In all counties in this State containing a city with a population of more than eighty-six thousand people according to the last official United States census the supervisor and the governing body may accept necessary rights of way, in writing, over and across private property for the purpose of constructing and maintaining drainage ditches to carry off surface water from roads and streets. Across rights of way so accepted drainage ditches shall be constructed and maintained by the county; provided, the direction of the natural course of the drainage water shall not be changed, and if any ditch is piped, the grantor of the right of way shall furnish the pipe. The property owner shall give the necessary right of way to the final disposition point of the surface water for which the right of way is given and the property owner shall agree to hold the county harmless for any damage to the property owner's land or real property or to the land or real property belonging to anyone else.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-814.1; 1957 (50) 169.
Structure South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries
Chapter 17 - County Roads, Bridges And Ferries Generally
Section 57-17-10. County supervision of public roads, highways, bridges, and ferries.
Section 57-17-20. Opening new or changing old roads; condemnation.
Section 57-17-30. Interference with surveyor laying out public roads.
Section 57-17-50. Erection of local direction posts.
Section 57-17-70. Repairs to county highways and bridges.
Section 57-17-80. Neglect of work on county highways and bridges.
Section 57-17-90. Highway districts.
Section 57-17-100. Closing certain railroad-highway crossings.
Section 57-17-110. Apportionment of funds through year; contracts in excess of void.
Section 57-17-120. Disposition of fines and forfeitures.
Section 57-17-130. Unauthorized diversion of highways.
Section 57-17-140. Presenting accounts, claims, and demands; approval and payment.
Section 57-17-510. Width of road.
Section 57-17-610. County may hire overseers and laborers to work roads.
Section 57-17-620. County may use chain gang to work roads.
Section 57-17-630. Counties may combine chain gangs or hire convicts to work roads.
Section 57-17-640. Advertisement for bids under contract system.
Section 57-17-650. Bids; acceptance procedures.