In order to provide adequate police protection for unincorporated villages or towns or thickly populated areas outside the limits of incorporated municipalities, special police districts may be created and established within any county in this State for any such unincorporated area.
S.C. Code Ann. § 23-27-10
Authorization for special police districts
1962 Code SECTION 53-301; 1952 Code SECTION 53-301; 1948 (45) 1790.
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