South Carolina § 57-17-50 - Erection of local direction posts.
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§ 57-17-50. Erection of local direction posts.
Each overseer, within his district, may erect and keep up at the expense of the county, at the forks and crossroads, a post and guideboard or finger board containing an inscription, in legible letters, directing the way and distance to the towns or public places situated on each road, respectively.
HISTORY: 1962 Code SECTION 33-814; 1952 Code SECTION 33-814; 1942 Code SECTION 5824; 1932 Code SECTION 5824; Civ. C. '22 SECTION 2917; Civ. C. '12 SECTION 1942; 1902 (23) 1005.
SECTION 57-17-60. Counties with city over 86,000 may accept rights-of-way for drainage ditches; constructing and maintaining ditches
In all counties in this State containing a city with a population of more than eighty-six thousand people according to the last official United States census the supervisor and the governing body may accept necessary rights of way, in writing, over and across private property for the purpose of constructing and maintaining drainage ditches to carry off surface water from roads and streets. Across rights of way so accepted drainage ditches shall be constructed and maintained by the county; provided, the direction of the natural course of the drainage water shall not be changed, and if any ditch is piped, the grantor of the right of way shall furnish the pipe. The property owner shall give the necessary right of way to the final disposition point of the surface water for which the right of way is given and the property owner shall agree to hold the county harmless for any damage to the property owner's land or real property or to the land or real property belonging to anyone else.
HISTORY: 1962 Code SECTION 33-814.1; 1957 (50) 169.
Source: official South Carolina text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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