Fees do not reduce general fund appropriations; limitation on amount of fees that may be collected in any fiscal year.
S.C. Code Ann. § 48-2-80
in effectFees collected pursuant to Section 48-2-50 do not supplant or reduce in any way the general fund appropriation to the department from the state or federal program; and the total amount of fees authorized by this article collected in any fiscal year, may not exceed thirty-three and one-third percent of the "Total Funds" appropriated to the Office of Environmental Quality Control in the annual appropriations act.
Source: Open US Law by Vaquill AI (CC BY 4.0)URL: https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t48c002.phpFetched: 10/17/2026
