The respective Boards of Trustees, Area Commissions, through the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education, or the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education for any Technical Education College or Center not governed and supervised by an Area Commission of such state institutions may make application to the State Fiscal Accountability Authority or the Department of Administration, as appropriate, for funds to be used for any one or more of the following purposes: (a) to construct, reconstruct, maintain, improve, furnish and refurnish the buildings and other permanent improvements for such state institutions, (b) to defray the costs of acquiring or improving land needed as sites for such improvements or for the campus of any such state institution, (c) to reimburse such institution for expenses incurred in anticipation of the issuance of such bonds, or (d) to refund state institution bonds heretofore issued for such institutions and which shall on such occasion be outstanding. Such application shall contain:
(1) A description of the improvement sought, or the amount of outstanding bonds it wishes to have refunded;
(2) An estimate of cost, or an estimate of the money required to effect the refunding;
(3) A statement establishing the aggregate sum received from tuition fees for the fiscal year immediately preceding the fiscal year in which such application is dated;
(4) The schedule of tuition fees in effect;
(5) A suggested maturity schedule for bonds issued pursuant to this chapter; and
(6) A statement showing the unmatured state institution bonds theretofore issued for such state institution.
The application shall contain an agreement upon the part of the Board of Trustees, Area Commission, or State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education that such schedule of tuition fees shall be revised from time to time and whenever necessary to provide the annual principal and interest requirements on the proposed bonds and on all outstanding state institution bonds issued for such state institution.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 22-24; 1953 (48) 169; 1954 (48) 1708; 1961 (52) 476; 1963 (53) 583; 1966 (54) 2263; 1977 Act No. 249, Pt II, Section 3; 1991 Act No. 65, Section 1.
Structure South Carolina Code of Laws
Chapter 107 - State Institution Bonds
Section 59-107-10. Institutions to which chapter is applicable; "state institution" defined.
Section 59-107-20. Tuition fees required at state institutions.
Section 59-107-30. Remittance and application of tuition fees.
Section 59-107-50. Authority of State Fiscal Accountability Authority as to applications.
Section 59-107-60. Request for issuance of state institution bonds.
Section 59-107-70. Governor and State Treasurer empowered to authorize issuance of bonds.
Section 59-107-80. Single issue of bonds may cover several applications.
Section 59-107-90. Maximum amount of outstanding bonds.
Section 59-107-100. Full faith, credit, and taxing power of State pledged to pay bonds.
Section 59-107-110. Negotiability and registration.
Section 59-107-120. Denominations of bonds; interest rate; maturity; redemption.
Section 59-107-140. Bonds exempt from taxes.
Section 59-107-150. Bonds as legal investments.
Section 59-107-160. Sale of bonds.
Section 59-107-170. Deposit and use of proceeds of bonds.
Section 59-107-180. Tuition fees placed in special fund to pay bonds; application of surplus.
Section 59-107-190. Declaration of sufficiency of tuition fees to pay bonds.
Section 59-107-200. Defeasance of bonds; trust fund established.