The Department may acquire such lands and property, including rights of access, as may be needed for controlled-access facilities, by gift, devise, purchase or condemnation, in the same manner as now or hereafter authorized by law for acquiring property or property rights in connection with other State highways. Along new highway locations abutting property owners shall not be entitled, as a matter of right, to access to such new locations, and any denial of such rights of access shall not be deemed as grounds for special damages.
S.C. Code Ann. § 57-5-1070
Acquisition of property for controlled-access facilities; rights of abutting owners
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case North Point Development Group, LLC v. South Carolina Department of Transportation (2012)
Most recently applied in North Point Development Group, LLC v. South Carolina Department of Transportation (March 2012)
1962 Code SECTION 33-217; 1956 (49) 1594.
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