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SC Code § 57-25-820 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 25 - Outdoor Advertising|Section 57-25-820. Department of Transportation responsibility for signs; coordination with other departments; criteria for selection of qualified agritourism facilities; approval of applications for signs.

 (A) The Department of Transportation shall be responsible for the erection and maintenance of the official signs giving specific information to the traveling public providing directions to agritourism and tourism-oriented facilities. All signs must conform to department rules and regulations regarding the size and placement of the signs and be in compliance with all federal and state regulations.  (B) The Department of Transportation shall coordinate with the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism, as applicable, to allow those departments to promote agritourism and tourism- oriented facilities participating in this directional signage program.  (C) The criteria for selection of qualified agritourism facilities shall be recommended by the Department of Agriculture and incorporated into regulations of the Department of Transportation pursuant to Section 57-25-830(A). The criteria for selection of qualified tourism facilities shall be recommended by the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism and incorporated into regulations of the Department of Transportation pursuant to Section 57-25-830(A).  (D) The approval of applications for signs for agritourism and tourism-oriented facilities must be determined by an oversight committee. The oversight committee shall consist of the following members and shall meet at the call of the chairman semiannually to consider applications for signage:  (1) Secretary of the Department of Transportation, or his designee, serving as chairman;  (2) Director of the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism, or his designee;  (3) Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture, or his designee;  (4) President of the South Carolina Association of Tourism Regions (SCATR), or his designee, and a member of SCATR appointed by its president;  (5) President of the South Carolina Travel and Tourism Coalition, or his designee, and a member of the SCTTC appointed by its president; and  (6) President of the Outdoor Advertising Association of South Carolina, or his designee, and a member of the Outdoor Advertising Association appointed by its president.  HISTORY: 2012 Act No. 224, Section 1, eff June 18, 2012.
SC Code § 57-25-830 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 25 - Outdoor Advertising|Section 57-25-830. Submission of application; costs, installation, and maintenance of signs.

 (A) Qualified facilities which elect to participate in the directional signage program must submit an application to the Department of Transportation on a form to be supplied by the department. Eligibility and approval to participate in the signage program must be determined by written criteria to be set forth by the Department of Transportation in regulation.  (B) Participating facilities are responsible for the cost of the signs and their installation and maintenance.  HISTORY: 2012 Act No. 224, Section 1, eff June 18, 2012.
SC Code § 57-27-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 27 - Junkyard Control|Section 57-27-10. Short title.

 This chapter may be cited as the "Junkyard Control Act."  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-581; 1966 (54) 2130.
SC Code § 57-27-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 27 - Junkyard Control|Section 57-27-20. Definitions.

 As used in this chapter:  (a) The term "junk" means old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber debris, waste, junked, dismantled, or wrecked automobiles, trucks and other motor vehicles, or parts of them, iron, steel, and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous material.  (b) The term "automobile graveyard" shall mean any establishment which is maintained or used for storing, buying, or selling wrecked, scrapped, ruined, or dismantled motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts.  (c) The term "junkyard" shall mean an establishment which is maintained or used for storing, buying, or selling junk, or an automobile graveyard, and the term shall include garbage dumps, sanitary fills and scrap processors.  (d) The term "scrap processor" shall mean any person, firm or corporation engaged only in the business of buying scrap iron and metals, including, but not limited to, old automobiles, for the specific purpose of processing into raw material for remelting purposes only, and whose principal product is ferrous and nonferrous scrap for shipment to steel mills, foundries, smelters and refineries, and maintaining an established place of business in this State and having facilities and machinery designed for such processing.  (e) "Interstate system" means that portion of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways located within this State, as officially designated, or as may hereafter be so designated, by the Department of Transportation, and approved by the Secretary of Commerce or other appropriate federal official, pursuant to the provisions of Title 23 of the United States Code.  (f) "Federal aid primary system" means that portion of connected main highways, as officially designated, or as may hereafter be so designated, by the Department of Transportation, and approved by the Secretary of Commerce or other appropriate federal official, pursuant to the provisions of Title 23 of the United States Code.  (g) "Department" means the Department of Transportation.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-583; 1966 (54) 2130; 1978 Act No. 530 Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1541; 2009 Act No. 26, Section 10, eff June 2, 2009.
SC Code § 57-27-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 27 - Junkyard Control|Section 57-27-30. Declaration of purpose.

 To promote the public safety, health, welfare, convenience and travel enjoyment, to protect the public investment in highways, and to preserve and enhance the scenic beauty of lands bordering public highways, and to promote the conservation of our natural mineral resources by encouraging the recycling of resalable scrap iron and metal, it is hereby declared to be in the public interest to regulate the establishment, operation, and maintenance of junkyards in areas adjacent to interstate and federal aid primary highway systems in the state highway system within this State. The General Assembly hereby finds and declares that junkyards which do not conform to the requirements of this chapter are public nuisances.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-582; 1966 (54) 2130; 1978 Act No. 530 Section 2.
SC Code § 57-27-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 27 - Junkyard Control|Section 57-27-40. Junkyards prohibited within 1,000 feet of certain highways; exceptions.

 No person shall establish, operate, or maintain a junkyard, any portion of which is within one thousand feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of any interstate or Federal aid primary highway in the State highway system, except the following:  (a) Those which are screened by natural objects, plantings, fences, or other appropriate means so as not to be visible from the main-traveled way of the systems, or otherwise removed from sight.  (b) Those located within areas which are zoned for industrial use under authority of law.  (c) Those located within unzoned industrial areas, which areas shall be determined from actual land uses.  (d) Those which are not visible from the main-traveled way of the system.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-584; 1966 (54) 2130; 1978 Act No. 530 Section 3.
SC Code § 57-27-45 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 27 - Junkyard Control|Section 57-27-45. Operating junkyard within proscribed areas without permit; permits.

 No person shall establish, operate or maintain a junkyard, any portion of which is within one thousand feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of the interstate or federal aid primary system, without obtaining a permit from the department. No permit shall be issued under the provisions of this section, except for those junkyards which conform to one or more of the exceptions in Section 57-27-40. The department shall charge a fee of twenty-five dollars for the issuance of the permit and the permit shall be renewed annually at no additional fee and shall remain in effect until revoked by the department after attaining an injunction from the court of common pleas to abate the junkyard as a nuisance or upon conviction of a violation under the provisions of Section 57-27-80. No permit shall be required before January 1, 1979.  HISTORY: 1978 Act No. 530 Section 4.
SC Code § 57-27-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 27 - Junkyard Control|Section 57-27-50. Screening of nonconforming junkyards; placement of junk over or beyond screening; penalties.

 Any junkyard lawfully in existence on March 24, 1966, which is within one thousand feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way and visible from the main-traveled way of any highway on the interstate or federal aid primary system and any junkyard lawfully in existence along any highway which may be hereafter designated as an interstate or federal aid primary highway and which does not conform to the requirements for exception under Section 57-27-40, shall be screened if feasible by the department at locations on the highway right-of-way or in areas acquired for such purposes outside the right-of-way so as not to be visible from the main-traveled way of such highways. After a junkyard has been screened by the department, no junkyard owner or operator shall permit the placement of junk so that it may be seen above or beyond the screen, or otherwise become visible. Junkyard owners or operators violating the provisions of this section shall be subject to the penalties provided in Section 57-27-80; provided, however, that no junkyard owner or operator shall be charged under this section unless he has been notified in writing by the department of the alleged violation and allowed thirty days to comply with the requirements of this section.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-585; 1966 (54) 2130; 1978 Act No. 530 Section 5.
SC Code § 57-27-55 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 27 - Junkyard Control|Section 57-27-55. Maintenance of screening.

 After a junkyard has been screened by the department pursuant to Section 57-27-50, the owner or operator of such junkyard shall adequately maintain the screening erected by the department. Maintenance shall be deemed inadequate if the screen installed by the department:  (a) Deteriorates so as to no longer be of the quality or standard as when erected by the department;  (b) Becomes ineffective as a screen, resulting in the junkyard being visible from the main-traveled way of the highway;  (c) Falls into such disrepair as to endanger the health, safety or welfare of the community.  Any owner of operator of a junkyard violating the provisions of this section shall be subject to the penalties provided in Section 57-27-80.  HISTORY: 1978 Act No. 530 Section 6.
SC Code § 57-27-57 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 27 - Junkyard Control|Section 57-27-57. Parking motor vehicles adjacent to junk yard.

 It is unlawful for a junkyard owner to allow motor vehicles to be parked on a highway adjacent to its property.  HISTORY: 2009 Act No. 26, Section 11, eff June 2, 2009.
SC Code § 57-27-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 27 - Junkyard Control|Section 57-27-60. Promulgation of regulations.

 The department shall have authority to promulgate regulations governing:  (A) To determine unzoned industrial areas for the purposes of this chapter;  (B) The specific procedures for obtaining a permit for junkyards;  (C) The specific requirements governing the location, planting, construction, and maintenance of material used in screening and fencing.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-586; 1966 (54) 2130; 1978 Act No. 530 Section 8.
SC Code § 57-27-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 27 - Junkyard Control|Section 57-27-70. Acquisition of lands for relocation, removal, disposal or screening of junkyards.

 When the Department of Highways and Public Transportation determines that the topography of the land adjoining the highway does not permit adequate screening of a junkyard or the screening of the junkyard would not be economically feasible, the Department may acquire by gift, purchase, exchange, or condemnation, such interests in lands necessary to secure the relocation, removal, or disposal of the junkyards, and to pay for the costs of relocation, removal, or disposal. When the Department determines that it is in the best interest of the State it may acquire lands, or interests in lands, necessary to provide adequate screening of junkyards. The Department may exercise the power of eminent domain whenever it is necessary, in the judgment of the Department, to acquire lands, or interests therein, by condemnation.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-587; 1966 (54) 2130; 1987 Act No. 173 Section 44.
SC Code § 57-27-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 27 - Junkyard Control|Section 57-27-80. Penalties.

 Whoever establishes, operates or maintains a junkyard in violation of the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days for each offense. Each day that the junkyard remains in violation shall be considered a separate offense. In addition, the department may apply to the court of common pleas in the county in which the junkyard is located for an injunction to abate as a nuisance any junkyard which does not conform to the requirements of this chapter.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-588; 1966 (54) 2130; 1978 Act No. 530 Section 9.
SC Code § 57-27-90 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 27 - Junkyard Control|Section 57-27-90. Agreements with United States Secretary of Commerce as to control of junkyards.

 The Department of Transportation is hereby authorized to enter into agreements with the United States Secretary of Commerce as provided by Title 23 of the United States Code, relating to the control of junkyards in areas adjacent to the interstate and federal aid primary systems, and to take action in the name of the State to comply with the terms of such agreement.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-590; 1966 (54) 2130; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1542.
SC Code § 57-27-100 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 27 - Junkyard Control|Section 57-27-100. Rule of construction.

 Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to abrogate or affect the provisions of any lawful ordinance, regulation, or resolution, which are more restrictive than the provisions of this chapter.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-589; 1966 (54) 2130.
SC Code § 58-1-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Section 58-1-10. Acceptance of free rides on railroads or telegraph frank by certain officials unlawful.

 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.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-4; 1952 Code Section 58-4; 1942 Code Section 1234; 1932 Code Section 1234; Cr. C. '22 Section 130; Cr. C. '12 Section 273; Cr. C. '02 Section 204; R. S. 190; 1891 (20) 1047; 1905 (24) 900; 1941 (42) 119; 1949 (46) 386.
SC Code § 58-1-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Section 58-1-20. Offer of free pass or reduced rates to certain officials unlawful.

 It shall be unlawful for any transportation or transmission company or any person representing such a company to issue or offer to issue a free pass or any special or reduced rates not common to the public to any member of the General Assembly, to any member of Congress from this State, to any State or county official or to any judge of a court of record in this State. But nothing contained in this section shall apply to the Commissioner of Agriculture, nor to any transportation or transmission company or person representing any such company issuing or offering to issue a free pass or any special or reduced rate to the public or to any officer or employee, active or retired, of such company who has earned such pass or such right to such reduced rates by reason of seniority and service to such company.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-5; 1952 Code Section 58-5; 1942 Code Section 1235; 1932 Code Section 1235; Cr. C. '22 Section 131; Cr. C. '12 Section 274; Cr. C. '02 Section 205; R. S. 191; 1891 (20) 1047; 1905 (24) 900; 1941 (42) 119; 1949 (46) 386.
SC Code § 58-1-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Section 58-1-30. Bond required of public utilities appealing from rate decisions.

 When any public utility in this State appeals from any order or decision fixing a rate for its service lower than that obtaining at the time of such order or decision, before any such appeal shall operate as a supersedeas such utility shall give bond to the South Carolina Department of Revenue to insure compliance on its part with the rates as fixed in the order from which the appeal is taken, in the event that the order appealed from is affirmed. The amount of the bond shall be fixed by the court to which the appeal is taken and shall be sufficient to cover the amount that may become due to customers by way of refund during the time that the operation of the rate-fixing order is stayed pending the final determination of its validity.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-11; 1952 Code Section 58-11; 1942 Code Section 8240; 1935 (39) 29; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1547, eff July 1, 1993.
SC Code § 58-1-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Section 58-1-40. Reports of certain carriers and public utilities to Department of Revenue.

 All railroad companies, express companies, street railway companies, navigation companies, waterworks companies, power companies, light companies, telephone companies, telegraph companies and parlor, dining and sleeping car companies exercising the right and privilege of doing business or operating under the authority of any grant of authority or permission of this State, whether by direct enactment of the General Assembly or otherwise, and also foreign nonresident corporations engaged in like business and exercising similar rights and privileges, shall, in addition to the information required by Section 12-19-20, also state in such report to the Department of Revenue:  (1) The nature of the company or corporation and under the laws of what state it was organized;  (2) In the case of express companies, the entire receipts, including all sums earned or charged, whether actually received or not, for business done in the State by each agent of such company doing business in this State, giving the name of the office for the fiscal year then next preceding for and on account of such company, including its proportion of gross receipts for business done by such company within the State in connection with other companies and also the total amount of such receipts for business done within the State;  (3) In case of telegraph and telephone companies, the entire gross receipts including all sums earned or charged, whether actually received or not, for the fiscal year next preceding, from whatever source derived, whether messages, telephone tolls, rentals or otherwise, for business done within this State at each office within this State, giving the name of the office and the total receipts of the company for such period in this State from business done within this State;  (4) In the case of each railroad or street railway situated wholly within the State, the gross earnings from its operation, and in case of each railroad or street railway located partly within and partly without the State, the gross earnings from the operation of the entire line for the fiscal year next preceding, with the number of miles of line within the State and the miles of line without the State; or  (5) In the case of navigation companies, waterworks companies, power companies, light companies, the entire gross receipts of the company, including all sums earned or charged, whether actually received or not, for business done within this State for the fiscal year then next preceding, including the company's portion of gross receipts for business done by it within this State in connection with other companies.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-12; 1952 Code Section 58-12; 1942 Code Section 2678; 1932 Code Section 2678; 1922 (32) 947; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1548, eff July 1, 1993.
SC Code § 58-1-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Section 58-1-50. Interest paid with refund of excess charges not to constitute cost basis for rate-making.

 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any public utility as defined in item (3) of Section 58-5-10, any telephone utility, and any electrical utility whose rates are subject to regulation by the Public Service Commission, when putting a proposed rate increase into effect under bond in the manner authorized by law, shall not be permitted to include as part of its rate base any interest expenses paid to customers on refunds which are required when the rate increase is not approved either in whole or in part.  HISTORY: 1983 Act No. 138 Section 26, eff June 15, 1983.