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2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 30 - Public Records › Chapter 7 - Recordation Essential To Validity › Section 30-7-80. Manner and form of recordation of instruments conveying an interest in or lien on personal property.

Except as otherwise provided by statute, the recordation of the assignments, satisfactions, releases, contracts in the nature of subordinations, waivers, and extensions of chattel mortgages or other instruments conveying an interest in or creating a lien on personal property must be upon the record of the recorded mortgage or other written instrument, except that the instrument may be recorded elsewhere in the book for the recordation of mortgages should there be no place upon the record of the recorded mortgage or other written instrument sufficient for the recordation of the assignment, satisfaction, release, contract in the nature of subordination, waiver, or extension of the lien, in which event there must be entered on the margin of the recorded mortgage or other written instrument whose assignment, satisfaction, release, contract in the nature of subordination, waiver, or extension has been thus recorded elsewhere an appropriate reference to the recordation, giving the names of the parties to the recordation, the date, and the book and page where the instrument is recorded. In any county where the records are photographed, microphotographed, or filmed, and there is no place upon the record of the recorded mortgage or other written instrument, or upon the margin of the recorded mortgage or other written instrument sufficient for the recordation of the assignments, satisfactions, releases, contracts in the nature of subordinations, waivers, and extensions of chattel mortgages or other instruments, the documents may be separately recorded as other instruments, and notation of the place of the recordation must be entered on the index for the mortgage or other written instrument or in a legible manner in the jacket or other container for the photograph, microphotograph, or film. Any assignment, satisfaction, release, contract in the nature of subordination, waiver, or extension of a chattel mortgage or other instrument conveying an interest in or creating a lien on personal property, to be entitled to be recorded as herein provided must be in writing and witnessed, as mortgages of personal property are required to be witnessed and not probated when it is upon the original mortgage or other instrument itself, but when it is upon a separate piece then it must be probated in the same way as is required for the probating of mortgages of personal property.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-108; 1952 Code Section 60-108; 1942 Code Section 8875-1; 1934 (38) 1518; 1959 (51) 483; 1988 Act No. 494, Section 8(14).
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 30 - Public Records › Chapter 7 - Recordation Essential To Validity › Section 30-7-90. Notice of unrecorded instrument.

No possession of real property described in any instrument of writing required by law to be recorded shall operate as notice of such instrument. Actual notice shall be deemed and held sufficient to supply the place of registration only when such notice is of the instrument itself or of its nature and purport.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-109; 1952 Code Section 60-109; 1942 Code Section 8882; 1932 Code Section 8882; Civ. C. '22 Section 5313; Civ. C. '12 Section 3543; Civ. C. '02 Section 2457; R. S. 1969; 1888 (20) 15.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 30 - Public Records › Chapter 9 - Indexing And Filing › Section 30-9-10. Indexes to records of registry.

To the records of the registry, reference shall be had by means of two indexes, both containing the year of registry, names of parties, record and page, the alphabetical arrangement of one being according to the names of the parties who executed the writings and of the other according to the names of the parties to whom they were executed.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-151; 1952 Code Section 60-151; 1942 Code Section 3635; 1932 Code Section 3635; Civ. C. '22 Section 2179; Civ. C. '12 Section 1355; Civ. C. '02 Section 950; G. S. 769; R. S. 820; 1839 (11) 115; 1928 (35) 1185; 1972 (57) 2635.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 30 - Public Records › Chapter 9 - Indexing And Filing › Section 30-9-20. Separate indexes.

The clerks and registers of deeds of the several counties shall provide separate indexes for the different sets of records provided for them.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-152; 1952 Code Section 60-152; 1942 Code Section 3635; 1932 Code Section 3635; Civ. C. '22 Section 2179; Civ. C. '12 Section 1355; Civ. C. '02 Section 950; G. S. 769; R. S. 820; 1839 (11) 115; 1928 (35) 1185; 1972 (57) 2635.
Code Commissioner's Note
1997 Act No. 34, Section 1, directed the Code Commissioner to change all references to "Register of Mesne Conveyances" to "Register of Deeds" wherever appearing in the 1976 Code of Laws.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 30 - Public Records › Chapter 9 - Indexing And Filing › Section 30-9-31. Indexing of deeds where grantor is official acting pursuant to court order and not owner of record.

When any deed of real property is executed by a master, referee, judge or other official is grantor acting pursuant to a court order, such deed shall be indexed in the grantor index by the clerk of court in the name of the owner of record of the property concerned immediately prior to execution of the deed, as well as in the name of the official who executes such deed as grantor.
HISTORY: 1976 Act No. 451, Section 1.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 30 - Public Records › Chapter 9 - Indexing And Filing › Section 30-9-40. Requirement and effect of indexing of instruments filed for recording.

The register of deeds or clerk of court in those counties where the office of the register of deeds has been abolished shall immediately upon the filing for record of any deed, mortgage, or other written instrument of the character mentioned in Section 30-7-10 or Chapter 9 of Title 36 enter it upon the proper indexes in his office, which constitute an integral, necessary, and inseparable part of the recordation of the deed, mortgage, or other written instrument for any and all purposes whatsoever, and this shall likewise apply to any copy of the indexes made subsequently by the register of deeds or clerk of court, or the deputy of either, or by his authority for the purpose of replacing the original indexes. The entries in the indexes required to be made are notice to all persons sufficient to put them upon inquiry as to the purport and effect of the deed, mortgage, or other written instrument so filed for record, but the recordation of a deed, mortgage, or other written instrument is not notice as to the purport and effect of the deed, mortgage, or other written instrument unless the filing of the instrument for record is entered as required in the indexes.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-156; 1952 Code Section 60-156; 1942 Code Section 8875; 1932 Code Section 8875; Civ. C. '22 Section 5312; Civ. C. '12 Section 3542; Civ. C. '02 Section 2456; G. S. 1776; R. S. 1968; 1879 (16) 92; 1898 (22) 746; 1909 (26) 190; 1914 (28) 482; 1925 (34) 85; 1927 (35) 72; 1934 (38) 1521; 1936 (39) 1387; 1988 Act No. 494, Section 8(16).
Code Commissioner's Note
1997 Act No. 34, Section 1, directed the Code Commissioner to change all references to "Register of Mesne Conveyances" to "Register of Deeds" wherever appearing in the 1976 Code of Laws.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 30 - Public Records › Chapter 9 - Indexing And Filing › Section 30-9-50. Indexing of deeds of certain officers.

Whenever any clerk of court or register of deeds in counties having such office, tax collector or sheriff shall make any conveyance of, or deed to, real estate, whether pursuant to any order or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, to a tax sale, to any levy, execution and sale for the satisfaction of a judgment or to any sale pursuant to a partition agreement or ordered by devise or last will, such sale shall be indexed in the office of the clerk of court or register of deeds in the county in which the real estate is situate, not only in the name of the sheriff, clerk of court, register of deeds, or tax collector, making such conveyance, but in the name of the last titleholder. The officer named shall advise the clerk of court or register of deeds of the name of the last title holder and the clerk of court or register of deeds shall index such conveyance in accordance with the provisions hereof.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-157; 1952 Code Section 60-157; 1948 (45) 1971.
Code Commissioner's Note
1997 Act No. 34, Section 1, directed the Code Commissioner to change all references to "Register of Mesne Conveyances" to "Register of Deeds" wherever appearing in the 1976 Code of Laws.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 30 - Public Records › Chapter 9 - Indexing And Filing › Section 30-9-70. Indexing of deeds of certain officers and of passage of title by will or inheritance shall not constitute notice.

The indexing required by Sections 30-9-50 and 30-9-60 shall not constitute notice under the statutes of this State relating to the recording of instruments. But nothing herein contained shall impair or affect the notice of the record of the original instruments as otherwise provided by law.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-159; 1952 Code Section 60-159; 1948 (45) 1971.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 30 - Public Records › Chapter 9 - Indexing And Filing › Section 30-9-75. Second or backup copy of indices maintained by electronic or computer means.

In all cases where indices affecting real property are required to be maintained in the offices of the clerk of court or register of deeds and where these indices are maintained by electronic or computer means, the clerk of court or register of deeds shall provide at least a second or backup copy of the indices which must be available for use by the public in the event of destruction or unavailability of the electronic indices.
HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 312, Section 1.
Code Commissioner's Note
1997 Act No. 34, Section 1, directed the Code Commissioner to change all references to "Register of Mesne Conveyances" to "Register of Deeds" wherever appearing in the 1976 Code of Laws.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 30 - Public Records › Chapter 9 - Indexing And Filing › Section 30-9-80. Fees for indexing or notation.

For any indexing or notation under Section 30-9-50 or 30-9-60 the clerk or register shall charge a fee of twenty-five cents for each paper indexed in the office of the clerk of court or register of deeds and the judge of probate shall charge a fee of twenty-five cents for each indexing in accordance with the provisions of said sections.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-160; 1952 Code Section 60-160; 1948 (45) 1971.
Code Commissioner's Note
1997 Act No. 34, Section 1, directed the Code Commissioner to change all references to "Register of Mesne Conveyances" to "Register of Deeds" wherever appearing in the 1976 Code of Laws.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 30 - Public Records › Chapter 11 - Recordation Of Deeds And Documents Of Railroads › Section 30-11-10. Recordation of deeds and other instruments.

All deeds of conveyance of railroad beds, tracks and rights of way, cars, locomotive engines, rolling stock and other railway equipment, all leases and conditional sales of, and all other instruments in writing relating to, such property in this State, other than mortgages and deeds of trust, delivered or executed on or after January 1 1894 shall be valid, so as to affect from the time of such delivery or execution the rights of subsequent creditors or purchasers for valuable consideration without notice, only when filed in duplicate within forty days from the execution and delivery thereof in the office of the Secretary of State. But the above-mentioned deeds, leases, mortgages and other conditional sales and instruments in writing, if filed subsequent to the expiration of such period of forty days, shall be valid to affect the rights of subsequent creditors and purchasers for valuable consideration without notice from the date of such record only, one of the copies of any such instrument so filed shall be given its proper file number, indexed and retained in the office of the Secretary of State and the other shall be properly endorsed, giving the file number under which it is to be found and returned.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-251; 1952 Code Section 60-251; 1942 Code Sections 3106, 3107; 1932 Code Sections 3106, 3107; Civ. C. '22 Sections 789, 790; Civ. C. '12 Sections 705, 706; Civ. C. '02 Sections 634, 635; R. S. 554; 1893 (21) 412; 1920 (31) 989; 1937 (40) 428.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 30 - Public Records › Chapter 11 - Recordation Of Deeds And Documents Of Railroads › Section 30-11-20. Recordation of mortgages and deeds of trust.

Mortgages or deeds of trust covering the whole or any part of the real property of a railroad company and the appurtenant franchises are valid so as to affect from the time of their execution and delivery the rights of all subsequent creditors and purchasers, when filed within forty days from the execution and delivery of the mortgages or deeds of trust in the office of the Secretary of State. Within six months thereafter the mortgages or deeds of trust must be recorded also in the books provided for the recording of mortgages on real estate in the office of clerk of court or register of deeds of each county in which any part of the real property affected by the mortgages or deeds of trust is situated. The mortgages or deeds of trust, if so filed in the office of the Secretary of State subsequent to the expiration of the period of forty days and also recorded in the books provided for the recording of mortgages on real estate in the office of the clerk of court or register of deeds subsequent to the expiration of the period of forty days are valid to affect the rights of all subsequent creditors and purchasers from the date of the record. Before any mortgage or deed of trust covering property of a railroad company and the appurtenant franchises can be filed by the Secretary of State, copies of the mortgage or deed of trust must be furnished in duplicate, one of which must be given its proper file number, indexed, and retained in his office, and the other must be properly endorsed, giving the file number under which it is to be found and returned.
Nothing contained in this section may be construed to affect the provisions of Section 58-15-920.
The provisions of this section do not in any way affect any mortgage or deed of trust covering property of a railway company and the appurtenant franchises executed and filed or recorded prior to March 22, 1937.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-252; 1952 Code Section 60-252; 1942 Code Section 8282; 1932 Code Section 8227; Civ. C. '22 Section 4791; Civ. C. '12 Section 3122; 1903 (24) 80; 1937 (40) 140; 1988 Act No. 494, Section 8(17).
Code Commissioner's Note
1997 Act No. 34, Section 1, directed the Code Commissioner to change all references to "Register of Mesne Conveyances" to "Register of Deeds" wherever appearing in the 1976 Code of Laws.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 30 - Public Records › Chapter 11 - Recordation Of Deeds And Documents Of Railroads › Section 30-11-30. Proof of execution of written instruments.

Before any such deed, lease, mortgage or other instrument in writing can be filed by the Secretary of State, the execution thereof shall first be proved by the affidavit in writing of a subscribing witness to such instrument, in the same manner prescribed for the probate of deeds in relation to the recording of deeds in the office of the register of deeds of the several counties of this State.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-253; 1952 Code Section 60-253; 1942 Code Section 3107; 1932 Code Section 3107; Civ. C. '22 Section 790; Civ. C. '12 Section 706; Civ. C. '02 Section 635; 1920 (31) 989.
Code Commissioner's Note
1997 Act No. 34, Section 1, directed the Code Commissioner to change all references to "Register of Mesne Conveyances" to "Register of Deeds" wherever appearing in the 1976 Code of Laws.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 30 - Public Records › Chapter 11 - Recordation Of Deeds And Documents Of Railroads › Section 30-11-40. Filing and fee for filing written instruments.

Such conveyances, leases, mortgages and other instruments in writing shall be filed by the Secretary of State in his office and for such filing he shall receive from the person offering such papers for file the sum of five dollars.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-254; 1952 Code Section 60-254; 1942 Code Section 3108; 1932 Code Section 3108; Civ. C. '22 Section 791; Civ. C. '12 Section 707; Civ. C. '02 Section 636; 1920 (31) 989.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 30 - Public Records › Chapter 11 - Recordation Of Deeds And Documents Of Railroads › Section 30-11-50. Effect of certified copy of recorded instrument.

A certificate or certified copy of any of the aforesaid papers when once filed, as hereinabove provided, by the Secretary of State, shall be competent evidence of such filing and of the facts contained in each deed, lease, mortgage or other instrument in writing so filed and certified in all the courts of this State.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-255; 1952 Code Section 60-255; 1942 Code Section 3108; 1932 Code Section 3108; Civ. C. '22 Section 791; Civ. C. '12 Section 707; Civ. C. '02 Section 636; 1920 (31) 989.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 30 - Public Records › Chapter 11 - Recordation Of Deeds And Documents Of Railroads › Section 30-11-60. Satisfaction of mortgage.

When any such mortgage so filed shall be fully satisfied, the mortgagee shall note such satisfaction on the margin of the copy on file or declare the mortgage to be satisfied in a separate instrument in writing to be filed as provided in Section 30-11-40 under a penalty of five hundred dollars to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction at the suit of the mortgagor, his assignees or any other party aggrieved thereby.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-255.1; 1952 Code Section 60-255.1; 1942 Code Section 3108; 1932 Code Section 3108; Civ. C. '22 Section 791; Civ. C. '12 Section 707; Civ. C. '02 Section 636; 1920 (31) 989.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 30 - Public Records › Chapter 11 - Recordation Of Deeds And Documents Of Railroads › Section 30-11-70. Validation of recordation of certain instruments.

The act entitled "An Act to Amend Sections 705, 706 and 707 of the Code of 1912, Volume I, by substituting the words 'filed in duplicate' wherever the word 'recorded' occurs," approved March 10 1920 shall not affect or apply to deeds of conveyance of railroad beds, tracks and rights of way, cars, locomotive engines, rolling stock and other railway equipment, leases and mortgages or other conditional sale of, or other instruments in writing relating to, such property which were duly recorded pursuant to the law as it existed prior to March 10, 1920 and the records thereof are hereby declared to be legal and valid according to the terms of the law existing when such recordations were made.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-256; 1952 Code Section 60-256; 1942 Code Section 3109; 1932 Code Section 3109; Civ. C. '22 Section 792; 1921 (32) 62.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 30 - Public Records › Chapter 13 - Recordation Of Marketing Contracts › Section 30-13-10. Effect of delivery by agricultural association of "contract book".

Whenever any body of agricultural producers, any co-operative association composed of agricultural producers or any co-operative marketing association incorporated under the laws of this State or under the laws of any other state of the United States and licensed to do business in this State (such body of agricultural producers, co-operative association or co-operative marketing association being hereinafter referred to as the association), which is engaged in marketing agricultural products for its members shall prepare and deliver to the register of deeds or to the clerk of the court in any county in which the office of the register of deeds has been abolished a book to be called "the contract book of __________" (naming the association), such book shall thereupon become a public record in the office of such register or such clerk and the register or clerk shall record therein the matters and things authorized by this chapter.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-351; 1952 Code Section 60-351; 1942 Code Section 8890; 1932 Code Section 8890; 1924 (33) 1072.
Code Commissioner's Note
1997 Act No. 34, Section 1, directed the Code Commissioner to change all references to "Register of Mesne Conveyances" to "Register of Deeds" wherever appearing in the 1976 Code of Laws.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 30 - Public Records › Chapter 13 - Recordation Of Marketing Contracts › Section 30-13-20. Recordation of marketing contracts or agreements.

At any time after any such book shall have been so delivered to the register or clerk as provided in Section 30-13-10, the association which has delivered it may request the register or clerk to whom such book has been delivered to record therein any marketing contracts or agreements which have been entered into by such association and any members thereof. But if any such contracts or agreements be in the same words and figures as any other contracts or agreements with any other members of the association, with or without notations at the end thereof, and be separately signed by such members of the association, such association may have any such contract or agreement recorded once in extenso in such book and may furnish the register or the clerk with a list of the names of persons appearing on such contracts as signers thereof, with the dates, if any, of the signatures, respectively, together with a statement of any such notations, whereupon the register or clerk shall record such names as signatures, respectively, and the notations, if any, so furnished. Such recordation of the list of signatures so furnished shall be equivalent to the recordation in extenso of the contract or agreement of each signer thereof. Such copy of such contracts or agreements and such list of names of persons appearing on such contracts as signers thereof and statement of notations shall be sworn to by some officer of the association cognizant of the facts before some officer authorized to take acknowledgments to deeds. But in no case shall any such contract or agreement be deemed to be recorded as to any signer thereof until his name shall be indexed in such book by the register or clerk, which indexing such officer is hereby required to do.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-352; 1952 Code Section 60-352; 1942 Code Section 8890; 1932 Code Section 8890; 1924 (33) 1072.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 30 - Public Records › Chapter 13 - Recordation Of Marketing Contracts › Section 30-13-30. Effect of recordation of marketing contract or agreement.

When Sections 30-13-10 and 30-13-20 shall have been complied with and any such record as is therein mentioned is made in the county in which a member of any such association resides such record shall operate as constructive notice of the existence of such contract or agreement and of the terms thereof and all persons contracting or dealing with any such member in relation to any such produce covered by such contract or agreement shall be bound thereby and all rights or liens acquired by any such person in such produce subsequent to the date of such record shall be subject in all respects to the rights of the association under such contract or agreement. But if any agricultural produce covered by such contract is sold at public auction or on a warehouse floor, the warehouseman or purchaser shall not be liable for any damages provided to be paid by any member in such contract unless actual notice is given in writing before settlement that the produce sold or offered for sale belongs to a member of the association.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-353; 1952 Code Section 60-353; 1942 Code Section 8890; 1932 Code Section 8890; 1924 (33) 1072.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 30 - Public Records › Chapter 13 - Recordation Of Marketing Contracts › Section 30-13-40. Landlords' and laborers' liens.

Nothing contained in this chapter shall affect the statutory lien of a landlord for rent and advances or a laborer's lien.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-354; 1952 Code Section 60-354; 1942 Code Section 8890; 1932 Code Section 8890; 1924 (33) 1072.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 30 - Public Records › Chapter 13 - Recordation Of Marketing Contracts › Section 30-13-50. Powers of association over members.

The provisions of this chapter shall not have the effect of conferring upon any such association any power over its members or of imposing upon its members any duties not now possessed by the association or owing by the members under existing contracts.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-355; 1952 Code Section 60-355; 1942 Code Section 8890; 1932 Code Section 8890; 1924 (33) 1072.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 30 - Public Records › Chapter 13 - Recordation Of Marketing Contracts › Section 30-13-60. Sharecroppers' rights.

Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to affect the rights of a sharecropper as they now exist under the laws of this State.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-356; 1952 Code Section 60-356; 1942 Code Section 8890; 1932 Code Section 8890; 1924 (33) 1072.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 30 - Public Records › Chapter 15 - Recordation Of Veterans' Discharge › Section 30-15-10. Book for recording discharges from military and naval forces of United States.

There shall be provided and at all times maintained in the office of the clerk of court of each county a special and permanent book in which shall be recorded official discharges from the military and naval forces of the United States. Such book shall be securely bound, shall contain an alphabetical index and the pages of it shall be printed in the form of discharge papers, with sufficient blank lines for the recording of such dates as may be contained in the discharge papers offered for registration.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-401; 1952 Code Section 60-401; 1942 Code Section 8893; 1932 Code Section 8893; 1923 (33) 98.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 30 - Public Records › Chapter 15 - Recordation Of Veterans' Discharge › Section 30-15-15. Invalidating filing of discharge form with court clerk.

A person retired or discharged from the armed services of the United States who has filed his release or discharge certificate now known as DD Form 214 with the clerk of court of any county of this State for safekeeping or other purposes may invalidate this filing and remove it from the public records in the manner provided by this section. The person filing the certificate must notify the clerk of court in writing and under oath he wishes the certificate to be removed from the public records. The clerk of court shall remove the certificate from the public records and return the original to him if available and in possession of the clerk.
HISTORY: 2005 Act No. 46, Section 1.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 30 - Public Records › Chapter 15 - Recordation Of Veterans' Discharge › Section 30-15-20. Recordation of discharges.

Upon the presentation of any official discharge or official certificate of lost discharge from the armed services of the United States, the clerk of court of any county of the State shall record free such discharge in the book provided for in Section 30-15-10.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-402; 1952 Code Section 60-402; 1942 Code Section 8893; 1932 Code Section 8893; 1923 (33) 98; 1945 (44) 8, 54.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 30 - Public Records › Chapter 15 - Recordation Of Veterans' Discharge › Section 30-15-30. Assistance from American Legion.

The clerk of court shall call to his assistance the head officer of the posts of American Legion in his county to furnish a perfect list of the persons entitled to registration.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-403; 1952 Code Section 60-403; 1942 Code Section 8893; 1932 Code Section 8893; 1923 (33) 98.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 30 - Public Records › Chapter 15 - Recordation Of Veterans' Discharge › Section 30-15-40. Inquiry as to validity of discharge; oath of person seeking registration.

If any clerk of court shall be in doubt as to whether or not any paper so presented for registration is an official discharge from the Army, Navy or Marine Corps of the United States or an official certificate of lost discharge, he may examine, under oath, the person so presenting such discharge or otherwise inquire into its validity. And every clerk of court to whom a discharge or certificate of lost discharge is presented for registration shall administer to the person offering such discharge or certificate of lost discharge for registration the following oath, to be recorded with and form a part of the registration of such discharge or certificate of lost discharge:
"I, __________, being duly sworn, depose and say that the foregoing discharge (or certificate of lost discharge) is the original discharge (or certificate of lost discharge) issued to me by the government of the United States and that no alterations have been made therein by me or by any person to my knowledge.
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"Subscribed and sworn to before me this _____ day of ____________ 19___
_"
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-406; 1952 Code Section 60-406; 1942 Code Section 8893; 1932 Code Section 8893; 1923 (33) 98.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 30 - Public Records › Chapter 15 - Recordation Of Veterans' Discharge › Section 30-15-50. Forgery of discharge.

It is unlawful for a person to forge or in any manner alter any discharge or certificate of lost discharge issued by the government of the United States and offer it for registration or secure the registration of it under the provisions of this chapter.
A person who violates the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined in the discretion of the court or imprisoned not more than two years.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-407; 1952 Code Section 60-407; 1942 Code Section 8893; 1932 Code Section 8893; 1923 (33) 98; 1993 Act No. 184, Section 206.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment › Chapter 1 - State Housing Law › Section 31-1-10. Short title.

This chapter shall be known as the "State Housing Law."
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 36-1; 1952 Code Section 36-1; 1942 Code Section 5271-4; 1933 (38) 176.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment › Chapter 1 - State Housing Law › Section 31-1-20. Declaration of legislative finding.

It is hereby declared that it is necessary in the public interest to make provision for housing families of low income and to provide for the elimination of congested and unsanitary housing conditions which exist in certain areas of the State and which are a menace to the health, safety, morals, welfare and reasonable comfort of the citizens of the State. The providing of such housing for families of low incomes and the correction of these conditions in such areas being now otherwise impossible, it is essential that provision be made for the investment of private funds at low interest rates, the acquisition at fair prices of adequate parcels of land, the construction of new housing facilities under public supervision in accord with proper standards of sanitation and safety and at a cost which will permit monthly rentals which wage earners can afford to pay and for the gradual demolition of existing unsanitary and unsafe housing. Therefore, the agencies and instrumentalities herein established are declared to be the agencies and instrumentalities of the State for the purpose of attaining the ends herein recited and their necessity in the public interest is hereby declared as a matter of legislative determination.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 36-2; 1952 Code Section 36-2; 1942 Code Section 5271-5; 1933 (38) 176.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment › Chapter 1 - State Housing Law › Section 31-1-30. General duties of Secretary of Commerce with respect to housing.

The Secretary of Commerce, hereafter in this chapter sometimes called the director, may:
(1) study housing conditions and needs throughout the State to determine in what areas congested and unsanitary housing conditions constitute a menace to the health, safety, morals, welfare and reasonable comfort of the citizens of the State;
(2) prepare programs for correcting such conditions;
(3) collect and distribute information relating to housing;
(4) investigate all matters affecting the cost of construction or production of dwellings;
(5) study means of lowering rents of dwellings by securing economy in the construction and arrangement of buildings;
(6) recommend and approve the areas within which or adjacent to which the construction of housing projects by limited dividend housing companies may be undertaken; and
(7) cooperate with local housing officials and planning commissions or similar bodies in cities and other localities in the development of projects they at any time may have under consideration.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 36-3; 1952 Code Section 36-3; 1942 Code Section 5271-10; 1933 (38) 176; 1945 (44) 156; 1954 (48) 1745; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1994 Act No. 361, Section 8.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment › Chapter 1 - State Housing Law › Section 31-1-40. Electrical power permits.

In municipalities and counties where building, construction, or tax permits are issued no supplier of electricity in this State may connect electrical power to a manufactured home after April 1, 1972, unless the owner of the manufactured home presents to the supplier of electricity a permit which may be part of a building, construction, or tax permit from an authorized officer of a municipality or county where the manufactured home is located that the manufactured home meets the requirements of Chapter 29 of Title 40. A sworn affidavit or other proof from the owner of the manufactured home that it bears the label or seal or compliance number of an approved independent third party testing and inspecting agent or of a foreign state granted reciprocity or a HUD manufactured home label is sufficient evidence of compliance for the municipal or county official to issue the electrical permit.
The governing body of a municipality or county of this State shall designate an officer to issue the permit.
This section does not apply to a manufactured home if it has been connected to electricity before April 1, 1972. An affidavit of the owner of the manufactured home that it has been connected before that date is satisfactory evidence for the officer of the municipality or county to issue the certificate.
HISTORY: 1989 Act No. 128, Section 2.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment › Chapter 1 - State Housing Law › Section 31-1-50. Penalties for violating Section 31-1-40.

It is unlawful for a person on or after April 1, 1972, to violate a provision of Section 31-1-40 or any ordinance relative to it. A person violating a provision of Section 31-1-40 is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than five hundred dollars for each offense.
HISTORY: 1989 Act No. 128, Section 3.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment › Chapter 1 - State Housing Law › Section 31-1-110. Incorporation of limited dividend housing corporations.

Any number of natural persons, not less than three, a majority of whom are citizens of the United States, may become a limited dividend housing corporation by subscribing, acknowledging and filing in the office of the Secretary of State articles of incorporation, hereinafter called "articles," setting forth the information required by Chapter 7 of Title 33; except as herein modified or changed.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 36-11; 1952 Code Section 36-11; 1942 Code Section 5271-18; 1933 (38) 176.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment › Chapter 1 - State Housing Law › Section 31-1-120. Purposes of limited dividend housing corporations.

The purposes for which a limited dividend housing corporation is to be formed shall be as follows: To acquire, construct, maintain and operate housing projects when authorized by and subject to the supervision of the director.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 36-12; 1952 Code Section 36-12; 1942 Code Section 5271-18; 1933 (38) 176; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 491.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment › Chapter 1 - State Housing Law › Section 31-1-130. Par value shares.

The shares of which the capital of a limited dividend housing corporation shall consist shall have a par value.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 36-13; 1952 Code Section 36-13; 1942 Code Section 5271-18; 1933 (38) 176.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment › Chapter 1 - State Housing Law › Section 31-1-140. Declaration required in articles.

The articles of a limited dividend housing corporation shall contain a declaration (a) that the corporation has been organized to serve a public purpose and that it shall remain at all times subject to the supervision and control of the director or of other appropriate state authority, (b) that all real estate acquired by it and all structures erected by it shall be deemed to be acquired for the purpose of promoting the public health and safety and subject to the provisions of the State Housing Law and (c) that the stockholders of the corporation shall be deemed, when they subscribe to and receive the stock thereof, to have agreed that they shall at no time receive or accept from the company, in repayment of their investment in its stock, any sums in excess of the par value of the stock, together with cumulative dividends at the rate of six percent per annum and that any surplus in excess of such amount if the company shall be dissolved, shall revert to the State.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 36-14; 1952 Code Section 36-14; 1942 Code Section 5271-18; 1933 (38) 176; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 492.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment › Chapter 1 - State Housing Law › Section 31-1-150. Income debentures.

The articles of a limited dividend housing corporation may authorize the issuance of income debenture certificates bearing no greater interest than six percent per annum. After the incorporation of a limited dividend housing corporation, the directors thereof may, with the consent of two thirds of the holders of any preferred stock that may be issued and outstanding, offer to the stockholders of the company the privilege of exchanging their preferred and common stock in such quantities and at such times as may be approved by the director for such income debenture certificates, whose value shall not exceed the par value of the stock exchanged therefor.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 36-15; 1952 Code Section 36-15; 1942 Code Section 5271-21; 1933 (38) 176; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 493.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment › Chapter 1 - State Housing Law › Section 31-1-160. Consideration for issuance of stocks, bonds, and income debentures.

No limited dividend housing company incorporated under this chapter shall issue stock, bonds or income debentures, except for money, services or property actually received for the use and lawful purposes of the corporation. No stock, bonds or income debentures shall be issued for property or services except upon a valuation approved by the director and such valuation shall be used in computing actual or estimated cost.
The director may permit stock or income debentures to be issued for working capital to be used in connection with such project to any amount not exceeding three percent of the estimated total cost or three percent of the actual cost, if actual cost should exceed estimated cost, of a project.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 36-16; 1952 Code Section 36-16; 1942 Code Section 5271-20; 1933 (38) 176; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 494.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment › Chapter 1 - State Housing Law › Section 31-1-170. Limited return on stock.

No stockholder in any corporation formed hereunder shall receive any dividend in any one year in excess of six per cent per annum except that when in any preceding year dividends in the amount prescribed in the articles of incorporation shall not have been paid on the stock the stockholders may be paid such deficiency without interest out of any surplus earned in any succeeding year.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 36-17; 1952 Code Section 36-17; 1942 Code Section 5271-19; 1933 (38) 176.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment › Chapter 1 - State Housing Law › Section 31-1-180. Limitations on actions by companies.

No limited dividend housing company incorporated under this chapter shall:
(1) acquire any real property or interest therein unless it shall first have obtained from the Secretary of Commerce a certificate that such acquisition is necessary or convenient for the public purpose defined in Section 31-1-140;
(2) sell, transfer, assign or lease any real property without first having obtained the consent of the Secretary of Commerce, except that leases conforming to the regulations and rules of the Department of Commerce and for actual occupancy by the lessees may be made without the consent of the Secretary of Commerce;
(3) pay interest returns on its mortgage indebtedness and its income debenture certificates at a higher rate than six percent per annum;
(4) issue its stock, debentures and bonds covering any project undertaken by it in an amount greater in the aggregate than the total actual final cost of such project, including the lands, improvements, charges for financing and supervision approved by the Secretary of Commerce and interest and other carrying charges during construction and an allowance for working capital to be approved by the Secretary of Commerce but not exceeding three percent of the estimated cost or of the total actual final cost if the final cost of the project shall be greater than the estimated cost;
(5) mortgage any real property without first having obtained the consent of the Secretary of Commerce;
(6) issue any securities or evidences of indebtedness without first having obtained the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and the approval of the Director of the Department of Insurance, or his designee;
(7) use any building erected or acquired by it for other than housing purposes, except that when permitted by law the story of the building above the cellar or basement and the space below such story may be used for stores, commercial, cooperative or community purposes and when permitted by law the roof may be used for cooperative or community purposes;
(8) charge or accept any rental fee or other charge for housing accommodations in any building constructed, acquired, operated or managed by it in excess of the prices prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce;
(9) enter into contracts for the construction of housing projects or for the payments of salaries to officers or employees except subject to the inspection and revision of the Secretary of Commerce and under such regulations as the Department of Commerce from time to time may prescribe;
(10) voluntarily dissolve without first having obtained the consent of the Secretary of Commerce; or
(11) make any guaranty without the approval of the Secretary of Commerce.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 36-18; 1952 Code Section 36-18; 1942 Code Section 5271-22; 1933 (38) 176; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 495; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 496; 1994 Act No. 361, Section 9.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment › Chapter 1 - State Housing Law › Section 31-1-190. Conveyances, leases, or subleases in violation of Section 31-1-180 shall be void.

Any conveyance, encumbrance, lease or sublease made in violation of the provisions of Section 31-1-180 and any transfer or assignment thereof shall be void.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 36-19; 1952 Code Section 36-19; 1942 Code Section 5271-22; 1933 (38) 176.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment › Chapter 1 - State Housing Law › Section 31-1-200. Regulation of limited dividend housing companies.

In pursuance of its power to supervise and regulate the operations of limited dividend housing companies incorporated under this chapter the Secretary of Commerce may:
(1) order any such corporation to make, at its expense, such repairs and improvements as will preserve or promote the health and safety of the occupants of buildings and structures owned or operated by such corporations;
(2) order all such corporations to do such acts as may be necessary to comply with the provisions of the law, the rules and regulations adopted by the Department of Commerce or the terms of any project approved by the Secretary of Commerce or to refrain from doing any acts in violation thereof;
(3) examine all such corporations and keep informed as to their general condition, their capitalization and the manner in which their property is constructed, leased, operated or managed;
(4) either through its members or agents duly authorized by it, enter in or upon and inspect the property, equipment, buildings, plants, offices, apparatus and devices of any such corporation, examine all books, contracts, records, documents and papers of any such corporation and by subpoena duces tecum compel the production thereof;
(5) in its discretion prescribe uniform methods and forms of keeping accounts, records and books to be observed by such corporations and prescribe by order accounts in which particular outlays and receipts shall be entered, charged or credited;
(6) require every such corporation to file with the Secretary of Commerce an annual report setting forth such information as the Secretary of Commerce may require, verified by the oath of the president and general manager or receiver, if any, thereof or by the person required to file such report, such report to be in the form, cover the period and be filed at the time prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce;
(7) require specific answers to questions upon which the Secretary of Commerce may desire information and require such corporation to file periodic reports in the form covering the period and at the time prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce; and
(8) from time to time make, amend and repeal rules and regulations for carrying into effect the provisions of this chapter.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 36-20; 1952 Code Section 36-20; 1942 Code Section 5271-12; 1933 (38) 176; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 497; 1994 Act No. 361, Section 9.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment › Chapter 1 - State Housing Law › Section 31-1-210. Investigation of limited dividend housing companies.

The director may investigate the affairs of limited dividend housing companies incorporated under this chapter and the dealings, transactions or relationships of such companies with other persons. Any of the investigations provided for in this chapter may be conducted by the director or by a committee to be appointed by the director. Each member of the committee may administer oaths, take affidavits and make personal inspections of all places to which their duties relate. The committee may subpoena and require the attendance of witnesses and the production of books and papers relating to the investigations and inquiries authorized in this chapter, examine them in relation to any matter it has power to investigate and issue commissions for the examination of witnesses who are out of the State or unable to attend before the committee or excused from attendance.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 36-21; 1952 Code Section 36-21; 1942 Code Section 5271-9; 1933 (38) 176; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 498.