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Terms Used In South Carolina Code 5-21-260

  • 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;

    (3) The term "corporate purpose" shall denote any public purpose, necessary or convenient to the welfare of the municipality and shall include the funding of existing indebtedness, evidenced otherwise than by bonds of the municipality; and

    (4) The word "commissioners" shall mean the commissioners of public works or the board of public works or other body established by law and given the power of operating any waterworks system, electric light system, sewage system or other municipal utility. See South Carolina Code 5-21-220
Upon the filing of such a petition the municipal council shall give notice that it has been filed and will be open for public inspection on all secular days during the week following the publication of the notice and that action will be taken on the petition on some occasion specified in such notice, not sooner than ten days following the occasion when the notice shall be published. Such notice shall be published in some newspaper having general circulation in the municipality.