In every case of a proposed permanent improvement, construction, reconstruction, or alteration by the Department of any highway or highway facility within a municipality, the municipality may review and approve the plans before the work is started; except that a municipality may not have the right to review and approve plans to remove, replace, or improve a bridge and its approaches within its limits where such bridge and its approaches have been certified by the Department to be functionally obsolete or structurally deficient and if the bridge crosses the intracoastal waterway.
S.C. Code Ann. § 57-5-830
Assent of municipality to plans; exception
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Town of Hilton Head Island v. Coalition of Expressway Opponents (1992)
Most recently applied in Town of Hilton Head Island v. Coalition of Expressway Opponents (March 1992)
1962 Code SECTION 33-173; 1952 Code SECTION 33-173; 1951 (47) 457; 1969 (56) 154; 1983 Act No. 39 SECTION 2.
Official source: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.