South Carolina § 55-15-40 - Additional payments for certain other persons.

§ 55-15-40. Additional payments for certain other persons.

In addition to amounts otherwise authorized by this chapter, the public authority shall make a payment to or for any displaced person from any dwelling not eligible to receive a payment under Section 55-15-30 which dwelling was actually and lawfully occupied by such displaced person for not less than ninety days prior to the initiation of negotiations for acquisition of such dwelling. Such payment shall be either:

(1) the amount necessary to enable such displaced person to lease or rent for a period not to exceed four years, a decent, safe, and sanitary dwelling of standards adequate to accommodate such person in areas not generally less desirable in regard to public utilities and public and commercial facilities, and reasonably accessible to his place of employment, but not to exceed four thousand dollars; or

(2) the amount necessary to enable such person to make a down payment (including incidental expenses described in Section 55-15-30(1)(c) on the purchase of a decent, safe, and sanitary dwelling of standards adequate to accommodate such person in areas not generally less desirable in regard to public utilities and public and commercial facilities, but not to exceed four thousand dollars, except that if such amount exceeds two thousand dollars, such person must equally match any such amount in excess of two thousand dollars, in making the down payment.

HISTORY: 1962 Code SECTION 2-150.3; 1973 (58) 388; 2012 Act No. 270, SECTION 7, eff June 18, 2012.

Effect of Amendment

The 2012 amendment made nonsubstantive changes.