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SC Code § 5-19-280 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 19 - Civil Service Commissions|Section 5-19-280. Reports.

 Every such commission shall make a full semiannual report to the city council of its actions for the preceding six months, including the rules and regulations promulgated and in force, and it may include in such report any recommendations affecting the police and fire departments. Copies of such semiannual report shall be kept in the files of the commission as a part of its permanent records. The city council may at any time call upon the commission for a report on any special matter, and the commission shall provide a full and complete report in keeping with such request.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-738; 1952 Code Section 47-738; 1942 Code Section 7546; 1939 (41) 160.
SC Code § 5-19-290 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 19 - Civil Service Commissions|Section 5-19-290. Effect of provisions of article upon powers of city council.

 No clause or provision of this article shall be so construed as to deprive the city council of such municipality of its control over the operations of the police and fire departments or the right to prescribe and require the performance of the duties of the personnel of such departments, nor so as to deprive such city council of the right to control the finances and fix the number of employees in the departments and the compensation to be paid each and to exercise the exclusive right to purchase all equipment and supplies for such departments.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-739; 1952 Code Section 47-739; 1942 Code Section 7546; 1939 (41) 160; 1943 (43) 45.
SC Code § 5-19-300 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 19 - Civil Service Commissions|Section 5-19-300. Article is cumulative.

 It is not intended by this article to repeal any existing laws as they may affect municipalities of this State, but to extend and enlarge the powers of such municipalities as may fall within the population limitations of this article, and as may elect to create such civil service commission by appropriate ordinance.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-740; 1952 Code Section 47-740; 1942 Code Section 7546; 1939 (41) 160.
SC Code § 5-21-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 21 - Financial Matters Generally|Section 5-21-10. Prerequisites to creating debts or endorsing or guaranteeing notes and the like in cities over 45,000.

 No city council of any city of over forty-five thousand inhabitants shall create any debt beyond the municipal income of the current year or endorse or guarantee the notes, bonds or obligations or accept the drafts of any person for any purpose whatsoever, unless the following terms and conditions be first observed and complied with:  (1) A resolution declaring the intention of the city council to create such indebtedness or incur such liability and specifying the amount thereof shall first have been passed at a regular meeting of the city council by a vote of two thirds of the whole body;  (2) The proposition, after being adopted in such manner by the city council, shall have been submitted to the qualified voters of the city at an election held under resolution of the city council after ninety days' notice thereof and two thirds of the number of qualified voters voting at such election shall have voted affirmatively; and  (3) The proposition shall have been submitted to the General Assembly for approval and approved by the General Assembly.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-802; 1952 Code Section 47-802; 1942 Code Section 7552; 1932 Code Section 7530; Civ. C. '22 Section 4644; Civ. C. '12 Section 2959; Civ. C. '02 Section 1993; 1899 (23) 51.
SC Code § 5-21-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 21 - Financial Matters Generally|Section 5-21-20. Exceptions to 5-21-10.

 Nothing in Section 5-21-10 contained shall apply to any debt contracted or to any note, bond, draft or obligation executed, indorsed or guaranteed by the city council of such city and approved and confirmed by a two-thirds vote of the whole of such city council, at a regular meeting thereof, for the purpose of (a) the establishment of a sewage system, (b) securing a supply of water or light for its public use, by contract or (c) the lease, purchase, construction or operation by the city council of any plant for waterworks or lighting purposes, one or both. For any of such purposes the city council may create debts and incur liabilities beyond the municipal income of the current year, upon the same being approved and confirmed by a two-thirds vote of the whole of the city council at a regular meeting thereof. But no purchase or construction of any such plant for waterworks or lighting purposes shall be made by the city council except upon a majority vote of the electors in such city who are qualified to vote on the bonded indebtedness of the city.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-803; 1952 Code Section 47-803; 1942 Code Section 7552; 1932 Code Section 7530; Civ. C. '22 Section 4644; Civ. C. '12 Section 2959; Civ. C. '02 Section 1993; 1899 (23) 51.
SC Code § 5-21-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 21 - Financial Matters Generally|Section 5-21-30. Municipal officers prohibited from contracting with municipality; exceptions.

 (A) It is unlawful for a municipal officer to take a contract to perform work or furnish material for the municipal corporation of which he is an officer or receive compensation on any contract except that:  (1) in cities of over thirty thousand inhabitants such contracts may be allowed by the unanimous vote of the city council upon each specific contract, the vote to be taken by yeas and nays and entered upon the council's journal; and  (2) a municipal officer may enter into a contract whenever the contract is awarded to him as low bidder after a public call for bids and the contract is allowed by the unanimous vote of the city or town council upon each particular contract, the vote to be taken by yeas and nays and entered upon the council's minutes.  (B) A person violating the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined in the discretion of the court or imprisoned not more than three years.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-804; 1952 Code Section 47-804; 1942 Code Sections 1516, 7242; 1932 Code Sections 1516, 7242; Civ. C. '22 Section 4397; Cr. C. '22 Section 464; Civ. C. '12 Section 2999; Cr. C. '12 Section 304; Civ. C. '02 Section 2002; Cr. C. '02 Section 224; 1900 (23) 455; 1946 (44) 1418; 1993 Act No. 184, Section 130.
SC Code § 5-21-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 21 - Financial Matters Generally|Section 5-21-40. Officers required to account to municipality for interest collected on deposits.

 A municipal officer depositing funds at interest in a bank or other depository shall account to the municipality for all interest collected on the deposits. A person violating the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined in the discretion of the court or imprisoned not more than three years.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-805; 1952 Code Section 47-805; 1942 Code Section 1577; 1932 Code Section 1577; Cr. C. '22 Section 530; 1915 (29) 56; 1993 Act No. 184, Section 131.
SC Code § 5-21-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 21 - Financial Matters Generally|Section 5-21-50. Towns over 200 required to publish financial statements.

 All towns in this State of more than two hundred population shall keep an itemized account of all receipts and disbursements and shall publish quarterly statements of such accounts in some newspaper in the county in which such town is situated or shall post such quarterly statements at some conspicuous place or places in the town.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-807; 1952 Code Section 47-807; 1942 Code Section 7243; 1932 Code Section 7243; Civ. C. '22 Section 4398; 1912 (27) 817; 1933 (38) 163.
SC Code § 5-21-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 21 - Financial Matters Generally|Section 5-21-60. Prorating of municipal business license taxes on business establishments annexed into municipalities.

 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when any business establishment is annexed into the corporate limits of a municipality which has a business license tax, the tax for the business concerned for the year in which the annexation became effective shall be prorated so that the amount payable shall be one-twelfth of the annual tax multiplied by the number of full months of the tax year the business was located within the corporate limits. The provisions of this section shall apply to the year 1976 and each year thereafter.  HISTORY: 1977 Act No. 126.
SC Code § 5-21-110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 21 - Financial Matters Generally|Section 5-21-110. Property subject to municipal taxes.

 All municipal taxes levied by cities and towns in this State shall be levied on all property, real and personal, not exempt by law from taxation, situate within the limits of such cities and towns.  All clauses of charters of cities or towns restricting taxation in such cities or towns to real estate only are hereby repealed.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-821; 1952 Code Section 47-821; 1942 Code Section 7265; 1932 Code Section 7265; Civ. C. '22 Section 4420; Civ. C. '12 Section 3011; Civ. C. '02 Section 2006; 1897 (22) 409.
SC Code § 5-21-120 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 21 - Financial Matters Generally|Section 5-21-120. Cities and towns authorized to collect taxes in installments.

 The cities and towns of this State may collect the taxes of such cities or towns in such installments as the municipal authorities thereof may by ordinance prescribe.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-822; 1952 Code Section 47-822; 1942 Code Section 7266; 1932 Code Section 7266; Civ. C. '22 Section 4421; Civ. C. '12 Section 3012; Civ. C. '02 Section 2007; 1898 (22) 728.
SC Code § 5-21-130 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 21 - Financial Matters Generally|Section 5-21-130. Unlawful for proceeds of tax specially levied to be applied for other purposes.

 Whenever a municipal corporation shall levy and collect a tax for any specific purpose, it shall be unlawful for the officers or agents of such municipal corporation to apply any of the proceeds of such tax levy to any other purpose than that for which it was collected, until such purpose shall have been discharged, fulfilled or abandoned. Any municipal officer or agent violating the provisions of this section shall be fined in a sum of not less than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not less than six months, or both, in the discretion of the judge.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-823; 1952 Code Section 47-823; 1942 Code Section 1509; 1932 Code Section 1509; Cr. C. '22 Section 458; Cr. C. '12 Section 533; 1909 (26) 124.
SC Code § 5-21-140 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 21 - Financial Matters Generally|Section 5-21-140. Authority of municipalities to grant special property tax assessments to rehabilitated historic properties and low and moderate income rental properties.

 The powers and authorities conferred upon county governing bodies by Section 4-9-195 are also conferred upon municipal governing bodies, mutatis mutandi.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 474, Section 2.
SC Code § 5-21-210 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 21 - Financial Matters Generally|Section 5-21-210. Short title.

 This article may be cited as the "Municipal Bond Act."  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-831; 1952 Code Section 47-831; 1951 (47) 771.
SC Code § 5-21-220 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 21 - Financial Matters Generally|Section 5-21-220. Definitions.

 As used in this article:  (1) The word "municipality" shall mean an incorporated city or town, irrespective of its population;  (2) The term "municipal council" shall mean the governing body of any incorporated city or town;  (3) The term "corporate purpose" shall denote any public purpose, necessary or convenient to the welfare of the municipality and shall include the funding of existing indebtedness, evidenced otherwise than by bonds of the municipality; and  (4) The word "commissioners" shall mean the commissioners of public works or the board of public works or other body established by law and given the power of operating any waterworks system, electric light system, sewage system or other municipal utility.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-832; 1952 Code Section 47-832; 1951 (47) 771.
SC Code § 5-21-230 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 21 - Financial Matters Generally|Section 5-21-230. Declaration of purpose.

 This article is designed to authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds by the several incorporated cities and towns of this State and to provide the procedure for the issuance and the method for the payment of such bonds for all corporate purposes for which the municipal corporations shall be empowered to issue bonds, except:  (1) Bonds issued to refund other bonds; and  (2) Bonds issued in anticipation of the collection of unpaid paving assessments due such municipalities.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-833; 1952 Code Section 47-833; 1951 (47) 771.
SC Code § 5-21-240 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 21 - Financial Matters Generally|Section 5-21-240. Municipal councils authorized to issue bonds; extent of issue.

 The municipal council of any municipality may issue general obligation bonds of such municipality for any corporate purpose of such municipality to any amount not exceeding the constitutional debt limitation applicable, if such there be, under the conditions prescribed by this article.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-834; 1952 Code Section 47-834; 1951 (47) 771.
SC Code § 5-21-250 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 21 - Financial Matters Generally|Section 5-21-250. Petition for election on issuance.

 Unless exempted in whole or in part from the following requirement by reason of a special constitutional amendment, there shall be filed with the municipal council a petition signed by a majority of the freeholders of such municipality, as shown by its tax books, petitioning the municipal council to hold an election of the sort provided for by the Constitution of the State upon the question of issuing bonds of the municipality. The petition shall set forth the amount of bonds sought to be issued and the purpose or purposes for which the proceeds thereof are to be expended. Each purpose shall be separately enumerated, except that a proposed bond issue for water and sewer purposes may be combined. The filing of such petition shall be a condition precedent to the holding of the election provided for by this article.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-835; 1952 Code Section 47-835; 1951 (47) 771.
SC Code § 5-21-260 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 21 - Financial Matters Generally|Section 5-21-260. Notice of filing of petition.

 Upon the filing of such a petition the municipal council shall give notice that it has been filed and will be open for public inspection on all secular days during the week following the publication of the notice and that action will be taken on the petition on some occasion specified in such notice, not sooner than ten days following the occasion when the notice shall be published. Such notice shall be published in some newspaper having general circulation in the municipality.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-836; 1952 Code Section 47-836; 1951 (47) 771.
SC Code § 5-21-270 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 21 - Financial Matters Generally|Section 5-21-270. Action on petition.

 Upon the occasion fixed in the notice a meeting of the municipal council shall be held for the purpose of determining the sufficiency of the petition and action thereon shall be taken at such meeting or some adjournment thereof. If the municipal council shall find:  (1) That the petition is signed by a majority of the freeholders of the municipality;  (2) That it seeks the issuance of bonds for corporate purposes of the municipality; and  (3) That it seeks the issuance of bonds in an amount not prohibited by any constitutional limitation;  The municipal council shall order such an election.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-837; 1952 Code Section 47-837; 1951 (47) 771.
SC Code § 5-21-280 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 21 - Financial Matters Generally|Section 5-21-280. Time for holding election.

 Such election shall be held not sooner than twenty days from the occasion on which the election shall be ordered.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-838; 1952 Code Section 47-838; 1951 (47) 771.
SC Code § 5-21-290 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 21 - Financial Matters Generally|Section 5-21-290. Notice of the holding of the election.

 Notice of the holding of the election shall be published in some newspaper having general circulation in the municipality on not less than two occasions. The first publication shall appear not less than fifteen days prior to the occasion of the holding of the election and the second publication shall appear within the week prior to the election. Such notice shall specify:  (1) The time of the holding of the election;  (2) The location of the several polling places;  (3) The qualifications imposed upon persons desirous of voting;  (4) The amount of bonds to be issued; and  (5) A brief description of the purposes for which the proceeds of the bonds are to be applied.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-839; 1952 Code Section 47-839; 1951 (47) 771.
SC Code § 5-21-300 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 21 - Financial Matters Generally|Section 5-21-300. Qualified voters.

 Only those persons, residents of the municipality, qualified under the applicable constitutional provisions to vote in such elections shall be entitled to vote.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-840; 1952 Code Section 47-840; 1951 (47) 771.
SC Code § 5-21-310 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 21 - Financial Matters Generally|Section 5-21-310. Ballots.

 The form of ballot shall seek an answer to the question or questions as to whether the municipal council of the municipality shall be empowered to issue general obligation bonds of such municipality for the purpose specified in the petition. The question thus presented shall be followed with the words "YES" and "NO" and instructions shall appear on such ballot that those who wish the issuance of bonds shall strike through the word "NO" while those who oppose the issuance of bonds shall strike through the word "YES." As many questions may be submitted on a single ballot as there are purposes for which bonds are sought to be issued in the petition, but each question shall be separately stated, except that when bonds are sought to be issued for water and sewer purposes those questions may be combined. If more than one question appears on the ballot, the instructions shall make it clear to all voters that they may vote for one or more proposals and against the others or that they may vote for one or more proposals and not vote for or against the others.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-841; 1952 Code Section 47-841; 1951 (47) 771.
SC Code § 5-21-320 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 21 - Financial Matters Generally|Section 5-21-320. Declaration of result of election; effect when filed.

 Upon the receipt of the returns of the election the municipal council shall by resolution declare the results thereof. It may then provide for the filing of a certified copy of such resolution declaring the results of the election in the office of the clerk of court for the county wherein the municipality is located. In such event the results of the election, as declared by resolution of the municipality so certified and filed, shall not be open to question except by a suit or other proceeding instituted within thirty days from the date of the filing thereof.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-842; 1952 Code Section 47-842; 1951 (47) 771.
SC Code § 5-21-330 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 21 - Financial Matters Generally|Section 5-21-330. Issuance of bonds as single issue or as several separate issues; time limit for issuance of bonds.

 The bonds authorized as a consequence of the favorable result of such an election may be issued either as a single issue or from time to time as several separate issues, but no bonds shall be issued subsequent to five years following the occasion on which the election was held.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-843; 1952 Code Section 47-843; 1951 (47) 771; 1976 Act No. 527; 1980 Act No. 424, Section 2.
SC Code § 5-21-340 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 21 - Financial Matters Generally|Section 5-21-340. Maturity of bonds.

 Bonds issued hereunder shall mature in such annual series or instalments, equal or unequal in amount, as the municipal council shall provide, except that:  (1) The first maturing bonds shall mature within five years from the date as of which they are issued;  (2) Not less than two per cent of the aggregate of the issue shall mature in any year; and  (3) No bonds shall mature later than forty years from the date as of which they are issued.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-844; 1952 Code Section 47-844; 1951 (47) 771.
SC Code § 5-21-350 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 21 - Financial Matters Generally|Section 5-21-350. Redemption privilege.

 All bonds maturing subsequent to fifteen years from their date shall be subject to redemption not later than fifteen years from their date and on all subsequent interest payment dates prior to their respective maturities. Bonds may be issued with a provision permitting their redemption on any interest payment date prior to their respective maturities. Bonds made subject to redemption prior to their stated maturities may contain a provision requiring the municipality to pay a premium for the privilege of exercising the right of redemption, in such amount as the municipal council shall have prescribed in the proceedings taken to authorize the issuance of such bonds. All bonds that are subject to redemption shall contain a statement to that effect on the face of each bond. In the proceedings authorizing the issuance of such bonds, provision shall be made specifying the manner of call and the notice thereof that must be given.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-845; 1952 Code Section 47-845; 1951 (47) 771.
SC Code § 5-21-360 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 21 - Financial Matters Generally|Section 5-21-360. Negotiability; registration.

 Bonds issued hereunder shall be in the form of negotiable coupon bonds, payable to bearer, with the privilege to the holder of having them registered on the books of the treasurer of the municipality and the principal thus made payable to the registered holder, unless the last registered transfer shall have been to bearer, upon such conditions as the municipal council may prescribe. Unless registered such bonds shall have all the qualities of negotiable instruments under the law merchant and the Uniform Commercial Code.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-846; 1952 Code Section 47-846; 1951 (47) 771.