and (d), substituted "Department of Administration" for "State Budget and Control Board"; in subsection (b), inserted "of the Department of Administration"; and made other nonsubstantive changes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-120 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-120
SECTION 3-3-120. Five acres in Charleston for a customhouse.
Status: in_force

A lot, not to exceed five acres, in the City of Charleston has been ceded to the United States for the erection of a customhouse. Such lot and the buildings erected thereon shall be exempt from any tax to be paid to this State. But all process, civil or criminal, issued under the authority of this State or any officer thereof shall and may be served and executed on any part of such land and on any person there being and implicated in matters of law.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-350 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-350
SECTION 3-3-350. Concurrent jurisdiction; National Advocacy Center, the Inn at USC, and the Kirkland Apartment building.
Status: reserved

(A) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, concurrent law enforcement jurisdiction is granted to the United States of America over that certain tract of land situate on the campus of the University of South Carolina in the City of Columbia in Richland County, bounded on the west by Pickens Street, on the north by Pendleton Street, on the east by Barnwell Street, and on the south by College Street and the northern boundary of the University of South Carolina College Street pedestrian walkway. The State of South Carolina reserves concurrent jurisdiction to enforce the criminal and civil laws of this State within the area delineated in this subsection and further reserves the right to serve criminal or civil process within that area in prosecutions or suits for or on account of crimes committed, rights acquired, or obligations incurred in the State of South Carolina. The jurisdiction ceded by this subsection continues as long as the United States of America occupies any state-owned property within the area delineated in this subsection. (B) Concurrent jurisdiction is also extended and reserved in the manner and for the duration provided in subsection (A) of this section to the properties commonly known as the Inn at USC, located at 1619 Pendleton Street, and the Kirkland Apartment Building, located at 1611 Pendleton Street, both in the City of Columbia, South Carolina. Effect of Amendment The 2011 amendment rewrote this section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-260 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-260
SECTION 3-3-260. The National Cemetery in Florence County.
Status: in_force

The jurisdiction of the State has been ceded to the United States over certain land situate in Florence County, near the city of Florence, known as the "National Cemetery." The United States shall retain such jurisdiction so long as such lands shall be used as a national cemetery and no longer. Such jurisdiction is granted on the express condition that this State shall retain a concurrent jurisdiction with the United States in and over such lands, so far as that civil process in all cases not affecting the real or personal property of the United States and such criminal or other process as shall issue under the authority of this State against any person charged with crime or misdemeanor committed within or without the limits of such lands may be executed thereon in the same way and manner as if no jurisdiction had been so ceded.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-340 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-340
SECTION 3-3-340. Other lands ceded.
Status: reserved

Other lands that have been ceded to the United States are: (1) Fort Moultrie, on Sullivan's Island, Charleston County. In addition to the lands mentioned in Section 3-3-240, all the lands originally reserved for Fort Moultrie, on Sullivan's Island, in Charleston County, not in excess of five acres, with all the forts, fortifications and buildings thereon, together with the canal leading from the cove on the back of the fort nearly up to the same, as delineated on the plan of Charleston Harbor by Col. Senf in the Secretary of State's office at Columbia; (2) Fort Johnson, Charleston County. The high lands and part of the marsh belonging to Fort Johnson not in excess of twenty acres, as delineated on said plan of Charleston Harbor, including the present site of Fort Johnson; (3) Fort Pinckney, Charleston County. The land on which Fort Pinckney is built and three acres around the same in Charleston County; (4) Sandbank on southeast point of Charleston. A portion of the sandbank marked "C" on the southeasternmost point of Charleston, as delineated on said plan of Charleston Harbor, not exceeding two acres; (5) Ten acres on Blythe's Point, Sampit River, in Georgetown County. A lot, not exceeding four acres, for a battery or fort and necessary buildings on Dr. Blythe's point of land at the mouth of Sampit River, Georgetown County, and a quantity of land, not exceeding six acres, on Dr. Blythe's said point of land at the mouth of Sampit River, adjoining and in addition to such four acres; and for the same purposes; (6) Mustard Island and seven acres on St. Helena Island, Beaufort County. Mustard Island, opposite Parris Island, in Beaufort River, and a tract of land on St. Helena Island, opposite Mustard Island, not exceeding seven acres in Beaufort County; (7) Five acres in Beaufort, Beaufort County. - Five acres of the public lands near the town of Beaufort, including the site of Fort Lyttleton in Beaufort County, for the purpose of erecting a fort; (8) Site at Mount Pleasant, Charleston County. A site for a lighthouse in or near Mount Pleasant in Charleston Harbor, not exceeding one acre; (9) Site at White Point, in Charleston County. A site for a beacon light at White Point, in the city of Charleston, as heretofore designated by the city council of Charleston; (10) Site at Fort Point in Georgetown County. A site, not exceeding twenty acres, for a lighthouse on Fort Point, near Georgetown in Georgetown County; (11) Shore line of Sullivan's Island for jetty for Charleston Harbor. A quantity of land on Sullivan's Island in Charleston Harbor, not exceeding three hundred feet in length and two hundred feet in breadth, for the shore line of a jetty erected for the improvement and deepening of the bar of Charleston Harbor, described and located as follows: Starting from the magistral of the northeast salient angle of Fort Moultrie, thence running south two degrees, seven and one-half minutes (2° 7 1⁄2 ') east, eight hundred and forty-six (846) feet, to a point near high-water line on the south shore of Sullivan's Island; thence north eighty-six degrees, thirty-five and one-half minutes (86° 35 1⁄2 ') east, two thousand eight hundred (2,800) feet, to a point near the same high-water line; thence north seventy-seven degrees, thirty-eight and one-half minutes (77° 38 1⁄2 ') east, two thousand one hundred and ninety and one-half (2,190 1⁄2 et, to a point on the high-water line of said shore which is the southwest angle of the tract hereby conveyed; thence north seventy-seven degrees, thirty-eight and one-half minutes (77° 38 1⁄2 ') east, along said water line three hundred (300) feet; thence north twelve degrees, twenty-one and one-half minutes (12° 21 1⁄2 ') west, two hundred (200) feet; thence south seventy-seven degrees, thirty-eight and one-half minutes (77° 38 1⁄2 ') west, three hundred (300) feet; thence south twelve degrees, twenty-one and one-half minutes (12° 21 1⁄2 ') east, two hundred (200) feet, to the high-water line at the before-mentioned southwest angle of the tract herein conveyed; together with the accretion on the three hundred (300) feet of water front of said tract; (12) Shore line on Morris Island for jetty for Charleston Harbor. A quantity of land on Morris Island in Charleston Harbor sufficient for the erection of a shore line of a jetty for the improvement and deepening of the bar of Charleston Harbor, not exceeding fifteen hundred feet in length, measured on the high-water line, and two hundred feet in breadth, as located and selected from the land formerly owned by the State at the north end of Morris Island, together with the accretion on the water front of such land so granted, for the purposes aforesaid. And also such other quantity of land on Morris Island as may be needed for the shore line of the jetty aforesaid, belonging or formerly belonging to any person other than the State if and when such land has been conveyed by the owner thereof to the United States; provided a plat of all such lands be made and be deposited in the office of the Secretary of State under the supervision and direction of the proper officer of the United States in charge of the jetties; (13) Lands connecting Winyah Bay and Santee River. Such lands as may be required for the purpose of connecting Winyah Bay and Santee River in Georgetown County so as to facilitate commerce; (14) Tracts in Charleston, Beaufort, and Georgetown Counties for quarantine purposes. The right, title and interest of this State to, and the jurisdiction of this State over, the following described tracts of land and land covered by water, situated in the counties of Charleston, Beaufort, and Georgetown, granted and ceded to the United States for the purposes of quarantine, to wit: (a) A Tract of Land on James' Island and Buildings. A tract of land on James' Island, Charleston Harbor, lying and being upon the easterly, southerly and westerly sides of the land belonging to the United State Government and known as the Fort Johnson Reservation, being ninety acres, more or less, and including the marshland and tide flats east and south of said Fort Johnson Reservation to low-water line and the buildings then on said ninety-acre tract; (b) Quarantine Station at Georgetown. The quarantine station at Georgetown, on South Island, entrance to Georgetown Harbor, consisting of five acres of land, more or less, a residence and outbuildings; (c) Quarantine Station at Buzzard's Island, Beaufort County. The quarantine station on Buzzard's Island, at the entrance of St. Helena Sound, consisting of ten acres, more or less, officers' quarters, two hospital buildings and quarters for crew; (d) Quarantine Station at Parris Island, Beaufort County. The quarantine station on Parris Island, Port Royal Sound, consisting of fifteen acres, more or less, an officer's residence, two hospitals and outbuildings; and (15) Portion of Laurel Street in Columbia. That portion of Laurel Street in the city of Columbia that was being used on April 19, 1943, for a recreational center by the United States.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-5-30 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 3-5-30
SECTION 3-5-30. Governor and Secretary of State authorized to issue to United States grants of easements with respect to previously submerged lands raised by projects.
Status: in_force

The Governor and Secretary of State may issue to the United States of America a grant or grants within such limits as above specified of a perpetual right and easement to enter upon, excavate, cut away and remove any and all of the land raised above water as mentioned in Section 3-5-20, including submerged land, composing a part of the prism required for the channels, anchorage areas and turning basin, their slopes and berms, as may be required at any time for the construction and maintenance of said intracoastal waterway from Winyah Bay, South Carolina, to the State boundary line in the Savannah River and any changes, modifications or extensions thereto and any tributaries thereof and for the Ashley River and Shipyard River projects and to maintain the portions so excavated and the channels, anchorage areas and turning basin thereby created as a part of the navigable waters of the United States and a further perpetual right and easement to enter upon, occupy and use any portion of such land, including submerged land, composing a part of the spoil disposal areas not so cut away and converted into public navigable waters, as aforesaid, for the deposit of dredged material and for such other purposes as may be needful in the construction, maintenance and improvement of such intracoastal waterway and any changes, modifications or extensions thereto and any tributaries thereof and the Ashley River and Shipyard River projects, the grant or grants to issue upon a certificate furnished to the Governor by some authorized official of the United States as provided in Section 3-5-10.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-5-130 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 3-5-130
SECTION 3-5-130. Coastal Division to make determination of actual damages.
Status: in_force

Staff of the Coastal Division of the Department of Health and Environmental Control shall make a determination of the amount of actual damage. Effect of Amendment The 1993 amendment rewrote this section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-5-330 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 3 / Section 3-5-330
SECTION 3-5-330. Condemnation of lands needed from private persons or public service companies by Department of Health and Environmental Control.
Status: in_force

If for any reason the Department of Health and Environmental Control is unable to secure the right-of-way upon, across, or through the property by voluntary agreement with the owner, the Department of Health and Environmental Control acting for the State, may condemn the right-of-way. The Governor and the Secretary of State shall promptly execute a deed for the condemned property to the United States. Effect of Amendment The 1987 Amendment rewrote this section, removing references to condemnation of land under the provisions of Article 3 of Chapter 17 of Title 57. The 1993 amendment substituted "Department of Health and Environmental Control" for "South Carolina Coastal Council" and "Council."
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-280 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-280
SECTION 3-3-280. Seven acres of land on North Island in Georgetown County.
Status: in_force

Seven acres of land on North Island, in Georgetown County, abutting and bounding to the eastward on the sea, to the west and north by lands belonging to Paul Trapier and to the south by Winyah Bay, has been ceded to the United States but on condition that nothing contained in this cession shall be construed to exclude or prevent any process, criminal or civil, issuing from any of the courts of this State from being served or executed within the limits of said tract of seven acres of land.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-20 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-20
SECTION 3-3-20. Certain beacon or lighthouse sites.
Status: in_force

There has been ceded to the United States: (1) A site on Morris' Island in Charleston County for a beacon or lighthouse; (2) A site on Thomas' Island, for a beacon or lighthouse; (3) Sites for three beacons to be placed on or near North and South Island points in the vicinity of Georgetown in Georgetown County; (4) A site on Cape Island in Charleston County on some point in the immediate vicinity of the lighthouse in existence there in the year 1853 on Cape Romain for a lighthouse; and (5) A site on the east battery, in the city of Charleston, for a beacon or harbor light. None of the sites so ceded, as described in this section, exceed ten acres in any one case, nor may such sites be used for any other purpose than the purposes specified. Nothing in such cession shall exclude or prevent process, civil or criminal, issuing from the courts of this State from being served or executed within the limits of such cessions.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-7-180 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 7 / Article 3 / Section 3-7-180
SECTION 3-7-180. Deposit of funds by political subdivisions.
Status: in_force

All money received by a political subdivision pursuant to Sections 3-7-140 and 3-7-170 shall be deposited in such fund or funds as may be designated in the agreement and if the agreement does not make such designation the money shall be deposited in such fund or funds as the governing body of such political subdivision shall by appropriate resolution direct.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-5-90 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 3-5-90
SECTION 3-5-90. State shall retain jurisdiction over property granted.
Status: in_force

Neither this article, nor any part thereof, nor any grant or deed made under the authority hereof shall operate to divest the State of jurisdiction over any lands and all civil or criminal process issued under the authority of any laws of this State may be executed in or on any part of the lands or premises devoted to the use of the intracoastal waterway or to any use incidental thereto to the same effect as if this article had not been enacted and as if such grant or deed had not been executed.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-5-360 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 3 / Section 3-5-360
SECTION 3-5-360. Surveys for purpose of determining property uses.
Status: in_force

For the purpose of determining the lands and property necessary for the uses herein set out the Department of Health and Environmental Control or the United States Government, or the agents of either, may enter upon any lands along the general line of said right of way and make such surveys and do such other acts as in their judgment may be necessary for the purpose of definitely locating the specific lines of said right of way and the lands required for said purposes and there shall be no claim against the State or the United States for such acts as may be done in making such surveys. Effect of Amendment The 1993 amendment substituted "Department of Health and Environmental Control" for "South Carolina Coastal Council."
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-7-140 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 7 / Article 3 / Section 3-7-140
SECTION 3-7-140. Political subdivisions authorized to act in lieu of counties if United States declines to deal with governing body of county.
Status: in_force

If the United States declines to deal with the governing body of a county with respect to any political subdivision whose jurisdictional limits are within or coextensive with the limits of the county or if the jurisdictional limits of a political subdivision lie in more than one county, such political subdivision may make request of the United States for such payments in lieu of taxes as the United States may agree to pay and may enter into an agreement with the United States for the performance by the political subdivision of services for the benefit of a project and for the payment by the United States to the political subdivision, in one or more installments, of sums in lieu of taxes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-1-130 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 3 / Section 3-1-130
SECTION 3-1-130. Acquisition by United States of title to lands as prerequisite to vesting of jurisdiction ceded by State.
Status: in_force

The jurisdiction ceded in any case pursuant to Section 3-1-120 shall not vest until the United States shall have acquired the title to any such lands by purchase, condemnation or otherwise.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-9-40 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 9 / Section 3-9-40
SECTION 3-9-40. Applicability of chapter.
Status: in_force

The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to the acquisition of property acquired by agencies of the State under the priorities established by Section 308 (b), Title 23, United States Code, Annotated. Effect of Amendment 2014 Act No. 121, SECTION 7.H, made nonsubstantive changes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-5-170 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 3-5-170
SECTION 3-5-170. Removal of cultivated oysters which might be damaged to different leased area.
Status: in_force

Should any person cultivating oysters upon an area leased from the State outside of the limits to be acquired for said waterway project from Winyah Bay to the state boundary line in the Savannah River elect, in lieu of claiming damages which might be done to such oysters by dredging operations, to transfer such cultivated oysters to a different leased area and the person whose dredging operations in the construction of said intracoastal waterway either shall have damaged or might damage such oysters agrees to pay the expenses of such removal, the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources may substitute for such leased areas other equal areas suitable for the cultivation and gathering of oysters in a location not subject to damage by dredging operation. Effect of Amendment The 1993 amendment substituted "Department of Natural Resources" for "Wildlife and Marine Resources Commission."
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-180 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-180
SECTION 3-3-180. Lands in Charleston County for inland waterway.
Status: reserved

The right, title and interest of this State to, and the jurisdiction and control of this State over, a strip of land and land covered with water four hundred feet wide and lying two hundred feet on each side of the center line of the route selected by the United States for an inland waterway between Charleston Harbor and a point opposite McClellanville has been granted and ceded to the United States for the purpose of constructing and improving the inland waterways between Charleston Harbor and a point opposite the town of McClellanville, in Charleston County. Said strip of land is described as follows, to wit: From the cove back of Sullivan's Island following the deepest water of Sullivan's Island Narrows to the bend next east of the point known as Spanish Fort; thence the route leaves the natural waterway and a marsh cut was made across a long bend; thence along the deepest part of the natural waterway to Branch Inlet; thence back of Isle of Palms to Meeting Reach and through it to the Seven Reaches; thence through Seven Reaches to Dewees Inlet; thence to and through Bull Yard Sound and into Capers Inlet; thence to and through Santee Pass to Price's Inlet; thence to and through Bull Narrows, having one marsh cut across a bend at or near the narrowest part of this passage; thence through Bull Creek and across the marsh to Seewee Creek; thence across the marsh to Vander Horst Creek; thence down said creek and across the marsh to Vander Horst Creek and through the marsh to Belvedere Creek; thence up Belvedere Creek and through the marsh to Salt Pond Creek; thence up Salt Pond Creek and through the marsh to Graham's Creek; thence up Graham's Creek, cutting across one sharp bend, and through the marsh to Awendaw Creek; thence down Awendaw Creek and Harbor River to Long Creek; thence by Long Creek and a marsh cut to Bull River; thence down Bull River to Five Fathom Creek, which junction is the nearest point in the proposed route to McClellanville. Dredging material deposited on adjoining lands. The material dredged from the proposed channel in order to widen and deepen it may be disposed of by depositing such material upon the adjoining marshlands outside of the strip of land designated herein, if such disposal be found necessary or desirable for construction or maintenance of the channel. But by the use of such adjoining lands for such purpose the United States shall not acquire any right, title or interest in or to the lands outside of such strip four hundred feet wide, excepting the right to deposit material thereon. Condition of grant. Such grant was made upon the condition that it would not be effectual as to any portion of the premises embraced in the foregoing description in which any person then had any right, title or interest or upon which any person then had any legal structures or improvements, until title was acquired by the United States to such right, title or interest or to such structures or improvements. Service of process. There was reserved to this State a concurrent jurisdiction for the execution within such lands of all process, civil or criminal, lawfully issued by the courts of the State and not incompatible with such cession. Land ceded tax free. All lands and tenements granted as aforesaid to the United States of America shall be, so long as they shall be used for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned, exonerated and discharged from all taxes, assessments and other charges which may be imposed under the authority of this State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-1-120 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 3 / Section 3-1-120
SECTION 3-1-120. Jurisdiction over lands acquired by United States; service of process.
Status: in_force

(A) Exclusive jurisdiction in and over any land so acquired by the United States pursuant to the consent given by Section 3-1-110 shall be, and the same is hereby, ceded to the United States for all purposes except the service upon such sites of all civil and criminal process of the courts of this State. The jurisdiction so ceded shall continue no longer than the United States shall own such lands. (B) The United States may accept exclusive jurisdiction or concurrent jurisdiction in and over any federal correction facility so acquired by the United States pursuant to the consent given by Section 3-1-110 which shall be, and the same is hereby, ceded to the United States for all purposes except the service upon such sites of all civil and criminal process of the courts of this State. The jurisdiction so ceded shall continue no longer than the United States shall own such federal correction facilities. Effect of Amendment The 1994 amendment designated the first paragraph, which formerly constituted the entirety of the section, as subsection (A), and added subsection (B).
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-310 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-310
SECTION 3-3-310. Land for Georgetown jetties.
Status: in_force

There has been ceded to the United States, for the purpose of constructing jetties for the improvement of the bar at the entrance of Winyah Bay, any and all rights of the State to the adjacent water-covered territory extending from high-water mark in certain lands granted by Bettie Mason Alexander and Edward P. Alexander to the United States of America by deed bearing the date September 17, 1889, and recorded in the office of register of deeds for Georgetown County, in book K, pages 692 to 695, outward about five hundred (500) feet, and also from the jetties to be constructed by the United States outward about five hundred feet in every direction into the Atlantic Ocean and Winyah Bay, respectively, and any and all accretions to such territory growing out of the construction of such jetties or from any other causes, this territory having, when ceded, been bounded as follows, to wit: (1) Land on North Island. Beginning at a point on the west side of the southern point of said island at high-water line, about sixteen hundred (1,600) feet distant and S. 4° 39' E. from the center of the Georgetown lighthouse; and running thence due west about one thousand two hundred (1,200) feet; thence S. 47° 16' E. sixty-two hundred (6,200) feet; thence S. 63° 45' E. twenty-eight hundred (2,800) feet; thence S. 84° E. ten thousand two hundred (10,200) feet; thence north one thousand (1,000) feet; thence N. 84° W. ninety-nine hundred (9,900) feet; thence N. 63° 45' W. twenty-four hundred (2,400) feet; thence N. 47° 16' W. twenty-seven hundred (2,700) feet; thence N. 45° E. twenty-five hundred (2,500) feet; thence west to the high-water line on the east side of North Island Point; thence around said point toward Winyah Bay, with the various meanderings of said high-water line to the beginning; (2) Land on South Island. Beginning at a point on the beach of said island about twelve thousand five hundred and eleven (12,511) feet south of the eastern end of the southern boundary of land formerly belonging to W. C. Johnstone and from which the Georgetown lighthouse bears N. 28 1⁄2 ° E. and the center of the United States dyke across Lagoon Creek bears N. 33 1⁄2 ° W.; running thence in a southerly direction eight hundred (800) feet to a point on the high-water line; thence due east twenty-two thousand one hundred (22,100) feet; thence south one thousand (1,000) feet; thence due west to the high-water line on South Island; thence with the various meanderings of said high-water line to the second corner from the beginning (counting the beginning corner as the first corner). All such lands and territory shall be exempted from all State taxes, assessments and other charges, as provided in Section 3-1-30. The proper officers of the United States in charge of such jetties from time to time shall cause to be executed a plat of the lands which may be required for the purposes aforesaid and file such plats with the register of deeds for Georgetown County. Effect of Amendment The 1994 amendment, in the third undesignated paragraph, substituted "with the register of mesne conveyances for Georgetown County" for "in the office of the Secretary of State."
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-9-20 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 9 / Section 3-9-20
SECTION 3-9-20. Delegation of authority; bonds.
Status: in_force

The Director of the Division of General Services may delegate such power and authority as he deems reasonable and proper for the effective administration of this chapter. The Department of Administration may require bond of any person in the employ of the Division of General Services receiving or distributing property from the United States under authority of this chapter. Effect of Amendment 2014 Act No. 121, SECTION 7.H, substituted "Department of Administration" for "State Budget and Control Board".
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-5-40 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 3-5-40
SECTION 3-5-40. Acquisition of land needed from private persons or public service companies.
Status: in_force

If the title to any part of the lands, including submerged lands, property or property rights, required by the United States Government for the construction and maintenance of the aforesaid intracoastal waterway from Winyah Bay, South Carolina, to the State boundary line in the Savannah River and any changes, modifications or extensions thereto and any tributaries thereof, and the Ashley River and Shipyard River projects shall be in any private person, firm or corporation, telephone or telegraph company or other public service corporation or shall have been donated or condemned for public or public service purposes by any political subdivision of this State or any public service corporation, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control may, acting for and in behalf of the State, secure the above described rights of way and spoil disposal areas for such intracoastal waterway and all its tributaries and for the Ashley River and Shipyard River projects upon, across and through such lands, including submerged lands, or any part thereof, including oyster beds, telephone and telegraph lines, railroad lines, property of other public service corporations and other property and property rights, by purchase, donation or otherwise, through agreement with the owner when possible. And when any such easement or property is thus acquired the Governor and the Secretary of State shall execute a deed for it to the United States. Effect of Amendment The 1993 amendment substituted "South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control" for "South Carolina Coastal Council."
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-7-120 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 7 / Article 3 / Section 3-7-120
SECTION 3-7-120. Counties authorized to agree to perform services for projects and receive payments in lieu of taxes.
Status: in_force

The governing body of any county in this State may make requests of the United States, for and on behalf of the county and political subdivisions whose jurisdictional limits are within or coextensive with the limits of the county, for the payment of such sums in lieu of taxes as the United States may agree to pay and may enter into agreements with the United States, in the name of the county, for the performance of services by the county and such political subdivisions for the benefit of a project and for the payment by the United States to the county, in one or more installments, of sums in lieu of taxes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-7-170 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 7 / Article 3 / Section 3-7-170
SECTION 3-7-170. Disbursement of funds by county treasurer.
Status: in_force

Immediately after receiving a payment in lieu of taxes the county treasurer shall apportion and pay it, without any deduction, to the several political subdivisions, in accordance with the agreement under which the payment was received, notwithstanding any other law controlling the expenditure of county funds.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-250 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-250
SECTION 3-3-250. Land in Berkeley County.
Status: in_force

The jurisdiction and control of this State has been granted and ceded to the United States in and over the parcel or tract of land and land covered with water hereinafter described, to wit: All that piece, parcel or tract of marshland, containing nine hundred and thirty-seven acres, more or less, situate, lying and being in the parish of St. Thomas in Berkeley County on the east side of Cooper River, according to a survey made by J. H. Dingle, surveyor, being bounded on the south and west by the Cooper River, on the east by Clouter's Creek and Broad Creek and on the north by a similar tract of marshland formerly the property of Maria D. Winthrop and being the parcel conveyed to the United States by deed of said Maria D. Winthrop dated March 21 1902. Said grant and cession was and shall remain subject to the provisions set forth in the last two paragraphs of Section 3-3-170.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-11-500 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 11 / Section 3-11-500
SECTION 3-11-500. Prior ordinances; text of ordinance prohibiting gambling vessels.
Status: in_force

(A) A county or municipal ordinance prohibiting gambling vessels enacted before the effective date of this chapter, to the extent that it is consistent with the provisions of this chapter, remains in full force and effect after the effective date of this chapter, and is considered as promulgated pursuant to the powers and authority delegated to counties and municipalities by this chapter. (B) A county or municipality, in order to prohibit gambling vessels in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, may, after the effective date of this chapter, enact an ordinance that substantially reads as follows: (1) The governing body of ______________________, in accordance with Section 3-11-200 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, as amended, exercises the authority conferred to the State of South Carolina by the United States Congress pursuant to the Johnson Act, as amended, 15 U.S.C. Sections 1171 through 1177, and hereby prohibits within its jurisdiction the docking and embarkation or disembarkation of passengers aboard gambling vessels, as defined in Section 3-11-100(1) of the 1976 Code, that provide gambling aboard voyages that depart from the jurisdiction of ______________, leave the territorial waters of the State of South Carolina, sail into United States or international waters, and return to the territorial waters of the State of South Carolina, without making an intervening stop, as defined in Section 3-11-100(3) of the 1976 Code. Nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit, regulate, or otherwise apply to passenger cruise liners, as defined by Section 3-11-100(5) of the 1976 Code, nor does this ordinance apply to vessels described in Section 3-11-400(A) of the 1976 Code. (2) The governing body of _________________, in accordance with the authority delegated by Section 3-11-300 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, as amended, hereby prohibits within its jurisdiction the docking and embarkation or disembarkation of passengers aboard gambling vessels, as defined in Section 3-11-100(1) of the 1976 Code, that provide gambling aboard voyages that depart from the jurisdiction of __________, leave the territorial waters of the State of South Carolina, sail into United States or international waters, and return to the territorial waters of the State of South Carolina without making an intervening stop, as defined in Section 3-11-100(3) of the 1976 Code. Nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit, regulate, or otherwise apply to passenger cruise liners, as defined by Section 3-11-100(5) of the 1976 Code, nor shall this ordinance apply to vessels described in Section 3-11-400(A) of the 1976 Code. (3) Anyone violating this ordinance must be assessed a civil penalty of not more than one hundred dollars per passenger for each violation, with an aggregate total in penalties not to exceed fifty thousand dollars per gambling vessel for a twenty-four hour period. For the purposes of this ordinance, "per passenger" is defined as the total number of passengers allowed on a vessel pursuant to its United States Coast Guard certificate of documentation or equivalent foreign documentation. In addition, violations of this ordinance are subject to injunctive relief. (4) The exceptions for passenger cruise liners and Section 3-11-400(D) in this ordinance are so connected with the other sections of the ordinance that they are mutually dependent on each other as conditions and considerations for each other, so that the council would not have adopted this ordinance without them; therefore, should these exceptions be found unconstitutional or invalid, it is the intent of the council that the entire ordinance be found invalid. (5) Except as provided for in subitem (4), if any other section, subsection, paragraph, item, subitem, subparagraph, sentence, clause, phrase, or word of this ordinance is for any reason held to be unconstitutional or invalid, such holding shall not affect the constitutionality or validity of the remaining portions of the chapter, the council hereby declaring that it would have passed each and every section, subsection, item, subitem, paragraph, subparagraph, sentence, clause, phrase, and word thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more other sections, subsections, items, subitems, paragraphs, subparagraphs, sentences, clauses, phrases, or words hereof may be declared to be unconstitutional, invalid, or otherwise ineffective.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-10 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-10
SECTION 3-3-10. Places ceded to the United States remain subject to concurrent jurisdiction.
Status: in_force

In respect to the places within the boundaries of this State ceded by the State to the United States, the jurisdiction of this State is concurrent with that of the United States, according to the terms of cession in each case respectively.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-5-10 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 3-5-10
SECTION 3-5-10. Governor and Secretary of State authorized to issue grants to United States for projects.
Status: in_force

For the purpose of aiding in the construction and maintenance by the United States of the projects approved by Congress by the River and Harbor Act approved August 26, 1937 for the construction of the intracoastal waterway from the Cape Fear River, North Carolina, to the Savannah River, Georgia (Rivers and Harbors Committee Document No. 6, 75th Congress, first session), of the Ashley River, South Carolina, project (House Document No. 449, 74th Congress, second session) and of the Shipyard River, South Carolina, project (Rivers and Harbors Committee Document No. 38, 75th Congress, first session) and any changes, modifications or extensions thereto and any tributaries thereof, the Governor and the Secretary of State may issue to the United States of America a grant or grants of a perpetual right and easement to enter upon, excavate, cut away and remove any and all of the land, including submerged lands, composing a part of the prism required for the channels, anchorage areas and turning basin, and their slopes and berms, as may be required at any time for construction and maintenance of said intracoastal waterway from Winyah Bay, South Carolina, to the State boundary line in the Savannah River and any changes, modifications or extensions thereto and any tributaries thereof and for said Ashley River and Shipyard River projects and to maintain the portions so excavated and the channels, anchorage areas and turning basin thereby created as a part of the navigable waters of the United States and a further perpetual right and easement to enter upon, occupy and use any portion of the land, including submerged land, composing a part of the spoil disposal area not so cut away and converted into public navigable waters as aforesaid, for the deposit of dredged material and for such other purposes as may be needful in the construction, maintenance and improvement of said intracoastal waterway and any changes, modifications or extensions thereto and any tributaries thereof and of the Ashley River and Shipyard River projects, in so far as such lands, including submerged lands, are subject to grant by the State, such grant to issue upon a certificate showing the location and description of such rights of way and spoil disposal areas furnished to the Governor by the Secretary of the Army, any authorized officer of the Corps of Engineers of the United States Army or any other authorized official exercising control over the construction or maintenance of such projects.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-1-110 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 3 / Section 3-1-110
SECTION 3-1-110. General consent of State given to acquisition of lands by United States.
Status: in_force

The consent of this State is hereby given, in accordance with the seventeenth clause, eighth section, of the first article of the Constitution of the United States, to the acquisition by the United States by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise of any land in this State required for sites for customhouses, courthouses, post offices, arsenals or other public buildings whatever or any other purposes of the government.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-100 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-100
SECTION 3-3-100. Lands in Beaufort County for naval and military purposes.
Status: reserved

The right, title and interest of the State in and to, and the jurisdiction of the State over, the following described lands situated in Beaufort County has been granted and ceded to the United States for naval and military purposes, to wit: All the area between high and low-water marks immediately adjacent to and surrounding Parris Island and all islands immediately contiguous to Parris Island and now owned by the United States. Reversion. When the use thereof by the United States for naval and military purposes is terminated or is deemed no longer necessary the title to such lands shall revert to the State. Criminal jurisdiction and service of process. There was reserved to the State a concurrent jurisdiction of criminal cases cognizable under the laws of the State and for the execution upon or within said area of all process, civil and criminal, lawfully issued by the courts of the State and not incompatible with such cession. Compensation of individuals. Such grant was made upon condition that it would not be effectual as to any portion of the premises embraced in the foregoing description, in or to which any person had then any right, title, leasehold or interest or upon which any person then owned or had buildings, structures or improvements, until the United States compensated such person for such right, title, leasehold or interest and for such buildings, structures and improvements and acquired the right, title, leasehold or interest of such person thereto or therein. Determination of such compensation. In case of the failure of the United States and any person interested as aforesaid or owner as aforesaid to agree upon proper compensation to be paid, as above provided, the United States may have such compensation determined by the verdict of a jury, upon application by petition to the court of common pleas of Beaufort County. Said court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of such petition which shall be served as by law a summons in a civil action in said court is required to be served. Any such cause shall be heard, without delay, at a term of court and under the direction of the presiding judge thereof and such determination shall be final and without appeal. Upon the amount so found being paid, with all costs of the proceeding, if any, the right, title and interest of such person or owner thereto and therein shall vest in the United States.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-11-100 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 11 / Section 3-11-100
SECTION 3-11-100. Definitions.
Status: in_force

For purposes of this chapter: (1) "Gambling vessel" means a boat, ship, casino boat, watercraft, or barge kept, operated, or maintained for the purpose of gambling, with one or more gaming establishments aboard, that carries or operates gambling devices for the use of its passengers or otherwise provides facilities for the purpose of gambling, whether within or without the jurisdiction of this State, and whether it is anchored, berthed, lying to, or navigating, and the sailing, voyaging, or cruising, or any segment of the sailing, voyaging, or cruising begins and ends within this State. (2) "Gambling" or "gambling device" means any game of chance and includes, but is not limited to, slot machines, punchboards, video poker or blackjack machines, keeno, roulette, craps, or any other gaming table type gambling or poker, blackjack, or any other card gambling game. (3) "Intervening stop" occurs when a vessel departs the territorial waters of this State and sails into United States or international waters, and between the time the vessel departs the territorial waters of this State and the time it returns to the territorial waters of this State, the vessel docks at a port of call in another state, possession of the United States, or foreign country. (4) "Destination cruise" means a cruise in which a vessel makes one or more intervening stops. (5) "Passenger cruise liner" means a vessel that: (a) has a draft that is equal to or larger than the controlled depth of the intercoastal waterway as determined by the United States Army Corps of Engineers; (b) provides separate passenger cabins, including bathroom or head facilities, in a size reasonably suitable to accommodate living and sleeping space in a ratio of at least one cabin for every four passengers; (c) contains kitchen or galley facilities and dining facilities reasonably suitable to offer and accommodate all of the vessel's passengers at seated meals in no more than two sittings for each of the meals at breakfast, lunch, and dinner times; (d) offers other support facilities and services including, but not limited to, exercise facilities, gift shops, medical services, and musical programs; (e) is principally engaged in entertaining and transporting passengers on destination cruises; and (f) is certified or authorized by the United States Coast Guard or equivalent foreign authority to carry passengers for hire upon the open ocean without navigational limitations. (6) "Per passenger" means the number of passengers allowed on a vessel pursuant to its United States Coast Guard certificate of documentation or equivalent foreign documentation. Editor's Note 2005 Act No. 104, SECTION 1, provides as follows: "This act may be cited as the 'Gambling Cruise Act'. It is the intent of the General Assembly to delegate to counties and municipalities of this State the authority to prohibit or regulate the operation of gambling vessels that are engaged in voyages that depart from the territorial waters of the State, sail into United States or international waters, and return to the territorial waters of the State without an intervening stop, but to exempt from county or municipal regulation passenger cruise liners, as defined in Section 3-11-100(5), as contained in SECTION 2 of this act, because passenger cruise liners are vessels principally engaged in destination cruises and are not vessels used primarily for the operation of gambling. Furthermore, passenger cruise liners do not burden the public health or safety of the county or municipality because their voyages are infrequent, their cruises are not principally operated for the purpose of gambling, and their itineraries predominantly involve voyages that include one or more intervening stops." 2005 Act No. 104, SECTION 3, provides as follows: "The exceptions for passenger cruise lines and Section 3-11-400(D) in this act are so connected with the other sections of the act that they are mutually dependent on each other as conditions and considerations for each other, so that the General Assembly would not have adopted this act without them; therefore, should these exceptions be found unconstitutional or invalid, it is the intent of the General Assembly that the entire act be found invalid."
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-5-160 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 3-5-160
SECTION 3-5-160. Accounting for moneys recovered.
Status: in_force

The Department of Health and Environmental Control shall account for all monies recovered under the provisions of Sections 3-5-110 to 3-5-150 to the State Treasurer. Effect of Amendment The 1993 amendment substituted "Department of Health and Environmental Control" for "South Carolina Coastal Council."
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-1-410 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 7 / Section 3-1-410
SECTION 3-1-410. Consent of State given to acquisition.
Status: in_force

The consent of the State is hereby given to the acquisition by the United States, by purchase, gift or condemnation according to law, of such forest lands or such other property as it may acquire by purchase, deed or otherwise in this State as, in the opinion of the Federal Government, may be needed for the establishment of a national forest service in that region; provided, that unless the consent of the owner of such land is had and obtained, nothing herein contained shall be construed as giving the right to condemn any building, dwelling house or cultivated or pasture land. But all such national forest land acquisitions shall be confined to (a) the acquisition area boundaries of the existing national forests in this State as such area existed on February 20, 1948, and (b) land unsuited or little suited to agriculture, in so far as practical.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-5-320 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 3 / Section 3-5-320
SECTION 3-5-320. Acquisition of lands from private persons or public service companies.
Status: in_force

If the title to any part of the lands required by the United States Government for the construction of the aforesaid inland waterway from the North Carolina-South Carolina State line at Little River to Winyah Bay shall be in any private person, company, firm or corporation, railroad company, canal company, telephone or telegraph company or other public service corporation or shall have been donated or condemned for any such use by any political subdivision of this State, the Department of Health and Environmental Control may, acting for and in behalf of the State, secure a right of way of the width aforesaid for such inland waterway upon, across and through such lands or any part thereof by purchase, donation or otherwise, through agreement with the owner when possible, and when any such property is thus acquired the Governor and the Secretary of State shall execute a deed for it to the United States. Effect of Amendment The 1993 amendment substituted "Department of Health and Environmental Control" for "South Carolina Coastal Council."
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-5-150 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 3-5-150
SECTION 3-5-150. Cost of survey to be repaid.
Status: in_force

Upon the filing with the clerk of court of any such award there shall be added thereto as a part thereof the costs of the survey held to determine the damage resulting in such award. Such costs shall be repaid to the Department of Health and Environmental Control by the person against whom the award is given. If it shall be finally determined that no damage has been done the cost of the survey shall be paid by the person requesting the survey. Effect of Amendment The 1993 amendment rewrote this section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-5-60 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 3-5-60
SECTION 3-5-60. Condemnation by United States of lands needed from private persons or public service companies.
Status: in_force

If the United States Government shall so determine, it may condemn and use all lands, including submerged lands, property and property rights which may be needed for the purposes set forth in Section 3-5-40 under the authority of the United States Government and according to the provisions existing in the Federal statutes for condemning lands and property for the use of the United States Government. In case the United States Government shall so condemn such lands, including submerged lands, property and property rights, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control may pay all expenses of such condemnation proceedings and any award that may be made thereunder out of any monies appropriated for such purposes. Effect of Amendment The 1993 amendment substituted "South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control" for "South Carolina Coastal Council."
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-5-370 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 3 / Section 3-5-370
SECTION 3-5-370. State shall retain concurrent jurisdiction over lands for purpose of civil and criminal process.
Status: in_force

The State retains concurrent jurisdiction with the United States over any lands acquired and held in pursuance of the provisions of this article so far as that all civil and criminal process issued under authority of any laws of this State may be executed in any part of the premises so acquired for such inland waterway or for the buildings or constructions thereon erected for the purposes of such inland waterway.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-7-130 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 7 / Article 3 / Section 3-7-130
SECTION 3-7-130. Agreement to provide for division of payments; notice.
Status: in_force

Each agreement entered into pursuant to Section 3-7-120 shall contain the names of the political subdivisions with respect to which it is consummated and a statement of the proportionate share of the payment by the United States to which each political subdivision shall be entitled. The governing body of the county shall immediately notify each political subdivision with respect to which an agreement is entered into of the consummation thereof.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-7-190 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 7 / Article 3 / Section 3-7-190
SECTION 3-7-190. Services which political subdivisions are required to furnish.
Status: in_force

No provision of this article shall be construed to relieve any political subdivision of this State, in the absence of an agreement for payment of sums in lieu of taxes by the United States as provided in this article, of the duty of furnishing for the benefit of a project all services which the political subdivision usually furnishes to property in, and persons residing within, the political subdivision without a payment in lieu of taxes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-1-310 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 5 / Section 3-1-310
SECTION 3-1-310. Power of Governor to convey or cede tracts.
Status: in_force

Whenever the United States desires to acquire title to land belonging to the State and covered by the navigable waters of the United States, within the limits thereof, for the site of a lighthouse, beacon or other aid to navigation and application is made by a duly authorized agent of the United States, describing the site required for one of the purposes aforesaid, the Governor may convey the title to the United States and cede to the United States jurisdiction over such land; provided, that no single tract so conveyed shall contain more than ten acres.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-110 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-110
SECTION 3-3-110. Other lands in Beaufort County for military purposes.
Status: in_force

The following described lands situated in Beaufort County have been granted and ceded to the United States for military purposes in providing for a road to and from the United States training station, to wit: A strip of land two hundred feet wide, starting at a point on the north bank of Archer's Creek, N. 64° 29' W. 6563 feet from monument numbered 31 at the marine barracks, Parris Island, South Carolina, thence N. 13° 40' W. 4605 feet to a point at the mean high-water line near Jericho Point; thence N. 87° 39' E. 204 feet to a point also at the mean high-water line near Jericho Point; thence S. 13° 40' E. 4565 feet to a point on the north bank of Archer's Creek; thence S. 76° 20' W. 200 feet to the point of beginning. The conveyance of the tract of land herein described to the United States was made upon the express condition and limitation that said property shall be used only for military purposes and when it shall cease to be actually used for military purposes, the title and right of possession shall immediately revert to this State without notice, demand or action brought. The grant was also made upon condition that it would not be effectual as to any portion of the premises embraced in the foregoing description in or to which any person had any right, title or interest or upon which any person owned or had buildings, structures or improvements until the United States compensated such person for such right, title and interest and for such buildings, structures and improvements and acquired the right, title and interest of such person thereto or therein. In case of the failure of the United States and any person interested as aforesaid or owner as aforesaid to agree upon proper compensation to be paid as above provided the United States may have such compensation determined by the verdict of a jury upon application by petition to the court of common pleas of Beaufort County. Such court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of such petition which shall be served as by law a summons in a civil action in said court is to be served. Such cause shall be heard without delay, at a term of court, and under the direction of the presiding judge thereof and such determination shall be final and without appeal. And upon the amount so found being paid, with all costs of the proceedings, if any, the right, title and interest of such person or owner thereto and therein shall vest in the United States.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-1-450 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 7 / Section 3-1-450
SECTION 3-1-450. Consent of board to extension of national forests.
Status: in_force

There shall be no further expansion of the national forest acquisition boundaries in this State except with the consent of the South Carolina National Forest Land Board.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-90 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-90
SECTION 3-3-90. Other marshland in Beaufort County for inland navigation.
Status: in_force

There has been granted to the United States a strip of marshland not exceeding one thousand feet in width, lying in and along a tidal stream known as Archer's Creek, on either side thereof, and extending throughout the entire length of said creek, the exact limits having been determined by the Secretary of War. This grant was made in order to facilitate the improvement of said creek for the purposes of navigation and the United States may dredge, fill in, occupy and use said strip of land in any way that may be necessary to execute any project for such improvement which Congress has adopted since February 21, 1912, or may hereafter adopt and for no other purpose.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-5-80 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 3-5-80
SECTION 3-5-80. Surveys for purpose of determining property uses.
Status: in_force

For the purpose of determining the lands, easements and property necessary for the uses herein set out, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control or the United States Government, or the agents of either, may enter upon any lands along the general line of the rights of way for the purposes of locating definitely the specific lines of such rights of way and the land required for such purposes and there shall be no claim against the State or the United States for such acts as may be done in making such surveys. Effect of Amendment The 1993 amendment substituted "South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control" for "South Carolina Coastal Council."
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-11-320 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 11 / Section 3-11-320
SECTION 3-11-320. Cruise liners.
Status: in_force

Any county or municipal ordinance prohibiting or regulating gambling or gambling vessels pursuant to Sections 3-11-200 or 3-11-300 must not be construed to prohibit or regulate a passenger cruise liner from having gambling devices on board so long as there is no gambling allowed while the passenger cruise liner is within the territorial waters of the State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-1-150 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 3 / Section 3-1-150
SECTION 3-1-150. Acceptance of relinquishment of United States jurisdiction by Fiscal Accountability Authority.
Status: in_force

(A)(1) Whenever a duly authorized official or agent of the United States, acting pursuant to authority conferred by the Congress, notifies the State Fiscal Accountability Authority or any other State official, department or agency, that the United States desires or is willing to relinquish to the State the jurisdiction, or a portion thereof, held by the United States over the lands designated in such notice, the State Fiscal Accountability Authority may, in its discretion, accept such relinquishment. Such acceptance may be made by sending a notice of acceptance to the official or agent designated by the United States to receive such notice of acceptance. The State Fiscal Accountability Authority shall send a signed copy of the notice of acceptance, together with the notice of relinquishment received from the United States, to the Secretary of State, who shall maintain a permanent file of the notices. (2) Upon the sending of the notice of acceptance to the designated official or agent of the United States, the State shall immediately have such jurisdiction over the lands designated in the notice of relinquishment as the notice shall specify. (3) The provisions of this subsection shall apply to the relinquishment of jurisdiction acquired by the United States under the provisions of Sections 3-1-110 and 3-1-120. (B)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, the State shall exercise concurrent jurisdiction with the United States over any military installation of the United States Department of Defense located or established within the State in the matter relating to a violation of federal law by a juvenile within the boundaries of that military installation if: (a) the United States Attorney, or the United States District Court, for the applicable district in South Carolina, waives exclusive jurisdiction; and (b) the violation of federal law is also a crime or infraction under state law. (2) The provisions of this subsection shall apply to the relinquishment of jurisdiction acquired by the United States under the provisions of Sections 3-1-110, 3-1-120, and the specific grants the United States outlined in Chapter 3 of this title. (C) Upon the establishment of concurrent jurisdiction, any state or local agency may enter into a reciprocal agreement with any agency of the United States for coordination and designation of responsibilities related to the concurrent jurisdiction. Effect of Amendment 2025 Act No. 54, SECTION 1, designated the three previously undesignated paragraphs as (A)(1) to (A)(3); added (B) to (C); and made a nonsubstantive change.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-7-10 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 7 / Article 1 / Section 3-7-10
SECTION 3-7-10. State and political subdivisions authorized to enter into agreements with United States Government.
Status: in_force

The State, the agencies of the State, the governing bodies of the counties and municipalities are authorized to adopt resolutions or ordinances of assurances required by the Secretary of the Army or the Chief of Engineers for the fulfillment of the required items of local cooperation as expressed in the appropriate acts of Congress or congressional documents upon a determination by the State, State agencies, governing bodies of the counties or municipalities that a project will accrue to the general or special benefit of the governing authority, may contract or otherwise commit itself to the United States to provide the necessary interest in lands and all existing structures on the lands, to make contributions of money or property in lieu of providing disposal areas for dredge materials, to hold the United States safe and harmless from damages done or caused to be done or for any claim or demand whatsoever for such damages suffered by or done to any property on which work is being performed and to provide or satisfy any other items or conditions of local cooperation as required by the Secretary of the Army or in the congressional documents covering the particular project.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-5-180 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 3-5-180
SECTION 3-5-180. Remedies with respect to oysters beyond limits of acquired areas exclusive.
Status: in_force

The remedies herein given with respect to oysters lying beyond the limits of the areas to be acquired for said waterway project such rights of way shall be exclusive.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-7-160 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 7 / Article 3 / Section 3-7-160
SECTION 3-7-160. Collection by county treasurer.
Status: in_force

The governing body of the county shall file one copy of an agreement for a payment of sums in lieu of taxes with the county treasurer. On or before the date on which any payment of sums in lieu of taxes is due the county treasurer shall present a bill to the United States in the name of the county in the amount of such payment. Whenever such payment is received the county treasurer shall issue a receipt therefor, in the name of the county.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-5-120 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 3-5-120
SECTION 3-5-120. Survey and determination of damage to oyster beds or oysters.
Status: in_force

If and when any such oyster beds or oysters growing therein shall have been damaged by muddy water or by other effects of such dredging operations any person holding such oyster beds in fee simple or in leasehold or owning the oysters growing therein or any person engaged in the prosecution of the work of constructing the waterway shall be privileged to apply to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control to survey such oyster beds and oysters and to determine the extent and amount of such damage. Upon any such application, the Department of Health and Environmental Control shall proceed promptly to survey the damage done to such oyster beds and oysters and to determine the identity of the person causing such damage and the identity of the owner in fee or in leasehold of such oyster beds and oysters suffering such damage. The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control may subpoena witnesses to assist in the determination of such facts. The department of Health and Environmental Control must afford the owner of the alleged damaged oyster beds and oysters and the person alleged to have caused the damage an opportunity to be heard. Effect of Amendment The 1993 amendment substituted "South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control" for "South Carolina Coastal Council" and "Council."
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-1-420 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 7 / Section 3-1-420
SECTION 3-1-420. Power of United States over acquired lands.
Status: in_force

The United States may adopt such laws and make or provide for the making of such rules and regulations of both civil and criminal nature, and provide punishment for violation thereof, as, in its judgment, may be necessary for the management, control and protection of such lands as may be from time to time acquired by the United States under the provisions of Section 3-1-410.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-220 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-220
SECTION 3-3-220. Marshlands adjacent to Castle or Fort Pinckney ceded for sanatorium.
Status: in_force

Certain marshlands next adjacent to Castle or Fort Pinckney, not previously ceded to the United States, and consisting of fifty acres of marshlands, more or less, were granted to the United States in 1898 for the purpose of erecting, constructing and maintaining a home or sanatorium for disabled officers, soldiers and sailors of the Army and Navy of the United States. Land tax exempt. - Such lands shall so long as they shall be used for the purpose aforesaid be exonerated and discharged from all taxes, assessments and other charges which may be imposed under the authority of this State. Plat to be made and filed. - The proper officers of the United States in charge of such institution were required to cause to be executed a plat of the lands which were acquired for such purpose and file it in the office of the Secretary of State of this State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-5-110 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 3-5-110
SECTION 3-5-110. Damages to oysters and oyster beds beyond area of waterway.
Status: in_force

All persons engaged in the cultivation of oysters on oyster beds held either in fee simple or in leasehold beyond the limits of the areas to be acquired for said waterway project from Winyah Bay to the State boundary line in the Savannah River shall be entitled to compensation for damages done to such oyster beds or the oysters therein by reason of dredging operations in the construction of said waterway, such compensation to be paid by the persons engaged in the dredging operations and not by the State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-130 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-130
SECTION 3-3-130. One hundred feet on Haddrell's Point in Charleston County for erection of beacon.
Status: in_force

One hundred feet square of land on Haddrell's Point in Charleston County, conveyed by Mrs. Rebecca Bee Barksdale for the use of the United States, has been ceded to the United States for the purpose of erecting a beacon thereon. But nothing contained in such cession shall be construed to exclude or prevent any process, civil or criminal, issuing from the courts of this State from being served or executed within the limits of such cession.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-320 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-320
SECTION 3-3-320. Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter County.
Status: in_force

The State hereby consents to acquisition by the United States of America of those certain pieces, parcels or tracts of land known as Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter County, containing twenty-eight hundred acres, more or less, together with the radio range used in conjunction therewith, containing eleven acres, more or less, and all other lands owned by the United States of America adjacent to said Shaw Air Force Base which were being used for military purposes by the United States of America on February 9, 1950. The State waives any right to compensation which it may have by reason of the taking and use of such lands by the United States of America and the State cedes to the United States of America, without compensation, all the right, title, interest and estate which the State had in said tracts of land so acquired by the United States of America. Exclusive jurisdiction in and over said Shaw Air Force Base and the above-described lands adjacent thereto so acquired by the United States of America shall be and is hereby ceded to the United States of America for all purposes except the service upon such sites of all civil and criminal process of the courts of this State. But the jurisdiction so ceded shall continue no longer than the United States of America shall own such lands and continue to use them for military purposes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-5-310 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 3 / Section 3-5-310
SECTION 3-5-310. Right of way from Little River to Winyah Bay.
Status: in_force

For the purpose of aiding in the construction of the proposed inland waterway by the United States from the North Carolina-South Carolina State line at Little River to Winyah Bay the Governor and the Secretary of State may issue to the United States of America a grant to the land located within said inland waterway right of way of a width of one thousand feet when the land does not exceed eight feet in elevation above mean low water, with increased widths approximately in proportion to the quantity of excavation required as the elevation of the land increases until a maximum of one thousand seven hundred and fifty feet is reached when the ground elevation is thirty feet or more above mean low water, in so far as such land is subject to grant by the State, such grant to issue upon a certificate showing the location and description of such right of way furnished to the Governor by the Secretary of the Army or by an authorized officer of the Corps of Engineers of the United States Army or by any other authorized official exercising control over the construction of said waterway. Whenever in the construction of such inland waterway within this State lands theretofore submerged shall be raised above the water by the deposit of excavated material, the lands so formed shall become the property of the United States if within the limits of such inland waterway right of way and the Governor and the Secretary of State may issue to the United States of America a grant to the land so formed within such limits as above specified, the grant to issue upon a certificate furnished to the Governor by some authorized official of the United States as above provided.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-11-300 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 11 / Section 3-11-300
SECTION 3-11-300. Grant of additional authority; vessels outside territorial waters of state; passenger cruise liner exception.
Status: in_force

(A) The authority delegated to a county or municipality pursuant to this section is granted pursuant to Chapter 9 of Title 4 and Chapter 7 of Title 5 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina. This authority is separate from and in addition to the authority granted to a county or municipality pursuant to Sections 3-11-200 through 3-11-210, which authorize exercise of this state's Johnson Act authority pursuant to 15 U.S.C. Sections 1171 through 1177, except for passenger cruise liners. (B) Except as provided for in subsection (C), the General Assembly delegates to a county for the unincorporated areas of a county, and to a municipality for the municipality, the authority to regulate or prohibit gambling aboard gambling vessels while such vessels are outside the territorial waters of the State, when such vessels embark or disembark passengers within their respective jurisdictions for voyages that depart from the territorial waters of the State, sail into United States or international waters, and return to the territorial waters of the State without an intervening stop. (C) A county or municipality is prohibited from regulating or prohibiting gambling on passenger cruise liners, as defined in this chapter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-5-50 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 3-5-50
SECTION 3-5-50. Condemnation of lands needed from private persons or public service companies by Department of Health and Environmental Control.
Status: in_force

If for any reason the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control is unable to secure any rights-of-way and spoil disposal area upon, across, or through any such land, including submerged lands, property, or rights, by voluntary agreement with the owner, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, acting for and in behalf of the State may condemn it. Effect of Amendment The 1987 Amendment rewrote this section, removing references to condemnation of land under the provisions of Article 3 of Chapter 17 of Title 57. The 1993 amendment substituted "South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control" for "South Carolina Coastal Council" and "Council."
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-150 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-150
SECTION 3-3-150. "Charleston Club House," on Meeting Street in Charleston for courthouse or other purpose.
Status: in_force

A lot of land for a courthouse and office connected therewith for the use of the United States courts or for any other purposes to which the government of the United States may think proper to apply it has been ceded to the United States described as follows, viz.: All that lot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings thereon, known as the "Charleston Club House," situate, lying and being on the west side of Meeting Street, in the city of Charleston, measuring and continuing in front, on Meeting Street, fifty-eight feet, more or less, by about two hundred and thirty-six feet in depth, more or less; bounding, north, on lands formerly of Wm. P. Greeland; to the east, on Meeting Street; to the south, on lands formerly of M. C. Mordecai; and to the west, on lands of the French Protestant Church. But all process, civil or criminal, issued under the authority of this State or any officer thereof may be served and executed on any part of said premises and on any person there being and implicated in any matter of law. Said lot of land and all the buildings and structures of every kind erected thereon shall be absolutely and forever exempt from all taxes of the county of Charleston, the corporation of the city of Charleston and this State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-11-310 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 11 / Section 3-11-310
SECTION 3-11-310. Penalties under ordinances adopted pursuant to Section 3-11-300.
Status: in_force

A county or municipality adopting an ordinance regulating or prohibiting gambling vessels pursuant to Section 3-11-300 may assess only a civil penalty of not more than one hundred dollars per passenger for each violation, with an aggregate total in penalties not to exceed fifty thousand dollars per gambling vessel for a twenty-four hour period. Additionally, a county or municipality may obtain injunctive relief against a person for violation of an ordinance regulating or prohibiting gambling vessels pursuant to Section 3-11-300.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-1-320 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 5 / Section 3-1-320
SECTION 3-1-320. Retention of concurrent jurisdiction for service of civil and criminal process.
Status: in_force

The State shall retain concurrent jurisdiction so far that all process, civil or criminal, issuing under the authority of the State, may be executed by the proper officers thereof upon any person amenable to such process within the limits of land so ceded in like manner and to like effect as if this article had never been enacted.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-1-20 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 1 / Section 3-1-20
SECTION 3-1-20. Retention of concurrent jurisdiction for service of civil and criminal process.
Status: in_force

Such jurisdiction is granted upon the express condition that the State shall retain a concurrent jurisdiction with the United States in and over such lands, so far as that civil process in all cases not affecting the real or personal property of the United States and such criminal or other process as shall issue under the authority of the State against any person charged with crimes or misdemeanors committed within or without the limit of such lands may be executed therein in the same way and manner as if no jurisdiction had been hereby ceded.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-7-110 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 7 / Article 3 / Section 3-7-110
SECTION 3-7-110. Definitions.
Status: in_force

The following definitions shall be applied to the terms used in this article: (1) "Agreement" shall mean contract and shall include renewals and alterations of a contract; (2) "Political subdivision" shall mean any agency or unit of this State, corporate or otherwise, which is authorized to levy taxes or empowered to cause taxes to be levied; (3) "Services" shall mean such public and municipal functions as are performed for property in and persons residing within a political subdivision; and (4) "Project" shall mean any reforestation project, resettlement project or rural rehabilitation project for resettlement purposes of the United States located within a political subdivision and shall include the persons inhabiting such project.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-330 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-330
SECTION 3-3-330. Lot in City of Sumter for public building.
Status: reserved

The right, title and interest of this State to, and the jurisdiction of this State over, the following described lot or parcel of land has been granted and ceded to the United States for the erection of a public building, to wit: That lot of land in the city of Sumter, Sumter County, situate on the southeastern corner of Main and Caldwell Streets, of said city, fronting and measuring on Main Street one hundred and fifteen (115) feet and on Caldwell Street one hundred and thirty (130) feet and bounded on the north by Caldwell Street; on the east by land formerly of C. G. Rowland and others; on the south by land formerly of C. G. Rowland and others; and on the west by Main Street. Service of process. There was reserved to the State concurrent jurisdiction for the execution within and upon the premises so granted of all process, civil or criminal, lawfully issued by the courts of this State, not incompatible with such cession.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-290 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-290
SECTION 3-3-290. Lot on South Island in Georgetown County for lighthouse.
Status: in_force

A lot on South Island in Georgetown County, on the southern edge of Winyah Entrance, has been ceded to the United States for a lighthouse. Such lot shall, during the continuance of such lighthouse, be exempt from any taxes to be paid to this State. But such lot and every person and officer residing or employed thereon, whether in the service of the United States or not, shall be subject and liable to the government of this State and the jurisdiction, laws and authority thereof in the same manner as if this cession had never been made and the United States shall exercise no more authority or power within the limits of said land than it might have done previous to the cession thereof or than may be necessary for the building, erection, repairing or internal government of the lighthouse and of the officers and persons by the United States to be employed in and about the same.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-70 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-70
SECTION 3-3-70. Lot in City of Aiken.
Status: in_force

The right, title and interest of the State to, and the jurisdiction of this State over, the following described lot or parcel of land has been granted and ceded to the United States for the erection of a public building, to wit: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land situate, lying and being in the city of Aiken, in Aiken County, beginning at the southwest corner of Park Avenue and Laurens Street, running thence southerly with the west line of Laurens Street one hundred and forty feet; thence westerly at right angles with Laurens Street one hundred and twenty feet; thence northerly, parallel with Laurens Street, one hundred feet, more or less; thence easterly with Park Avenue one hundred and twenty feet, more or less, to the point of beginning. Jurisdiction and service of process. Exclusive jurisdiction in and over said lot or parcel of land, when acquired by the United States, was ceded to the United States for the purposes mentioned except the service upon such sites of all civil and criminal processes of the courts of this State; but the jurisdiction so ceded shall continue no longer than the United States shall own such piece of land. Condition of cession; exemption from taxes. Such jurisdiction was so ceded on condition that it would not vest until the United States acquired the title to such land by purchase from its owner. So long as the lot or parcel of land shall remain the property of the United States when so acquired and no longer it shall be and continue exempt and exonerated from all State, county and municipal taxation, assessments or other charges which may be levied or imposed under the authority of this State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 3-3-300 — SC Code / Title 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3-300
SECTION 3-3-300. Lands in City of Georgetown.
Status: reserved

All of the land lying below high-water mark in the city of Georgetown at the foot of King Street on the Sampit River adjacent to certain lands conveyed by the city of Georgetown to the United States Government, or any department thereof, has been ceded to the United States Government or department thereof. The lands so ceded to the United States shall revert to the State when they cease to be used by the United States. There was reserved to this State in such cession the concurrent jurisdiction for the execution within such premises of all processes, civil and criminal, lawfully issued by the courts of this State and not incompatible with this cession.