South Carolina · statute · S.C. Code tit. 48, ch. 15 · 5 active provisions
There is hereby created the Low Country Resources Conservation and Development Authority which shall be a body corporate and politic hereinafter referred to as the "authority". The purpose of the authority shall be to institute and operate programs of soil drainage and flood prevention and any and all other measures to…
The authority shall be composed of fifteen members who shall be appointed by the Governor. The original members shall be the present commissioners of the Low Country resources, conservation and development project. There shall be two members from each county, except Charleston, which shall have four members; and one me…
In order to carry out the purposes for which it was created the authority shall have the following powers: (1) To have perpetual succession; (2) To sue and be sued; (3) To adopt, use and alter a corporate seal; (4) To define a quorum for its meetings; (5) To establish a principal office; (6) To make bylaws for the mana…
All funds used by the authority to acquire lands and rights in land may be provided by the county governments comprising the authority or other political subdivisions, including the United States Government. The costs of acquiring rights-of-way or other interests in land shall include attorney's fees and all other expe…
When political subdivisions of the State submit requests to the authority for works of improvement, and when the authority determines that the works of improvement to be installed is a feasible project and consists entirely of construction of drainage canals, including necessary clearing of vegetation, tidal flood gate…