S.C. Code Ann. § 34-30-1950
(C) Notwithstanding other law, a mutual state savings bank, with approval of the board, may reorganize its ownership to provide for ownership by a mutual holding company upon adoption of a plan of reorganization by favorable vote of not less than two-thirds of the members of the board of directors of the state savings bank and approval of the plan of reorganization by a majority of the voting members of the state savings bank. The plan of reorganization must provide that:
(4) the plan of reorganization is fair and equitable to all members of the state savings bank.
The mutual holding company may be organized by a method approved by the board. The articles of incorporation of the mutual holding company must confer on the depositors and borrowers of the reorganizing mutual state savings bank the same rights in the mutual holding company that they had in the mutual savings bank. For so long as the mutual holding company is in existence, the mutual holding company must own at least a majority of the voting stock of the state savings bank, or at least a majority of the voting stock of a company owning all of the voting stock of the state savings bank.