This chapter may be cited as the "South Carolina Tort Claims Act".
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-78-10
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Known as the South Carolina Tort Claims Act
The act spans §§ 15-78-10 to 15-78-90 (22 sections).
Applied in 93 court decisions — leading case Jinks v. Richland County (2003)
Most recently applied in Felicia Dean v. Stephen McKinney (October 2020)
1986 Act No. 463, SECTION 1.
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.