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SC Code § 49-19-220 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 49 - Waters, Water Resources and Drainage|Chapter 19 - Drainage Districts Under 1920 Act|Section 49-19-220. Petition for formation.

 For that purpose the Department of Administration or a majority of the owners or the owners of a majority of the acreage of such lands may make and sign a petition in which shall be stated:  (1) The name of the proposed drainage district;  (2) The number of years the district is to continue;  (3) The boundaries of the proposed district;  (4) The names so far as known and the last post-office addresses of the owners of lands in the district together with the approximate number of acres owned by each and if the name or post-office address of the owner of any of such lands is unknown to the petitioners that fact shall be set out in the petition; and  (5) That the owners of the lands within the district whose names are subscribed to the petition are willing to and do obligate and bind the lands owned by them situated in the proposed drainage district to pay the tax or taxes which may be assessed against their respective lands to pay the expense of organizing and of making and maintaining the improvements that may be necessary to effect the reclamation of such lands so formed into a drainage district and to drain and protect them from the effects of water;  And the petition shall contain a prayer asking that the lands described therein be declared a drainage district under the provisions of this chapter. The petition may be signed by the Board or by a majority of the owners or the owners of a majority of the acreage of the lands or by both the Board and such owners of lands. After the petition has been so signed it shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the court of common pleas of the county in which such lands or the greater part thereof are situate.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 18-422; 1952 Code Section 18-422; 1942 Code Section 6157; 1932 Code Section 6157; Civ. C. '22 Section 3211; 1920 (31) 663; 1932 (37) 1253.  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 § 49-19-230 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 49 - Waters, Water Resources and Drainage|Chapter 19 - Drainage Districts Under 1920 Act|Section 49-19-230. Necessity of election.

 No drainage district shall be formed, no levy of assessments had and no bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter until an election thereon has been had under the direction of the commissioners of election in the county in which the drainage district is proposed to be formed, taxes levied or bonds issued, after giving at least twenty-one days' public notice of such election, fully stating the territory to be embraced in the district to be formed and the additional amount of taxes to be levied or the amount of bonds to be issued and also giving the names of the managers to hold such election and the place of such election. No district shall be formed, no taxes assessed and levied and no bonds issued unless a majority of the freeholders within the district owning a majority of the land to be embraced in the district vote in favor of the forming of the district and the assessment and levy of taxes or the issuance of bonds.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 18-423; 1952 Code Section 18-423; 1942 Code Section 6157; 1932 Code Section 6157; Civ. C. '22 Section 3211; 1920 (31) 663; 1932 (37) 1253.
SC Code § 49-19-240 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 49 - Waters, Water Resources and Drainage|Chapter 19 - Drainage Districts Under 1920 Act|Section 49-19-240. Approvals or consents prerequisite to formation or consolidation.

 No drainage district shall be established or consolidated under any provisions of this chapter until there shall have been first obtained the written approval or consent of a majority of the owners or the owners of a majority in acreage of the lands within the district, such written approval or consent to be evidenced by the signing of the petition or otherwise.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 18-424; 1952 Code Section 18-424; 1942 Code Section 6159; 1932 Code Section 6159; Civ. C. '22 Section 3213; 1920 (31) 663.
SC Code § 49-19-250 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 49 - Waters, Water Resources and Drainage|Chapter 19 - Drainage Districts Under 1920 Act|Section 49-19-250. Notice of filing of petition.

 Immediately after such petition shall have been filed, the clerk in whose office it has been filed shall give notice by causing publication to be made once a week for four consecutive weeks in some newspaper published in each county in which the lands referred to in the petition are situate, the last publication to be not less than twenty days before the appearance day fixed in the notice.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 18-425; 1952 Code Section 18-425; 1942 Code Section 6158; 1932 Code Section 6158; Civ. C. '22 Section 3212; 1920 (31) 663.
SC Code § 49-19-260 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 49 - Waters, Water Resources and Drainage|Chapter 19 - Drainage Districts Under 1920 Act|Section 49-19-260. Form of notice.

 The notice shall be substantially in the following form which shall be deemed sufficient for all purposes of this chapter:  Notice of Application to Form a Drainage District. -Notice is hereby given to all persons interested in the following described lands in __________ County, South Carolina, viz.: (here describe the property as set out in the petition), that a petition asking that the foregoing lands be formed into a drainage district under Chapter 19 of Title 49 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina has been filed in this office and that the foregoing lands will be affected by the formation of such drainage district and rendered liable to assessment for the purpose of paying the expenses of organization and making and maintaining the improvements that may be necessary to effect the reclamation of the lands included in such district and you and each of you are hereby notified to appear on the ___ day of __________ at the office of the clerk of the court of common pleas of __________ County and show cause, if any there be, why such drainage district as set forth in such petition shall not be organized as a public corporation of the State of South Carolina.  Date of first publication __________, 19___, clerk of the court of common pleas of __________ County, South Carolina.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 18-426; 1952 Code Section 18-426; 1942 Code Section 6158; 1932 Code Section 6158; Civ. C. '22 Section 3212; 1920 (31) 663.
SC Code § 49-19-270 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 49 - Waters, Water Resources and Drainage|Chapter 19 - Drainage Districts Under 1920 Act|Section 49-19-270. Evidence of publication of notice.

 The certificate of the clerk or the affidavit of another, with a copy of such notice affixed, showing that the notice has been published as required by this chapter, shall be sufficient evidence of such fact.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 18-427; 1952 Code Section 18-427; 1942 Code Section 6158; 1932 Code Section 6158; Civ. C. '22 Section 3212; 1920 (31) 663.
SC Code § 49-19-280 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 49 - Waters, Water Resources and Drainage|Chapter 19 - Drainage Districts Under 1920 Act|Section 49-19-280. Jurisdiction of court.

 The court of common pleas of the county in which any such petition has been filed shall thereafter maintain and have original and exclusive jurisdiction, coextensive with the boundaries and limits of the proposed district, without regard to county lines, for all purposes of this chapter.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 18-428; 1952 Code Section 18-428; 1942 Code Section 6158; 1932 Code Section 6158; Civ. C. '22 Section 3212; 1920 (31) 663.
SC Code § 49-19-290 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 49 - Waters, Water Resources and Drainage|Chapter 19 - Drainage Districts Under 1920 Act|Section 49-19-290. Hearing of objections.

 Any owner of lands in the proposed district who may not have signed the petition may appear on or before the appearance day stated in the notice and advocate or resist the organization and incorporation of such drainage district. If he shall desire to resist the establishment of the district he shall file his objection in writing, stating therein his reasons why the drainage district should not be formed or why his lands should not be included therein or he may deny the statements in the petition. Such objections, if any there be, shall be heard by the court either in open court or at chambers within or without the county or counties in which the lands lie in a summary manner without unnecessary delay on a day to be named by the court or judge thereof upon application of the petitioners or any of those signing the petition. The hearing may be adjourned from time to time for good cause shown.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 18-429; 1952 Code Section 18-429; 1942 Code Section 6159; 1932 Code Section 6159; Civ. C. '22 Section 3213; 1920 (31) 663.
SC Code § 49-19-300 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 49 - Waters, Water Resources and Drainage|Chapter 19 - Drainage Districts Under 1920 Act|Section 49-19-300. Decision of court on hearing.

 Upon the hearing of the objections, if any have been filed, if the court shall be of the opinion that the establishment of the drainage district and the improvements to be made thereunder will be for the advantage of the owners of the real property therein or that it would be in the interest of the public health, convenience or welfare, he shall overrule the objections and, in case all such objections are overruled or in case no such objections have been filed, the court thereupon shall by its order duly entered of record declare and decree the proposed drainage district a public corporation of this State for a term not exceeding the time mentioned in the petition. If the court finds that the lands set out in the petition should not be incorporated into a drainage district it shall dismiss the proceedings and adjudge the costs against the petitioners in proportion to the acreage represented by each.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 18-430; 1952 Code Section 18-430; 1942 Code Section 6159; 1932 Code Section 6159; Civ. C. '22 Section 3213; 1920 (31) 663.
SC Code § 49-19-310 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 49 - Waters, Water Resources and Drainage|Chapter 19 - Drainage Districts Under 1920 Act|Section 49-19-310. Right of individual petitioner to dismissal; amendment of petition.

 No person who signed the petition shall have the right to have such proceedings dismissed as to him without the written consent of the majority in acreage of the owners who signed the petition. The petition may be amended as any other pleading.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 18-431; 1952 Code Section 18-431; 1942 Code Section 6159; 1932 Code Section 6159; Civ. C. '22 Section 3213; 1920 (31) 663.
SC Code § 49-19-320 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 49 - Waters, Water Resources and Drainage|Chapter 19 - Drainage Districts Under 1920 Act|Section 49-19-320. Transmittal and filing of order establishing district.

 Immediately after the district has been declared a corporation by the court the clerk thereof shall transmit to the Secretary of State a certified copy of the findings and decree of the court incorporating the district and such copy shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State. A copy of such findings and decree together with a plat of the district showing the outside boundary lines shall also be filed in the office of the clerk of the court of common pleas in each of the counties having land in the district, where such copy shall become a permanent record, and each such clerk shall receive a fee of one dollar for filing and preserving it.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 18-432; 1952 Code Section 18-432; 1942 Code Section 6159; 1932 Code Section 6159; Civ. C. '22 Section 3213; 1920 (31) 663.
SC Code § 49-19-510 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 49 - Waters, Water Resources and Drainage|Chapter 19 - Drainage Districts Under 1920 Act|Section 49-19-510. Calling meeting to elect board of supervisors.

 Within twenty days after any drainage district shall have been organized and incorporated under the provisions of Article 3 of this chapter the clerk of the court in which the petition has been filed shall, upon giving notice by causing publication thereof to be made once a week for two consecutive weeks in some newspaper published in each county in which lands of the district are situate, the last insertion to be not less than ten nor more than fifteen days before the day of such meeting, call a meeting of the owners of the lands situate in the district at a day and hour specified at some public place in the county in which the district was organized for the purpose of electing a board of three supervisors, to be composed of owners of lands in the district, two of whom at least shall be residents of the county or counties in which such district is situate or some adjoining county.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 18-441; 1952 Code Section 18-441; 1942 Code Section 6160; 1932 Code Section 6160; Civ. C. '22 Section 3214; 1920 (31) 663.
SC Code § 49-19-520 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 49 - Waters, Water Resources and Drainage|Chapter 19 - Drainage Districts Under 1920 Act|Section 49-19-520. Conduct of meeting to elect supervisors.

 The landowners when assembled shall organize by the election of a chairman and a secretary of the meeting who shall conduct the election. At such election each and every acre of land in the district shall represent one share and each owner shall be entitled to one vote in person or by proxy in writing duly signed for every acre of land owned by him in such district. The three persons receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected as supervisors. The landowners shall at such election determine the length of the terms of each supervisor so elected by them, which shall be, respectively, one, two and three years, and they shall serve until their successors shall have been elected and qualified. The State Department of Administration at any such meeting may represent the State and shall have the right to vote for supervisors or upon any matter that may come properly before the meeting to the extent of the acreage owned by the State in such district. Such vote may be cast by any person designated by the Board. At such meeting guardians may represent their wards, executors and administrators may represent estates of deceased persons and private corporations may be represented by their officers or duly authorized agents.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 18-442; 1952 Code Section 18-442; 1942 Code Section 6160; 1932 Code Section 6160; Civ. C. '22 Section 3214; 1920 (31) 663.  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 § 49-19-530 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 49 - Waters, Water Resources and Drainage|Chapter 19 - Drainage Districts Under 1920 Act|Section 49-19-530. Quorum at meeting to elect supervisors; procedure if quorum is not present.

 The owners of a majority of the acreage included in the district shall be necessary to constitute a quorum for the purpose of holding such election or any election thereafter and in case the owners of a majority of the acreage included in such district are not present in person or duly represented at the time and place stated in the notice calling such meeting then no election shall be held and notice of such failure shall be given in writing by any person interested to the State Director of the Department of Administration which shall, as soon as practicable, appoint three competent persons who own land in such district as such supervisors for the term of one, two and three years, respectively, and to hold their office until their successors are elected or appointed and qualified.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 18-443; 1952 Code Section 18-443; 1942 Code Section 6160; 1932 Code Section 6160; Civ. C. '22 Section 3214; 1920 (31) 663.  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 § 49-19-540 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 49 - Waters, Water Resources and Drainage|Chapter 19 - Drainage Districts Under 1920 Act|Section 49-19-540. Removal or vacancy in office of appointed supervisor.

 Any such supervisor so appointed by the State Director of the Department of Administration may be removed by the Director of the Department of Administration for dishonesty, incompetency or failure to perform the duties imposed upon him by this chapter and any vacancies which may occur in any such office so filled by appointment shall be filled by the Director of the Department of Administration as soon as practicable.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 18-444; 1952 Code Section 18-444; 1942 Code Section 6160; 1932 Code Section 6160; Civ. C. '22 Section 3214; 1920 (31) 663.  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 § 49-19-550 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 49 - Waters, Water Resources and Drainage|Chapter 19 - Drainage Districts Under 1920 Act|Section 49-19-550. Annual elections of supervisors.

 Every year in the same month after the time for the election of the first board of supervisors they shall call a meeting of the landowners in the district in the same manner as is provided for in Section 49-19-510 and the owners of land in such district shall meet at the stated time and place and elect one supervisor therefor or, in case of their failure so to elect, the Director of the Department of Administration shall appoint such supervisor, in like manner as prescribed in Section 49-19-530, who shall hold his office for three years or until his successor is elected and qualified.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 18-445; 1952 Code Section 18-445; 1942 Code Section 6161; 1932 Code Section 6161; Civ. C. '22 Section 3215; 1920 (31) 663.  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 § 49-19-560 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 49 - Waters, Water Resources and Drainage|Chapter 19 - Drainage Districts Under 1920 Act|Section 49-19-560. Vacancy in office of elected supervisors.

 In case of a vacancy in an office of supervisor elected by the landowners the remaining supervisors or, if they fail to act within thirty days, the State Director of the Department of Administration may fill such vacancy until the next annual meeting when a successor shall be elected for the unexpired term.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 18-446; 1952 Code Section 18-446; 1942 Code Section 6161; 1932 Code Section 6161; Civ. C. '22 Section 3215; 1920 (31) 663.  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 § 49-19-570 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 49 - Waters, Water Resources and Drainage|Chapter 19 - Drainage Districts Under 1920 Act|Section 49-19-570. Oath of supervisors.

 Each supervisor before entering upon his official duties shall take and subscribe to an oath before some officer authorized by law to administer oaths that he will honestly, faithfully and impartially perform the duties devolving upon him in office as supervisor of the drainage district in which he was elected or appointed and that he will not neglect any of the duties imposed upon him by this chapter.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 18-447; 1952 Code Section 18-447; 1942 Code Section 6162; 1932 Code Section 6162; Civ. C. '22 Section 3216; 1920 (31) 663.
SC Code § 49-19-580 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 49 - Waters, Water Resources and Drainage|Chapter 19 - Drainage Districts Under 1920 Act|Section 49-19-580. Organization of board of supervisors; secretary; seal; records.

 The board of supervisors immediately after their election or appointment shall meet at some convenient place and choose one of their number president of the board and elect some suitable person secretary, who may or may not be a member of the board and who may be required to execute bond for the faithful performance of his duties as the board of supervisors may require. The board may adopt a seal with a suitable device and shall keep a record of all its proceedings in a substantially bound book to be kept for the purpose, which shall be open to inspection by any interested person, his agent or attorney.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 18-448; 1952 Code Section 18-448; 1942 Code Section 6163; 1932 Code Section 6163; Civ. C. '22 Section 3217; 1920 (31) 663.
SC Code § 49-19-590 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 49 - Waters, Water Resources and Drainage|Chapter 19 - Drainage Districts Under 1920 Act|Section 49-19-590. Annual report of supervisors.

 The board of supervisors shall report to the landowners at the annual meeting held under the provisions of Section 49-19-550 what work has been done, either by engineers or otherwise.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 18-449; 1952 Code Section 18-449; 1942 Code Section 6163; 1932 Code Section 6163; Civ. C. '22 Section 3217; 1920 (31) 663.