2012 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 5 - Municipal Corporations
Chapter 3 - CHANGE OF CORPORATE LIMITS
Section 5-3-100 - Alternate method when entire area owned by annexing municipality or county.

If the territory proposed to be annexed belongs entirely to the municipality seeking its annexation and is adjacent thereto, the territory may be annexed by resolution of the governing body of the municipality. When the territory proposed to be annexed to the municipality belongs entirely to the county in which the municipality is located and is adjacent thereto, it may be annexed by resolution of the governing body of the municipality and the governing body of the county. Upon the adoption of the resolutions required by this section and the passage of an ordinance to that effect by the municipality, the annexation is complete.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-18.1; 1955 (49) 270; 2000 Act No. 250, Section 3.

Whenever the whole or any part of any street, roadway, or highway has been accepted for and is under permanent public maintenance by a city, a county, or the Department of Transportation, that portion of any right-of-way area not exceeding the width thereof lying beyond but abutting on the corporate limits of the city may be annexed to and incorporated within the city by adoption of an ordinance so declaring, without necessity for election of any sort, upon prior consent in writing of any public agency other than the city engaged in maintenance of the right-of-way area to be annexed. Consent on behalf of the Department of Transportation may be given by the director. Consent on behalf of any county may be given by its county commissioners, county board of directors, or other local county agency or governing body having jurisdiction over county roads.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-18.2; 1971 (57) 299; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 60; 2000 Act No. 250, Section 3.