South Carolina H 4003: Military Priority Registration Act

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2025-2026 Bill 4003 Text of Previous Version (May. 06, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 4003

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Amended

May 6, 2025

H. 4003

Introduced 
by Reps. Vaughan, Willis, Burns, B. J. Cox and Bannister 

S. Printed 5/6/25--S.

Read the first time March 4, 2025

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A bill

TO AMEND ACT 1543 OF 1968, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO THE 
AUTHORITY OF THE GREATER GREENVILLE SANITATION DISTRICT TO CONTRACT TO PROVIDE 
SANITATION SERVICES TO THIRD PARTIES NOT WITHIN THE DISTRICT, SO AS TO 
ELIMINATE THIS AUTHORITY, TO ELIMINATE THE AUTHORITY OF THE COMMISSION TO 
CHARGE PROPERTY TAX MILLAGE WITHIN THE DISTRICT, TO PROVIDE THE COMMISSION ONLY 
MAY CHARGE A SANITATION FEE, to provide the commission shall retire all general 
obligation bonds, to provide the commission only may issue revenue bonds, TO 
EXEMPT EXISTING CONTRACTS, AND TO PROVIDE EXISTING CONTRACTS MAY NOT BE RENEWED 
OR EXTENDED.

 Amend Title To Conform

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

SECTION 1. SECTION 
5 of Act 1543 of 1968, as last amended by Act 761 of 1971, is further amended 
to read:

SECTION 5. (A) The commission may negotiate and 
contract with individuals or business, commercial and industrial establishments 
not within the district to provide refuse, garbage and trash collecting 
services to such parties upon terms and conditions agreeable to the parties, 
but shall not render services outside of the district at rates less than rates 
being paid for comparable services by individuals or business, commercial and 
industrial establishments within the district. After 
June 30, 2026, the commission shall not provide refuse, garbage, or trash 
collecting services outside of the geographic boundaries of the district. 
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the commission may continue to provide refuse, 
garbage, or trash collecting and disposal services outside the boundaries of 
the district after June 30, 2026, to such municipalities and other political 
subdivisions as it was currently serving pursuant to intergovernmental 
agreement as of January 1, 2025.

 (B) 
The commission may:

 (1) 
develop approximately fifty acres of the approximately 152 acre site that is 
owned by the district along Highway 124 near the Saluda River; provided that no 
portion of such site may be operated at any time as a landfill as defined and 
regulated by the Department of Environmental Service pursuant to S.C. Code of 
Regulation 61-107.19, and provided further that, if a waste transfer station is 
constructed on the developed portion of the site it will not be expanded 
thereafter upon the undeveloped portion of such site and the forgoing must be 
reflected in a restrictive covenant on the property; and

 (2) 
only operate a waste transfer station for waste collected within the geographic 
boundaries of the district and from such municipalities and other political 
subdivisions as it may continue to serve as provided for in subsection (A).

SECTION 2. SECTION 
6 of Act 1543 of 1968, as last amended by Act 761 of 1971, is further amended 
to read:

SECTION 6. The commission 
shall be authorized to annex to the district any area in which a majority sixty-six percent (66%) of 
the freeholders by petition in writing request that they be taken into the 
district. Each petition must have attached to it a survey or plat showing the 
area to be taken into the district. A hearing by the commission regarding the 
acceptance or rejection of the petition shall be held after at least one week's 
notice thereof is given by publishing same in a newspaper of general 
circulation in the county, stating the time, place and purpose of the hearing, 
and clearly defining the area under consideration may be taken into the 
district upon approval of a majority of the members of the commission.

SECTION 3. If any section, subsection, 
paragraph, subparagraph, sentence, clause, phrase, or word of this act is for 
any reason held to be unconstitutional or invalid, such holding shall not 
affect the constitutionality or validity of the remaining portions of this act, 
the General Assembly hereby declaring that it would have passed this act, and 
each and every section, subsection, paragraph, subparagraph, sentence, clause, 
phrase, and word thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more other 
sections, subsections, paragraphs, subparagraphs, sentences, clauses, phrases, 
or words hereof may be declared to be unconstitutional, invalid, or otherwise 
ineffective.

SECTION 4. This act takes effect upon approval 
by the Governor.

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