{"data":{"id":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-12-24-10","jurisdiction":"us-sc","citation":"S.C. Code Ann. § 12-24-10","heading":"Recording fee; exceptions.","body":"(A) In addition to all other recording fees, a recording fee is imposed for the privilege of recording a deed in which land and improvements on the land, tenements, or other realty is transferred to another person. The fee is one dollar eighty-five cents for each five hundred dollars, or fractional part of five hundred dollars, of the realty's value as determined by Section 12-24-30.\n(B) An instrument or deed of distribution assigning, transferring, or releasing real property to the distributee of a decedent's estate pursuant to Section 62-3-907 as evidence of the distributee's title to the property is not a deed subject to this chapter. In addition, a deed transferring real property from a trust to a trust distributee upon the trust settlor's death, pursuant to the trust terms, is not a deed subject to this chapter if a deed of distribution would be the appropriate instrument to transfer the subject property if the property were part of the decedent's probate estate.","path":["Title 12 - TAXATION","CHAPTER 24 Deed Recording Fee"],"source_url":"https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t12c024.php","current_through":"2025 Session of the General Assembly","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T06:35:54Z","sha256":"fe88e0c7a12a0d69e654c94560e849b4095319a35187f8ed62f9336bb29c1818","source_id":"us-sc","stale":false,"prev":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-12-23-840","next":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-12-24-20"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}