For purposes of more precisely defining the South Carolina Coordinate System, the following definition by the National Ocean Survey and the National Geodetic Survey is adopted:
The South Carolina Coordinate System is a Lambert conformal projection of the North American Datum, 1983, having standard parallels at north latitudes 32° 30' and 34° 50', along which parallels the scale must be exact. The origin of coordinates is at the intersection of the meridian 81° 00'west of Greenwich and the parallel 31° 50' north latitude. This origin is given the coordinates: * = 2,000,000 feet and y = 0 feet. For the purposes of the South Carolina Coordinate System, the foot is the International Foot with one inch being exactly equal to 2.54 centimeters.
The position of South Carolina Coordinate System is as marked on the ground by monumented points of the North American Horizontal Geodetic Control Network established in conformity with standards adopted by the Federal Geodetic Control Committee for first-order and second-order work, whose geodetic positions have been rigidly adjusted on the North American Datum of 1983, and whose coordinates have been computed on the system defined in this section. Any such stations may be used for establishing a survey connection with the South Carolina Coordinate System.
HISTORY: 1979 Act No. 54, Section 1; 1989 Act No. 32, Section 1.
Structure South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 27 - Property and Conveyances
Chapter 2 - Coordinate System For Defining Location Of Points Within State
Section 27-2-10. System adopted; title.
Section 27-2-20. Zone title for use in land descriptions.
Section 27-2-30. Plane coordinates for expressing position of point defined.
Section 27-2-50. Coordinate System defined.
Section 27-2-60. Standards required for recordation; modification to meet local conditions.
Section 27-2-70. Use of term "South Carolina Coordinate System" on map.
Section 27-2-85. Duties of South Carolina Geodetic Survey.
Section 27-2-110. Reliance on description based on coordinate system not required.