South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 5 - Municipal Corporations
Chapter 3 - Change Of Corporate Limits

Section 5-3-10. Power to extend corporate limits. - Any city or town council may extend the corporate limits...

Section 5-3-15. Municipality may not annex certain property. - No municipality may annex, under the provisions of this chapter,...

Section 5-3-20. Municipality may not annex real property owned by professional sports team. - No municipality may annex, under the provisions of this chapter,...

Section 5-3-30. Consolidation of two or more municipal corporations without petition. - When two or more municipal corporations propose to consolidate, no...

Section 5-3-40. Agreement upon terms of consolidation. - Whenever it is proposed to extend the corporate limits of...

Section 5-3-90. Filing notice with Secretary of State, Department of Transportation, and Department of Public Safety. - Any municipality increasing its territory shall file a notice with...

Section 5-3-100. Alternate method when entire area owned by annexing municipality or county. - If the territory proposed to be annexed belongs entirely to...

Section 5-3-110. Annexation of right-of-way area of street lying beyond but abutting on corporate limits. - Whenever the whole or any part of any street, roadway,...

Section 5-3-115. Annexation of property within a multicounty park. - Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any real property which...

Section 5-3-120. Alternate method when entire area proposed to be annexed owned by corporation. - If the entire area proposed to be annexed belongs to...

Section 5-3-130. Alternate method when entire area proposed to be annexed owned by school district. - If the area proposed to be annexed belongs entirely to...

Section 5-3-140. Alternate method when entire area proposed to be annexed owned by Federal or State Government. - If the territory proposed to be annexed belongs entirely to...

Section 5-3-150. Alternate methods where petition signed by all or seventy-five percent of landowners. - (1) Any area or property which is contiguous to a...

Section 5-3-155. Rules for annexation of certain properties by municipalities. - An area in this State located more than twelve miles...

Section 5-3-210. Subsequent election after defeat of annexation election. - When an annexation election is defeated either by the voters...

Section 5-3-235. Assessed value of any single freeholder's real property not to exceed twenty-five percent of assessed value of existing municipality; exceptions. - Except when the procedures for an annexation provided for in...

Section 5-3-240. "Freeholder" defined for purposes of pertinent provisions. - For the purposes of Sections 5-3-150, 5-3-280, and 5-3-300 ,...

Section 5-3-250. Extension of corporate limits to include cemeteries. - Any municipality may extend its corporate limits so as to...

Section 5-3-260. Annexation of church property. - Any area owned entirely by an established church or religious...

Section 5-3-270. Time within which contest on extension of municipal limits must be instituted. - When the limits of a municipality are ordered extended, no...

Section 5-3-280. Reduction of corporate limits. - Whenever a petition is presented to a city or town...

Section 5-3-285. Removal of territory from within corporate limits of municipality. - Territory proposed to be removed from within the corporate limits...

Section 5-3-290. "Municipality" defined. - The word "municipality" as used in this chapter shall be...

Section 5-3-300. Annexation procedure. - (A) In addition to other methods of annexation authorized by...

Section 5-3-305. Contiguous property defined. - For purposes of this chapter, "contiguous" means property which is...

Section 5-3-310. Annexation of special purpose district. - When all or part of the area of a special...

Section 5-3-311. Committee to formulate plan in absence of agreement. - The plan contemplated by Sections 5-3-300 through 5-3-315 may be...

Section 5-3-312. Plan to balance equities and interest. - The plan formulated under Sections 5-3-300 through 5-3-315 shall seek...

Section 5-3-313. Auditor and treasurer to conform to plan. - The auditor and treasurer of the county or counties in...

Section 5-3-314. Obligation may not be disturbed. - In no event under any plan or otherwise may the...

Section 5-3-315. Public hearing. - Any district affected by the proposed annexation may conduct a...