The department shall include those costs and operating expenses necessary for the activities of the board of the department and the advisory board as well as staff support to carry out the provisions of this act in the annual State Appropriation Act. Funding for management of areas and features which become Heritage Preserves must be specifically requested by the department or that entity of government responsible for management thereof.
The board of the department shall select those Heritage Preserves for which it is appropriate to charge an individual user fee. The department may sell such user permits for a cost not to exceed five dollars and to be valid for the fiscal year in which issued at all Heritage Preserves where a permit is required. At the end of the fiscal year, the department shall distribute the funds collected among the entities of government assigned responsibility for management in direct proportion to the acreage which they manage. The proceeds of the sale of the user permits must be used to defray the management expenses.
HISTORY: 1976 Act No. 600 Section 11; 1985 Act No. 36, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1282, eff July 1, 1994.
Effect of Amendment
The 1993 amendment substituted "board of the department" for "commission".
Structure South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 51 - Parks, Recreation and Tourism
Chapter 17 - Heritage Trust Program
Section 51-17-10. Definitions.
Section 51-17-20. Declaration of legislative findings.
Section 51-17-30. Purpose of Heritage Trust Program.
Section 51-17-40. Powers and duties of the Department of Natural Resources Board.
Section 51-17-50. Heritage Trust Advisory Board created; composition.
Section 51-17-60. Powers and duties of Board.
Section 51-17-70. Powers and duties of the Department of Natural Resources.
Section 51-17-80. Establishment of Heritage Preserves.
Section 51-17-85. Disposition of Heritage Trust property; exception.
Section 51-17-90. South Carolina Heritage Trust created.
Section 51-17-100. Registering of Heritage Sites.
Section 51-17-110. Funding; appropriations; user fees; income.
Section 51-17-115. Establishment and administration of Heritage Land Trust Fund.
Section 51-17-120. Effect on certain other lands.
Section 51-17-130. Enforcement; penalties.
Section 51-17-140. Heritage Trust properties; prior approval by county delegation.