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2023 Op. S.C. Att'y Gen. 1 (2023)

handle is hein.sag/sagsc0165 and id is 1 raw text is: ALAN WILSON ATTORNEY GENERAL January 19, 2023 The Honorable Annie E. McDaniel Member South Carolina House of Representatives P.O. Box 11867 Columbia, SC 29211-1867 Dear Representative McDaniel: Attorney General Alan Wilson has referred your letter to the Opinions section. Your letter requests an expedited opinion addressing the following: I have learned that the Mitford Rural Water District Board of Fairfield and Chester Counties believes that it, and not our Governor, selects the members of its Board. My research has turned up this provision in the South Carolina Code of Laws: SECTION 6-13-630. Creation and membership of Mitford Rural Water District Board of Fairfield and Chester Counties. The district shall be operated and managed by a board of directors to be known as the Mitford Rural Water District Board of Fairfield and Chester Counties which shall constitute the governing body of the district. The board shall consist of five resident electors of the area who shall be appointed by the Governor, upon the recommendation of a majority of those persons attending a meeting of residents of the area held pursuant to at least one week's notice in a local newspaper giving the time and place of the meeting. The chairman and secretary of the meeting shall certify the names of those recommended t he Governor. The original appointments shall be for a term of two years for two appointees, for four years I2I;E C. [is DUiLING POST wFIG Com i i %49 eCoumilA, sC 292 11-1:9 TELEPWON: 8V.7t3C7 . I -fl -