South Carolina Attorney General Opinions

from June 07, 1935
Last Document: June 17, 2024





Cantidad de documentos en esta fuente: 6124

January 29, 2004

  • Opinion regarding bail bondsmen going off a bond.

    • June 10, 1986

  • AGO 1986-154

    • May 24, 1995

  • Opinion concerning whether a dual office holding situation exists if a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives simultaneously serves as the interim Economic Developer/Director of the Lancaster County Economic Development Corporation.

    • December 15, 2009

  • Opinion regarding the management and distribution of Victims Compensation funds and the phrase “technical assistance”.

    • January 18, 1972

  • AGO 1972-46

    • April 14, 1989

  • Opinion concerning an interpretation of a proviso in the 1988-89 Appropriation Act and providing guidance as to certain language to be proposed for said Act.

    • January 31, 1992

  • Opinion questioning whether a law enforcement officer can arrest or detain a juvenile when the officer has probable cause to believe that the juvenile has committed an offense without a pick-up order or other formal arrest warrant. Also, if a formal arrest document is necessary, must it be a pick-up order, or is some other arrest warrant or document permissible?

    • February 17, 2009

  • Opinion concerning whether it is unauthorized practice of law for a licensed real estate agent in this State to complete a contract for the sale of real estate by filling in the names of the parties in the transaction.

    • April 06, 1995

  • Opinion inquiring whether warrants should be issued against an individual for criminal domestic violence (S.C. Code Ann. Sec. 16-25-20) as well as assault and battery, even though the events may form the bias for both warrants.

    • October 09, 2006

  • Opinion concerning property tax assessments.

    • March 24, 1989

  • Opinion concerning the meaning of a statement regarding teachers’ freedom and flexibility to supplement the present science curriculum with the presentation of various scientific theories about the origins of life consistent with the expressions of the Supreme Court in

    • September 28, 2000

  • Opinion concerning mutual aid officers, SLED and Highway Patrol at Clemson football games, and who has the final say on this officers.

    • February 12, 2007

  • Opinion questioning whether there is a conflict of interest to introduce legislation repealing local legislation that requires a unanimous vote to close a high school in Union County as an employee as a public information officer for the Union County School District.

    • October 09, 1989

  • Opinion concerning the legality of expenditure of accommodations tax revenues in the matter of the Town Council of Hilton Heat Island contributing to the South Carolina coastal areas devastated by Hurricane Hugo.

    • May 26, 1989

  • Opinion concerning contiguity of two parcels of property proposed to be annexed to the City of Greenville.

    • October 08, 2008

  • Opinion concerning whether or not the Greenville-Spartanburg Airport District (“the District”) should be taxed on property it owns, but which is leased to a private party.

    • July 02, 2014

  • Opinion regarding the recording requirements the Office of the Register of Deeds should impose for cancellations and terminations of a bond for title, land contract, or other miscellaneous agreement and whether the seller involved in such an agreement can unilaterally cancel the contract after the purchaser’s default, pursuant to the contract’s terms.

    • February 23, 1972

  • AGO 1972-106

    • October 25, 1985

  • AGO 1985-208

    • November 20, 1995

  • Opinion asking for the review of certain information in the July 1995 issue of

    • March 16, 1990

  • Opinion concerning whether Section 38-77-341(5) of the South Carolina Code applies to the reproduction of all medical records or if it is limited to only those medical records arising out of an automobile insurance claim.

    • August 08, 2014

  • Opinion asking whether a provision of the School Board Act, Section 59-71-155 in particular, applies to a Tax Anticipation Note (“TAN”) authorized pursuant to Article X, Section 15 of the South Carolina Constitution, as well as Sections 11-27-50(4) and 59-69-270 of the South Carolina Code.

    • August 21, 1989

  • Opinion concerning the constitutionality of an act bearing ratification number 308 of 1989.

    • October 25, 1990

  • Opinion concerning whether claims against qualified self-insurers who become bankrupt be should be paid by the Uninsured Employers’ Fund.

    • February 25, 1992

  • Opinion inquiring as to whether the Beaufort County Board of Education is affected by a referendum concerning the Beaufort County Council. The referendum reorganizes the County Council and its election districts.

    • March 13, 1986

  • AGO 1986-111

    • February 22, 1972

  • AGO 1972-100

    • August 03, 2007

  • Follow-up opinion to a July 18, 2007 opinion regarding whether an individual can vote in the Democratic Presidential Primary and vote Republican in the general election. The new question is whether an individual may vote in the Democratic Presidential Primary and also vote in the Republican Primary for local and state offices.

    • April 05, 1994

  • Opinion concerning penalties for late payment of mortgages by taxpayers, specifically in a situation where the payments were late because a mortgage company had not paid the taxes due, and only after the allotted time period to pay, informed the county for their reasons for not paying, after which new tax notices were mailed to the tax payers directly.

    • March 27, 2014

  • Opinion asking may a city council form of municipal government vote the mayor pro tempore instead of mayor as the presiding officer at city council meetings?

    • April 28, 2006

  • Opinion concerning “the legality of a developer of a residential community providing a nominal token gift to home buyers upon their referral of new home buyers who end up purchasing from that developer.”

    • May 03, 2023

  • AGO 2508

    • April 07, 2008

  • Opinion regarding the special tax district created in Savannah Lakes Village (“SVP”) by McCormick County Ordinance.

    • November 15, 2000

  • Opinion concerning the removal of garbage by the City of Mauldin.

    • February 19, 1988

  • AGO 1988-8

    • April 19, 2012

  • Opinion regarding procedures for issuing a replacement Uniform Traffic Ticket (“UTT”).

    • February 13, 1991

  • Opinion concerning whether the Charleston County School District could call for a referendum to change the method of election of board members from an at-large system to a single member district system.

    • October 17, 1991

  • Opinion concerning whether a provision of Section 56-3-660 of the Code may be construed as creating an undue burden on interstate commerce and therefore violative of the commerce clause of the Federal Constitution.

    • June 10, 2014

  • Opinion regarding an opinion we issued on May 20, 2014 in which we opined that an individual’s service as a Colleton County School Board Trustee and as a Colleton County Deputy Sheriff would most likely violate the prohibition against dual office holding.

    • January 19, 1973

  • AGO 1973-581

    • June 04, 2013

  • Opinion asking did the South Carolina legislature intend to define a drug felony conviction to include an “element” of a controlled substance for eligibility purposes under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly the Food Stamp program, hereinafter “SNAP”)?

    • November 18, 2005

  • Opinion regarding the provision of S. C. Code Ann. § 8-3-150. Specifically, do county officials have any personal liability outside the bond regarding the duties of his office or for errors and omissions or does the county bond cover all liability?

    • June 06, 1989

  • Opinion concerning the constitutionality of H.4045, R-248, an act creating the South Carolina Future Farmers of America Camp Wildlife Sanctuary in Horry County.

    • March 24, 1989

  • Opinion referencing Act No. 532 of 1988 amended Sections 56-5-2940 and 56-5-2990 of the Code concerning an increase of the length of the period which may be considered for determining prior offences of driving under the influence from five years to ten years.

    • November 24, 2004

  • Opinion regarding “as to whether Riverbanks Zoo and Garden is primarily an educational institution.”

    • December 07, 1993

  • Opinion requesting as to whether a school board or state supported school can prohibit political candidates from campaigning and/or passing out political paraphernalia to persons attending local football games.

    • August 05, 1986

  • AGO 1987-266

    • November 06, 1997

  • Opinion concerning the posting of warning signs and notices as provided by the Equine Liability Immunity Act.

    • December 06, 1995

  • Opinion concerning several questions including the mayor’s power to run meetings, whether volunteer firefighters are considered employees of the town, if the mayor can be a volunteer firefighter, and if so can he hold an office within the fire department, and if he can hold an office, how this will affect his right as mayor to vote on issues dealing with the fire department that come before council.

    • March 10, 1986

  • AGO 1986-133