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Title 10, Public Buildings and Property

6 chapters · 121 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 10121 Ch 1, Title 10, Chapter 134 Ch 9, Title 10, Chapter 925 Ch 11, Title 10, Chapter 1123 Ch 7, Title 10, Chapter 722 Ch 5, Title 10, Chapter 511 Ch 3, Title 10, Chapter 36

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S.C. Code Ann. § 10-5-320 Suits for injunction against noncompliance; accessibility of meetings and conferences with state agencies
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The official having jurisdiction pursuant to Section 10-5-270 to enforce the provisions of this article shall notify the owner of property in violation of this article to comply with its provisions and make the necessary changes or corrections within a reasonable time. In the eve…
S.C. Code Ann. § 10-7-10 Insurance on state public buildings, state-supported institutions, and Department of Transportation buildings
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All insurance on public buildings and on the contents thereof of the State and of all institutions supported in whole or in part by the State shall be carried by the State Fiscal Accountability Authority. Any building or buildings, and the contents thereof, owned by the Departmen…
S.C. Code Ann. § 10-7-100 Payment of premiums
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The premium on all policies of insurance issued by the State Fiscal Accountability Authority shall be paid by the officer, official, or trustee having the property insured under his care and custody upon demand of the authority. If an agency or political subdivision fails to pay …
S.C. Code Ann. § 10-7-120 Authority may reinsure

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The State Fiscal Accountability Authority may reinsure, upon terms which it may deem most advantageous, in a reliable insurance company or companies, such portion of their insurance liability as is commensurate with the principle of safe underwriting. The authority shall from tim…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-7-130 Insurance reserve funds

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All funds paid over to the State Fiscal Accountability Authority as premiums on policies of insurance and all money received from interest on loans and deposits and from any other source connected with the insurance of public property, provided for herein, shall be held by the au…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-7-140 Reduction of premiums

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When the insurance reserve fund provided for in SECTION 10-7-130 reaches the sum of five per cent of the total insurance in force, then annually thereafter the State Fiscal Accountability Authority shall proportionately decrease the premium of insurance to an amount which will be…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-7-150 Renewals

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The State Fiscal Accountability Authority shall notify the officers, officials or trustees having the care and custody of the buildings insured under the provisions of this chapter, in writing, in advance of the expiration of policies of insurance on such buildings, and the offic…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-7-160 Value of buildings

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The value of all public buildings shall be based on the actual cost of such buildings. If the State Fiscal Accountability Authority and the officers, officials or trustees having such buildings in their care and custody cannot agree on a value the value shall be fixed by three ap…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-7-170 Amount of insurance

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The amount of insurance to be carried on all buildings and on the contents thereof as provided in this chapter shall be fixed by the State Fiscal Accountability Authority after consultation with the officers, officials or trustees having such buildings in their care and custody. …

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-7-180 Appraisers in case of loss or damage

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In the event of loss or damage, when an agreement as to the extent of such loss or damage cannot be arrived at between the board and the officials having charge of the property, the amount of such loss or damage to be paid by the board shall be determined by three appraisers, one…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-7-190 Payment of amount of award

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The amount paid by the board, as fixed by the appraisers, shall, in the event the building so damaged or destroyed is a county building or a public school building, be paid over to the county treasurer of the county in which the building is located, to be by him paid out as requi…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-7-20 Insurance on public buildings of incorporated municipalities

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The State Fiscal Accountability Authority is authorized to insure public buildings owned by incorporated municipalities of the State upon request of the governing body of the municipality. Such insurance shall be provided under the same conditions and procedures and subject to th…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-7-200 Contracts and loans for hazard reducing systems

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The State Fiscal Accountability Authority may make contracts with responsible manufacturers or installers of nationally recognized hazard reducing systems for the installation of approved nationally recognized hazard reducing systems in state institutions. If such contracts are m…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-7-210 Losses when authority holds hazard reduction system loans

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In the event of a total or partial loss of any building on which the State Fiscal Accountability Authority carries a loan for the installation of a nationally recognized hazard reduction system, there shall be deducted from the amount of insurance payable, and credited on such lo…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-7-220 Inspectors

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The State Fiscal Accountability Authority may employ an inspector, or inspectors, whose duty shall be to protect the property of the State from damage or defacement in connection with the installation of nationally recognized hazard reduction systems and may charge the cost there…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-7-230 Penalties

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Any officer, official or trustee, upon whom the duties provided in this chapter devolve, who fails or refuses to carry out such provisions, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in a sum not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than one …

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-7-30 Insurance on public buildings of counties

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All insurance on public buildings and the contents thereof of the several counties shall be carried by the State Fiscal Accountability Authority.

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-7-40 Insurance on public school buildings

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All insurance of public school buildings and on the contents thereof, whether such buildings are held and operated under the general school laws or laws applicable to special school districts only, shall be carried by the State Fiscal Accountability Authority.

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-7-50 Cancellation or reduction of insurance on abandoned school buildings

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If any school building be abandoned for use for school purposes, the board may cancel or reduce all insurance carried by it on such abandoned school building and its contents, and the board shall not be required to renew existing insurance or write any insurance on any such build…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-7-60 Cancellation in case of dilapidation and depreciation

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The State Fiscal Accountability Authority may cancel any policy of insurance on any public building when in its judgment such building is no longer an insurable risk because of dilapidation and depreciation; provided, that at least ten days before any such cancellation the board …

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-7-70 Officials in charge of buildings shall provide for insurance

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The proper officer, official or trustee having by law the care and custody of state and county buildings and of public school buildings shall insure such buildings under the provisions set forth in this chapter.

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-7-80 Officials shall furnish information on school buildings

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The State Superintendent of Education and the county superintendents of education of the several counties of the State shall furnish to the State Fiscal Accountability Authority on request a complete list showing the location of each and every school building in their several cou…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-7-90 Premium rate

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All insurance carried by the State Fiscal Accountability Authority as provided for in this chapter shall be carried at a premium rate to be determined by the authority not in excess of the rate which, in the opinion of the authority, would be charged by reliable old line insuranc…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-9-10 Leases of gas, oil, and certain other minerals

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The Public Service Authority may, through its board of directors, make and execute leases of gas, oil, and other minerals and mineral rights, excluding phosphate and lime and phosphatic deposits, over and upon the lands and properties owned by said authority; and the Department o…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-9-110 Department of Health and Environmental Control has exclusive control of the state's phosphate interest

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The Department of Health and Environmental Control shall be charged with the exclusive control and protection of the rights and interest of the State in the phosphate rocks and phosphatic deposits in the navigable streams and in the marshes thereof.

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-9-120 Protection of the state's interest against adverse claimants

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The department may inquire into and protect the interests of the State in and to any phosphatic deposits or mines, whether in the navigable waters of the State or in land marshes or other territory owned or claimed by other parties, and in the proceeds of any such mines and may t…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-9-130 Department may issue leases or licenses; notice of applications

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The department may issue to any person who applies for a lease or license granting a general right to dig, mine, and remove phosphate rock and phosphatic deposits from all the navigable streams, waters, and marshes belonging to the State and also from such of the creeks, not navi…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-9-140 Department may grant or refuse application for license

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In every case in which an application is made to the department for a license, the department may grant or refuse the license as it considers best for the interest of the State and the proper management of the interests of the State in those deposits.

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-9-150 Bond of licensee

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As a condition precedent to the right to dig, mine, and remove the rocks and deposits granted by a license, each licensee shall enter into bond, with security, in the penal sum of five thousand dollars, conditioned for the making at the end of every month of true and faithful ret…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-9-160 Additional security to bonds may be required

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Whenever the department shall have reason to doubt the solvency of any surety whose name appears upon any bond executed for the purpose of securing the payment of the phosphate royalty by any person digging, mining and removing phosphate rock or phosphatic deposits in any of the …

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-9-170 Proceeding for relief of sureties; new bond and its effect

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The department, upon petition filed by any person who is surety on any such bond as aforesaid and who considers himself in danger of being injured by such suretyship, shall notify the person giving such bond to give a new bond with other sureties and upon failure of such person t…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-9-180 Power to fix and change rates for digging phosphate

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The department is hereby vested with full and complete power and control over all mining in the phosphate territory belonging to this State and over all persons digging or mining phosphate rock or phosphatic deposit in the navigable streams and waters or in the marshes thereof, w…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-9-190 Returns of rock mined; payment of royalty; rate of royalty

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Each person to whom a license shall be issued must, at the end of every month, make to the Comptroller General a true and lawful return of the phosphate rock and phosphatic deposits he may have dug or mined during such month and shall punctually pay to the State Treasurer, at the…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-9-20 Minimum royalty

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No such lease shall provide for a royalty of less than twelve and one-half per cent of production of oil and gas from the lease.

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-9-200 Comptroller General notified of licenses issued

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The Department of Health and Environmental Control, within twenty days after the grant of any license as aforesaid, shall notify the Comptroller General of the issuing of such license, with the name of the person to whom issued, the time of the license, and the location for which…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-9-210 Mining without license; penalty

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Every person who shall dig, mine, or remove any phosphate rock or phosphatic deposit from the beds of the navigable streams, waters, and marshes of the State without license therefor previously granted by the State to such person shall be liable to a penalty of ten dollars for ea…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-9-220 Purchasing or receiving from unlicensed person

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It shall be unlawful for any person to purchase or receive any phosphate rock or phosphatic deposit dug, mined, or removed from the navigable streams, waters, or marshes of the State from any person not duly authorized by act of the General Assembly of this State or license of th…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-9-230 Penalty for violation of SECTION 10-9-220

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Any person violating Section 10-9-220 shall forfeit to the State the sum of ten dollars for each and every ton of phosphate rock or phosphatic deposit so purchased or received, to be recovered by action in any court of competent jurisdiction. One-half of such forfeiture shall be …

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-9-240 Department may take measures to prevent interference, obstruction, or molestation

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Should any person whosoever interfere with, obstruct, or molest or attempt to interfere with, obstruct, or molest the department or anyone by it authorized or licensed hereunder in the peaceable possession and occupation for mining purposes of any of the marshes, navigable stream…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-9-250 Forfeiture of boats, vessels, dredges, or other appliances used by unlicensed persons; enforcement proceedings

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Should any person attempt to mine or remove phosphate rock and phosphatic deposits from any of the marshes, navigable waters, or streams, including the Coosaw River phosphate territory, by and with any boat, vessel, marine dredge, or other appliances for such mining or removal, w…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-9-260 Interfering with State, department, or licensees; mining without license

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Any person wilfully interfering with, molesting, or obstructing or attempting to interfere with, molest, or obstruct the State or the Department of Health and Environmental Control or anyone by it authorized or licensed in the peaceable possession and occupation of any of the mar…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-9-270 Annual report to General Assembly

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The department shall report annually to the General Assembly its actions and doings under this article during the year to the time of the meeting of the assembly, with an itemized account of its expenses for the year incurred in connection with its duties and powers under this ar…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-9-30 Leases subject to conservation laws; lease of rights upon offshore and other state lands

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Nothing contained in this article shall estop the State from enacting proper laws for the conservation of the oil, gas and other mineral resources of the State and all leases and contracts made under authority of this article shall be subject to such laws; provided, that the Depa…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-9-310 Definitions

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For purposes of this article "geothermal resources" means the natural heat of the earth at temperatures greater than forty degrees Celsius and includes: (1) the energy, including pressure, in whatever form present in, resulting from, created by, or that may be extracted from that…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-9-320 Lease of development rights to geothermal resources underlying surface lands owned by State

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The Department of Health and Environmental Control may lease development rights to geothermal resources underlying surface lands owned by the State. The department must promulgate regulations regarding the method of lease acquisition, lease terms, and conditions due the State und…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-9-330 Oil, natural gas, or minerals drilling leases, specific reference to geothermal energy drilling rights required

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Any lease of rights to drill for and use oil, natural gas, or minerals on public or private lands must not allow drilling for or use of geothermal energy by the lessee unless the instrument creating the lease specifically provides for such use.

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-9-35 Disposition of revenues received from offshore oil leases

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In the event that the State of South Carolina is the recipient of revenues derived from offshore oil leases within the jurisdictional limits of the State such revenues shall be deposited with the State Treasurer in a special fund and shall be expended only by authorization of the…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-9-40 Authority conferred by article is cumulative

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The authority conferred upon the Public Service Authority, the Department of Health and Environmental Control, and the forfeited land commissions by this article shall be cumulative and in addition to the rights and powers heretofore vested by law in such authority, the Departmen…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-11-10 Walking on roof of State House

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It shall be unlawful for any person, without the permission of the Department of Administration, to enter upon or walk upon the roof of the State House. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or impriso…

S.C. Code Ann. § 10-11-100 Other police officers to enforce laws on certain state property

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In addition to the enforcement of SECTIONS 10-11-30 to 10-11-70 and subsection (2) of SECTION 10-11-80 by the watchmen mentioned in SECTION 10-11-90, all lawful highway patrolmen and police officers of the city of Columbia may enforce the criminal laws of this State and the provi…