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SC Code § 5-33-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 33 - Ice Plants|Section 5-33-70. Sale authorized if election favorable; contract for operation; maximum rates.

 In the event the result of the election is in favor of the acceptance of the offer so submitted to the people, the city council or board shall accept such offer, complete the sale by the conveyance to the purchaser of the property purchased and execute and deliver proper deeds of conveyance therefor. In connection with such sale, such city council or board may make and enter into an agreement with the purchaser for the operation of the property so purchased and the furnishing to the people of ice and may fix maximum rates therefor during such period as may then be agreed upon.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 59-551; 1952 Code Section 59-551; 1942 Code Section 7276; 1932 Code Section 7276; 1925 (34) 155; 1927 (35) 176; 1930 (36) 1388.
SC Code § 5-35-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 35 - Water Front Improvements|Section 5-35-10. Cities of 10,000 or more empowered to condemn lands on water front.

 When any city of this State having a population of ten thousand inhabitants or more and located upon a navigable stream, whether tidal or nontidal, desires to extend, improve, or protect its waterfront for public purposes, it may acquire by condemnation all private property, within or without the city or partly within and partly without the city, needed for the extension, improvement, or protection. The right conferred on the city includes the right to condemn the title or possession of any and all lands, water or riparian rights, wharves, docks, warehouses, buildings, rights-of-way, or any other property, including any property which may already have been condemned, when the property is taken for the purpose of establishing, improving, developing, maintaining, or operating the port and terminal utilities of the city for public purpose. Title acquired under this section shall vest absolutely in the city. No lands condemned under this section may be sold to private owners by the city.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 59-561; 1952 Code Section 59-561; 1942 Code Section 7554; 1932 Code Section 7569; Civ. C. '22 Section 4752; Civ. C. '12 Section 3094; 1909 (26) 170; 1920 (31) 904; 1953 (48) 272; 1987 Act No. 173, Section 12.
SC Code § 5-35-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 35 - Water Front Improvements|Section 5-35-20. Filling up lowlands owned by private persons.

 Whenever such extension, improvement or protection shall make necessary the filling up of lowlands, owned by private persons, to a level established by the city and such filling up is proposed to be accomplished by excavation from the bed of a stream bordering the water front so to be extended, improved or protected under a general plan established by the city, such lowlands may be filled up by the city at the expense of such private owners and the costs thereof shall be a lien upon the lands so filled up. The cost to each private owner shall be determined by the proportion which the cubic contents of the filling in each lot or parcel of land, separately owned, shall bear to the cubic contents of the whole area filled. If the municipality and the owner cannot agree as to the cost of the filling aforesaid to be borne by such private owner, then it shall be determined by a proceeding in the nature of an action against such property, to be instituted by the municipality in the court of common pleas for the county in which such municipality is situated, to recover the amount claimed to be due and the reasonable costs to be paid by such lot owner shall be determined by the jury as in the case of similar actions.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 59-562; 1952 Code Section 59-562; 1942 Code Section 7555; 1932 Code Section 7570; Civ. C. '22 Section 4753; Civ. C. '12 Section 3095; 1909 (26) 170.
SC Code § 5-35-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 35 - Water Front Improvements|Section 5-35-30. Notification of proposed plan and fill levels.

 The municipality shall first notify each private owner interested of the plan proposed and of the level up to which such lots are to be filled and of the general plan proposed and such private owners may, if they see fit, arrange to fill up their lands at their own expense, such filling up to be done either prior to or contemporaneously with the filling done by the city, and to be in accord with the general plan adopted. And the owner of any such land shall be entitled to use the mud or soil in the bed of the river in front of such land for the purpose of filling up his land, in preference to any other, to the extent necessary to fill such lands.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 59-563; 1952 Code Section 59-563; 1942 Code Section 7556; 1932 Code Section 7571; Civ. C. '22 Section 4754; Civ. C. '12 Section 3096; 1909 (26) 170.
SC Code § 5-35-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 35 - Water Front Improvements|Section 5-35-40. Condemnation by city in cases of disagreement as to filling up lowlands.

 In the event that any lot owner objects to the cost of filling his lot, such owner may require the municipality to purchase such lot at a price agreed upon between the municipality and the owner, and, in case of failure to agree upon the price, the municipality shall proceed to condemn such lot. And upon paying to the owner the price that may be fixed therefor, as herein provided, the title thereof shall vest in the municipality, which shall proceed to fill such lot and may sell it to reimburse itself for all expenses and charges.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 59-564; 1952 Code Section 59-564; 1942 Code Section 7557; 1932 Code Section 7572; Civ. C. '22 Section 4755; Civ. C. '12 Section 3097; 1909 (26) 170.
SC Code § 5-37-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 37 - Municipal Improvements Act Of 1999|Section 5-37-10. Short title; authority of municipalities.

 This chapter may be referred to as the "Municipal Improvement Act of 1999", and any municipal corporation of this State is hereby authorized to exercise the powers and provisions hereof.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 59-599.151; 1974 (58) 2813; 1999 Act No. 118, Section 2.
SC Code § 5-37-25 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 37 - Municipal Improvements Act Of 1999|Section 5-37-25. Consent required to use revenues for improvements outside municipality where improvement district is located.

 A municipality must obtain the consent of the county governing body and any other municipality where the improvement is located to use revenue collected pursuant to this chapter for improvements located outside the municipal boundaries in which the improvement district is located.  HISTORY: 1999 Act No. 118, Section 2.
SC Code § 5-37-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 37 - Municipal Improvements Act Of 1999|Section 5-37-30. Improvements authorized; funding sources.

 The governing body is authorized to acquire, own, construct, establish, install, enlarge, improve, expand, operate, maintain and repair, and sell, lease, and otherwise dispose of any improvement and to finance such acquisition, construction, establishment, installation, enlargement, improvement, expansion, operation, maintenance, and repair, in whole or in part, by the imposition of assessments in accordance with this chapter, by special district bonds, by general obligation bonds of the municipality, by revenue bonds of the municipality, or from general revenues from any source not restricted from such use by law, or by any combination of such funding sources. In addition to any other authorization provided herein or by other law, the governing body of a municipality may issue its special district bonds or revenue bonds of the municipality under such terms and conditions as the governing body may determine by ordinance subject to the following: such bonds may be sold at public or private sale for such price as is determined by the governing body; such bonds may be secured by a pledge of and be payable from the assessments authorized herein or any other source of funds not constituting a general tax as may be available and authorized by the governing body; such bonds may be issued pursuant to and secured under the terms of a trust agreement or indenture with a corporate trustee and the ordinance authorizing such bonds or trust agreement or indenture pertaining thereto may contain provisions for the establishment of a reserve fund, and such other funds or accounts as are determined by the governing body to be appropriate to be held by the governing body or the trustee. The proceeds of any bonds may be applied to the payment of the costs of any improvements, including expenses associated with the issuance and sale of the bonds and any costs for planning and designing the improvements or planning or arranging for the financing and any engineering, architectural, surveying, testing, or similar costs or expenses necessary or appropriate for the planning, designing, and construction or implementation of any plan in connection with the improvements.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 59-599.153; 1974 (58) 2813; 1999 Act No. 118, Section 2.
SC Code § 5-37-35 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 37 - Municipal Improvements Act Of 1999|Section 5-37-35. Assessments for fund improvements not to be imposed on property not located in improvement district; exception for bonds issued pursuant to Section 5-37-30.

 (A) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 5-37-30, assessments, revenues, or debt service on bonds which may be used under this chapter to fund municipal improvements must not impose or be derived from, in whole or in part, a tax or assessment on property not located in the improvement district. Bonds issued pursuant to Section 5-37-30, however, may be made payable from assessments imposed on property located in the improvement district, and may be additionally secured, in whole or in part, by the full faith, credit, and taxing power of the municipality, if the governing body of the municipality certifies on the date of issuance of the bonds that the assessments as imposed are sufficient as to both amount and duration to pay all debt service on these bonds as they become due.  (B) The provisions of this section do not apply to projects or undertakings designated by a municipal governing body as a "system" pursuant to Section 6-21-40.  HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 384, Section 2; 2010 Act No. 282, Section 2, eff June 16, 2010; 2010 Act No. 290, Section 33.B, eff January 1, 2011.  Effect of Amendment  The two 2010 amendments made the same changes rewriting this section.
SC Code § 5-37-45 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 37 - Municipal Improvements Act Of 1999|Section 5-37-45. Inclusion in improvement district of area in which the proposed improvements have been constructed or are under construction; exceptions.

 (A)(1) The governing body may include within an improvement district an area within the municipality in which the proposed improvements have been constructed or are under construction at the time of the establishment of the improvement district.  (2) Before the commencement of the construction of these improvements, a written agreement with the owner of the area to be improved must be entered into by the municipality authorizing the construction of the improvements in anticipation of the inclusion of the area which is improved in the improvement district upon such terms and conditions as the governing body agrees, including the reimbursement, as a cost of constructing improvements under this chapter, of any monies expended for the construction before and subsequent to the establishment of the improvement district. Any agreement providing for the construction of the improvements before the establishment of the improvement district must be authorized by an ordinance of the governing body, notice of which must be given by publication in a newspaper of general circulation within the municipality, at least seven days before the final adoption of the ordinance. Any agreements entered into in accordance with the foregoing conditions before the effective date of this section are ratified and confirmed and the area improved declared eligible for inclusion in the improvement district as proposed in the agreement.  (B) The provisions of item (2) of subsection (A) do not apply to any area proposed for inclusion within an improvement district which, within three years prior to the date of the adoption of the resolution required by Section 5-37-50, is subject to a development agreement pursuant to the South Carolina Local Government Development Agreement Act.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 505 Section 3; 1999 Act No. 118, Section 2; 2001 Act No. 93, Section 1.
SC Code § 5-37-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 37 - Municipal Improvements Act Of 1999|Section 5-37-50. Resolution regarding improvement plan and public hearing.

 The governing body, by resolution adopted, shall describe the improvement district and the improvement plan to be effected, including a property within the improvement district to be acquired and improved, the projected time schedule for the accomplishment of the improvement plan, the estimated cost and the amount of the cost to be derived from assessments, bonds, or other general funds, together with the proposed basis and rates of assessments to be imposed within the improvement district. However, except in the case of an improvement district in which the sole improvements are the widening and dredging of canals and waterways that are connected to canals as described in Section 48-39-130(D)(10), owner-occupied residential property that is taxed, or will be taxed pursuant to Section 12-43-220(c), must not be included within an improvement district unless the owner, at the time the improvement district is created, gives the governing body written permission to include the property within the improvement district. The resolution also shall establish the time and place of a public hearing to be held within the municipality not sooner than twenty days nor more than forty days following the adoption of the resolution, at which an interested person may attend and be heard, either in person or by attorney, on a matter in connection with the improvement district.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 59-599.155; 1974 (58) 2813; 1999 Act No. 118, Section 2; 2005 Act No. 109, Section 8, eff June 2, 2005; 2010 Act No. 282, Section 4, eff June 16, 2010; 2010 Act No. 290, Section 33.E, eff January 1, 2011; 2012 Act No. 268, Section 3, eff June 20, 2012.  Effect of Amendment  The 2005 amendment, in the second sentence, added "or will be taxed" and "at the time the improvement district is created".  The two 2010 amendments made the same changes and rewrote this section.  The 2012 amendment inserted "and waterways that are connected to canals as described in Section 48-39-130(D)(10)" and made other, nonsubstantive, changes throughout the section.
SC Code § 5-37-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 37 - Municipal Improvements Act Of 1999|Section 5-37-60. Publication of resolution.

 A resolution providing for an improvement district, when adopted, shall be published once a week for two successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation within the incorporated municipality and the final publication shall be at least ten days prior to the date of the scheduled public hearing. At the public hearing and at any adjournment thereof, all interested persons may be heard either in person or by attorney.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 59-599.156; 1974 (58) 2813; 1999 Act No. 118, Section 2.
SC Code § 5-37-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 37 - Municipal Improvements Act Of 1999|Section 5-37-70. Payment of costs of improvements.

 The governing body may provide by the resolution for the payment of the cost of the improvements and facilities to be constructed within the improvement district by assessments on the property therein as defined in Section 5-37-20, or by the issuance of special district bonds, or by general obligation bonds of the municipality, or from general municipal revenues from any source not restricted from such use by law, or from any combination of such financing sources as may be provided in the improvement plan.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 59-599.157; 1974 (58) 2813; 1999 Act No. 118, Section 2.
SC Code § 5-37-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 37 - Municipal Improvements Act Of 1999|Section 5-37-80. Assessments upon property owners.

 The financing of improvements by assessments, bonds, or other revenues, and the proportions thereof, shall be in the discretion of the governing body; and the rates of assessments upon property owners within the improvement district need not be uniform but may vary in proportion to improvements made immediately adjacent to or abutting upon the property of each owner therein, as well as other bases as provided in Section 5-37-20.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 59-599.158; 1974 (58) 2813; 1999 Act No. 118, Section 2.
SC Code § 5-37-90 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 37 - Municipal Improvements Act Of 1999|Section 5-37-90. Improvements as property of municipality; use of special assessments.

 The improvements as defined in Section 5-37-20 are to be or become the property of the municipality, State, or other public entity and may at any time be removed, altered, changed, or added to, as the governing body may in its discretion determine; provided, that during the continuance or maintenance of the improvements, the special assessments on property therein may be utilized for the preservation, operation, and maintenance of the improvements and facilities provided in the improvement plan, and for the management and operation of the improvement district as provided in the improvement plan, and for payment of indebtedness incurred therefor.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 59-599.159; 1974 (58) 2813; 1981 Act No. 115, Section 2; 1991 Act No. 116, Section 2; 1999 Act No. 118, Section 2.
SC Code § 5-37-100 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 37 - Municipal Improvements Act Of 1999|Section 5-37-100. Ordinance creating improvement district.

 No sooner than ten days nor more than one hundred twenty days following the conclusion of the public hearing provided in Section 5-37-50, the governing body, by ordinance, may provide for the creation of the improvement district as originally proposed or with the changes and modifications in it as the governing body may determine, and provide for the financing by assessment, bonds, or other revenues as provided in this chapter. However, except in the case of an improvement district in which the sole improvements are the widening and dredging of canals and waterways that are connected to canals as described in Section 48-39-130(D)(10), owner-occupied residential property that is taxed pursuant to Section 12-43-220(c), must not be included within an improvement district unless the owner gives the governing body written permission to include the property within the improvement district. The ordinance may not become effective until at least seven days after it has been published in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality. The ordinance may incorporate by reference plats and engineering reports and other data on file in the offices of the municipality. The place of filing and reasonable hours for inspection must be made available to all interested persons.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 59-599.160; 1974 (58) 2813; 1999 Act No. 118, Section 2; 2010 Act No. 282, Section 5, eff June 16, 2010; 2010 Act No. 290, Section 33.F, eff January 1, 2011; 2012 Act No. 268, Section 4, eff June 20, 2012.  Effect of Amendment  The two 2010 amendment made the same changes and rewrote this section.  The 2012 amendment inserted "and waterways that are connected to canals as described in Section 48-39-130(D)(10)" and made other, nonsubstantive, changes throughout the section.
SC Code § 5-37-110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 37 - Municipal Improvements Act Of 1999|Section 5-37-110. Assessment roll; preparation and distribution; publication of notice; hearing of objections.

 In the event all or any part of improvements and facilities within the district are to be financed by assessments on property therein, the governing body shall prepare an assessment roll in which there shall be entered the names of the persons whose properties are to be assessed and the amount assessed against their respective properties with a brief description of the lots or parcels of land assessed. Immediately after such assessment roll has been completed the governing body shall cause one copy thereof to be deposited in the offices of the municipality for inspection by interested parties, and shall cause to be published at least once in a newspaper of general circulation within the municipality a notice of completion of the assessment roll setting forth a description in general terms of the improvements and providing at least ten days' notice of the time fixed for hearing of objections in respect to such assessments. The time for hearing such objections shall be at least thirty days, and hearings may be conducted by one or more members of the governing body of the municipality, but the final decision on each such objection shall be made by vote of the whole governing body at a public session thereof.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 59-599.161; 1974 (58) 2813; 1999 Act No. 118, Section 2.
SC Code § 5-37-120 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 5 - Municipal Corporations|Chapter 37 - Municipal Improvements Act Of 1999|Section 5-37-120. Notice of assessment to owners; filing of objections.

 As soon as practicable after the completion of the assessment roll and prior to the publication of the notice provided in Section 5-37-110, the governing body shall mail by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, to the owner or owners of each lot or parcel of land against which an assessment is to be levied, at the address appearing on the records of the city or county treasurer, a notice stating the nature of the improvement, the total proposed cost thereof, the amount to be assessed against the particular property and the basis upon which the assessment is made, together with the terms and conditions upon which the assessment may be paid. The notice shall contain a brief description of the particular property involved, together with a statement that the amount assessed shall constitute a lien against the property superior to all other liens except property taxes. The notice shall also state the time and place fixed for the hearing of objections in respect to the assessment. Any property owner who fails to file with the municipal council a written objection to the assessment against his property within the time provided for hearing such objections shall be deemed to have consented to such assessment, and the published and written notices prescribed in this chapter shall so state. If all of the owners of property upon which an assessment is to be levied consent in writing to the imposition of such assessment, the provisions of this section shall be deemed satisfied.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 59-599.162; 1974 (58) 2813; 1999 Act No. 118, Section 2.