2013 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 12 - Taxation
CHAPTER 59 - FORFEITED LANDS
SECTION 12-59-20. Organization of Commission; compensation of secretary; quorum.
The forfeited land commissions for the several counties shall organize by electing one of their number chairman and may elect a secretary whose duties they shall prescribe and whose compensation they shall fix, subject to the approval of the county legislative delegation. But in no case shall such compensation exceed five per cent of the money received for the sale of lands made by the commission, such compensation and other necessary expenses to be paid by vouchers drawn on the county treasurer and paid by the county treasurer from the ordinary county fund of the county and signed by all members of the commission for such county. A majority of each commission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of other business.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 65-2906; 1952 Code Section 65-2906; 1942 Code Section 2171; 1932 Code Section 2172; 1926 (34) 920; 1929 (36) 125.
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