H 3158 General Bill, By F.L. Day
 A Bill to amend Chapter 3 of Title 5, as amended, Code of Laws of South
 Carolina, 1976, relating to change of corporate limits, by adding Section
 5-3-400 so as to require the Attorney General to review any annexation prior
 to it becoming effective and to determine whether the annexation may become
 effective and to provide for the determination to be based on statutory laws
 and information submitted by the governing body and obtained in public
 hearings held in the municipality and in the area proposed to be annexed; and
 to amend Section 5-3-150, relating to alternate methods of annexation where
 the petition is signed by all or seventy-five percent of landowners, so as to
 define assessed valuation of real property classified for agricultural or
 timber use, or both, to require the municipal governing body to notify each
 freeholder owning real property in the area requesting annexation of the
 proposed annexation by regular mail and by publication in a newspaper of
 general circulation in the area to be annexed, and to require compliance with
 the provisions of the Section in order for an ordinance declaring annexation
 to be valid.
   11/04/85  House  Prefiled
   11/04/85  House  Referred to Committee on Judiciary
   01/14/86  House  Introduced and read first time HJ-67
   01/14/86  House  Referred to Committee on Judiciary HJ-68
   01/28/86  House  Tabled in committee