Title 31, Housing and Redevelopment

(A) If a county by ordinance approves a redevelopment plan pursuant to Section 31-7-80, the auditor of the county, immediately after adoption of the ordinance pursuant to Section 31-7-80, upon request of the county, must determine and certify: (1) the most recently ascertained eq…

Revenues received by the county from any property, building, or facility owned by the county or any agency or authority established by the county in the redevelopment project area may be used to pay redevelopment project costs or reduce outstanding obligations of the county incur…

Counties and municipalities through intergovernmental agreements may jointly adopt redevelopment plans and authorize obligations as provided under the provisions of this chapter and Chapter 6 of this title. Counties by intergovernmental agreement incorporated into individual coun…

Nothing in this chapter relieves any government-owned telecommunications service provider from any of the provisions of Sections 58-9-2600 through 58-9-2650.

(A) The General Assembly finds that: (1) Section 14(10) of Article X of the Constitution of South Carolina provides that the General Assembly may authorize by general law that indebtedness for the purpose of redevelopment within counties may be incurred and that the debt service …

The General Assembly further finds that: Vast expanses of land located at considerable distances from municipalities and urban and suburban development in counties, while having served the people of this State and its economy when originally developed and maintained over the gene…

Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) "Blighted area" means any improved or vacant area within the boundaries of a redevelopment project area located within the territorial limits of a county where: if improved, industrial, commercial, and residential buildings or i…

Obligations secured by the special tax allocation fund set forth in Section 31-7-100 for the redevelopment project area may be issued to provide for redevelopment project costs. The obligations, when so issued, must be retired in the manner provided in the ordinance authorizing t…

The proceeds from obligations issued under authority of this chapter must be applied only for the purpose for which they were issued. Any premium and accrued interest received in any such sale must be applied to the payment of the principal of or the interest on the obligations s…

The obligations authorized by this chapter and the income from the obligations and all security agreements and indentures executed as security for the obligations made pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and the revenue derived from the obligations are exempt from all taxa…

A county, within five years after the date of adoption of an ordinance providing for approval of a redevelopment plan pursuant to Section 31-7-80, may issue obligations under this chapter to finance the redevelopment project upon adoption of an ordinance providing that: (1) after…

If a municipality annexes a tract of property located in a redevelopment project area, the value of each parcel of real property therein for purposes of the ad valorem taxes of the municipality shall be that which is attributable to its initial equalized assessed value before the…

(A) Prior to the issuance of any obligations under this chapter, the county shall set forth by way of ordinance the following: (1) a copy of the redevelopment plan containing a statement of the objectives of a county with regard to the plan; (2) a statement indicating the need fo…

When there are any persons residing in the area covered by the redevelopment plan: (1) the redevelopment plan shall include: (a) an assessment of the displacement impact of the redevelopment project and provisions for the relocation of all persons who would be displaced by the pr…

Whenever used in this chapter, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context, the following terms shall be given the following meanings: (1) "Bonds" shall include notes, bonds, refunding notes or bonds and other obligations authorized to be issued by this chapter. (…

Upon the adoption of proceedings providing for the issuance of bonds hereunder, notice of the adoption of such proceedings shall be published at least once in a newspaper having general circulation in the city specifying the amount of bonds to be issued, generally describing the …

Neither this chapter nor anything contained shall be construed as a restriction or limitation upon any powers which a city might otherwise have under any laws of this State, but shall be construed as cumulative. The authorization herein granted may be carried out by any governing…

Each city functioning through its governing board is empowered (1) to enter into agreements with any developer providing for the construction, operation and maintenance of buildings or other facilities or improvements on land; (2) to enter into a loan agreement with a developer p…

All bonds issued by a governing board under authority of this chapter shall be limited obligations of the city. The principal, interest and redemption premium, if any, shall be payable solely out of the moneys to be derived by such city pursuant to the loan agreement. Bonds and i…

The principal, interest and premium, if any, on any bonds shall be secured by a pledge of the revenues payable to the city pursuant to a loan agreement and may also be secured by a lien on any property (including the land) given as security by the developer pursuant to the loan a…

Every loan agreement shall contain a covenant obligating the developer to effect the completion of the buildings or other facilities or improvements described therein upon the land at no cost to the city and each such loan agreement shall obligate the developer to make payments w…

Any loan agreement may provide that the land will be owned by the city and leased to the developer; may provide the developer with an option to purchase the land upon such terms and conditions as the governing board and the developer shall agree upon at a price which may be a nom…

The proceeds derived from the sale of any bonds shall be applied only for the purpose for which the bonds were issued; provided, however, that any premium and accrued interest received in any such sale shall be applied to the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds;…

It shall be lawful for all executors, administrators, guardians, committees and other fiduciaries to invest any moneys in their hands in bonds.

The bonds authorized by this chapter and the income therefrom and all trust indentures and mortgages executed as security therefor, all loan agreements made pursuant to the provisions hereof (including lease agreements) and the revenues derived from any loan agreement, shall be e…

This chapter may be cited as the "Community Development Law".

(a) A redevelopment plan must be sufficiently complete to indicate its relationship to definite local objectives such as appropriate land uses, improved traffic, public transportation, public utilities, recreational and community facilities and other public improvements and the p…

(a) A commission may contract for engineering, legal, surveying, professional, or other similar services. (b) A commission may sell, exchange, or otherwise transfer real property or any interest therein in a redevelopment area to any redeveloper for residential, recreational, com…

(a) The commission has the power to issue bonds from time to time for any of its corporate purposes including the payment of principal and interest upon any advances for surveys and plans for redevelopment projects. The commission also has the power to issue refunding bonds for t…

(a) In connection with the issuance of bonds or the incurring of obligations and in order to secure the payment of such bonds or obligations, the commission, in addition to its other powers, shall have power: (1) to pledge all or any part of its gross or net rents, fees, or reven…

(a) For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, or carrying out of a redevelopment project located within the area in which it is authorized to act, any public body may, upon such terms, with or without consideration, as it may determine: (1) dedicate,…

Prior to issuing any bonds under this chapter, a commission shall publish notice in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality of its intent to issue such bonds specifying the approximate date and amount of such bonds, the provisions for securing such bonds and the pr…

(a) The books and records of a commission are at all times open and subject to inspection by the public. (b) A copy of all bylaws and rules and regulations and amendments thereto adopted by it, from time to time, must be filed with the commission and be open for public inspection…

The following terms where used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning: (1) "Area of operation" means the area within the territorial boundaries of the municipality or municipalities for which a particular…

(a) Each municipality is authorized to create one or more separate and distinct bodies corporate and politic to be known as a redevelopment commission of the municipality by the passage by the governing body of such municipality of an ordinance creating a commission to function w…

Upon adoption of an ordinance establishing a commission, the governing body of such municipality shall provide for the governance of such commission by either of the following methods. A commission may be governed by the members of the governing body of its parent municipality se…

The term of office for each commissioner is two years, however, at least three of the commissioners initially appointed shall have terms of one year. Thereafter all commissioners appointed shall serve for two years. Each commissioner shall hold office until his successor has been…

The commissioners of each commission shall select from among themselves a chairman, a vice-chairman, and such other officers as the commission may determine. A commission may employ technical experts and other agents and employees, permanent or temporary, as it may require, and m…

No member or employee of a commission shall acquire any interest, direct or indirect, in any redevelopment project or in any property included or planned to be included in any redevelopment area, nor shall the member have any interest, direct or indirect, in any contract or propo…

Two or more municipalities, whose territorial jurisdictions may be either exclusive or one of whose jurisdiction may include all or part of another are authorized to create a separate and distinct body corporate and politic to be known as the joint redevelopment commission by the…

A commission shall constitute a public body, corporate and politic, exercising public and essential governmental powers, which powers shall include all powers necessary or appropriate to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this chapter, including the following…

As used in this chapter: (1) "Persons engaged in national defense activities" shall include, without limiting the generality thereof, enlisted men in the military and naval services of the United States and employees of the Department of Defense assigned to duty at military or na…

The powers conferred by this chapter shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law and nothing contained herein shall be construed as limiting any other powers of a housing authority.

Any housing authority may undertake the development or administration, or both, of projects to assure the availability of safe and sanitary dwellings for persons engaged in national defense activities whom the housing authority determines would not otherwise be able to secure saf…

In the ownership, development or administration of such projects a housing authority shall have all the rights, powers, privileges and immunities that such authority has under any provision of law relating to the ownership, development or administration of slum clearance and hous…

During the period (herein called the "national defense period") that a housing authority finds (which finding shall be conclusive in any suit, action or proceeding) that within its authorized territorial jurisdiction or area of operation, or any part thereof, there is an acute sh…