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SC Code § 31-10-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment|Chapter 10 - Community Development Law|Section 31-10-80. Creation of joint redevelopment commission.

 Two or more municipalities, whose territorial jurisdictions may be either exclusive or one of whose jurisdiction may include all or part of another are authorized to create a separate and distinct body corporate and politic to be known as the joint redevelopment commission by the passage of an ordinance by the governing body of each municipality having territorial jurisdiction over the area of operation proposed for such commission; provided, however, that notice of the intent to consider passage of such ordinance must be published at least fifteen days prior to the meeting of the governing body of each affected municipality. A joint redevelopment commission shall be governed by commissioners selected in the number and manner provided in the ordinance establishing such joint redevelopment commission. The governing body of each participating municipality shall appoint one or more commissioners as such governing body determines. The appointing authority has the authority to appoint successors or to remove persons who are appointed by them. Each commissioner shall serve for a term of two years.  All provisions of this chapter shall apply to the creation and operation of a joint redevelopment commission and where reference is made to a municipality, it is interpreted to apply to the municipalities creating a joint redevelopment commission.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 451, Section 9.
SC Code § 31-10-140 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment|Chapter 10 - Community Development Law|Section 31-10-140. Powers of public body with respect to planning, undertaking, or carrying out redevelopment project.

 (a) For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, or carrying out of a redevelopment project located within the area in which it is authorized to act, any public body may, upon such terms, with or without consideration, as it may determine:  (1) dedicate, sell, convey, or lease any of its interest in any property, or grant easements, licenses or any other rights or privileges therein to a commission;  (2) cause parks, playgrounds, recreational, community, education, water, sewer, or drainage facilities, or any other works that it is otherwise empowered to undertake, to be furnished in connection with a redevelopment project;  (3) furnish, dedicate, close, vacate, pave, install, grade, regrade, plan or replan streets, roads, sidewalks, ways, or other places, that it is otherwise empowered to undertake;  (4) plan or replan, zone or rezone any part of the redevelopment;  (5) cause administrative and other services to be furnished to the commission of the character which the public body is otherwise empowered to undertake or furnish for the same or other purposes;  (6) do any and all things necessary or convenient to aid and cooperate in the planning or carrying out of a redevelopment plan.  (b) Any sale, conveyance, or agreement provided for in this section may be made by a public body without public notice, advertisement, or public bidding.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 451, Section 15.
SC Code § 31-10-150 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment|Chapter 10 - Community Development Law|Section 31-10-150. Notice of intent to issue bonds; challenge to issuance.

 Prior to issuing any bonds under this chapter, a commission shall publish notice in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality of its intent to issue such bonds specifying the approximate date and amount of such bonds, the provisions for securing such bonds and the proposed use of the proceeds from such bonds. Any interested person may within twenty days after the publication of such notice, but not thereafter, challenge the proposal of the commission to issue such bonds by action initiated in the circuit court for the circuit in which the commission is located. If no such action is initiated the bonds, if and when issued, shall be conclusively presumed to be valid and binding in accordance with the terms thereof; provided, nevertheless, that such bonds must be issued not later than six months after publication of such notice.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 451, Section 16.
SC Code § 31-10-160 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment|Chapter 10 - Community Development Law|Section 31-10-160. Availability of commission's books, records, bylaws, rules, and regulations for public inspection; annual report of commission's activities.

 (a) The books and records of a commission are at all times open and subject to inspection by the public.  (b) A copy of all bylaws and rules and regulations and amendments thereto adopted by it, from time to time, must be filed with the commission and be open for public inspection.  (c) At least once each year a report of its activities for the preceding year and such other reports as may be required by the municipality shall be made.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 451, Section 17.
SC Code § 31-11-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment|Chapter 11 - Housing For National Defense Activities|Section 31-11-10. Definitions.

 As used in this chapter:  (1) "Persons engaged in national defense activities" shall include, without limiting the generality thereof, enlisted men in the military and naval services of the United States and employees of the Department of Defense assigned to duty at military or naval reservations, posts or bases, workers engaged or to be engaged in industries connected with and essential to the national defense program and the families of the aforesaid persons who are living with them;  (2) "Persons of low income" shall mean persons or families who lack the amount of income which is necessary (as determined by the housing authority undertaking the housing project) to enable them, without financial assistance, to live in decent, safe and sanitary dwellings, without overcrowding;  (3) "Development" shall mean any and all undertakings necessary for the planning, land acquisition, demolition, financing, construction or equipment in connection with a project, including the negotiation or award of contracts therefor, and shall include the acquisition of any project, in whole or in part, from the Federal Government;  (4) "Administration" shall mean any and all undertakings necessary for management, operation or maintenance in connection with any project and shall include the leasing of any project, in whole or in part, from the Federal Government;  (5) "Federal Government" shall mean the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States of America;  (6) The development of such projects shall be deemed to be "initiated" if a housing authority has issued bonds, notes or other obligations with respect to the financing of such project of the housing authority or has contracted with the Federal Government with respect to the exercise of powers hereunder in the development of such project of the Federal Government for which an allocation of funds has been made or approved during a period of war or national emergency declared by the President or Congress of the United States; and  (7) "Housing authority" shall mean any housing authority established or hereafter established pursuant to this chapter and Chapter 3.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 36-271; 1952 Code Section 36-271; 1942 (42) 1758; 1951 (47) 179.
SC Code § 31-11-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment|Chapter 11 - Housing For National Defense Activities|Section 31-11-20. Undertakings of projects for persons engaged in national defense.

 Any housing authority may undertake the development or administration, or both, of projects to assure the availability of safe and sanitary dwellings for persons engaged in national defense activities whom the housing authority determines would not otherwise be able to secure safe and sanitary dwellings within the vicinity thereof, but no housing authority shall initiate the development of any such project pursuant to this chapter except during a period of war or national emergency declared by the President or the Congress of the United States.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 36-272; 1952 Code Section 36-272; 1942 (42) 1758; 1951 (47) 179.
SC Code § 31-11-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment|Chapter 11 - Housing For National Defense Activities|Section 31-11-30. Housing authorities' powers in regard to projects for persons engaged in national defense.

 In the ownership, development or administration of such projects a housing authority shall have all the rights, powers, privileges and immunities that such authority has under any provision of law relating to the ownership, development or administration of slum clearance and housing projects for persons of low income, in the same manner as though all the provisions of law applicable to slum clearance and housing projects for persons of low income were applicable to projects developed or administered to assure the availability of safe and sanitary dwellings for persons engaged in national defense activities as provided in this chapter. Housing projects developed or administered hereunder shall constitute "projects" under this chapter and Chapter 3 as that term is used herein.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 36-273; 1952 Code Section 36-273; 1942 (42) 1758; 1951 (47) 179.
SC Code § 31-11-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment|Chapter 11 - Housing For National Defense Activities|Section 31-11-40. Conditions rendering limitations in Sections 31-3-530 and 31-3-540 inapplicable to projects for persons engaged in national defense.

 During the period (herein called the "national defense period") that a housing authority finds (which finding shall be conclusive in any suit, action or proceeding) that within its authorized territorial jurisdiction or area of operation, or any part thereof, there is an acute shortage of safe and sanitary dwellings which impedes the national defense program in this State and that the necessary safe and sanitary dwellings would not otherwise be provided when needed for persons engaged in national defense activities, any project developed or administered by such housing authority, or by any housing authority cooperating with it, in such area, with the financial aid of the Federal Government, or as agent for the Federal Government as herein provided, shall not be subject to the limitations provided in the second sentence of Section 31-3-530 and in Section 31-3-540.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 36-274; 1952 Code Section 36-274; 1942 (42) 1758; 1951 (47) 179.
SC Code § 31-11-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment|Chapter 11 - Housing For National Defense Activities|Section 31-11-50. Additional powers conferred upon housing authorities.

 This chapter shall constitute an independent authorization for a housing authority to undertake the development or administration of projects to assure the availability of safe and sanitary dwellings for persons engaged in national defense activities as provided herein and for a housing authority to cooperate with, or act as agent for, the Federal Government in the development or administration of similar projects by the Federal Government. In acting under this authorization, a housing authority shall not be subject to any limitations, restrictions or requirements of other laws, except those relating to land acquisition, prescribing the procedure or action to be taken in the development or administration of any public works, including slum clearance and housing projects for persons of low income or undertakings or projects of municipal or public corporations or political subdivisions or agencies of the State. A housing authority may do any and all things necessary or desirable to cooperate with, or act as agent for, the Federal Government or to secure financial aid in the expeditious development or in the administration of projects to assure the availability of safe and sanitary dwellings for persons engaged in national defense activities and to effect the purposes of this chapter.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 36-275; 1952 Code Section 36-275; 1942 (42) 1758.
SC Code § 31-11-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment|Chapter 11 - Housing For National Defense Activities|Section 31-11-60. Cooperation with Federal Government; sale of project to Federal Government.

 A housing authority may exercise any of its powers for the purpose of cooperating with, or acting as agent for, the Federal Government in the development or administration of projects by the Federal Government to assure the availability of safe and sanitary dwellings for persons engaged in national defense activities and may undertake the development or administration of any such project for the Federal Government. In order to assure the availability of safe and sanitary housing for persons engaged in national defense activities, a housing authority may sell, in whole or in part, to the Federal Government any housing project or part thereof developed for persons of low income but not yet occupied by such persons. Any such sale shall be at such price and upon such terms as the housing authority shall prescribe and shall include provision for the satisfaction of all debts and liabilities of the housing authority relating to such projects.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 36-276; 1952 Code Section 36-276; 1942 (42) 1758.
SC Code § 31-11-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment|Chapter 11 - Housing For National Defense Activities|Section 31-11-70. Effect of other provisions relating to cooperation between State public body and housing authorities.

 Any State public body, as defined in Chapter 5 of this Title, shall have the same right and power to cooperate with housing authorities, or with the Federal Government, with respect to the development or administration of projects to assure the availability of safe and sanitary dwellings for persons engaged in national defense activities that such State public body has pursuant to said chapter for the purpose of assisting the development or administration of slum clearance or housing projects for persons of low income, if such State public body may furnish the aforesaid cooperation to such projects located within the territorial boundaries of such State public body or within ten miles thereof.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 36-277; 1952 Code Section 36-277; 1942 (42) 1758.
SC Code § 31-11-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment|Chapter 11 - Housing For National Defense Activities|Section 31-11-80. Operation of projects during and after defense periods.

 During the national defense period a housing authority may make payments in such amounts as it finds necessary or desirable for any services, facilities, works, privileges or improvements furnished for or in connection with any such projects. After the national defense period any such projects owned and administered by a housing authority shall be administered for the purposes and in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and Chapter 3.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 36-278; 1952 Code Section 36-278; 1942 (42) 1758; 1951 (47) 179.
SC Code § 31-11-90 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment|Chapter 11 - Housing For National Defense Activities|Section 31-11-90. Bonds or other obligations of authorities as security or investment.

 Bonds or other obligations issued by a housing authority for a project developed or administered pursuant to this chapter shall be security for public deposits and legal investments to the same extent and for the same persons, institutions, associations, corporations, bodies and officers as bonds or other obligations issued pursuant to Chapter 3 for the development of a slum clearance or housing project for persons of low income.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 36-279; 1952 Code Section 36-279; 1942 (42) 1758.
SC Code § 31-11-100 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment|Chapter 11 - Housing For National Defense Activities|Section 31-11-100. Powers conferred herein supplemental to other powers.

 The powers conferred by this chapter shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law and nothing contained herein shall be construed as limiting any other powers of a housing authority.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 36-280; 1952 Code Section 36-280; 1942 (42) 1758.
SC Code § 31-12-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment|Chapter 12 - Redevelopment Of Federal Military Installations And Other Defense Sites|Section 31-12-10. Short title.

 This chapter may be cited as the "Federal Defense Facilities Redevelopment Law".  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 462, Section 1; 1998 Act No. 421, Section 1.
SC Code § 31-12-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment|Chapter 12 - Redevelopment Of Federal Military Installations And Other Defense Sites|Section 31-12-20. Legislative findings.

 The General Assembly finds that:  (1) As a result of the closure, realignment, and drastic downsizing of federal military installations and other federal defense sites in the United States, federal property located in the State has and will become available for the state's use. It is in the best interests of the citizens of this State for the State, municipalities, and counties to work in concert and oversee and dispose of federal defense facilities and other excess federal property in an orderly and cooperative manner. It is the intent of this chapter that redevelopment authorities may be appointed to deal with federal defense facilities that have been scheduled for closure, realignment, or drastic downsizing by the United States Congress and to consult with the federal government pursuant to federal law in that connection. If any other incidental excess federal property is included with a scheduled closing, realignment, and drastic downsizing, that property also may be dealt with by the authorities.  (2) The redevelopment of these facilities often may require substantial periods of time and substantial investment in redevelopment of the properties, including public infrastructure on the properties themselves and in the communities immediately surrounding the properties in order to re-integrate the former federal defense facilities into the surrounding communities, and all reasonable means should be provided to assist the redevelopment authorities created pursuant to this chapter to fund improvements for redevelopment including, in the case of properties located within incorporated municipalities, tax increment financing as authorized by Section 14 of Article X of the Constitution of South Carolina.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 462, Section 1; 1998 Act No. 421, Section 1.
SC Code § 31-12-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment|Chapter 12 - Redevelopment Of Federal Military Installations And Other Defense Sites|Section 31-12-50. Redevelopment authority members; terms of office; filling vacancies; removal; reimbursement of expenses.

 (A) The term of office for members appointed pursuant to Sections 31-12-40(B) and 31-12-40(C) is as follows: one of the state representatives, one of the county representatives, and one of the municipality representatives shall serve a four-year term as designated by the respective delegation or governing body. The other members shall serve an initial two-year term, including the at-large appointment by the Governor. The term of office for members appointed pursuant to Section 31-12-40(D) shall be split equally between two or four years, as determined by lot at their first organizational meeting, other than the appointment by the Governor pursuant to Section 31-12-40(D)(1)(e), who shall serve an initial two-year term. After the initial terms, all members shall serve four-year terms. Each member shall hold office until his successor is appointed and qualified.  (B) Vacancies for the unexpired terms of a member who resigns, ceases to be qualified, or is removed must be promptly filled in the manner of the original appointment. A member who is guilty of malfeasance, misfeasance, incompetency, persistent absenteeism, conflicts of interest, misconduct, persistent neglect of duty in office, or incapacity is subject to removal by majority vote of the appointing body upon any of the foregoing causes being made to appear satisfactory to the appointing body. A member is subject to removal by an appointing body, with or without cause, upon a two-thirds vote of an appointing body. An appointing officer may remove a member of an authority with or without cause. A member shall receive, as the authority determines, reimbursement for reasonable travel expenses and other out-of-pocket expenses incurred in the discharge of the member's duties.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 462, Section 1; 1995 Act No. 37, Section 6; 1998 Act No. 421, Section 1.
SC Code § 31-12-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment|Chapter 12 - Redevelopment Of Federal Military Installations And Other Defense Sites|Section 31-12-60. Officers; employees; quorum; personal liability of members; delegation of powers.

 (A) The Governor's at-large appointment shall serve for a two-year term as chairman of any authority initially established. The authority shall select its vice chairman and such other officers as the authority may determine from its membership. The authority shall select its chairman at all times after the initial two-year period during which the Governor's at-large appointee serves as chairman.  (B) The authority may employ or contract with technical experts and other agents and employees as it requires and may determine the qualifications and compensation of these persons. A majority of the members then in office constitute a quorum for its meeting. A member is not liable personally for losses unless the losses are occasioned by the wilful misconduct of the member. An authority may delegate one or more of its members, agents, or employees any of its powers that it considers necessary to carry out the purposes of the authority, subject always to the supervision and control of the whole authority.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 462, Section 1; 1995 Act No. 37, Section 7; 1998 Act No. 421, Section 1.