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SC Code § 54-3-118 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 54 - Ports and Maritime Matters|Chapter 3 - South Carolina State Ports Authority|Section 54-3-118. Public-private partnerships to increase capital investments in port facilities.

 It is the intent of the General Assembly that the State Ports Authority board consider public-private partnerships with private investors that increase capital investments in port facilities and in the State of South Carolina. However, the board retains all authority associated with entering a public-private partnership on behalf of the port.  HISTORY: 2009 Act No. 73, Section 14, eff June 16, 2009.
SC Code § 54-3-120 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 54 - Ports and Maritime Matters|Chapter 3 - South Carolina State Ports Authority|Section 54-3-120. Jurisdiction of Authority.

 The jurisdiction of the Authority in any of said harbors or seaports within the State shall extend over the waters and shores of such harbors or seaports and over that part of all tributary streams flowing into such harbors or seaports in which the tide ebbs and flows and shall extend to the outer edge of the outer bar at such harbors or seaports.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 54-12; 1952 Code Section 54-12; 1942 (42) 1535.
SC Code § 54-3-130 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 54 - Ports and Maritime Matters|Chapter 3 - South Carolina State Ports Authority|Section 54-3-130. Purposes of Authority.

 The Authority is created as an instrumentality of the State for the accomplishment of the following general purposes, all or any of them, which are intended to broaden and not to restrict any other powers given to it in this chapter, namely:  (1) To develop and improve the harbors or seaports of Charleston, Georgetown, and Jasper for the handling of water-borne commerce from and to any part of the State and other states and foreign countries;  (2) To acquire, construct, equip, maintain, develop and improve such harbors or seaports and their port facilities;  (3) To foster and stimulate the shipment of freight and commerce through such ports, whether originating within or without the State, including the investigation and handling of matters pertaining to all transportation rates and rate structures affecting the same;  (4) To cooperate with the United States of America, and any agency or any department, corporation or instrumentality thereof in the maintenance, development, improvement and use of such harbors and seaports in connection with and in furtherance of the war operations and needs of the United States;  (5) To accept funds from any of the counties of Beaufort, Charleston or Georgetown, and to use them in such manner, within the purposes of the Authority, as shall be stipulated by the county and to act as agent or instrumentality for any of such counties in any matter coming within the general purposes of the Authority;  (6) To act as agent for the United States of America or any agency, department, corporation or instrumentality thereof, in any matter coming within the purposes or powers of the Authority;  (7) To cooperate and act as co-assurer with the city of Augusta, Georgia, and the Georgia State Ports Authority in furtherance of the river development project known as the Savannah River Project Below Augusta;  (8) To promote, develop, construct, equip, maintain, and operate a harbor or harbors within this State on the Savannah River, and in furtherance thereof have all of the powers, purposes, and authority given by law to the authority in reference to the harbors and seaports of Charleston, Georgetown, and Jasper; and  (9) In general to do and perform any act or function which may tend to or be useful toward the development and improvement of such harbors and seaports of this State and to the increase of water-borne commerce, foreign and domestic, through such harbors and seaports.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 54-13; 1952 Code Section 54-13; 1942 (42) 1535; 1956 (49) 1794; 1958 (50) 1881; 2009 Act No. 73, Sections 10, 11, eff June 16, 2009.  Effect of Amendment  The 2009 amendment, in items (1) and (8), substituted "Jasper" for "Port Royal".
SC Code § 54-3-150 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 54 - Ports and Maritime Matters|Chapter 3 - South Carolina State Ports Authority|Section 54-3-150. Acquisition of property.

 For the acquiring of rights-of-way and property necessary for the construction of terminal railroads and structures, including railroad crossings, airports, seaplane bases, naval bases, wharves, piers, ships, docks, quays, elevators, compresses, refrigerator storage plants, warehouses, and other riparian and littoral terminals and structures and approaches to them and transportation facilities needful for their convenient use and belt line roads and highways, causeways, and bridges and other bridges and causeways, and for the acquiring of property necessary for the river development project known as the Savannah River Project Below Augusta, and for the acquiring of property necessary for the development of a harbor or harbors within this State on the Savannah River, the Authority may purchase them by negotiation or may condemn them. The power of eminent domain shall apply not only to all property of private persons or corporations but also as to property already devoted to public use.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 54-15; 1952 Code Section 54-15; 1942 (42) 1535; 1958 (50) 1881; 1987 Act No. 173 Section 34.
SC Code § 54-3-155 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 54 - Ports and Maritime Matters|Chapter 3 - South Carolina State Ports Authority|Section 54-3-155. Sale of real property, building, terminals, or other permanent structures.

 Without prior approval from the State Fiscal Accountability Authority or the Department of Administration, as applicable, the authority may not sell any real property or any buildings, terminals, or other permanent structures, excluding equipment, appurtenant to real property that are or may be used to carry out the purposes of the authority as provided in Section 54-3-130.  HISTORY: 2009 Act No. 73, Section 8, eff June 16, 2009.  Code Commissioner's Note  At the direction of the Code Commissioner, references in this section to the offices of the former State Budget and Control Board, Office of the Governor, or other agencies, were changed to reflect the transfer of them to the Department of Administration or other entities, pursuant to the directive of the South Carolina Restructuring Act, 2014 Act No. 121, Section 5(D)(1), effective July 1, 2015.
SC Code § 54-3-160 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 54 - Ports and Maritime Matters|Chapter 3 - South Carolina State Ports Authority|Section 54-3-160. Powers with respect to certain property.

 The Authority may exercise in reference to any property, assets, holdings, leases, contracts, rights, franchises or licenses conveyed to it under Section 1 of Act No. 216 of 1945 (Acts 1945, p 365) all of the rights, privileges, powers, immunities, duties and functions conferred by Sections 54-5-10, 54-5-60, 54-5-80, 54-5-90 and Sections 5-35-10 to 5-35-40 upon cities of this State having a population of fifty thousand inhabitants or more and upon port utilities commissions of such cities.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 54-16; 1952 Code Section 54-16; 1945 (44) 365.
SC Code § 54-3-170 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 54 - Ports and Maritime Matters|Chapter 3 - South Carolina State Ports Authority|Section 54-3-170. Use of certain State property.

 The Authority may take, exclusively occupy, use and possess, in so far as may be necessary for carrying out the provisions of this chapter, any areas of land owned by the State and within the counties of Beaufort, Charleston and Georgetown, not in use for State purposes, including swamps and overflowed lands, bottoms of streams, lakes, rivers, bays, the sea and arms thereof and other waters of the State and the riparian rights thereto pertaining. When so taken and occupied, due notice of such taking and occupancy having been filed with the Secretary of State, such areas of land are hereby granted to and shall be the property of the Authority. For the purposes of this section, the meaning of the term "use" shall include the removal of material from and the placing of material on any such land. In case it shall be held by any court of competent jurisdiction that there are any lands owned by the State which may not be so granted, then the provisions of this section shall continue in full force and effect as to all other lands owned by the State. The provisions of this section are subject to all laws and regulations of the United States with respect to navigable waters.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 54-17; 1952 Code Section 54-17; 1942 (42) 1535.
SC Code § 54-3-180 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 54 - Ports and Maritime Matters|Chapter 3 - South Carolina State Ports Authority|Section 54-3-180. Exchange of property; removal of structures.

 The Authority may exchange any property acquired under the authority of this chapter for other property usable in carrying out the powers hereby conferred and also may remove from lands needed for its purposes and reconstruction on other locations, buildings, terminals, railroads or other structures upon the payment of just compensation, if, in its judgment, it is necessary or expedient so to do in order to carry out any of its plans for port development, under the authorization of this chapter.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 54-18; 1952 Code Section 54-18; 1942 (42) 1535.
SC Code § 54-3-190 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 54 - Ports and Maritime Matters|Chapter 3 - South Carolina State Ports Authority|Section 54-3-190. Lease or grant of property to United States; reimbursing United States for certain acquisition costs.

 The board of the Authority may assign, transfer, lease, convey, grant or donate to the United States of America, or to the appropriate agency or department thereof, any or all of the property of the Authority for any use by such grantee for any purpose included within the general purposes of this chapter, as stated in Section 54-3-130, such assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance, grant or donation to be upon such terms as the board of the Authority may deem advisable. In the event the United States of America should decide to undertake the acquisition, construction, equipment, maintenance or operation of the airports, seaplane bases, naval bases, wharves, piers, ships, refrigerator storage plants, warehouses, elevators, compresses, docks, shipyards, shipping and transportation facilities before referred to, including terminal railroads, roads, highways, causeways or bridges, and should itself decide to acquire the lands and properties necessarily needed in connection therewith by condemnation or otherwise, the board of the Authority may transfer and pay over to the United States of America, or to the appropriate agency or department thereof, such of the moneys belonging to the Authority as may be found needed or reasonably required by the United States of America to meet and pay the amount of judgments or condemnation, including costs, if any be taxed thereon, as may from time to time be rendered against the United States of America, or its appropriate agency, or as may be reasonably necessary to permit and allow the United States of America, or its appropriate agency, to acquire and become possessed of such lands and properties as are reasonably required for the construction and use of the facilities before referred to.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 54-19; 1952 Code Section 54-19; 1942 (42) 1535.
SC Code § 54-3-200 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 54 - Ports and Maritime Matters|Chapter 3 - South Carolina State Ports Authority|Section 54-3-200. Acquisition and operation of terminal railroads.

 The Authority may acquire, own, lease, locate, install, construct, equip, hold, maintain, control and operate at harbors and seaports a line of terminal railroads with necessary sidings, turnouts, spurs, branches, switches, yard tracks, bridges, trestles and causeways and in connection therewith or appurtenant thereto may further lease, install, construct, acquire, own, maintain, control and use any and every kind or character of motive power and conveyance or appliance necessary or proper to carry passengers, goods, wares and merchandise over, along or upon the tracks of such railroads or other conveyances.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 54-20; 1952 Code Section 54-20; 1942 (42) 1535.
SC Code § 54-3-210 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 54 - Ports and Maritime Matters|Chapter 3 - South Carolina State Ports Authority|Section 54-3-210. Contracts with railroad employees.

 The Authority may make agreements as to the scale of wages, seniority and working conditions with locomotive engineers, locomotive firemen, switchmen and switch engine foremen and hostlers engaged in the operation of the terminal railroads provided for in Section 54-3-200 and the service and equipment pertinent thereto. And should the Authority exercise the power herein given then the Authority shall make such agreements with such employees in accordance with the act of Congress known as the Railway Labor Act (USC Title 45, Sections 151-163) as amended or as hereafter amended to the end that such agreements as to seniority and working conditions will obtain as to such employees and the standard rate of pay be provided as is in force relative to like employees of interstate railroads operating in the same territory with the terminal railroads authorized hereby.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 54-21; 1952 Code Section 54-21; 1942 (42) 1535.
SC Code § 54-3-220 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 54 - Ports and Maritime Matters|Chapter 3 - South Carolina State Ports Authority|Section 54-3-220. Connecting with or crossing other railroads.

 The Authority may with its terminal railroads connect with or cross any other railroad upon the payment of just compensation and receive, deliver to and transport the freight, passengers and cars of common carrier railroads as though it were an ordinary common carrier.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 54-22; 1952 Code Section 54-22; 1942 (42) 1535.
SC Code § 54-3-230 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 54 - Ports and Maritime Matters|Chapter 3 - South Carolina State Ports Authority|Section 54-3-230. Foreign-trade zones.

 The South Carolina State Ports Authority is authorized to make application to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board for the purpose of establishing, operating, and maintaining foreign-trade zones in the State, under the act of Congress known as the Foreign-Trade Zones Act which provides for the establishment, operation and maintenance of foreign-trade zones in the United States.  The South Carolina State Ports Authority shall select and describe the location of the zones for which application may be made and shall make such rules and regulations concerning the operation, maintenance and policing of them as may be necessary to insure compliance with the Foreign-Trade Zones Act and for other appropriate purposes.  The South Carolina State Ports Authority shall have full power and authority to erect, maintain and operate or lease any structures or buildings or enclosures as may be necessary or proper for the establishing, operating, and maintaining of any such foreign-trade zones in the State of South Carolina.  The authority granted to the South Carolina State Ports Authority confers the right and duty and power to do all things necessary and proper to achieve compliance with the Foreign-Trade Zone Act and to carry into effect the establishing, operating and maintaining of foreign-trade zones within the State.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 54-23; 1970 (56) 1972.
SC Code § 54-3-240 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 54 - Ports and Maritime Matters|Chapter 3 - South Carolina State Ports Authority|Section 54-3-240. Inland ports.

 The South Carolina State Ports Authority is authorized to establish inland ports to provide services for the handling of general merchandise cargo; provided, however, that no such inland port shall be established unless it is designated as a United States Port of Entry by the United States Custom Service. The State Ports Authority shall select and describe the location of any such inland port and may erect, maintain and operate or lease any structure, building or enclosure as may be necessary for the establishment, operation and maintenance of any such port. The Authority shall make such rules and regulations and do such other things as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 54-24; 1972 (57) 2178.
SC Code § 54-3-245 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 54 - Ports and Maritime Matters|Chapter 3 - South Carolina State Ports Authority|Section 54-3-245. Seafood industrial port in Beaufort County.

 In addition to the powers granted previously to the State Ports Authority, the Authority may construct, equip and operate a seafood industrial port in Beaufort County or it may contract with any agency or political subdivision of the State of South Carolina for any or all of these purposes.  HISTORY: 1978 Act No. 646 Section 2(23).
SC Code § 54-3-250 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 54 - Ports and Maritime Matters|Chapter 3 - South Carolina State Ports Authority|Section 54-3-250. Inspection of motor vehicles prior to exportation.

 No motor vehicle shall be exported to another country through the State Ports Authority unless the Authority has inspected the vehicle and determines that it is the same vehicle described on the documents required to be filed concerning the exportation of such vehicle.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 54-25; 1972 (57) 2122.
SC Code § 54-3-260 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 54 - Ports and Maritime Matters|Chapter 3 - South Carolina State Ports Authority|Section 54-3-260. Construction of terminal or railroad on Daniel Island.

 The authority must obtain the approval of the General Assembly prior to constructing a terminal or railroad on Daniel Island.  HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 387, Part II, Section 76, eff June 30, 2000.
SC Code § 54-3-270 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 54 - Ports and Maritime Matters|Chapter 3 - South Carolina State Ports Authority|Section 54-3-270. Cooper River terminal facility environmental study and permitting; indemnification of Port Authority members for Cooper River Bridge funding.

 (A) The State Ports Authority is required to begin environmental impact studies and other required actions in regard to the permitting process to locate new terminal facilities on the west bank of the Cooper River at locations it determines appropriate and with a capacity in conformance with available land at the proposed location or locations. If the locations identified are on real property not owned by the State Ports Authority, the authority is also authorized to begin the process of acquiring such property. Upon completion of the permitting process, the State Ports Authority shall render a report to the General Assembly concerning the new terminal facilities which shall include a request for any state funding necessary to complete the projects and the form such funding is requested to take. The State Ports Authority must provide the General Assembly with a summary of criteria developed for use in delineating the needs, requirements, and specifications of port expansion. The permit application must be drawn in a manner that is comprehensive, fair, and open to all sites available on the west bank of the Cooper River, based on their particular attributes, and may not exclude or prejudice artificially or unreasonably the acceptance of any site. This subsection does not authorize or allow State Ports Authority activity on the east bank of the Cooper River or the Wando side of Daniel Island except for use as dredge spoil disposal sites. This joint resolution does not constitute approval for the State Ports Authority required by Section 54-3-260 of the 1976 Code.  (B) The South Carolina Department of Transportation, the Public Railways Division of the Department of Commerce, and the State Infrastructure Bank are directed to explore all potential opportunities for federal funding of the infrastructure enhancements for port expansion on the western side of the Cooper River.  (C) The State shall take appropriate steps to provide indemnification to the State Ports Authority board members from any personal liability related to their service on the board in regard to funding provided to the South Carolina Transportation Infrastructure Bank for the Cooper River Bridge.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 256, Section 2, eff May 20, 2002; 2002 Act No. 356, Section 16, eff July 1, 2002.  Code Commissioner's Note  Codified as Section 54-3-270 at the instruction of the Code Commissioner.  Effect of Amendment  The 2002 amendment, in subsection (C), deleted "Budget and Control Board" following "State".
SC Code § 54-3-410 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 54 - Ports and Maritime Matters|Chapter 3 - South Carolina State Ports Authority|Section 54-3-410. Authority shall have general supervision of wharves, warehouses and terminal facilities.

 The Authority shall have general supervision in the port of Charleston of all wharves, warehouses and terminal facilities of all transmitting and transporting corporations and of all wharves, warehouses and terminal facilities of persons engaged in business as public warehousemen or wharfingers and shall examine them and keep itself informed as to their condition and the manner in which they are operated, with reference to the security and accommodation of the public and the compliance with all provisions of law applicable thereto.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 54-31; 1952 Code Section 54-31; 1942 Code Section 6727; 1932 Code Section 6727; Civ. C. '22 Section 3628; 1912 (27) 661; 1923 (33) 63; 1945 (44) 365.
SC Code § 54-3-420 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 54 - Ports and Maritime Matters|Chapter 3 - South Carolina State Ports Authority|Section 54-3-420. Examination of facilities.

 The Authority may examine into all wharves, warehouses and terminal facilities, and the approaches thereto in Charleston County.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 54-32; 1952 Code Section 54-32; 1942 Code Section 6730; 1932 Code Section 6730; Civ. C. '22 Section 3631; 1912 (27) 661; 1923 (33) 63; 1945 (44) 365.
SC Code § 54-3-430 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 54 - Ports and Maritime Matters|Chapter 3 - South Carolina State Ports Authority|Section 54-3-430. Requiring repair or improvement of facilities.

 Whenever in the judgment of the Authority it shall appear that repairs are necessary upon any such wharves, warehouses or terminal facilities or that any additions, improvements or enlargements in such wharves, warehouses or terminal facilities or any change in the mode of operating and constructing such business is reasonable and expedient in order to promote the security, convenience and accommodation of the public or to provide facilities required by the business offering at the port of Charleston, the Authority shall give information in writing to the owners or operators of such wharves, warehouses and terminal facilities of the improvements, changes, enlargements and betterments which it judges to be proper and if the owners or operators of such wharves, warehouses and terminal facilities shall fail within sixty days to adopt the suggestion of the Authority, the Authority shall take such legal proceedings as it may deem expedient.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 54-33; 1952 Code Section 54-33; 1942 Code Section 6728; 1932 Code Section 6728; Civ. C. '22 Section 3629; 1912 (27) 661; 1923 (33) 63; 1945 (44) 365.