Current Status Introducing Body:House Bill Number:4556 Primary Sponsor:Sharpe Committee Number:25 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:County, ordinance by petition Residing Body:House Current Committee:Judiciary Companion Bill Number:871 Computer Document Number:BBM/10808AC.94 Introduced Date:19940119 Last History Body:House Last History Date:19940119 Last History Type:Introduced, read first time, referred to Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Sharpe Allison G. Bailey Baker Beatty H. Brown Cato Clyborne Cromer Davenport Fair Fulmer Gamble Haskins Jaskwhich Keegan Kirsh Koon Lanford Littlejohn McElveen Meacham Quinn Riser Rudnick D. Smith Snow Spearman Stoddard Stuart Sturkie Vaughn Waldrop Walker Wells Witherspoon Wright Hutson A. Young Townsend R. Smith D. Wilder Type of Legislation:General Bill
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4556 House 19940119 Introduced, read first time, 25
referred to Committee
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TO AMEND SECTION 4-9-1210, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE QUALIFIED ELECTORS OF A COUNTY PROPOSING CERTAIN ORDINANCES BY PETITION, SO AS TO REVISE THE NUMBER OF SIGNATURES REQUIRED FOR THE PETITION AND TO AUTHORIZE THE QUALIFIED ELECTORS OF THE COUNTY TO PROPOSE ORDINANCES LIMITING THE TOTAL REVENUE WHICH THE COUNTY MAY EXPEND DURING A FISCAL YEAR.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 4-9-1210 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 4-9-1210. (A) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (B), the qualified electors of any county may propose any ordinance, except an ordinance appropriating money or authorizing the levy of taxes, and adopt or reject such the ordinance at the polls. Any initiated ordinance may be submitted to the council by a petition signed by qualified electors of the county equal in number to at least fifteen five percent of the qualified electors of the county.
(B) The qualified electors of any county may propose an ordinance limiting the total revenue which the county may expend during a fiscal year. Fiscal year revenue means all revenue received by the county except for federal funds and state funds. Revenue limits do not apply to a county enterprise that receives less than twenty-five percent of its revenue from ad valorem property taxes. Any initiated ordinance may be submitted to the county council by petition signed by qualified electors of the county equal in number to at least five percent of the qualified electors of the county. The revenue limits may be exceeded for the issuance or repayment of bonds which do not exceed the applicable constitutional debt limitation. The qualified electors of special purpose or public service districts, fiscally independent school districts, and other political subdivisions that receive revenue from ad valorem property taxes may propose ordinances by the same process. The ordinance shall be considered or adopted, or both, in the same manner other ordinances initiated by petition are considered and adopted as provided in this article."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.