S.C. Code Ann. § 5-15-50: Establishment of municipal ward lines and time for general and special elections; public notice of elections.

(A) Each municipal governing body may by ordinance establish municipal ward lines and the time for general elections.

(B) The time for general elections within a municipality must be established in odd-numbered years as follows:

(1) on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in April; or

(2) on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

(C) If the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of odd-numbered years is the time for general elections within a municipality on or after the effective date of this subsection, then the municipal governing body must not establish a different time for its general elections.

(D) If within ninety days of the effective date of this subsection a municipal governing body fails to establish by ordinance a time for its general elections as provided in subsection (B), then the time for the general elections within that municipality is the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in odd-numbered years unless subsection (E) applies.

(E) Notwithstanding another provision of this section, if the most recent general elections within a municipality preceding the effective date of this subsection were held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in April in even-numbered years, or on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in even-numbered years, then the municipality may retain the first Tuesday after the first Monday in April in even-numbered years, or the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in even-numbered years, as applicable, for the date for its general elections.