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Terms Used In South Carolina Code 5-21-640

  • municipality: shall mean an incorporated city or town, irrespective of its population;

    (2) The term "municipal council" shall mean the governing body of any incorporated city or town; and

    (3) The word "assessments" shall denote such sums as may be due to the municipality by reason of improvements to streets and sidewalks, in the nature of roadway paving, sidewalk paving, the installation of curbs, the installation of gutters, the installation of storm drains or sewers, the paving of sidewalk or roadway intersections, street lighting or any other improvement for which such municipality shall be authorized to pay, in whole or in part, through the means of assessments against the real property benefited thereby. See South Carolina Code 5-21-620
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
When any municipality shall have levied assessments against real property for the purpose of paying for any permanent improvement to streets and sidewalks of any type mentioned in § 5-21-620, the municipal council may by ordinance direct that bonds of the municipality, to be known as paving bonds, be issued in anticipation of the collection of such assessments. The amount of the bonds to be issued may equal but shall not exceed the amount of the unmatured assessments remaining uncollected at the time of the adoption of the ordinance authorizing their issuance. A single issue of paving bonds may be authorized and issued in anticipation of the collection of two or more separate assessments.