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2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 71 - School Bonds › Section 59-71-430. Request for issuance of bonds.

Before any State school bonds are issued, the State Board of Education shall transmit to the Governor and to the State Treasurer a request for the issuance thereof and shall embody in such request:
(a) A schedule showing the aggregate of bonds issued pursuant to previous requests, the purposes for which they were issued, the annual payments required to retire such bonds, the interest thereon and the amount of sinking fund applicable to the retirement of such outstanding bonds, apportioned in accordance with the requirement of Section 59-71-570;
(b) the amount of bonds sought to be issued;
(c) a schedule showing future annual principal requirements and estimated annual interest requirements on the bonds requested to be issued;
(d) a schedule showing
(i) the estimated total funds required to cover applications for capital improvements and other purposes to be approved by the Board in that fiscal year;
(ii) the amount of funds then available to apply on such applications and;
(iii) the remaining amount required to cover such applications, being the amount for which it is proposed that State school bonds be issued.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-997; 1952 Code Section 21-997; 1951 (47) 546; 1967 (55) 719.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 71 - School Bonds › Section 59-71-440. Conditions warranting issuance of bonds.

If the following shall appear to the satisfaction of the Governor and the State Treasurer from the foregoing request:
(a) That the amount of revenues derived from the retail sales tax received during the next preceding fiscal year will, if received annually thereafter, be sufficient to pay as they fall due the principal and interest on such proposed State school bonds and all other State school bonds theretofore issued;
(b) that the amount of revenues estimated by the State Board of Education to be received during the term for which such proposed State school bonds will be outstanding will be sufficient to pay, as the same respectively mature, the principal and interest of such bonds and of all other State school bonds theretofore issued;
(c) that the estimate by the State Board of Education of its needs as shown pursuant to Section 59-71-430 requires bonds to be issued in the amount requested;
(d) that the issue will be within the limitations prescribed by Section 59-71-420; it shall be the duty of the Governor and the State Treasurer to issue State school bonds in accordance with such request.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-998; 1952 Code Section 21-998; 1951 (47) 546; 1967 (55) 719.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 71 - School Bonds › Section 59-71-450. Form of bonds; time, place, and medium of payment.

The State school bonds shall be issued in such form and with such provisions as to time, place or places and medium of payment as may be determined by the Governor and the State Treasurer, subject to the provisions of this article.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-999; 1952 Code Section 21-999; 1951 (47) 546.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 71 - School Bonds › Section 59-71-460. Denomination of bonds.

State school bonds shall each be in the denomination of one thousand dollars or some multiple thereof.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-999.1; 1952 Code Section 21-999.1; 1951 (47) 546; 1956 (49) 1773.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 71 - School Bonds › Section 59-71-470. Form of bonds; registration.

State school bonds issued pursuant to this article may be in the form of negotiable coupon bonds, payable to bearer, with the privilege to the holder of having them registered in his name on the books of the State Treasurer as to principal only, or as to both principal and interest, and such principal, or both principal and interest, as the case may be, thus made payable to the registered holder, subject to such conditions as the State Treasurer may prescribe. State school bonds so registered as to principal in the name of the holder may thereafter be registered as payable to bearer and made payable accordingly.
State school bonds may also be issued as fully registered bonds with both principal and interest thereof made payable only to the registered holder. Such fully registered bonds shall be subject to transfer under such conditions as the State Treasurer may prescribe. Such fully registered bonds may, if the proceedings authorizing their issuance so provide, be convertible into negotiable coupon bonds with the attributes set forth in the first paragraph of this section.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-999.2; 1952 Code Section 21-999.2; 1951 (47) 1773; 1956 (49) 1773.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 71 - School Bonds › Section 59-71-480. Interest; maturities; redemption.

State school bonds shall bear interest, payable semiannually, at a rate or rates not exceeding the maximum interest rate specified in the Board's request for the issuance thereof. Each issue of State school bonds shall mature in annual series or installments, the first of which annual series or installments shall mature not more than ten years after the date of the bonds and the last not more than twenty-four years after such date. The installments or series may be equal or unequal in amount. State school bonds may, in the discretion of the Board, be made subject to redemption at par and accrued interest, plus such redemption premium as it shall approve and on such occasions as it may specify in its request for the issuance of such bonds. State school bonds shall not be redeemable before maturity unless they contain a statement to that effect.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-999.3; 1952 Code Section 21-999.3; 1951 (47) 546.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 71 - School Bonds › Section 59-71-490. Exemption of bonds from taxes or assessments.

All State school bonds issued under this article, and the income therefrom, shall be exempt from all State, county, municipal, school district and other taxes or assessments, direct or indirect, general or special, whether imposed for the purpose of general revenue or otherwise.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-999.4; 1952 Code Section 21-999.4; 1951 (47); 546, 710.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 71 - School Bonds › Section 59-71-510. Pledge of credit and revenues for payment of bonds.

For the payment of the principal and interest on all State school bonds at any time issued and outstanding pursuant to this article as now constituted or hereafter amended, there shall be pledged the full faith, credit and taxing power of the State and, in addition thereto, but subject to the provisions of Section 59-71-520, the entire amount of revenue derived from the retail sales tax levied by Chapter 35 of Title 12. The revenues derived from such retail sales tax during each fiscal year shall be discharged from the foregoing pledge when payment or provision for payment has been made for the principal and interest of all State school bonds maturing in such fiscal year and when the requirements of Section 59-71-570 as to payments into the sinking fund have been met.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-999.6; 1952 Code Section 21-999.6; 1951 (47) 546; 1961 (52) 480; 1967 (55) 719.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 71 - School Bonds › Section 59-71-520. Revision of retail sales tax not precluded by pledge.

The pledge of such revenue derived from such retail sales tax shall not preclude the revision of such retail sales tax as to rate or as to the item taxed, either or both, if the State Auditor shall certify that his estimate of the revenue to be derived annually from the tax as thus revised will not be less than one hundred and fifty per cent of that sum which is equal to the maximum annual principal and interest requirements on all State school bonds outstanding or then requested to be issued on the date such certificate bears. Such certificate shall be appended to the enrolled act reducing such tax and be presented to the joint assembly of the General Assembly on the occasion such act is presented for ratification.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-999.7; 1952 Code Section 21-999.7; 1951 (47) 546.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 71 - School Bonds › Section 59-71-530. Sale of bonds.

State school bonds whose proceeds are to be applied exclusively to the purchase of school bus equipment may be privately placed, if the terms and conditions of such disposition shall be approved by resolution duly adopted by the State Fiscal Accountability Authority.
All other State school bonds shall be sold by the Governor and the State Treasurer upon sealed proposals, after publication of notice of such sale one or more times at least ten days before such sale, in a newspaper of general circulation in the State and also in a financial paper published in New York City which regularly publishes notices of sale of state or municipal bonds. The bonds shall be awarded to the highest bidder at a price not less than par and accrued interest to the date of delivery, but the right shall be reserved to reject all bids and to readvertise the bonds for sale.
For the purpose of bringing about successful sales of such bonds, the Board may do all things ordinarily and customarily done in connection with the sale of State or municipal bonds. All expenses incident to the sales of such bonds shall be paid from the proceeds of the sale of such bonds.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-999.8; 1952 Code Section 21-999.8; 1951 (47) 546; 1956 (49) 1773; 1965 (54) 147.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 71 - School Bonds › Section 59-71-540. Bonds as lawful investments.

It shall be lawful for all executors, administrators, guardians and other fiduciaries and all sinking fund commissions to invest any moneys in their hands in State school bonds.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-999.9; 1952 Code Section 21-999.9; 1951 (47) 546.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 71 - School Bonds › Section 59-71-550. Disposition of proceeds of sale.

The proceeds of the sale of State school bonds shall be received by the State Treasurer and placed by him to the credit of the State Board of Education, except that the premium, if any, shall be placed in the sinking fund established by Section 59-71-570 and the accrued interest, if any, shall be used to discharge in part the first interest to become due on such bonds. On the occasion that he receives the proceeds of State school bonds from the purchasers, the State Treasurer shall segregate that part of the proceeds which are intended for allocation to school districts for capital improvements and other purposes from that portion intended for the purchase of school bus equipment, but the purchasers of such bonds shall in no wise be liable for the proper application of the proceeds to the purposes for which they are intended.
The State Board of Education shall in turn credit each of the several school districts with its proportionate share of the proceeds of the bonds applicable to capital improvements and other purposes, each district's share being determined in the ratio of its public school enrollment to the enrollment of the State as a whole.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-1000; 1952 Code Section 21-1000; 1951 (47) 546; 1967 (55) 719.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 71 - School Bonds › Section 59-71-560. Use of proceeds; segregation for different uses.

The proceeds derived from the sale of State school bonds shall be applied by the Board only to the purposes for which the bonds are issued, and, if it shall be provided that a part of the proceeds of an issue of bonds shall be allocated to school districts for capital improvements and other purposes and another part be applied to defray the cost of school bus equipment, the State Treasurer shall, upon the receipt of the proceeds of such bonds, segregate such proceeds in accordance with the provisions of the request made to the Governor and the State Treasurer pursuant to the provisions of Section 59-71-430.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-1000.1; 1952 Code Section 21-1000.1; 1951 (47) 546; 1967 (55) 719.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 71 - School Bonds › Section 59-71-570. Sinking fund payments.

If the annual principal payment on account of outstanding bonds be less than five per cent of the aggregate of all bonds outstanding, there shall be placed in the sinking fund hereby established for the retirement of State school bonds such sum as is the difference between five per cent of the outstanding State school bonds and the amount retired by way of principal of such outstanding bonds during such year. The sinking fund shall be duly apportioned between debt existing by reason of borrowings for advances to the school districts or operating units of the several counties and debt existing by reason of borrowings to defray the cost of acquiring school bus equipment, in the proportion that each bears to the total of State school bonds outstanding.
Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, the remaining balance in the Sinking Fund as of July first, 1981, shall be remitted to the General Fund of the State.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-1000.2; 1952 Code Section 21-1000.2; 1951 (47) 546; 1981 Act No. 178, Part II, Section 12.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 71 - School Bonds › Section 59-71-580. Retail sales tax provisions as part of contract with bondholders.

The provisions of Chapter 35 of Title 12 levying the retail sales tax and of this article pledging the proceeds thereof to the payment of the principal and interest of State school bonds and to the sinking fund to be established for the retirement of the outstanding principal of the bonds shall be deemed to partake of the obligation of the contract between the State and the holders of the State school bonds.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-1000.3; 1952 Code Section 21-1000.3; 1951 (47) 546.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 73 - School Taxes › Section 59-73-10. Additional county taxes shall be determined by electorate.

Before any additional tax is levied in any county for school purposes, the question of levying such tax shall first be submitted to the qualified electors of such county as provided by law.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-911; 1952 Code Section 21-911; 1942 Code Section 5426; 1933 (38) 567; 1934 (38) 1340, 1442; 1935 (39) 133; 1937 (40) 113, 220; 1938 (40) 1649.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 73 - School Taxes › Section 59-73-20. School districts declared tax districts.

The school districts of the several counties of the State are hereby made and declared to be the divisions of the counties for taxation for all school purposes.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-912; 1952 Code Section 21-912; 1942 Code Section 5329; 1932 Code Section 5355; Civ. C. '22 Section 2602; Civ. C. '12 Section 1741; Civ. C. '02 Section 1207; 1896 (22) 162.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 73 - School Taxes › Section 59-73-30. Levy of annual school district tax.

The voters or electors of any school district who return real or personal property for taxation may levy and collect an annual tax to supplement any special or other tax for like purposes in the manner herein provided.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-913; 1952 Code Section 21-913; 1942 Code Section 5330; 1932 Code Section 5356; Civ. C. '22 Section 2603; Civ. C. '12 Section 1742; Civ. C. '02 Section 1208; 1896 (22) 162; 1900 (23) 364; 1903 (24) 64; 1906 (25) 111; 1907 (25) 631; 1910 (26) 742; 1915 (29) 100; 1917 (30) 382; 1920 (31) 727, 1084; 1923 (33) 773; 1924 (33) 988; 1925 (34) 157; 1930 (36) 1126; 1934 (38) 1591.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 73 - School Taxes › Section 59-73-40. Petition for and notice of election.

Upon the written petition or request of at least one third of the resident electors and a like proportion of the resident freeholders of the age of twenty-one years being filed with the county board of education, asking for the same and stating the rate of tax levy proposed, which shall not exceed fifteen mills, the county board of education shall order the board of trustees of such school district to hold an election at some place within the district, after giving notice of the time and place thereof for at least two weeks in some newspaper published within the county and by posting notice thereof in at least three public places within such school district for such length of time, unless there be no newspaper published within the county, in which event the posting of the notices as above shall suffice.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-914; 1952 Code Section 21-914; 1942 Code Section 5330; 1932 Code Section 5356; Civ. C. '22 Section 2603; Civ. C. '12 Section 1742; Civ. C. '02 Section 1208; 1896 (22) 162; 1900 (23) 364; 1903 (24) 64; 1906 (25) 111; 1907 (25) 631; 1910 (26) 742; 1915 (29) 100; 1917 (30) 382; 1920 (31) 727, 1084; 1923 (33) 773; 1924 (33) 988; 1925 (34) 157; 1930 (36) 1126; 1934 (38) 1591.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 73 - School Taxes › Section 59-73-50. Voting at and conduct of election.

At such election only such electors as return real or personal property for taxation and who exhibit their tax receipts and registration certificates, as required in general elections, shall be allowed to vote. At such election the board of trustees shall act as managers, and the election shall be conducted as is provided by law for the conduct of general elections. At the election each elector favoring the proposed levy shall cast a ballot containing the word "Yes" printed or written thereon, and each elector opposed to said levy shall cast a ballot containing the word "No" printed or written thereon.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-917; 1952 Code Section 21-917; 1942 Code Section 5330; 1932 Code Section 5356; Civ. C. '22 Section 2603, Civ. C. '12 Section 1742; Civ. C. '02 Section 1208; 1896 (22) 162; 1900 (23) 364; 1903 (24) 64; 1906 (25) 111; 1907 (25) 631; 1910 (26) 742; 1915 (29) 100; 1917 (30) 382; 1920 (31) 727, 1084; 1923 (33) 773; 1924 (33) 988; 1925 (34) 157; 1930 (36) 1126; 1934 (38) 1591.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 73 - School Taxes › Section 59-73-60. Levy of tax; increase, decrease, or repeal of tax.

Within ten days after such election, if the majority of those voting shall vote for such levy, the board of trustees shall furnish the county auditor with a statement of the amount so levied, and the auditor shall enter the same in the tax duplicates, and he shall annually, each year thereafter, enter such amount in the tax duplicates until the same is increased, by the taxpayers, at an election called for that purpose, or is decreased in a manner provided by law, and he is notified that the same has been increased, decreased or repealed; and if increased or decreased, he shall annually enter it as so increased or decreased. Such election shall be called and notice given in the same way and manner as is herein provided for the calling of elections to make the levy and the giving of the notice that it has been made, and the county treasurer shall collect the same as other county and State taxes. Any tax which may be levied, increased, decreased or repealed after October first in any year shall not take effect until the next succeeding year.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-918; 1952 Code Section 21-918; 1942 Code Section 5330; 1932 Code Section 5356; Civ. C. '22 Section 2603; Civ. C. '12 Section 1742; Civ. C. '02 Section 1208; 1896 (22) 162; 1900 (23) 364; 1903 (24) 64; 1906 (25) 111; 1907 (25) 631; 1910 (26) 742; 1915 (29) 100; 1917 (30) 382; 1920 (31) 727, 1084; 1923 (33) 773; 1924 (33) 988; 1925 (34) 157; 1930 (36) 1126; 1934 (38) 1591.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 73 - School Taxes › Section 59-73-70. Levy constitutes a lien.

A levy made pursuant to Section 59-73-60 shall be a lien on the property in such school district, which shall be subject thereto in case of default of payment.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-922; 1952 Code Section 21-922; 1942 Code Section 5330; 1932 Code Section 5356; Civ. C. '22 Section 2603; Civ. C. '12 Section 1742; Civ. C. '02 Section 1208; 1896 (22) 162; 1900 (23) 364; 1903 (24) 64; 1906 (25) 111; 1907 (25) 631; 1910 (26) 742; 1915 (29) 100; 1917 (30) 382; 1920 (31) 727, 1084; 1923 (33) 773; 1924 (33) 988; 1925 (34) 157; 1930 (36) 1126; 1934 (38) 1591.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 73 - School Taxes › Section 59-73-80. Paying out tax collected.

The tax so collected shall be paid out by the county treasurer upon warrants drawn by the board of trustees, countersigned by the county superintendent of education. But any surplus of such levy remaining in the hands of the county treasurer at the expiration of any fiscal year shall be paid out as other school funds of the district.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-923; 1952 Code Section 21-923; 1942 Code Section 5330; 1932 Code Section 5356, Civ. C. '22 Section 2603; Civ. C. '12 Section 1742; Civ. C. '02 Section 1208; 1896 (22) 162; 1900 (23) 364; 1903 (24) 64; 1906 (25) 111; 1907 (25) 631; 1910 (26) 742; 1915 (29) 100; 1917 (30) 382; 1920 (31) 727, 1084; 1923 (33) 773; 924 (33) 988; 1925 (34) 157; 1930 (36) 1126; 1934 (38) 1591.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 73 - School Taxes › Section 59-73-90. Designation of school by taxpayer.

Each taxpayer when he pays any tax for school purposes voted under the provisions of Sections 59-73-40 and 59-73-50 may designate to which school in the school district he wishes the money paid by him to go, and the treasurer shall keep a note of such designation, and the money shall be applied as thus designated. When no designation is made by the taxpayer at the time of such payment the money shall be expended as other school funds in such district.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-924; 1952 Code Section 21-924; 1942 Code Section 5330; 1932 Code Section 5356; Civ. C. '22 Section 2603; Civ. C. '12 Section 1742; Civ. C. '02 Section 1208; 1896 (22) 162; 1900 (23) 364; 1903 (24) 64; 1906 (25) 111; 1907 (25) 631; 1910 (26) 742; 1915 (29) 100; 1917 (30) 382; 1920 (31) 727, 1084; 1923 (33) 773; 1924 (33) 988; 1925 (34) 157; 1930 (36) 1126; 1934 (38) 1591.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 73 - School Taxes › Section 59-73-100. Reduction of unnecessarily high special school levies.

Whenever in any school district in the State where special levies and taxes have been authorized, levied and are being collected the assessed valuation of the property shall have so increased since the authorization of the special levy as to provide an amount of taxes in excess of that contemplated at the time of the authorization of the levy or in excess of the amount collected the first year under such authorization, then, upon the written petition of the trustees of such school district approved by the county board of education and upon the petition of three fourths of the residents subject to such tax, the auditor of the county in which the school district is situate and the tax being collected shall reduce the levy for such school district to such an amount as will produce the total amount of taxes originally intended to be collected.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-927; 1952 Code Section 21-927; 1942 Code Section 5331; 1932 Code Section 5357; Civ. C. '22 Section 2604; 1919 (31) 243.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 73 - School Taxes › Section 59-73-110. Reduction of special school levies by boards and legislative delegation.

All existing special tax levies in all counties and school districts within the State may be reduced as deemed advisable by the local boards of trustees and the county boards of education, with the approval of the Senator and at least one half of the members of the House of Representatives of the county in which such reduction is made. But no tax levy for retiring bonds or other indebtedness of such school district shall be so reduced.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-928; 1952 Code Section 21-928; 1942 Code Section 5426; 1933 (38) 567; 1934 (38) 1340, 1442; 1935 (39) 133; 1937 (40) 113, 220; 1938 (40) 1649.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 73 - School Taxes › Section 59-73-120. Discontinuance of special school levies when purpose satisfied.

Whenever the special levy in any school district shall have provided sufficient funds to pay and satisfy the purposes and obligations for which it was authorized, then, upon the written petition of the board of trustees of such school district or upon the written petition of three fourths of the residents in the school district subject to such levy and taxes, the auditor of the county in which the school district is located shall discontinue the assessment authorized.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-935; 1952 Code Section 21-935; 1942 Code Section 5332; 1932 Code Section 5358; Civ. C. '22 Section 2605; 1919 (31) 243; 1927 (35) 200.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 73 - School Taxes › Section 59-73-130. Tax levy in Saluda County for benefit of Ridge Spring School District No. 2.

The county board of education of Aiken County shall notify the auditor of Saluda County in writing, on or before June thirtieth of each year, of the proposed tax levy for that portion of Saluda County involved in the consolidated school district, and the auditor of Saluda County shall levy, and the treasurer shall collect from the taxpayers of the area of Saluda County known as the Ridge Spring School District No. 2, such amount annually as represented in the written request submitted by the county board of education of Aiken County as provided herein. Provided, that such tax levy shall not exceed that levied for that portion of Aiken County involved in the same attendance area for school purposes. Provided, further, that no tax levy for school purposes in Saluda County shall be increased unless approval therefor shall have been first obtained in writing from the legislative delegation of the county, including the Senator.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-138; 1953 (48) 342; 1958 (50) 1964, 1978.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 73 - School Taxes › Section 59-73-140. Tax levy in Saluda County; collection and credit of taxes.

The county treasurer of Saluda County is directed to collect the taxes and credit them to the attendance area. These credits are to be reported immediately to the county superintendent of education of Aiken County.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-139; 1953 (48) 342; 1958 (50) 1964.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 73 - School Taxes › Section 59-73-150. Tax levy in Saluda County; county boards of education may draw on funds; remittance to Aiken County.

The county boards of education of the respective counties are authorized to draw on these funds for the sole purposes named in Sections 59-73-130 to 59-73-150, and such funds are to be remitted to the county board of education of Aiken County at the end of the school term and not later than June thirtieth of the current fiscal year.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-140; 1953 (48) 342; 1958 (50) 1964.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 73 - School Taxes › Section 59-73-160. Tuition fees charged under certain conditions to public school students residing on military base or other federal establishment.

If the federal government in any year ceases to provide federal impact aid or reduces the amount of federal impact aid to those school districts of this State which provide public school education for children who reside on a military base or on another federal establishment in the district wherein local property taxes are not levied, the governing body of the district in that year shall be authorized to charge a tuition fee to such students who attend schools of the district. The amount of the tuition fee shall be set by the governing body of the district and shall be approved by the State Board of Education.
The tuition fee per child shall be the same regardless of the school attended and the aggregate amount of the tuition fees charged in any one year shall not exceed the amount of the loss in federal impact aid from the previous year plus or minus a cost-of-living adjustment on the amount of impact aid provided in the previous year which shall be equal to the rise or fall in the consumer price index as it existed at the end of the previous year. If tuition fees are imposed in any year and the federal impact aid cut is later reinstated and paid after the tuition fees have been collected, such fees shall be refunded in full.
The State Board of Education shall be authorized to promulgate regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this section and the appropriate officials of the school district shall be authorized to refuse admittance to any child who has not paid the tuition fee required herein.
For purposes of this section:
(a) "Consumer price index" means the average over a twelve-month period of the consumer price index published monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor.
(b) "Year" means the fiscal year of the school district concerned.
HISTORY: 1982 Act No. 387, Section 1.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 101 - Colleges And Institutions Of Higher Learning Generally › Section 59-101-10. Designation of state colleges and universities.

There are universities and colleges as follows: one located in the City of Columbia, styled the University of South Carolina; another in or near the Town of Orangeburg, styled South Carolina State University; Clemson University; Winthrop University; another styled The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina; the College of Charleston; another in or near the Town of Greenwood, styled Lander University; another in or near the City of Florence, styled Francis Marion University; the Medical University of South Carolina, and another in or near the City of Conway styled Coastal Carolina University. They are separate and distinct institutions, each under its separate board of trustees or visitors.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 22-1; 1952 Code Section 22-1; 1942 Code Section 5697; 1932 Code Section 5697; Civ. C. '22 Section 2765; Civ. C. '12 Section 1836; 1906 (25) 16; 1913 (28) 188; 1920 (31) 968; 1952 (47) 1875; 1954 (48) 1722; 1988 Act No. 510, Section 4; 2000 Act No. 254, Section 1.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 101 - Colleges And Institutions Of Higher Learning Generally › Section 59-101-20. Transfer of College of Charleston to State.

The State is authorized to acquire all property of the College of Charleston, real, personal, or mixed, and to operate the college as a state-supported institution of higher learning.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 22-1.2, 1970 (56) 2085; 1988 Act No. 510, Section 5.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 101 - Colleges And Institutions Of Higher Learning Generally › Section 59-101-30. Transfer of Lander College to State.

(1) The State of South Carolina is authorized to acquire all that property known as Lander College, real, personal, and mixed, from the Lander Foundation, a political subdivision created by Act 110 of 1951, and to operate the college as a state-supported institution of higher learning.
(2) The Lander Foundation is authorized to transfer Lander College and all of its properties, real, personal, and mixed, to the State of South Carolina under terms mutually agreed upon and is further authorized to transfer endowment or trust properties and funds which are not to be transferred to the State to an appropriate foundation or eleemosynary corporation upon terms the trustees determine.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 22-1.3; 1972 (57) 2583; 1988 Act No. 510, Section 6.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 101 - Colleges And Institutions Of Higher Learning Generally › Section 59-101-40. Presidents of student bodies may be ex officio nonvoting members of boards of trustees.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of law relating to the composition of the various boards of trustees of State-supported institutions of higher learning, the president of the student body of each of these institutions may be, ex officio, a nonvoting member of the board of trustees of the institution he attends and represents.
The term of office of the student body president shall be contemporaneous with his term as president.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 22-1.1; 1972 (57) 2395.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 101 - Colleges And Institutions Of Higher Learning Generally › Section 59-101-50. Enrollment preference given to residents.

The colleges and other institutions of learning of this State supported in whole or in part by the State shall receive as students those applicants residing within the State in preference to those residing without; provided, however, that the applications of those residing within the State shall be filed with the president or secretary of such college or institution of learning at least thirty days before the opening of such college or institution.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 22-2; 1952 Code Section 22-2; 1942 Code Section 5708; 1932 Code Section 5708; Civ. C. '22 Section 2776; 1917 (30) 339.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 101 - Colleges And Institutions Of Higher Learning Generally › Section 59-101-55. State appropriated funds restriction.

State appropriated funds shall not be used to provide out-of-state subsidies to students attending state-supported institutions of higher learning.
HISTORY: 2011 Act No. 74, Pt VI, Section 10, eff August 1, 2011.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 101 - Colleges And Institutions Of Higher Learning Generally › Section 59-101-80. Degree of licentiate of instruction.

The universities and colleges of this State may provide a course of study, to be approved by the State Board of Education, the completion of which by a student will entitle him to the degree of licentiate of instruction and they may issue a diploma showing the degree has been conferred.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 22-4; 1952 Code Section 22-4; 1942 Code Section 5698; 1932 Code Section 5698; Civ. C. '22 Section 2766; Civ. C. '12 Section 1837; Civ. C. '02 Section 1258; 1898 (22) 764.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 101 - Colleges And Institutions Of Higher Learning Generally › Section 59-101-90. Suspending exercises for Christmas and New Year's Day.

All State colleges and universities shall suspend exercises for a period of not exceeding ten days, including the time required for going from and returning to such colleges and universities, such period to include Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 22-5; 1952 Code Section 22-5; 1942 Code Section 5699; 1932 Code Section 5699; Civ. C. '22 Section 2768; Civ. C. '12 Section 1839; 1906 (25) 42.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 101 - Colleges And Institutions Of Higher Learning Generally › Section 59-101-100. Display of United States and State flags.

The State Superintendent of Education shall make such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the National Flag Code, for the display of the flag of the United States of America and the display of the State flag on the grounds of educational institutions supported, in whole or in part, by funds derived from this State. The person at the head of any educational institution in the State shall display the flag of the United States of America and the State flag on the grounds of educational institutions supported, in whole or in part, by funds derived from this State. The person at the head of any educational institution in the State shall display the flag of the United States of America and the State flag at such times and at such places and under such restrictions and rules as he may be directed to observe by the State Superintendent of Education.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 22-6; 1952 Code Section 22-6; 1942 Code Section 5705; 1939 (41) 298; 1965 (54) 244.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 101 - Colleges And Institutions Of Higher Learning Generally › Section 59-101-110. Display of State flag on one building at each State Institution of higher learning.

The State flag shall be displayed daily, except in rainy weather, from a staff upon one building of the University of South Carolina and of each State college. The officer or officers in charge of such buildings shall purchase suitable flags and cause them to be displayed, the expense to be borne out of the funds provided for maintenance.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 22-7; 1952 Code Section 22-7; 1942 Code Section 5703; 1932 Code Sections 5703, 5705; Civ. C. '22 Sections 2772, 2773; Civ. C. '12 Sections 1842, 1843; 1910 (26) 753; 1922 (32) 779.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 101 - Colleges And Institutions Of Higher Learning Generally › Section 59-101-120. Charge for diplomas.

At no State institution of higher learning shall any graduate be charged more than the actual cost for his diploma. But a graduate from any such institution of higher learning may pay a greater price for his diploma if such graduate should elect to do so.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 22-9; 1952 Code Section 22-9; 1942 Code Section 5712-2; 1933 (38) 273; 1934 (38) 1291; 1972 (57) 2604; 1981 Act No. 178, Part II, Section 24.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 101 - Colleges And Institutions Of Higher Learning Generally › Section 59-101-130. High schools shall report to Superintendent of Education; institutions of higher learning shall report to high schools.

On or before May first of each calendar year, every high school which issues a State high school diploma shall submit to the State Superintendent of Education in such form as he may prescribe the following data:
(1) The number of high school graduates that entered the freshman class of an institution of higher learning, either in or out of this State, for whom a first semester report has been received.
(2) A breakdown showing all courses passed by such group.
(3) A breakdown showing all courses failed by such group.
Every high school shall seek diligently to obtain such data from out-of-State institutions of higher learning. Any high school which fails to file a report or files a false report shall lose its accreditation.
Every institution of higher learning in this State shall submit to the State high school from which each freshman was graduated a report on the first semester accomplishments of each freshman.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 22-10; 1952 Code Section 22-10; 1947 (45) 317; 1962 (52) 1719.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 101 - Colleges And Institutions Of Higher Learning Generally › Section 59-101-140. Tabulation of reports.

After such reports have been received, the State Superintendent of Education shall cause them to be tabulated so as to show the academic performance of graduates from the respective high schools who entered institutions of higher learning. When such tables have been prepared, they shall be included in the annual report of the State Superintendent of Education as presented to the General Assembly. The State Superintendent of Education shall acquaint the proper officials of the institutions of higher learning with the requirements of Section 59-101-130.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 22-11; 1952 Code Section 22-11; 1947 (45) 317; 1962 (52) 1719.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 101 - Colleges And Institutions Of Higher Learning Generally › Section 59-101-160. Degrees of Columbia Bible College.

The board of trustees of Columbia Bible College, formerly named the Columbia Bible School, may confer such degrees as it shall determine. A diploma from the Columbia Bible College may entitle the holder to be accredited by the State Board of Education in like manner as diplomas are now accredited from other schools and colleges.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 22-12; 1952 Code Section 22-12; 1942 Code Section 5398; 1935 (39) 130.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 101 - Colleges And Institutions Of Higher Learning Generally › Section 59-101-170. Liability insurance.

All institutions of higher learning in the State are authorized to procure liability insurance in amounts deemed reasonable and necessary by their respective boards of trustees for the benefit and protection of employees who may be liable to third persons who are injured or killed or whose property is damaged as a result of negligence of the employee in the performance of his or her regularly assigned duties. Provided, that such insurance shall not include physicians' and dentists' professional (malpractice) liability insurance coverage.
The premiums on all insurance contracts as herein authorized shall be paid from funds of the institution concerned and shall be considered a part of the general expense of that institution.
Actions brought for damages or injury covered by the insurance authorized by this section shall be brought directly against the individuals insured by such policies and neither the State nor the particular institution concerned shall be a party to such action nor shall any provision of this section be construed as a waiver of the State's general immunity from liability and suit.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 22-14; 1968 (55) 2855.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 101 - Colleges And Institutions Of Higher Learning Generally › Section 59-101-180. Sale and disposal of real property; disposal of proceeds.

The governing body for each state-supported college and university shall review the real property titled in the name of its institution to determine if such property is in excess of the institution's anticipated needs and is available for disposal. All real properties determined to be in excess may be disposed of with the approval of the State Fiscal Accountability Authority or the Department of Administration, as appropriate, and the governing body for the college or university. The proceeds of such sales are to be disposed of as follows:
(1) if the property was acquired as a gift, or through tuition, student fees or earned income, the proceeds may be retained by the selling institution for use in accord with established needs;
(2) if the property was acquired through state appropriations, state capital improvement bonds, or formula funds, the proceeds shall revert to the state general fund.
The responsibility for providing any necessary documentation including, but not limited to, documenting the fund source of any real property proposed for sale rests with each respective institution.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 22-14.1; 1968 (55) 2855; 1998 Act No. 419, Part II, Section 10B.
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.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 101 - Colleges And Institutions Of Higher Learning Generally › Section 59-101-185. Governing boards of state institutions of higher learning authorized to maintain financial management and accounting systems.

Authority to maintain financial management and accounting systems is delegated to the Board of Trustees or Board of Visitors of the following state institutions of higher learning: The University of South Carolina, Clemson University, The Medical University of South Carolina, The Citadel, Winthrop University, South Carolina State University, Francis Marion University, The College of Charleston, Lander University, and Coastal Carolina University. Such systems shall provide financial information to the Comptroller General's Statewide Accounting and Reporting System (STARS) in the format and level of detail as prescribed by the Comptroller General.
HISTORY: 1982 Act No. 466, Part II, Section 8; 2000 Act No. 254, Section 2.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 101 - Colleges And Institutions Of Higher Learning Generally › Section 59-101-187. Events recognizing academic and research excellence; funding sources.

Pursuant to a written policy adopted by the governing board of a public institution of higher learning, as defined in Section 59-103-5, the institution may expend funds from the sources listed in this section for events which recognize academic and research excellence and noteworthy accomplishments of members of the faculty and staff, students, and distinguished guests of the institution. Sources of the funds for these expenditures include only:
(1) revenues derived from athletics or other student contests;
(2) the activities of student organizations;
(3) the operations of canteens and bookstores; and
(4) approved private practice plans and all nonappropriated state funds.
The expenditures of funds from these sources pursuant to the written policy of the board for the purposes stated in this section are considered to meet the public purpose test for the expenditure of public funds. A copy of the written policy adopted by the board must be forwarded to the Commission on Higher Education.
HISTORY: 1999 Act No. 70, Section 1.