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SC Code § 56-5-4420 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Uniform Act Regulating Traffic On Highways|Section 56-5-4420. Special rules for implements of husbandry, farm tractors, and road machinery.

 The provisions of this article with respect to equipment on vehicles shall not apply to implements of husbandry, road machinery or farm tractors except as herein made applicable. Every farm tractor equipped with an electric-lighting system shall at all times mentioned in Section 56-5-4450 display a red tail lamp and either a multiple-beam or single-beam road-lighting equipment meeting the requirements of Sections 56-5-4510 to 56-5-4530, 56-5-4770 and 56-5-4790, respectively.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-512; 1952 Code Section 46-512; 1949 (46) 466.
SC Code § 56-5-4430 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Uniform Act Regulating Traffic On Highways|Section 56-5-4430. Additional parts and accessories not prohibited.

 Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to prohibit the use of additional parts and accessories of any vehicle which are not inconsistent with the provisions of this article.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-513; 1952 Code Section 46-513; 1949 (46) 466.
SC Code § 56-5-4435 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Uniform Act Regulating Traffic On Highways|Section 56-5-4435. Safety equipment required for motor vehicles used in vending food.

 A motor vehicle which performs business in a residential or abundant housing area and makes frequent or unscheduled stops for the purpose of vendor sales of frozen dairy products or other types of snack foods must be equipped with the following safety features:  (1) an audible alarm signal device when the vehicle is in reverse gear, but the signal must not emit an unreasonably loud or harsh sound;  (2) signal lamps mounted on the front and on the rear as high and as widely spaced laterally as practicable, which are capable of displaying two alternately flashing red lights at the same level. These lights must have sufficient intensity to be visible at five hundred feet in normal sunlight;  (3) an extended mirror outside on both the right and left side of the vehicle to reflect to the driver a view of the street or highway for a distance of at least two hundred feet behind the vehicle;  (4) a rear mirror situated to provide the operator a view of the area immediately behind the vehicle; and  (5) a swing arm located on the front and rear of the vehicle that prohibits a person from walking directly in front of or behind the vehicle. The swing arm must be engaged when the vehicle is stopped for the purpose of vending products.  This section does not apply to a vehicle that delivers or distributes foods to commercial properties or construction sites only.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 303, Section 1.
SC Code § 56-5-4440 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Uniform Act Regulating Traffic On Highways|Section 56-5-4440. Image display devices.

 (A) As used in this section, "image display device" means equipment capable of displaying to the driver of a motor vehicle:  (1) a broadcast television image; or  (2) a visual image, other than text, from a digital video disc or other storage device.  (B) Except as provided in subsection (E) of this section, no person shall drive a motor vehicle equipped with any image display device which is located in the motor vehicle at any point forward of the back of the driver's seat, or which is visible, directly or indirectly, to the driver while operating the motor vehicle.  (C) Except as provided in subsection (E) of this section, no person may install in a motor vehicle an image display device intended to be visible to a driver in the normal driving position when the vehicle is in motion and when restrained by the vehicle seat belts adjusted in accordance with the manufacturer's recommendations.  (D) A person violating the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than one hundred dollars or be imprisoned for not more than thirty days.  (E) Subsections (B) and (C) of this section do not apply to the following:  (1) emergency vehicles;  (2) image display devices that are displaying images that provide the driver with navigation and related traffic, road, and weather information;  (3) image display devices providing vehicle information or information related to the driving task;  (4) image display devices used to enhance or supplement the driver's view forward, behind, or to the sides of the motor vehicle;  (5) image display devices that permit the driver to monitor vehicle occupants seated rearward of the driver;  (6) image display devices that do not display images to the driver while the vehicle is in motion; or  (7) any use of an image display device while a vehicle is parked.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-514; 1965 (54) 323; 2008 Act No. 285, Section 3, eff June 11, 2008.
SC Code § 56-5-4445 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Uniform Act Regulating Traffic On Highways|Section 56-5-4445. Unlawful to elevate or lower motor vehicle; exception for "pickup trucks".

 It shall be unlawful for any person to drive a passenger motor vehicle on the highways of this State which has been elevated or lowered either in front or back more than six inches by a modification, alteration or change in the physical structure of the vehicle. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars. Provided, however, this shall not apply to motor vehicles commonly called "pickup trucks".  HISTORY: 1978 Act No. 447.
SC Code § 56-5-4450 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Uniform Act Regulating Traffic On Highways|Section 56-5-4450. Times when vehicles must be equipped with lights.

 (A) Every vehicle upon a street or highway within this State shall display lighted lamps and illuminating devices, excluding parking lights, from a half hour after sunset to a half hour before sunrise, and at any other time when windshield wipers are in use as a result of rain, sleet, or snow, or when inclement weather or environmental factors severely reduce the ability to clearly discern persons and vehicles on the street or highway at a distance of five hundred feet ahead as required in this article for different classes of vehicles, subject to exceptions with respect to parked vehicles as provided in this article; provided, however, the provisions of this section requiring use of lights in conjunction with the use of windshield wipers shall not apply to instances when windshield wipers are used intermittently in misting rain, sleet, or snow.  (B) Any person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, may be fined up to twenty-five dollars.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-521; 1952 Code Section 46-521; 1949 (46) 466; 1988 Act No. 532, Section 11; 2017 Act No. 89 (H.3247), Section 27, eff November 19, 2018.  Effect of Amendment  2017 Act No. 89, Section 27, inserted the paragraph identifiers, and deleted the second paragraph of (A), which had related to warning tickets for failure to display the lights of a vehicle.
SC Code § 56-5-4460 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Uniform Act Regulating Traffic On Highways|Section 56-5-4460. Time when motorcycle lights must be turned on.

 (1) Any person who operates a motorcycle or motor-driven cycle on public streets or highways shall, while so engaged, have the headlights of such motorcycle or motor-driven cycle turned on except for those vehicles exempted by Section 56-5-4470.  (2) Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars or be imprisoned for not more than ten days.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-521.1; 1973 (58) 634.
SC Code § 56-5-4470 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Uniform Act Regulating Traffic On Highways|Section 56-5-4470. Lighted lamps not required for vehicles not operated at night.

 Vehicles which are not kept for use or used at any time when lighted lamps are required by Section 56-5-4450 need not be equipped with the lighting equipment otherwise required in this article for use at such times and it shall be unlawful for any person to drive or move any such vehicle or for the owner to permit such vehicle to be driven or moved on any highway during such times unless it shall comply with all provisions of this article with respect to lighted lamps and other equipment.  Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than sixty days or both.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-522; 1952 Code Section 46-522; 1949 (46) 466; 1967 (55) 1024.
SC Code § 56-5-4480 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Uniform Act Regulating Traffic On Highways|Section 56-5-4480. Visibility distance and mounted height of lamps.

 Whenever a requirement is herein declared as to the distance from which certain lamps and devices shall render objects visible or within which such lamps or devices shall render objects visible, such provisions shall apply during the times stated in Section 56-5-4450 in respect to a vehicle without load when upon a straight, level, unlighted highway under normal atmospheric conditions unless a different time or condition is expressly stated. Whenever a requirement is herein declared as to the mounted height of lamps or devices, it shall mean from the center of such lamp or device to the level ground upon which the vehicle stands when such vehicle is without load.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-523; 1952 Code Section 46-523; 1949 (46) 466.
SC Code § 56-5-4490 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Uniform Act Regulating Traffic On Highways|Section 56-5-4490. Head lamps required on motor vehicles and motorcycles.

 Every motor vehicle other than a motorcycle or motor-driven cycle shall be equipped with at least two head lamps with at least one on each side of the front of the motor vehicle. Such head lamps shall comply with the requirements and limitations set forth in this article. Every motorcycle and every motor-driven cycle shall be equipped with at least one and not more than two head lamps which shall comply with the requirements and limitations of this article.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-524; 1952 Code Section 46-524; 1949 (46) 466.
SC Code § 56-5-4500 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Uniform Act Regulating Traffic On Highways|Section 56-5-4500. Height of head lamps from ground.

 Every head lamp upon every motor vehicle, including every motorcycle and motor-driven cycle, shall be located at a height measured from the center of the head lamp of not more than fifty-four inches nor less than twenty-four inches to be measured as set forth in Section 56-5-4480. However, this section shall apply only to new vehicles sold in this State after June 30, 1949.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-525; 1952 Code Section 46-525; 1949 (46) 466; 1957 (50) 113.
SC Code § 56-5-4510 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Uniform Act Regulating Traffic On Highways|Section 56-5-4510. Tail lamps required.

 Every motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer and pole trailer and any other vehicle which is being drawn at the end of a train of vehicles shall be equipped with at least one tail lamp mounted on the rear which, when lighted as herein required, shall emit a red light plainly visible from a distance of five hundred feet to the rear; provided, that in the case of a train of vehicles only the tail lamp on the rearmost vehicle need actually be seen from the distance specified.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-526; 1952 Code Section 46-526; 1949 (46) 466.
SC Code § 56-5-4520 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Uniform Act Regulating Traffic On Highways|Section 56-5-4520. Height of tail lamps.

 Every tail lamp upon every vehicle shall be located at a height of not more than sixty inches nor less than twenty inches to be measured as set forth in Section 56-5-4480.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-527; 1952 Code Section 46-527; 1949 (46) 466.
SC Code § 56-5-4530 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Uniform Act Regulating Traffic On Highways|Section 56-5-4530. Illumination of rear registration plate.

 Either a tail lamp or a separate lamp shall be so constructed and placed as to illuminate with a white light the rear registration plate and render it clearly legible from a distance of fifty feet to the rear. Any tail lamp or tail lamps, together with any separate lamp for illuminating the rear registration plate, shall be so wired as to be lighted whenever the head lamps or auxiliary driving lamps are lighted.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-528; 1952 Code Section 46-528; 1949 (46) 466.
SC Code § 56-5-4540 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Uniform Act Regulating Traffic On Highways|Section 56-5-4540. Motor vehicles must be equipped with rear reflectors.

 Every new motor vehicle sold after June 7, 1949 and operated upon a highway, other than a truck tractor, motorcycle and motor-driven cycle, shall carry on the rear, either as a part of the tail lamps or separately, two red reflectors meeting the requirements of this article, and every such motorcycle and every such motor-driven cycle shall carry at least one such reflector, except that vehicles of the type referred to in Section 56-5-4570 shall be equipped with reflectors as required in the sections applicable thereto.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-529; 1952 Code Section 46-529; 1949 (46) 466.
SC Code § 56-5-4550 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Uniform Act Regulating Traffic On Highways|Section 56-5-4550. Characteristics and mounting of rear reflectors.

 Every such reflector shall be mounted on the vehicle at a height not less than twenty inches nor more than sixty inches measured as set forth in Section 56-5-4480 and shall be of such size and characteristics and so mounted as to be visible at night from all distances within three hundred feet to fifty feet from such vehicle except that visibility from the greater distance is herein required of reflectors on certain types of vehicles.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-530; 1952 Code Section 46-530; 1949 (46) 466.
SC Code § 56-5-4560 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Uniform Act Regulating Traffic On Highways|Section 56-5-4560. Stop lamps required on motor vehicles.

 From and after July 1, 1949 it shall be unlawful for any person to sell any new motor vehicle, including any motorcycle or motor-driven cycle, in this State or for any person to drive such vehicle on the highways unless it is equipped with a stop lamp meeting the requirements of Section 56-5-4730.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-531; 1952 Code Section 46-531; 1949 (46) 466.
SC Code § 56-5-4570 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Uniform Act Regulating Traffic On Highways|Section 56-5-4570. Application of succeeding sections; lighting of lamp equipment.

 Those sections of this chapter which follow immediately, including Sections 56-5-4580 to 56-5-4620, relating to clearance and marker lamps, reflectors and stop lights shall apply as stated in such sections to vehicles of the type therein enumerated, namely passenger buses, trucks, truck tractors and certain trailers, semitrailers and pole trailers, respectively, when operated upon any highway, and such vehicles shall be equipped as required, and all lamp equipment required shall be lighted at the times stated in Section 56-5-4450, except that clearance and side-marker lamps need not be lighted on any such vehicle when operated within any municipality where there is sufficient light to render clearly discernible persons and vehicles on the highway at a distance of five hundred feet.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-532; 1952 Code Section 46-532; 1949 (46) 466.
SC Code § 56-5-4580 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Uniform Act Regulating Traffic On Highways|Section 56-5-4580. Additional lighting equipment required on buses, trucks, trailers, semitrailers, and pole trailers.

 In addition to other equipment required in this article, the vehicles listed below must be equipped as provided in this section when operated under the conditions stated in Section 56-5-4570:  (1) On every bus or truck, whatever its size, on the rear, two reflectors, one on each side and one stop light;  (2) On every bus or truck eighty inches or more in over-all width, in addition to the requirements in item (1),  (a) on the front, two clearance lamps, one at each side,  (b) on the rear, two clearance lamps, one at each side,  (c) on each side, two side-marker lamps, one at or near the front and one at or near the rear, and  (d) on each side, two reflectors, one at or near the front and one at or near the rear;  (3) On every truck tractor,  (a) on the front, two clearance lamps, one at each side, and  (b) on the rear, one stop light;  (4) On every trailer or semitrailer having a gross weight in excess of three thousand pounds,  (a) on the front, two clearance lamps, one at each side,  (b) on each side, two side-marker lamps, one at or near the front and one at or near the rear,  (c) on each side, two reflectors, one at or near the front and one at or near the rear, and  (d) on the rear, two clearance lamps, one at each side, and also two reflectors, one at each side, and one stop light;  (5) On every pole trailer in excess of three thousand pounds gross weight,  (a) on each side, one side-marker lamp and one clearance lamp, which may be in combination, to show to the front, side, and rear, and  (b) on the rear of the pole trailer or load, two reflectors, one at each side;  (6) On every trailer, semitrailer, or pole trailer weighing three thousand pounds gross or less, on the rear two reflectors, one on each side. If a trailer or semitrailer is loaded or is of dimensions so as to obscure the stop light on the towing vehicle then the vehicle also must be equipped with one stop light;  (7) On every pole truck or trailer, a strip of light reflecting paint, tape, or reflectors on the external sides of the pole support frame or bolsters, or both, where practical.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-533; 1952 Code Section 46-533; 1949 (46) 466; 1993 Act No. 81, Section 1.
SC Code § 56-5-4590 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Uniform Act Regulating Traffic On Highways|Section 56-5-4590. Color of clearance lamps, side-marker lamps, reflectors, stop lights, and back-up lamps.

 Front clearance lamps and those marker lamps and reflectors mounted on the front or on the side near the front of a vehicle shall display or reflect an amber color. Rear clearance lamps and those marker lamps and reflectors mounted on the rear or on the sides near the rear of a vehicle shall display or reflect a red color. All lighting devices and reflectors mounted on the rear of any vehicle shall display or reflect a red color, except the stop light or other signal device, which may be red, amber or yellow and except that the light illuminating the license plate or the light emitted by a back-up lamp shall be white.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-534; 1952 Code Section 46-534; 1949 (46) 466.
SC Code § 56-5-4600 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Uniform Act Regulating Traffic On Highways|Section 56-5-4600. Mounting of reflectors, clearance lamps, and side-marker lamps.

 Reflectors, when required pursuant to Section 56-5-4580, shall be mounted at a height not less than twenty-four inches and not higher than sixty inches above the ground on which the vehicle stands, except that if the highest part of the permanent structure of the vehicle is less than twenty-four inches the reflector at such point shall be mounted as high as that part of the permanent structure will permit. The rear reflectors on a pole trailer may be mounted on each side of the bolster or load. Any required red reflector on the rear of a vehicle may be incorporated with the tail lamp, but such reflector shall meet all the other reflector requirements of this chapter.  Clearance lamps shall be mounted on the permanent structure of the vehicle in such manner as to indicate its extreme width and as near the top thereof as practicable. Clearance lamps and side-marker lamps may be mounted in combination, provided illumination is given as required herein with reference to both.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-535; 1952 Code Section 46-535; 1949 (46) 466.
SC Code § 56-5-4610 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Uniform Act Regulating Traffic On Highways|Section 56-5-4610. Visibility of reflectors, clearance lamps, and marker lamps.

 Every reflector upon any vehicle referred to in Section 56-5-4580 shall be of such size and characteristics and so maintained as to be readily visible at nighttime from all distances within five hundred to fifty feet from the vehicle when directly in front of lawful upper beams of head lamps. Reflectors required to be mounted on the sides of the vehicle shall reflect the required color of light to the sides and those mounted on the rear shall reflect a red color to the rear.  Front and rear clearance lamps shall be capable of being seen and distinguished under normal atmospheric conditions at the times lights are required at a distance of five hundred feet from the front and rear, respectively, of the vehicle.  Side-marker lamps shall be capable of being seen and distinguished under normal atmospheric conditions at the time lights are required at a distance of five hundred feet from the side of the vehicle on which mounted.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-536; 1952 Code Section 46-536; 1949 (46) 466.
SC Code § 56-5-4620 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 5 - Uniform Act Regulating Traffic On Highways|Section 56-5-4620. Lighting lamps on vehicles operated in combination.

 Whenever motor and other vehicles are operated in combination during the time that lights are required, any lamp, except tail lamps, need not be lighted which, by reason of its location on a vehicle of the combination, would be obscured by another vehicle of the combination, but this shall not affect the requirement that lighted clearance lamps be displayed on the front of the foremost vehicle required to have clearance lamps, nor that all lights required on the rear of the rearmost vehicle of any combination shall be lighted.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-537; 1952 Code Section 46-537; 1949 (46) 466.