South Carolina General Assembly
125th Session, 2023-2024

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S. 144

STATUS INFORMATION

General Bill
Sponsors: Senator Shealy
Document Path: SR-0031KM23.docx

Introduced in the Senate on January 10, 2023
Currently residing in the Senate Committee on Judiciary

Summary: False or fraudulent documents

HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

Date Body Action Description with journal page number
11/30/2022 Senate Prefiled
11/30/2022 Senate Referred to Committee on Judiciary
1/10/2023 Senate Introduced and read first time (Senate Journal-page 80)
1/10/2023 Senate Referred to Committee on Judiciary (Senate Journal-page 80)

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL

11/30/2022



A bill

to amend the South Carolina Code of Laws by amending Section 30-9-30(B)(2), relating to Filing of written instruments concerning real or personal property; false or fraudulent documents, so as to provide that a person provided with a NOTICE OF DOCUMENT REMOVAL MAY COMMENCE A SUIT TO PREVENT THE REMOVAL OF THE DOCUMENT.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION 1.   Section 30-9-30(B)(2) of the S.C. Code is amended to read:

   (2) If the clerk of court or the register of deeds reasonably believes that a conveyance, mortgage, judgment, lien, contract, or other document is materially false or fraudulent, or is a sham legal process, the clerk of court or the register of deeds may remove the document from the public records after giving thirty days' written notice to the person on whose behalf the document was filed at the return address provided in the document. Within thirty days written notice of the proposed removal, the person providing provided with the notice may commence a suit in a state court of competent jurisdiction preventing the clerk of court or the register of deeds from removing the document.

SECTION 2.   This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

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