2013 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 49 - Waters, Water Resources and Drainage
CHAPTER 5 - GROUNDWATER USE AND REPORTING ACT
SECTION 49-5-40. Department to establish groundwater management program; withdrawers to register sources and report use.
In order to carry out the policy as stated in Section 49-5-20, the General Assembly finds that the department must establish and implement an effective statewide groundwater management program. To implement this program, all groundwater withdrawers shall register their groundwater sources with, and report their groundwater use to, the department.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 70-34; 1969 (56) 640; 1990 Act No. 585, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1246; 2000 Act No. 366, Section 2.
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