Bill Text: SC H5099 | 2021-2022 | 124th General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Local Government

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-03-29 - Referred to Committee on Judiciary [H5099 Detail]

Download: South_Carolina-2021-H5099-Amended.html


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INTRODUCED

March 9, 2022

H. 5099

Introduced by Reps. Rutherford, Jordan, Hart, Garvin, Rose, Howard, Bernstein, Finlay and J.L. Johnson

S. Printed 3/9/22--H.

Read the first time March 9, 2022.

            

A BILL

TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 4-1-190 SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE COUNTY LEGISLATIVE DELEGATION MAY, BY THE ADOPTION OF A RESOLUTION, APPOINT THE MEMBERS OF A COUNTY RECREATION COMMISSION THAT WAS ESTABLISHED AS A SPECIAL PURPOSE DISTRICT PRIOR TO THE ADOPTION OF HOME RULE, AND TO PROVIDE THAT THE MEMBERS OF A COUNTY RECREATION COMMISSION WHO THE COUNTY DELEGATION APPOINTS PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ACT SERVE AT THE PLEASURE OF THE COUNTY LEGISLATIVE DELEGATION AND MAY BE REMOVED AT ANY TIME BY THE COUNTY LEGISLATIVE DELEGATION.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION    1.    Chapter 1, Title 4 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:

"Section 4-1-190.    Notwithstanding another provision of law:

(1)    the legislative delegation of a county may, by the adoption of a resolution, appoint the members of a county recreation commission that was established as a special purpose district prior to the adoption of home rule; and

(2)    the members of a county recreation commission whom the delegation appoints pursuant to item (1) serve at the pleasure of the county legislative delegation, and such commission members may be removed at any time by the county legislative delegation."

SECTION    2.    This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

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