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.
Structure South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment
Section 31-1-20. Declaration of legislative finding.
Section 31-1-30. General duties of Secretary of Commerce with respect to housing.
Section 31-1-40. Electrical power permits.
Section 31-1-50. Penalties for violating Section 31-1-40.
Section 31-1-110. Incorporation of limited dividend housing corporations.
Section 31-1-120. Purposes of limited dividend housing corporations.
Section 31-1-130. Par value shares.
Section 31-1-140. Declaration required in articles.
Section 31-1-150. Income debentures.
Section 31-1-160. Consideration for issuance of stocks, bonds, and income debentures.
Section 31-1-170. Limited return on stock.
Section 31-1-180. Limitations on actions by companies.
Section 31-1-190. Conveyances, leases, or subleases in violation of Section 31-1-180 shall be void.
Section 31-1-200. Regulation of limited dividend housing companies.
Section 31-1-210. Investigation of limited dividend housing companies.
Section 31-1-230. Provisions of general corporation law applicable.
Section 31-1-410. Approval of projects.
Section 31-1-420. Action by city council on plans, adoptions, or rejections by director.
Section 31-1-430. Charges included in term "cost".
Section 31-1-440. Receipt and disbursement of funds by trustee.
Section 31-1-450. Acquisition of required land.
Section 31-1-460. Prerequisites to condemnation.
Section 31-1-470. Sale or purchase of lands to or from municipality.
Section 31-1-480. Purchases by one limited dividend housing corporation of property of another.
Section 31-1-490. Consolidated and extended projects; operation of more than one project.
Section 31-1-610. Control of rentals.
Section 31-1-620. Payments covered by rentals.
Section 31-1-630. Reduction of rentals.
Section 31-1-640. Surplus; maximum payments on dissolution.
Section 31-1-660. Procedure in actions against limited dividend housing corporations.
Section 31-1-670. Mortgages and mortgage bonds.
Section 31-1-680. Foreclosure.
Section 31-1-690. Foreclosures free of restrictions of Section 31-1-680.
Section 31-1-700. Enforcement of judgments not relating to mortgage indebtedness.
Section 31-1-710. Reorganization of limited dividend housing corporations.
Section 31-1-810. Standards of Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development adopted.