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SC Code § 39-73-340 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 73 - State Commodity Code|Section 39-73-340. Authority to promulgate regulations, forms, and orders; publication; insulation from liability for acts or omissions done in good faith in conformity with regulation, order or form.

 (A) In addition to specific authority granted elsewhere in this chapter, the administrator may make, amend, rescind regulations, forms, and orders as are necessary to carry out this chapter. The regulations or forms must include, but are not limited to, regulations defining terms, whether or not used in this chapter. The definitions must not be inconsistent with this chapter. For the purpose of regulations or forms the administrator may classify commodities and commodity contracts, persons, and matters within the administrator's jurisdiction.  (B) Unless specifically provided in this chapter, no regulation, form, or order may be adopted, amended, or rescinded unless the administrator finds that action is:  (1) necessary or appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors;  (2) consistent with the purposes fairly intended by the policy and provisions of this chapter.  (C) Regulations and forms of the administrator must be published.  (D) A provision of this chapter imposing liability does not apply to an act done or omitted in good faith in conformity with a regulation, order, or form adopted by the administrator, notwithstanding that the regulation, order, or form may be amended, rescinded, or determined by judicial or other authority to be invalid.  HISTORY: 1993 Act No. 68, Section 1, eff 200 days after approval (approved May 14, 1993).
SC Code § 39-73-345 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 73 - State Commodity Code|Section 39-73-345. Engaging in prohibited conduct constitutes appointment of administrator to accept service of process.

 When a person, including a nonresident of this State, engages in conduct prohibited or made actionable by the chapter or a regulation or order of the administrator, the engaging in the conduct constitutes the appointment of the administrator as the person's attorney to receive service of lawful process in a noncriminal proceeding against the person, a successor, or personal representative, which grows out of that conduct and which is brought under the chapter or a regulation or order of the administrator with the same force as if served personally.  HISTORY: 1993 Act No. 68, Section 1, eff 200 days after approval (approved May 14, 1993).
SC Code § 39-73-350 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 73 - State Commodity Code|Section 39-73-350. Applicability of sections 39-73-20, 39-73-50, and 39-73-60 to persons who sell, buy, or offer to sell or buy commodities in state; when offer to sell or buy is made or accepted in state.

 (A) Sections 39-73-20, 39-73-50, and 39-73-60 apply to persons who:  (1) sell or offer to sell when an offer to:  (a) sell is made in this State; or  (b) buy is made and accepted in this State;  (2) buy or offer to buy when an offer to:  (a) buy is made in this State; or  (b) sell is made and accepted in this State.  (B) For the purpose of this section, an offer to sell or buy is made in this State, whether or not either party is then present in this State, when the offer:  (1) originates from this State; or  (2) is directed by the offeror to this State and received at the place to which it is directed, or at a post office in this State for a mailed offer.  (C) For the purpose of this section, an offer to buy or sell is accepted in this State when acceptance:  (1) is communicated to the offeror in this State;  (2) previously has not been communicated to the offeror, orally or in writing, outside this State, and acceptance is communicated to the offeror in this State, whether or not either party is then present in this State, when the offeree directs it to the offeror in this State, reasonably believing the offeror to be in this State and it is received at the place to which it is directed or at a post office in this State for a mailed acceptance.  (D) An offer to sell or to buy is not made in this State when one or both of the following exist:  (1) The publisher circulates or there is circulated on his behalf in this State a bona fide newspaper or other publication of general, regular, and paid circulation which is not published in this State or which is published in this State but has had more than two-thirds of its circulation outside this State during the past twelve months.  (2) A radio or television program originating outside this State is received in this State.  HISTORY: 1993 Act No. 68, Section 1, eff 200 days after approval (approved May 14, 1993).
SC Code § 39-73-355 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 73 - State Commodity Code|Section 39-73-355. Administrative proceedings; notice; hearing; order.

 (A) The administrator shall commence an administrative proceeding under this chapter by entering a notice of intent to do a contemplated act or a summary order. The notice of intent or summary order may be entered without notice, and without opportunity for hearing and need not be supported by findings of fact or conclusions of law but must be in writing.  (B) Upon entry of a notice of intent or summary order, the administrator promptly shall notify all interested parties that the notice or summary order has been entered and its reasons. If the proceeding is pursuant to a notice of intent, the administrator shall inform all interested parties of the date, time, and place set for the hearing on the notice. If the proceeding is pursuant to a summary order, the administrator shall inform all interested parties that they have thirty business days from the entry of the order to file a written request for a hearing on the matter with the administrator and that the hearing will be scheduled to commence within thirty business days after the receipt of the written request.  (C) If the proceeding is pursuant to a summary order, the administrator, whether or not a written request for a hearing is received from an interested party, may set the matter down for hearing on the administrator's own motion.  (D) If no hearing is requested and none is ordered by the administrator, the summary order automatically becomes a final order after thirty business days.  (E) If a hearing is requested or ordered, the administrator, after notice of a hearing to and an opportunity for a hearing for all interested persons, may modify or vacate the order or extend it until final determination.  (F) No final order or order after hearing may be returned without:  (1) appropriate notice to all interested persons;  (2) opportunity for hearing by all interested persons;  (3) entry of written findings of fact and conclusions of law.  (G) Every hearing in an administrative proceeding under this chapter is public unless the administrator grants a request joined in by all the respondents that the hearing be conducted privately.  HISTORY: 1993 Act No. 68, Section 1, eff 200 days after approval (approved May 14, 1993).
SC Code § 39-73-360 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 73 - State Commodity Code|Section 39-73-360. Judicial review.

 (A) A person aggrieved by a final order of the administrator may obtain a review of the order in court by filing, within sixty days after the entry of the order, a written petition requesting the order be modified or set aside in whole or in part. A copy of the petition for review must be served upon the administrator.  (B) Upon the filing of a petition for review, except where the taking of additional evidence is ordered by the court pursuant to subsection (E) or (F), the court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of the matter, and the administrator may not modify or set aside the order, in whole or in part.  (C) The filing of a petition for review under subsection (A), unless specifically ordered by the court, does not operate as a stay of the administrator's order, and the administrator may enforce or ask the court to enforce the order pending the outcome of the review proceedings.  (D) Upon receipt of the petition for review, the administrator shall certify and file in the court a copy of the order and the transcript or record of the evidence upon which it was based. If the order became final by operation of law under Section 39-73-355(D), the administrator shall certify and file in court the summary order and evidence of its source upon the parties to it and an affidavit certifying that no hearing has been held and the order became final pursuant to Section 39-73-355(D).  (E) If the aggrieved party or the administrator applies to the court for leave to adduce additional evidence and shows to the satisfaction of the court there were reasonable grounds for failure to adduce the evidence in the hearing before the administrator or other good cause, the court may order the additional evidence to be taken by the administrator under conditions the court considers proper.  (F) If new evidence is ordered taken by the court, the administrator may modify the findings and order by reason of the additional evidence and shall file in the court the additional evidence with modified or new findings or order.  (G) The court shall review the petition based upon the original record before the administrator as amended under subsections (E) and (F). The findings of the administrator as to the facts, if supported by competent, material, and substantive evidence, are conclusive. Based upon this review, the court may affirm, modify, enforce, or set aside the order, in whole or in part.  (H) The judgment of the court is subject to review by the court.  HISTORY: 1993 Act No. 68, Section 1, eff 200 days after approval (approved May 14, 1993).
SC Code § 39-73-365 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 73 - State Commodity Code|Section 39-73-365. Burden of proof as to exemptions.

 It is not necessary to negate the exemptions of this chapter in a complaint, information, indictment, a writ, or a proceeding brought under this chapter. The burden of proof of the exemption is upon the party claiming it.  HISTORY: 1993 Act No. 68, Section 1, eff 200 days after approval (approved May 14, 1993).
SC Code § 39-73-370 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 73 - State Commodity Code|Section 39-73-370. Defense, in case based on failure to make physical delivery, of factors beyond seller's control, where delivery completed within reasonable time.

 It is a defense in a complaint, information, indictment, a writ, or a proceeding brought under this chapter alleging a violation of Section 39-73-20 based solely on the failure in an individual case to make physical delivery within the applicable time under Section 39-73-10(5) or Section 39-73-40(A)(2) if:  (1) failure to make physical delivery was due solely to factors beyond the control of the seller, the seller's officers, directors, partners, agents, servants, or employees, persons occupying a similar status or performing similar functions, persons who directly or indirectly control or are controlled by the seller, or the seller's affiliates, subsidiaries, or successors;  (2) physical delivery was completed within a reasonable time under the applicable circumstances.  HISTORY: 1993 Act No. 68, Section 1, eff 200 days after approval (approved May 14, 1993).
SC Code § 39-75-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 75 - Regrooved And Regroovable Tires|Section 39-75-10. Definitions.

 As used in this chapter, the term:  (1) "Regroovable tire" means a tire, either original tread or retread, designed and constructed with sufficient tread material to permit renewal of the tread pattern or the generation of a new tread pattern in a manner which conforms to this chapter.  (2) "Regrooved tire" means a tire, either original tread or retread, on which the tread pattern has been renewed or a new tread has been produced by cutting into the tread of a worn tire to a depth equal to or deeper than the molded original groove depth.  HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 300, Section 1, eff May 26, 2000.
SC Code § 39-75-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 75 - Regrooved And Regroovable Tires|Section 39-75-20. Requirements applicable to sale of regrooved or regroovable tires.

 (A) Except as permitted in subsection (B) of this section, a person shall not sell, offer for sale, or introduce or deliver for introduction into commerce regrooved tires produced by removing rubber from the surface of a worn tire tread to generate a new tread pattern. A person who regrooves tires and leases them to owners or operators of motor vehicles and a person who regrooves his own tires for use on motor vehicles is considered to be a person delivering for introduction into commerce within the meaning of this section.  (B) A regrooved tire may be sold, offered for sale, or introduced for sale or delivered for introduction into commerce only if it conforms to each of the following requirements:  (1) The tire being regrooved is a regroovable tire.  (2) After regrooving, cord material below the grooves must have a protective covering of tread material at least 3/32 -inch thick.  (3) After regrooving, the new grooves generated into the tread material and residual original molded tread groove which is at or below the new regrooved depth must have a minimum of ninety linear inches of tread edges for each linear foot of the circumference.  (4) After regrooving, the new groove width generated into the tread material must be a minimum of 3/16 -inch and a maximum of 5/16 -inch.  (5) After regrooving, all new grooves cut into the tread must provide unobstructed fluid escape passages.  (6) After regrooving, the tire must not contain any of the following defects, as determined by a visual examination of the tire either mounted on the rim or dismounted:  (a) cracking which extends to the fabric;  (b) groove cracks or wear extending to the fabric; or  (c) evidence of ply, tread, or sidewall separation.  (7) If the tire is siped by cutting the tread surface without removing rubber, the tire cord material may not be damaged as a result of the siping process, and a sipe may not be deeper than the original or retread groove depth.  (C) A person shall not sell, offer for sale, or introduce for sale or deliver for introduction into commerce a regroovable tire that has been siped by cutting the tread surface without removing rubber if the tire cord material is damaged as a result of the siping process, or if the tire is siped deeper than the original or retread groove depth.  HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 300, Section 1, eff May 26, 2000.
SC Code § 39-75-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 75 - Regrooved And Regroovable Tires|Section 39-75-30. Labeling of tire designed for regrooving.

 A tire designed and constructed for regrooving shall be labeled on one sidewall with the word "REGROOVABLE".  HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 300, Section 1, eff May 26, 2000.
SC Code § 39-75-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 75 - Regrooved And Regroovable Tires|Section 39-75-40. Applicability of chapter.

 This chapter does not apply to regrooved or regroovable tires intended solely for export outside the United States, which tires must be labeled or tagged for export; nor does it apply to tires intended solely for agricultural use or for off the road industrial use.  HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 300, Section 1, eff May 26, 2000.
SC Code § 39-75-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 39 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 75 - Regrooved And Regroovable Tires|Section 39-75-50. Sale of nonconforming tires; penalty.

 Any person who knowingly sells, offers for sale, or delivers for introduction into this State regrooved tires not in conformity with this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be imprisoned not more than one year or fined not more than five thousand dollars, or both.  HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 300, Section 1, eff May 26, 2000.
SC Code § 40-1-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 40 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 1 - Professions And Occupations|Section 40-1-20. Definitions.

 As used in this title unless the context requires a different meaning:  (1) "Administrator" means the individual to whom the director has delegated authority to administer the programs of a specific board or of a professional or occupational group for which the department has regulatory authority or has delegated authority to administer the programs of a specific board;  (2) "Authorization to practice" or "Practice authorization" means the approval to practice the specified profession, engage in the specified occupation, or use a title protected under this article, which has been granted by the applicable board. This authorization is granted in the form of a license, permit, certification, or registration;  (3) "Board" or "Commission" means the group of individuals charged by law with the responsibility of licensing or otherwise regulating an occupation or profession within the State. Except as otherwise indicated, "board" is used in this article to refer to both boards and commissions;  (4) "Department" means the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation;  (5) "Director" means the Director of the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation or the director's official designee;  (6) "Licensee" means a person granted an authorization to practice pursuant to this article and refers to a person holding a license, permit, certification, or registration granted pursuant to this article;  (7) "Licensing act" means the individual statute or regulations, or both, of each regulated profession or occupation which include, but are not limited to, board governance, the qualifications and requirements for authorization to practice, prohibitions, and disciplinary procedures;  (8) "Person" means an individual, partnership, or corporation;  (9) "Profession" or "occupation" means a profession or occupation regulated or administered, or both, by the department pursuant to this article.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 453, Section 2.
SC Code § 40-1-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 40 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 1 - Professions And Occupations|Section 40-1-30. Authorization to practice.

 It is unlawful for a person to engage in a profession or occupation regulated by a board or commission administered by the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation without holding a valid authorization to practice as required by statute or regulation.  An authorization to practice issued pursuant to this title is valid for up to two years and is renewable on renewal dates as established by the Director of Labor, Licensing and Regulation with the consent of each applicable regulatory board.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 453, Section 2.
SC Code § 40-1-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 40 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 1 - Professions And Occupations|Section 40-1-40. Purpose of division; domain.

 (A) The purpose of the Division of Professional and Occupational Licensing, South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, is to protect the public through the regulation of professional and occupational licensees and the administration of boards charged with the regulation of professional and occupational practitioners.  (B) The following boards and the professions and occupations they license or otherwise regulate must be administered by the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation pursuant to this article:  Board of Accountancy  Board of Architectural Examiners  Athletic Commission  Auctioneers Commission  Board of Barber Examiners  Accessibility Committee of the Building Codes Council  Building Code Council  Board of Chiropractic Examiners  Contractors' Licensing Board  Board of Cosmetology  Board of Dentistry  Engineers and Land Surveyors Board  Environmental Certification Board  Board of Registration for Foresters  Board of Funeral Service  Board of Registration for Geologists  Manufactured Housing Board  Board of Medical Examiners  Modular Buildings Board of Appeals  Board of Nursing  Long Term Health Care Administrators Board  Board of Occupational Therapy  Board of Examiners in Opticianry  Board of Examiners in Optometry  Board of Pharmacy  Board of Physical Therapy Examiners  Pilotage Commission  Board of Podiatry Examiners  Board of Examiners for Licensure of Professional Counselors and Marital and Family Therapists  Board of Examiners in Psychology  Board of Pyrotechnic Safety  Real Estate Appraisers Board  Real Estate Commission  Residential Builders Commission  Board of Social Work Examiners  Board of Examiners in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology  Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners  (C) Each regulatory board within the department is a separate board.  (D) The Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation is a member of the Governor's executive cabinet and must be headed by a director who must be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate, subject to removal from office by the Governor pursuant to Section 1-3-240(B). The director shall supervise the department under the direction and control of the Governor and shall exercise other powers and perform other duties as the Governor requires.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 453, Section 2.
SC Code § 40-1-45 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 40 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 1 - Professions And Occupations|Section 40-1-45. Public and consumer members of boards and panels.

 The department, in consultation with currently serving board members, the Office of the Governor, members of professional and industry associations, and the general public shall encourage public and consumer membership and participation on all boards and panels associated with the department. Public and consumer membership may not include current or former, active or inactive members of the profession or occupation being regulated. Public and consumer members have the same rights and responsibilities as professionally or occupationally-related board members and shall participate fully in all discussions, deliberations, decisions, and votes of the board or panel on which they serve unless otherwise prohibited by statute or regulation.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 453, Section 2.
SC Code § 40-1-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 40 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 1 - Professions And Occupations|Section 40-1-60. Officers of boards; meetings.

 (A) A board annually shall elect from among its members a chairman, vice-chairman, and other officers as the board determines necessary. The board shall adopt rules and procedures reasonably necessary for the performance of its duties and the governance of its operations and proceedings.  (B) A board shall meet at least two times a year and at other times upon the call of the chairman or a majority of the board.  (C) A majority of the members of a board constitutes a quorum; however, if there is a vacancy on the board, a majority of the members serving constitutes a quorum.  (D) A board member is required to attend meetings or to provide proper notice and justification of inability to do so. Unexcused absences from meetings may result in removal from the board as provided for in Section 1-3-240.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 453, Section 2.