S.C. Code Ann. § 58-33-180 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 33 / Article 3 / Section 58-33-180
SECTION 58-33-180. Additional requirements regarding construction of a major utility facility.
Status: in_force

(A) In addition to the requirements of Articles 1, 3, 5, and 7 of Chapter 33, Title 58, a certificate for the construction of a major utility facility shall be granted only if the Public Service Authority demonstrates and proves by a preponderance of the evidence and the commission finds: (1) the construction of a major utility facility constitutes a more cost-effective means for serving direct serve and wholesale customers than other feasibly available long-term power supply alternatives and provides less ratepayer risk while maintaining safe and reliable electric service than other feasibly available long-term power supply alternatives; and (2) energy efficiency measures; demand-side management; renewable energy resource generation; available long-term power supply alternatives, or any combination thereof, would not establish or maintain a more cost-effective and reliable generation system and that the construction and operation of the facility is in the public interest. (B) Available long-term power supply alternatives may include, but are not limited to, power purchase agreements, competitive procurement of renewable energy, joint dispatch agreements, market purchases from an existing regional transmission organization, joining or creating a new regional transmission organization, using best available technology for energy generation, transmission, storage and distribution, or any combination thereof. (C) The commission shall consider any previous analysis performed pursuant to Section 58-37-40 in acting upon any petition by the Public Service Authority pursuant to this section. The commission shall also take into account the Public Service Authority's resource and fuel diversity, reasonably anticipated future operating costs, arrangements with other electric utilities for interchange of power, pooling of plants, purchase of power and other alternative methods for providing reliable, efficient, and economical electric service. (D) The Public Service Authority shall file an estimate of construction costs in such detail as the commission may require. 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." Effect of Amendment 2025 Act No. 41, SECTION 20, designated (A)(1)(a) to (b) as (A)(1) to (2), (A)(2) to (3) as (B) to (C), and (B) as (D); and in (D), deleted the last sentence, relating to commission approval of construction plan and costs.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-31-330 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 31 / Article 3 / Section 58-31-330
SECTION 58-31-330. Service area of authority.
Status: in_force

Except as set forth in this article, the present service area of the Public Service Authority consists of the counties of Berkeley, Georgetown, and Horry; but the following described areas are not included in the Public Service Authority's present service area as defined herein: (1) That portion of Berkeley County now being served by South Carolina Electric and Gas Company as indicated by crosshatching on Authority Drawing No. E-1851, entitled "Map of Berkeley County Showing Crosshatched Area being served by S.C.E. & G." and that portion of Berkeley County served by Berkeley Electric Cooperative, Inc., as the service area of Berkeley Electric Cooperative, Inc., is shown on Authority Drawing No. 5032-E08-0047A entitled "Map of Berkeley County showing Designated Areas Served by South Carolina Public Service Authority and Berkeley Electric Cooperative". (2) That portion of Georgetown County now being served by Carolina Power and Light Company as indicated by crosshatching on Authority Drawing No. E-1850, entitled "Map of Georgetown County Showing Crosshatched Area being served by C. P. & L. Co." and that portion of Georgetown County served by Santee Electric Cooperative, Inc., as the service area of Santee Electric Cooperative, Inc., is shown on Authority Drawing No. 5032-E08-0046 entitled "Map of Georgetown County Showing Designated Areas Served by South Carolina Public Service Authority and Santee Electric Cooperative, Inc.". (3) That portion of Horry County now being served by Carolina Power and Light Company as indicated by crosshatching on Authority Drawing No. E-1849, entitled "Map of Horry County Showing Crosshatched Area being served by C. P. & L. Co." and that portion of Horry County served by Horry Electric Cooperative, Inc., as the service area of Horry Electric Cooperative, Inc., is shown on Authority Drawing No. 5032-E08-0048 entitled "Map of Horry County Showing Designated Areas Served by South Carolina Public Service Authority and Horry Electric Cooperative, Inc.". The above described drawings, and all explanatory notes, symbols, and legends thereon, as approved by the general manager of the Public Service Authority or his designee and the president of the electrical utility or electric cooperative involved or his designee, are made a part of this article by reference, and must be filed, safeguarded, and maintained as provided in Section 58-31-340.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-12-30 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 12 / Article 2 / Section 58-12-30
SECTION 58-12-30. Franchising by counties and municipalities.
Status: in_force

(a) The governing body of each municipality and each county in this State shall have the power and authority to regulate the operation of any cable television system which serves customers within its territorial limits by the issuance of franchise licenses after public notice showing the terms of any proposed franchise agreement and public initiation for bids and not inconsistent with the rules and regulations of the Federal Communications Commission. (b) Six months after June 29, 1976, a cable television system shall not serve customers in any unincorporated area without obtaining a franchise from the county; provided, that a cable television system to which this subsection applies may continue to serve customers after June 29, 1976, if an application for a franchise is filed at least ninety days prior to the date on which such franchise would otherwise be required and the cable television system and the county have, despite good faith negotiations, not been able to reach agreement upon the terms of such franchise. (c) A county shall not issue a franchise for any area which is within any municipality. (d) A franchise shall not be required where line extensions of a cable television system do not serve any customers in the unincorporated area through which such lines are extended or where such line extensions are constructed upon private lands or with easements not obtained from any public body. (e) The governing body of a county shall not deny to any cable television system a franchise for any area in which such cable television system has wires in place on June 29, 1976, or holds a Certificate of Compliance from the Federal Communications Commission. Franchises issued by a municipality or county shall not be inconsistent with the rules and regulations of the Federal Communications Commission. (f) A franchise shall not be required of a cable television system to erect any tower or transmission cable in an unincorporated area for the purpose of providing service for an incorporated area.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-33-420 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 33 / Article 7 / Section 58-33-420
SECTION 58-33-420. Joint hearings with agencies from other states; agreements and compacts; joint investigations.
Status: in_force

The commission, in the discharge of its duties under this chapter or any other statute, is authorized to hold joint hearings within or without the State and issue joint or concurrent orders in conjunction or concurrence with any official or agency of any other state of the United States, whether in the holding of any hearings, or in the making of such orders, the commission shall function under agreements or compacts between states or under the concurrent power of states to regulate interstate commerce or as an agency of the United States, or otherwise. The commission, in the discharge of its duties under this chapter, is authorized to enter into agreements or compacts with agencies of other states, pursuant to any consent of Congress, for cooperative efforts in certificating the construction, operation, and maintenance of major utility facilities in accord with the purposes of this chapter and for the enforcement of the respective state laws regarding same. The commission may request the Office of Regulatory Staff to make joint investigations with any official board or commission of any state or of the United States.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-23-25 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 23 / Article 1 / Section 58-23-25
SECTION 58-23-25. Public Service Commission's motor carrier regulatory authority, defined.
Status: in_force

Nothing in this chapter, unless specifically provided, may be construed as granting authority to the Public Service Commission to regulate, approve, fix, or charge a fee on a matter of rates, prices, changes, routes, or services of a motor vehicle carrier of property, including private carriers, except certificate carriers of household goods or hazardous wastes for disposal. Effect of Amendment 2022 Act No. 214, SECTION 2, substituted "may be construed" for "must be construed".
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-31-90 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 31 / Article 1 / Section 58-31-90
SECTION 58-31-90. Payments in lieu of taxes to certain counties and school districts.
Status: in_force

Beginning with the tax year 1965, after the payment of all necessary operating expenses and all annual debt requirements on bonds, notes or other obligations at any time outstanding and the discharge of all obligations arising under finance agreements and indentures or other instruments under which bonds or obligations have been or may be issued, and after payment into the general fund of the State the sum of at least two hundred twenty-five thousand dollars annually, the South Carolina Public Service Authority shall pay annually to the counties of Orangeburg, Calhoun, Sumter, Clarendon, Berkeley, Horry and Georgetown and school districts therein additional sums of money in lieu of taxes on lands acquired prior to the year 1950 for reservoirs, lakes, canals, structures and adjoining properties of the Santee-Cooper Hydroelectric and Navigation Project in amounts equivalent to that paid in 1964 for sums in lieu of taxes on such lands to the counties and school districts therein. Provided, that all additional sums to be paid under this section shall be used for the support of the public schools within the counties and districts involved.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-5-380 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 5 / Article 3 / Section 58-5-380
SECTION 58-5-380. Restrictions on interruption of gas service to residential customer for nonpayment of bill; exceptions.
Status: in_force

(A) Except as provided in subsections (B) and (C) of this section, a gas utility must not interrupt gas service to any residential customer for nonpayment of a bill until twenty-five days have elapsed from the date of billing. (B) A gas utility may interrupt natural gas 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 natural gas 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 natural gas service may be interrupted when the balance of his prepay account reaches zero; (2) natural gas service must not be interrupted before 10:00 a.m. on the next business day following an attempt by the gas utility to give the customer notice of the impending interruption by telephone or electronically; and (3) service must not be interrupted except during hours when the gas utility, or an agent, is accepting cash payments. (C) A prepay program established by a gas utility shall be subject to approval by the commission prior to implementation. Any interruption of natural gas 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 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 a gas 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. § 58-33-195 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 33 / Article 3 / Section 58-33-195
SECTION 58-33-195. Dominion Energy, Duke Energy, and other public service authorities; joint resources.
Status: in_force

(A) The General Assembly encourages Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc. and the Public Service Authority to jointly complete evaluations related to construction of a joint resource or joint resources to address energy needs and advance the economy and general welfare of the State. If the entities pursue permitting and construction of a joint resource or joint resources, the entities are further encouraged to use existing rights of way to the greatest extent practicable. (B) The General Assembly hereby encourages Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC to complete evaluations for expanding energy storage, including hydro pumped storage, and energy generation opportunities in South Carolina. (C) The General Assembly hereby encourages Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC and Duke Energy Progress, LLC to complete evaluations for constructing hydrogen capable natural gas generation or otherwise to place into service such natural gas generation within the utilities' balancing areas serving South Carolina. (D) The General Assembly encourages the Public Service Authority and the state's electric utilities to complete evaluations for constructing generation facilities utilizing domestic wood products from South Carolina as a primary or auxiliary fuel source. (E)(1) In the event any of the projects described in subsection (A), (B), or (C) are approved, the Office of Regulatory Staff, using its authority provided in Title 58, must continuously monitor the project or projects. This includes, but is not limited to, a review of the construction in progress, such as meeting projected timelines and financial projections are met. The Office of Regulatory Staff must provide monthly updates, in writing, to the commission and to the members of the General Assembly. Each electrical utility and the Public Service Authority must cooperate to the fullest extent with the Office of Regulatory Staff. (2) The commission may, on its own motion, schedule a hearing to address concerns raised by the Office of Regulatory Staff in its written monthly review to the commission. (3) The commission shall consider the Office of Regulatory Staff's written monthly reviews in any future matters concerning any facility described in this section. 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. § 58-11-200 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 58-11-200
SECTION 58-11-200. Annual and special reports.
Status: in_force

The Office of Regulatory Staff may require any radio common carrier 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. At the same time a radio common carrier files a report with the Office of Regulatory Staff, it also must provide a copy to the commission.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-13-450 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 13 / Article 7 / Section 58-13-450
SECTION 58-13-450. Returns and remittances on C. O. D. shipments.
Status: in_force

All common carriers doing business in this State and making collections on C. O. D. shipments for shippers or other persons designated by the shipper shall pay over to such shipper or person designated by such shipper the returns or moneys collected on C. O. D. shipments within fifteen days after the date of such collection from the consignee. Every carrier failing or refusing to make payment or remittance within the time stipulated above shall be liable for the full amount of the C. O. D. collection and in addition thereto a penalty of twenty-five dollars, to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction, either in the same suit on the claim or in a separate action.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-3950 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 33 / Section 58-17-3950
SECTION 58-17-3950. Actions for injuries to persons through violation of rules or regulations of Commission.
Status: in_force

If any railroad company doing business in this State shall, in violation of any rule or regulation provided by the Commission, inflict wrong or injury on any person, such person shall have a right of action and recovery for such wrong or injury in the county in which such wrong or injury was inflicted in any court having jurisdiction thereof and the damages to be recovered shall be the same as in an action between individuals, except that in cases of wilful violation of law such railroad companies shall be liable to exemplary damages.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-1-10 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 1 / Section 58-1-10
SECTION 58-1-10. Acceptance of free rides on railroads or telegraph frank by certain officials unlawful.
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for any person, while a member of the Senate or of the House of Representatives, State or national, or any State or county official or judge of a court of record in this State to use any free pass, express or telegraph frank or complimentary ticket or to ride without paying the usual fare on any railroad in this State. Any person violating any provision of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be liable to a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars or imprisonment not to exceed six months. But nothing herein contained shall apply to the Commissioner of Agriculture nor to the use of a pass to ride without paying the usual fare on any railroad by an officer or employee, active or retired, of such railroad who has earned his pass through seniority and service to the railroad.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-23-1625 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 23 / Article 16 / Section 58-23-1625
SECTION 58-23-1625. Exclusion of insurance coverage while driver logged on digital network or providing prearranged ride; claims coverage investigation.
Status: in_force

(A) Insurers that write automobile insurance in the State may exclude any and all coverage afforded under the owner's insurance policy for any loss or injury that occurs while a TNC driver is logged on a TNC's digital network or while the driver provides a prearranged ride. This right to exclude all coverage may apply to any coverage included in an automobile insurance policy including, but not limited to: (1) liability coverage for bodily injury and property damage; (2) uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage; (3) medical payments coverage; (4) comprehensive physical damage coverage; and (5) collision physical damage coverage. (B) The exclusions apply notwithstanding any requirement under Sections 56-9-10 through 56-9-630. Nothing in this section implies or requires that a personal automobile insurance policy provide coverage while the transportation network driver is logged on the TNC's digital network, while the driver is engaged in a prearranged ride or while the driver otherwise uses a personal vehicle to transport passengers for compensation. Nothing may be considered to preclude an automobile insurer from providing coverage for the TNC driver's personal vehicle, if it chooses to do so by contract or endorsement. (C) Automobile insurers that exclude coverage as permitted in subsections (A) and (B) have no duty to defend or indemnify any claim expressly excluded by those subsections. Nothing in this article may be considered to invalidate or limit an exclusion contained in a policy. An automobile insurer that defends or indemnifies a claim against a driver that is excluded under the terms of its policy as permitted in subsections (A) and (B) has a right of contribution against other insurers that provide automobile insurance to the same driver in satisfaction of the coverage requirements of Section 58-23-1630 at the time of loss. (D) In a claims coverage investigation, TNC's and any automobile insurer potentially providing coverage under Section 58-23-1630 shall cooperate to facilitate the exchange of relevant information with directly involved parties and any automobile insurer of the TNC driver if applicable, including the precise times that a driver logged on and off of the TNC's digital network in the twelve-hour period immediately preceding and in the twelve-hour period immediately following the accident and disclose to one another a clear description of the coverage, exclusions, and limits provided under any automobile insurance maintained under Section 58-23-1630.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-410 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 3 / Section 58-17-410
SECTION 58-17-410. Sinking fund.
Status: in_force

Any such corporation may so establish sinking funds for the payment of its liabilities.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-21-310 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 21 / Article 3 / Section 58-21-310
SECTION 58-21-310. Electric cars shall not be delayed to check fares.
Status: in_force

No electric car shall be held at any point for checking up passengers or any other method used that will necessitate such holding to determine whether fares have been registered or otherwise accounted for.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-31-540 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 31 / Article 5 / Section 58-31-540
SECTION 58-31-540. Disconnection when public safety emergency exists.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding another provision of this article, the Public Service Authority may disconnect a customer when it is determined that a public safety emergency exists.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-25-10 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 25 / Section 58-25-10
SECTION 58-25-10. Short title.
Status: in_force

This chapter is known and may be cited as the "Regional Transportation Authority Law".
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-1-65 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 1 / Section 58-1-65
SECTION 58-1-65. South Carolina public water impoundments for federally regulated hydroelectric projects; programs to combat growth of aquatic weeds; hold harmless statute for owners and operators.
Status: in_force

(A) The General Assembly finds: (1) The use of South Carolina public water impoundments for federally regulated hydroelectric projects are being endangered due to the uncontrolled growth of aquatic weeds. (2) In an effort to manage aquatic weeds in the impoundments, the Department of Natural Resources in conjunction with the owners and operators of the water impoundments for federally regulated hydroelectric projects have developed programs to combat the growth of aquatic weeds. These programs are funded in part by revenue appropriated to the Department of Natural Resources in Part 1, Section 47 of the 1995-96 general appropriations act, by revenue of certain federal programs, and by contributions by the owners and operators of the federally regulated hydroelectric projects. However, the programs are exclusively managed and controlled by the Department of Natural Resources. (3) In order to continue the program, the owners and operators must have protection from actions by the Department of Natural Resources for any liability which they may incur due to the actions of the department or its agents. Therefore, the State in this section is enacting a hold harmless statute for the owners and operators of the water impoundments for federally regulated hydroelectric projects. (B) There is no liability on the part of, and no cause of action against, owners and operators of water impoundments for federally regulated hydroelectric projects for any and all acts, events, occurrences, or future consequences of any treatment by the Department of Natural Resources, its agents or independent contractors, in providing for the management of aquatic weeds. The immunity for owners and operators of water impoundments for federally regulated hydroelectric projects also extends to any liability arising as a result of actions by individuals who without permission from the owner and operator treat, spray, or in any fashion attempt to manage aquatic weeds in the impoundment. (C) The department shall use the funds appropriated to it in fiscal year 1995-96 as referenced above to implement and give effect to the provisions of this section in the manner it considers appropriate.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-100 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 58-11-100
SECTION 58-11-100. Certificate of public convenience as prerequisite to construction or operation of system; applicability to commercial mobile service providers.
Status: in_force

(A) No radio common carrier shall begin or continue the construction or operation of a radio common carrier system, either directly or indirectly, without first obtaining from the commission a certificate that the public convenience and necessity requires the construction or operation. (B) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (A) or another provision of law, neither the commission nor the Office of Regulatory Staff may impose requirements related to the terms, conditions, rates, or availability of, or otherwise regulate "commercial mobile service" as that term is presently defined in 47 U.S.C.A. Section 332(d)(1) for as long as Section 332 of 47 U.S.C. or similar federal legislation remains in effect. (C) Nothing in this section affects any jurisdiction conferred upon the commission by Section 58-9-280(E)(3). (D) Nothing in this section affects the commission's jurisdiction or authority to address and resolve issues relating to arrangements and compensation between telecommunications carriers and commercial mobile service providers, pursuant to 47 U.S.C. Sections 251 and 252 or pursuant to other applicable provisions of law. (E) Nothing in this section shall prohibit the commission from applying to commercial mobile service providers that have sought and received designation from the commission, and operate as eligible telecommunications carriers, pursuant to 47 U.S.C. Section 214(e), or as carriers of last resort, as defined in Section 58-9-10(10), the same rules, requirements, or standards that are generally applicable to carriers that are subject to alternative regulation under Section 58-9-576 and that operate as eligible telecommunications carriers or as carriers of last resort.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-3-30 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 58-3-30
SECTION 58-3-30. Oaths; Code of Judicial Conduct applicable; ethics and the Administrative Procedure Act workshop.
Status: in_force

(A) The commissioners shall take the oath of office provided by the Constitution and the oaths prescribed by law for state officers. (B) The commissioners and commission employees are bound by the Code of Judicial Conduct, as contained in Rule 501 of the South Carolina Appellate Court Rules, except as provided in Section 58-3-260, and the State Ethics Commission must enforce and administer those rules pursuant to Section 8-13-320. In addition, commissioners and commission employees must comply with the applicable requirements of Chapter 13 of Title 8. (C) Each year, the commissioners and their employees must attend a workshop of at least six contact hours concerning ethics and the Administrative Procedures Act. This workshop must be developed with input from the review committee.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-830 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 7 / Section 58-27-830
SECTION 58-27-830. Utility shall not charge rates different from those in schedule.
Status: in_force

No electrical utility shall directly or indirectly, by any device whatsoever or in any way, charge, demand, collect or receive from any person, corporation or municipality a greater or less compensation for any electric current or service rendered or supplied or to be rendered or supplied by such electrical utility than that prescribed in the schedules of such electrical utility applicable thereto then on file in the manner provided in this chapter, nor shall any person, corporation or municipality receive or accept any service, electric current, product or commodity from an electric utility for a compensation greater or less than that prescribed in such schedules. Editor's Note 2019 Act No. 62, SECTION 16, provides as follows: "SECTION 16. Notwithstanding another provision of this act, or another provision of law, no costs or expenses incurred nor any payments made by the electrical utility in compliance or in accordance with this act must be included in the electrical utility's rates or otherwise be borne by the general body of South Carolina retail customers of the electrical utility without an affirmative finding supported by the preponderance of evidence of record and conclusion in a written order by the Public Service Commission that such expense, cost, or payment was reasonable and prudent and made in the best interest of the electrical utility's general body of customers."
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-870 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 7 / Section 58-27-870
SECTION 58-27-870. Commission action on proposed rate changes; refund of excessive charges.
Status: in_force

(A) After a schedule setting forth the proposed changes in its rates or tariffs has been filed with the commission and provided to the Office of Regulatory Staff, the commission must hold a public hearing concerning the lawfulness or reasonableness of the proposed changes. (B) When the proposed changes relate to rates or tariffs, the commission must rule and issue its order approving or disapproving the changes within six months after the date the schedule is filed. (C) Should the commission fail to issue an order within the period prescribed in this section, then upon written notice by any party to the commission of that fact, the commission shall have an additional ten days from the receipt of the notice to issue the required order. If the commission rules and issues its order within the time aforesaid, and the utility shall appeal from the order, by filing with the commission a petition for rehearing, the utility may put the rates requested in its schedule into effect under bond only during the appeal and until final disposition of the case. Such bond 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 the excess, if the rate or rates put into effect are finally determined to be excessive; or there may be substituted for the bond other arrangements satisfactory to the commission for the protection of parties interested. During any period in which a utility charges increased rates under bond, it must provide records or other evidence of payments made by its subscribers or patrons under the rate or rates which the utility has put into operation in excess of the rate or rates in effect immediately prior to the filing of the 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 must order a total refund of the difference between the amount collected under bond and the amount finally approved. (D) If the commission fails to rule or issue its order within the time prescribed in subsections (B) or (C) of this section, the utility may put into effect the change in rates it requested in its schedule. The change is to be treated as an approval of the new rate schedule by the commission. (E) After the date the schedule is filed with the commission, no further rate change request under this section 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 rate reduction. (F) Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 58-27-860 and 58-27-870, the commission may allow rates or tariffs to be put into effect without notice and hearing upon order of the commission when such rates or tariffs do not require a determination of the entire rate structure and overall rate of return, or when the rates or tariffs do not result in any rate increase to the electrical utility, or when the rates or tariffs are for experimental purposes, or when the rates or tariffs so filed are otherwise necessary to obtain an orderly rate administration. (G) The commission's determination of a fair rate of return must be documented fully in its findings of fact and based exclusively on reliable, probative, and substantial evidence on the whole record. Editor's Note 2019 Act No. 62, SECTION 15, provides as follows: "SECTION 15. All costs incurred by the utility necessary to effectuate this act, that are not precluded from recovery by other provisions of this act and that do not have a recovery mechanism otherwise specified in other provisions of the act or established by state law, shall be deferred for commission consideration of recovery in any proceeding initiated under Section 58-27-870, if deemed reasonable and prudent."
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-2800 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 24 / Section 58-27-2800
SECTION 58-27-2800. Review of initial orders.
Status: in_force

The review of Initial Orders pursuant to Section 58-27-2780 and Section 58-27-2790 is limited to issues related to compliance with the terms of this article. Matters determined in orders issued pursuant to Section 58-27-2720 are not subject to review except in full rate proceedings pursuant to Section 58-27-2740. Any proceedings pursuant to this article are without prejudice to the right of the commission to issue, or any interested party to request issuance of, a rule to show cause why a full rate proceeding should not be initiated, nor does this article limit the right of a utility to file an application pursuant to Section 58-27-870 for an adjustment to its rates and charges, nor does it impose the restrictions on filings contained in Section 58-27-870(E). 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. § 58-25-70 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 25 / Section 58-25-70
SECTION 58-25-70. Recordkeeping and reporting; proposal and approval of budgets.
Status: in_force

The authority must keep books of account, which must be independently audited at least once in each calendar year. A copy of the audit report must be provided to the member municipalities and counties. The authority must make an annual report of its activities to the member municipalities and counties. The authority must submit to the member municipalities and counties the annual operating and capital budget proposed for each fiscal year, at least sixty days prior to the beginning of the fiscal year. In the event a member municipality or county disagrees with the proposed budget, it may set forth points of disagreement and transmit its statement to the authority and other governing bodies of the member municipalities and counties within thirty days of the receipt of the proposed budget. Budgets must be adopted by a majority of the member governments. In the event a majority of the governing bodies of the member municipalities and counties do not agree with the proposed budget, the authority must convene a meeting of chief elected and administrative officials of member governments to develop a budget which may be acceptable to a majority of the member governments; a majority, for the purposes of this section, includes the governing bodies of the member municipalities and counties representing more than one-half of the service area population. In the event a budget acceptable to a majority of the member governments is not developed prior to the beginning of its fiscal year, the authority shall continue to operate at the budget levels of the previously approved budget. Any budget changes requiring an increase in local funds in excess of ten percent during the budget year must be approved as provided above for annual budgets.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-9-1200 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 9 / Article 9 / Section 58-9-1200
SECTION 58-9-1200. Rehearings.
Status: in_force

After an order or decision has been made by the Commission, any party to the proceedings may within ten days after service of notice of the entry of the order or decision apply for a rehearing in respect to any matter determined in such proceedings and specified in the application for rehearing and the Commission may, in case it appears to it to be proper, grant and hold such rehearing. The Commission shall either grant or refuse an application for a rehearing within twenty days and a failure by the Commission to act upon such application within that period shall be deemed a refusal thereof. If the application be granted the Commission's order shall be deemed vacated and the Commission shall enter a new order after the rehearing has been concluded.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-9-1010 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 9 / Article 9 / Section 58-9-1010
SECTION 58-9-1010. Hearing before one or more commissioners; approval of determination, ruling or order.
Status: in_force

Any hearing which the commission has power to hold, except matters pertaining to rate changes, may be held before any one or more of the commissioners, upon condition, however, that such commissioner or commissioners shall have been authorized by the commission to hold such hearing. Each hearing before any such commissioner or commissioners shall be deemed to be the hearing of the commission. Any determination, ruling, or order of a commissioner or commissioners, upon any such hearing held by him or them shall not become effective until due notice has been given to the commission and the Office of Regulatory Staff and it has been approved and confirmed by at least a quorum of the commission and ordered to be filed in its office with a copy to the Office of Regulatory Staff and any determination, ruling, or order involving the fixing or regulation of a general schedule of rates shall not become effective until due notice has been given the telephone utility concerned and an opportunity has been given the utility and the Office of Regulatory Staff to be heard before at least a quorum of the commission, and the determination, ruling, or order has been approved and confirmed by, at least a quorum of the commission. Upon such confirmation and order, such determination, ruling, or order shall be the determination, ruling, or order of the commission.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-330 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 3 / Section 58-17-330
SECTION 58-17-330. Reorganization provisions not applicable to certain sidetracks or spur tracks.
Status: in_force

The provisions of Section 58-17-310 shall only apply to the main lines and regular branches of railroads and shall not apply to any sidetracks or spur tracks constructed for special or temporary purpose or occasional use.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-3760 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 31 / Section 58-17-3760
SECTION 58-17-3760. Survival of right of action.
Status: in_force

Any right of action given by this article to a person suffering injury shall survive to his personal representatives, for the benefit of (a) the surviving widow or husband and children of such employee, (b) if none, such employee's parents and (c) if none, then of the next of kin of such employee. But in such case there shall be only one recovery for the same injury.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-9-1860 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 9 / Article 15 / Section 58-9-1860
SECTION 58-9-1860. Liability for negligence causing mental anguish or suffering.
Status: in_force

All telegraph companies doing business in this State shall be liable in damages for mental anguish or suffering, even in the absence of bodily injury, for negligence in receiving, transmitting or delivering messages, without regard to relationship by blood or marriage or whether such messages afforded notice of such relationship or otherwise or that injury or damage would result if such anguish or suffering resulted as a matter of fact. In all actions under this section the jury may award such damages as they conclude resulted from negligence, wantonness, wilfulness or recklessness of the telegraph companies. And when a telegram shows on its face that it relates to sickness or death, the real party for whose benefit the telegram was sent and who suffered mental anguish by reason of the negligence or wilfulness of the telegraph company may recover damages as herein provided without being required to allege or prove that the telegraph company had notice or knowledge at the time the message was sent of his relation to it or of the extent or scope of his damage. Nothing contained in this section shall abridge their rights or remedies otherwise provided by law against telegraph companies and the rights and remedies provided by this section shall be in addition to those otherwise existing.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-2630 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 23 / Section 58-27-2630
SECTION 58-27-2630. Registration of facility; registry; public inspection of registry; report.
Status: in_force

(A) Not more than thirty days after installation of a renewable electric generation facility leased to a customer-generator lessee, the lessor shall register the facility with the Office of Regulatory Staff on forms developed and provided by the Office of Regulatory Staff. This registration information must include: (1) the name, mailing, and electronic mail address and telephone number of the lessor-owner; (2) the nameplate generating capacity of the facility and its expected annual energy output; (3) physical location of the facility; (4) the name, mailing, email address, and telephone number of the customer-generator lessee; (5) a description of the intended use of the facility and its output; (6) a list of all federal, state, and local licenses and permits required for the construction and operation of the facility, along with a statement regarding whether each has been obtained or applied for; (7) the date the facility began or will begin operating; (8) the name of the retail electric provider to which the facility has been or will be interconnected; (9) an affidavit from the customer-generator lessee that it will not sell, resell, or attempt to sell or resell the electrical output of the facility to any person, corporation, or entity, other than the customer-generator lessee's retail electric provider or its designee, that the primary purpose for the operation of the renewable electric generation facility is to generate electricity for the benefit of the premises where it is located, and that the facility has been or will be operated in substantial compliance with all federal and state laws, rules, and regulations and all local codes and ordinances. (B) Office of Regulatory Staff shall maintain a registry of facilities registered pursuant to subsection (A). This information must be available for inspection by the public and is subject to the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act. The Office of Regulatory Staff may require the updating of information on the registry. (C) The Office of Regulatory Staff shall review the program established pursuant to this article and issue a report to the State Regulation of Public Utilities Review Committee no later than December 31, 2016, relating to its review, including recommendations regarding the expansion, reduction, or continuance of the program. 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. § 58-31-720 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 31 / Article 7 / Section 58-31-720
SECTION 58-31-720. Definition of "customer".
Status: in_force

For purposes of this article "customer" shall include the Authority's residential, commercial and industrial retail customers, and those wholesale customers served pursuant to contractual arrangements, but excluding joint action agencies and those entities located outside the State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-3-190 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 58-3-190
SECTION 58-3-190. Reports by entities subject to commission jurisdiction; audits by Office of Regulatory Staff.
Status: in_force

(A) The commission has the authority to require periodic written reports to be submitted by persons or entities subject to its jurisdiction. Such reports must relate to matters within the jurisdiction of the commission and must be filed with the commission and provided to the Office of Regulatory Staff. (B) If, in the judgment of the commission, any report referred to in subsection (A) is not furnished within a reasonable time or does not satisfactorily address the matters the commission requires to be addressed in such reports, the commission must give the person or entity written notice of the reasons why the report is not satisfactory, and the person or entity shall have a reasonable time period in which to comply with the requirements of the notice. (C) The commission may request the Office of Regulatory Staff to make, pursuant to Section 58-4-50(A)(2), an inspection, audit, or examination of the persons or entities referred to in subsection (A) regarding matters the commission requires to be addressed in the reports referred to in subsection (A).
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-31-110 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 31 / Article 1 / Section 58-31-110
SECTION 58-31-110. Net earnings; disposition and use.
Status: in_force

The South Carolina Public Service Authority is a corporation, completely owned by and to be operated for the benefit of the people of this State. Any and all net earnings of the Public Service Authority not necessary for the prudent conduct and operation of its business in the best interests of the Public Service Authority as defined by Section 58-31-55(A)(3) or to pay the principal of and interest on its bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness or other obligations, or to fulfill the terms and provisions of any agreements made with the purchasers or holders thereof or others must be paid over semiannually to the State Treasurer for the general funds of the State and must be used to reduce the tax burdens on the people of this State. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the authority from paying to the State each year up to one percent of its projected operating revenues, as such revenues would be determined on an accrual basis, from the combined electric and water systems. Editor's Note 2005 Act No. 137, SECTION 10, provides as follows: "Responsibilities and duties of the directors of the Public Service Authority created by the provisions of this act are in addition to responsibilities and duties created by other provisions of law."
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-23-260 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 23 / Article 3 / Section 58-23-260
SECTION 58-23-260. Class E certificates.
Status: in_force

The Office of Regulatory Staff, upon directive of the commission, may issue a certificate E for the property-carrying vehicles which will not operate upon any particular route or schedule. Editor's Note 2022 Act No. 214, SECTION 25, provides as follows: "SECTION 25. The Public Service Commission must make information readily available so that the general public can easily access information regarding the requirements in Articles 3 and 9 in Chapter 23, Title 58. This includes, but is not limited to, the commission posting on its website information regarding the following: list of certified companies, maximum rates, insurance, and complaint resolution." Effect of Amendment 2022 Act No. 214, SECTION 11, substituted "directive" for "order".
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-2640 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 23 / Section 58-17-2640
SECTION 58-17-2640. Facilities for interchange of traffic shall be furnished.
Status: in_force

Railroads subject to this chapter shall afford all reasonable, proper and equal facilities for the interchange of traffic between their own roads and other carriers, whether at terminal or junction points, for the receiving, forwarding and delivering of freight and passengers to and from points on their lines beyond and shall not discriminate in their rates or charges between or against any such connecting carriers.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-39-150 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 39 / Section 58-39-150
SECTION 58-39-150. Caps to residential, commercial, and industrial accounts.
Status: in_force

For the protection of consumers and to ensure that the cost of DER programs do not exceed a reasonable threshold, the commission must not approve a DER plan in which the total incremental costs to be incurred by an electrical utility and recovered from the electrical utility's South Carolina retail customer classes exceeds the following annual amounts per number of accounts for costs that are incurred on or after January 1, 2014: residential: twelve dollars; commercial: one hundred twenty dollars; and industrial: twelve hundred dollars. The application of these caps to residential, commercial, and industrial accounts will be as set forth in the electrical utility's approved distributed energy resource program. 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. § 58-17-4020 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 33 / Section 58-17-4020
SECTION 58-17-4020. Penalty for violation of chapter by individuals.
Status: in_force

Any director or officer of any railroad corporation or company or any receiver, trustee, lessee or person acting or engaged as a railroad or any agent of any such corporation or company, receiver, trustee, lessee or person, or of one of them alone or with any other corporation, person or party, who shall (a) directly or indirectly do, or cause or willingly suffer or permit to be done, any act, matter or thing in this chapter prohibited or forbidden, (b) directly or indirectly aid or abet therein, (c) directly or indirectly omit or fail to do any act, matter or thing in this chapter required to be done, (d) cause or willingly suffer or permit any act, matter or thing, so directed or required to be done, not to be so done, (e) directly or indirectly aid or abet any such omission or failure, (f) directly or indirectly be guilty of any infraction of this chapter or (g) directly or indirectly aid or abet therein shall, unless otherwise herein specially provided, be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than two hundred dollars.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-1980 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 15 / Section 58-17-1980
SECTION 58-17-1980. Charges to be in proportion to distance traveled and freight handled.
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for any such railroad to charge, collect or receive: (1) For the transportation of any passenger or freight of any description upon its railroad for any distance within this State the same or a greater amount of toll or compensation than is at the same time charged, collected or received for the transportation of any passenger of the same class or a like quantity of freight of the same class over a greater distance on the same railroad; (2) At any point upon its railroad a higher rate of toll or compensation for receiving, handling or delivering freight of the same class and quantity than it shall at the same time charge, collect or receive at any other point upon the same railroad; (3) For transportation of any passenger or freight of any description over its railroad a greater amount as toll or compensation than shall at the same time be charged, collected or received by it for the transportation of any passenger of the same class or a like quantity of freight of the same class being transported over any portion of the same railroad of equal distance; (4) From any person a higher or greater amount of toll or compensation than it shall at the same time charge, collect or receive from any other person for receiving, handling or delivering freight of the same class and like quantity at the same time upon its railroad; (5) From any person for the transportation of any freight upon its railroad a higher or greater rate of toll or compensation than it shall at the same time charge, collect or receive from any person for the transportation of a like quantity of freight of the same class being transported from the same point over equal distances of the same railroad; (6) From any person for the use and transportation of any railroad car or cars upon its railroad for any distance the same or a greater amount of toll or compensation than is at the same time charged, collected or received from any other person for the use and transportation of any railroad car or cars of the same class and number for a like purpose being transported over a greater distance of the same railroad; or (7) From any person for the use and transportation of any railroad car or cars upon its railroad a higher or greater rate of toll or compensation than it shall at the same time charge, collect or receive from any other person for the use and transportation of any railroad car or cars of the same class and number for a like purpose being transported from the same point over an equal distance of the same railroad. But nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent any such railroad from issuing commutation, excursion or thousand mile tickets as they were issued by such corporations on December 21, 1882.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-23-1215 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 23 / Article 13 / Section 58-23-1215
SECTION 58-23-1215. Exception to meaning of operating a taxi.
Status: in_force

A person who provides transportation services in a private passenger motor vehicle or van for a specific group of people to a specific destination over a continuing period of time, where these transportation services are not available to the general public, is not considered to be operating a taxi within the meaning of this article.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-12-300 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 12 / Article 3 / Section 58-12-300
SECTION 58-12-300. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this article, the following terms mean: (1)(a) "Cable service" is defined as set forth in 47 U.S.C. Section 522(6). (b) For purposes of Chapter 12, Title 58 only, "cable service" does not include any video programming accessed via a service that enables end users to access content, information, electronic mail, or other services offered over the Internet, including streaming video content, regardless of the provider of the Internet access services. (2) "Cable service provider" means a person or entity who is a cable operator, as defined in 47 U.S.C. Section 522(5), throughout the area it serves pursuant to Section 58-12-310, and is subject to Section 58-12-350. (3) "Cable system" is defined as set forth in 47 U.S.C. Section 522(7). (4) "Franchise" means an initial authorization, or renewal of an authorization, issued by a franchising authority regardless of whether the authorization is designated as a franchise, permit, license, resolution, contract, certificate, agreement, or otherwise, that authorizes the construction and operation of a cable or video services network in the public rights-of-way. (5) "Franchising authority" means a governmental entity empowered by federal, state, or local law to grant a franchise for cable or video services. With regard to the holder of a state-issued certificate of franchise authority within the areas covered by the certificate, the Secretary of State is the sole franchising authority. (6) "Gross revenues" means all revenues received from subscribers for the provision of cable or video services, including cable or video franchise fees, and all revenues received from nonsubscribers for advertising and home shopping services. Gross revenues shall not include: (a) any tax, surcharge, or governmental fee billed to subscribers including, but not limited to, a business license tax levied by a municipality pursuant to Article 20, Chapter 9, Title 58; (b) any revenue not actually received, even if billed, such as bad debt; (c) any revenue received by any affiliate or any other person in exchange for supplying goods or services used by the provider to provide video programming; (d) refunds, rebates, or discounts; (e) returned check fees or interest; (f) sales or rental of property, except such property as the subscriber is required to buy or rent exclusively from the cable or video service provider to receive cable or video service; (g) any revenue received for installing or maintaining inside wiring for services other than cable or video services; (h) any revenues from services provided over the network that are associated with or classified as noncable or nonvideo services under federal law including, without limitation, revenues received from telecommunications services, information services, Internet access services, streaming services, directory or Internet advertising revenue (including, without limitation, yellow pages, white pages, banner advertisements, and electronic publishing advertising). Where the sale of any such noncable or nonvideo service is bundled with the sale of any cable or video service or services and sold for a single nonitemized price, the term "gross revenues" shall include only those revenues that are attributable to cable or video services based on the provider's books and records, such revenues to be allocated in a manner consistent with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles; (i) sales for resale with respect to which the purchaser is required to pay a franchise fee; or (j) any reimbursement of costs including, but not limited to, the reimbursements by programmers of marketing costs incurred for the promotion or introduction of video programming. (7) "Incumbent cable service provider" means the cable service provider serving the largest number of subscribers in a particular municipality or in the unincorporated area of a county on the effective date of this article. (8) "Public right-of-way" means the area on, below, or above a public roadway, highway, street, public sidewalk, alley, or waterway. (9) "Video programming" means programming provided by, or generally considered comparable to, programming provided by a television broadcast station, as set forth in 47 U.S.C. Section 522(20). (10)(a) "Video service" means video programming services provided by a video service provider through wireline facilities located at least in part in the public rights of way without regard to delivery technology, including Internet protocol technology. This definition does not include any video programming provided by a commercial mobile service provider as defined in 47 U.S.C. Section 332(d), any video programming provided via a cable service, or any video programming accessed via a service that enables end users to access content, information, electronic mail, or other services offered over the Internet, including streaming video content, regardless of the provider of the Internet access services. (b) For purposes of Chapter 12, Title 58 only, "video service" also means video programming services provided by a video service provider through wireline facilities located at least in part in the public rights of way without regard to delivery technology, including Internet protocol technology, and does not include any direct-to-home satellite services as defined in 47 U.S.C. Section 303(v). (11) "Video service provider" means a person that provides video service. Editor's Note 2006 Act No. 288, SECTION 1, provides as follows: "This act is known and may be cited as the 'South Carolina Competitive Cable Services Act' ". Effect of Amendment 2024 Act No. 104, SECTION 1, in (1), inserted the (a) designator and added (b); in (6)(h), in the first sentence, inserted "streaming services," and made a nonsubstantive change; and rewrote (10).
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-640 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 5 / Section 58-27-640
SECTION 58-27-640. Assignment of service areas.
Status: repealed

The Public Service Commission shall assign, beginning as soon as practicable after January 1, 1970, to electric suppliers, all areas, by adequately defined boundaries which may be by reference to boundaries drawn on maps or otherwise, that are outside the corporate limits of municipalities, and that are more than three hundred feet from the lines of all electric suppliers as such lines exist on the dates of the assignments; provided, that the Commission may leave unassigned any area in which the Commission, in its discretion, determines the absence of assignment is justified by public convenience and necessity. The Commission shall make assignments of areas in accordance with public convenience and necessity considering, among other things, the location of existing lines and facilities of electric suppliers and the adequacy and dependability of the service of electric suppliers, but not considering rate differentials among electric suppliers. Upon consolidation of the units of government within any county pursuant to the Constitution of this State, the Commission shall initially assign the areas that were within the corporate limits of the municipality merged into the consolidated political subdivision and that are more than three hundred feet from the lines of all electric suppliers as such lines exist on the date of the consolidation to the electric supplier including any existing municipal systems then serving within such areas, subject to the power of the Commission to leave any area unassigned or to reassign any area and subject to Sections 58-27-20, 58-27-630 and 58-27-650. Editor's Note Section 1 of 1984 Act No. 431, provides as follows: "The General Assembly finds that assignment of electric service territories by the Public Service Commission has aided the State in overseeing the public interest of its citizens by uniformly regulating the responsibilities and rights of sellers of electricity. "The General Assembly further finds that unnecessary duplication of electrical facilities increases rates and charges to South Carolina citizens and that the assignment of electric service territories has decreased duplication. "The General Assembly further finds that incorporation of new municipalities and annexation by existing municipalities alter assignments of service areas originally made for public convenience and necessity without consideration for the impact of the change on persons living outside the municipality. "Therefore, in accordance with the powers granted the General Assembly under Article IX, Section 1, and Article VIII, Section 14, of the Constitution of this State, it is declared the policy of South Carolina to maintain the assignment of electric service territories by the Public Service Commission over areas having been assigned electric suppliers under Section 58-27-640, even when the area becomes incorporated or annexed to an existing city or town" Section 57 of 1987 Act No. 173 (codified as SECTION 58-27-690), provides that this section shall not be modified, abridged, or repealed by 1987 Act No. 173.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-9-1090 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 9 / Article 9 / Section 58-9-1090
SECTION 58-9-1090. Service of petition.
Status: in_force

Upon the filing of a petition pursuant to Section 58-9-1080, the commission shall cause a copy thereof to be served upon the person, corporation, or telephone utility complained of.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-630 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 5 / Section 58-27-630
SECTION 58-27-630. Service rights and restrictions in areas within consolidated political subdivisions.
Status: in_force

Whenever there is a consolidation of government as authorized under the Constitution of this State, the rights of and restrictions on electric suppliers as provided for in Section 58-27-620 shall apply to areas within the corporate limits of a municipality being merged into a consolidated political subdivision except a municipality owning and operating a municipal electric system and shall be established as of the date of consolidation rather than on July 1, 1969, as provided for in Section 58-27-620. On the date of such consolidations the same rights granted to and restrictions imposed upon other electric suppliers shall be granted to and imposed upon existing municipal systems as to areas within the consolidated political subdivision but outside the previously existing corporate limits of the municipality owning and operating such a system.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-2330 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 19 / Section 58-17-2330
SECTION 58-17-2330. No demurrage or similar charge shall be made after demand for reweighing.
Status: in_force

No demurrage or other similar charges shall be made by any common carrier against a consignee making the demand specified in Section 58-17-2310 between the time of the making of such demand and the time of delivery by such common carrier to such consignee of the statement required in said section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-730 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 5 / Section 58-17-730
SECTION 58-17-730. Certain consolidations with companies of other states not authorized.
Status: in_force

Nothing in this article contained shall be taken to authorize the consolidation of any company of this State with any company of any other state whose laws shall not also authorize such consolidation.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-420 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 11 / Article 3 / Section 58-11-420
SECTION 58-11-420. Orders for more reasonably adequate and efficient service.
Status: in_force

Whenever the commission, after hearing, finds that the service of any radio common carrier is not reasonably adequate and efficient, the commission shall make its findings and issue an order thereon requiring such radio common carrier to provide reasonably adequate and efficient service.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-13-420 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 13 / Article 7 / Section 58-13-420
SECTION 58-13-420. Notification of charges; delivery of freight on payment.
Status: in_force

Each such common carrier shall inform any consignee or consignees of the correct amount due for freight, according to such classifications and rates. And upon payment or tender of the amount due on any shipment or on any part of any shipment which has arrived at its destination, according to such classifications and rates, such common carrier shall deliver the freight in question to the consignee or consignees. Any failure or refusal to comply with the provisions hereof shall subject each carrier so failing or refusing to a penalty of fifty dollars for each such failure or refusal, to be recovered by any consignee or consignees aggrieved by suit in any court of competent jurisdiction.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-3-340 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 3 / Article 3 / Section 58-3-340
SECTION 58-3-340. Inspectors to possess and exercise powers and authority of constables.
Status: in_force

The inspectors shall possess and exercise all of the powers and authority held by constables at common law.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-15-2120 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 15 / Article 21 / Section 58-15-2120
SECTION 58-15-2120. Department of Transportation may make specifications and enter into agreements concerning grade crossings of State highways; penalties may be waived by Department.
Status: in_force

In case of grade crossings of state highways over such railroads, the Department of Transportation, after due notice to the railroad, corporation, or operator, and hearing the railroad or operator involved, if application is made for such a hearing within ten days after receipt of the notice and after finding that the public safety, convenience, or necessity require it, shall have the power to specify the character of the grade crossings, and the operator of the railroad shall construct and maintain the crossings to meet the specifications of the Department of Transportation; provided, however, that the power to specify the character of grade crossings granted in this section shall not extend beyond five feet on either side of the center line of the track; provided, further, that the Department of Transportation shall have the power, in matters relating to such grade crossings, now pending or hereafter arising, to enter into such agreements with operators of railroads pertaining to the construction thereof as in its judgment may be to the best interest of the State, and to agree to pave the area across the tracks after the area is otherwise prepared for paving by the operator of the railroad. The Department of Transportation, with the advice and consent of the Attorney General, may waive any and all claims for penalties now existing, upon entry into such agreements.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-2650 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 23 / Section 58-17-2650
SECTION 58-17-2650. Lines of two or more railroads which pass through city or town shall be connected; expenses.
Status: in_force

Whenever the lines of railroad of two or more corporations may enter or pass through the corporate limits of any city or town in this State, the corporations owning such lines shall build such connecting tracks as may be necessary to effect an actual connection of such lines for the purpose of interchanging and delivering cars and freight in carload lots. The entire reasonable cost of construction and maintenance of such connecting track shall be borne by such railroad corporations whose tracks are so connected, in such ratable proportion as shall be determined and adjusted by the Public Service Commission. Failure to comply with the provisions of this section for six months after the building of any new line of railroad into such city or town shall subject each and every such corporation so failing to a penalty of twenty-five dollars per day, to be recovered in an action by any citizen of such city or town, one half for his own benefit and the other half for the benefit of the State. But any one of such railroad corporations may relieve itself from liability to such penalty by giving notice in writing within thirty days from the date when it shall become liable to the operation of this section to the other corporations so liable thereto of its readiness to proceed with the construction of such connecting track and if the other corporation or corporations so notified shall fail to unite in such construction within ten days after such written notice the corporation giving such notice may proceed to the construction of such track and may recover of each and every other line so connected such proportion of the costs of such construction as shall be determined by the Commission. But the recovery thereof shall not operate to discharge such delinquent corporation or corporations from liability to the penalty above imposed up to the time of the full completion of such connecting track. But the Commission may suspend the operation of the requirements of this section at such junctional points when it can be shown, upon a full and fair hearing before it, that the erection and operation of such connection would be unreasonable and unnecessary.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-1200 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 9 / Section 58-17-1200
SECTION 58-17-1200. Acquisition of real estate for relocation of lines and other changes in tracks and facilities.
Status: in_force

For the purposes mentioned in Section 58-17-1190 any railroad company may acquire by purchase or gift and hold real estate necessary, and if the real estate is not acquired by purchase or gift, the railroad company may acquire it by condemnation.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-50 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 1 / Section 58-27-50
SECTION 58-27-50. Assessments on electric utilities to pay expenses of Commission.
Status: in_force

All expenses and charges incurred by the commission in the administration of this chapter and in the performance of its duties thereunder shall be defrayed by assessments made by the Comptroller General against the electrical utilities regulated thereunder and based upon the gross revenues collected by such electrical utilities from their business done wholly within this State in the manner set out in Section 58-3-100 for other corporations. The Public Service Commission must certify to the Comptroller General annually on or before May first the amounts to be assessed in the format approved by the Comptroller General.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-810 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 7 / Section 58-27-810
SECTION 58-27-810. Rates shall be just and reasonable.
Status: in_force

Every rate made, demanded or received by any electrical utility or by any two or more electrical utilities jointly shall be just and reasonable.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-9-3020 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 9 / Article 25 / Section 58-9-3020
SECTION 58-9-3020. Actions authorized to be taken by electric cooperatives.
Status: in_force

(A) Subject to the limitations set forth in this article, and in addition to all other purposes, powers, and authority currently granted to electric cooperatives under the laws of this State, an electric cooperative may do all of the following within areas in which it is authorized to provide electric service, and within such other areas as provided in subsection (B): (1) own, maintain, construct, install, and replace broadband facilities; (2) contract with a broadband service provider, including a broadband affiliate, to own, lease, manage, construct, superintend, install, operate, maintain, and replace a broadband network; (3) provide retail broadband service only through a broadband affiliate; and (4) contract with a broadband service provider that is not a broadband affiliate to provide retail broadband service to electric cooperative customers in compliance with the provisions of this article, provided; however, that nothing in this article is intended to nor shall it be construed as regulation of the rates, terms, and conditions of retail broadband service to end-user customers. (B) An electric cooperative may provide retail broadband service only within: (1) areas in which it is authorized to provide electric service and areas within two miles of its authorized electric service area; (2) census block groups for federal funding programs in which the electric cooperative has been designated as a recipient for federal funding provided that: (a) the funding is provided through a structured and defined program; (b) the program is open to broadband service providers including, but not limited to, electric cooperatives offering broadband pursuant to this article; and (c) the program is intended to support the deployment of broadband facilities or broadband service for unserved consumers; (3) census blocks for state funding programs in which the electric cooperative has been designated as a recipient for state funding provided that: (a) the funding is provided through a structured and defined program; (b) the program is open to broadband service providers including, but not limited to, electric cooperatives offering broadband pursuant to this article; and (c) the program is intended to support the deployment of broadband facilities or broadband service for unserved consumers. (C) In order to assist an electric cooperative in the planning, engineering, construction, extension, provision, operation, repair and maintenance of broadband facilities, an electric cooperative or its broadband affiliate is authorized to: (1) apply for, accept, repay, and utilize loans, grants, and other financing from any person; and (2) enter into contracts, agreements, partnerships, or other types of business relationships with any person. (D) This article does not require or obligate an electric cooperative to install or implement a broadband network or facilities or to provide broadband service provided; however, nothing in this subsection relieves an electric cooperative from complying with the provisions of Section 58-9-3030(A) and (B). (E) A broadband affiliate shall only serve the purposes of developing, providing, furnishing, or promoting broadband facilities and broadband services or a combination of such purposes. Editor's Note 2020 Act No. 175, SECTION 6, provides as follows: "SECTION 6. This act does not convey or confer any implied or express grant of authority to an investor-owned electric utility to provide broadband facilities or broadband services as defined in this act and any legal rights which may or may not belong to investor-owned electric utilities to provide broadband facilities or broadband services at the time of the passage of this act are neither expanded nor contracted by its passage."
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-5-730 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 5 / Article 7 / Section 58-5-730
SECTION 58-5-730. Appointment of receiver upon failure of utility to provide adequate and sufficient service.
Status: in_force

If the commission, after notice and hearing, determines that a utility subject to the regulations of the commission has wilfully failed to provide adequate and sufficient service for an unreasonable length of time and that it is likely to continue such failure to the detriment of the public served by the utility, or if the commission shall determine after notice and hearing, that adequate and sufficient service is not being provided by such utility and that such utility is unable to provide such service for any reason, the Office of Regulatory Staff shall have the right to petition the court of common pleas for the county wherein the utility shall have its principal office or place of business for the appointment of a receiver to assume possession of the facilities and system and to operate such utility upon such terms and conditions as the court shall prescribe. The court shall require as a condition to the appointment of such receiver that a sufficient bond be given by the receiver and conditioned upon his compliance with the orders of the court and the protection of all property rights involved. The court shall have the right to provide for disposition of the facilities and system in like manner as any other receivership proceeding in this State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-15-450 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 15 / Article 3 / Section 58-15-450
SECTION 58-15-450. Transfer or other disposition of canal rights of State.
Status: in_force

No rights of the State in canals shall be transferred, leased, conveyed away or otherwise used or burdened except by act of the General Assembly.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-430 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 3 / Section 58-17-430
SECTION 58-17-430. Certificate as evidence of incorporation.
Status: in_force

A copy of such certificate, attested by the Secretary of State or his deputy, shall, in all courts and places, be evidence of the due organization and existence of such corporation and of the matters specified in such certificate.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-5-440 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 5 / Article 4 / Section 58-5-440
SECTION 58-5-440. March report; additional schedules.
Status: in_force

In the monitoring report filed for the twelve-month period ending March thirty-first of each year, the utility shall provide additional schedules indicating the following revenue calculations: (1) if the utility's earnings exceed the upper end of the range established in the order, the utility shall calculate the reduction in revenue required to lower its return on equity to the midpoint of the range established in the order; or (2) if the utility's earnings are below the lower range established in the order, the utility shall calculate the additional revenue required to increase its return on equity to the midpoint of the range established in the order. The utility also shall provide a schedule that specifies changes in its tariff rates required to achieve any indicated change in revenue. The proposed rate changes, filed by the utility, shall conform as nearly as is practicable with the revenue allocation principles contained in the most recent rate order.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-5-1140 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 5 / Article 11 / Section 58-5-1140
SECTION 58-5-1140. Disconnection when public safety emergency exists.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding another provision of this article, a public utility furnishing natural gas may disconnect a customer when it is determined that a public safety emergency exists.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-560 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 11 / Article 3 / Section 58-11-560
SECTION 58-11-560. Enforcement powers generally.
Status: in_force

In addition to the foregoing expressly enumerated powers the Commission shall have full power and authority, and it shall be its duty to enforce, execute, administer, and carry out by its order, ruling, regulation, or otherwise, all the provisions of this chapter and any other provisions of law regulating radio common carriers.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-1340 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 9 / Section 58-27-1340
SECTION 58-27-1340. Determination of just compensation for purchase of electrical utility.
Status: in_force

When the commission has been notified that a city or town has expressed its desire and purpose to purchase the property of the electrical utility operated under the indeterminate permit in the city or town and has also been notified that the parties to the purchase and sale are unable to agree upon the amount to be paid and received therefor, the commission must, after not less than thirty days' notice to the Office of Regulatory Staff, the city or town, and to the electrical utility, as well as to all of its mortgagees and lienors appearing of record in the county in which the city or town is situated, hold a public hearing upon the matter of just compensation, including severance damages if any, to be paid for the taking of the property by the city or town. Within a reasonable time after the public hearing, the commission must by order fix and determine and certify to the clerk of the city or town, to the electrical utility, and to any bondholder, mortgagee, lienor, or other interested party who has entered an appearance in the proceeding the just compensation, including the damages, if any. The order of the commission may be reviewed as provided in this chapter for the review of other orders of the commission. The commission must not be a party to an action for review.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-3730 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 31 / Section 58-17-3730
SECTION 58-17-3730. Effect of contributory negligence.
Status: in_force

In all actions hereafter brought against any such common carrier by railroad under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this article to recover damages for personal injuries to any employee or when such injuries have resulted in his death, the fact that the employee may have been guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery, but the damages shall be diminished by the jury in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to such employee. But no such employee who may be injured or killed shall be held to have been guilty of contributory negligence when the violation by such common carrier of any statute enacted for the safety of employees contributed to the injury or death of such employee.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-12-510 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 12 / Article 4 / Section 58-12-510
SECTION 58-12-510. Transmission of blocked channel due to equipment failure; time frame for blocking upon notification.
Status: in_force

When a subscriber notifies the cable or video service provider that he wishes to block video and audio and one or more blocked channels are transmitted due to equipment failure of the cable or video service provider, the cable or video service provider that uses digital transmission technology to deliver cable or video programming must immediately block the channels. When a subscriber notifies the cable or video service provider that he wishes to block video and audio and one or more blocked channels are transmitted due to equipment failure of the cable or video service provider, the cable or video service provider that uses analog transmission technology to deliver cable or video programming must block the channel within forty-eight hours after the subscriber notifies the cable or video service provider of the failed blocking. The time frames stated herein shall not apply if the cable or video service provider is unable to comply with them due to circumstances beyond the cable or video service provider's control.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-23-60 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 23 / Article 1 / Section 58-23-60
SECTION 58-23-60. Chapter not applicable to business within certain areas.
Status: in_force

Nothing in Articles 1 to 11 of this chapter applies to motor vehicles: (1) carrying on the business of transporting passengers or property within the limits of a municipality in this state; (2) transporting passengers to or from state institutions located in Richland County; (3) transporting passengers within a distance of ten miles from the limits of municipalities in Chester and Lancaster counties when substantially all of the passengers are workers in industrial plants, eighty percent of the production of which is for defense materials; (4) having a seating capacity of twenty or more passengers which are operated within ten miles from the limits of a municipality with a population of seventy thousand or more inhabitants, according to the United States Census for 1940, by an electric utility company which regularly provides transportation service within the municipality itself. This item does not permit the substantial duplication of a franchise or license in effect at the time service is undertaken by the electric utility company; or (5) used by a county or municipality to transport passengers or property. Effect of Amendment 2022 Act No. 214, SECTION 5, in (5), inserted "or municipality" following "county".
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-920 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 7 / Section 58-27-920
SECTION 58-27-920. Schedule of rates put into effect after preliminary investigation.
Status: in_force

The commission may, after a preliminary investigation by the Office of Regulatory Staff and upon such evidence as to the commission seems sufficient, order any electrical utility to put into effect a schedule of rates as shall be deemed fair and reasonable, within such time as may be prescribed by order of the commission, which shall be not less than fifteen days, and an attested copy of the order must be served upon the utility and the Office of Regulatory Staff by registered mail or otherwise as provided by law.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-960 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 7 / Section 58-27-960
SECTION 58-27-960. Reparation orders; suits to enforce.
Status: in_force

When a petition has been filed with the commission concerning any rate or charge for any electric current furnished or service performed by any electrical utility and the commission has found after hearing that the electrical utility has charged an unreasonable, excessive, or discriminatory amount for electric current or service, the commission may order the electrical utility to make due reparation to the petitioner, with interest from the date of collection; however, no unreasonable discrimination must result from the reparation. But no order for the payment of reparation upon the ground of unreasonableness must be made by the commission in any instance wherein the rate or charge in question has been authorized by law. No assignment of a reparation claim must be recognized by the commission except assignments by operation of law as in cases of death, insanity, bankruptcy, receivership, or order of court. If the electrical utility does not comply with the order for the payment of reparation within the time specified in such order, suit may be instituted in any court of competent jurisdiction to recover the same, and upon trial of such suit, a duly certified copy of the order of the commission shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein set forth. All petitions concerning unreasonable, excessive, or discriminatory charges on which reparation orders may be made must be filed with the commission and provided to the Office of Regulatory Staff within two years from the time the cause of action accrues, and the suit for enforcement of the order must be commenced in the court within one year from the date of the order of the commission. The commission must not be a party to any cause of action. The remedy in this section provided is cumulative and in addition to any other remedy or remedies in this chapter provided in case of failure of an electrical utility to obey an order or decision of the commission.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-1160 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 8 / Section 58-27-1160
SECTION 58-27-1160. Assignee or financing party.
Status: in_force

An assignee or financing party is not an electrical utility or person providing electric service by virtue of engaging in the transactions described in this article.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-2630 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 23 / Section 58-17-2630
SECTION 58-17-2630. Condemnation when connecting switches are refused.
Status: in_force

Should any railroad company refuse to allow the connecting switches put in its line, when requested under Section 58-17-2620, the other road seeking such connection may proceed to procure the right to use so much of the franchise of the former as may be necessary for such purpose in the manner provided by law for taking private property for the use of a railroad.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-2510 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 21 / Section 58-17-2510
SECTION 58-17-2510. Prompt loading and unloading of livestock required.
Status: in_force

Every railroad company receiving livestock for transportation shall cause such livestock to be loaded not more than two hours before the scheduled departure of the train carrying them and every railroad company delivering livestock at its destination for unloading shall cause them to be unloaded within two hours after the arrival of the trains carrying them, except that a longer time may be allowed if voluntarily consented to in writing by the owner or shipper on a paper other than the bill of lading. But this section shall apply in the unloading of stock only if the consignee in person or his duly authorized agent shall make demand in writing for such unloading within two hours after the arrival of the train carrying such livestock. This section shall not apply at stations where no unloading pen is maintained or where there is no agent of the railroad on duty upon the arrival of such train.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-1930 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 15 / Section 58-17-1930
SECTION 58-17-1930. Sale of interchangeable mileage shall be continued; family use.
Status: in_force

No railroad company selling such interchangeable mileage books shall discontinue the use of local mileage but the use of interchangeable mileage books shall not be extended to the members of the purchaser's family unless such selling company shall so elect; if it is so extended such ticket shall be valid and good for the carriage over the lines of such railroad of the purchaser and the actual members of his family living with him at the time of purchase if the name of the person so entitled to use such ticket shall be furnished in writing to the railroad selling it by the purchaser at the time of the purchase and shall be inserted in the ticket.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-3460 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 27 / Section 58-17-3460
SECTION 58-17-3460. Transportation to accident site.
Status: in_force

Every railroad corporation must furnish immediate transportation for the Office of Regulatory Staff over its line to the place of accident occurring on its road and attended with any injury to any person of which it is required to give notice under the provisions of Section 58-17-3440, free of expense to the Office of Regulatory Staff and, if the Office of Regulatory Staff uses another railroad to reach the place of accident, the corporation on whose line the accident occurred must pay the expense of transportation thereon.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-550 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 11 / Article 3 / Section 58-11-550
SECTION 58-11-550. Rules governing pleadings, practice and procedure.
Status: in_force

The Commission is authorized to prescribe rules governing pleadings, practice and procedures not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter or any other provisions of law. The provisions of Articles 1 through 13 of Chapter 9, Title 58 of the 1976 Code shall be applicable to all hearing and appellant procedures of the Commission in relation to radio common carriers, including penalty provisions, specifically including but not limited to matters provided for in Articles 9, 11 and 13 of Chapter 9 of the 1976 Code.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-510 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 11 / Article 3 / Section 58-11-510
SECTION 58-11-510. Joint investigations, hearings and orders with other state or Federal boards or commissions.
Status: in_force

The commission may hold joint hearings and issue joint or concurrent orders in conjunction or concurrence with any official board or commission of any state or of the United States. The Office of Regulatory Staff may make joint investigations with any official board or commission of any state or of the United States.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-5-210 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 5 / Article 3 / Section 58-5-210
SECTION 58-5-210. Supervision and regulation of rates and service.
Status: in_force

The Public Service Commission is hereby, to the extent granted, vested with power and jurisdiction to supervise and regulate the rates and service of every public utility in this State, together with the power, after hearing, to ascertain and fix such just and reasonable standards, classifications, regulations, practices and measurements of service to be furnished, imposed, observed and followed by every public utility in this State and the State hereby asserts its rights to regulate the rates and services of every "public utility" as herein defined.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-21-240 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 21 / Article 3 / Section 58-21-240
SECTION 58-21-240. Maintenance of tracks, structures and cars.
Status: in_force

Every person owning or operating an electric railway shall keep and maintain all of its tracks and roadbed and all structures along its line in a secure, safe and substantial condition, capable of bearing such burden as it may reasonably be subject to. Any such person shall keep and maintain its cars as required by Section 58-21-210 or otherwise required by law.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-9-240 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 9 / Article 3 / Section 58-9-240
SECTION 58-9-240. Permitted free or reduced rates.
Status: in_force

Nothing herein contained shall prevent any telephone utility from granting free or reduced rate service to its officers, agents, employees, attorneys, physicians or surgeons, nor to prevent any telephone utility from granting free or reduced rate service to the State of South Carolina or any municipality therein or department thereof or to charitable and eleemosynary institutions and persons engaged in charitable and eleemosynary work, nor to prevent any telephone utility from granting free or reduced rate service with the object and for the purpose of providing relief in times and cases of flood, general epidemic, pestilence or other calamitous visitation, nor any such other instance when the Commission may deem that such service is not contrary to the public interest; provided, that such free or reduced rate service shall be granted in accordance with tariffs filed by such telephone utility with the Commission and which shall be subject to regulation and revision by the Commission in the same manner as other rates of telephone utilities. The terms "officers" and "employees" as used in this section shall include furloughed, pensioned and superannuated officers and employees of any such utility.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-5-410 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 5 / Article 4 / Section 58-5-410
SECTION 58-5-410. Election to come under article.
Status: in_force

A public utility providing natural gas distribution service, in its discretion and at anytime, may elect to have the terms of this article apply to its rates and charges for gas distribution 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 58-5-240; 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. A public utility may combine an election under this article with the filing of a rate proceeding pursuant to Section 58-5-240 and the commission shall include the findings required by this article in its rate orders issued in the Section 58-5-240 proceedings, and the election shall remain in effect until the next general rate proceeding.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-31-530 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 31 / Article 5 / Section 58-31-530
SECTION 58-31-530. Third-party notification program.
Status: in_force

The Public Service Authority must consider establishing and maintaining a third-party notification program to allow a residential customer to designate a third party to be notified if the electric service is scheduled for termination.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-15-1710 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 15 / Article 17 / Section 58-15-1710
SECTION 58-15-1710. Direct appeal to court.
Status: in_force

Any railroad company may appeal to the courts from any order or finding of any department or subdivision hereunder, the appeal to be taken in the manner provided by statute for an appeal from an order of the Public Service Commission. The commission shall not be a party to any appeal.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-3-140 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 58-3-140
SECTION 58-3-140. Powers to regulate public utilities.
Status: in_force

(A) Except as otherwise provided in Chapter 9 of this title, the commission is vested with power and jurisdiction to supervise and regulate the rates and service of every public utility in this State and to fix just and reasonable standards, classifications, regulations, practices, and measurements of service to be furnished, imposed, or observed, and followed by every public utility in this State. (B) The commission must develop and publish a policy manual which must set forth guidelines for the administration of the commission. All procedures must incorporate state requirements and good management practices to ensure the efficient and economical utilization of resources. (C) The commission must facilitate access to its general rate request orders in contested matters involving more than one hundred thousand dollars by publishing an order guide which indexes and cross-references orders by subject matter and case name. The order guide must be made available for public inspection. (D) The commission must promulgate regulations to require the direct testimony of witnesses appearing on behalf of utilities and of witnesses appearing on behalf of persons having formal intervenor status, such testimony to be reduced to writing and prefiled with the commission in advance of any hearing. In contested case proceedings, the applicant seeking relief from the commission shall have the right to prefile rebuttal testimony responsive to the direct prefiled testimony of other parties. The commission may allow supplemental testimony in cases where new matters arise after the filing of direct testimony, provided that parties shall have the right to respond to such supplemental testimony. The procedural schedule for each contested case proceeding shall include dates for completion of each phase of discovery, including discovery related to the application or other initial pleading as filed, direct testimony of the applicant, direct testimony of the Office of Regulatory Staff and other parties and intervenors, rebuttal testimony of the applicant, and surrebuttal testimony. Except upon showing of exceptional circumstances or surprise, all discovery must be completed not less than ten days prior to the hearing. The party with the burden of proof must be permitted to open and close its case, including the presentation of responsive witness testimony. (E) The commission may convene public hearings to allow public utility customers to address the commission as public witnesses without intervening in the proceedings and without subjecting themselves to discovery or prefiling testimony. Public witnesses may address the commission on issues related to customer service, utility operations, reliability, economic hardship, affordability, environmental concerns, or other matters that affect them. The public utility and the Office of Regulatory Staff shall work to investigate and resolve individual service issues raised by public witnesses. (F) Any other provision of law notwithstanding, to the extent the commission is authorized by the General Assembly to employ an independent third-party consultant to assist the commission in its duties with respect to a matter before the commission, such consultant may only rely upon evidence introduced by a party to that proceeding into the record subject to the requirements of the South Carolina Administrative Procedures Act. Further, the commission may not give any consultant employed by the commission party status in a proceeding before the commission. (G) Nothing in this section may be interpreted to repeal or modify specific exclusions from the commission's jurisdiction pursuant to Title 58 or any other title. (H) When required to be filed, tariffs must be filed with the office of the chief clerk of the commission and, on that same day, provided to the Executive Director of the Office of Regulatory Staff. 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." Effect of Amendment 2025 Act No. 41, SECTION 2, in (D), added the last five sentences; and added (E) and (F), and made conforming changes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-7-30 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 7 / Section 58-7-30
SECTION 58-7-30. Water companies may condemn land for waterworks.
Status: in_force

(A) Any corporation engaged in the business of supplying water or sewerage services in this State or which may intend to engage in the business of supplying water or sewerage services has the same rights and powers of condemnation as are conferred upon municipal corporations pursuant to the provisions of Sections 5-31-420, 5-31-430, and 5-31-440. (B) Before a corporation engaged in supplying sewer services as authorized under the provisions of this section exercises the right of condemnation, the governing body of the county in which the condemnation will occur must adopt an ordinance granting the corporation the authority to condemn property necessary to provide sewer services.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-15-1730 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 15 / Article 17 / Section 58-15-1730
SECTION 58-15-1730. Continuance of crossings as private crossings.
Status: in_force

All existing grade crossings replaced by grade separation structures or avoided by relocation of highways and no longer habitually used by the general public may be continued only as private crossings and not subject to the provisions of the statutes of this State relating to railroad crossings.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-15-10 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 15 / Article 1 / Section 58-15-10
SECTION 58-15-10. Petition for incorporation of railroad, street railway, steamboat or canal company.
Status: in_force

Three or more persons desiring to form themselves into a corporation for the purpose of building and operating a railroad or for the purpose of carrying on a street railway, steamboat or canal business may file with the Secretary of State a written declaration and petition, signed by themselves, setting forth: (1) The names and residences of the declarants; (2) The name of the proposed corporation; (3) The place at which it proposes to have its principal place of business; (4) The general nature of the business it proposes to do, giving in detail all the powers and privileges which it proposes to assume or claim under the provisions of the Constitution and laws of the State and (a) in case of a railroad corporation, its termini and route and the counties, townships, cities and towns through which the proposed road shall pass; the total length of the road; whether any portion of it has already been constructed and, if so, how much; the motive power proposed to be used, whether steam or electricity; the gauge of the road, whether standard or narrow; whether the proposed road will be altogether within the limits of this State or will be extended into some other state and, if it is proposed that such road shall be constructed to a point without the State, whether the corporation organizing expects to operate the line as an independent corporation or to consolidate with some other established railroad or company; and any other matter which the declarants may deem important, (b) in case of steamboat companies, the termini of the line; the nature of the proposed equipment and whether it is proposed to operate a passenger or freight line or both, (c) in case of a street railway, the city or town it proposes to do business in and the motive power and (d) in the case of a canal company, the termini of the canal proposed to be constructed; the river or rivers, stream or streams or body or bodies of water to be used or connected; and whether the canal is to be used for navigation, hydroelectric power and lighting or water supply, or for any or all such purposes; (5) The minimum amount of the capital stock upon which the corporation may organize and the maximum amount to which such capital stock may thereafter be increased and the par value thereof and how payable, if subscriptions are to be payable in installments and the date of payment and amount of installments; and (6) That it is proposed to organize such corporation under the provisions of this chapter, naming it by its title.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-13-280 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 13 / Article 5 / Section 58-13-280
SECTION 58-13-280. Other rights of claimant not affected by carrier's failure to return papers promptly.
Status: in_force

Nothing in Section 58-13-270 shall be construed to affect any other rights that the claimant may have against the carrier arising from its failure to return promptly any or all of such papers.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-13-20 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 13 / Article 1 / Section 58-13-20
SECTION 58-13-20. Wilful or reckless injury to baggage by baggage master unlawful.
Status: in_force

Any baggage master or other person whose duty it is to handle, remove or take care of the baggage of passengers who shall wilfully or recklessly injure or destroy any trunk, valise, box, package or parcel while loading, transporting, unloading, delivering or storing it shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars or imprisonment not exceeding thirty days.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-15-250 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 15 / Article 1 / Section 58-15-250
SECTION 58-15-250. Stockholder entitled to one vote for each share of stock held or owned by him.
Status: in_force

At all stockholders' meetings each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for each share of stock held or owned by him and shall be entitled to vote for directors, trustees or managers as provided in Section 33-11-200.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-2010 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 15 / Section 58-27-2010
SECTION 58-27-2010. Contempt proceedings.
Status: in_force

In case of failure on the part of any person to comply with any lawful order of the commission or of any commissioner or with any subpoena or subpoena duces tecum or in the case of the refusal of any witness to testify concerning any matter on which he may be interrogated lawfully, any court of record of general jurisdiction, or a judge thereof, may, on application of a party requesting a subpoena, compel obedience by proceedings for contempt as in the case of disobedience of the requirements of a subpoena issued from such court or a refusal to testify therein. The commission must not be a party to any proceeding.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-3-510 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 3 / Article 5 / Section 58-3-510
SECTION 58-3-510. State Regulation of Public Utilities Review Committee established.
Status: in_force

There is hereby established a committee to be known as the State Regulation of Public Utilities Review Committee, hereinafter called the review committee, which must exercise the powers and fulfill the duties described in this article.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-850 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 11 / Article 5 / Section 58-11-850
SECTION 58-11-850. Rates and fees for the collocation of a small wireless facility.
Status: in_force

(A) Except as provided in Section 58-11-830(F), this section governs an authority's rates and fees for the collocation of a small wireless facility and the installation, modification, or replacement of an associated pole. (B) Except to the extent permitted by this article or otherwise specifically authorized by state or federal law including, but not limited to, Article 20, Chapter 9, Title 58 and Chapter 12, Title 58, an authority may not: (1) adopt or enforce any regulations or requirements on the placement or operation of communications facilities in a ROW by a communications service provider authorized by federal, state, or local law to operate in a ROW; (2) regulate any communications services; or (3) impose or collect any tax, fee, or charge for the provision of any communications service over the communications service provider's communications facilities in a ROW. (C) Without limiting the foregoing, a wireless provider is authorized to deploy small wireless facilities and associated poles in a ROW in compliance with this article regardless of whether the provider has sought or obtained any certificate or other authority from the Public Service Commission of South Carolina provided; however, that nothing in this article prohibits an authority from requiring proof that a wireless services provider is licensed by the FCC or otherwise authorized to provide service within the geographic jurisdiction of the authority. (D)(1) A municipality may charge an application fee to a wireless provider regardless of whether the provider is subject to a business license tax that is or may be imposed upon it pursuant to Section 58-9-2220 and a franchise, consent, or administrative fee that is or may be imposed upon it pursuant to Section 58-9-2230. (2) A municipality may charge an application fee to a communications service provider regardless of whether the provider is subject to a franchise fee that is or may be imposed upon it pursuant to Section 58-12-330. (3) An authority may charge an application fee, so long as the fee is reasonable, nondiscriminatory, and recovers no more than an authority's direct costs for processing an application provided; however, the fee may not exceed: (a) for applications to collocate small wireless facilities on existing poles or structures, one hundred dollars each for the first five small wireless facilities in the same application and fifty dollars for each additional small wireless facility in the same application; or (b) for applications to collocate small wireless facilities on new poles, one thousand dollars for each pole, which fee covers both the installation of the new pole and the collocation on the new pole of associated small wireless facilities that are a permitted use in accordance with the specifications in Section 58-11-820(D); and (c) for applications to collocate small wireless facilities on modified or replacement poles, two hundred fifty dollars for each pole, which fee covers both the modification or replacement of the pole and the collocation on the pole of associated small wireless facilities that are permitted uses in accordance with the specifications in Section 58-11-820(D). (4)(a) Beginning on the effective date of this section and ending upon completion of the fourth year immediately following the effective date of this section, a municipality with a need for consultation in the review of a permit application may engage an outside consultant for consultation, review, and processing of the application and may charge the applicant the fees described in subitem (b) for such engagement. The fee the authority charges the applicant for such review shall not be used for: (i) travel expenses incurred in the review of a collocation application by an outside consultant or other third party; or (ii) direct payment or reimbursement for an outside consultant or other third party based on a contingent fee basis or results-based arrangement. (b) The fee the municipality charges an applicant pursuant to subitem (a) may not exceed the lesser of: (i) the amount the municipality pays the outside consultant for engagements that are consistent with subitem (a); or (ii) the following amounts: (aa) for applications to collocate small wireless facilities on existing poles or structures: seventy dollars each for the first five small wireless facilities in the same application and thirty-five dollars for each additional small wireless facility in the same application during the first year immediately following the effective date of this section; sixty dollars each for the first five small wireless facilities in the same application and thirty dollars for each additional small wireless facility in the same application during the second year immediately following the effective date of this section; fifty dollars each for the first five small wireless facilities in the same application and twenty-five dollars for each additional small wireless facility in the same application during the third year immediately following the effective date of this section; and forty dollars each for the first five small wireless facilities in the same application and twenty dollars for each additional small wireless facility in the same application during the fourth year immediately following the effective date of this section; (bb) for applications to collocate small wireless facilities on new poles: six hundred fifty dollars during the first year immediately following the effective date of this section; five hundred twenty dollars during the second year immediately following the effective date of this section; four hundred fifty-five dollars during the third year immediately following the effective date of this section; and three hundred ninety-nine dollars during the fourth year immediately following the effective date of this section; and (cc) for applications to collocate small wireless facilities on modified or replacement poles: two hundred dollars during the first year immediately following the effective date of this section; one hundred eighty-five dollars during the second year immediately following the effective date of this section; one hundred fifty dollars during the third year immediately following the effective date of this section; and one hundred twenty-five dollars during the fourth year immediately following the effective date of this section. (c) In any dispute concerning the appropriateness of a fee under this subitem, the municipality has the burden of proving that the fee meets the requirements of this subitem. (E)(1) A municipality may charge a rate for the occupancy and use of the ROW to a wireless provider regardless of whether the provider is subject to a business license tax that is or may be imposed upon it pursuant to Section 58-9-2220 and a franchise, consent, or administrative fee that is or may be imposed upon it pursuant to Section 58-9-2230. (2) A municipality may charge a rate for the occupancy and use of the ROW to a communications service provider regardless of whether the provider is subject to a franchise fee that is or may be imposed upon it pursuant to Section 58-12-330. (3) An authority may charge a wireless provider for the occupancy and use of the ROW, so long as such rate is reasonable, nondiscriminatory, and does not exceed: one hundred dollars per year for each small wireless facility collocated on any existing or replacement pole, including an existing or replacement authority pole; or two hundred dollars per year for each small wireless facility collocated on a new pole, other than a replacement pole, which two hundred dollar rate shall cover the new pole and the small wireless facility collocated on it. (F)(1) An authority may charge a rate for collocation of a small wireless facility on an authority pole, but any such rate must be reasonable, nondiscriminatory, and recover no more than the authority's direct costs associated with such collocation, not to exceed fifty dollars per authority pole per year. (2) Other than requiring a wireless provider to pay attachment rates as permitted by item (1), an authority may not require any person or entity with facilities installed on a pole or support structure to pay any additional attachment rates or fees as a result of the granting of an application for a permit under this article. (G) The applicant or the person that owns or operates the small wireless facility collocated in the ROW may remove its small wireless facilities at any time from the ROW upon not less than thirty days' prior written notice to the authority and may cease paying to the authority any applicable fees and rates for such use, as of the date of the actual removal of the small wireless facilities. In the event of such removal, the ROW shall be, to the extent practicable in the reasonable judgment of the authority, restored to its condition prior to the removal. If the applicant fails, to the extent practicable in the reasonable judgment of the authority, to return the ROW to its condition prior to the removal within ninety days of the removal, the authority may, at the sole discretion of the authority, restore the ROW to such condition and charge the applicant the authority's reasonable, documented cost of removal and restoration, plus a penalty not to exceed five hundred dollars. The authority may suspend the ability of the applicant to receive any new permits from the authority until the applicant has paid the amount assessed for such restoration, if any provided; however, that the authority shall not suspend such ability of any applicant that has deposited the amount in controversy in escrow pending an adjudication of the merits of the dispute by the Administrative Law Court.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-9-780 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 9 / Article 7 / Section 58-9-780
SECTION 58-9-780. Investigations.
Status: in_force

The Office of Regulatory Staff may, whenever it may be appropriate in the performance of its duties, investigate and examine the condition and operation of telephone utilities or any particular telephone utility.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-23-1300 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 23 / Article 13 / Section 58-23-1300
SECTION 58-23-1300. Occupancy of vehicle when answering call.
Status: in_force

When answering a call a public vehicle for hire shall contain no one other than the driver except with the permission of the person so calling.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-15-2140 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 15 / Article 21 / Section 58-15-2140
SECTION 58-15-2140. Article shall not affect certain penalties.
Status: repealed

Unless waived as provided in Section 58-15-2120, the provisions of Sections 58-15-2110 to 58-15-2130 shall not affect or in anywise relieve any railroad company or operator of any penalties incurred under Sections 58-15-2110 to 58-15-2130 or former Sections 58-15-2110 to 58-15-2130. The provisions of Section 58-17-1360 are not intended to be nor are they repealed or affected by amendment of Sections 58-15-2110 to 58-15-2130.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-15-110 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 15 / Article 1 / Section 58-15-110
SECTION 58-15-110. Effect of irregularity in incorporation.
Status: in_force

No irregularity in complying with the provisions of Sections 58-15-10 to 58-15-100 shall be held to vitiate the corporation until a direct proceeding to set aside and annul the charter be instituted by the proper authority of the State and all acts done and contracts entered into by any such de facto corporation shall have the same force and effect as if no irregularity had existed.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-2730 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 23 / Section 58-17-2730
SECTION 58-17-2730. Railroad shall issue or recognize through bills of lading between competitive points.
Status: in_force

No railroad doing business in this State shall be allowed to refuse to issue or recognize a through bill of lading between competitive points when issued over or by one railroad with which it connects when it issues or recognizes such bills of lading when goods are shipped to or from such points over any other competitive railroad with which it connects reaching such point. Such railroad shall not charge or receive for such goods passing over its lines, either by the appropriate schedule for local freight or a division of a through freight rate, a greater sum when such goods are shipped by or over one line of railroad with which it connects than it would charge or receive when such goods are shipped by or over any other line of railroad with which it connects. But nothing herein contained shall prevent any such railroad from demanding payment of its charges in advance of performing the service of carrying such goods or from limiting its liability to losses or damage to such freight upon its own line by a clause inserted in the bill of lading.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-450 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 3 / Section 58-27-450
SECTION 58-27-450. Continuance of service on expiration of franchise.
Status: in_force

Any electrical utility which has been furnishing electricity to a city or town or its inhabitants under a franchise that has expired shall, with such consent of the local authorities as may be required by article VIII, section 15, of the Constitution of this State, until a new permit for supplying electricity to such city or town or its inhabitants lawfully has been obtained, continue to furnish the same to such city or town or its inhabitants under such rates and upon such terms and conditions as may be approved by the Commission.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-610 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 5 / Section 58-27-610
SECTION 58-27-610. Definitions.
Status: in_force

When used in this article: (1) The term "electric supplier" means any electrical utility other than a municipality, any electric cooperative other than an electric cooperative engaged primarily in the business of furnishing electricity to other electric cooperatives for resale to other electric consumers, and any consolidated political subdivision owning or operating an electric plant or system for furnishing of electricity to the public for compensation. (2) The term "premises" means the building, structure or facility to which electricity is being or is to be furnished; provided, that two or more buildings, structures or facilities which are located on one tract or contiguous tracts of land and are utilized by one electric consumer for farming, business, commercial, industrial, institutional or governmental purposes, shall together constitute one "premises," except that any such building, structure or facility shall not, together with any other building, structure or facility, constitute one "premises" if the electric service to it is separately metered and the charges for such service are calculated independently of charges for service to any other building, structure or facility. (3) The term "line" means any electric conductor operating at a nominal voltage level of 25 KV or less, measured phase-to-phase, except (a) in the case of overhead construction, a conductor from the pole or tower nearest the premises of a consumer to such premises, or a conductor from a line tap to such premises, and (b) in the case of underground construction, a conductor from the transformer (or junction point, if there be one) nearest, on or in the premises of the consumer to such premises; provided, the term "line" shall include any electric conductor operating at a nominal voltage level in excess of 25 KV and less than 48 KV where it is established to the satisfaction of the other electric suppliers in the county or counties where such conductor is located, or in the absence of such agreement, to the satisfaction of the Public Service Commission, that the primary purpose and use of such conductor is for the distribution of electric power and not for the transmission of bulk power from one area to another; and, provided, further, that the term "line" shall include any other electric conductor operating at a nominal voltage level in excess of 25 KV and less than 48 KV, except that, until it is determined that such conductor is a distribution line in accordance with the preceding proviso, the service rights with respect to premises located wholly within three hundred feet of such conductor shall not be exclusive. (4) The term "industrial premises" means the premises of a person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of manufacture, processing, assembling, fabrication or related work. (5) As used in this article the term "corridor rights" means those rights an electric supplier has to serve customers which rights arise from the provisions of Section 58-27-620(1)(b), (c), and (d).
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-1220 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 9 / Section 58-27-1220
SECTION 58-27-1220. Extensions by municipalities.
Status: in_force

Any municipality operating its own plant or transmission system, if granted by the Commission a certificate of convenience and necessity as provided by Section 58-27-1230, may extend its lines and electrical service into any territory adjacent to such municipality, as well as into any nearby city or town if there is no electrical utility then operating in such city or town.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-1180 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 8 / Section 58-27-1180
SECTION 58-27-1180. Violation of article; penalties.
Status: in_force

A violation of this article or of a financing order issued under this article subjects the utility that obtained the order to penalties under Article 19 of this chapter and to any other penalties or remedies that the commission determines are necessary to achieve the intent of this article and the intent and terms of the financing order and to prevent any increase in financial impact to the utility's ratepayers above that set forth in the financing order. If the commission orders a penalty or a remedy for a violation, the monetary penalty or remedy and the costs of defending against the proposed penalty or remedy may not be recovered from the ratepayers. The commission may not make adjustments to recovery charges for any such penalties or remedies.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-13-140 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 13 / Article 3 / Section 58-13-140
SECTION 58-13-140. Statement as to delays furnished on demand.
Status: in_force

Any such common carrier shall, within ten days after demand in writing therefor by any consignee of delayed freight or the owner or holder of the bill of lading, furnish a statement in writing, specifying the date of its receipt of such freight, the cause of delay and the name of the common carrier responsible therefor. Any common carrier failing to furnish such statement shall forfeit to the person demanding it one dollar a day for each day in default, to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-23-1030 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 23 / Article 11 / Section 58-23-1030
SECTION 58-23-1030. Occasional detours; use of substitute or reserve vehicles in emergencies.
Status: in_force

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent a motor vehicle carrier from making occasional detours from his regular route or from replacing in an emergency any such vehicle by a substitute vehicle in order to maintain an approved schedule, or from operating temporarily in an emergency, reserve vehicles on its route for the public accommodation.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-5-990 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 5 / Article 9 / Section 58-5-990
SECTION 58-5-990. Application for rehearing; judicial review.
Status: in_force

A gas utility which is or will be adversely affected by a rule or order of the commission adopted or established pursuant to this article may file an application for rehearing and may seek judicial review in accordance with provisions of Section 58-5-340. The commission must not be named a party to any action. Editor's Note 2006 Act No. 387, SECTION 53, provides as follows: "This act is intended to provide a uniform procedure for contested cases and appeals from administrative agencies and to the extent that a provision of this act conflicts with an existing statute or regulation, the provisions of this act are controlling." 2006 Act No. 387, SECTION 57, provides as follows: "This act takes effect on July 1, 2006, and applies to any actions pending on or after the effective date of the act. No pending or vested right, civil action, special proceeding, or appeal of a final administrative decision exists under the former law as of the effective date of this act, except for appeals of Department of Health and Environmental Control Ocean and Coastal Resource Management and Environmental Quality Control permits that are before the Administrative Law Court on the effective date of this act and petitions for judicial review that are pending before the circuit court. For those actions only, the department shall hear appeals from the administrative law judges and the circuit court shall hear pending petitions for judicial review in accordance with the former law. Thereafter, any appeal of those actions shall proceed as provided in this act for review. For all other actions pending on the effective date of this act, the action proceeds as provided in this act for review."
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-13-410 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 13 / Article 7 / Section 58-13-410
SECTION 58-13-410. Lien of carriers on goods or chattels for carrying charges; enforcement.
Status: in_force

All persons hauling, moving, transporting or carrying goods or chattels from place to place in this State or from a point without this State into this State shall have a lien on such goods or chattels to the extent of such carrying charges as have been agreed upon or, in case no carrying charges have been agreed upon, for reasonable charges for such services. Such lien shall exist for a period of ten days after the delivery of such goods or chattels and be enforced by attachment as provided by law in cases of nonresident and absconding debtor attachments. But this lien shall not affect the rights of innocent parties, nor shall this section abridge any right or repeal any law allowing railroad carriers to collect such charges as they may be entitled to for handling or carrying freight.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-41-05 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 41 / Section 58-41-05
SECTION 58-41-05. Directions to commission.
Status: in_force

The commission is directed to address all renewable energy issues in a fair and balanced manner, considering the costs and benefits to all customers of all programs and tariffs that relate to renewable energy and energy storage, both as part of the utility's power system and as direct investments by customers for their own energy needs and renewable goals. The commission also is directed to ensure that the revenue recovery, cost allocation, and rate design of utilities that it regulates are just and reasonable and properly reflect changes in the industry as a whole, the benefits of customer renewable energy, energy efficiency, and demand response, as well as any utility or state-specific impacts unique to South Carolina which are brought about by the consequences of this act.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-5-1070 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 5 / Article 9 / Section 58-5-1070
SECTION 58-5-1070. Article inapplicable to anhydrous ammonia.
Status: in_force

The provisions of this article shall not be applicable to the regulation of anhydrous ammonia to the extent that this subject is regulated by Sections 39-47-10 to 39-47-70 and the regulations issued thereunder.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-5-40 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 58-5-40
SECTION 58-5-40. Exemption of sellers at wholesale of water or water-borne waste disposal services to municipality.
Status: in_force

Any water supplier who sells water wholesale to a municipality and any supplier of water-borne waste disposal services who renders such services on a wholesale basis to a municipality shall not be under the jurisdiction of the South Carolina Public Service Commission or the Office of Regulatory Staff as to such sale of water or services.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-15-190 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 15 / Article 1 / Section 58-15-190
SECTION 58-15-190. Duration of charters.
Status: in_force

All charters granted under the provisions of this article shall continue in force perpetually, unless limited by the terms of the declaration or unless forfeited by failure to comply with the conditions of the charter or of this article.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-2100 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 15 / Section 58-27-2100
SECTION 58-27-2100. Findings and orders of Commission.
Status: in_force

After the conclusion of a hearing the Commission shall make and file its findings and order with its opinion, if any. Its findings shall be in sufficient detail to enable the court on review to determine the controverted questions presented by the proceeding and whether proper weight was given to the evidence.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-9-1060 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 9 / Article 9 / Section 58-9-1060
SECTION 58-9-1060. Taking of depositions.
Status: in_force

The Office of Regulatory Staff or any party to any proceedings before the commission may, in any hearing before the commission, cause the deposition of witnesses residing within or without the State to be taken in the manner prescribed by law for taking depositions in civil actions in the courts of this State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-2340 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 19 / Section 58-17-2340
SECTION 58-17-2340. Common carriers shall maintain scales under certain conditions.
Status: in_force

Every common carrier doing business in this State shall, upon demand of any person having a sidetrack adjacent to and used in connection with the business of such person, erect and maintain on such sidetrack suitable scales for reweighing such coal or other articles in carload lots. But such person shall agree and become liable to such common carrier to pay the amount incurred by such common carrier in the erection and maintenance of such scales. In such event, the common carrier shall reweigh such coal or other articles delivered in carload lots to such person upon such sidetrack, as provided for in Section 58-17-2310. Upon refusal so to weigh, such common carrier shall be liable for the same penalties provided in Sections 58-17-2320 and 58-17-2330.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-40 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 1 / Section 58-17-40
SECTION 58-17-40. Property to which chapter shall apply.
Status: in_force

The provisions of the General Railroad Law shall apply to all property, to the receiving, delivery, loading, unloading, handling, storing or carriage of property on one actually or substantially continuous carriage, or as part of such continuous carriage and to the compensation therefor, whether such property be carried wholly on one railroad or partly on several railroads and whether such services are performed or compensation paid by or to one person alone or in connection with another or other persons.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-4095 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 33 / Section 58-17-4095
SECTION 58-17-4095. Parking or operating vehicle on railroad right-of-way prohibited; exceptions; penalty.
Status: in_force

(A) No person may park or operate a vehicle on a railroad right-of-way where there are existing tracks unless the person: (1) is an employee of the railroad which owns the right-of-way in the performance of his duties; (2) has authority from the railroad which owns the right-of-way; (3) is using a public or private roadway which crosses over the railroad at an established grade crossing; (4) is acting in an official capacity with the military, police force, a fire fighting organization, or some similar public authority and must enter onto the railroad right-of-way to carry out his or her responsibilities; or (5) is an employee of a public utility or telecommunications carrier, or of the forestry industry, and must enter onto the railroad right-of-way to carry out his responsibilities. (B) For the purposes of this section, the term "vehicle" includes all standard vehicles normally operated on roadways, such as automobiles, trucks, vans, and motorcycles, and all off-road vehicles. Off-road vehicles include, but are not limited to, four-wheel drive or low-pressure tire vehicles, two or three wheel vehicles, amphibious machines, and ground-effect or air-cushioned vehicles. (C) A person violating the provisions of this section, upon conviction, shall pay a fine of not more than two hundred dollars or serve a term of imprisonment for not more than thirty days.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-2100 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 15 / Section 58-17-2100
SECTION 58-17-2100. Classification of cotton as "heavy goods"; weights.
Status: in_force

All cotton packed in bales transported by common carriers within the limits of this State shall be classed as "heavy goods," that is to say an article to be weighed and charged for and treated accordingly. But any common carrier before receiving such cotton for shipment may demand from the shipper the weights of the several bales thereof and may adopt them as the weights upon which freight is to be charged. And in case of loss, no recovery shall be had by any shipper for a greater amount than the weights so furnished by him.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-20 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 1 / Section 58-17-20
SECTION 58-17-20. Definitions applicable to all laws.
Status: in_force

The terms "railroad corporation" and "railroad company" wherever contained in the law of this State shall be deemed and taken to mean all corporations, companies or individuals owning or operating any railroad in whole or in part in this State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-12-70 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 12 / Article 2 / Section 58-12-70
SECTION 58-12-70. Underground installations on private property; consent required.
Status: in_force

No cable television company may install underground wires or other underground equipment on private property without the written consent of the property owner. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined one hundred dollars.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-940 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 7 / Section 58-17-940
SECTION 58-17-940. Application for examination of books.
Status: in_force

On the application in writing of a director or of any person or persons owning one-fiftieth part of the entire paid-in capital stock of any corporation operating a railroad or the bonds or other evidences of indebtedness of the corporation equal in amount to one-fiftieth part of its paid-in capital stock, the Office of Regulatory Staff must make an examination into the books of the corporation.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-39-140 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 39 / Section 58-39-140
SECTION 58-39-140. Submittal of estimates of incremental or avoided costs for the next twelve months; hearing; regulations; report; expiration.
Status: in_force

(A) For purposes of this section, "incremental costs" means all reasonable and prudent costs incurred by an electrical utility to implement a distributed energy resource program pursuant to the provisions of Section 58-39-130 of this chapter, including, but not limited to: (1) The cost an electrical utility incurs in excess of the electrical utility's avoided cost rate, as defined in this section. All costs paid under avoided cost rates, or negotiated rates pursuant to PURPA, whichever is lower, shall be considered an avoided cost under Section 58-39-120(B) and shall be recovered under Section 58-27-865. (2) The full cost of an electrical utility's investment in nongenerating distributed energy resources, such as, but not limited to, energy storage devices. (3) The electrical utility's weighted average cost of capital as applied to the electrical utility's investment in distributed energy resources. The weighted average cost of capital means the utility's weighted average cost of (a) common equity, as most recently approved by the commission, and (b) long term debt. The capital costs of the resource shall include, but not be limited to, all reasonable and prudent costs associated with the design, siting, selection, acquisition, licensing, permitting, constructing, testing, and placing into service of the resource as well as capital maintenance and other capital costs associated with its repair, renewal, replacement, and upgrading. Such costs also shall include all reasonable and prudent costs incurred to expand, upgrade, or reconfigure transmission or distribution systems to accommodate power flows from the resource or to respond to other requirements placed by the resource on the electrical system, along with all other costs properly considered capital costs for a project or asset under generally accepted principles of regulatory or utility accounting or accounting orders issued by the commission. Capital costs shall include the utility's weighted average cost of equity and long-term debt applied to the balance of construction work in progress for which capital costs are not yet being collected through a fuel cost component approved under this chapter and Section 58-27-865. (4) Operating and maintenance expenses, taxes, insurance, depreciation, overheads, and all other expenses properly considered to be expenses associated with a project, asset, or program under generally accepted principles of regulatory, or utility accounting or accounting orders issued by the commission, provided that such expenses shall be recorded as a capital cost of the resource or program until such time as a fuel cost component providing for their recovery goes into effect. (5) The electrical utility's incremental labor cost associated with implementing a distributed energy resource program. (B) Upon approval of a distributed energy resource program, the commission shall direct the electrical utility which incurs incremental or avoided costs to submit to the commission and to the Office of Regulatory Staff, within such time and in such form as the commission may designate, its estimates of incremental or avoided costs for the next twelve months. The commission may hold a public hearing at any time between the twelve-month reviews to determine whether an increase or decrease in the fuel cost component designed to recover incremental or avoided costs should be granted. Upon conducting public hearings in accordance with law, the commission shall direct the electrical utility to place in effect an amount designed to recover, during the succeeding twelve months, the incremental or avoided costs determined by the commission to be appropriate for that period, adjusted for the over-recovery or under-recovery from the preceding twelve-month period. This amount shall be a component of the fuel cost factor established under Section 58-27-865(A). The commission shall direct the electrical utility to send notice to the utility customers with the antecedent billing of the time and place of any public hearing to be held pursuant to this subsection, and the commission shall again direct the electrical utility to send notice to the utility customers with the next billing if the utility is granted a rate increase by the commission. (C) Upon request by the Office of Regulatory Staff or the electrical utility, a public hearing must be held by the commission coincident with the fuel cost recovery proceeding required under Section 58-27-865 to determine whether an increase or decrease in the fuel cost component designed to recover incremental or avoided costs should be granted. If the request is by an electrical utility for an increase or decrease in the fuel cost factor, the commission shall direct the utility to send notice of the request and hearing to all customers with the next billing, and if the commission grants the rate request subsequent to the request and hearing, the commission shall direct the utility to send notice of the amount of the increase or decrease to all customers with the next billing. (D) The commission is authorized to promulgate, in accordance with the provisions of this section, all regulations necessary to allow the recovery by electrical utilities of all their prudently incurred distributed energy resource program implementation costs incurred pursuant to Sections 58-39-130 and 58-39-140 of this chapter. (E) No later than July 31, 2016, the Office of Regulatory Staff shall prepare and submit to the General Assembly with copies to all members of the State Regulation of Public Utilities Review Committee a report on the implementation of this chapter and Chapter 40 of this title. The Office of Regulatory Staff shall update this report no later than July 31, 2017, and each two years thereafter. Upon receipt and review of these reports, and in consultation with the General Assembly, the Public Utilities Review Committee shall make recommendations to the Office of Regulatory Staff as to any changes in implementation that may be needed. (F) The authorization to propose or approve new components of DER programs shall sunset and expire on January 1, 2021, provided however that the cost recovery provisions of this chapter shall remain in force until the costs associated with all approved DER program components have been recovered. 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. § 58-17-2050 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 15 / Section 58-17-2050
SECTION 58-17-2050. Suit to recover for discrimination or excessive charges for storage.
Status: in_force

If any railroad company shall violate any provisions of Sections 58-17-2020 to 58-17-2040 either by exceeding the rates of storage prescribed or by discriminating, as aforesaid, the person so paying such overcharge or subjected to such discrimination may sue therefor in any court of this State having jurisdiction of the claim and shall have all the remedies, and be entitled to recover the same penalties and measure of damages, as are prescribed in the case of overcharge of freight rates, upon making like demand as is prescribed in such case and after like failure of the company to pay such claim.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-780 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 5 / Section 58-17-780
SECTION 58-17-780. Penalty for owning, leasing or operating competing lines.
Status: in_force

Any railroad company owning, leasing or operating competing railroad lines within this State in violation of law shall be subject to a penalty of one hundred dollars for every day that such competing lines are owned, leased or operated, such penalty to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in any county through which either of such competing lines may pass by any citizen thereof who may sue for it, one half of such penalty to go to the person suing therefor and the other half to the State. But the provisions of this section shall be without prejudice to any remedy which the State may be entitled to in its own behalf.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-12-120 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 12 / Article 2 / Section 58-12-120
SECTION 58-12-120. Cable television company and cable television system defined.
Status: in_force

The term "cable television company" and "cable television system" as used in this act includes a corporation incorporated under the laws of this State, a corporation incorporated under the laws of another state which has complied with the laws of this State regulating the doing of business in this State by foreign corporations, a general or limited partnership organized under the laws of this State, and a general or limited partnership organized under the laws of another state which has complied with any laws of this State regulating the doing of business in this State by these partnerships.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-9-230 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 9 / Article 3 / Section 58-9-230
SECTION 58-9-230. Adherence to schedules.
Status: in_force

(A) No telephone utility may directly or indirectly, by any device whatsoever or in any way, charge, demand, collect, or receive from any person or corporation a greater or less compensation for any service rendered or supplied, or to be rendered or supplied, by the telephone utility, than that prescribed in the schedules of the telephone utility applicable thereto then filed in the manner provided in Articles 1 through 13 of this chapter, nor may any person or corporation receive or accept any service from a telephone utility for a compensation greater or less than that prescribed in the schedules. (B) Local exchange company centrex-type services or billing and collection services, or both, may be offered to subscribers without the schedules related thereto being filed as provided in subsection (A), if the Commission, after hearing, first determines that such services are subject to competition in the relevant product and geographic markets. The Commission shall retain regulatory authority, however, over the rates, revenues, investments, expenses, and quality of the services so offered. (C) The charges for services offered by the utility pursuant to subsection (B) must, in every instance, be provided at a level above the cost of the service as determined by the commission. The regulatory staff shall have access to such data to ensure compliance with this section. The cost data is not subject to disclosure to the public. However, upon the application of any interested party and for good cause shown, the commission may enter an appropriate order which directs the manner in which the proprietary cost data provided to the regulatory staff may be made available to such interested party. (D) When a local exchange company proposes to offer a service pursuant to subsections (B) and (C), the Commission shall first determine: (1) whether monopoly elements are offered as part of the centrex-type service; and (2) if the Commission finds the existence of a monopoly element, then it must decide whether or not that monopoly element should be unbundled from the detariffed service. If they find that the monopoly element should be unbundled, then only the competitive elements of that service may be detariffed. (3) This section does not amend or repeal the provisions of Section 58-9-250.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-910 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 7 / Section 58-17-910
SECTION 58-17-910. Stock subscriptions.
Status: in_force

For the purpose of raising the capital stock of any railroad company incorporated in this State it shall be lawful to open books of subscription at such times and places and under the direction of such persons as the incorporators may appoint. Such subscriptions to the capital stock may be made in land, money, bonds, machinery, materials and work, at such rates as may be agreed upon with the company.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-33-250 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 33 / Article 4 / Section 58-33-250
SECTION 58-33-250. Application for baseline review; contents.
Status: in_force

The application for a base load review order under this article shall include: (1) information showing the anticipated construction schedule for the plant; (2) information showing the anticipated components of capital costs and the anticipated schedule for incurring them; (3) information showing the projected effect of investment in the plant on the utility's overall revenue requirement for each year during the construction period; (4) information identifying: (a) the specific type of units selected for the plant; (b) the suppliers of the major components of the plant; and (c) the basis for selecting the type of units, major components, and suppliers; (5) information detailing the qualification and selection of principal contractors and suppliers, other than those listed in item (4)(c) above, for construction of the plant; (6) information showing the anticipated in-service expenses associated with the plant for the twelve months following commencement of commercial operation adjusted to normalize any atypical or abnormal expense levels anticipated during that period; (7) information required by Section 58-33-270(B)(6); (8) information identifying risk factors related to the construction and operation of the plant; (9) information identifying the proposed rate design and class allocation factors to be used in formulating revised rates; (10) information identifying the return on equity proposed by the utility pursuant to Section 58-33-220(16); and (11) the revised rates, if any are requested, that the utility intends to put in place after issuance of the resulting base load review order.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-13-910 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 13 / Article 13 / Section 58-13-910
SECTION 58-13-910. Appointment of special officers or constables for protection of common carriers.
Status: in_force

Upon the application of the superintendent or manager of a railway or other common carrier doing business in this State, the Governor shall certify special officers or constables for the protection and safety of all property and interest of the common carrier, if the officers and constables are paid by the common carrier applying for their certification. Special officers or constables appointed pursuant to the laws of another state for protection of interstate shipments, passengers, and employees of railroad companies commissioned as railroad police officers in another state in which the common carrier operates and who meet all law enforcement training standards required in this State must be certified under the doctrine of full faith and credit with capacity in this State to enforce the laws for the protection of interstate shipments, passengers, and employees of railroad companies. The capacity may not be interpreted as a state commission but exists by virtue of the State of South Carolina under the doctrine of full faith and credit recognizing and giving full force and effect under our laws to the legal capacity created in the complying state.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-27-255 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 27 / Article 1 / Section 58-27-255
SECTION 58-27-255. Coal combustion residuals disposal.
Status: in_force

(A) Coal combustion residuals that result from an electrical utility, an electric cooperative, a governmental entity, a corporation, or an individual producing electricity for sale or distribution by burning coal must be placed in a commercial Class 3 solid waste management landfill, unless the coal combustion residuals are: (1) located contiguous with the electric generating unit; (2) intended to be beneficially reused; (3) placed into beneficial reuse; or (4) placed in an appropriate landfill which meets the standards of the Department of Health and Environmental Control Regulation 61-107, and that is owned or operated by the entity that produced the electricity which resulted in the coal combustion residuals. (B) The "beneficial reuse" of coal combustion residuals, as used in this section, is subject to the applicable regulations as promulgated by the Department of Health and Environmental Control. Editor's Note 2016 Act No. 138, SECTIONS 2 and 4, provide as follows: "SECTION 2. Nothing in this act affects any other provisions or requirements of law or regulation applicable to coal combustion residuals." "SECTION 4. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor and applies to the disposal of coal combustion residuals placed in a landfill on or after that date."
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-23-1640 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 23 / Article 16 / Section 58-23-1640
SECTION 58-23-1640. Safety inspection of TNC vehicle; display of license plate number; violations; penalties.
Status: in_force

(A) The TNC driver shall have a certified mechanic licensed in South Carolina conduct a safety inspection of a TNC vehicle within thirty days of the vehicle first providing TNC services. (B) The TNC shall not permit a TNC driver to provide TNC services if the TNC vehicle does not pass a certified mechanics inspection as identified in this article. (C) The TNC driver shall have periodic safety inspections of the TNC vehicle performed at intervals of at least once each year. (D) The TNC shall maintain documentation of a TNC vehicle inspection for a period of three years. (E) The vehicle inspection shall include an inspection of: (1) foot brakes; (2) emergency brakes; (3) steering mechanism; (4) windshield; (5) rear window and other glass; (6) windshield wipers; (7) headlights; (8) tail lights; (9) turn indicator lights; (10) stop lights; (11) front seat adjustment mechanism; (12) door capability to open, close, lock, and unlock; (13) horn; (14) speedometer; (15) bumpers; (16) muffler and exhaust system; (17) tire condition including tread depth; (18) interior and exterior rearview mirrors; and (19) safety belts. (F) A TNC vehicle must display a consistent and distinctive signage or emblem, which must be known as a trade dress, at all times when the TNC driver is active on the TNC digital platform or providing TNC service. The trade dress used by the TNC must be approved by the Office of Regulatory Staff before its use and: (1) must be readable during daylight hours at a distance of fifty feet; (2) must be reflective, illuminated, or otherwise patently visible so as to be seen in darkness; and (3) may be magnetic or removable in nature. (G) The Office of Regulatory Staff may conduct inspections of TNC vehicles. (H) The vehicle inspection records must be provided to the Office of Regulatory Staff by the TNC upon request. (I) At the time of a pick up of a TNC passenger, a TNC vehicle must display the vehicle's license plate number, which must be printed in a legible font of no less than two inches in height and displayed from the front of the TNC vehicle. The display of the license plate number shall not be required to be permanent and shall not be required to be issued or approved by a TNC or the State, including the Department of Motor Vehicles or the Office of Regulatory Staff. (J) A person who misrepresents himself as an authorized TNC driver is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both. (K) A person who knowingly engages in the use of a TNC trade dress or a TNC ridesharing application in the furtherance of a criminal activity is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars, imprisoned for not more than two years, or both. Effect of Amendment 2019 Act No. 82, SECTION 1, added (I), requiring TNC vehicles to display license plate numbers from the front; added (J), establishing a misdemeanor offense for misrepresenting oneself as an authorized TNC driver; and added (K), establishing a misdemeanor offense for knowingly using TNC trade dress or ridesharing applications in the furtherance of criminal activity.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-470 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 11 / Article 3 / Section 58-11-470
SECTION 58-11-470. Commission shall not grant certificate for operation or extension into established service area unless necessary for public convenience and necessity.
Status: in_force

The Commission shall not grant a certificate for a proposed radio common carrier operation or extension thereof into an established service area of another certified radio common carrier unless after hearing it shall be shown by the applicant that public convenience and necessity will be best met by the radio common carrier being granted authority to serve such area.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-2680 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 23 / Section 58-17-2680
SECTION 58-17-2680. Connecting line may cross other tracks.
Status: in_force

In building such connecting line the right is granted, under the supervision of the Office of Regulatory Staff, to run across or along any existing track at grade.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-3800 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 17 / Article 31 / Section 58-17-3800
SECTION 58-17-3800. Article shall be cumulative.
Status: in_force

Nothing in this article shall be held to limit the duty or liability of common carriers or to impair the rights of their employees under any other law not inconsistent with the provisions of this article but the remedies and provisions herein shall be held to be in addition to, and cumulative of, existing remedies.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-11-10 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 58-11-10
SECTION 58-11-10. Definitions.
Status: in_force

When used in this chapter: (a) The term "commission" means the Public Service Commission of the State of South Carolina. (b) The term "commissioner" means one of the members of the Public Service Commission. (c) The term "corporation" includes all bodies corporate, joint stock companies, or associations, domestic or foreign, their lessees, assignees, trustees, receivers or other successors in interest, having any of the powers or privileges of corporations not possessed by individuals or partnerships. (d) The term "person" includes all individuals, partnerships or associations other than corporations. (e) The term "public" means the public generally, or any limited portion of the public, including a person or corporation. (f) The term "radio common carrier" includes persons and corporations, their lessees, assignees, trustees, receivers, or other successors in interest now or hereafter owning or operating in this State equipment or facilities for the transmission of intelligence by a modulated radio frequency signal, for compensation to the public, including all things incident thereto and related to the operation of radio transmission, but shall not include telephone utilities or services regulated by Articles 1 through 13 of Chapter 9 of Title 58 of the 1976 Code. (g) The term "intelligence" means the transfer of information either one way, or two way, by tone, data bit, voice, or other means as may be used to convey information to a person, persons, or machine. (h) The term "rate" means and includes every compensation, charge, toll, rental and classification, or any of them, demanded, observed, charged or collected by any carrier for any communications service offered by it to the public, and any rules, regulations, practices or contracts affecting any such compensation, charge, toll, rental or classification. (i) The term "securities" means and includes stock, stock certificates, bonds, notes, debentures, or other evidences of indebtedness, and any assumption or guaranty thereof. (j) The term "service area" shall include that geographical area covered by a radio common carrier system by county unless otherwise specified by the Public Service Commission. (k) The term "communication service" shall mean a service to transmit audio intelligence by means of a modulated radio frequency signal and shall not include telephone answering services. (l) The term "regulatory staff" means the executive director or the executive director and the employees of the Office of Regulatory Staff.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-15-940 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 15 / Article 9 / Section 58-15-940
SECTION 58-15-940. Fiscal year for railroads.
Status: in_force

The fiscal year for which reports shall be made by railroad companies in the State to the Office of Regulatory Staff and to other officers of the State shall terminate on the thirty-first day of December, so as to conform to the calendar year and to the fiscal year as fixed by the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-15-1530 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 15 / Article 15 / Section 58-15-1530
SECTION 58-15-1530. Payment of expense of elimination or relocation of grade crossings.
Status: in_force

If the Commission shall decide that such a crossing should be eliminated or relocated it shall apportion, assess and require the payment by such railroad company of its proper pro rata share of the expense incident to the construction and grading of any highway or road appurtenant to such elimination or relocation but the cost to be assessed against such railroad company shall not exceed its proper pro rata share for more than one fourth of one mile and, in the case of railroads independently operated having less than eighty miles of road within this State, shall not exceed its proper pro rata share for more than one eighth of a mile.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-23-80 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 23 / Article 1 / Section 58-23-80
SECTION 58-23-80. Penalties.
Status: in_force

(A) Unless otherwise provided in this section, an officer, agent, or employee of a corporation and any other person who wilfully violates or fails to comply with or who procures, aids, or abets in the violation of any provision of Articles 1 through 12 of this chapter or who fails to obey, observe, or comply with any lawful order, decision, regulation, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission or the Office of Regulatory Staff or any part or provision thereof is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned for not less than ten days nor more than thirty days. (B) An officer, agent, or employee of a corporation or any other person operating as a passenger carrier who violates or who aids and abets in the violation of the provisions of Section 58-23-40 is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not less than one hundred dollars for a first offense, not less than five hundred dollars for a second offense, and for third and subsequent offenses not less than one thousand dollars or imprisoned for a term not to exceed thirty days, or both. A violation must not be charged more than once for any single load. (C) An officer, agent, or employee of a corporation or any other person operating as a carrier of household goods or as a carrier of hazardous waste for disposal who violates or who aids and abets in the violation of the provisions of the certification and registration requirements provided pursuant to Section 58-23-40 is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined as provided in Section 58-23-590(E). A violation must not be charged more than once for any single load. (D) An officer, agent, or employee of a corporation or any other person advertising as a passenger carrier who violates or who aids and abets in the violation of the provisions of Section 58-23-40 is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not less than one hundred dollars for a first offense, not less than five hundred dollars for a second offense, and for third and subsequent offenses not less than one thousand dollars. A violation must not be charged more than once for any single load. (E) An officer, agent, or employee of a corporation or any other person advertising as a carrier of household goods or hazardous waste for disposal who violates or who aids and abets in the violation of the provisions of the certification and registration requirements provided pursuant to Section 58-23-40 is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined as provided in Section 58-23-590(E). A violation must not be charged more than once for any single load.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-5-960 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 5 / Article 9 / Section 58-5-960
SECTION 58-5-960. Compliance with safety standards.
Status: in_force

All pipeline facilities used in this State for the transportation of gas must be constructed, operated, and maintained in such a manner as at all times to be in compliance with minimum federal safety standards and with the safety standards adopted by the commission.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-13-110 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 13 / Article 3 / Section 58-13-110
SECTION 58-13-110. Time within which common carriers must transport freight requiring prompt shipment.
Status: in_force

Every common carrier doing business in this State shall, if notice be given it that prompt shipment is required, transport to its destination all freight received by it for transportation within this State within a reasonable time after receipt thereof, to wit: Between points not over one hundred miles apart, seventy-two hours; between points over one hundred and not over two hundred miles apart, ninety-six hours and between points over two hundred miles apart, one hundred and twenty hours. The nearest route by railroad shall be taken in each case as the distance between the points. When requested any such common carrier shall insert in the bill of lading the words "prompt shipment required," which shall be conclusive evidence of such notice and each such common carrier shall extend such notice to its connecting line or be liable for the consequences of its failure to do so.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-25-45 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 25 / Section 58-25-45
SECTION 58-25-45. Appointment of board members of pre-existing authorities.
Status: in_force

If a majority of the member governments of any transportation authority formed under Chapter 25 of Title 58 of the 1976 Code prior to July 1, 1985, agree, three members of the governing boards may be appointed by a majority of the members of the legislative delegations of the member counties.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-31-220 — SC Code / Title 58 / Chapter 31 / Article 1 / Section 58-31-220
SECTION 58-31-220. Authorization for Public Service Authority to adopt calendar year as its fiscal year.
Status: in_force

The Public Service Authority may adopt the calendar year as its fiscal year, but the adoption does not affect payments made by the Authority to the general fund of the State.