S.C. Code Ann. § 31-3-440

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SECTION 31-3-440. General corporate powers.

Official statutory text

Each authority created under this chapter and Chapter 11 shall be a body corporate and politic, exercising public power perpetual in duration, capable of suing and being sued in its corporate name, having a seal and having all powers necessary to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this chapter and Chapter 11 including full power and authority to enter into such agreements and contracts as it may deem advisable, to acquire, purchase, sell, own, hold, lease and operate real and personal property, to accept any grant, loan or credit of money under such conditions as it deems desirable, to borrow money upon its bonds and to secure the repayment thereof by mortgage, pledge or lien upon the property held by it and/or the revenues or income therefrom or otherwise.

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