2017 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 27 - Property and Conveyances
CHAPTER 50 - THE RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY CONDITION DISCLOSURE ACT
Section 27-50-30. Certain transfers excluded from scope of article.

This article does not apply to transfers:

(1) pursuant to court order including transfers in administration of an estate, pursuant to a writ of execution, by foreclosure sale, by a trustee in bankruptcy, by a receiver, by eminent domain, and resulting from a decree for specific performance;

(2) to a mortgagee from the mortgagor or his successor in interest in a mortgage if the indebtedness is in default, by a trustee pursuant to a deed of trust or to a mortgagee pursuant to a mortgage if the indebtedness is in default, by a trustee under a mortgagee pursuant to a foreclosure sale, or by a mortgagee who has acquired the real property at a sale conducted pursuant to a judgment and order of foreclosure;

(3) by a fiduciary in the course of the administration of a decedent's estate, guardianship, conservatorship, or trust;

(4) from one or more co-owners solely to one or more other co-owners;

(5) made solely to a spouse or a person or persons in the lineal line of consanguinity of one or more transferors;

(6) between spouses resulting from a divorce decree or support order or marital property distribution order;

(7) made by virtue of the record owner's failure to pay federal, state, or local taxes;

(8) to or from the federal government;

(9) to the State, its agencies and departments, and its political subdivisions including school districts;

(10) involving the first sale of a dwelling never inhabited;

(11) real property sold at public auction;

(12) to a residential trust;

(13) between parties when both parties agree in writing not to complete a disclosure statement;

(14) of a vacation time sharing plan as defined in Section 27-32-10(9); and

(15) of a vacation multiple ownership interest as described in Section 27-32-250.

HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 336, Section 2; 2003 Act No. 84, Section 2.