2013 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 4 - Counties
CHAPTER 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
SECTION 4-1-10. Division of State into counties; each county is a body politic and corporate.
The State of South Carolina is divided into forty-six counties. Each county is a body politic and corporate for the following purposes:
(1) To sue and be sued;
(2) To purchase and hold, for the use of the county, lands and personalty within the limits thereof;
(3) To make all contracts; and
(4) To do all acts in relation to the property and concerns of the county necessary thereto.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 14-1; 1952 Code Section 14-1; 1942 Code Section 2975; 1932 Code Section 2975; Civ. C. '22 Section 667; Civ. C. '12 Section 587; Civ. C. '02 Section 529; G. S. 403; R. S. 461; 1868 (14) 134; 1822 (17) 682; 1912 (27) 807; 1916 (29) 717; 1919 (31) 5.
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