Once the property is submitted to the horizontal property regime, an apartment in the property may be individually conveyed and encumbered and may be the subject of ownership, possession or sale and of all types of juridic acts inter vivos or mortis causa, as if it were sole and entirely independent of the other apartments in the property of which it forms a part, and the corresponding individual titles and interests shall be recordable.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-31-40
Apartments may be purchased, owned, and the like
Known as the Horizontal Property Act
The act spans §§ 27–27 (34 sections).
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Queen's Grant II Horizontal Property Regime v. Greenwood Development Corp. (2006)
Most recently applied in Auto-Owners Insurance v. Madison at Park West Property Owners Ass'n (July 2011)
1962 Code SECTION 57-497; 1962 (52) 1866; 1967 (55) 449.
Official source: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.