2017 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 4 - Counties
CHAPTER 20 - COMMUNITY RECREATION SPECIAL TAX DISTRICT
Section 4-20-70. Abolition of district; increase or decrease in boundaries.
(A) A community recreation special tax district may be abolished or its boundaries decreased in the same manner as provided in this chapter for its creation.
(B)(1) The boundaries of a community recreation special tax district may be increased:
(a) by ordinance of the county council upon filing with the council of a petition so requesting signed by at least fifteen percent of the qualified electors residing in the area proposed to be added to the district; or
(b) in the same manner provided in Section 4-20-20 for creation of a community recreation special tax district, except that no new petition is required to be submitted if a petition was submitted pursuant to subitem (a) of this item and that petition also complies with Section 4-20-20.
(2) An area proposed to be added to a community recreation special tax district must be contiguous to the existing boundaries of the current community recreation special tax district.
(C) No increase or decrease of boundaries of a district which after the increase or decrease will include any area within an incorporated municipality shall be effective unless the municipal governing body has by formal action concurred in the increase or decrease and provided written notice of its concurrence to the county council.
(D) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, if county council determines to provide for a countywide recreation program to be financed by a countywide tax or user service charge, or both, then county council by ordinance and with the consent of the governing body of each municipality in the county may abolish a community recreation special tax district.
HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 425, Section 1, eff May 27, 1994; 1996 Act No. 273, Section 4, eff May 6, 1996.
Effect of Amendment
The 1996 amendment revised this section, designating subsections (A) through (D).
