Azar v. City of Columbia

The City of Columbia generates approximately $110 million in revenue from user fees each year by providing water and sewer services. For more than a decade, the City has been allocating substantial amounts of this revenue to its General Fund and for economic development purposes. Appellants filed this action contending the City’s practices violate sections 6-1-330 and 6-21-440 of the South Carolina Code. The trial court granted the City summary judgment. Because there are genuine issues of material fact as to whether the City’s expenditures of water and sewer revenues were lawful, we reverse…