For purposes of this chapter:

(1) "County area" means a county and all municipalities within its geographical boundaries.

(2) "County" means the unincorporated areas of a county area or county government as the use of the term dictates.

(3) "Municipality" means a municipal corporation created pursuant to Chapter 1 of Title 5 or a municipal government as the use of the term dictates.

(4) "Minimum distribution" means an amount equal to two million dollars for the first distribution and after that adjusted annually on a cumulative basis by a percentage equal to the increase in revenues credited to the Education Improvement Act Fund for the most recently completed fiscal year over the revenues credited to that fund in the preceding fiscal year.

(5) "Population" means population as determined in the most recent official United States Census.

(6) "General election" means the Tuesday following the first Monday in November in any year.

HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 317, Section 1, eff February 2, 1990; 2016 Act No. 250 (H.5078), Section 1, eff June 6, 2016.

Editor's Note

1990 Act No. 317, Section 3, provides as follows:

"(A) Of the funds appropriated in Part I of the 1990-91 General Appropriations Act under formula funded Aid to Counties and Municipalities, an amount not to exceed seven hundred fifty thousand dollars must be allocated to the South Carolina Tax Commission to defray the administrative start-up expenses incurred by the commission in fiscal year 1990-91 for the implementation of the local sales and use tax provided for in Chapter 10 of Title 4 of the 1976 Code and as added in Section 1 of this act. The State Treasurer shall withhold this amount from the income tax distribution with counties and municipalities sharing equally. No funds provided for in this section may be drawn upon by the commission before November, 1990. However, no funds may be drawn unless at least one favorable referendum has been conducted in which the electors of that county have approved the imposition of the tax. If the expenses are not incurred by the commission by May 31, 1991, the funds must be distributed to the counties and municipalities.

"(B) The amount allocated to the commission pursuant to subsection (A) must be reimbursed by the commission from the administrative expense provided to the commission in Section 4-10-90(B) of the 1976 Code, as added in Section 1 of this act."

Effect of Amendment

2016 Act No. 250, Section 1, added (6), definition of "general election".