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SC Code § 39-3-150 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 3 - Trusts, Monopolies And Restraints Of Trade|Section 39-3-150. Sale at less than cost for purpose of injuring competitors is conspiracy to form monopoly; exemptions for motor fuel sales to meet existing competition; records to support exemption.

 (A) If any person engaged in the manufacture, sale, or distribution of any commodity in general use in this State shall, with the intent or purpose of driving out competition or for the purpose of financially injuring competitors, sell at less than cost of manufacture or at less than the cost of such commodity bought in the open markets plus the freight and other charges to point of destination or give away such product for the purpose of driving out competition or financially injuring any competitor engaged in the manufacture, sale, or distribution of such commodity in this State, such person shall be guilty of a conspiracy to form or secure a trust or monopoly in restraint of trade and of unfair discrimination, which is prohibited and declared to be unlawful. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section and any officer, agent, or receiver of any firm, company, association, or corporation or any member thereof or any individual guilty of a violation of this section shall be liable for a penalty of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than five thousand dollars to be recovered at the suit of the State in the court of common pleas of any county. The Attorney General may allow one-half of the penalties provided in this section to anyone who may conduct the suit and the Attorney General shall be authorized to proceed as provided in this article to enforce the provisions hereof. Each sale so proven under the provisions of this section shall be considered a separate offense.  (B) Sales of motor fuel in general use in this State at wholesale or retail at a price to meet existing competition which is below the actual cost of acquiring the product, including transportation and taxes, are exempt from the provisions of this section, provided that any person claiming the exemption shall keep and maintain records substantiating his effort to meet this competition, including the identity and place of business of the competitors whose competition that person is meeting. The records must be made available to the Department of Consumer Affairs and the Attorney General on request made in connection with any investigation of a possible violation of this section by the department or the Attorney General.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-65; 1952 Code Section 66-65; 1942 Code Section 6626; 1932 Code Section 6634; Civ. C. '22 Section 3544; Civ. C. '12 Section 2451; 1902 (23) 1057; 1927 (35) 115; 1993 Act No. 161, Section 3, eff sixty days after approval (approved June 15, 1993).  Effect of Amendment  The 1993 amendment designated the existing material subsection (A) and added subsection (B).
SC Code § 39-3-160 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 3 - Trusts, Monopolies And Restraints Of Trade|Section 39-3-160. Forfeiture of corporate franchise.

 Any corporation created or organized by or under the laws of this State which shall violate any of the provisions of this article shall forfeit its corporate rights and franchises and its corporate existence shall, upon the proper proof being made thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction in the State, be by the court declared forfeited, void and of none effect and shall thereupon cease and determine. The clerk of such court shall certify the decree thereof to the Secretary of State.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-66; 1952 Code Section 66-66; 1942 Code Section 6629; 1932 Code Section 6637; Civ. C. '22 Section 3547; Civ. C. '12 Section 2454; 1902 (23) 1057.
SC Code § 39-3-170 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 3 - Trusts, Monopolies And Restraints Of Trade|Section 39-3-170. Disqualification of foreign corporation.

 Any corporation created or organized by or under the law of any other state or country which shall violate any of the provisions of this article shall thereby forfeit its right and privilege thereafter to do any business in this State and upon proper proof being made thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction in this State its rights and privileges to do business in this State shall be declared forfeited. In all proceedings to have such forfeiture declared, proof that any person who has been acting as agent of such foreign corporation in transacting its business in this State has been, while acting as such agent and in the name, behalf or interest of such foreign corporation, violating any provisions of this article shall be received as prima facie proof of the fact of the act of the corporation itself; and it shall be the duty of the clerk of such court to certify the decree thereof to the Secretary of State.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-67; 1952 Code Section 66-67; 1942 Code Section 6629; 1932 Code Section 6637; Civ. C. '22 Section 3547; Civ. C. '12 Section 2454; 1902 (23) 1057.
SC Code § 39-3-180 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 3 - Trusts, Monopolies And Restraints Of Trade|Section 39-3-180. Penalties for certain violations.

 Any person, partnership, firm, association, corporation or company or any officer, representative or agent thereof violating any of the provisions of this article other than Section 39-3-150 shall forfeit not less than two hundred dollars, nor more than five thousand dollars, for every such offense and each day such person shall continue to do so shall be a separate offense, the penalties in such cases to be recovered by an action in the name of the State, at the relation of the Attorney General or the solicitor of the judicial circuit within which the offense was committed. The moneys thus collected shall go into the State Treasury, and become a part of the general fund except as otherwise provided. The amount of the forfeit shall be fixed by the judge before whom the case is tried in each case, within the limits provided in this section and the collection of such penalty shall be enforced as the collection of fines against defendants upon conviction of a misdemeanor.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-68; 1952 Code Section 66-68; 1942 Code Section 6627; 1932 Code Section 6635; Civ. C. '22 Section 3545; Civ. C. '12 Section 2452; 1902 (23) 1057.
SC Code § 39-3-190 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 3 - Trusts, Monopolies And Restraints Of Trade|Section 39-3-190. Enforcement of article by Attorney General and solicitors.

 The Attorney General and the solicitor of each circuit in which an offense is committed, respectively, shall enforce the provisions of this article. The solicitor shall institute and conduct all suits begun in the circuit courts and upon appeal the Attorney General shall prosecute the suits in the Supreme Court or the court of appeals.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-69; 1952 Code Section 66-69; 1942 Code Section 6630; 1932 Code Section 6638; Civ. C. '22 Section 3548; Civ. C. '12 Section 2455; 1902 (23) 1057; 1999 Act No. 55, Section 40, eff June 1, 1999.  Effect of Amendment  The 1999 amendment added "or the court of appeals".
SC Code § 39-3-200 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 3 - Trusts, Monopolies And Restraints Of Trade|Section 39-3-200. Provisions of article shall be cumulative.

 The provisions of this article and the pains and penalties provided for violations hereof shall be held and construed to be cumulative to all laws in force in this State and the provisions of this article shall not exempt from punishment or forfeiture any person who may have violated or offended against any law that may be or may be construed to be repealed by this article or in conflict herewith.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-70; 1952 Code Section 66-70; 1942 Code Section 6631; 1932 Code Section 6639; Civ. C. '22 Section 3549; Civ. C. '12 Section 2456; 1902 (23) 1057.
SC Code § 39-3-310 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 3 - Trusts, Monopolies And Restraints Of Trade|Section 39-3-310. Investigations by Attorney General; attendance of witnesses.

 Whenever complaint has been made to the Attorney General or he has reason to believe that the provisions of Articles 1 or 3 of this chapter relating to and regulating trusts and combinations or unlawful and unfair discrimination to destroy a competitor's business have been violated, the Attorney General, in addition to the authority otherwise conferred upon him by law, may investigate such alleged violation of law and in making such investigation he may summon and require the attendance of witnesses at such time and place as he may designate in the same manner as witnesses are required to appear and testify in the trial of cases in courts of this State.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-111; 1952 Code Section 66-111; 1942 Code Section 3118; 1932 Code Section 3118; 1930 (36) 1396.
SC Code § 39-3-320 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 3 - Trusts, Monopolies And Restraints Of Trade|Section 39-3-320. Application for discovery.

 Whenever the Attorney General has determined to commence an action or proceeding under any law relating to the prohibition or prevention of trusts, combinations or monopolies or against any corporation, foreign or domestic, for any violation of any law, he may present to any justice of the Supreme Court or any circuit judge, either before or after beginning such action or proceeding, an application in writing for an order directing the persons mentioned in the application to appear before a justice of the Supreme Court, a circuit judge or a referee designated in such order and answer such questions as may be put to them or to any of them and produce such papers, documents and books concerning any alleged illegal contract, arrangement, agreement, trust, monopoly or combination or corporate acts in violation of law. The application must show upon information and belief, or otherwise, that the testimony of such person is material and necessary.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-112; 1952 Code Section 66-112; 1942 Code Section 6632; 1932 Code Section 6640; Civ. C. '22 Section 3550; Civ. C. '12 Section 2457; 1902 (23) 1061.
SC Code § 39-3-330 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 3 - Trusts, Monopolies And Restraints Of Trade|Section 39-3-330. Issuance of order of discovery; form and service of order.

 The justice of the Supreme Court or the circuit judge to whom such application for the order is made shall grant such application, with such preliminary injunction or stay as may appear to such justice or circuit judge to be proper and expedient. The order shall specify the time when, and place where, the witnesses are required to appear and such examination shall be held either in the city of Columbia or in the judicial district in which the witness resides or in which the principal office, within this State, of the corporation affected is located. The order must be signed by the justice or judge making it and service of a copy thereof, with an endorsement by the Attorney General, signed by him, to the effect that the person named therein is required to appear and be examined at the time and place and before the justice, circuit judge or referee specified in such endorsement, shall be sufficient notice for the attendance of witnesses. Such endorsement may contain a clause requiring such person to produce on such examination all books, papers and documents in his possession or under his control, relating to the subject of such examination. The order shall be served upon the person named in the endorsement aforesaid by showing him the original order and delivering to and leaving with him, at the same time, a copy thereof endorsed as above provided and by paying or tendering to him the fee allowed to witnesses subpoenaed to attend trials of civil actions in a court of record in this State.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-113; 1952 Code Section 66-113; 1942 Code Sections 6632, 6633; 1932 Code Sections 6640, 6641; Civ. C. '22 Sections 3550, 3551; Civ. C. '12 Sections 2457, 2458; 1902 (23) 1061.
SC Code § 39-3-340 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 3 - Trusts, Monopolies And Restraints Of Trade|Section 39-3-340. Conduct of examination.

 The justice, judge or referee may adjourn such examination from time to time and witnesses must attend accordingly. The testimony of each witness must be subscribed by him, except when the testimony is taken and subscribed by a sworn stenographer, and all such testimony must be filed in the office of the clerk of the county in which such order for examination is filed.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-114; 1952 Code Section 66-114; 1942 Code Section 6632; 1932 Code Section 6640; Civ. C. '22 Section 3550; Civ. C. '12 Section 2457; 1902 (23) 1061.
SC Code § 39-3-350 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 3 - Trusts, Monopolies And Restraints Of Trade|Section 39-3-350. Testimony may be compelled; immunity of witness.

 No person shall be excused from answering any questions that may be put to him or from producing any books, papers or documents on the ground that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to incriminate him, but no person shall be prosecuted in any criminal action or proceedings or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which he may testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, before such justice, judge or referee appointed in the order for his examination or in obedience to the subpoena of the court or referee acting under such order, or either of them.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-115; 1952 Code Section 66-115; 1942 Code Section 6634; 1932 Code Section 6642; Civ. C. '22 Section 3552; Civ. C. '12 Section 2459; 1902 (23) 1061.
SC Code § 39-3-360 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 3 - Trusts, Monopolies And Restraints Of Trade|Section 39-3-360. Powers of referee.

 A referee appointed as provided in this article shall have all the powers and be subject to all the duties of a referee appointed under Chapter 31 of Title 15, so far as practicable, and may punish for contempt a witness duly served as prescribed in Section 39-3-330 for nonattendance or refusal to be sworn or testify or to produce books, papers and documents according to the direction of the endorsements aforesaid in the same manner and to the same extent as a referee appointed to hear, try and determine an issue of fact or of law.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-116; 1952 Code Section 66-116; 1942 Code Section 6635; 1932 Code Section 6643; Civ. C. '22 Section 3553; Civ. C. '12 Section 2460; 1902 (23) 1061.
SC Code § 39-3-510 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 3 - Trusts, Monopolies And Restraints Of Trade|Section 39-3-510. Repeal of common-law rights in phonograph records to restrict use or collect royalties on commercial use after sale.

 When any phonograph record or electrical transcription, upon which musical performances are embodied, is sold in commerce for use within this State, all asserted common-law rights further to restrict or collect royalties on the commercial use made of any such recorded performances by any person are abrogated and expressly repealed. When such article or chattel has been sold in commerce any asserted intangible rights shall be deemed to have passed to the purchaser upon the purchase of the chattel itself and the right to further restrict the use made of phonograph records or electrical transcriptions, whose sole value is in their use, is forbidden and abrogated. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to deny the rights granted any person by the United States copyright laws. The sole intendment of this section is to abolish any common-law rights attaching to phonograph records and electrical transcriptions, whose sole value is in their use, and to forbid further restrictions or the collection of subsequent fees and royalties on phonograph records and electrical transcriptions by performers who were paid for the initial performance at the recording thereof.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-101; 1952 Code Section 66-101; 1942 Code Section 6641; 1939 (41) 53.
SC Code § 39-5-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 5 - Unfair Trade Practices|Section 39-5-10. Short title; definitions.

 This article may be cited as the "South Carolina Unfair Trade Practices Act."  As used in this article,  (a) "Person" shall include natural persons, corporations, trusts, partnerships, incorporated or unincorporated associations and any other legal entity.  (b) "Trade" and "commerce" shall include the advertising, offering for sale, sale or distribution of any services and any property, tangible or intangible, real, personal or mixed, and any other article, commodity or thing of value wherever situate, and shall include any trade or commerce directly or indirectly affecting the people of this State.  (c) "Documentary material" shall include the original or a copy of any book, record, report, memorandum, paper, communication, tabulation, map, chart, photograph, mechanical transcription or other tangible document or recording, wherever situate.  (d) "Examination" of documentary material shall include the inspection, study or copying of any such material, and the taking of testimony under oath or acknowledgment in respect of any such documentary material or copy thereof.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-71; 1971 (57) 369.
SC Code § 39-5-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 5 - Unfair Trade Practices|Section 39-5-20. Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices unlawful; application of interpretations of Federal act.

 (a) Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in the conduct of any trade or commerce are hereby declared unlawful.  (b) It is the intent of the legislature that in construing paragraph (a) of this section the courts will be guided by the interpretations given by the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Courts to Section 5(a) (1) of the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 45(a)(1)), as from time to time amended.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-71.1; 1971 (57) 369.
SC Code § 39-5-35 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 5 - Unfair Trade Practices|Section 39-5-35. Requiring certain insurance coverage as unfair trade practice.

 It shall be an unlawful trade practice under Section 39-5-20 for any person engaged in the business of lending money to make it a condition of obtaining a loan for the purchase of an automobile that the borrower carry full coverage comprehensive or fifty dollars collision coverage.  HISTORY: 1979 Act No. 121 Section 5.
SC Code § 39-5-36 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 5 - Unfair Trade Practices|Section 39-5-36. Resale of tickets for more than one dollar above original price.

 (A) A person or firm who knowingly purchases a quantity of tickets for admission to an event which exceeds the maximum quantity posted by or on behalf of the original ticket seller at the point of original sale or printed on the tickets and intends to resell the tickets in excess of one dollar above the price charged by the original ticket seller violates the South Carolina Unfair Trade Practices Act and is subject to its provisions, penalties, and damages.  (B) A person or firm who violates the provisions of Section 16-17-710(A) is subject to the provisions, penalties, and damages of the South Carolina Unfair Trade Practices Act.  (C) A person or firm is not liable pursuant to this section with respect to tickets for which the person or firm is the original ticket seller.  (D) For purposes of this section, the term "original ticket seller" means the issuer of the tickets or a person or firm who provides ticket distribution services or ticket sales service under a contract with the issuer.  HISTORY: 2006 Act No. 367, Section 1, eff June 9, 2006.
SC Code § 39-5-37 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 5 - Unfair Trade Practices|Section 39-5-37. Use of assumed or fictitious name to misrepresent geographical origin, etc., of business as unfair trade practice.

 It shall be an unlawful trade practice under Section 39-5-20 to use an assumed or fictitious name in the conduct of a business to intentionally misrepresent the geographic origin, ownership of manufacturing facilities, or location of such business.  HISTORY: 1998 Act No. 438, Section 2, eff upon approval (became law without the Governor's signature on June 17, 1998).
SC Code § 39-5-39 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 5 - Unfair Trade Practices|Section 39-5-39. Attorney advertising in false, deceptive or misleading manner.

 Notwithstanding another provision of law, it is an unlawful trade practice, pursuant to Section 39-5-20, for an attorney to advertise his services in this State in a false, deceptive, or misleading manner including, but not limited to, the use of a nickname that creates an unreasonable expectation of results.  HISTORY: 2005 Act No. 27, Section 9, eff March 21, 2005, applicable to advertisements appearing after that date.
SC Code § 39-5-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 5 - Unfair Trade Practices|Section 39-5-40. Article inapplicable to certain practices and transactions.

 Nothing in this article shall apply to:  (a) Actions or transactions permitted under laws administered by any regulatory body or officer acting under statutory authority of this State or the United States or actions or transactions permitted by any other South Carolina State law.  (b) Acts done by the publisher, owner, agent or employee of a newspaper, periodical or radio or television station in the publication or dissemination of an advertisement, when the owner, agent or employee did not have knowledge of the false, misleading or deceptive character of the advertisement and did not have a direct financial interest in the sale or distribution of the advertised product or service.  (c) This article does not supersede or apply to unfair trade practices covered and regulated under Title 38, Chapter 57, Sections 38-57-10 through 38-55-320.  (d) Any challenged practices that are subject to, and comply with, statutes administered by the Federal Trade Commission and the rules, regulations and decisions interpreting such statutes.  For the purpose of this section, the burden of proving exemption from the provisions of this article shall be upon the person claiming the exemption.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-71.3; 1971 (57) 369.  Code Commissioner's Note  In subsection (c), "Chapter 57, Sections 38-57-10 through 38-57-320" was substituted for "Chapter 55, Sections 38-55-10 through 38-55-410" at the direction of the Code Commissioner.
SC Code § 39-5-42 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 5 - Unfair Trade Practices|Section 39-5-42. Misrepresenting food or food products as product of South Carolina.

 (A) For purposes of this section "food" or "food product" is an article that is produced, raised, caught, or harvested for human consumption.  (B) It is an unfair trade practice pursuant to Section 39-5-20 knowingly and wilfully to misrepresent food or a food product if the food or food product purports to be or is represented to be a product of South Carolina but is the product of another state, country, or territory.  (C) A provision in this section is not intended to conflict with the enforcement of criminal penalties or other provisions of law relating to the misrepresentation or adulteration of food or food products.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 277, Section 1, eff June 5, 2008, applicable to violations that occur after that date.