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TO AMEND SECTION 5-3-305, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE DEFINITION OF CONTIGUOUS PROPERTY FOR PURPOSES OF ANNEXATION OF PROPERTY BY A MUNICIPALITY, SO AS TO DELETE CERTAIN GEOGRAPHICAL FACTORS THAT CAN BE USED TO ESTABLISH CONTIGUITY TO PROPERTY ANNEXED BY A MUNICIPALITY.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 5-3-305 of the 1976 Code, as added by Act 250 of 2000, is amended to read:
"Section 5-3-305. For purposes of this chapter, 'contiguous' means property which is adjacent to a municipality and shares a continuous border. Contiguity is not established by a road, waterway, right-of-way, easement, railroad track, marshland, or utility line which connects one property to another; however, if the connecting road, waterway, easement, railroad track, marshland, or utility line intervenes between two properties, which but for the intervening connector would be adjacent and share a continuous border, the intervening connector does not destroy contiguity."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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