S.C. Code Ann. § 58-33-285 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 33 / Article 4 / Section 58-33-285
SECTION 58-33-285. Review of revised rates order or failure to issue such order; Office of Regulatory Staff as party; intervention.
Status: in_force

(A) Within thirty days of the issuance of a revised rates order pursuant to Section 58-33-280(E) of this article, or within thirty days of the failure by the commission to issue a revised rates order as required pursuant to Section 58-33-280(E), any aggrieved party may petition the commission for review of the revised rates order or of the failure to issue a revised rates order. (B) The Office of Regulatory Staff and the utility must be automatic parties to any proceedings under this section. (C) In filing for intervention under this section, intervenors shall identify with particularity the specific issues they intend to raise with regard to the revised rates order. (D) The party seeking review of the revised rates order shall serve a copy of such petition on the Office of Regulatory Staff and the utility on the same day and by the same means as it is provided to the commission. (E) Any filing under this section must be considered a new proceeding subject to the provisions of Section 58-33-240. The commission shall open a single new docket for all filings related to any one set of revised rates filed under this article.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-37-100 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 37 / Article 3 / Section 58-37-100
SECTION 58-37-100. Definitions.
Status: in_force

Pursuant to SECTION 58-37-140, this section expires on May 12, 2035. As used in this article: (1) "Agency" means any agency, department, board, commission, or political subdivision of this State. However, it does not include the Public Service Commission, except for Sections 58-37-110 and 58-37-120. (2) "Application" means a written request made to an agency for grant of a permit or approval of an action or matter within the agency's jurisdiction pertaining to an energy infrastructure project. (3) "Brownfield energy site" means an existing or former electrical generating site or other existing or former industrial site. (4) "Energy corridor" means a corridor in which a utility or the South Carolina Public Service Authority has: (a) transmission lines with a rated voltage of at least 110 kilovolts, including the substations, switchyards, and other appurtenant facilities associated with such lines; or (b) high pressure natural gas transmission pipelines and the metering, compression stations, valve station, and other appurtenant facilities associated with such lines. (5) "Energy corridor project" means an energy infrastructure project that involves the expansion of electric or natural gas delivery capacity in whole or in principal part within an existing energy corridor. (6) "Energy infrastructure project" means the construction, placement, authorization, or removal of energy infrastructure including, but not limited to, electric transmission and generation assets, natural gas transmission assets, and all associated or appurtenant infrastructure and activities, including communications and distribution infrastructure. (7) "Permit" means a permit, certificate, approval, registration, encroachment permit, right of way, or other form of authorization. (8) "Person" means an individual, corporation, association, partnership, trust, agency, or the State of South Carolina. Editor's Note 2025 Act No. 41, SECTION 1, provides as follows: "SECTION 1. This act may be cited as the 'South Carolina Energy Security Act.' " 2025 Act No. 41, SECTION 33, provides as follows: "SECTION 33. (A) To foster economic development and future jobs in this State resulting from the supply chains associated with the same while supporting the significant and growing energy and capacity needs of the State, enhance grid resiliency, and maintain reliability, the General Assembly finds that the State of South Carolina should take steps necessary to encourage the development of a diverse mix of long-lead, clean generation resources that may include nuclear and advanced nuclear, biomass as defined in Section 12-63-20(B)(2) of the S.C. Code, hydrogen-capable resources, fusion energy, and other technologies, and should preserve the option of efficiency development of such long-lead resources with timely actions to establish or maintain eligibility for or capture available tax or other financial incentives or address operational needs. "(B) For an electrical utility to capture available tax or other financial or operational incentives for South Carolina ratepayers in a timely manner, the commission may find that actions by an electrical utility in pursuit of the directives in Section 58-37-35(A) are in the public interest, provided that the commission determines that such proposed actions are in the public interest and reasonably balance economic development and industry retention benefits, capacity expansion benefits, resource adequacy and diversification and potential risks, costs, and benefits to ratepayers and otherwise comply with all other legal requirements applicable to the electrical utility's proposed action. For the South Carolina Public Service Authority, the Office of Regulatory Staff and the Public Service Authority's board of directors shall apply the same principles described in this subsection in evaluating and approving actions proposed by the management of the Public Service Authority to achieve the objectives of this section." 2025 Act No. 41, SECTION 41, provides as follows: "SECTION 41. (A) Five years after the effective date of this act, the Office of the Regulatory Staff shall prepare a report, to be filed with the Public Utilities Review Committee and the General Assembly, to address the implementation of Article 24, Chapter 27, Title 58 as it relates to the following areas: "(1) assessing the functioning of the procedures established by section with recommendation for any changes required to ensure their efficient functioning, to promote regulatory efficiency, and to make further the establishment of just, reasonable, and fair rates; "(2) assessing the effect of rates on ratepayers of all classes; "(3) assessing the reliability of the electric system and whether investments made by electric utilities increased reliability compared to any change in electric utility rates experienced by ratepayers within the same timeframe; and "(4) any other information requested by the General Assembly to be included within the report. "(B) The Office of Regulatory Staff may engage a qualified, independent third party to assist in preparation of the report. "(C) All expenses and charges incurred by the Office of Regulatory Staff in the performance of its duties within this section may be defrayed by assessments made by the Comptroller General against the regulated electrical utilities regulated and based upon twenty-five percent of the gross revenues collected by such electrical utilities from their business done wholly within this State in the manner set out in Section 58-4-60 for other corporations." 2025 Act No. 41, SECTION 42, provides as follows: "SECTION 42. Upon passage of this act, Dominion Energy shall evaluate the process for converting the Wateree Generating Station from coal-fired generation to biomass-fired generation. Biomass-fired generation includes, but is not limited to, generation from the firing of wood pellets and wood chips. Dominion Energy must make a report concerning the conversion process to the Public Service Commission and General Assembly by no later than January 13, 2026." The provisions of Article 3, Chapter 37, Title 58, expires ten years after its effective date, or on May 12, 2035, pursuant to SECTION 58-37-140.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-5-1040 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 5 / Article 9 / Section 58-5-1040
SECTION 58-5-1040. Injunctive relief.
Status: in_force

(a) The court of common pleas shall have jurisdiction to restrain violations of this article (including the restraining of transportation of gas or the operation of a pipeline facility) or to enforce standards established hereunder upon petition by the Office of Regulatory Staff. Whenever practicable, the Office of Regulatory Staff shall give notice to any gas utility against which an action for injunctive relief is contemplated and afford it an opportunity to present its views, and, except in the case of a knowing and willful violation, shall afford it reasonable opportunity to achieve compliance. The failure to give notice and afford an opportunity to achieve compliance shall not preclude the granting of appropriate relief. (b) In any proceeding for criminal contempt for violation of an injunction or restraining order issued under this section, which violation also constitutes a violation of this article, trial shall be by the court or upon demand of the accused, by a jury. The trial shall be conducted in accordance with the practice and procedure applicable in such proceedings established by the court of common pleas. (c) Actions under subsection (a) of this section and Section 58-5-1030 may be brought in the judicial circuit wherein any act or transaction constituting the violation occurred, or in the circuit wherein the defendant is found or is an inhabitant or transacts business, and process in such cases may be served in any other circuit of which the defendant is an inhabitant or transacts business or wherever the defendant may be found. (d) In any action brought under subsection (a) of this section and Section 58-5-1030, subpoenas for witnesses who are required to attend a court of common pleas may be served in any county.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-9-370 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 9 / Article 3 / Section 58-9-370
SECTION 58-9-370. Annual and special reports.
Status: in_force

(A) Subject to approval of the commission, the Office of Regulatory Staff may require any telephone utility to file annual reports in such form and of such content as the Office of Regulatory Staff may require and special reports concerning any matter about which the Office of Regulatory Staff is authorized to inquire or to keep itself informed or which it is required to enforce. All reports shall be under oath when required by the Office of Regulatory Staff. (B) A copy of all reports filed with the commission also must be provided to the Office of Regulatory Staff.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-31-210 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 31 / Article 1 / Section 58-31-210
SECTION 58-31-210. Public Service Authority empowered to enter joint ownership of electric generation and transmission facilities with Central Electric Power Cooperative.
Status: in_force

The South Carolina Public Service Authority shall have the power to become a joint owner with Central Electric Power Cooperative, Inc., of electric generation and transmission facilities, the power to plan, finance, acquire, own, operate and maintain an undivided interest in such plants and facilities necessary or incidental to the generation and transmission of electric power and the power to make plans and enter into such contracts as are necessary or convenient for the planning, financing, acquisition, construction, ownership, operation and maintenance of such plants and facilities; provided, however, that the Public Service Authority shall own a percentage of such plants and facilities equal to the percentage of the money furnished or the value of property supplied by it for the acquisition and construction of the plants and facilities and shall own and control a like percentage of the electrical output thereof; provided, further, that the Public Service Authority shall be severally liable in proportion to its ownership share of such plants and facilities for the acts, omissions or obligations performed, omitted or incurred by Central Electric Power Cooperative, Inc., while acting as the designated agent of the Public Service Authority for purposes of constructing, operating or maintaining the plants and facilities or any of them, but shall not otherwise be liable, jointly or severally, for the acts, omissions or obligations of Central Electric Power Cooperative, Inc.; nor shall any money or property of the Public Service Authority be credited or otherwise applied to the account of Central Electric Power Cooperative, Inc., or be charged with any debt, lien or mortgage as a result of any debt or obligation of Central Electric Power Cooperative, Inc. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the Public Service Authority from leasing facilities or interests therein from Central Electric Power Cooperative, Inc., and incurring obligations under such leases.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-770 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 5 / Section 58-17-770
SECTION 58-17-770. Ownership of stock or company controlling stock of competing railroad prohibited; dissolution.
Status: in_force

No person owning or operating directly or indirectly any railroad lying in whole or in part within this State or owning or controlling at the time, either solely or in connection with others, a majority of the stock of a corporation owning or controlling, by stock, ownership or otherwise, any such railroad shall own or be interested in the stock of any corporation chartered by this State which owns or leases, in whole or in part, or is otherwise interested in any railroad which competes in the manner set forth in Section 58-17-720 with the railroad or railroads so owned or operated by such person. A purchase or acquisition of the stock of a company controlling such last-named company by stock ownership is likewise prohibited. In the event of such acquisition of such stock, or an interest therein, by any such person first in this section above named, the charter of the corporation of this State last mentioned owning such railroad shall be forfeited and its franchises are ipso facto withdrawn and all railroad charters hereafter accepted are declared to be granted subject to this condition. And the Attorney General of this State shall proceed at once, in the name of the State, to have such dissolution decreed by a court of competent jurisdiction and to dispose of the property of such corporation and distribute its assets to its creditors and stockholders according to law. The Attorney General shall see to the observance of this section and shall proceed by action, or other appropriate proceedings, legal or equitable, to inquire into, restrain or terminate the unlawful exercise of any franchise or disobedience to the terms hereof.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-13-210 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 13 / Article 5 / Section 58-13-210
SECTION 58-13-210. Common carrier liable for loss of or injury to goods delivered for transportation notwithstanding public notice or declaration to contrary.
Status: in_force

No public notice or declaration shall limit or in any way affect the liability at common law of common carrier for or in respect of any goods to be carried by them but they shall be liable, as at common law, to answer for the loss of or injury to any articles and goods delivered to them for transportation, any public notice or declaration by them made and given contrary hereto or in anywise attempting to limit such liability to the contrary notwithstanding.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-1330 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 9 / Section 58-27-1330
SECTION 58-27-1330. Notice of municipality's intent to acquire property of utility.
Status: in_force

When the municipal council or other governing body of any city or town, after a public hearing of which at least thirty days' notice has been given, by ordinance or resolution duly adopted by a majority vote, expresses a desire and declares its purpose to acquire for the city or town the property of an electrical utility so operated therein as authorized under the provisions of this chapter, immediate notice by registered mail of the action of such municipal council or governing body shall be given by it to the commission and the Office of Regulatory Staff, to the electrical utility, and to all of its mortgagees or other lienors appearing of record in the county in which such city or town is situated.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-2520 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 21 / Section 58-27-2520
SECTION 58-27-2520. Termination procedures; contents.
Status: in_force

(A) Each electrical utility must establish written procedures for termination of service due to nonpayment for a special needs account customer at any time and for all residential customers during weather conditions marked by extremely cold or hot temperatures. Each electrical utility must submit its procedures to the Office of Regulatory Staff by November 1, 2006. Any subsequent revisions must be submitted semiannually by March first or September first. (B) The procedures for termination must include the following: (1) notification procedures so that the customer is made aware of an impending termination and the time within which he must make arrangements for payment prior to termination; (2) arrangements for a payment arrangement plan to enable a residential customer, who has a satisfactory payment history as determined by the public utility, to pay by installments where the customer is unable to pay the full amount due for electric service; (3) a procedure to advise customers who are unable to pay the full amount due or who are not approved for a payment arrangement plan that they may contact local social service agencies to determine the availability of public or private assistance with the payment of electric bills; (4) a schedule of termination that takes into account the availability of the acceptance of payment and the reconnection of service; and (5) the standards for determining weather conditions marked by extremely cold or hot temperatures.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-920 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 11 / Article 5 / Section 58-11-920
SECTION 58-11-920. Conditioning access to ROW on wireless provider's seeking or obtaining certificate or other authority from Public Service Commission of South Carolina.
Status: in_force

(A) Neither the State nor any agency, department, or instrumentality thereof may condition a wireless provider's access to any ROW or a wireless provider's deployment of small wireless facilities and associated poles in any ROW on the wireless provider's seeking or obtaining any certificate or other authority from the Public Service Commission of South Carolina. (B) Without limiting the provisions of subsection (A): (1) a wireless services provider seeking access to a ROW as described in subsection (A) may be required to provide proof that it is licensed by the FCC or otherwise authorized to provide wireless services within the State; and (2) a wireless provider seeking access to a ROW as described in subsection (A) that is not also a wireless services provider may be required to submit an attestation that a wireless services provider has requested in writing that the wireless provider deploy small wireless facilities or associated poles at the requested location and provide proof that such wireless services provider is licensed by the FCC or otherwise authorized to provide service within the State. (C) To the extent that an authority is otherwise authorized to address a wireless provider's deployment of small wireless facilities and associated poles in the ROW of the State or of any agency, department, or instrumentality thereof, the authority must do so in strict compliance with the provisions of this article.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-2130 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 15 / Section 58-27-2130
SECTION 58-27-2130. Rescission or amendment of orders or decisions.
Status: in_force

The commission may at any time, except in those cases provided for in Section 58-27-2150, after notice and after opportunity to be heard as provided in the case of petitions, rescind or amend any order or decision made by it. Any order rescinding or amending a prior order or decision, after notice thereof, either personal or by registered mail, has been given to the electrical utility affected and to the other parties to the proceedings, shall have the same effect as is herein provided for original orders or decisions, but no such order shall affect the legality or validity of any acts done pursuant to the original order before service of notice of such change.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-4-100 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 4 / Section 58-4-100
SECTION 58-4-100. Employment of certain expert witnesses and third-party consultants exempted State Procurement Code.
Status: in_force

(A) To the extent necessary to carry out regulatory staff responsibilities, the executive director is authorized to employ expert witnesses and other professional expertise as the executive director may consider necessary to assist the regulatory staff in its participation in commission proceedings. The compensation paid to these persons may not exceed compensation generally paid by the regulated industry for such specialists. The compensation and expenses therefor must be paid by the public utility or utilities participating in the proceedings upon agreement between the public utility or utilities participating in the proceedings and the Office of Regulatory Staff or upon approval by the Review Committee or from the regulatory staff's budget. If paid by the public utility or utilities, the compensation and expenses must be treated by the commission, for ratemaking purposes, in a manner generally consistent with its treatment of similar expenditures incurred by utilities in the presentation of their cases before the commission. An accounting of compensation and expenses must be reported annually to the review committee, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. (B) The Office of Regulatory Staff is exempt from the State Procurement Code in the selection and hiring of an expert or third-party consultant to conduct an independent study described in Section 58-37-60 and Section 58-41-20(H). However, the Office of Regulatory Staff and the commission may not hire the same expert or third-party consultant in the same proceeding or to address the same or similar issues in different proceedings. Effect of Amendment 2019 Act No. 62, SECTION 13, inserted the (A) identifier, and added (B).
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-23-1650 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 23 / Article 16 / Section 58-23-1650
SECTION 58-23-1650. Driver qualification requirements; documentation; inspections of records; disclosures.
Status: in_force

(A) The TNC shall obtain certain background and qualification information from a TNC driver before the TNC driver is approved by the TNC to provide TNC services. (B) The TNC driver qualification information shall include: (1) a valid driver's license issued by the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles or the current state of residence for the driver; (2) verification that the driver is twenty-one years of age or older; (3) a certified copy of the driver's ten year driving record issued by the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles and a record from the department of motor vehicles or equivalent agency of the state where the driver has been domiciled for that period; (4) conduct, or have a third party conduct, a local and national criminal background check for each applicant that must include: (a) a multistate and multijurisdictional criminal records locator or other similar commercial nationwide database with validation (primary source search); and (b) national sex offender registry database search; and (5) proof of automobile liability insurance in the name of the TNC driver which meets the requirements of Section 38-77-140. (C) The TNC shall verify the TNC driver meets all of the driver qualification requirements in this section at intervals of at least one each year. (D) The TNC shall maintain documentation of initial and annual verification of TNC driver qualifications for a period of three years. (E) The Office of Regulatory Staff may conduct inspections of TNC driver qualification records. (F) The TNC shall not permit a TNC driver to provide TNC services who: (1) does not meet the TNC driver qualifications listed in subsections (B) and (C); (2) is registered or required to be registered as a sex offender with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division or the National Sex Offender Registry; (3) has been convicted within the past ten years of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, driving with an unlawful alcohol concentration, fraud, use of a motor vehicle to commit a felony, a felony crime involving property damage, theft and crimes defined as violent pursuant to Section 16-1-60; or (4) is under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Nothing in this section may be construed to require drug testing by a TNC of a TNC driver. (G) Before a TNC driver is allowed to provide a TNC service, the TNC must disclose to the TNC driver that the: (1) automobile liability insurance that the TNC provides while the TNC driver is engaged in TNC service or logged into the TNC digital network; (2) TNC driver's automobile liability insurance may not provide coverage while the TNC driver is engaged in TNC service or logged into the TNC digital network; (3) provision of TNC services may violate the terms of a contract or financing agreement with a lienholder; and (4) provision of TNC services may have financial consequences related to personal income tax and personal property tax liabilities.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-23-1680 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 23 / Article 16 / Section 58-23-1680
SECTION 58-23-1680. Enforcement of article; penalties; revocation of permit; request for contested case; investigations.
Status: in_force

(A) A certified South Carolina law enforcement officer is authorized to enforce the requirements of this article. (B) An officer, agent, or employee of a TNC or TNC driver who fails to comply with any requirement contained in this article must be assessed a civil penalty of not less than one hundred dollars for a first violation, not less than five hundred dollars for a second violation, and not less than one thousand dollars for a third violation and subsequent violations. Seventy-five percent of the penalties collected under this section must be remitted to the Office of Regulatory Staff to be used for enforcement operations. Magistrates have jurisdiction over contested violations of this section and are prohibited from suspending or reducing the penalties. (C) The Office of Regulatory Staff may revoke a TNC permit if the TNC has made misrepresentation of a material fact in obtaining the TNC permit or, in the opinion of the Office of Regulatory Staff, has failed to comply with the requirements in this article. (D) An aggrieved person with standing may file a request for a contested case of a decision of the Office of Regulatory Staff with the Public Service Commission of South Carolina within thirty days of the decision. (E) Concerning potential violations of this article, TNC's and their officers, agents, employees, or customers are subject to the investigatory powers provided in Sections 58-4-50 and 58-4-55 to the Office of Regulatory Staff. (F) The Office of Regulatory Staff is authorized to require regular updating of information required from a TNC under this article.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-12-10 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 12 / Article 2 / Section 58-12-10
SECTION 58-12-10. Installation of cable over or beneath public lands, highways, roads or waters.
Status: in_force

Any cable television company may, upon the approval of the governing body of the city or county, construct, maintain, and operate its cable over or beneath any of the public lands of this State, over, beneath, or along any of the highways or public roads of the State, or over or beneath any of the waters of the State; provided, that cable television companies shall, unless heretofore covered by court decree, where possible and practicable, enter into an agreement with a telephone company or electric power company whereby the cable television company has the right to attach its cables to the poles owned by the telephone company or electric power company, or to bury its cable beneath the ground in conduits owned by the telephone company or electric power company; provided, further, that such cable is constructed so as not to endanger the safety of persons or to interfere with the use of these public lands, highways, or public roads, or the navigation of these waters; provided, further, that the agency charged with the maintenance of these public lands, highways, or public roads, or waters of the State shall require that the cable television company obtain a permit prior to placing its cable over, under, or along these public lands, highways, or public roads, or waters; and, provided, further, that if both electrical and telephone facilities in an area are underground then the cable television lines in that area shall also be placed underground. This proviso does not give any additional rights to public utilities to grant an easement. Provided, further, that if the cable is located in such a manner so as to constitute an interference with the right of ingress or egress to land that is subject to the easement, the cable television companies shall obtain the consent of the landowner, his heirs, or assigns, from which the original easement was obtained.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-410 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 11 / Article 3 / Section 58-11-410
SECTION 58-11-410. Changes of rates; factors considered in determining reasonable rates.
Status: in_force

Whenever the commission after a hearing finds that the existing rates in effect and collected by any radio common carrier for any service are unjust, unreasonable, insufficient, or unreasonably discriminatory, or in any way in violation of any provision of law, the commission shall determine the just, reasonable, and sufficient rates to be thereafter observed and in force, and shall fix such rates by its order. In determining just, reasonable, and sufficient rates the commission shall give due consideration to the radio common carrier's property devoted to the public service; the revenues received for the service; the reasonable operating expenses and other costs necessary to provide the service; the total earnings required for the proper discharge of the radio common carrier's public duty; the capitalization of the radio common carrier and the net income required on its net worth; and such other matters, circumstances, and conditions as the commission may find necessary. Provided, that the rates so fixed shall not be higher than necessary to give a fair return to the stockholders.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-690 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 5 / Section 58-17-690
SECTION 58-17-690. Consolidated corporation shall establish offices.
Status: in_force

Such new company shall, as soon as convenient after such consolidation, establish such offices as may be desirable, one of which shall be at some point in this State, on the line of its road, and may change them at pleasure, giving public notice thereof in some newspaper published on the line of the road.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-9-1830 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 9 / Article 15 / Section 58-9-1830
SECTION 58-9-1830. Common carriers of intelligence shall not require contract limiting its liability.
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for any common carrier of intelligence for hire doing business in this State to require the sender of any message over its lines to enter into any agreement limiting such carrier's liability from any loss or damage to the sender of any message.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-13-930 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 13 / Article 13 / Section 58-13-930
SECTION 58-13-930. Bond.
Status: in_force

Each special officer or constable appointed under the provisions of this chapter shall be required to enter into a good and sufficient bond in the sum of five hundred dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties, such bond to be approved by the Attorney General.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-31-370 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 31 / Article 3 / Section 58-31-370
SECTION 58-31-370. Jurisdiction of circuit court.
Status: in_force

The circuit court of this State shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine any dispute arising under Sections 58-31-310 through 58-31-360.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-4096 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 33 / Section 58-17-4096
SECTION 58-17-4096. Trespassing upon railroad tracks.
Status: in_force

(A) It is unlawful, without proper authority, for a person to trespass upon railroad tracks. (B) A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-5-750 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 5 / Article 7 / Section 58-5-750
SECTION 58-5-750. Appeals.
Status: in_force

Any party in interest being dissatisfied with an order of the Commission may appeal as provided by statutory law.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-1130 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 9 / Section 58-17-1130
SECTION 58-17-1130. Execution of mortgages; issuance of bonds.
Status: in_force

Any such company may mortgage its property and franchises and issue bonds on such terms and conditions and for such purposes and uses of the corporation as the company may from time to time deem necessary.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-1120 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 8 / Section 58-27-1120
SECTION 58-27-1120. Requirements for electric bills of electrical utility that has obtained a financing order and caused recovery bonds to be issued.
Status: in_force

The electric bills of an electrical utility that has obtained a financing order and caused recovery bonds to be issued must comply with the provisions of this section; however, the failure of an electrical utility to comply with this section does not invalidate, impair, or affect any financing order, storm recovery property, recovery charge, or recovery bonds. The electrical utility must do the following: (1) explicitly reflect that a portion of the charges on such bill represents recovery charges approved in a financing order issued to the electrical utility and, if the storm recovery property has been transferred to an assignee, must include a statement to the effect that the assignee is the owner of the rights to recovery charges and that the electrical utility or other entity, if applicable, is acting as a collection agent or servicer for the assignee. The tariff applicable to customers must indicate the recovery charge and the ownership of the charge; and (2) include the recovery charge on each customer's bill as a separate line item and include both the rate and the amount of the charge on each bill.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-110 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 1 / Section 58-27-110
SECTION 58-27-110. Effect of chapter on interstate commerce.
Status: in_force

Neither this chapter nor any provision thereof shall apply or be construed to apply to commerce with foreign nations or commerce among the several states of the United States, except in so far as the same may be permitted under the provisions of the Constitution of the United States and the acts of Congress.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-9-30 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 9 / Article 1 / Section 58-9-30
SECTION 58-9-30. Municipal rights, powers and privileges under Constitution not impaired.
Status: in_force

Nothing contained in Articles 1 through 13 of this chapter shall be so construed as to modify, abridge, or impair any of the rights or powers granted to cities and towns under any provision of the Constitution of this State and every right, power or privilege conferred upon any city or town by the Constitution of this State otherwise appearing to be modified, abridged or impaired by any provision of Articles 1 through 13 of this chapter is to be deemed excepted from the operation thereof.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-23-1810 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 23 / Article 17 / Section 58-23-1810
SECTION 58-23-1810. Short title.
Status: in_force

This article may be cited as the Public Transportation Passenger Rights Act.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-2670 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 23 / Section 58-17-2670
SECTION 58-17-2670. Railroad building new line into city or town shall connect and pay part of cost of original connecting track.
Status: in_force

Any railroad corporation building a new line into such city or town after the construction of such connecting track shall be required to connect its line with such track and to pay to each and every corporation owning such track a part of the costs thereof which shall be fixed and determined by the Commission.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-70 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 58-11-70
SECTION 58-11-70. Hearing on new schedule of rates; suspension of new rates pending such hearing; putting new rates into effect despite suspension by filing of bond.
Status: in_force

(A) Whenever there is filed with the commission by any radio common carrier, a schedule stating a new rate or rates which affects the radio common carrier's general body of subscribers, the commission shall, after notice to the Office of Regulatory Staff and the public such as the commission may prescribe, hold a hearing concerning the lawfulness or reasonableness of the rate or rates; provided, however, that when the proposed rate is a proposal to institute or modify an offering or regulation that is not part of a general rate case and does not affect the radio common carrier's general body of subscribers, the commission may approve such filing with a hearing. (B) The commission shall rule and issue its order approving or disapproving the changes in full or in part within six months of the time of filing. If the commission rules and issues its order within the time aforesaid, and the radio common carrier shall appeal from the order, by filing with the commission a petition for rehearing, the radio common carrier may put the rate or rates requested in its schedule into effect under bond during the appeal and until final disposition of the case. The bond must be filed with the commission and must be in a reasonable amount approved by the commission, with sureties approved by the commission, conditioned upon the refund, in a manner to be prescribed by order of the commission, to the persons, corporations, or municipalities respectively entitled to the amount of excess, if the rate or rates put into effect are finally determined to be excessive. There may be substituted for the bond other arrangements satisfactory to the commission for the protection of the parties interested. During any period in which a radio common carrier shall charge increased rates under bond, it shall provide records or other evidence of payments made by its subscribers under the rate or rates which the radio common carrier has put into operation in excess of the rate or rates in effect immediately prior to the filing of its schedule. All increases in rates put into effect under the provisions of this section which are not approved and for which a refund is required shall bear interest at a rate of twelve percent per annum. The interest shall commence on the date the disallowed increase is paid and continue until the date the refund is made. In all cases in which a refund is due, the commission shall order a total refund of the difference between the amount collected under bond and the amount finally approved. (C) If the commission fails to rule and issue its order within six months after the date the schedule is filed, the radio common carrier may put into effect the change in rate or rates it requested in its schedule. The change is to be treated as an approval of the new rate schedule by the commission. (D) After the date the schedule, which affects the radio common carrier's general body of subscribers, is filed with the commission and the Office of Regulatory Staff, no further rate change request which affects the radio common carrier's general body of subscribers may be filed until twelve months have elapsed from the date of the filing of the schedule; provided, however, this section shall not apply to a request for a rate reduction.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-4180 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 33 / Section 58-17-4180
SECTION 58-17-4180. Request or advice of Commission shall not impair legal duties of railroad.
Status: in_force

No request or advice of the Commission shall impair, in any manner or degree, the legal duties and obligations of any railroad corporation or its liability for the consequence of its acts or of the neglect or mismanagement of any of its agents or servants.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-12-130 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 12 / Article 2 / Section 58-12-130
SECTION 58-12-130. Fee for right-of-way usage; availability of channel to Educational Television Commission; issuance of continuing permits; enforcement.
Status: in_force

(A) The Department of Transportation may issue a general continuing permit to each cable television company operating in this State. Upon the reporting by the company of a proposed extension of its cable subject to this chapter and approval of the extension by the department, the permit applies to each extension. This authorization eliminates the necessity of the issuance of a permit for each extension. (B) Each cable television company in this State shall make available one six megahertz channel for the transmissions of the South Carolina Educational Television Commission. (C) The department may initiate appropriate legal action to enforce the permit requirements of this section against nonpermitted cable encroachment located within state highway rights-of-way.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-15-270 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 15 / Article 1 / Section 58-15-270
SECTION 58-15-270. Stockholder's right to inspect books.
Status: in_force

The books of any corporation organized under this chapter shall be at all times open to the inspection of any stockholder.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-10 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 1 / Section 58-17-10
SECTION 58-17-10. Definitions.
Status: in_force

In the construction of this chapter except when such meaning would be repugnant to the context or contrary to the manifest intention of the General Assembly: (1) The phrase "railroads and railways" shall be construed to include all railroads and railways, by whatever motive power they may be operated, except marine railways doing business as common carriers in this State and except street or interurban railroads or railways, whether operated by the corporations owning them or by other corporations or otherwise; (2) "Railroad" shall be construed to mean a railroad or railway by whatever motive power operated except such railroads and railways as are excepted under item (1) of this section; (3) "The General Railroad Law" shall mean this chapter; and (4) The word "person" shall be construed and held to mean an officer, corporation, company, receiver, trustee, lessee, agent or other person acting or engaged in any of the matters and things mentioned in the General Railroad Law.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-15-160 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 15 / Article 1 / Section 58-15-160
SECTION 58-15-160. Manner in which charters may be amended.
Status: in_force

Any corporation organized under the provisions of this article or chartered by the General Assembly prior to February 28, 1899 may have its charter amended by the Secretary of State, by filing with the Secretary of State a written declaration showing the desired changes in its charter and paying a fee of five dollars to cover the issuance, filing and indexing of the amended charter. After such notice as the Secretary of State may prescribe, upon a proper showing being made, the Secretary of State shall issue to any such corporation a certificate as a supplement to its charter, which shall be recorded and filed as charters are required to be under Section 58-15-100 and shall embody the changes, additions or alterations sought.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-3-520 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 3 / Article 5 / Section 58-3-520
SECTION 58-3-520. Membership; election of chairman; meetings; nomination of candidates for Public Service Commission and Executive Director of Office of Regulatory Staff.
Status: in_force

(A) The review committee shall be composed of ten members, three of whom shall be members of the House of Representatives, including the Chairman of the Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee, or his designee, three of whom shall be members of the Senate, including the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee or his designee, two of whom shall be appointed by the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee from the general public at large, and two of whom appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives from the general public at large. The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall determine how its legislative members shall be selected. The Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee will select the members of the Senate. Provided, however, that in making appointments to the joint committee, race, gender, and other demographic factors should be considered to assure nondiscrimination, inclusion, and representation to the greatest extent possible of all segments of the population of the State. The members of the general public appointed by the Speaker and the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee must be representative of all citizens of this State and must not be members of the General Assembly. (B) The review committee must meet as soon as practicable after appointment and organize itself by electing one of its members as chairman and such other officers as the review committee may consider necessary. Thereafter, the review committee must meet at least annually and at the call of the chairman or by a majority of the members. A quorum consists of six members. (C) Unless the review committee finds a candidate qualified and nominates the candidate for a seat on the Public Service Commission or for the Executive Director of the Office of Regulatory Staff, the candidate must not be elected to the Public Service Commission or appointed to serve as Executive Director of the Office of Regulatory Staff.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-9-530 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 9 / Article 5 / Section 58-9-530
SECTION 58-9-530. Dispensing with thirty days' notice of rate change.
Status: in_force

The Commission, for good cause shown, may allow changes in rates without requiring the thirty days' notice under such conditions as it may prescribe, except that when changes in general schedules of rates and charges are involved, before they may become effective, notice to the public of such proposed changes shall be given by publication thereof once a week for two consecutive weeks in newspapers of general circulation in the territory involved and a hearing held thereon. All such changes shall be immediately indicated upon its schedules by such telephone utility.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-1970 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 15 / Section 58-17-1970
SECTION 58-17-1970. Allowing or receiving rebate or other advantage shall be unlawful.
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for any such railroad or person engaged solely in shipping or receiving property, directly or indirectly, to allow or receive any rebate, drawback or other advantage, in any form, upon shipments made or services rendered or received by them as aforesaid.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-9-2689 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 9 / Article 23 / Section 58-9-2689
SECTION 58-9-2689. Report of State Regulation of Public Utilities Review Committee.
Status: in_force

No later than five years from the effective date of this act and every five years following the submission of the first report, the State Regulation of Public Utilities Review Committee must submit to the General Assembly a report examining the effect of this act on residential and business consumers in areas served by communication providers. The reports must assess and determine the impact of the amendments to current law in this act on the availability of communications services to rural counties of the State and report whether the amendments to current law incorporated in this act have had an adverse impact on the provision of communications services in such rural areas. The reports must include data describing the extent of capital improvement and investment by communications service providers in rural counties since the adoption of the amendments to current law included in this act and present any recommendations it may have regarding the continuation, amendment, or repeal of the amendments to current law included in the act. The reports must not disclose any proprietary or confidential information about individual communications service providers. Editor's Note 2012 Act No. 284, SECTION 11, provides as follows: "The provisions of this act do not expand, diminish, or otherwise affect the provisions of Chapter 151, Title 59 regarding the South Carolina LightRail Consortium"
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-23-20 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 23 / Article 1 / Section 58-23-20
SECTION 58-23-20. Transportation by motor vehicle for compensation regulated.
Status: in_force

No corporation or person, his lessees, trustees, or receivers may operate a motor vehicle for the transportation of persons, hazardous waste for disposal, or household goods for compensation on an improved public highway in this State except in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, except where the use of a motor vehicle is incidental only to the operation, and any such operation is subject to control, supervision, and regulation by the commission in the manner provided by this chapter. The commission may not fix or approve the rates, fares, or charges for Class A, B, C, D, E, or F certificates. Effect of Amendment 2022 Act No. 214, SECTION 1, in the first sentence, substituted ", hazardous waste for disposal, or household goods" for "or property", in the second sentence, substituted "Class A, B, C, D, E, or F certificates" for "buses", and deleted the third sentence, which provided that nothing herein shall affect the commission's jurisdiction to regulate street railway service or any successor to street railway service under Chapter 5 of Title 58.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-23-10 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 23 / Article 1 / Section 58-23-10
SECTION 58-23-10. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in Articles 1 to 11 of this chapter: (1) The term "corporation" means a corporation, company, association or joint stock association; (2) The term "person" means an individual, a firm or a copartnership; (3) The term "Commission" means the Public Service Commission; (4) The term "motor vehicle carrier" means every corporation or person, their lessees, trustees or receivers, owning, controlling, operating or managing any motor propelled vehicle, not usually operated on or over rails, used in the business of transporting persons or property for compensation over any improved public highway in this State; (5) The term "trailer" means a vehicle equipped to carry a load and which is attached to and drawn by a motor vehicle and trailers shall be classed as motor vehicles and subject to the provisions of Articles 1 to 11 of this chapter; and (6) The term "improved public highway" means every improved public highway in this State which is or may hereafter be declared to be a part of the State Highway System or any county highway system or a street of any city or town. (7) The term "ridesharing" means an arrangement for the transportation of not more than fifteen persons on a nonprofit basis utilizing a motor vehicle of which operating costs and a reasonable depreciation cost for such vehicle are paid principally by those people utilizing such arrangement. (8) The term "regulatory staff" means the executive director or the executive director and employees of the Office of Regulatory Staff.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-1620 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 13 / Section 58-17-1620
SECTION 58-17-1620. Manner and form of reports; amendment of defective reports; preservation of reports.
Status: in_force

The Office of Regulatory Staff must require the annual reports to be made by railroad companies in manner and form and at the time provided for herein and may require reports to be made of other matters. The Office of Regulatory Staff may, from time to time, make changes it considers proper, giving the corporations one year's notice of any changes or additions that require any alterations in the method or form of keeping their accounts. The Office of Regulatory Staff shall, on or before the first day of June in each year, furnish to the several railroads blank forms of any reports. When the report received from any corporation is defective or probably erroneous, the Office of Regulatory Staff must notify the corporation to amend it within fifteen days. The originals of the report or reports, as amended, subscribed and sworn to by the officers of the corporation, must be preserved in the office of the Office of Regulatory Staff. The Office of Regulatory Staff must prepare tables and abstracts of all the returns it considers expedient.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-3360 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 27 / Section 58-17-3360
SECTION 58-17-3360. Electric hand lanterns.
Status: in_force

All railroad carriers must equip trainmen in their employ engaged in switching and train movements in intrastate commerce in this State with electric hand lanterns, of a type approved by the Office of Regulatory Staff, containing at least one extra bulb capable of being immediately lighted in case of failure of the main bulb. The use by any railroad carrier of oil lanterns in connection with such movements is hereby prohibited. Any railroad carrier violating any of the provisions of this section must be punished by a fine not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars and each day during which any flagrant violation continues constitutes a separate offense.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-2640 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 23 / Section 58-27-2640
SECTION 58-27-2640. Investigation of claims of violations.
Status: in_force

The Office of Regulatory Staff shall have the authority to investigate claims of violations of the provisions of Section 58-27-2610 committed by electrical utilities and lessors of renewable electric generation facilities. Editor's Note 2014 Act No. 236, SECTIONS 9, 10, provide as follows: "SECTION 9. If the application of the provisions of this act to any wholesale electrical contract existing on the date of its adoption is determined to impair unlawfully any term of such contract or to add material costs to either party, then that contract will be exempt from the terms of this act to the extent necessary to cure such impairment or to avoid the imposition of additional material costs. "SECTION 10. Article 23, Chapter 27, Title 58 shall be construed as a whole, and all parts of it are to be read and construed together. If any part of this article shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the remainder of this article shall be invalidated. Nothing herein shall be construed to affect the parties' right to appeal the matter."
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-13-710 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 13 / Article 11 / Section 58-13-710
SECTION 58-13-710. "Explosive compound" defined.
Status: in_force

By the words "explosive compound," as used in this article, shall be understood gun cotton or nitroglycerine or any other compound of either thereof, and fulminate or, generally, any substance intended to be used, by exploding or igniting it, to produce a force to propel missiles or to rend apart substances, except gunpowder.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-1040 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 7 / Section 58-27-1040
SECTION 58-27-1040. Certain sections cumulative.
Status: in_force

Nothing contained in Sections 58-27-920 to 58-27-950 shall be construed to divest the Commission of any power otherwise possessed by it to regulate electrical utilities and the duties and powers thereby devolved upon the Commission are in addition to those otherwise imposed by law.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-23-1390 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 23 / Article 13 / Section 58-23-1390
SECTION 58-23-1390. Revocation of taxi license.
Status: in_force

Should the owner or operator of a taxi permit the taxi to be operated without such license affixed as required by Section 58-23-1210 or by any person not duly qualified as provided in this article or should such owner or operator permit such taxi to be used for any purpose other than that of a public conveyance, the chief of police of such county may with the approval of the governing body of such county revoke the license of such taxi and require the surrender of the license card or plate.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-39-110 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 39 / Section 58-39-110
SECTION 58-39-110. Short title; goals of chapter.
Status: in_force

This chapter may be cited as the "South Carolina Distributed Energy Resource Act". The goals of this chapter are to promote the establishment of a reliable, efficient, and diversified portfolio of distributed energy resources for the State. Editor's Note 2014 Act No. 236, SECTION 9, provides as follows: "SECTION 9. If the application of the provisions of this act to any wholesale electrical contract existing on the date of its adoption is determined to impair unlawfully any term of such contract or to add material costs to either party, then that contract will be exempt from the terms of this act to the extent necessary to cure such impairment or to avoid the imposition of additional material costs."
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-23-1220 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 23 / Article 13 / Section 58-23-1220
SECTION 58-23-1220. Liability insurance.
Status: in_force

Before the issuance of any such license card or plate, the owner of the taxi shall procure and file with the governing body of the county a liability insurance policy, together with a receipt showing the payment of the premium therefor, issued by a good and responsible insurance company to be approved by the governing body of the county, the company being one authorized to do business in this State and in possession of a certificate issued by the Department of Insurance. The amount of such liability insurance for each car shall be as follows: An amount not less than five thousand dollars for personal injury and an amount not less than one thousand dollars for property damage in any one accident. Such policy of insurance may be in the form of a separate policy for each taxi or may be in the form of a fleet policy covering all taxis operated by such owner if such policy shall provide for the same amount of liability for each taxi operated. A stipulation shall be made providing that no such policy above required may be canceled until the expiration of five days after notice of intended cancellation has been given in writing to the governing body of the county by registered mail or personal delivery of such notice.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-3330 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 27 / Section 58-17-3330
SECTION 58-17-3330. Penalty for failure to obey orders of Commission regarding safety devices.
Status: in_force

A failure to comply with any such order of the Commission within the time fixed by the Commission shall subject the railroad to a penalty of five hundred dollars, to be collected by suit in any court of competent jurisdiction by any person aggrieved. All penalties and forfeitures collected hereunder shall be paid over, one half into the State Treasury, and the other half into the county treasury of the county in which the suit is brought imposing the penalty, such revenues accruing from such collections to be used for general State and county purposes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-440 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 3 / Section 58-27-440
SECTION 58-27-440. Revocation of indeterminate permit for inadequacy of service.
Status: in_force

Whenever the service rendered by any electrical utility operating under an indeterminate permit shall be found inadequate by order of the Commission after hearing and such electrical utility shall fail to remedy the same after having been given a reasonable opportunity to do so, the indeterminate permit enjoyed by such electrical utility in respect to the service so found to be inadequate may with the consent of such municipality be declared revoked by the Commission upon such terms as shall be reasonable and just. But no order of the Commission revoking any such permit shall have any force and effect until a final determination of any proceeding brought to review the same.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-2700 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 24 / Section 58-27-2700
SECTION 58-27-2700. Notice of election.
Status: in_force

A public utility providing retail electric service, in its discretion and at any time, may elect to have the terms of this article apply to its rates and charges for retail electric service, on a prospective basis, by filing a notice of the election with the commission and on the same day and by the same means serving a copy on the Office of Regulatory Staff. Upon receipt of notice of the election, the commission shall proceed to make the findings and establish the ongoing procedures required for adjustments in base rates to be made under this article. In carrying out the procedures established by this article with respect to such an election, the commission shall rely upon and utilize the approved rates, charges, revenues, expenses, capital structure, returns, and other matters established in the public utility's most recent general rate proceeding pursuant to Section 58-27-860; provided, however, that the most recent order must have been issued no more than five years prior to the initial election to come under the terms of this article and the utility must file an application for a general rate proceeding every five years after such election. A public utility may combine an election under this article with the filing of a rate proceeding pursuant to Section 58-27-860. The commission shall include the findings required by this article in its rate orders issued in the Section 58-27-860 proceedings, and the election shall remain in effect until the next general rate proceeding. Editor's Note 2025 Act No. 41, SECTION 1, provides as follows: "SECTION 1. This act may be cited as the 'South Carolina Energy Security Act.' " 2025 Act No. 41, SECTION 33, provides as follows: "SECTION 33. (A) To foster economic development and future jobs in this State resulting from the supply chains associated with the same while supporting the significant and growing energy and capacity needs of the State, enhance grid resiliency, and maintain reliability, the General Assembly finds that the State of South Carolina should take steps necessary to encourage the development of a diverse mix of long-lead, clean generation resources that may include nuclear and advanced nuclear, biomass as defined in Section 12-63-20(B)(2) of the S.C. Code, hydrogen-capable resources, fusion energy, and other technologies, and should preserve the option of efficiency development of such long-lead resources with timely actions to establish or maintain eligibility for or capture available tax or other financial incentives or address operational needs. "(B) For an electrical utility to capture available tax or other financial or operational incentives for South Carolina ratepayers in a timely manner, the commission may find that actions by an electrical utility in pursuit of the directives in Section 58-37-35(A) are in the public interest, provided that the commission determines that such proposed actions are in the public interest and reasonably balance economic development and industry retention benefits, capacity expansion benefits, resource adequacy and diversification and potential risks, costs, and benefits to ratepayers and otherwise comply with all other legal requirements applicable to the electrical utility's proposed action. For the South Carolina Public Service Authority, the Office of Regulatory Staff and the Public Service Authority's board of directors shall apply the same principles described in this subsection in evaluating and approving actions proposed by the management of the Public Service Authority to achieve the objectives of this section." 2025 Act No. 41, SECTION 41, provides as follows: "SECTION 41. (A) Five years after the effective date of this act, the Office of the Regulatory Staff shall prepare a report, to be filed with the Public Utilities Review Committee and the General Assembly, to address the implementation of Article 24, Chapter 27, Title 58 as it relates to the following areas: "(1) assessing the functioning of the procedures established by section with recommendation for any changes required to ensure their efficient functioning, to promote regulatory efficiency, and to make further the establishment of just, reasonable, and fair rates; "(2) assessing the effect of rates on ratepayers of all classes; "(3) assessing the reliability of the electric system and whether investments made by electric utilities increased reliability compared to any change in electric utility rates experienced by ratepayers within the same timeframe; and "(4) any other information requested by the General Assembly to be included within the report. "(B) The Office of Regulatory Staff may engage a qualified, independent third party to assist in preparation of the report. "(C) All expenses and charges incurred by the Office of Regulatory Staff in the performance of its duties within this section may be defrayed by assessments made by the Comptroller General against the regulated electrical utilities regulated and based upon twenty-five percent of the gross revenues collected by such electrical utilities from their business done wholly within this State in the manner set out in Section 58-4-60 for other corporations." 2025 Act No. 41, SECTION 42, provides as follows: "SECTION 42. Upon passage of this act, Dominion Energy shall evaluate the process for converting the Wateree Generating Station from coal-fired generation to biomass-fired generation. Biomass-fired generation includes, but is not limited to, generation from the firing of wood pellets and wood chips. Dominion Energy must make a report concerning the conversion process to the Public Service Commission and General Assembly by no later than January 13, 2026."
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-2070 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 15 / Section 58-17-2070
SECTION 58-17-2070. Consignee entitled to itemized statement of charges; correction of errors.
Status: in_force

Whenever any article of freight shall be shipped to any point within the limits of this State, whether shipped from a point beyond the limits of this State or not, it shall be lawful for the consignee of such article to demand and receive from the agent of the railroad company delivering it, and before the payment of any charges upon it, a full and correct statement of such charges, the class to which such article belongs, the rates of freight charged for such class and the total amount to be paid by the consignee together with the proportion thereof to be paid to each road over which, or any part of which, such freight may have passed, whether such road be beyond the limits of this State or not. If such itemized statement be not incorporated in the waybill the agent shall deliver the article on the payment of the freight and procure as soon as possible such required items when demanded. If any errors should then appear it shall be immediately corrected by such agent.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-2650 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 23 / Section 58-27-2650
SECTION 58-27-2650. Section 58-27-2610 contingently effective.
Status: in_force

Section 58-27-2610 shall not become effective until the commission has approved net energy metering rates referenced in Chapter 40, Title 58 for all investor-owned electrical utilities serving more than one hundred thousand retail customer accounts in South Carolina. Editor's Note 2014 Act No. 236, SECTIONS 9, 10, provide as follows: "SECTION 9. If the application of the provisions of this act to any wholesale electrical contract existing on the date of its adoption is determined to impair unlawfully any term of such contract or to add material costs to either party, then that contract will be exempt from the terms of this act to the extent necessary to cure such impairment or to avoid the imposition of additional material costs. "SECTION 10. Article 23, Chapter 27, Title 58 shall be construed as a whole, and all parts of it are to be read and construed together. If any part of this article shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the remainder of this article shall be invalidated. Nothing herein shall be construed to affect the parties' right to appeal the matter."
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-870 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 11 / Article 5 / Section 58-11-870
SECTION 58-11-870. Authority's exercise of zoning, land use, planning, and permitting authority; limitations.
Status: in_force

Pursuant to the provisions of this article and applicable federal law, an authority may continue to exercise zoning, land use, planning and permitting authority within its territorial boundaries with respect to small wireless facilities, poles, and support structures outside of the ROW, including the enforcement of applicable codes. An authority does not have and may not exercise any jurisdiction or authority over the design, engineering, construction, installation, or operation of a small wireless facility located in an interior structure or upon the site of a campus, stadium, or athletic facility not owned or controlled by the authority, other than to require compliance with applicable codes. Nothing in this article authorizes the State or any agency, department, or instrumentality thereof, including an authority, to require any wireless facility deployment or to regulate wireless services.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-1440 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 11 / Section 58-17-1440
SECTION 58-17-1440. Penalty and damages for injury at crossing not having required signals.
Status: in_force

If a person is injured in his person or property by collision with the engine or any car of a railroad corporation at a crossing and it appears that the corporation neglected to give the signals required by the General Railroad Law and that such neglect contributed to the injury, the corporation shall be liable for all damages caused by the collision or to a fine recoverable by indictment, unless it is shown that in addition to a mere want of ordinary care the person injured or the person having charge of his person or property was at the time of the collision guilty of gross or wilful negligence or was acting in violation of the law and that such gross or wilful negligence or unlawful act contributed to the injury.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-80 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 1 / Section 58-17-80
SECTION 58-17-80. Benefit of process or proceedings; restrictions.
Status: in_force

Every railroad corporation incorporated under the laws of this State shall have the benefit of every process or proceeding and be subject to all the restrictions which shall or may be provided or imposed by the laws of the State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-3050 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 25 / Section 58-17-3050
SECTION 58-17-3050. Publishing change of timetable.
Status: in_force

Notice of any change in passenger schedules or timetables shall be published at least three days before such change goes into effect.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-1920 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 15 / Section 58-17-1920
SECTION 58-17-1920. Use of mileage books.
Status: in_force

Any railroad company selling mileage books for transportation shall receive coupons from mileage books sold by such railroad company on its trains for transportation within the State and check baggage upon presentation of such mileage books. But any railroad company selling or honoring mileage books for transportation which are interchangeable may require the holder thereof to present them in exchange for tickets.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-12-90 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 12 / Article 2 / Section 58-12-90
SECTION 58-12-90. Channel to be made available to Educational Television Commission.
Status: in_force

All cable television companies operating in the State shall make available one six megahertz channel for the transmissions of the South Carolina Educational Television Commission.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-490 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 11 / Article 3 / Section 58-11-490
SECTION 58-11-490. Inspections of property; audits of records; examinations of officers and employees.
Status: in_force

The Office of Regulatory Staff at any reasonable time shall have the right to inspect the property, plant, and facilities of any radio common carrier, and to inspect or audit at reasonable times the accounts, books, papers, and documents of any radio common carrier, and for the purposes herein mentioned are authorized to examine under oath any officer, agent, or employee of such radio common carrier in relation to the business and affairs of such radio common carrier, but written record of the testimony or statement so given under oath shall be made.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-1960 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 15 / Section 58-17-1960
SECTION 58-17-1960. Unjust discrimination in rates unlawful.
Status: in_force

If any such railroad corporation shall make any unjust discrimination in its rates and charges of toll as compensation for the transportation of passengers or freight of any description or for the use and transportation of any railroad car upon its road or upon any of the branches thereof or upon any railroads connected therewith which it has the right, license or permission to operate or control within this State, it shall be guilty of having violated the provisions of this chapter and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in a sum of not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-15-1680 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 15 / Article 17 / Section 58-15-1680
SECTION 58-15-1680. Underpasses and overhead bridges shall meet specifications of Department of Transportation.
Status: in_force

Underpasses or overhead bridges constructed in accordance with this article shall meet the specifications of the Department of Transportation.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-15-1130 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 15 / Article 11 / Section 58-15-1130
SECTION 58-15-1130. Taking part in violations shall be unlawful.
Status: in_force

Every person taking part in any such violation in any way, even in carrying out the orders of superior officers or in collecting the proceeds of any illegal charge, shall be equally guilty of a violation of Section 58-15-1110.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-13-250 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 13 / Article 5 / Section 58-13-250
SECTION 58-13-250. Liability of connecting carriers; recovery from carriers actually responsible.
Status: in_force

For any damages for injury or damage to, or loss or delay of, any freight, baggage or other property sustained anywhere in such through transportation over connecting lines, or any of them, as defined in Section 58-13-240, any of such connecting carriers which the person sustaining such damages may first elect to sue in this State therefor shall be held liable to such person and such carrier so held liable to such person shall be entitled in a proper action to recover the amount of any loss, damage or injury it may be required to pay such person from the carrier through whose negligence the loss, damage or injury was sustained, together with costs of suit.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-1270 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 9 / Section 58-27-1270
SECTION 58-27-1270. Cease and desist order when construction or operation proceeds in absence of certificate.
Status: in_force

Whenever an electrical utility, electric cooperative, consolidated political subdivision, public utility district, governmental body or agency, or another person or corporation is engaged or is about to engage in construction or operation without having secured a certificate of public convenience and necessity as required by the provisions of this chapter, or otherwise in violation thereof, any interested electrical utility, electric cooperative, consolidated political subdivision, corporation, municipality, or the Office of Regulatory Staff may file a petition with the commission. The commission may, with or without notice, make its order requiring the party complained of to cease and desist from construction or operation until the commission may, after hearing, issue an order and prescribe terms and conditions in harmony with this chapter as are just and reasonable.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-12-100 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 12 / Article 2 / Section 58-12-100
SECTION 58-12-100. Companies to maintain complaint service.
Status: in_force

Any cable television company franchised and operating in this State shall maintain a complaint service for the purpose of receiving consumer complaints concerning service or any other matter relating to its operations. The company shall keep written records of complaints received, including the name of the complaining party, the nature of the complaint and the disposition of the complaint. Such records shall be subject to inspection by the governing body which issued the franchise.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-12-50 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 12 / Article 2 / Section 58-12-50
SECTION 58-12-50. Penalties for violations; persons who may bring suit.
Status: in_force

Any person erecting or maintaining any such cable in violation of the provisions hereof shall forfeit and pay as a penalty therefor the sum of five dollars per day for each day such default continues after he shall have been given thirty days written notice specifying the default or defect in the manner of erection, construction or maintenance thereof, to be recovered at the suit of any citizen of any county in which such violation occurs, or by the agency charged with the maintenance of the public lands, highways or public roads, or waters of the State. The sum so recovered, after paying therefrom all the expenses incurred in the prosecution of such suit, shall be paid into the treasury of the county in which the violation occurred or, if the violation occurred in more than one county, into the treasury of each county in which the violation occurred on a pro rata basis.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-31-510 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 31 / Article 5 / Section 58-31-510
SECTION 58-31-510. Definitions.
Status: in_force

For purposes of this article: (1) "Licensed health care provider" means a licensed medical doctor, physician's assistant, nurse practitioner, or advanced-practice registered nurse. (2) "Special needs account customer" means the account of a residential customer: (a) when the customer can furnish to the Public Service Authority a certificate on a form provided by the Public Service Authority and signed by a licensed health care provider that states that termination of electric service would be dangerous to the health of the customer or a member of his household at the premises to which electric service is rendered; or (b) who suffers from Alzheimer's disease or dementia as certified by a licensed health care provider.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-857 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 11 / Article 5 / Section 58-11-857
SECTION 58-11-857. No interference with existing infrastructure, equipment, or service.
Status: in_force

An applicant in the ROW must not install, maintain, modify, operate, repair, or replace any small wireless facilities, support structures, or poles in a manner that interferes with any existing infrastructure, equipment, or service including, but not limited to, infrastructure, equipment, or service used to provide communications, electric, gas, water, sewer, or public safety services.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-680 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 5 / Section 58-17-680
SECTION 58-17-680. Consolidated corporation shall not acquire greater rights than those of consolidating corporations.
Status: in_force

No new consolidated corporation coming into existence under this article shall thereby acquire any extraordinary rights, privileges and exemptions not enjoyed by one or more of the companies consolidating under their respective charters.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-1370 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 11 / Section 58-17-1370
SECTION 58-17-1370. Stock guards or cattle gaps shall be constructed.
Status: in_force

Each railroad company whose line of road lies wholly or partly in this State shall construct and keep in repair an adequate stock guard or cattle gap at every point where the line of railroad of any such company crosses the line of any fence in this State. For every violation of this section the railroad company so violating it shall pay to the owner of the fence upon the line of which such stock guard or cattle gap should have been constructed and kept in repair the sum of one hundred dollars, to be recovered by action in the court of common pleas for the county in which such stock guard or cattle gap should have been constructed and kept in repair.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-640 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 5 / Section 58-17-640
SECTION 58-17-640. New charter shall be issued to consolidated company; no additional fee shall be charged.
Status: in_force

When railroad companies are consolidated under the provisions of this article a charter of incorporation for the new company so formed by such consolidation shall be issued to the owners and stockholders of the companies so consolidating or to such of them as the stockholders of each of such companies shall designate. Only the fees provided by law for consolidation shall be charged and no additional fee shall be charged for any such charter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-1840 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 15 / Section 58-17-1840
SECTION 58-17-1840. Notice before establishment of joint rates; hearing.
Status: in_force

Before applying joint rates to roads that are not under the management and control of one company the Commission shall give thirty days' notice to such roads of the joint rate contemplated and of its division between such roads and shall give a hearing to any road desiring to object thereto.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-1990 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 15 / Section 58-27-1990
SECTION 58-27-1990. Dismissal of petition without hearing.
Status: in_force

The commission may dismiss any petition without a hearing if in its opinion a hearing is not necessary in the public interest or for the protection of substantial rights.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-9-2650 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 9 / Article 23 / Section 58-9-2650
SECTION 58-9-2650. Liability insurance rates.
Status: in_force

The Department of Insurance must determine the South Carolina average market rate for private sector liability insurance for communications operations. To have government-owned and nongovernment-owned communications service providers in the same competitive position, to the extent possible, the rate paid for liability insurance for government-owned communications operations must be equal to or greater than the average market rate for private sector liability insurance in South Carolina as determined by the Department of Insurance. To the extent that any government-owned communications service provider pays less than the average market rate for this insurance established by the Department of Insurance, the difference must be remitted by the government-owned communications service provider to the general fund of the government owning that communications service provider. However, nothing in this section may be construed to mean a government-owned communications provider is not covered by the South Carolina Tort Claims Act. Editor's Note 2012 Act No. 284, SECTION 11, provides as follows: "The provisions of this act do not expand, diminish, or otherwise affect the provisions of Chapter 151, Title 59 regarding the South Carolina LightRail Consortium"
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-3-330 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 3 / Article 3 / Section 58-3-330
SECTION 58-3-330. Oath of inspectors.
Status: in_force

Before entering upon the duties of his office, each inspector shall take and subscribe before a notary public, or other officer authorized to administer an oath, an oath to faithfully perform the duties of his office and to properly execute the laws of this State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-350 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 3 / Section 58-17-350
SECTION 58-17-350. Maximum amount of capital stock which may be named in certificate; increase.
Status: in_force

The capital stock to be named in the certificate aforesaid shall in no case be greater than the amount of the capital stock specified in the original charter of the railroad so sold and any amendment or amendments thereto. Nothing herein contained, however, shall be construed to prevent an increase of capital stock to such additional amount as may be needed to convert any bonds or other indebtedness of the original corporation into stock and the corporation so formed may divide its capital stock into common and preferred stock upon such terms and with such conditions as may be prescribed.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-9-730 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 9 / Article 7 / Section 58-9-730
SECTION 58-9-730. Fixing value of utility.
Status: in_force

The commission may after hearing ascertain and fix the value of the whole or any part of the property of any telephone utility insofar as it is material to the exercise of the jurisdiction of the commission.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-1650 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 13 / Section 58-17-1650
SECTION 58-17-1650. Interrogatories.
Status: in_force

The Office of Regulatory Staff may make and propound to any of the railroad companies of this State any interrogatories additional to those contained in the schedule and report herein provided for, which must be answered by the companies in the same manner.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-13-620 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 13 / Article 9 / Section 58-13-620
SECTION 58-13-620. Perishable freight.
Status: in_force

In case such refused or unclaimed freight shall be in its nature perishable, then in order to protect the interests of all concerned, it may be sold as soon as it can be. The proceeds of such sale shall be applied to the charges of transportation, storage and demurrage on such freight and all other lawful charges assessed against it, as well as any legitimate expense connected with the sale thereof, and the balance shall be accounted for to the rightful owner, upon satisfactory proof of ownership.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-13-720 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 13 / Article 11 / Section 58-13-720
SECTION 58-13-720. Packing, marking and giving notice of explosive compound delivered for transportation.
Status: in_force

No person shall deliver for transportation to any railroad corporation, or other person engaged in the transportation of passengers within this State or take or place upon or in any car, boat or other vehicle of any such corporation or person, with intent that it shall be carried or transported on such car, boat or other vehicle, any explosive compound unless it is packed and marked as herein provided and notice of the dangerous nature thereof is expressly given to the agent, servant or person to whom it is delivered or to the agent, servant or person having at the time the management and control of the car, boat or other vehicle in or upon which it is to be carried or transported. And any common carrier may decline to receive for transportation any such explosive compound in any manner whatever.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-1320 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 11 / Section 58-17-1320
SECTION 58-17-1320. Consent of Office of Regulatory Staff to one railroad crossing another at same grade.
Status: in_force

A railroad shall not be constructed to cross another railroad at the same level or across navigable or tidewaters without the consent, in writing, of the Office of Regulatory Staff, in the manner as the Office of Regulatory Staff prescribes. It is unlawful for any corporation to construct a branch or extension or otherwise to take any proceedings contemplating a new crossing of one railroad with another, at the same level, unless the crossing has been approved, in advance and in writing, by the Office of Regulatory Staff. Preliminary approval of any crossing plan is subject to revision by the Office of Regulatory Staff. The court of common pleas shall have full equity jurisdiction of the provisions of this section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-250 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 1 / Section 58-27-250
SECTION 58-27-250. Restrictions on interruption of electric service to residential customer for nonpayment of bill; exceptions.
Status: in_force

(A) Except as provided in subsections (B) and (C) of this section, an electrical utility must not interrupt electric service to any residential customer for nonpayment of a bill until twenty-five days have elapsed from the date of billing. (B) An electrical utility may interrupt electric service to any residential customer who has voluntarily enrolled in a prepay program if the prepay program allows the customer to monitor his consumption of electricity and his account balance on a daily basis and the balance of that customer's prepay account is zero, provided that the following conditions are met: (1) at the time the residential customer enrolls in the prepay program, the residential customer is informed and agrees that his electric service may be interrupted when the balance of his prepay account reaches zero; (2) electric service must not be interrupted before 10:00 a.m. on the next business day following an attempt by the electrical utility to give the customer notice of the impending interruption by telephone or electronically; and (3) electric service must not be interrupted except during hours when the electrical utility, or an agent, is accepting cash payments. (C) A prepay program established by an electrical utility shall be subject to approval by the Public Service Commission of South Carolina prior to implementation. Any interruption of electric service under an approved prepay program shall be governed by the terms of this section and the provisions of the prepay account agreement. A prepay program approved by the Public Service Commission under this subsection must allow the utility to interrupt service when the balance of the customer's prepay account is zero and the conditions set out in subsection (B) are met. Upon a showing of good cause, the commission may allow alternative compliance with the requirement of subsection (B) regarding the ability of the customer to monitor his consumption and account balance on a daily basis, if such compliance provides consumer information and protections similar to that required in subsection (B). (D) Nothing contained herein shall be construed so as to relieve an electrical utility of the requirements of Act 313 of 2006. (E) Any person aggrieved by a violation of this section may petition the courts of this State for redress in accordance with applicable law.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-33-275 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 33 / Article 4 / Section 58-33-275
SECTION 58-33-275. Base load review orders; parameters; challenges; recovery of capital costs.
Status: in_force

(A) A base load review order shall constitute a final and binding determination that a plant is used and useful for utility purposes, and that its capital costs are prudent utility costs and expenses and are properly included in rates so long as the plant is constructed or is being constructed within the parameters of: (1) the approved construction schedule including contingencies; and (2) the approved capital costs estimates including specified contingencies. (B) Determinations under Section 58-33-275(A) may not be challenged or reopened in any subsequent proceeding, including proceedings under Section 58-27-810 and other applicable provisions and Section 58-33-280 and other applicable provisions of this article. (C) So long as the plant is constructed or being constructed in accordance with the approved schedules, estimates, and projections set forth in Section 58-33-270(B)(1) and 58-33-270(B)(2), as adjusted by the inflation indices set forth in Section 58-33-270(B)(5), the utility must be allowed to recover its capital costs related to the plant through revised rate filings or general rate proceedings. (D) Changes in fuel costs will not be considered in conducting any evaluation under this section. (E) In cases where a party proves by a preponderance of the evidence that there has been a material and adverse deviation from the approved schedules, estimates, and projections set forth in Section 58-33-270(B)(1) and 58-33-270(B)(2), as adjusted by the inflation indices set forth in Section 58-33-270(B)(5), the commission may disallow the additional capital costs that result from the deviation, but only to the extent that the failure by the utility to anticipate or avoid the deviation, or to minimize the resulting expense, was imprudent considering the information available at the time that the utility could have acted to avoid the deviation or minimize its effect.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-21-60 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 21 / Article 1 / Section 58-21-60
SECTION 58-21-60. Certain statutory provisions inapplicable to lines of more than fifty miles.
Status: in_force

None of the provisions of Sections 58-21-210, 58-21-220, 58-21-240, 58-21-300, or 58-21-310, shall apply to electric interurban railways operating more than fifty miles in length.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-210 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 58-11-210
SECTION 58-11-210. Companies subject to chapter even before commencing operations.
Status: in_force

Corporations formed to acquire property, or to transact business which would be subject to the provisions of this chapter, and corporations possessing franchises, powers or privileges for any of the purposes contemplated by this chapter shall be deemed to be subject to the provisions of this chapter, although no property may have been acquired, business transacted or franchises, powers or privileges exercised.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-23-1010 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 23 / Article 11 / Section 58-23-1010
SECTION 58-23-1010. General powers of commission.
Status: in_force

(A) The commission shall regulate every motor carrier in this State and fix or approve the classifications and regulations pertaining to each motor carrier, except as provided in Section 58-23-20. (B) As to holders of a certificate E, the carrier shall file a maximum rate schedule with the commission. The commission must post the maximum rate schedule filing within one business day of receipt. The new maximum rate schedule shall go into effect one business day following the commission's posting of the new schedule. Holders of certificate E shall have the flexibility for adjustment of the rates below the maximum rate levels without commission approval. The commission shall publish the maximum rate schedule on its website. Effect of Amendment 2022 Act No. 214, SECTION 19, rewrote the section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-36-10 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 36 / Section 58-36-10
SECTION 58-36-10. Short title.
Status: in_force

This chapter may be cited as the Underground Facility Damage Prevention Act.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-5-270 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 5 / Article 3 / Section 58-5-270
SECTION 58-5-270. Applications and individual consumer complaints; hearings.
Status: in_force

Applications may be made by any corporation, public or private, person, chamber of commerce or board of trade, by any civic, commercial, mercantile, traffic, agricultural, or manufacturing association or by any body politic, commission, board, or municipal corporation by petition in writing, setting forth any act or thing done, or omitted to be done, with respect to which, under the provisions of Articles 1, 3, and 5 of this chapter, the commission has jurisdiction or is alleged to have jurisdiction. Individual consumer complaints must be filed with the Office of Regulatory Staff which has the responsibility of mediating consumer complaints under the provisions of Articles 1, 3, and 5. If a complaint is not resolved to the satisfaction of the complainant, the complainant may request a hearing before the commission. The commission has jurisdiction to hear complaints regarding the reasonableness of any rates or charges that affect the general body of ratepayers; but the commission may at its discretion refuse to entertain a petition as to the reasonableness of any rates or charges unless it be signed by the mayor or the president or chairman of the board of trustees or a majority of the council, commission or other legislative body of the city or county or city or town affected by the subject matter of such complaint or by not less than twenty-five consumers of the public utility named in the complaint. Any public utility shall have the right to petition the commission on any of the grounds upon which petitions are allowed to be filed by other parties, including the fairness, reasonableness, or sufficiency of any schedule, classification, rate, price, charge, fare, toll, rental, rule, regulation, service, or facility of such public utility and in such event the same procedure shall be adopted and followed as in other cases.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-23-560 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 23 / Article 5 / Section 58-23-560
SECTION 58-23-560. License fees for class A, B, or C certificate holders.
Status: in_force

A holder of a certificate A, B, or C must annually before January first of each year pay to the Office of Regulatory Staff a fee of fifty dollars per vehicle. Effect of Amendment 2022 Act No. 214, SECTION 14, rewrote the section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-9-2230 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 9 / Article 20 / Section 58-9-2230
SECTION 58-9-2230. Public rights-of-way franchise, consent and administrative fees; authorized taxes; mobile telecommunications services.
Status: in_force

(A) A municipality shall manage its public rights-of-way on a competitively neutral and nondiscriminatory basis and may impose a fair and reasonable franchise or consent fee on a telecommunications company for use of the public streets and public property to provide telecommunications service unless the telecommunications company has an existing contractual, constitutional, statutory, or other right to construct or operate in the public streets and public property including, but not limited to, consent previously granted by a municipality. A fair and reasonable franchise or consent fee imposed upon a telecommunications company shall not exceed the annual sum set forth in the following schedule based on population: Tier I—1—1,000—$ 100.00 Tier II—1,001—3,000—$ 200.00 Tier III—3,001—5,000—$ 300.00 Tier IV—5,001—10,000—$ 500.00 Tier V—10,001—25,000—$ 750.00 Tier VI—Over 25,000—$1,000.00 This franchise or consent fee is in lieu of any permit fee, encroachment fee, degradation fee, or other fee assessed on a telecommunications provider for its occupation of or work within the public right of way. (B) A municipality shall manage its public rights-of-way on a competitively neutral and nondiscriminatory basis and may impose an administrative fee upon a telecommunications company that is not subject to subsection (A) in this section and that constructs or installs or has previously constructed or installed facilities in the public streets and public property to provide telecommunications service. The fee imposed on a telecommunications company shall not exceed the annual sum set forth in the following schedule based on population: Tier I—1—1,000—$ 100.00 Tier II—1,001—3,000—$ 200.00 Tier III—3,001—5,000—$ 300.00 Tier IV—5,001—10,000—$ 500.00 Tier V—10,001—25,000—$ 750.00 Tier VI—Over 25,000—$1,000.00 This administrative fee is in lieu of any permit fee, encroachment fee, degradation fee, or other fee assessed on a telecommunications provider for its occupation of or work within the public right of way. (C) A municipality shall not levy any tax, license, fee, or other assessment on a telecommunications service, other than (1) the business license tax authorized by this article, and (2) franchise fees as defined and regulated under 47 U.S.C. Section 542; provided, however, that nothing in this subsection restricts the right of a municipality to impose ad valorem taxes, sales taxes, or other taxes lawfully imposed on other businesses within the municipalities. This subsection does not prohibit a municipality from assessing upon a telecommunications company fees of general applicability such as sanitation fees, building permit fees, and zoning permit fees that are not related to the telecommunications company's occupation of or work within the public right of way. (D) A telecommunications company, including a mobile telecommunications company providing mobile telecommunications services, is not considered to be using public streets or public property unless it has constructed or installed physical facilities in public streets or on public property. The use of public streets or public property under lease, site license, or other similar contractual arrangement between a municipality and a telecommunications company does not constitute the use of public streets or public property for purposes of this article. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, a telecommunications company is not considered to be using public streets or public property for purposes of this article solely because of its use of airwaves within a municipality. If a telecommunications company, including a telecommunications company providing mobile telecommunications services, requests of a municipality permission to construct or install physical facilities in public streets or on public property, that request must be considered by the municipality in a manner that is competitively neutral and nondiscriminatory as among all telecommunications companies.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-1190 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 9 / Section 58-17-1190
SECTION 58-17-1190. Relocation of lines and other changes in tracks and facilities.
Status: in_force

Any railroad company owning or operating a railroad, or any part thereof, in this State, under authority of the laws of this State, may reconstruct its lines, tracks or any part of them, relocate or straighten any line or lines or portion of a line or lines, build embankments for the purpose of avoiding trestles, bridges or other openings upon which such railroad may be constructed, change the grade of a track or tracks, widen cuts or embankments when necessary for proper construction or maintenance, build such additional main line or lines, track or tracks, turnouts, switches, spur tracks, sidetracks, depots, depot facilities, yards, terminal facilities, water facilities, storage facilities and other such additional tracks, buildings, facilities, ways and appliances as may be necessary for the proper accommodation of the public business of such railroad company and build cutoff lines, branch lines and other lines for the purpose of the better and more expeditious handling of the public business.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-31-190 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 31 / Article 1 / Section 58-31-190
SECTION 58-31-190. Diversion of water from Santee River and its tributaries for use in operation of generating plant.
Status: in_force

The South Carolina Public Service Authority is hereby authorized to divert water from the Santee River, and its tributaries for use in connection with the operation of an electric generating plant to be constructed in Georgetown County between the Sampit River, Penney Royal Creek and Winyah Bay and to discharge such water, or so much thereof as is not consumed into Turkey Creek, and thereto Penney Royal Creek and thereto into Sampit River. Such diversion shall not exceed one hundred cubic feet of water per second each day, and shall be accomplished by pipes or other underground structures. Such diversion shall not in any manner reduce the water level or flow rate of the Santee River and its tributaries. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to waive the public law or regulations of the State of South Carolina as to pollution control. This section shall not affect the right of any person to recover, in a court of competent jurisdiction, damages sustained as a result of the diversion of water permitted by this section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-1940 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 15 / Section 58-17-1940
SECTION 58-17-1940. Surcharge for intrastate Pullman transportation shall be unlawful.
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for any railroad or Pullman car company doing business in this State to collect from any person within the boundaries of the State any surtax or surcharge for Pullman car transportation from one point to any other point within the bounds of the State. But nothing in this section shall be construed to affect in any way the charge which any railroad or Pullman car company requires for transportation in interstate travel.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-800 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 11 / Article 5 / Section 58-11-800
SECTION 58-11-800. Short title; legislative findings.
Status: in_force

(A) This article must be known and may be cited as the "South Carolina Small Wireless Facilities Deployment Act". (B) The General Assembly finds that: (1) the deployment of small wireless facilities and other next-generation wireless and broadband network facilities is a matter of statewide concern and interest; (2) wireless and broadband products and services are a significant and continually growing part of the state's economy; accordingly, encouraging the development of strong and robust wireless and broadband communications networks throughout the State is integral to the state's economic competitiveness; (3) rapid deployment of small wireless facilities serves numerous important statewide goals and public policy objectives including, but not limited to, meeting growing consumer demand for wireless data, increasing competitive options for communications services available to the state's residents; promoting the ability of the state's citizens to communicate with other citizens and with their state and local governments; and promoting public safety; (4) small wireless facilities, including facilities commonly referred to as small cells and distributed antenna systems, are deployed most effectively in the right of way (ROW); (5) to meet the key objectives of this article, wireless providers must have access to the ROW and the ability to attach to infrastructure in the ROW to densify their networks and provide next generation wireless services; (6) uniform rates and fees for the permitting and deployment of small wireless facilities in the ROW and on authority infrastructure, including poles, throughout the State is reasonable and encourages the development of robust next-generation wireless and broadband networks for the benefit of citizens throughout the State; (7) the procedures, rates, and fees in this article are fair and reasonable when viewed from the perspective of the state's citizens and the state's interest in having robust, reliable, and technologically advanced wireless and broadband networks; and reflect a balancing of the interests of the wireless providers deploying new facilities and the interests of authorities in recovering their costs of managing access to the ROW and the attachment space provided on authority infrastructure in the ROW; and (8) this article supersedes and preempts any enactment by an authority that contradicts, expands, contracts, or otherwise modifies the provisions of this article with respect to the regulation of the placement of small wireless facilities and of support structures and poles for small wireless facilities in the ROW provided; however, that nothing in this item limits any power granted to any authority under this article including, but not limited to, the power to enforce city-wide compliant provisions in previous enactments, so long as those provisions do not violate federal law.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-5-415 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 5 / Article 4 / Section 58-5-415
SECTION 58-5-415. Duration of election; withdrawal of request to come under article.
Status: in_force

The election by a utility to have the terms of this article apply to its rates and charges for gas distribution service once made shall remain in effect until the next Section 58-5-240 general rate proceeding for the public utility at which time the public utility may then elect to continue the applicability of this article to its rates and charges or elect to opt out of the provisions of this article. The applicant may withdraw its request to come under the terms of this article at any time before the entry of a final order of the commission on the merits of the proceeding in which the election is made or on a petition for rehearing in the proceeding.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-1830 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 15 / Section 58-17-1830
SECTION 58-17-1830. Power of Commission over rates and routes.
Status: in_force

The Public Service Commission shall: (1) As provided in Section 58-17-1850, make reasonable and just rates of freight and passenger tariffs, to be observed by all railroad companies doing business in this State on the railroads therein; (2) Make reasonable and just routes to be observed by all railroad companies doing business in this State and reasonable and just rules and regulations to be observed by all such railroad companies as to charges to any and all points for the necessary hauling and delivery of all freight; (3) Make such just and reasonable rules and regulations as may be necessary for preventing unjust discrimination in the transportation of freight and passengers on the railroads in this State; (4) Have the power to make just and reasonable joint rates for all connecting roads doing business in this State as to all traffic or business passing from one of such roads to another and to require the making of such connections at intersecting points of the schedules of trains as the public convenience may in its judgment demand; (5) Make reasonable and just rates of charges for the use of railroad cars carrying any kind of freight and passengers on such railroad, no matter by whom owned or carried; (6) Make just and reasonable rules and regulations to be observed by such railroad companies or railroads to prevent the giving or paying of any rebate or bonus, directly or indirectly, and the misleading or deceiving of the public in any manner as to the real rates charged for freight and passengers; and (7) Have power, by rules and regulations, to designate and fix the difference in rates of freight and passenger transportation to be allowed for shorter and longer distances on the same or different railroads and to ascertain what shall be the limit of longer and shorter distances.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-850 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 7 / Section 58-27-850
SECTION 58-27-850. Investigation and change of rates by commission.
Status: in_force

Whenever the commission after a hearing finds that the existing rates in effect and collected by any electrical utility for any service, product, or commodity are unjust, unreasonable, insufficient, unreasonably discriminatory, or in any way in violation of any provision of law, the commission shall determine the just, reasonable, and sufficient rates to be thereafter observed and in force and shall fix the rates by its order.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-15-890 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 15 / Article 9 / Section 58-15-890
SECTION 58-15-890. Use in advertisement of cross usually used as crossing sign by railroads.
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for any person to use for advertising purposes the kind of a cross usually used as a crossing sign by steam and electric railroads. Any violation of the provisions of this section shall be punishable by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or imprisonment for not more than thirty days.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-23-1670 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 23 / Article 16 / Section 58-23-1670
SECTION 58-23-1670. Records and documentation; information requests; confidentiality of information.
Status: in_force

(A) A TNC shall maintain a record of all TNC services provided in South Carolina for a period of three years from the date of the TNC service. The records shall include: (1) the time at which a TNC driver logs into the digital network; (2) the time and place of commencement of TNC service; (3) the address of delivery of the TNC passenger; (4) the amount of fare charged to the TNC passengers; and (5) any inquiry or complaint of the TNC passenger, the date of the inquiry or complaint, and the resolution of the inquiry or complaint. (B) A TNC shall maintain documentation of each TNC vehicle inspection for a period of three years. (C) The TNC shall maintain documentation of initial and annual verification of TNC driver qualifications for a period of three years. (D) The TNC shall provide, upon the request of the Office of Regulatory Staff, any factual information regarding TNC drivers, TNC passengers, and TNC services so as to investigate complaints arising under this article. This information must be provided to the Office of Regulatory Staff within a reasonable time period. (E) A TNC shall not disclose a TNC driver or passenger's personally identifiable information to a third party unless the: (1) TNC driver or TNC passenger consents; (2) disclosure is required by legal obligation; or (3) disclosure is required to investigate violations of the TNC driver or TNC passenger terms of use.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-31-227 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 31 / Article 1 / Section 58-31-227
SECTION 58-31-227. Renewable energy facilities and resources.
Status: in_force

(A) The Public Service Authority shall file for commission approval of a program for the competitive procurement of energy, capacity, and environmental attributes from renewable energy facilities to meet needs for new generation resources identified by the Authority in its Integrated Resource Plans or other planning processes. The commission may not grant approval unless the commission finds and determines that the Public Service Authority satisfied all requirements of this section and the proposed program is in the best interests of the customers of the Public Service Authority. The commission may adopt procedures to implement the requirements of this section and shall retain continuing oversight and approval authority over all aspects of an approved program to ensure any approved program complies with this section and is in the best interests of the customers of the Public Service Authority. (B) The Public Service Authority shall procure renewable energy resources subject to the following requirements: (1) Renewable energy resources procured by the Public Service Authority shall be procured via a competitive solicitation process open to all independent market participants that meet minimum eligibility requirements. (2) The Public Service Authority shall issue public notification of its intention to issue a competitive renewable solicitation at least ninety days prior to the release of each solicitation, including the proposed procurement volume, process, and timeline. (3) Renewable energy facilities eligible to participate in a competitive procurement are those that have a valid interconnection request on file and that use renewable energy resources identified in Section 58-39-120(F) and may include battery storage devices charged exclusively by renewable energy. (C) The Public Service Authority shall make publicly available at least forty-five days prior to each competitive solicitation: (1) A pro forma contract to inform market participants of the procurement terms and conditions. The pro forma contract will (i) include standardized and commercially reasonable requirements for contract performance security consistent with market standards; (ii) define limits and compensation for resource dispatch and curtailments that limit uncompensated curtailment to a specified portion of estimated annual output. (2) A bid evaluation methodology that ensures all bids are treated equitably, including price and nonprice evaluation criteria. Nonprice criteria will at minimum include consideration of diversity in resource size and geographic location. (3) Interconnection requirements and study methodology, including how bids without existing interconnection studies will be treated for purposes of evaluation. (D) After bids are submitted and evaluated, winning bids will be selected based upon the published evaluation methodology. (E) The Public Service Authority shall issue a public report summarizing the results of each competitive solicitation within sixty days of the award notifications. The report will include, at minimum, a summary of the submitted bids and an anonymized list of the project awards, including their size, location, average award price and tenor, and award price range.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-34-40 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 34 / Section 58-34-40
SECTION 58-34-40. Suspension of conflicting provisions.
Status: in_force

Any provision of Article 7, Chapter 27, Title 58 in conflict with the provisions of this chapter, including, but not limited to, Section 58-27-870(B), are suspended for purposes of the utility rates provided for by this chapter and for any pending matters related to V.C. Summer Nuclear Reactor Units 2 and 3 at Jenkinsville, South Carolina, pending before the commission on or after the effective date of this chapter. The suspension remains in effect during the pendency of any litigation or appeal concerning the experimental or interim rates directed by the General Assembly or ordered by the Public Service Commission pursuant to this chapter, or related issues surrounding the establishment of these rates, until a final determination of the matter, including any subsequent appeals, is made by the appropriate court. Editor's Note 2018 Act No. 258, SECTION 12, provides as follows: "SECTION 12. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor and applies to all cases, proceedings, petitions, or matters pending before the Public Service Commission or in any other court or venue on or after the effective date of this act."
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-23-1410 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 23 / Article 13 / Section 58-23-1410
SECTION 58-23-1410. Penalties.
Status: in_force

The violation of any of the provisions of this article shall be a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding thirty days.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-31-440 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 31 / Article 3 / Section 58-31-440
SECTION 58-31-440. Maintenance of existing lines; customer choice in certain circumstances.
Status: in_force

Lines of the Public Service Authority in existence on July 1, 1984, which extend into the service areas of Berkeley Electric Cooperative, Santee Electric Cooperative, and Horry Electric Cooperative, and lines of those cooperatives which extend into the service area of the Public Service Authority may continue to be operated and maintained by the owner of the lines, and premises served by the lines on July 1, 1984, must continue to be so served. The owner of a line in another supplier's service area may exclusively serve any new premises located wholly or partially within three hundred feet of the line. Where the premises are located wholly or partially within three hundred feet of a line of both the Public Service Authority and an electric Cooperative, the customer may choose between those suppliers, and the supplier originally chosen shall continue to have the exclusive right to serve such premises.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-13-230 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 13 / Article 5 / Section 58-13-230
SECTION 58-13-230. Only one penalty recoverable on same cause.
Status: in_force

Only one penalty shall be recoverable under the provisions of Section 58-13-220 upon the same cause of action.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-1420 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 11 / Section 58-17-1420
SECTION 58-17-1420. Appeal from Commission order requiring flagman; appointment of civil engineer to decide matter.
Status: in_force

Any such railroad company, after receiving such notice, may, within ten days after such receipt, apply to the circuit court of the circuit in which such crossing is situated, or to a judge thereof if the court be not in session, and claim a re-examination of the locality and a revision of the action of the Commission. The court or judge, as the case may be, shall appoint forthwith some civil engineer, not connected with any railroad, to examine into the matter forthwith and he may either affirm the demand of the Commission or modify it and his determination shall be final.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-1910 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 15 / Section 58-27-1910
SECTION 58-27-1910. Promulgation of rules governing pleadings, practice and procedure.
Status: in_force

The Commission may prescribe rules governing pleadings, practice and procedure before it not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter or any other provisions of law.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-23-1020 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 23 / Article 11 / Section 58-23-1020
SECTION 58-23-1020. Certain routes or schedules shall not be changed without permit from Commission.
Status: in_force

No motor vehicle carrier holding a certificate A, B, or D shall change the route or schedule of his motor vehicle during any year for which a license has been issued without procuring an order of the commission before the route is changed. Effect of Amendment 2022 Act No. 214, SECTION 20, substituted "an order of the commission" for "a permit in writing from the Commission" and made a nonsubstantive change.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-2740 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 23 / Section 58-17-2740
SECTION 58-17-2740. Shipper may designate routes; changing of route shall be unlawful.
Status: in_force

All persons shipping from, into, within or through this State may designate the route or routes by which such goods shall be shipped, subject to such reasonable exceptions and regulations as the Public Service Commission shall from time to time prescribe, and it shall be unlawful for any person other than the holder of the bill of lading to vary such route so designated or to ship such goods by any other route or to receive such goods if so diverted, unless the route so designated shall be interrupted or be incapable of being used at the time by strike or casualty preventing the running of trains thereon.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-1350 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 11 / Section 58-17-1350
SECTION 58-17-1350. Crossing on level shall be protected.
Status: in_force

A railroad corporation whose road is crossed by a highway or other way within the corporate limits of any city or town on a level therewith, shall, at its own expense, so guard or protect its rails by plank, timber or otherwise as to secure a safe and easy passage across its road and if, in the opinion of the proper municipal authorities thereof, any subsequent alteration of the highway or other way, or any additional safeguards, are required at the crossing they may order the corporation to establish the same.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-15-150 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 15 / Article 1 / Section 58-15-150
SECTION 58-15-150. Railroads may issue no par common stock.
Status: in_force

A railroad corporation may issue common stock in shares having no par value on stating in its declaration and petition the number of such shares to be issued in lieu of the par value thereof and the minimum and maximum amount thereof.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-15-1950 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 15 / Article 19 / Section 58-15-1950
SECTION 58-15-1950. Appeal to Supreme Court; stay of construction.
Status: in_force

Any railroad company affected by any decision or action of the Department of Transportation made or initiated pursuant to the provisions of this article may appeal to the Supreme Court in its original jurisdiction for a review of the department's findings as to either the necessity for the proposed reconstruction, changes or alterations or determinations relating to divisions of costs. The appeal, however, shall not operate as a stay to prevent the department from proceeding with the work after notice, as provided in Section 58-15-1930, unless so ordered specifically by the court or some member thereof, after prima facie showing that the appellant's property, or the use thereof, after the completion of the proposed reconstruction, changes or alterations would be definitely impaired and rendered less suitable for its intended purposes. But in case of any stay order by the court, or some member thereof, on the appellant's showing and the subsequent finding by the court that such injury would result from the proposed reconstruction, changes or alterations to the appellant's property, or the use thereof, the appellant shall be held liable for any damages or losses sustained by the Department of Transportation incident to, occasioned or brought about by the delay pending the appeal.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-34-30 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 34 / Section 58-34-30
SECTION 58-34-30. Monitoring and adjustment of experimental rate.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the experimental rate set pursuant to Section 58-34-20 shall remain in full force and effect during the pendency of the matters before the commission. However, the commission shall monitor the net effect of the experimental rate and may alter the experimental rate, on its own motion, only if it determines that an adjustment to the experimental rate is necessary to satisfy constitutional requirements of utility ratemaking. If required to adjust the rate, the commission shall, under applicable provisions of law, determine the just and reasonable rates for these ratepayers after considering all factors and evidence. In determining such rate and in considering the constitutionally allowable zone of reasonableness in which rates may properly fall, the commission is directed to set the lowest possible rate within the zone of reasonableness. Nothing herein prevents the commission from adopting as its own rate the experimental rate directed by the General Assembly in Section 58-34-10 and ordered pursuant to Section 58-34-20. Editor's Note 2018 Act No. 258, SECTION 12, provides as follows: "SECTION 12. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor and applies to all cases, proceedings, petitions, or matters pending before the Public Service Commission or in any other court or venue on or after the effective date of this act."
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-9-510 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 9 / Article 5 / Section 58-9-510
SECTION 58-9-510. Changes in phone rates.
Status: in_force

Whenever the commission after a hearing finds that the existing rates in effect and collected by any telephone utility for any service are unjust, unreasonable, insufficient, unreasonably discriminatory, or in any way in violation of any provision of law, the commission shall determine the just, reasonable, and sufficient rates to be thereafter observed and in force and shall fix them by its order.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-15-420 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 15 / Article 3 / Section 58-15-420
SECTION 58-15-420. Rights to compensation for damages not affected.
Status: in_force

Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent any owner of riparian rights or other landowner from recovering just compensation for any injury to or diminution of such rights sustained by reason of any corporation exercising any rights hereunder.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-480 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 11 / Article 3 / Section 58-11-480
SECTION 58-11-480. Applicant for certificate for operation or extension into established service area shall notify carrier in that area.
Status: in_force

Should application be made for a proposed radio common carrier operation or extension thereof into a service area, or portion thereof, of another certified radio common carrier, the applicant shall notify the radio common carrier with copies of all information filed with the commission and provided to the Office of Regulatory Staff within ten days from the date filed with the commission.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-3-560 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 3 / Article 5 / Section 58-3-560
SECTION 58-3-560. Election of commission members; screening and qualification of candidates.
Status: in_force

(A) Whenever an election is to be held by the General Assembly in joint session to elect a person to serve on the commission, the review committee must conduct its screening pursuant to the provisions of Section 2-20-10, et seq.; however, Section 2-20-40 is not applicable to a screening by the review committee. (B) In order to be nominated for a seat on the commission, candidates must meet the requirements of Section 58-3-20 and this section. In screening candidates for the commission and making its findings, the review committee must seek to find the best qualified people by giving due consideration to: (1) ability, dedication, compassion, common sense, and integrity of the candidates; and (2) the race and gender of the candidates and other demographic factors to assure nondiscrimination to the greatest extent possible of all segments of the population of the State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-390 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 3 / Section 58-17-390
SECTION 58-17-390. Amount of capital stock corporation may issue.
Status: in_force

Any such corporation may issue capital stock to such an aggregate amount as may be deemed necessary, not exceeding the amount named in its certificate of organization.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-9-577 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 9 / Article 5 / Section 58-9-577
SECTION 58-9-577. Approval of alternative form of regulation; conditions and effect of approval.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding Sections 58-9-575 and 58-9-576, any small LEC may elect to have the rates, terms, and conditions of its services determined pursuant to alternative forms of regulation, which may differ among companies and may include, but not be limited to, price regulation, rather than rate of return or other forms of earning regulation. Upon application filed with the commission and served upon the Office of Regulatory Staff, the commission shall approve such alternative regulation or price regulation, which may differ among local exchange companies, upon finding that the plan as proposed: (1) protects the affordability of basic local exchange telephone service, as such service is defined by the commission; (2) reasonably assures the continuation of basic local exchange telephone service that meets reasonable service standards that the commission may adopt; (3) will not unreasonably prejudice any class of telephone customers, including telecommunications companies; (4) is not inconsistent with the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996; and (5) is otherwise consistent with the public interest. Upon approval of a price regulation plan, price regulation shall be the sole form of regulation imposed upon the electing local exchange carrier, and the commission shall regulate the electing local exchange carrier's prices rather than its earnings. The small LEC shall file a tariff with the commission for its local exchange services that sets out the terms and conditions of the services and the rates for these services. The small LEC also must provide a copy of the tariffs to the Office of Regulatory Staff. The tariff shall be presumed valid and shall become effective seven days after filing for price decreases and fourteen days after filing for price increases and new services, subject to a process in accordance with guidelines to be adopted by the commission. The commission shall issue an order denying or approving the proposed plan for alternative regulation or price regulation, with or without modification, not more than ninety days from the filing of the application. However, the commission may extend the time period for an additional sixty days, in the discretion of the commission. If the commission approves the application with modifications, the local exchange carrier, subject to such approval, may accept the modifications and implement the proposed plan as modified or may at its option: (1) withdraw its application and continue to be regulated under the form of regulation that existed immediately before the filing of the application; or (2) file another proposed plan for price regulation.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-13-40 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 13 / Article 1 / Section 58-13-40
SECTION 58-13-40. Certain provisions not applicable to water carriers.
Status: in_force

The provisions of Section 58-13-30 and of Articles 3, 5, 7, 9 and 13 of this Chapter, other than Sections 58-13-270 and 58-13-280 shall not apply to any common carriers by water routes.