City of Abbeville v. Aiken Electric Cooperative, Inc.

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• construing S.C. Const, art. VIII, 15 and S.C.Code Ann. 58-27-670, and rejecting challenges to legitimacy and constitutionality of amended statute which restricts municipality’s right to oust existing utility providers by exercising eminent domain
• Article VIII, § 15 inapplicable to statute limiting a city’s right to oust an existing electric supplier
• “The consent provision of § 15 is not an affirmative grant of franchise power, but is a restriction on legislative authority.”
• power to franchise is delegated only by statute

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