Current Status Introducing Body:House Bill Number:4529 Primary Sponsor:Robinson Committee Number:30 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:State property, provisions for naming after person Residing Body:House Current Committee:Ways and Means Computer Document Number:JIC/5344HC.94 Introduced Date:19940118 Last History Body:House Last History Date:19940118 Last History Type:Introduced, read first time, referred to Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Robinson Gonzales Littlejohn Vaughn Walker Shissias Cromer Stille Trotter Harrison Wofford D. Wilder Corning Byrd Stuart Richardson Neal Keegan Quinn Law Klauber Waites Graham Felder Type of Legislation:General Bill
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4529 House 19940118 Introduced, read first time, 30
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TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 10-1-180 SO AS TO PROHIBIT THE NAMING OF PUBLIC PROPERTY PURCHASED OR CONSTRUCTED WITH STATE FUNDS OR OWNED BY THE STATE FOR A LIVING PERSON OR A PERSON WHO HAS BEEN DECEASED FOR LESS THAN ONE YEAR.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Chapter 1, Title 10 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"Section 10-1-180. After June 30, 1994, no public property, including, but not limited to, a park, bridge, highway, building, a part thereof, or an addition to any of them, purchased or constructed with state funds or otherwise acquired or owned by this State, may be named for a living person or a person who has been deceased for less than one year."
SECTION 2. The provisions of Section 1 of this act do not apply to naming a structure for a person deceased for less than one year on the effective date of this act.
SECTION 3. This act takes effect July 1, 1994.