Bill > H4706

This bill, by adding Section 15-1-350 to the South Carolina Code of Laws, aims to protect certain racing facilities from nuisance and taking lawsuits brought by surrounding landowners. A "racing facility" is defined as an area where competitive vehicle and motorsport races are held, including tracks, spectator areas, and associated grounds. The bill specifies that such a facility will not be subject to these legal actions if the developer secured all necessary permits for construction, established a vested right in the property, and this could have been discovered through reasonable inquiry (like checking public records) before the landowner purchased their property or built any structures within a three-mile radius of the racing facility. However, to benefit from this protection, the racing facility must have made reasonable construction progress within two years of obtaining its permits. The bill also clarifies that this protection does not apply to actions by law enforcement or government entities to prohibit unlawful activities, nor does it cover substantial and material expansions of the racing facility's operations that significantly increase its intensity of use beyond historical patterns.