2012 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 5 - Municipal Corporations
Chapter 25 - BUILDING CODES AND FIRE PREVENTION
Section 5-25-20 - Fire departments in cities and towns of one hundred inhabitants; fire limits and construction therein.

Any city or town council of a city or town of not less than one hundred inhabitants may equip and control a fire department for the protection of such city or town in such way as it deems necessary and by ordinance establish fire limits in such city or town and prescribe and designate the kind and character of material to be used in erecting and repairing buildings or structures within and upon that portion of such city or town included within such fire limits. All buildings or structures erected within such fire limits contrary to the ordinance of such city or town may be abated and removed by such council as a public nuisance.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-1154; 1952 Code Section 47-1154; 1942 Code Sections 7424, 7439; 1932 Code Sections 7424, 7439; Civ. C. '22 Sections 4536, 4551; Civ. C. '12 Sections 2915, 2952; Civ. C. '02 Sections 1957, 1986; 1896 (22) 67; 1899 (23) 54; 1901 (23) 649; 1906 (25) 10.