§ 4-9-1010 Membership of county board of commissioners
§ 4-9-1020 Supervisor as administrator; method of election and terms of office of supervisor and commission members; vacancies
§ 4-9-1030 Board shall be county governing body; duties of board
§ 4-9-1040 Time and place of meetings; special meetings; notice
§ 4-9-1050 Board may elect clerk; duties, salary, and term of office
§ 4-9-1060 Commissioners shall account for claims audited and allowed and conform to prescribed system of bookkeeping
§ 4-9-1070 Commissioners may administer oaths and punish for contempt of their proceedings
§ 4-9-1080 Commissioners shall not be interested in certain contracts
§ 4-9-1090 Commissioners must give bond
§ 4-9-1100 Governor shall make certain appointments
§ 4-9-1110 Inapplicability of certain provisions to county board of commissioners form of government
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Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 4 > Chapter 9 > Article 11 - County Board of Commissioners Form of County Government

  • Agency: includes a body corporate and politic established as an instrumentality of the State. See South Carolina Code 2-2-10
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Investigating committee: means any standing committee or subcommittee of a standing committee exercising its authority to conduct an oversight study and investigation of an agency within the standing committee's subject matter jurisdiction. See South Carolina Code 2-2-10
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Program evaluation report: means a report compiled by an agency at the request of an investigating committee that may include, but is not limited to, a review of agency management and organization, program delivery, agency goals and objectives, compliance with its statutory mandate, and fiscal accountability. See South Carolina Code 2-2-10
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Request for information: means a list of questions that an investigating committee serves on a department or agency under investigation. See South Carolina Code 2-2-10
  • Standing committee: means a permanent committee with a regular meeting schedule and designated subject matter jurisdiction that is authorized by the Rules of the Senate or the Rules of the House of Representatives. See South Carolina Code 2-2-10
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.