Owner/builder Disclosure Statement Form - Pickens County Building Codes printable pdf download

Pickens County Building Codes

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Owner Builder Disclosure Statement

The Building Codes Department under the authority of the Codes of Laws of the State of

South Carolina, 1976, as amended Title 40, Chapter 59, Article 1, Section 40-59-260, is

providing the undersigned owner builder this disclosure statement.

State law requires residential construction to be done by licensed residential builders and

specialty contractors. You have applied for a permit under an exemption to that law. The

exemption allows you, as the owner of your property, to act as your own builder even

though you do not have a license. You must supervise the construction yourself. You may

build or improve a one-family or two-family residence. The building must be for your

own use and occupancy. It may not be built for the sale or rent. If you sell or rent a

building you have built yourself within two years after the construction is complete, the

law will presume that you built it for sale or rent, which is a violation of this exemption.

You may not hire an unlicensed person as your residential builder or specialty contractor.

It is your responsibility to make sure that people employed by you have licenses required

by state law and by county or municipal licensing ordinances. Your construction must

comply with all applicable laws, ordinances, zoning regulations and are subject to

all applicable building inspections during construction as required by adopted

building codes.

If the residential building or structure has been constructed by an owner under the

exemption provided for in this section, the owner of the residential building or structure

must promptly file, as a matter of public record, a notice with the register of deeds,

indexed under the owner’s name in the grantor’s index, stating that the residential

building or structure was constructed by the owner as an unlicensed builder. Failure to do

so revokes the exemption.

Address: ________________________________________________________________

Tax Map Number: ________________________________________________________

Owner Builder(s): ________________________________________________________

Printed Name(s): _________________________________________________________

Witness 1: ____________________________Witness 2: __________________________

State of South Carolina

County of Pickens

The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me this date ___________________

By __________________________________ (name of person acknowledged)

Sworn and subscribed before me this ______ day of _____________________, 20 _____

________________________________ (SEAL)

Notary Public for South Carolina

My commission Expires: __________________

FILING FEE: $10.00

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Owner/builder Disclosure Statement Form - Pickens County Building Codes