South Carolina General Assembly
116th Session, 2005-2006

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H. 4779

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General Bill
Sponsors: Reps. Rivers, Hodges, Whipper, Altman, Ceips, Dantzler, Govan, Kirsh, Limehouse, Merrill, Scarborough and Umphlett
Document Path: l:\council\bills\dka\3648dw06.doc

Introduced in the House on March 8, 2006
Currently residing in the House Committee on Judiciary

Summary: Annexation

HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

     Date      Body   Action Description with journal page number
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    3/8/2006  House   Introduced and read first time HJ-43
    3/8/2006  House   Referred to Committee on Judiciary HJ-43

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL

3/8/2006

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A BILL

TO AMEND SECTION 5-3-305, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE DEFINITION OF CONTIGUOUS PROPERTY FOR PURPOSES OF ANNEXATION OF PROPERTY BY A MUNICIPALITY, SO AS TO DELETE CERTAIN GEOGRAPHICAL FACTORS THAT CAN BE USED TO ESTABLISH CONTIGUITY TO PROPERTY ANNEXED BY A MUNICIPALITY.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION    1.    Section 5-3-305 of the 1976 Code, as added by Act 250 of 2000, is amended to read:

"Section 5-3-305.    For purposes of this chapter, 'contiguous' means property which is adjacent to a municipality and shares a continuous border. Contiguity is not established by a road, waterway, right-of-way, easement, railroad track, marshland, or utility line which connects one property to another; however, if the connecting road, waterway, easement, railroad track, marshland, or utility line intervenes between two properties, which but for the intervening connector would be adjacent and share a continuous border, the intervening connector does not destroy contiguity."

SECTION    2.    This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

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