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SC Code § 14-17-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 14 - Courts|Chapter 17 - Clerks Of Courts|Section 14-17-50. Official oaths; commission shall be read and entered in journal.

 The clerk before entering on the duties of his office shall, in addition to the oath of office prescribed by the Constitution, take the oaths required of such officer by Section 8-3-20. Said oaths must be endorsed upon the commission, subscribed by the officer and attested by a magistrate or notary public of the county for which the clerk shall have been elected or appointed. At the opening of the first term of the court which may be held thereafter the clerk shall produce his commission, with the endorsement aforesaid, and after the same has been read in open court shall make a fair entry thereof in the journals of the court.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 15-1707; 1952 Code Section 15-1707; 1942 Code Section 3580; 1932 Code Section 3580; Civ. C. '22 Section 2124; Civ. C. '12 Section 1303; Civ. C. '02 Section 905; G. S. 724; R. S. 777; 1816 (6) 27; 1839 (11) 92; 1880 (17) 502.
SC Code § 14-17-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 14 - Courts|Chapter 17 - Clerks Of Courts|Section 14-17-60. Deputy.

 The clerk may appoint a deputy or deputies to be approved by the court of common pleas, a record of whose appointment shall be made in the clerk's office. Before entering on the duties of his appointment such deputy must take the oath prescribed by the Constitution. When so qualified the deputy may do and perform any and all of the duties appertaining to the office of his principal. Such appointment shall be evidenced by a certificate thereof, signed by the clerk, and shall continue during his pleasure. He may take such bond and security from his deputy as he shall deem necessary to secure the faithful discharge of the duties of the appointment but shall in all cases be answerable for the neglect of duty or misconduct in office of his deputy.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 15-1708; 1952 Code Section 15-1708; 1942 Code Section 3581; 1932 Code Section 3581; Civ. C.'22 Section 2125; Civ. C. '12 Section 1304; Civ. C. '02 Section 906; G. S. 723, 726, 727; R. S. 778; Code Pro. Section 33; 1870 (14) 332 Sections 2, 3; 1919 (30) 872.
SC Code § 14-17-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 14 - Courts|Chapter 17 - Clerks Of Courts|Section 14-17-70. Procurement of seal and blank books.

 Each clerk's office shall be furnished with a seal of office and such blank books for the various records as may be needed from time to time, to be procured by the clerk and the expenses thereof defrayed by the governing body of the county.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 15-1710; 1952 Code Section 15-1710; 1942 Code Section 3583; 1932 Code Section 3583; Civ. C. '22 Section 2127; Civ. C. '12 Section 1306; Civ. C. '02 Section 908; G. S. 729; R. S. 780; 1839 (11) 100 Section 5; 1961 (52) 46.
SC Code § 14-17-210 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 14 - Courts|Chapter 17 - Clerks Of Courts|Section 14-17-210. Clerk shall have charge of courthouse; penalty for keeping courthouse open at night.

 Every clerk shall have charge of the courthouse within his county, open the same when required for public use and at all other times keep it closed. For every night any courthouse shall be kept open the clerk shall be liable to a penalty of five dollars for the use of the county, to be recovered by indictment.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 15-1721; 1952 Code Section 15-1721; 1942 Code Section 3584; 1932 Code Sections 1582, 3584; Civ. C. '22 Section 2128; Civ. C. '12 Section 1307; Civ. C. '02 Section 909; Cr. C. '22 Section 535; G. S. 730; R. S. 781; 1839 (11) 101 Section 6.
SC Code § 14-17-220 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 14 - Courts|Chapter 17 - Clerks Of Courts|Section 14-17-220. Clerk shall keep constant attendance at office and discharge all duties.

 Every clerk shall, except on public holidays, give constant attendance, either personally or by deputy, in his office, which shall be kept in a room provided for that purpose in the courthouse. He shall discharge all the duties required by law or the rules of court, from time to time, or that may be incident to the office.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 15-1722; 1952 Code Section 15-1722; 1942 Code Section 3582; 1932 Code Section 3582; Civ. C. '22 Section 2126; Civ. C. '12 Section 1305; Civ. C. '02 Section 907; G. S. 728; R. S. 779; 1839 (11) 100 Section 4.
SC Code § 14-17-230 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 14 - Courts|Chapter 17 - Clerks Of Courts|Section 14-17-230. Clerks may act as attorneys and solicitors in other counties.

 Clerks may act as attorneys and solicitors in all the courts in the State, except in the courts of their respective counties, provided they shall have complied with the requirements of law regulating the admission of persons to practice as attorneys, solicitors and counselors in the courts of this State.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 15-1723; 1952 Code Section 15-1723; 1942 Code Section 3591; 1932 Code Section 3591; Civ. C. '22 Section 2135; Civ. C. '12 Section 1314; Civ. C. '02 Section 916; G. S. 737; R. S. 788; 1871 (14) 538.
SC Code § 14-17-240 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 14 - Courts|Chapter 17 - Clerks Of Courts|Section 14-17-240. Clerk shall not act as sheriff or deputy sheriff.

 Clerks shall not act as sheriffs or deputy sheriffs, except as provided by Section 23-11-100.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 15-1724; 1952 Code Section 15-1724; 1942 Code Section 3592; 1932 Code Section 3592; Civ. C. '22 Section 2136; Civ. C. '12 Section 1315; Civ. C. '02 Section 917; G. S. 738; R. S. 789; 1839 (11) 112 Section 32.
SC Code § 14-17-250 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 14 - Courts|Chapter 17 - Clerks Of Courts|Section 14-17-250. General powers of clerks; proceedings under orders to be filed.

 Clerks may administer oaths and take depositions, affidavits and renunciations of dower. The clerk of any county in which the office of master does not exist may, by consent of parties, sign orders of reference in vacation and may also, upon proper proceedings filed, grant orders for the partition of real or personal estate and for the admeasurement of dower in cases where the right of partition or dower is not contested or the same has been ascertained by a decree of the court. All proceedings under such orders shall be filed at the next succeeding term of the court for the adjudication of the presiding judge, until which adjudication all equities of the parties shall be reserved.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 15-1726; 1952 Code Section 15-1726; 1942 Code Section 3590; 1932 Code Section 3590; Civ. C. '22 Section 2134; Civ. C. '12 Section 1313; Civ. C. '02 Section 915; G. S. 736; R. S. 787; 1839 (11) 112 Section 32; 1884 (19) 835.
SC Code § 14-17-260 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 14 - Courts|Chapter 17 - Clerks Of Courts|Section 14-17-260. Clerk shall issue all processes and sign all judgments.

 The clerk shall  (a) issue every execution, bench warrant or other process issuable or directed to be issued by the courts of sessions, in the name of the Attorney General or solicitor of the circuit, (b) issue all rules and notices ordered in the common pleas, (c) attest in his own name under the seal of the court, all writs and processes issued either in the common pleas or sessions and (d) sign officially all judgments and state the time when each is signed and entered.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 15-1727; 1952 Code Section 15-1727; 1942 Code Section 3596; 1932 Code Section 3596; Civ. C. '22 Section 2140; Civ. C. '12 Section 1319; Civ. C. '02 Section 921; G. S. 743; R. S. 793; 1839 (11) 107 Section 16.
SC Code § 14-17-270 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 14 - Courts|Chapter 17 - Clerks Of Courts|Section 14-17-270. Clerk shall witness and approve security for costs; form of undertaking.

 Whenever security for costs may be ordered to be given or may be tendered by any plaintiff in vacation or in term time the clerk shall witness the signature of the surety and shall, in the first instance, judge of the sufficiency of the security. The form of the undertaking shall be according to law or the rule of the court on that subject if there be no law.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 15-1729; 1952 Code Section 15-1729; 1942 Code Section 3597; 1932 Code Section 3597; Civ. C. '22 Section 2141; Civ. C. '12 Section 1320; Civ. C. '02 Section 922; G. S. 743; R. S. 794; 1839 (11) 110 Section 22.
SC Code § 14-17-280 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 14 - Courts|Chapter 17 - Clerks Of Courts|Section 14-17-280. Clerk shall permit entry of satisfaction of judgments and mortgages.

 The clerk or the register of deeds, as the case may be, in whose office any judgment or mortgage may be of record, on the receipt of the fees, shall permit any judgment creditor or his or her attorney or any mortgagee, as the case may be, to enter satisfaction thereof. Or if any judge shall order satisfaction of any such judgment or mortgage the clerk shall enter of record such satisfaction accordingly.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 15-1730; 1952 Code Section 15-1730; 1942 Code Section 3599; 1932 Code Section 3599; Civ. C. '22 Section 2143; Civ. C. '12 Section 1322; Civ. C. '02 Section 924; G. S. 745; R. S. 1839 (11) 109 Section 19; 1997 Act No. 34, Section 1, eff January 1, 1998.
SC Code § 14-17-290 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 14 - Courts|Chapter 17 - Clerks Of Courts|Section 14-17-290. Clerk shall enter renewals and satisfactions of executions.

 Whenever any execution shall be returned for renewal or as satisfied by any sheriff the clerk shall enter such renewal or satisfaction in the appropriate column of the abstract book and in case of satisfaction shall enter the same on the original record. It shall not be lawful for the clerk to affix the seal of the court to any renewed execution unless the one previously issued shall have been delivered to him or unless authorized by a judge's order.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 15-1731; 1952 Code Section 15-1731; 1942 Code Section 3602; 1932 Code Section 3602; Civ. C. '22 Section 2146; Civ. C. '12 Section 1325; Civ. C. '02 Section 927; G. S. 748; R. S. 799; 1839 (11) 109 Section 19.
SC Code § 14-17-300 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 14 - Courts|Chapter 17 - Clerks Of Courts|Section 14-17-300. Clerk shall execute laws respecting jurors.

 The clerk shall diligently and uprightly put in execution the laws in force directing the drawing, balloting, empaneling and summoning of jurors, so far as his cooperation may be required.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 15-1732; 1952 Code Section 15-1732; 1942 Code Section 3593; 1932 Code Section 3593; Civ. C. '22 Section 2137; Civ. C. '12 Section 1316; Civ. C. '02 Section 918; G. S. 739; R. S. 790; 1839 (11) 105 Section 10; 1869 (14) 236 Section 7; 1871 (14) 690; 1939 (41) 27; 1941 (42) 70; 1943 (43) 263.
SC Code § 14-17-310 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 14 - Courts|Chapter 17 - Clerks Of Courts|Section 14-17-310. Clerk shall make out roll of jurors and constables in attendance; certificates.

 Immediately after the adjournment of any court of common pleas and general sessions the clerk thereof shall (a) make out a roll of the grand jurors, petit jurors and constables who shall have attended the same, exhibiting the name, time of service and amount due each juror and constable and the term at which the service was performed, (b) enter the same on the journals of the court of the term when such service shall be performed, (c) forthwith transmit to the governing body of the county a certified copy of such roll and (d) furnish each juror and constable with a certificate, in the following form:  STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA: I, A. B. Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions for __________ County, in the said State, do certify that __________ attended as a __________ juror (or actually served as a constable, as the case may be) for said county __________ days at __________ Term, A. D. __________, and is entitled to receive for the same __________ dollars, and ___ cents.  Such certificate shall be signed by the clerk of court, who shall issue the same, and be countersigned by the sheriff of the county. All certificates so issued and executed shall be valid.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 15-1733; 1952 Code Section 15-1733; 1942 Code Section 3594; 1932 Code Section 3594; Civ. C. '22 Section 2138; Civ. C. '12 Section 1317; Civ. C. '02 Section 919; 1839 (11) 106 Section 14; 1878 (16) 412; 1937 (40) 392; 1938 (40) 1639.
SC Code § 14-17-325 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 14 - Courts|Chapter 17 - Clerks Of Courts|Section 14-17-325. Clerk shall report disposition of each case in court of general sessions.

 Section effective until October 1, 2021. See, also, Section 14-17-325 effective October 1, 2021.  Every clerk of court shall report the disposition of each case in the Court of General Sessions to the State Law Enforcement Division within thirty days of disposition. The disposition report must be in a format approved by representatives of the State Law Enforcement Division and the office of court administration. With the approval of the State Law Enforcement Division and the office of court administration, this reporting requirement may be satisfied by use of General Sessions docket information transmitted to the office of the court administration.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 351, Section 1, eff July 1, 1989.
SC Code § 14-17-325 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 14 - Courts|Chapter 17 - Clerks Of Courts|Section 14-17-325. Clerk shall report disposition of each case in Court of General Sessions.

 Section effective October 1, 2021. See, also, Section 14-17-325 effective until October 1, 2021.  (A) Every clerk of court shall report the disposition of each case in the Court of General Sessions to the State Law Enforcement Division within five days of disposition, weekends and holidays excluded.  (B) Every clerk of court shall also report to the State Law Enforcement Division, within five days, the issuance, rescission, or termination of any:  (1) criminal indictments;  (2) permanent restraining orders;  (3) orders of state firearms prohibition pursuant to Section 16-25-30; and  (4) other restraining orders, orders of protection, or other orders that prohibit a person from legally purchasing or possessing a firearm, but only upon being directed to transmit such orders by the appropriate judge. For any orders, the Court Administration must provide the form.  (C) The reporting required by this section must be in a format approved by the State Law Enforcement Division and Court Administration.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 351, Section 1, eff July 1, 1989; 2021 Act No. 66 (H.3094), Section 10.A, eff October 1, 2021.  Editor's Note  2021 Act No. 66, Section 1, provides as follows:  "SECTION 1. This act may be cited as the 'Open Carry With Training Act'."  Effect of Amendment  2021 Act No. 66, Section 10.A, rewrote the section.
SC Code § 14-17-330 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 14 - Courts|Chapter 17 - Clerks Of Courts|Section 14-17-330. Clerk shall keep record of all persons elected to office.

 Each of the clerks of courts of the various counties in this State shall keep a book in his office in which he shall record the name of each person elected to any office, together with the date of their election whenever such facts are obtainable. Such book shall be furnished by the governing body of the county, without cost to the clerk of court.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 15-1736; 1952 Code Section 15-1736; 1942 Code Section 3622; 1932 Code Section 3622; Civ. C. '22 Section 2166; Civ. C. '12 Section 1342; 1905 (24) 964.
SC Code § 14-17-340 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 14 - Courts|Chapter 17 - Clerks Of Courts|Section 14-17-340. Clerk shall administer oaths to magistrates and transmit list of magistrates' names to Secretary of State.

 The clerk shall administer the oaths of office required to be taken by magistrates appointed within his county, on their application, within ninety days after such appointment. On the first day of November, annually, he shall transmit a list of the names of magistrates who have qualified during the preceding year to the office of the Secretary of State at Columbia.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 15-1737; 1952 Code Section 15-1737; 1942 Code Section 3603; 1932 Code Section 3603; Civ. C. '22 Section 2147; Civ. C. '12 Section 1326; Civ. C. '02 Section 928; G. S. 749; R. S. 800; 1839 (11) 112 Section 30.
SC Code § 14-17-350 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 14 - Courts|Chapter 17 - Clerks Of Courts|Section 14-17-350. Clerk shall administer oath of office to constables; failure of constable to appear.

 The clerk shall administer the oaths of office required by law to be taken by a constable, on his entering into bond, as prescribed, to be filed in the office of the clerk, of the sufficiency of the surety to which the clerk shall judge. The constable shall furnish a genuine signature of his name in the book prescribed, whereupon the clerk shall furnish an official certificate of such qualification. When any constable summoned in writing by the sheriff to attend court shall fail to appear, according to the summons, such default shall be noted by the clerk and such other proceedings had as in cases of jurors in default or as the court may order.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 15-1738; 1952 Code Section 15-1738; 1942 Code Section 3604; 1932 Code Section 3604; Civ. C. '22 Section 2148; Civ. C. '12 Section 1327; Civ. C. '02 Section 929; G. S. 750; R. S. 801; 1839 (11) 112 Section 31.
SC Code § 14-17-360 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 14 - Courts|Chapter 17 - Clerks Of Courts|Section 14-17-360. Clerk shall furnish official certificates to certain officers.

 When any sheriff, coroner, magistrate or constable shall be required to obtain the official certificate of any clerk to his contingent account, specifying any matters required by law to be certified, the clerk shall furnish such certificates, according to the facts, upon application and payment of fees.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 15-1739; 1952 Code Section 15-1739; 1942 Code Section 3606; 1932 Code Section 3606; Civ. C. '22 Section 2150; Civ. C. '12 Section 1329; Civ. C. '02 Section 931; G. S. 753; R. S. 803; 1838 (11) 113 Section 36.
SC Code § 14-17-370 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 14 - Courts|Chapter 17 - Clerks Of Courts|Section 14-17-370. Clerk shall furnish certificates of liens on property of certain sureties.

 The clerk shall furnish, free of charge, to the governing body of the county, when required, an official certificate of all liens that may be of record in his office on the property of any individual who may be offered as surety to the bond of any public officer, whether by judgment, mortgage or otherwise.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 15-1740; 1952 Code Section 15-1740; 1942 Code Section 3607; 1932 Code Section 3607; Civ. C. '22 Section 2151; Civ. C. '12 Section 1330; Civ. C. '02 Section 932; G. S. 754; R. S. 804; 1839 (11) 113 Section 37.
SC Code § 14-17-510 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 14 - Courts|Chapter 17 - Clerks Of Courts|Section 14-17-510. Record of court proceedings; filing papers; preservation of papers and property.

 The clerk shall make a full, fair and correct entry and record of the proceedings of the courts and other matters pertaining to his office in the various books required to be kept, conforming to the mode prescribed by law, order of the court or usage of the office. He shall file in their proper order original papers in causes instituted or other authorized proceedings and preserve with care all papers, books and furniture pertaining to or connected with his office.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 15-1761; 1952 Code Section 15-1761; 1942 Code Section 3582; 1932 Code Section 3582; Civ. C. '22 Section 2126; Civ. C. '12 Section 1305; Civ. C. '02 Section 907; G. S. 728; R. S. 779; 1839 (11) 100 Section 4.
SC Code § 14-17-520 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 14 - Courts|Chapter 17 - Clerks Of Courts|Section 14-17-520. Procurement of filing cases.

 The office of every clerk shall be furnished with suitable cases with proper partitions for filing papers, under appropriate labels.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 15-1763; 1952 Code Section 15-1763; 1942 Code Section 3583; 1932 Code Section 3583; Civ. C. '22 Section 2127; Civ. C. '12 Section 1306; Civ. C. '02 Section 908; G. S. 729; R. S. 780; 1839 (11) 100 Section 5; 1961 (52) 42.
SC Code § 14-17-530 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 14 - Courts|Chapter 17 - Clerks Of Courts|Section 14-17-530. Filing and endorsement of papers.

 The original papers of record in each cause wherein judgment may be signed or confessed or decree may be entered shall be filed according to the number of enrollment in the book of abstracts of judgments or decrees, placing all the papers in each cause together. Original papers in the sessions shall be filed according to the term at which they were disposed of, alphabetically arranged for each term according to defendants' names, all relating to the same cause together. Other papers required to be returned to or kept in the office shall be endorsed with the character, date of filing and number on file, numbering each kind from one onward and keeping all relating to the same matters together under the same number, and shall be filed according to date and number in appropriate boxes with suitable labels, put up in packages and dated according to the year in which they may be filed. Upon the envelope or card there shall be an endorsement of the description or kind of papers therein and reference to number under the following heads: Bonds in attachment, bonds of constables, certificates from the Supreme Court, appeals, commissions, inquests by the coroner, reports, etc., de lunatico inquirendo, naturalization, venire facias, dower, partition, escheats, affidavits, attachments for contempt and rules and sessions papers disposed of to be transferred after judgment when authorized. The following endorsements shall be made upon the record when the proceedings warrant it:  (1) On the judgment roll, the date when filed, number on docket, date and amount of judgment in figures, amount of taxed cost, judgment when signed, execution, date of issuing and, at the top at some conspicuous place, the number roll;  (2) On bills of indictment, the date and character of filing by grand jury, number on docket, arraignment, verdict or other disposition, date, amount of tax costs, execution, date of issuing and kind; and  (3) On all papers returned by magistrates in the sessions their character and date of filing.  On every execution before it leaves the clerk's office, shall be endorsed, near the top, the number roll or, if in the sessions, the term under which the case is filed and, in all instances when an execution is returned for renewal, the fact and date of such renewal shall be endorsed on the execution so returned and on the renewed execution shall be endorsed the date when first execution was lodged in the sheriff's office.  All original papers in dower, partition of real estate and inquisitions shall be filed according to number roll, the papers pertaining to each case being placed together and the number roll plainly endorsed on the envelope or outside paper and also the book and page of record.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 15-1764; 1952 Code Section 15-1764; 1942 Code Section 3585; 1932 Code Section 3585; Civ. C. '22 Section 2129; Civ. C. '12 Section 1308; Civ. C. '02 Section 910; G. S. 731; R. S. 782; 1839 (11) 101 Section 7.