South Carolina Code of Laws
Chapter 3 - Change Of Corporate Limits
Section 5-3-20. Municipality may not annex real property owned by professional sports team.

No municipality may annex, under the provisions of this chapter, any real property owned by a professional sports team as defined in Section 12-6-3360(M)(17) without prior written consent of the professional sports team.
HISTORY: 2019 Act No. 83 (H.4243), Section 4, eff May 22, 2019.

Editor's Note
2019 Act No. 83, Section 9.B, provides as follows:
"B. The provisions of Sections 4-9-30 and 5-7-30 relating to a professional sports team, and the provisions of Section 5-3-20 only apply so long as the job and payroll provisions of Section 12-6-3360(M)(17) and (P) continue to be met by the professional sports team."

Structure South Carolina Code of Laws

South Carolina Code of Laws

Title 5 - Municipal Corporations

Chapter 3 - Change Of Corporate Limits

Section 5-3-10. Power to extend corporate limits.

Section 5-3-15. Municipality may not annex certain property.

Section 5-3-20. Municipality may not annex real property owned by professional sports team.

Section 5-3-30. Consolidation of two or more municipal corporations without petition.

Section 5-3-40. Agreement upon terms of consolidation.

Section 5-3-90. Filing notice with Secretary of State, Department of Transportation, and Department of Public Safety.

Section 5-3-100. Alternate method when entire area owned by annexing municipality or county.

Section 5-3-110. Annexation of right-of-way area of street lying beyond but abutting on corporate limits.

Section 5-3-115. Annexation of property within a multicounty park.

Section 5-3-120. Alternate method when entire area proposed to be annexed owned by corporation.

Section 5-3-130. Alternate method when entire area proposed to be annexed owned by school district.

Section 5-3-140. Alternate method when entire area proposed to be annexed owned by Federal or State Government.

Section 5-3-150. Alternate methods where petition signed by all or seventy-five percent of landowners.

Section 5-3-155. Rules for annexation of certain properties by municipalities.

Section 5-3-210. Subsequent election after defeat of annexation election.

Section 5-3-235. Assessed value of any single freeholder's real property not to exceed twenty-five percent of assessed value of existing municipality; exceptions.

Section 5-3-240. "Freeholder" defined for purposes of pertinent provisions.

Section 5-3-250. Extension of corporate limits to include cemeteries.

Section 5-3-260. Annexation of church property.

Section 5-3-270. Time within which contest on extension of municipal limits must be instituted.

Section 5-3-280. Reduction of corporate limits.

Section 5-3-285. Removal of territory from within corporate limits of municipality.

Section 5-3-290. "Municipality" defined.

Section 5-3-300. Annexation procedure.

Section 5-3-305. Contiguous property defined.

Section 5-3-310. Annexation of special purpose district.

Section 5-3-311. Committee to formulate plan in absence of agreement.

Section 5-3-312. Plan to balance equities and interest.

Section 5-3-313. Auditor and treasurer to conform to plan.

Section 5-3-314. Obligation may not be disturbed.

Section 5-3-315. Public hearing.