S.C. Code Ann. § 31-1-650

Whenever the director shall be of the opinion that any such limited dividend housing corporation is failing or omitting or about to fail or omit to do, anything required of it by law or by order of the director and is doing or about to do anything or permitting anything or about to permit anything to be done, contrary to or in violation of law or of any order of the director or which is improvident or prejudicial to the interests of the public, the lienholders or the stockholders, it may commence an action or proceeding in the court of common pleas of the county in which the corporation is located, in the name of the director, for the purpose of having such violations or threatened violations stopped and prevented either by mandamus or injunction.