S.C. Code Ann. § 4-29-67
(B) For property to qualify for the fee as provided in subsection (D)(2):
(2) The investment must be a project that is located in a single county or an industrial development park as defined in Section 4-1-170. A project located on a contiguous tract of land in more than one county, but not in an industrial development park, may qualify for the fee if:
(4)
(b)
(C)
(2)
(c) Unless property qualifies as replacement property pursuant to a contract provision enacted pursuant to subsection (F)(2), property placed in service after the five-year period, or up to ten years in the case of a project which has received an extension, is not part of the fee agreement pursuant to subsection (D)(2) and is subject to the payments required by Section 4-29-60 if the county has title to:
(D) The inducement agreement must provide for fee payments, to the extent applicable, as follows:
(1)
(2) After property qualifying pursuant to subsection (B) is placed in service, an annual fee payment, determined in accordance with one of the following, is due:
(a) an annual payment in an amount not less than the property taxes that would be due on the project if it were taxable, but using:
(3) At the conclusion of the payments determined pursuant to items (1) and (2) of this subsection the annual fee payment is equal to the taxes due on the project as if it were taxable. When the property is no longer subject to the fee pursuant to subsection (D)(2), the fee or property taxes must be assessed:
(4)
(a) The assessment ratio must be at least four percent:
(v) in the case of investments totaling at least four hundred million dollars and creating at least two hundred new full-time jobs at the site qualifying for the fee and:
a. the investment by the investor affiliate is considered necessary and suitable for the operation of the sponsor facility;
b. the investor affiliate is located contiguous to the investor project;
c. one hundred percent of the output of the investor affiliate is provided to the investor for the project; and
d. the investor affiliate is not considered a supplier of manufactured parts or of any value added output of the investor.
(F) With regard to calculation of the fee provided in subsection (D)(2), the inducement agreement may provide for the disposal of property and the replacement of property subject to the fee as follows:
(2) Property placed in service as a replacement for property that is subject to the fee payment may become part of the fee payment as provided in this item:
(d) If there is no provision in the inducement agreement dealing with replacement property, any property placed in service after the time period allowed for investments as provided by subsection (C)(2), is subject to the payments required by Section 4-29-60 if the county has title to:
(G)
(H)
(I) Investment expenditures incurred by an investor in connection with a project, or relevant phase of a project for those projects completed and placed in service in more than one year, qualify as expenditures subject to the fee in subsection (D)(2), so long as these expenditures are incurred:
(2) before the end of the applicable time period for investments referenced in subsection (C)(2) and (3).
An inducement agreement must be executed within two years after the date on which the county takes action reflecting or identifying the project or proposed project or investment including, but not limited to, the adoption of an inducement or similar resolution by county council; otherwise, only investment expenditures made or incurred by an investor after the date of the inducement agreement in connection with a project qualify as expenditures subject to the fee in subsection (D)(2).
(J)
(1) Subject to subsection (K), project investment expenditures incurred within the applicable time period provided in subsection (I) by an investor whose investments are not computed at the level of investment for purposes of subsection (B) or (C) qualify as investment expenditures subject to the fee in subsection (D)(2) if the:
(K)
(1) Property previously subject to property taxes in South Carolina does not qualify for the fee except as provided in this subsection:
(L)
(O)
(3) A transfer undertaken with respect to the project to effect a financing authorized by subsection (O) must meet the following requirements:
(b) If the financing entity is the income tax owner of property, either:
(S)
(T) Except as otherwise expressly provided in subsection (C)(2), a loss of fee benefits pursuant to this section is prospective only from the date of noncompliance and, subject to subsection (Q), only with respect to that portion of the project to which the noncompliance relates; except that the loss of fee benefits may not result in the recovery from the investor and investor affiliate of fee payments for more than:
(V)
(W)
(1) All agreements entered into pursuant to this section must include as the first portion of the document a recapitulation of the remaining contents of the document which includes, but is not limited to, the following:
(i) a statement answering the following questions: