South Carolina General Assembly
108th Session, 1989-1990

Bill 4091

                    Current Status

Bill Number:               4091
Ratification Number:       285
Act Number                 280
Introducing Body:          House
Subject:                   Advisory referendum in Dillon
                           County
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(A280, R285, H4091)

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR AN ADVISORY REFERENDUM IN DILLON COUNTY AS TO WHETHER OR NOT THE QUALIFIED ELECTORS OF THE COUNTY FAVOR HAVING A SEVEN-MEMBER COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION TO BE ELECTED IN NONPARTISAN ELECTIONS FROM THE SAME SEVEN SINGLE-MEMBER ELECTION DISTRICTS FROM WHICH MEMBERS OF THE DILLON COUNTY COUNCIL ARE ELECTED, AND TO AMEND AN ACT OF 1989 BEARING RATIFICATION NUMBER 182, RELATING TO AUTHORIZED MILLAGE FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES IN DILLON COUNTY FOR FISCAL YEAR 1989-90, SO AS TO REVISE THIS MILLAGE.

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

Advisory referendum

SECTION 1. (A) The Dillon County commissioners of election shall conduct and supervise a referendum to be held at the same time as the next scheduled general or special election in the county to determine the wishes of the qualified electors of the county as to whether or not they favor having a seven-member county board of education to be elected in nonpartisan elections from the same seven single-member election districts from which members of the Dillon County Council are elected. The referendum must be advisory only and must be conducted in the manner governed by the election laws of this State, mutatis mutandi. The commissioners shall prepare the necessary ballots, appoint managers for the voting precincts, and do all things necessary to carry out the referendum, including the counting of ballots and declaring the results. The commissioners shall advertise the date of the referendum sixty days preceding it in a newspaper of general circulation in the county and shall publish a second notice thirty days before the referendum. The costs of the referendum must be borne by the county.

(B) The ballot must read:

"Do you favor having a seven-member county board of education to be elected in nonpartisan elections from the same seven single-member election districts from which members of the Dillon County Council are elected?

Yes / /

No / /"

School millage

SECTION 2. Section 1 of an act of 1989 bearing ratification number 182 is amended to read:

"Section 1. The auditor of Dillon County shall levy ninety-seven and one-half mills on all taxable property of the county for the fiscal year 1989-90 for school purposes in Dillon County as follows: operation of schools, seventy and one-half mills; school debt retirement, five mills; Dillon County Vocational School, fourteen mills; and vocational school special fund, five-tenths mills."

Time effective

SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.