When the limits of a municipality are ordered extended, no contest thereabout shall be allowed unless the person interested therein files, within sixty days after the result has been published or declared, with both the clerk of the municipality and the clerk of court of the county in which the municipality is located, a notice of his intention to contest the extension, nor unless, within ninety days from the time the result has been published or declared an action is begun and the original summons and complaint filed with the clerk of court of the county in which the municipality is located.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-22; 1952 Code Section 47-22; 1946 (44) 1376; 2000 Act No. 250, Section 3.
Structure 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 5-3-100. Alternate method when entire area owned by annexing municipality or county.
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 5-3-155. Rules for annexation of certain properties by municipalities.
Section 5-3-210. Subsequent election after defeat of annexation election.
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.