2017 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment
CHAPTER 10 - COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT LAW
Section 31-10-70. Prohibition against acquisition of certain interests by member or employee of commission; exception.
No member or employee of a commission shall acquire any interest, direct or indirect, in any redevelopment project or in any property included or planned to be included in any redevelopment area, nor shall the member have any interest, direct or indirect, in any contract or proposed contract for materials or services to be furnished or used by a commission, or in any contract with a redeveloper or prospective redeveloper relating, directly or indirectly, to any redevelopment project, except that a member or employee of a commission may acquire residential property in a redevelopment area from a person or entity other than the commission after the redevelopment plan for that area is adopted if:
(1) the primary purpose of acquisition is to occupy such property as his principal residence;
(2) the redevelopment plan does not provide for acquisition of such property by the commission;
(3) prior to acquiring title to the property, the commissioner or employee shall have disclosed in writing to the commission and to the governing body of the municipalities his intent to acquire the property and to occupy the property as his principal residence.
HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 451, Section 8.
