All municipalities of this State may own and possess property within and without their corporate limits, real, personal or mixed, without limitation, and may, by resolution of the council adopted at a public meeting and upon such terms and conditions as such council may deem advisable, sell, alien, convey, lease or otherwise dispose of personal property and in the case of a sale, alienation, conveyance, lease or other disposition of real or mixed property, such council action must be effected by ordinance.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-7-40
Ownership and disposition of property by municipalities
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Sojourner v. Town of St. George (2009)
Most recently applied in Sojourner v. Town of St. George (June 2009)
1962 Code SECTION 47-33; 1975 (59) 692; 1976 Act No. 623, SECTION 2; 1978 Act No. 435, SECTION 5.
Official source: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.