The provisions of this chapter provide for the structure, organization, powers, duties, functions and responsibilities of municipalities under all forms of municipal government provided for in Chapters 9, 11 and 13 unless otherwise specifically provided for in those chapters. The powers of a municipality shall be liberally construed in favor of the municipality and the specific mention of particular powers shall not be construed as limiting in any manner the general powers of such municipalities.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-7-10
Scope of chapter
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case Williams v. Town of Hilton Head Island (1993)
Most recently applied in Cunningham v. Anderson County (January 2013)
1962 Code SECTION 47-30; 1975 (59) 692.
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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.
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