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2017 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 27 - Property and Conveyances
CHAPTER 39 - RENT
Section 27-39-240. Enforcement of distress warrant.
Universal Citation: SC Code § 27-39-240 (2017)
The officer to whom a distress warrant is delivered, after the predistress hearing, shall forthwith demand of the tenant payment of the rent with costs as enumerated in the distress warrant. If such amount is paid the officer shall return the warrant with the amount collected to the magistrate who shall settle with the landlord. If the tenant fails or refuses to pay such rent with costs the officer shall distrain sufficient of the property upon the rented premises to pay such amount, giving the tenant a list in writing of the property distrained together with a copy of the distress warrant.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 41-153; 1952 Code Section 41-153; 1946 (44) 2584; 1973 (58) 384.
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