1. (A) In Oconee County there are the following voting precincts:

   Bounty Land

   Earles Grove

   Fair Play

   Friendship

   Holly Springs

   Keowee

   Long Creek

   Madison

   Mountain Rest

   New Hope

   Newry-Corinth

   Oakway

   Ravenel

   Return

   Richland

   Salem

   Seneca No. 1

   Seneca No. 2

   Seneca No. 3

   Seneca No. 4

   Shiloh

   South Union

   Stamp Creek

   Tamassee

   Tokeena/Providence

   Utica

   Walhalla No. 1

   Walhalla No. 2

   Westminster No. 1

   Westminster No. 2

   West Union

2. (B) The precinct lines defining the above precincts in Oconee County are as shown on the official map prepared by and on file with the Office of Research and Statistics of the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office designated as document P-73-13 and as shown on certified copies of the official map provided to the Board of Voter Registration and Elections of Oconee County.
3. (C) The polling places for the precincts provided in this section must be established by the Board of Voter Registration and Elections of Oconee County.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 23-190; 1952 Code Section 23-190; 1950 (46) 2414; 1951 (47) 211; 1962 (52) 1655; 1966 (54) 2761; 1967 (55) 43; 1968 (55) 2275; 1979 Act No. 162 Section 1, eff January 1, 1980; 1989 Act No. 107, Sections 1-3, eff May 30, 1989; 1996 Act No. 379, Section 1, eff January 1, 1997; 1998 Act No. 282, Section 1, eff upon approval (became law without the Governor's signature on April 8, 1998); 2003 Act No. 75, Section 1, eff June 25, 2003; 2012 Act No. 157, Section 1, eff May 14, 2012; 2013 Act No. 52, Section 1, eff June 7, 2013.

Code Commissioner's Note

At the direction of the Code Commissioner, references in this section to the offices of the former State Budget and Control Board, Office of the Governor, or other agencies, were changed to reflect the transfer of them to the Department of Administration or other entities, pursuant to the directive of the South Carolina Restructuring Act, 2014 Act No. 121, Section 5(D)(1).

Pursuant to the directive in 2014 Act No. 196, Section 8, at the direction of the Code Commissioner, references in this section to county election commissions or commissioners or county boards of voter registration were changed to the "Board of Voter Registration and Elections" and board members as appropriate.

Effect of Amendment

The 1979 amendment substantially rewrote subsection A and added subsection B.

The 1989 amendment added "Stamp Creek" as a voting precinct in subsection A, rewrote the provisions pertaining to Keowee precinct in subsection B, and added Stamp Creek to the list of boundaries of voting precincts in subsection B.

The 1996 amendment revised this section to combine the Tokeena and Providence voting precincts and to provide as its voting place the Tokeena Cross Roads Fire Department, and corrected a typographical error.

The 1998 amendment rewrote this section.

The 2003 amendment, in subsection (A), arranged the voting precincts into a list format, added "Bounty Land" preceding "Earles Grove", and made nonsubstantive changes; and, in subsection (B), substituted "Office" for "Division" and "P-73-03" for "P-7398".

The 2012 amendment substituted "Division" for "Office", substituted "P-73-12" for "P-73-03", and removed "State Election Commission and the" from subsection (B).

The 2013 amendment inserted "New Hope"; and substituted "Office of Research and Statistics" for "Division of Research and Statistics" and "P-73-13" for "P-73-12" and deleted "by the division" following "Elections Commission" in paragraph (B).