Blue Ridge Community, the official text

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(A84, R14, S384)

AN ACT TO AMEND ACT 108 OF 2021 TO CHANGE THE BOUNDARIES OF THE BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY IN GREENVILLE COUNTY; AND TO PROHIBIT THE INSTALLATION OF CLUSTER SEPTIC SYSTEMS IN THE BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS ACT.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

Blue Ridge Community boundaries

SECTION 1. Section 1 of Act 108 of 2021 is amended to read:

SECTION 1. There is established and recognized, within Greenville County, the Blue Ridge Community, which is comprised of the parcel of real property located within the following boundaries: beginning at the intersection of Beaver Dam Road, Old Highway 25, and Highway 25, traveling southward along Highway 25 to its intersection with Highway 290, eastward on Highway 290 to its intersection with Highway 253, northward on Highway 253 to its intersection with Fews Bridge Road, eastward on Fews Bridge Road to its intersection with East Tyger Bridge Road, northward on East Tyger Bridge Road to the intersection with Highway 101, northward on Highway 101 to its intersection with Highway 912, westerly on Highway 912 until it turns into Calahan Mountain Road, westerly on Calahan Mountain Road to its intersection with Old Highway 25, southward on Old Highway 25 to its intersection with Beaver Dam Road and Highway 25.

Cluster decentralized wastewater treatment systems

SECTION 2. (A) For the purposes of this act, "cluster decentralized wastewater treatment system" means a septic treatment system under some form of common ownership that collects wastewater from two or more dwellings or other buildings that conveys the wastewater to a treatment and dispersal system located on a suitable site near the dwellings or other buildings.

(B) Cluster decentralized wastewater treatment systems may not be installed in the Blue Ridge Community after the effective date of this act.

Severability

SECTION 3. If any section, subsection, paragraph, subparagraph, sentence, clause, phrase, or word of this act is for any reason held to be unconstitutional or invalid, such holding shall not affect the constitutionality or validity of the remaining portions of this act, the General Assembly hereby declaring that it would have passed this act, and each and every section, subsection, paragraph, subparagraph, sentence, clause, phrase, and word thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more other sections, subsections, paragraphs, subparagraphs, sentences, clauses, phrases, or words hereof may be declared to be unconstitutional, invalid, or otherwise ineffective.

Time effective

SECTION 4. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

Ratified the 24th day of April, 2025.

Approved the 28th day of April, 2025.

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