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2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 9 - South Carolina Airports Act › Section 55-9-200. Manner of raising money for purchase price or award.

The purchase price or award for real property acquired, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, for an airport may be paid for by appropriation of monies available for it or wholly or partly from the proceeds of the sale of bonds of the county, municipality or other political subdivision as the legislative body of the political subdivision shall determine subject to the adoption of a proposition for it at a regular or special election, if the adoption of a proposition is a prerequisite to the issuance of bonds of the political subdivision for public purposes generally.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 2-117; 1952 Code Section 2-117; 1942 Code Section 7112-34; 1937 (40) 466; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1293, eff July 1, 1993; 2012 Act No. 270, Section 4, eff June 18, 2012.
Effect of Amendment
The 1993 amendment reprinted this section with no apparent change.
The 2012 amendment deleted "or landing field" following "for an airport"; and made other, nonsubstantive, changes throughout the section.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 9 - South Carolina Airports Act › Section 55-9-210. Finances.

The local public authorities having power to appropriate monies within the counties, municipalities or other political subdivisions of this State acquiring, establishing, developing, operating, maintaining or controlling airports under the provisions of this chapter may appropriate and cause to be raised by taxation or otherwise in such political subdivisions. All monies derived from these airports must be obligated to these facilities. A diversion of revenue away from airport facility accounts for nonaeronautical purposes is unlawful and may subject an airport or airport sponsor to denial of future funding.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 2-118; 1952 Code Section 2-118; 1942 Code Section 7112-36; 1937 (40) 466; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1293, eff July 1, 1993; 2012 Act No. 270, Section 4, eff June 18, 2012.
Effect of Amendment
The 1993 amendment reprinted this section with no apparent change.
The 2012 amendment rewrote this section.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 9 - South Carolina Airports Act › Section 55-9-220. Transfer of unexpended monies appropriated for airport development to airport repairs.

Any unexpended monies appropriated for airport development for a particular county may be transferred to repairs to airports for that particular county upon request of the division.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 2-118.1; 1969 (56) 75; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1293, eff July 1, 1993; 2012 Act No. 270, Section 4, eff June 18, 2012.
Effect of Amendment
The 1993 amendment substituted "division" for "South Carolina Aeronautics Commission".
The 2012 amendment made nonsubstantive changes.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 9 - South Carolina Airports Act › Section 55-9-230. Local police regulations.

Counties, municipalities or other political subdivisions of this State acquiring, establishing, developing, operating, maintaining, controlling or having an interest in airports without the geographical limits of these subdivisions, under the provisions of this chapter may promulgate, amend and enforce police regulations for these entities irrespective of whether or not the title to the properties is vested in, and the management and operation of an airport is by a commission created by statute or otherwise.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 2-119; 1952 Code Section 2-119; 1942 Code Section 7112-39; 1937 (40) 466; 1942 (42) 1522; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1293, eff July 1, 1993; 2012 Act No. 270, Section 4, eff June 18, 2012.
Effect of Amendment
The 1993 amendment reprinted this section with no apparent change.
The 2012 amendment deleted "or landing fields," preceding "without the geographical limits"; substituted "these entities" for "such airports or landing fields,"; deleted "or landing field" following "airport"; and made other, nonsubstantive, changes throughout the section.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 9 - South Carolina Airports Act › Section 55-9-235. Alcohol sales at airports.

(A) During the hours of airport operation, any business establishment or concessionaire operating in the Transportation Security Administration-screened portion of Charleston International Airport, Columbia Metropolitan Airport, Florence Regional Airport, Greenville-Spartanburg Airport, Hilton Head Island Airport, or Myrtle Beach International Airport may, upon the written approval of the respective airport authority, sell alcoholic liquor by the drink to a person twenty-one years of age or older for consumption throughout the Transportation Security Administration-screened portion of the establishment's or concessionaire's respective airport terminal, provided that the establishment or concessionaire is licensed in South Carolina to sell alcoholic liquor by the drink for on-premise consumption.
(B) A person twenty-one years of age or older may purchase and consume alcoholic liquor by the drink throughout the interior of the Transportation Security Administration-screened portion of the respective airport terminal, provided that the purchase is from an approved business establishment or concessionaire licensed in South Carolina to sell alcoholic liquor by the drink for on-premise consumption.
HISTORY: 2023 Act No. 61 (S.459), Section 1, eff May 19, 2023.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 9 - South Carolina Airports Act › Section 55-9-240. Zoning of land surrounding certain airports.

All land surrounding public-owned airports in this State, which are funded partially or wholly by this State, must be zoned by appropriate county, municipal or regional authorities so as to conform to pertinent regulations of the Division of Aeronautics and the United States Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 2-119.1; 1974 (58) 2673; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1293, eff July 1, 1993; 2012 Act No. 270, Section 4, eff June 18, 2012.
Effect of Amendment
The 1993 amendment reprinted this section with no apparent change.
The 2012 amendment inserted "Division of Aeronautics and the United States Department of Transportation,"; deleted ", Department of Transportation" following "Federal Aviation Administration"; and, made other, nonsubstantive, changes.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 9 - South Carolina Airports Act › Section 55-9-250. Airport hazards.

An airport hazard is a condition, occurrence or activity that endangers the lives and property of users of an airport and of occupants of land and other persons in its vicinity, and also, if of the obstruction type, in effect reduces the size of the area available for the landing, taking off and maneuvering of aircraft, thus tending to destroy or impair the utility of the airport and the public investment in it. Therefore:
(1) the creation or establishment of an airport hazard is a public nuisance and an injury to the community served by an airport;
(2) it is necessary in the interest of the public health, safety, and general welfare that the creation or establishment of airport hazards be prevented;
(3) this should be accomplished, to the extent legally possible, by proper exercise of the police power;
(4) the prevention of the creation or establishment of airport hazards, and the elimination, removal, alteration, mitigation, or marking and lighting of existing airport hazards are public purposes for which county, municipal, or regional authorities may raise and expend public funds, as an incident to the operation of airports, to acquire land or property interests in them; and
(5) in the event of an abatement of an airport hazard on private property by the division under Section 55-5-80 or Section 55-9-280, the division and a local government shall have the ability to seek cost recovery against the person responsible for creating or maintaining the hazard for the actual costs in the removal or abatement of the hazard.
HISTORY: 2012 Act No. 270, Section 4, eff June 18, 2012.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 9 - South Carolina Airports Act › Section 55-9-260. Zoning regulations for airport hazard area within territory of political subdivision.

A county, municipality or political subdivision that has an airport hazard area within its territorial limits may adopt, administer, and enforce in the manner and upon the conditions prescribed by this chapter, zoning regulations for the airport hazard area. These regulations may divide the area into zones and, within these zones, specify the land uses permitted, and regulate and restrict, for the purpose of preventing airport hazards, the height to which structures and trees may be erected or permitted to grow. The adoption of these zoning regulations shall conform to the requirements of Section 6-29-710, et seq., of the South Carolina Code of laws governing zoning.
HISTORY: 2012 Act No. 270, Section 4, eff June 18, 2012.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 9 - South Carolina Airports Act › Section 55-9-270. Zoning regulations for airport hazard areas outside territory of political subdivision.

When an airport hazard area appertaining to an airport owned or controlled by a county, municipality, or political subdivision is located outside the territorial limits of the political subdivision, the political subdivision owning or controlling the airport, and the county, municipality, or political subdivision within which the airport hazard area is located, may by ordinance adopt, administer, and enforce airport zoning regulations applicable to the airport safety zones, airport land use zones, and airport hazards.
HISTORY: 2012 Act No. 270, Section 4, eff June 18, 2012.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 9 - South Carolina Airports Act › Section 55-9-280. Actions in equity maintained by governmental entities to restrain and abate airport hazards.

A governmental entity that owns or controls an airport and the Division of Aeronautics may maintain actions in equity to restrain and abate as nuisances the creation or establishment of airport hazards appertaining to an airport in violation of any zoning regulations adopted or established pursuant to the provisions of this chapter for any area whether within or without the territorial limits of the municipality.
HISTORY: 2012 Act No. 270, Section 4, eff June 18, 2012.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 9 - South Carolina Airports Act › Section 55-9-290. Actions in equity maintained by the division to restrain or abate airport hazards.

The division may maintain actions in equity to restrain and abate as nuisances the creation or establishment of airport hazards appertaining to any airport within the State, in violation of any zoning regulations adopted or established pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
HISTORY: 2012 Act No. 270, Section 4, eff June 18, 2012.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 9 - South Carolina Airports Act › Section 55-9-310. Conflict between zoning regulations.

In the event of a conflict between any airport zoning regulations adopted or established pursuant to this chapter and any other regulations applicable to the same area, the more stringent limitation or requirement shall govern and prevail.
HISTORY: 2012 Act No. 270, Section 4, eff June 18, 2012.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 9 - South Carolina Airports Act › Section 55-9-320. Procedure for adopting, amending, and repealing zoning regulations.

In adopting, amending, and repealing airport zoning regulations under this chapter, the governing body of a county, city, or political subdivision city shall follow the procedure in Section 6-29-760.
HISTORY: 2012 Act No. 270, Section 4, eff June 18, 2012.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 9 - South Carolina Airports Act › Section 55-9-330. Airport zoning regulations; permitted content.

(A) All airport zoning regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter shall be reasonable and none shall impose any requirement or restriction which is not necessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter.
(B) Airport zoning regulations adopted under this chapter may require the removal, lowering, or other change or alteration of any structure or tree, or a change in use, not conforming to the regulations when adopted or amended. An affected local government shall have the ability to seek cost recovery against the persons responsible for creating or maintaining the condition for the actual costs in the removal or abatement of the condition.
(C) Airport zoning regulations adopted under this chapter may require a property owner to permit the governmental entity to install, operate, and maintain on the property markers and lights, as necessary, to indicate to operators of aircraft the presence of the airport hazard.
(D) All regulations may provide that a preexisting nonconforming structure, tree, or use, shall not be replaced, rebuilt, altered, allowed to grow higher, or replanted, so as to constitute a greater airport hazard than it was when the airport zoning regulations or amendments to the regulations were adopted.
(E) In the case of an abatement of an aviation hazard as a public nuisance or nonconformity with applicable aviation safety or zoning regulations, or both on private property, a municipality or county may provide by ordinance for notification to the owner of conditions needed for correction, may require that the owner take such action as is necessary to correct the conditions, may provide the terms and conditions under which employees of the municipality or any person employed for that purpose may go upon the property to correct the conditions, and may provide that the cost of such shall become a lien upon the real estate, and must be collectable in the same manner as municipal or county taxes.
HISTORY: 2012 Act No. 270, Section 4, eff June 18, 2012.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 9 - South Carolina Airports Act › Section 55-9-340. Variances from airport zoning regulations.

A person desiring to erect or increase the height of a structure, or to permit the growth of any tree, or otherwise use the person's property in violation of airport zoning regulations adopted under this chapter, may apply to the board of zoning appeals or joint board of appeals for a variance from the zoning regulations. The variances must be allowed where a literal application or enforcement of the regulations would result in practical difficulty or unnecessary hardship and the relief granted would not be contrary to the public interest, but would do substantial justice and be in accordance with the spirit of the regulations and this chapter. However, that any variance may be allowed subject to any reasonable conditions that the board of adjustment may consider necessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter, including the reservation of the right of the governmental entity, at its own expense, to install, operate, and maintain on it markers and lights as may be necessary to indicate to operators of aircraft the presence of the airport hazard.
HISTORY: 2012 Act No. 270, Section 4, eff June 18, 2012.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 9 - South Carolina Airports Act › Section 55-9-360. Administration and enforcement of airport regulations.

All airport regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter shall provide for the administration and enforcement of these regulations by an administrative agency, which may be an agency created by these regulations, or by any official board, or other existing agency of the entity or entities adopting the regulations.
HISTORY: 2012 Act No. 270, Section 4, eff June 18, 2012.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 11 - Particular Airports › Section 55-11-10. Powers of board of trustees.

The board of trustees of Clemson University may:
(1) plan, acquire, own, control, develop, maintain and operate a public airport in accordance with the requirements of the Federal Aviation Act and the regulations prescribed thereunder;
(2) develop, maintain and operate such public airport out of any appropriations provided by the State or other funds, public or private, made available for such purposes;
(3) enter into agreements with the State for the purpose of receiving State funds available for public airport purposes, and accept, receive, receipt for, disburse and expend such State funds for the purposes provided by this section; provided, however, that such funds shall be accepted and expended upon such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the State;
(4) enter into grant agreements with the United States for the purpose of receiving federal grant-in-aid funds for public airport purposes, and accept, receive, receipt for, disburse and expend such funds made available by the grant, to accomplish in whole or in part any of the public airport purposes provided for by the Federal Airport Act and the regulations thereunder; provided, however, that all Federal funds shall be accepted and expended upon such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the United States or any agency or department thereof;
(5) designate the Division of Aeronautics of the State Fiscal Accountability Authority as its agent, to accept, receive, receipt for and disburse federal or state funds or other funds, public or private, made available for the purposes of this section, as may be required or authorized by law;
(6) acquire property, real and personal, or any interest in it, by gift, purchase, condemnation, devise, lease, or otherwise, as may be required in the development and operation of a public airport;
(7) adopt regulations, establish charges, fees and tolls for the use of such airport, and exercise such powers as may be necessary to achieve compliance with its regulations and enforce payment of its charges, fees and tolls; and
(8) enter into long-term contracts, leases and other agreements relative to the development, operation and management of the airport; provided, however, that such contracts, leases and agreements shall be in compliance with the requirements of the Federal Airport Act and the regulations prescribed thereunder and in accordance with the laws and regulations governing the making of contracts, leases or agreements by or on behalf of the State.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 2-207; 1958 (50) 1913; 1987 Act No. 173 Section 36; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1294, eff July 1, 1993; 2012 Act No. 270, Section 5, eff June 18, 2012.
Effect of Amendment
The 1993 amendment, in paragraph (5), substituted "Division of Aeronautics of the Department of Commerce" for "South Carolina Aeronautics Commission" and made grammatical changes.
The 2012 amendment substituted "Aviation" for "Airport" in subsection (1); and substituted "Budget and Control Board" for "Department of Commerce" in subsection (5).
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 11 - Particular Airports › Section 55-11-110. Greenville-Spartanburg Airport District created.

The territory embraced by the counties of Greenville and Spartanburg is hereby constituted an airport district and political subdivision of this State, the functions of which shall be public and governmental, and the inhabitants of such territory are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate. The corporate name of the airport district shall be Greenville-Spartanburg Airport District, and by that name the airport district may sue and be sued.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 2-315; 1959 (51) 101; 2012 Act No. 270, Section 5, eff June 18, 2012.
Effect of Amendment
The 2012 amendment made no apparent changes.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 11 - Particular Airports › Section 55-11-120. Greenville-Spartanburg Airport Commission created; membership; terms; vacancies.

The corporate powers and duties of the District shall be exercised and performed by a Commission to be known as Greenville-Spartanburg Airport Commission. The Commission shall be composed of six members to be appointed by the Governor as follows: Three of the members shall be residents of Spartanburg County and the original members shall be appointed upon the recommendation of a majority of the members of the Spartanburg County legislative delegation. Three of the members shall be residents of Greenville County and the original members shall be appointed upon the recommendation of a majority of the members of the Greenville County legislative delegation. The term of office of one of the original members from Greenville County and one of the original members from Spartanburg County shall be for two years. The term of another of the original members from Greenville County and another of the original members from Spartanburg County shall be for four years. The two remaining members and the successors in office of all the members of the Commission shall serve for a term of six years. The term of each member shall expire on the January first nearest to the end of the term of years for which he is appointed under the foregoing provision; provided, that each member shall serve until his successor is appointed and qualified. Upon the expiration of the term of each commissioner his successor shall be elected in the same manner as set forth above. Upon election by a majority of the Spartanburg delegation or a majority of the Greenville delegation, as the case may be, then the secretary or acting secretary of the county delegation shall certify the approval to the Governor, who shall commission the nominee for the term provided by the provisions of this section. Any new member shall be a suitable person who is a resident of the same county as the member he is to succeed. Successors shall be appointed to serve for the unexpired term of members who die or resign in like manner and upon like recommendation as hereinabove set forth.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 2-316; 1959 (51) 101; 2012 Act No. 270, Section 5, eff June 18, 2012.
Effect of Amendment
The 2012 amendment made no apparent changes.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 11 - Particular Airports › Section 55-11-130. Commission officers; commissioners' expenses.

The Commission shall appoint one of its members as chairman and one of its members, or any other competent person, as secretary of the Commission. The chairman of the Commission shall serve for a term of two years and until his successor is appointed and qualified. The members of the Commission shall serve without compensation, except for their actual expenses while in performance of duties prescribed under this article.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 2-317; 1959 (51) 101; 2012 Act No. 270, Section 5, eff June 18, 2012.
Effect of Amendment
The 2012 amendment made no apparent changes.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 11 - Particular Airports › Section 55-11-160. Disposition of unpledged revenues.

All revenues derived by the commission from the operation of any revenue-producing facility which may not be required to discharge covenants made by it in issuing bonds, notes or other obligations authorized by Section 55-11-150, shall be held, disposed of or expended by the commission for purposes germane to the functions of the district.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 2-320; 1959 (51) 101; 2012 Act No. 270, Section 5, eff June 18, 2012.
Effect of Amendment
The 2012 amendment made nonsubstantive changes.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 11 - Particular Airports › Section 55-11-170. Rates not subject to State supervision or regulations.

The rates charged for services furnished by any revenue-producing facility of the district as constructed, improved, enlarged or extended shall not be subject to supervision or regulation of any State bureau, commission, board or other like instrumentality or agency thereof.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 2-320.1; 1959 (51) 101; 2012 Act No. 270, Section 5, eff June 18, 2012.
Effect of Amendment
The 2012 amendment made nonsubstantive changes.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 11 - Particular Airports › Section 55-11-180. Property and income exempt from taxes.

Property and income of the district are exempt from all taxes and fees levied by the State, county or any municipality, division, subdivision or agency of them, direct or indirect.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 2-320.2; 1959 (51) 101; 2012 Act No. 270, Section 5, eff June 18, 2012.
Effect of Amendment
The 2012 amendment inserted "and fees" following "all taxes"; and made other, nonsubstantive, changes.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 11 - Particular Airports › Section 55-11-185. Airport district property may not be annexed; conditions.

No municipality may annex any real property owned by the district without prior written approval of the commission.
HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 99, Section 2, eff June 12, 1995; 2012 Act No. 270, Section 5, eff June 18, 2012.
Effect of Amendment
The 2012 amendment made no apparent changes.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 11 - Particular Airports › Section 55-11-190. Obligations not to be impaired.

So long as the district shall be indebted to any person on any bonds, notes or other obligations issued pursuant to the authority of this article, provisions of this article and the powers granted to the district and the commission shall not be in any way diminished, and the provisions of this article shall be deemed a part of the contract between the district and the holders of such obligations.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 2-320.3; 1959 (51) 101; 2012 Act No. 270, Section 5, eff June 18, 2012.
Effect of Amendment
The 2012 amendment made nonsubstantive changes.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 11 - Particular Airports › Section 55-11-200. Contributions by counties equalized.

During each year in which an ad valorem tax is levied on the property with the Greenville-Spartanburg Airport District, the commission of said district shall determine the total amount realized from such tax and notify the treasurer of that county, paying to the Comptroller General less than that turned over to said Comptroller General by the other county. Thereupon such treasurer shall, from the general funds of his county, pay to the treasurer of the other county, to be placed in the general funds, such amount as shall be necessary to equalize the amount contributed by each county.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 2-320.4; 1959 (51) 134; 1962 (52) 1909; 2012 Act No. 270, Section 5, eff June 18, 2012.
Effect of Amendment
The 2012 amendment made nonsubstantive changes.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 11 - Particular Airports › Section 55-11-210. Promulgation of rules and regulations governing use of roads, streets, and parking facilities; sale of alcoholic beverages.

The commission is authorized to allow the sale of alcoholic beverages at facilities on airport property designed for the sale of food and beverage items. The hours and days of sales must be established and regulated by the commission, and may not be in conflict with state law and to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations governing the use of roads, streets, buildings, services, and parking facilities on lands of the Greenville-Spartanburg Airport District. These rules and regulations shall not be in conflict with any state law and all state laws shall be applicable to the roads, streets and parking facilities under the control of the commission. Rules and regulations of the commission shall become effective when filed with the Executive Secretary of the Greenville-Spartanburg Airport and in the Office of the Secretary of State in accordance with Chapter 23, Title 1.
The commission is authorized to employ police officers commissioned by the Governor to enforce all laws and the rules and regulations authorized in this section, and these officers shall be authorized to issue summonses for violations in the manner authorized for state highway patrolmen. Violations of a law, a rule, or regulation of the commission within the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court of Spartanburg shall be tried in that court. Violations not within the jurisdiction of that court shall be tried by any magistrate or other court of competent jurisdiction. A person who wilfully or intentionally violates the rules and regulations of the commission is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, must be fined not more than two hundred dollars,or as otherwise provided by law, or be imprisoned for not more than thirty days.
All fines and forfeitures collected pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be forwarded weekly to the Greenville-Spartanburg Airport Commission by the enforcing court for deposit in the general operating fund of the district.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 2-318.1; 1975 (59) 45; 2012 Act No. 270, Section 5, eff June 18, 2012.
Effect of Amendment
The 2012 amendment rewrote the section.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 11 - Particular Airports › Section 55-11-220. Property not barrier to contiguity for annexation purposes.

No such airport district property shall be a barrier to the contiguity requirements for the purposes of annexation. Any municipality or political subdivision which is contiguous to property owned by such multicounty airport district may annex, as provided by law, any property contiguous to such airport district property. Provided, that this provision shall be applicable to annexations taking place after October 1, 1994.
HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 99, Section 3, eff June 12, 1995; 2012 Act No. 270, Section 5, eff June 18, 2012.
Effect of Amendment
The 2012 amendment made a nonsubstantive change.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 11 - Particular Airports › Section 55-11-310. Richland-Lexington Airport District created.

The territory embraced by the counties of Richland and Lexington is hereby constituted an airport district and a political subdivision of this State, the functions of which shall be public and governmental, and the inhabitants of the territory are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate. The corporate name of the airport district shall be Richland-Lexington Airport District, and by that name the airport district may sue and be sued.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 2-390.13; 1961 (52) 53; 1962 (52) 1660; 2012 Act No. 270, Section 5, eff June 18, 2012.
Effect of Amendment
The 2012 amendment made no apparent changes.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 11 - Particular Airports › Section 55-11-320. Richland-Lexington Airport District created; members; appointment; terms; vacancies; compensation.

The corporate powers and duties of the Richland-Lexington Airport District must be exercised and performed by a commission to be known as Richland-Lexington Airport Commission. The commission must be composed of twelve members. Five members must be appointed by the Lexington County Legislative Delegation, five members must be appointed by the Richland County Legislative Delegation, and two members must be appointed by the City Council of the City of Columbia. The members of the commission shall serve for terms of four years and until their successors are appointed. Members may not serve more than two consecutive terms. In the event of a vacancy for any reason, other than the expiration of a term, a successor must be appointed in the same manner of the original appointment for the balance of the unexpired term. Any member may be removed by the appointing authority for neglect of duty, misconduct, or malfeasance in office after being given a written statement of reasons and an opportunity to be heard. Notwithstanding the expiration of the term of office of any member, he shall continue to serve until his successor shall have been appointed, but any delay in appointing a successor shall not extend the term of the successor. The members of the commission shall serve without compensation, except for their actual and necessary expenses while in performance of duties prescribed under this article.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 2-390.14; 1961 (52) 53; 1962 (52) 1660; 1971 (57) 766; 1994 Act No. 403, Section 1, eff May 18, 1994; 2002 Act No. 326, Section 10, eff June 18, 2002; 2012 Act No. 117, Section 1, eff February 1, 2012; 2012 Act No. 270, Section 5, eff June 18, 2012.
Effect of Amendment
The 1994 amendment increased the size of the commission from eight to ten members; limited membership to two consecutive terms; added "Any member may be removed by the appointing authority for neglect of duty, misconduct, or malfeasance in office after being given a written statement of reasons and an opportunity to be heard"; and made technical corrections.
The 2002 amendment substituted "twelve" for "ten", and "five" for "four" in two places.
The first 2012 amendment rewrote this section.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 11 - Particular Airports › Section 55-11-330. Officers of Commission.

The commission shall appoint one of its members as chairman, one of its members as vice chairman, and one of its members, or any other competent person, as secretary of the commission. The chairman of the commission shall serve for a term of two years and until his successor is appointed and qualified. The vice chairman shall likewise serve for a term of two years and until his successor is appointed and qualified. The office of chairman of the commission must be rotated among the representatives of the three constituent appointing public bodies, appointed by majority vote of the commission, for a term of two years. The frequency of serving as chairman of the commission must be based upon, and substantially equivalent to, the percentage that each public body's membership on the commission is to the total membership of the commission. No representative of the same public body may be appointed chairman unless there has been at least one full two-year intervening term in which a representative of one of the other public bodies has served as chairman. In the event that the office of chairman becomes vacant, the duties of the chairman must be temporarily performed by the vice chairman, but a successor must be appointed as expeditiously as possible from the members representing the same constituent public body as did the former chairman who failed to complete his term. Insofar as is practicable, the same scheme of rotation must be applied to the office of vice chairman, but the practice of rotating the office of vice chairman may be dispensed with, if the commission, by a two-thirds vote, finds that the rotation of this office is impracticable. Office on the commission is deemed an office of honor within the meaning of the provisions of Section 1A, Article 17 of the Constitution of South Carolina. The term of the secretary of the commission must be fixed by the commission.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 2-390.15; 1961 (52) 53; 1962 (52) 1660; 2008 Act No. 306, Section 1, eff June 11, 2008; 2012 Act No. 270, Section 5, eff June 18, 2012.
Effect of Amendment
The 2008 amendment rewrote the fourth sentence, deleted the fifth sentence, and added the fifth and sixth sentences regarding the frequency of serving as chairman and the appointment of a representative of the same public body, and made nonsubstantive changes throughout.
The 2012 amendment made nonsubstantive changes.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 11 - Particular Airports › Section 55-11-350. Regulation of use of roads, streets, and parking facilities; employment of police officers; enforcement; penalty.

The Richland-Lexington Airport Commission is authorized to adopt rules and promulgate regulations governing the use of roads, streets, and buildings, parking facilities, and all other airport faculties upon the lands of the Richland-Lexington Airport Commission. Such rules and regulations shall not be in conflict with any State law and all State laws are hereby declared to be applicable to the roads, streets and parking facilities under the control of the commission. The rules and regulations authorized herein shall be effective when filed with the Director of the Columbia Metropolitan Airport and in accordance with Chapter 23, Title 1.
The Richland-Lexington Airport Commission is authorized to employ police officers to be commissioned by the Governor who shall enforce all laws, rules and regulations authorized herein and shall, in addition, have authority to issue summonses for violations thereof in the manner provided for South Carolina State Highway Patrolmen.
Persons violating any of the applicable laws within a magistrate's jurisdiction or any of the rules or regulations of the commission shall be tried by magistrates having jurisdiction of the area in which the violation occurred.
A person violating the provisions of any rule or regulation of the commission is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be sentenced not more than the maximum fine or imprisonment allowed in magistrates court.
All fines and forfeitures collected under the provisions of this article shall be forwarded weekly to the Richland-Lexington Airport Commission by the enforcing magistrate, to be credited to the general operating fund of the district.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, any public road, street, or highway located in the Richland-Lexington Airport District which is contiguous to or intersects the corporate limits of a municipality is within the police jurisdiction of that municipality. Summonses issued by municipal police officers in the jurisdiction authorized pursuant to this section must be tried in municipal court, and all fines and forfeitures collected under the provisions of this paragraph may be retained by the enforcing municipality.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 2-390.16:1; 1969 (56) 140, 443; 1973 (58) 1822; 1997 Act No. 105, Section 3, eff upon approval (became law without the Governor's signature June 15, 1997); 2012 Act No. 270, Section 5, eff June 18, 2012.
Effect of Amendment
The 1997 amendment added the sixth paragraph.
The 2012 amendment rewrote the first and fourth paragraphs; and, made other, nonsubstantive, changes.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 11 - Particular Airports › Section 55-11-351. Unauthorized entry, obstruction of access, and physical violence upon airport property.

It is unlawful for a person or group of persons wilfully and knowingly to:
(1) enter or remain on an airport's roads, streets, buildings, parking facilities, or other airport properties unless the person is authorized by airport rules and regulations when entry is done for the purpose of uttering loud, threatening, and abusive language, or to engage in disorderly or disruptive conduct with the intent to impede, disrupt, or disturb the orderly conduct of business by airport or airport tenants' employees;
(2) obstruct or impede passage on an airport's properties or buildings; or
(3) engage in an act of physical violence upon airport properties or buildings.
HISTORY: 2012 Act No. 270, Section 5, eff June 18, 2012.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 11 - Particular Airports › Section 55-11-355. Airport district not barrier to contiguity requirements for purpose of annexation.

No property of the Richland-Lexington Airport District is a barrier to the contiguity requirements for the purposes of annexation. Any municipality which is contiguous to property owned by the district may annex, as provided by law, any property contiguous to the district.
HISTORY: 1997 Act No. 105, Section 2, eff upon approval (became law without the Governor's signature on June 15, 1997); 2012 Act No. 270, Section 5, eff June 18, 2012.
Effect of Amendment
The 2012 amendment made no apparent changes.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 11 - Particular Airports › Section 55-11-360. Revenues.

All revenues derived by the commission from the operation of any revenue-producing facility which may not be required to operate, maintain, enlarge and improve its airport facilities, or to pay obligations incurred in the issuance of any revenue bonds sold pursuant to the authorizations of item (19), Section 55-11-340, shall be paid over to the State Treasurer, and held by him for the payment of interest and principal of general obligation bonds of the district.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 2-390.17; 1961 (52) 53; 1962 (52) 1660; 2012 Act No. 270, Section 5, eff June 18, 2012.
Effect of Amendment
The 2012 amendment made nonsubstantive changes.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 11 - Particular Airports › Section 55-11-370. Rates not subject to State supervision or regulation.

The rates charged for services furnished by any revenue-producing facility of the district as constructed, improved, enlarged or extended, shall not be subject to supervision or regulation of any State bureau, commission, board or other like instrumentality or agency thereof.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 2-390.18; 1961 (52) 53; 1962 (52) 1660; 2012 Act No. 270, Section 5, eff June 18, 2012.
Effect of Amendment
The 2012 amendment made nonsubstantive changes.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 11 - Particular Airports › Section 55-11-380. Exemption from taxes.

Property and income of the district shall be exempt from all taxes levied by the State, county or any municipality, division, subdivision or agency thereof, direct or indirect.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 2-390.19; 1961 (52) 53; 1962 (52) 1660; 2012 Act No. 270, Section 5, eff June 18, 2012.
Effect of Amendment
The 2012 amendment made nonsubstantive changes.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 11 - Particular Airports › Section 55-11-390. Obligations not to be impaired.

So long as the district shall be indebted to any person, firm or corporation on any bonds, notes, or other obligations issued pursuant to the authority of this article, provisions of this article and the powers granted to the district and the commission shall not be in any way diminished and the provisions of this article shall be deemed a part of the contract between the district and the holders of such obligations.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 2-390.20; 1961 (52) 53; 1962 (52) 1660; 2012 Act No. 270, Section 5, eff June 18, 2012.
Effect of Amendment
The 2012 amendment made nonsubstantive changes.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 11 - Particular Airports › Section 55-11-400. Richland and Lexington Counties to furnish funds to Airport Commission.

The governing body of the county of Richland and the governing body of the county of Lexington are hereby authorized and directed to make, execute and deliver a contract, each with the other, agreeing to pay to the Richland-Lexington Airport Commission, in equal amounts, the funds necessary to meet the annual operating deficit, if any, of the Richland-Lexington Airport Commission or to provide for the commission sufficient funds to prevent any such deficit from arising by annual equal payments to the commission's anticipated budget.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 2-390.21; 1961 (52) 119; 1962 (52) 2256; 2012 Act No. 270, Section 5, eff June 18, 2012.
Effect of Amendment
The 2012 amendment made nonsubstantive changes.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 11 - Particular Airports › Section 55-11-410. Annual appropriations; defaults.

There shall be provided in the annual act levying taxes for county purposes by Richland County and Lexington County appropriations sufficient to carry out the provisions of Section 55-11-400.
In the event that the County of Richland or the County of Lexington, or either of them, should fail or refuse to make any such contract, or if such contract should be made and there should be a default thereunder, and for either of such reasons or for any other reason the County of Richland or the County of Lexington should fail to provide its one-half share of the operating deficit, the Comptroller General of the State of South Carolina is authorized and directed to withhold from the monies to be received by the County of Richland or the County of Lexington, as the case may be, from the annual distribution made by the State of South Carolina to counties and municipalities from its receipts from the taxes levied by the State of South Carolina on alcoholic beverages, beer and wine, and on personal and corporate income an amount sufficient to pay such share or shares of the operating deficit.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 2-390.22; 1961 (52) 119; 1962 (52) 2256; 2012 Act No. 270, Section 5, eff June 18, 2012.
Effect of Amendment
The 2012 amendment made nonsubstantive changes.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 11 - Particular Airports › Section 55-11-420. Exceptions.

The provisions of this article shall not prohibit the operation of any public or private airport located within the district by any other public agency or governmental authority, or by any private agency or person.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 2-390.23; 1973 (58) 822; 2012 Act No. 270, Section 5, eff June 18, 2012.
Effect of Amendment
The 2012 amendment made no apparent changes.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 55 - Aeronautics › Chapter 11 - Particular Airports › Section 55-11-440. Richland-Lexington Airport Commission; application for foreign-trade zones; construction, lease, and operation of buildings; powers and duties.

Notwithstanding another provision of law, the Richland-Lexington Airport Commission may make application to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board for the purpose of establishing, operating, and maintaining foreign-trade zones in Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Clarendon, Edgefield, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lee, Lexington, McCormick, Newberry, Richland, Saluda, and Sumter counties, under the act of Congress known as the Foreign-Trade Zones Act, which provides for the establishment, operation, and maintenance of foreign-trade zones in the United States.
The commission shall select and describe the location of the zones for which application may be made and shall make such regulations concerning the operation, maintenance, and policing of them as may be necessary to insure compliance with the Foreign-Trade Zones Act and for other appropriate purposes.
The commission has the authority to own, erect, maintain, and operate or lease any structures or buildings or enclosures as may be necessary or proper for establishing, operating, and maintaining such foreign-trade zones within Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Clarendon, Edgefield, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lee, Lexington, McCormick, Newberry, Richland, Saluda, and Sumter counties.
The authority granted to the commission confers the right, duty, and power to do all things necessary and proper to achieve compliance with the Foreign-Trade Zones Act and to carry into effect the establishing, operating, and maintaining of foreign-trade zones within Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Clarendon, Edgefield, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lee, Lexington, McCormick, Newberry, Richland, Saluda, and Sumter counties.
HISTORY: 2020 Act No. 128 (H.4702), Section 1, eff March 24, 2020.