2014 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 30 - Public Records
CHAPTER 5 - RECORDING GENERALLY
SECTION 30-5-240. Recordation of plats or blueprints of subdivisions.
When real property is subdivided for the purpose of sale and is sold or offered for sale according to a plat of a survey thereof, the person first offering such property for sale shall file a plat or blueprint of such survey in the office of the clerk of court of the county in which such real estate is situate. In the event that the owner fails to comply with the above provision he shall become liable to the purchaser or to any subsequent grantee of the land, or of any portion thereof, in such sum as shall be found necessary to procure and record such plat. Such sum shall be recovered by any such grantee provided he be interested as owner of all or a portion of the subdivided property at the time of the institution of the action for the enforcement of the liability hereby created.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-207; 1952 Code Section 60-207; 1942 Code Section 8875-4; 1936 (39) 1473.
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