The purpose of this chapter is to encourage owners of land to make land and water areas available to the public for recreational purposes by limiting their liability toward persons entering thereon for such purposes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-3-10
Declaration of purpose
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case Brooks v. Northwood Little League, Inc. (1997)
Most recently applied in 126 F. Supp. 3d 611 - PCS Nitrogen, Inc. v. Ross Development Corp. (August 2015)
1962 Code SECTION 51-81; 1968 (55) 3047.
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.