In the event a magistrate who has separate and exclusive territorial jurisdiction becomes incapacitated, any magistrate of an adjoining magisterial district within the same county may assume the jurisdiction of the incapacitated magistrate during such time as the incapacity continues.
S.C. Code Ann. § 22-3-910
Jurisdiction when magistrate becomes incapacitated
1962 Code SECTION 43-131.1; 1973 (58) 265.
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