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Cottageville, SC Code of Ordinance
COTTAGEVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF ORDINANCES
CHAPTER 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 2: ADMINISTRATION
CHAPTER 3: ANIMALS; FOWL
CHAPTER 4: BEAUTIFICATION
CHAPTER 5: BUILDINGS; PLANNING COMMISSION
CHAPTER 6: CEMETERIES
CHAPTER 7: COURT
CHAPTER 8: FINANCE, BUDGET AND TAXATION
CHAPTER 9: FIRE DEPARTMENT AND FIRE PREVENTION
CHAPTER 10: HEALTH AND SANITATION
CHAPTER 11: MOBILE HOMES
CHAPTER 12:
CHAPTER 13: POLICE
CHAPTER 14: PUBLIC PEACE; OFFENSES
CHAPTER 15: SOLICITING; POSTINGS; ADVERTISING
CHAPTER 16: STREETS AND SIDEWALKS
CHAPTER 17: UTILITIES
CHAPTER 18: VEHICLES; TRAFFIC
CHAPTER 19: FLOOD DAMAGE PREVENTION
APPENDICES
TABLE OF SPECIAL ORDINANCES
PARALLEL REFERENCES
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§ 14.812  BAD CHECKS; UNLAWFUL TO ISSUE; PENALTY.
   a.   It shall be unlawful to draw, make, issue or deliver fraudulent checks to another person, firm or corporation.
   b.   A collection fee of $25 will be assessed for each such check.
(S.C. Code § 34-11-60)  (Prior Code, § 14.812)
Cross-reference:
   Related provisions, see § 8.111, this code.
§ 14.813  FENCES: REMOVING, DESTROYING OR LEAVING DOWN.
   Any person other than the owner who shall remove, destroy or leave down any portion of any fence intended to enclose animals of any kind, crop or uncultivated lands or who shall leave open any gate or leave down any bars or other structure intended for a like purpose, upon conviction, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Prior Code, § 14.813)
§ 14.814  PROPERTY TO BE RETURNED TO TOWN.
   Upon leaving town employment or any town office, it shall be unlawful for any employee or official, including volunteers, to fail to return to the town any town property or equipment issued to him or her, including this code of ordinances.
(Prior Code, § 14.814)
§ 14.815  TOWN MACHINERY, OTHER PROPERTY.
   It shall be unlawful for any person to handle or use any engine, tool, machinery or vehicle belonging to the town, or any part used therewith, without permission of the official in charge.
(Prior Code, § 14.815)
§ 14.816  JUNKYARDS.
   Junkyards shall not be permitted within the corporate limits.
(Prior Code, § 14.816)
§ 14.817  NUISANCES: CREATING, MAINTAINING OR PERMITTING.
   a.   Nuisances prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to maintain or to permit to be maintained any premises, including vacant lots or land, upon which any condition exists which constitutes a nuisance, eyesore or health or safety hazard. Such prohibited conditions shall include, but not be limited to, the accumulation of trash, abandoned or unusual personal property, garbage, offal, stagnant water or building materials.
   b.   Owners to be informed. It shall be the duty of the town’s Police Department to summon the owner of any premises upon which any prohibited condition exists and if, after fully investigating the matter, the town’s police shall find such premises in a prohibited condition, the town’s police shall issue a written order or notice directed to the owner, directing and requiring such owner within a certain specified time, not less than ten days, to clear such premises in order to abate the prohibited condition.
   c.   Abatement; liens against the property. Should any property owner, after the required notice, fail to remedy the prohibited condition of such owner’s property, the municipality, through its agents, servants or employees, may enter such property and take whatever steps are necessary to remedy the unlawful condition of such property and the reasonable costs thereof shall become a lien against the property, as provided by the International Property Maintenance Code, as adopted. If the owner of a premises fails to comply with a demolition order, upon approval of Town Council, the Town Council may order that the structure be demolished or removed, either through an available public agency or by contract or arrangement with private persons and that the reasonable cost thereof shall become a lien against the property, as provided by the International Property Maintenance Code, as adopted.
(Prior Code, § 14.817)  (Ord. 1990-1114, passed 12-12-1990; Ord. 06-0101, passed 2-8-2006; Ord. 2016-05, passed 10-3-2016)
§ 14.818  OFFENSES COMMITTED ON MUNICIPAL PROPERTY OUTSIDE TOWN LIMITS.
   Any person committing any offense in, at or upon lands owned by the town or leased to the town outside the limits of the town shall be deemed and considered as committing an offense against the provisions of this code and other ordinances of the town and shall be triable for such offense in the municipal court in the same manner and to the same extent as other offenders against such provisions and such ordinances.
(Prior Code, § 14.818)
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