Any person interested under a deed, will, written contract or other writings constituting a contract or whose rights, status or other legal relations are affected by a statute, municipal ordinance, contract or franchise may have determined any question of construction or validity arising under the instrument, statute, ordinance, contract or franchise and obtain a declaration of rights, status or other legal relations thereunder.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-53-30
Determination of questions under deed, will, written contract, statute, municipal ordinance, contract or franchise
Known as the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act
The act spans §§ 15-53-10 to 15-53-90 (14 sections).
Applied in 16 court decisions — leading case Carolina Alliance for Fair Employment v. South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing, & Regulation (1999)
Most recently applied in Farmer v. CAGC Ins. Co. (May 2018)
1962 Code SECTION 10-2003; 1952 Code SECTION 10-2003; 1948 (45) 2014.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.