County filed a declaratory judgment action, alleging act creating a fire district was unconstitutional.
The Circuit Court ruled in favor of county. Fire district appealed.
The Supreme Court of South Carolina held that fire district was not truly a multicounty district, and thus violated home-rule provision of state constitution.
Fire district was not truly a multicounty district, and therefore, legislation creating the district violated home rule provision of state constitution; only three parcels—totaling one-tenth of a square mile—were in neighboring county, home rule precluded legislation enacting fire protection services specific to a county, and General Assembly could not indirectly accomplish the same goal merely by adding a small amount of acreage of another county.