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§ 5-3-155 — Rules for annexation of certain properties by municipalities.

South Carolina § 5-3-155
JurisdictionSouth Carolina
Title 5MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS
Ch. 3CHANGE OF CORPORATE LIMITS

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S.C. Code Ann. § 5-3-155 (2026).

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An area in this State located more than twelve miles from the Atlantic Ocean, which is a peninsula being predominately industrial in character, separating a freshwater reservoir from a body of brackish water subject to tidal influences, and created by the construction of a manmade canal and manmade dam, may be annexed by a municipality only under the provisions of Section 5-3-150.

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Legislative History

HISTORY: 1979 Act No. 194, Part III, SECTION 2; 2000 Act No. 250, SECTION 3.

Nearby Sections

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§ 5-3-10
Power to extend corporate limits.
§ 5-3-100
Alternate method when entire area owned by annexing municipality or county.
§ 5-3-110
Annexation of right-of-way area of street lying beyond but abutting on corporate limits.
§ 5-3-115
Annexation of property within a multicounty park.
§ 5-3-120
Alternate method when entire area proposed to be annexed owned by corporation.
§ 5-3-130
Alternate method when entire area proposed to be annexed owned by school district.
§ 5-3-140
Alternate method when entire area proposed to be annexed owned by Federal or State Government.
§ 5-3-15
Municipality may not annex certain property.
§ 5-3-150
Alternate methods where petition signed by all or seventy-five percent of landowners.
§ 5-3-155
Rules for annexation of certain properties by municipalities.
§ 5-3-20
Municipality may not annex real property owned by professional sports team.
§ 5-3-210
Subsequent election after defeat of annexation election.
§ 5-3-235
Assessed value of any single freeholder's real property not to exceed twenty-five percent of assessed value of existing municipality; exceptions.
§ 5-3-240
"Freeholder" defined for purposes of pertinent provisions.
§ 5-3-250
Extension of corporate limits to include cemeteries.
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