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2012 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 27 - Property and Conveyances
Chapter 40 - RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT
ARTICLE 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS AND DEFINITIONS- Section 27-40-10 - Short title.
- Section 27-40-20 - Purposes; rules of construction.
- Section 27-40-30 - Supplementary rules of law applicable.
- Section 27-40-40 - Construction against implicit repeal.
- Section 27-40-50 - Administration of remedies; enforcement.
- Section 27-40-60 - Settlement of disputed claim or right.
- Section 27-40-110 - Territorial application.
- Section 27-40-120 - Exclusions from application of chapter.
- Section 27-40-130 - Jurisdiction and service of process.
- Section 27-40-210 - General definitions.
- Section 27-40-220 - Obligation of good faith.
- Section 27-40-230 - Unconscionability.
- Section 27-40-240 - Notice.
- Section 27-40-310 - Terms and conditions of rental agreement.
- Section 27-40-320 - Effect of unsigned or undelivered rental agreement.
- Section 27-40-330 - Prohibited provisions in rental agreements.
- Section 27-40-340 - Separation of rents and obligations to maintain property forbidden.
- Section 27-40-410 - Security deposits; prepaid rent.
- Section 27-40-420 - Disclosure.
- Section 27-40-430 - Landlord to deliver possession of dwelling unit.
- Section 27-40-440 - Landlord to maintain premises.
- Section 27-40-450 - Limitation of liability.
- Section 27-40-510 - Tenant to maintain dwelling unit.
- Section 27-40-520 - Rules and regulations.
- Section 27-40-530 - Access.
- Section 27-40-540 - Tenant to use and occupy.
- Section 27-40-610 - Noncompliance by landlord in general.
- Section 27-40-620 - Failure to deliver possession.
- Section 27-40-630 - Wrongful failure to provide essential services.
- Section 27-40-640 - Landlord's noncompliance as defense to action for possession or rent.
- Section 27-40-650 - Fire or casualty damage.
- Section 27-40-660 - Tenant's remedies for landlord's unlawful ouster or exclusion.
- Section 27-40-710 - Noncompliance with rental agreement; failure to pay rent; removal of evicted tenant's personal property.
- Section 27-40-720 - Noncompliance affecting health and safety.
- Section 27-40-730 - Remedies for absence, nonuse, and abandonment.
- Section 27-40-740 - Landlord's lien; distress proceeding.
- Section 27-40-750 - Remedy after termination.
- Section 27-40-760 - Recovery of possession limited.
- Section 27-40-770 - Periodic tenancy; holdover remedies.
- Section 27-40-780 - Landlord and tenant remedies for abuse of access.
- Section 27-40-790 - Payment of rent into court.
- Section 27-40-800 - Undertaking on appeal and order staying execution.
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