South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 30 - Public Records

Section 30-1-90. Archives shall assist in creating, filing and preserving records; inventories and schedules. - (A) The Archives may examine the condition of public records...

Section 30-1-100. Additional powers and duties of Archives. - (A) In cooperation with the executive officer of each public...

Section 30-1-110. Destruction or other disposition of records. - The director may approve the destruction or other disposition of...

Section 30-1-120. Inventorying, repairing and microfilming records. - (A) The Archives may execute a program of inventorying, repairing,...

Section 30-1-130. Microfilming or photocopying records; preservation or disposition of copies. - Any custodian of public records as defined by Sections 30-1-10...

Section 30-1-140. Penalties for refusal or neglect to perform duty respecting records. - A public official or custodian of public records who refuses...

Section 30-1-170. Use of loose-leaf record books. - All officers of the State and of counties and municipalities...

Section 30-1-180. Inclusion of Eastern (Greek) Orthodox Church where names of major religions used. - Where the names of major religious faiths, Protestants, Catholics, and...

Chapter 2 - Family And Personal Identifying Information Privacy Protection

Section 30-2-10. Short title. - This chapter shall be designated as the "Family Privacy Protection...

Section 30-2-20. Privacy policies and procedures required of all state entities. - All state agencies, boards, commissions, institutions, departments, and other state...

Section 30-2-30. Definitions. - For purposes of this act, the following terms have the...

Section 30-2-40. Display of privacy policy on web site; access to personal information disclosure; criminal justice and judicial agency exception. - (A) Any state agency, board, commission, institution, department, or other...

Section 30-2-50. Obtaining personal information from state agency, local government, or other political subdivision for commercial solicitation; penalty. - (A) A person or private entity shall not knowingly obtain...

Section 30-2-300. Findings of General Assembly. - The General Assembly finds: (1) The social security number can...

Section 30-2-310. Collection of and maintenance and disposition of records containing social security numbers by public agencies. - (A)(1) Except as provided in Sections 30-2-320 and 30-2-330 of...

Section 30-2-320. Disclosure of social security numbers and identifying information. - Social security numbers and identifying information may be disclosed: (1)...

Section 30-2-330. Removal of social security numbers and other identifying information from official records filed by register of deeds or clerk of court or county. - (A) A person preparing or filing a document to be...

Section 30-2-340. Petition for compliance; liability of register of deeds or clerk of court. - Any affected individual may petition the court for an order...

Chapter 4 - Freedom Of Information Act

Section 30-4-10. Short title. - This chapter shall be known and cited as the "Freedom...

Section 30-4-15. Findings and purpose. - The General Assembly finds that it is vital in a...

Section 30-4-20. Definitions. - (a) "Public body" means any department of the State, a...

Section 30-4-30. Right to inspect or copy public records; fees; notification as to public availability of records; presumption upon failure to give notice; records to be available when requestor appears in person. - (A)(1) A person has a right to inspect, copy, or...

Section 30-4-40. Matters exempt from disclosure. - (a) A public body may but is not required to...

Section 30-4-45. Information concerning safeguards and off-site consequence analyses; regulation of access; vulnerable zone defined. - (A) The director of each agency that is the custodian...

Section 30-4-50. Certain matters declared public information; use of information for commercial solicitation prohibited. - (A) Without limiting the meaning of other sections of this...

Section 30-4-55. Disclosure of fiscal impact on public bodies offering economic incentives to business; cost-benefit analysis required. - A public body as defined by Section 30-4-20(a), or a...

Section 30-4-60. Meetings of public bodies shall be open. - Every meeting of all public bodies shall be open to...

Section 30-4-65. Cabinet meetings subject to chapter provisions; cabinet defined. - (A) The Governor's cabinet meetings are subject to the provisions...

Section 30-4-70. Meetings which may be closed; procedure; circumvention of chapter; disruption of meeting; executive sessions of General Assembly. - (a) A public body may hold a meeting closed to...

Section 30-4-80. Notice of meetings of public bodies. - (A) All public bodies, except as provided in subsections (B)...

Section 30-4-90. Minutes of meetings of public bodies. - (a) All public bodies shall keep written minutes of all...

Section 30-4-100. Injunctive relief; costs and attorney's fees. - (A) A citizen of the State may apply to the...

Section 30-4-110. Hearings regarding disclosure; appropriate relief; civil fine for violation. - (A) A public body may file a request for hearing...

Section 30-4-160. Sale of Social Security number or driver's license photograph or signature. - (A) This chapter does not allow the Department of Motor...

Section 30-4-165. Privacy of driver's license information. - (A) The Department of Motor Vehicles may not sell, provide,...

Chapter 5 - Recording Generally

Section 30-5-5. Qualifications for eligibility to serve as register of deeds; quo warranto actions to determine eligibility. - (A) In order to be eligible to serve or continue...

Section 30-5-10. . Performance of register of deeds' duties by clerk of court in certain counties. - (A) In every county in the State other than Aiken,...

Section 30-5-12. . Appointment of register of deeds for certain counties. - (A) The governing bodies of Anderson, Beaufort, Cherokee, Chesterfield, Clarendon,...

Section 30-5-15. Duties of clerk of court for state tax liens to be performed by register of deeds. - Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in those counties which...

Section 30-5-16. Records of state tax liens before and after August 1, 1978. - On the effective date of Sections 30-5-15 and 30-5-16, in...

Section 30-5-20. Certified copies of recorded instruments; effect of furnishing incorrect copy. - The register of deeds, or his deputy, shall be required,...

Section 30-5-30. Prerequisites to recording. - Except as otherwise provided by statute, before any deed or...

Section 30-5-35. Derivation clause and address of grantee or mortgagee on deeds and mortgages. - (a) All deeds conveying an interest in land and all...

Section 30-5-36. Conveyance of property used for hazardous waste storage or disposal to contain notice of previous use. - When any real property used as a hazardous waste storage...

Section 30-5-40. Validation of certain instruments executed between May 11, 1972 and June 22, 1973. - (1) Any deed or other instrument purporting to convey an...

Section 30-5-50. Effect of failure of officer to state service serial number. - No instrument otherwise entitled to admission to record shall be...

Section 30-5-60. Validity of instruments recorded without impressed seals of officers administering oaths. - Any instrument heretofore or hereafter recorded in this State, which...

Section 30-5-70. Recording of instrument when affidavit of subscribing witness cannot be procured. - When the affidavit of a subscribing witness cannot be had...

Section 30-5-80. Auditor's endorsement required before recordation of deeds. - Before any deed of conveyance of real property, including timber...

Section 30-5-90. Recordation of marriage settlements, conveyances, mortgages, and other writings. - The register of deeds is required to record in the...

Section 30-5-100. Procedure for transfer of recording when instrument was recorded in wrong county. - (1) When any instrument conveying an interest in real property...

Section 30-5-110. Memorandum of livery of seizin shall be recorded. - When any deeds or conveyances shall be acknowledged or proved...

Section 30-5-120. Validation of certain conveyances not endorsed by auditor. - All conveyances of real estate which were recorded by a...

Section 30-5-130. Mortgages of leaseholds and other interests in real estate. - Mortgages of leaseholds or other interests in real estate within...

Section 30-5-140. Validation of certain recordations bearing date prior to March 1, 1909. - The probate of any and all deeds or other instruments...

Section 30-5-150. Validation of certain instruments. - All such instruments which have been executed and the execution...

Section 30-5-180. Recording United States tax commissioners' titles in Beaufort County. - The holders of all certificates or titles issued by or...

Section 30-5-190. Recordation of proceedings in bankruptcy. - A certified copy of a petition, with schedules omitted, commencing...

Section 30-5-200. Certificate on recorded instruments. - Whenever any instrument in writing required by law to be...

Section 30-5-210. Use of photostatic or other photographic method of recording in county with city over 70,000. - In all counties in this State containing a city having...

Section 30-5-220. Use of photostatic or photo recording in any county. - Photostatic copies or photo-recording copies, duly authenticated by the signature...

Section 30-5-230. Recordation of plats or copies of plats of real property. - It shall be lawful for the owner of any real...

Section 30-5-240. Recordation of plats or blueprints of subdivisions. - When real property is subdivided for the purpose of sale...

Section 30-5-250. Effect of reference in deed or other instrument to recorded plats. - When any recorded deed, mortgage or other instrument conveying an...

Section 30-5-260. Validation of previous recordings of plats. - Any and all such plats or blueprint, tracing, photostatic or...

Section 30-5-270. Real property recordings and filings; boundary clarification. - (A) For the following counties of this State bordering North...

Chapter 6 - Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act

Section 30-6-10. Short title. - This chapter may be cited as the "Uniform Real Property...

Section 30-6-20. Definitions. - In this chapter: (1) "Document" means information that is: (a)...

Section 30-6-30. Validity of electronic documents. - (a) If a law requires, as a condition for recording,...

Section 30-6-40. Recording of documents. - (a) In this section, "paper document" means a document that...

Section 30-6-50. Administration and standards. - (a) Upon the recommendation of the Electronic Recording Committee, the...

Section 30-6-60. Uniformity of application and construction. - In applying and construing this Uniform Act, consideration must be...

Section 30-6-70. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act. - This chapter modifies, limits, and supersedes the federal Electronic Signatures...

Chapter 7 - Recordation Essential To Validity

Section 30-7-10. Validity of conveyances, liens, and other transactions as to subsequent purchasers and creditors. - All deeds of conveyance of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, either...

Section 30-7-20. Manner and form of recordation of contract affecting recorded lien on real property. - The recordation of any contract in the nature of a...

Section 30-7-30. Release or satisfaction of lien affecting title to real estate. - A release or satisfaction of the lien of any mortgage...

Section 30-7-40. Manner of recordation of assignment or transfer of mortgage. - The recordation of such an assignment or transfer as is...

Section 30-7-50. Manner in which assignment shall be executed and probated. - Any assignment to be entitled to be recorded as provided...

Section 30-7-60. Assignment, satisfaction, or release of lien. - Except as otherwise provided by statute, assignments, satisfactions, releases, and...

Section 30-7-70. Recording and indexing of certain liens against personal property. - Except as otherwise provided in Chapter 9, Title 36 or...

Section 30-7-80. Manner and form of recordation of instruments conveying an interest in or lien on personal property. - Except as otherwise provided by statute, the recordation of the...

Section 30-7-90. Notice of unrecorded instrument. - No possession of real property described in any instrument of...

Section 30-7-100. Assignment of mortgage or note; collateral assignment; obligations involving Farm Credit System institutions. - (A) For purposes of this section: (1) "Assignment of note"...

Chapter 9 - Indexing And Filing

Section 30-9-10. Indexes to records of registry. - To the records of the registry, reference shall be had...

Section 30-9-20. Separate indexes. - The clerks and registers of deeds of the several counties...

Section 30-9-30. Filing of written instruments concerning real or personal property; false or fraudulent documents. - (A) Except as otherwise provided by statute, each clerk of...

Section 30-9-31. Indexing of deeds where grantor is official acting pursuant to court order and not owner of record. - When any deed of real property is executed by a...

Section 30-9-35. Filings against present or former government officials or employees; notice of invalid judgment or lien; liability of filing attorney; removal of judgment or lien; remedies for persons injured by wrongful filing. - (A) A clerk of court or register of deeds may...

Section 30-9-40. Requirement and effect of indexing of instruments filed for recording. - The register of deeds or clerk of court in those...

Section 30-9-50. Indexing of deeds of certain officers. - Whenever any clerk of court or register of deeds in...

Section 30-9-70. Indexing of deeds of certain officers and of passage of title by will or inheritance shall not constitute notice. - The indexing required by Sections 30-9-50 and 30-9-60 shall not...

Section 30-9-75. Second or backup copy of indices maintained by electronic or computer means. - In all cases where indices affecting real property are required...

Section 30-9-80. Fees for indexing or notation. - For any indexing or notation under Section 30-9-50 or 30-9-60...

Chapter 11 - Recordation Of Deeds And Documents Of Railroads

Section 30-11-10. Recordation of deeds and other instruments. - All deeds of conveyance of railroad beds, tracks and rights...

Section 30-11-20. Recordation of mortgages and deeds of trust. - Mortgages or deeds of trust covering the whole or any...

Section 30-11-30. Proof of execution of written instruments. - Before any such deed, lease, mortgage or other instrument in...

Section 30-11-40. Filing and fee for filing written instruments. - Such conveyances, leases, mortgages and other instruments in writing shall...

Section 30-11-50. Effect of certified copy of recorded instrument. - A certificate or certified copy of any of the aforesaid...

Section 30-11-60. Satisfaction of mortgage. - When any such mortgage so filed shall be fully satisfied,...

Section 30-11-70. Validation of recordation of certain instruments. - The act entitled "An Act to Amend Sections 705, 706...

Chapter 13 - Recordation Of Marketing Contracts

Section 30-13-10. Effect of delivery by agricultural association of "contract book". - Whenever any body of agricultural producers, any co-operative association composed...

Section 30-13-20. Recordation of marketing contracts or agreements. - At any time after any such book shall have been...

Section 30-13-30. Effect of recordation of marketing contract or agreement. - When Sections 30-13-10 and 30-13-20 shall have been complied with...

Section 30-13-40. Landlords' and laborers' liens. - Nothing contained in this chapter shall affect the statutory lien...

Section 30-13-50. Powers of association over members. - The provisions of this chapter shall not have the effect...

Section 30-13-60. Sharecroppers' rights. - Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to affect...

Chapter 15 - Recordation Of Veterans' Discharge

Section 30-15-10. Book for recording discharges from military and naval forces of United States. - There shall be provided and at all times maintained in...

Section 30-15-15. Invalidating filing of discharge form with court clerk. - A person retired or discharged from the armed services of...

Section 30-15-20. Recordation of discharges. - Upon the presentation of any official discharge or official certificate...

Section 30-15-30. Assistance from American Legion. - The clerk of court shall call to his assistance the...

Section 30-15-40. Inquiry as to validity of discharge; oath of person seeking registration. - If any clerk of court shall be in doubt as...

Section 30-15-50. Forgery of discharge. - It is unlawful for a person to forge or in...

Section 30-15-60. Obtaining certified copy of registered discharge; discharge records as public information. - (A) Any person authorized in subsection (C) desiring a certified...

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South Carolina Code of Laws Title 30 - Public Records

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Title 30 - Public Records