{"data":{"id":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-5-3-305","jurisdiction":"us-sc","citation":"S.C. Code Ann. § 5-3-305","heading":"Contiguous property defined.","body":"For purposes of this chapter, \"contiguous\" means property which is adjacent to a municipality and shares a continuous border. Contiguity is not established by a road, waterway, right-of-way, easement, railroad track, marshland, or utility line which connects one property to another; however, if the connecting road, waterway, easement, railroad track, marshland, or utility line intervenes between two properties, which but for the intervening connector would be adjacent and share a continuous border, the intervening connector does not destroy contiguity.","path":["Title 5 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS","CHAPTER 3 Change of Corporate Limits"],"source_url":"https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t05c003.php","current_through":"2025 Session of the General Assembly","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T06:22:29Z","sha256":"9b630ff37d798292b61df30af2b405470d632dc7e52772cb639361a245909fdc","source_id":"us-sc","stale":false,"prev":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-5-3-300","next":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-5-3-310"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}