Title 11, Public Finance

The General Assembly makes the following findings: 1. From time to time various political subdivisions and public bodies including but not limited to counties, cities, towns, public service districts and authorities, issue general obligation bonds under various authorizing statut…

The governing body of any political subdivision or public body of this State including, but not limited to, counties, cities, towns, townships, school districts, public service districts, and authorities, which is authorized by law to issue general obligation bonds of such politi…

The governing body of any political subdivision or public body of this State including, but not limited to, those set forth in SECTION 11-23-10, which has issued or may hereafter issue general obligation bonds, the proceeds of which have been or may be used to finance the constru…

In the event that such revenues from the operation of any such revenue-producing project financed by such bonds shall be available for the payment of debt service on such bonds (whether or not such revenues have been pledged for that purpose), and shall be delivered to the county…

The powers and authorizations hereby conferred upon political subdivisions and public bodies shall be in addition to all other powers and authorizations previously vested in them.

Nothing contained in this chapter nor any action taken pursuant hereto shall be construed to limit or curtail any pledge of the full faith, credit and taxing power of a political subdivision or public body given to secure its general obligation bonds.

The Department of Administration has control and supervision of all the public printing, binding, lithographing, and engraving for the State or any department of the state government except for legislative printing and printing otherwise provided by law.

The clerks of the two Houses shall furnish the public printer corrected journals daily for the permanent printing.

The Department of Administration may inquire at any time into all matters pertaining to the contracts for the public printing and the distribution of official reports and publications and may prevent unnecessary printing, binding, lithographing, or engraving. It may see that all …

The faithful performance for printing for each House shall be certified by its presiding officer and clerk. In the absence of either of such officers from the seat of the government, the Secretary of State, to whom the work may be delivered, shall certify to its proper execution.

The Department of Administration may pass upon and approve all printing pertaining to state matters in this State except for legislative printing and printing otherwise provided by law.

The provisions of law applicable to public printing, binding, lithographing, and engraving, other than legislative printing and printing otherwise provided by law must be executed by the Department of Administration.

From the accumulated unexpended balances of the revolving fund heretofore appropriated for the purchase of office supplies by the Department of Administration the sum of twenty thousand dollars shall be maintained by the State Treasurer as a permanent and continuing revolving fun…

A sufficient number of the House and Senate Journals for use of the members of the General Assembly, for the Legislative Council to make exchanges with other states and to make other necessary distributions shall be printed and bound in a good and substantial manner. The clerk of…

Upon completion of the permanent work, the printers shall deliver the bound volumes to the Legislative Council which shall deliver five copies of the Senate Journal to the clerk of the Senate and five copies of the House Journal to the clerk of the House of Representatives. The C…

Copies of the acts and joint resolutions must be distributed as follows: (1) to each circuit judge, one copy; (2) to each solicitor, one copy; (3) to each clerk of court, one copy; (4) to each judge of probate, one copy; (5) to each county government, one copy; (6) to the Supreme…

(A) The officials charged with distribution of these publications shall deliver to the law library of the University of South Carolina not later than thirty days after they are printed, from time to time, the following number of these publications in addition to those otherwise r…

The State Librarian may furnish, upon request, copies of the Acts and Joint Resolutions and the permanent journals of the General Assembly to any recognized college or university in this State.

The State Librarian shall include the College of Charleston among the institutions of the State to which copies of the Acts and Joint Resolutions of the General Assembly, legislative journals and reports of state officers are directed to be sent annually.

The officials charged with the distribution shall annually forward by mail or otherwise, as they may deem expedient, the following number of such publications to the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., to wit: (1) Eight copies of the reports of the Supreme Court; (2) Two copi…

All state and local agencies sending out by mail a nondaily publication shall insert at least annually a notice prominently placed, in at least two consecutive issues, which states that all recipients must be removed from the publication's mailing list unless they request in writ…

Unless the context clearly requires a different result, for the purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the meanings given thereto: "Debt limitation" shall mean those debt limitations applicable under New Article X. "Law" shall mean any act, law, statute, joint resolut…

Upon the ratification of New Article X, the State Treasurer is authorized to promulgate regulations to implement the provisions of Item (5), Section 14 and Item (4), Section 15 of that Article.

(A) As used in this section: (1) "asset" means any real property and permanent improvements thereon including structures, buildings, and fixtures; (2) "bond act" means: (a) the county bond act, as contained in Chapter 15 of Title 4; (b) the municipal bond act, as contained in Art…

Except as provided in the remaining sections of this chapter, every law shall remain in full force and effect following the ratification date except to the extent that any provision thereof be in conflict with any provision of New Article X, and to such extent, the provisions of …

1. The power to issue state capital improvement bonds pursuant to the authorizations granted by Act 1377 of 1968 shall continue after the ratification date, except that all such state capital improvement bonds issued subsequent to the ratification date shall be secured only in th…

The governing body of each of the political subdivisions of the State shall be empowered to incur general obligation debt for their respective political subdivisions as permitted by Section 14, New Article X and in accordance with its provisions and limitations. All laws shall co…

The board of trustees or other governing body (the governing body) of each of the school districts of the State shall be empowered to incur general obligation debt for their respective school districts as permitted by Section 15 of New Article X and in accordance with its provisi…

All contracts made by the State, its agencies, authorities or institutions, and by the political subdivisions and school districts of the State prior to the ratification date obligating any of such entities to issue bonds or other evidences of indebtedness shall be effective notw…

The amount of the "sources of revenue" referred to in subparagraph (a), paragraph (6), Section 13 of New Article X, the amount of the tuition fees referred to in subparagraph (6), paragraph (6), Section 13 of New Article X, and the amount of the general revenues of the State refe…

Every bond, note or other evidence of indebtedness outstanding on the ratification date which has been issued by the State, or any agency, authority or institution of the State, or by any political subdivision or school district of the State is hereby declared to be a legal, vali…

Notwithstanding any contrary provision of any law relating to the form, sale and maturity of bonds or other obligations of any county, city, town, township, public service district, special purpose district, public housing authority, school district or any other agency or politic…

With respect to the issuance of additional state capital improvement bonds pursuant to the provisions of Act 1377 of 1968 and with respect to the issuance of state school bonds pursuant to Article 5, Chapter 71, Title 59 of the 1976 Code, which bonds are henceforth to be secured …

With respect to the issuance of additional state highway bonds pursuant to the provisions of Article 3, Chapter 11, Title 57 of the 1976 Code, which bonds are to be henceforth secured by a pledge of the full faith, credit and taxing power of the State and are to be additionally s…

With respect to the issuance of additional state institution bonds pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 107, Title 59 of the 1976 Code, which bonds are to be henceforth secured by a pledge of the full faith, credit and taxing power of the State and are to be additionally secured…

Whenever the holder of any general obligation bonds of the State of South Carolina shall request the state board to exchange outstanding coupon bonds for fully registered bonds of the same issue and of the same maturity and interest rate, the state board shall be empowered to aut…

The coupon bonds so exchanged shall be held by the State Treasurer and shall be available for subsequent reissuance if at a later date the holder of any fully registered bond shall so request and shall agree to pay such charges as the state board shall require.

Registered bonds shall be in such form and shall contain such notations as the state board shall prescribe and may be executed by manual or facsimile signature of the officers required to execute the same except that there shall be at least one manual signature upon each bond. Th…

It shall be the duty of the state board to insure the safety of all coupon bonds and their appurtenant coupons exchanged under the provisions of this chapter and to provide for their destruction upon the payment of the registered bond for which it was exchanged. It shall likewise…

For the purposes of this chapter, "state board" means the governing body of the State Fiscal Accountability Authority.

The state board is authorized to take such further action and to adopt from time to time such regulations with respect to the exchange of bonds as it shall deem necessary to fully implement the provisions of this chapter.

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "South Carolina Consolidated Procurement Code".

The chief procurement officers shall maintain a close and cooperative relationship with the using agencies. The chief procurement officers shall afford each using agency reasonable opportunity to participate in and make recommendations with respect to procurement matters affectin…

The chief procurement officers may appoint advisory groups such as user committees to assist with respect to specifications and procurement in specific areas and with respect to any other matters within the authority of the chief procurement officers. The chief procurement office…

The chief procurement officers develop a system of training for procurement in accordance with regulations by the board. The training must encompass the latest techniques and methods of public procurement. If considered appropriate by the chief procurement officers, the training …

(1) Authority. In an amount up to fifty thousand dollars in actual or potential value, individual governmental bodies may make direct procurements not under term contracts. Subject to the following and subject to any ensuing regulations: (a) the board may assign differential doll…