{"data":{"id":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-31-1-30","jurisdiction":"us-sc","citation":"S.C. Code Ann. § 31-1-30","heading":"General duties of Secretary of Commerce with respect to housing.","body":"The Secretary of Commerce, hereafter in this chapter sometimes called the director, may:\n(1) study housing conditions and needs throughout the State to determine in what areas congested and unsanitary housing conditions constitute a menace to the health, safety, morals, welfare and reasonable comfort of the citizens of the State;\n(2) prepare programs for correcting such conditions;\n(3) collect and distribute information relating to housing;\n(4) investigate all matters affecting the cost of construction or production of dwellings;\n(5) study means of lowering rents of dwellings by securing economy in the construction and arrangement of buildings;\n(6) recommend and approve the areas within which or adjacent to which the construction of housing projects by limited dividend housing companies may be undertaken; and\n(7) cooperate with local housing officials and planning commissions or similar bodies in cities and other localities in the development of projects they at any time may have under consideration.","path":["Title 31 - HOUSING AND REDEVELOPMENT","CHAPTER 1 State Housing Law","ARTICLE 1 General Provisions"],"source_url":"https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t31c001.php","current_through":"2025 Session of the General Assembly","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T06:59:59Z","sha256":"879cb70ebda2c5b0d8ae873cdbe407e0cfe665e18f9e26bda7583674e38b4fc8","source_id":"us-sc","stale":false,"prev":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-31-1-20","next":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-31-1-40"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}