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SC Code § 56-15-540 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 15 - Regulation Of Manufacturers, Distributors And Dealers|Section 56-15-540. Dealers and persons required by agency or law may purchase or sell at wholesale motor vehicle auction.

 A motor vehicle dealer licensed by this or another jurisdiction may purchase or sell motor vehicles at a wholesale motor vehicle auction. A person may purchase or sell motor vehicles at a wholesale motor vehicle auction if required by an agency of government or by law.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 70, Section 1.
SC Code § 56-15-550 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 15 - Regulation Of Manufacturers, Distributors And Dealers|Section 56-15-550. Sales through auction of motor vehicles acquired incident to regular business.

 The following may sell motor vehicles through a wholesale motor vehicle auction if the motor vehicles are acquired as an incident to regular business:  (1) manufacturers;  (2) marine dealers;  (3) motor vehicle rental businesses;  (4) motor vehicle lease businesses;  (5) recreation vehicle dealers;  (6) sellers of motor vehicle fleets;  (7) manufacturers;  (8) public officers while performing their official duties;  (9) receivers;  (10) trustees;  (11) administrators;  (12) executors;  (13) guardians;  (14) insurance companies;  (15) banks;  (16) finance companies;  (17) other loan agencies or their agents.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 70, Section 1.
SC Code § 56-15-560 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 15 - Regulation Of Manufacturers, Distributors And Dealers|Section 56-15-560. Application for license for wholesale motor vehicle auction; fee.

 Before engaging in business as a wholesale motor vehicle auction in this State, an application must be filed with the Department of Motor Vehicles furnishing the information it requires including, but not limited to, information adequately identifying by name and address individuals who own or control ten percent or more of the interest of the applicant. Each license issued expires twelve months from the month of issuance and must be displayed prominently at the established place of business. The license applies to only one place of business of the applicant and is not transferable to another person or place of business. The fee for the license is fifty dollars.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 70, Section 1; 1996 Act No. 459, Section 227.
SC Code § 56-15-570 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 15 - Regulation Of Manufacturers, Distributors And Dealers|Section 56-15-570. Surety bond required.

 (A) Each applicant for licensure as a wholesale motor vehicle auction shall furnish a surety bond in the penal amount of fifteen thousand dollars on a form prescribed by the Department of Motor Vehicles. The bond must be given to the department and executed by the applicant as principal and by a corporate surety company authorized to do business in this State as surety. The bond must be conditioned upon the applicant or licensee complying with the statutes applicable to the license and as indemnification for loss or damage suffered by an owner of a motor vehicle, or his legal representative, by reason of fraud practiced or fraudulent representation made by the licensee in connection with the sale or transfer of a motor vehicle by the licensee or its agent acting for it or within the scope of employment of the agent or loss or damage suffered by reason of a violation by the licensee or its agent of this chapter.  (B) An owner or his legal representative who suffers loss or damage has a right of action against the wholesale motor vehicle auction and against the licensee's surety upon the bond and may recover damages as provided in this chapter. However, regardless of the number of years a bond remains in effect, the aggregate liability of the surety for all claims is limited to fifteen thousand dollars on each bond and to the amount of the actual loss incurred. The surety may terminate its liability under the bond by giving the department thirty days' written notice of its intent to cancel the bond. The surety shall notify the department if the bond is canceled. The cancellation does not affect liability incurred or accrued before the cancellation.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 70, Section 1; 1996 Act No. 459, Section 228.
SC Code § 56-15-580 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 15 - Regulation Of Manufacturers, Distributors And Dealers|Section 56-15-580. Change of information on application must be reported.

 During a license year, if there is a change in the information that a wholesale motor vehicle auction gave the Department of Motor Vehicles to obtain or retain a license under this section, the licensee shall report the change to the department within thirty days after the change occurs on the form the department requires.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 70, Section 1.
SC Code § 56-15-590 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 15 - Regulation Of Manufacturers, Distributors And Dealers|Section 56-15-590. Establishment and retention of records.

 (A) A wholesale motor vehicle auction shall establish and retain at its primary place of business complete records in an order appropriate for business requirements and that permits systematic retrieval for five years following the date of sale of each motor vehicle. The records must show the name of the most recent owner other than the wholesale motor vehicle auction, the name of the buyer, the vehicle identification number, and the odometer reading on the date which the wholesale motor vehicle auction took possession of the motor vehicle.  (B) The records kept by the wholesale motor vehicle auction must be maintained in a reasonably organized and orderly fashion with all entries being legible to the ordinary person upon inspection. Records which are illegible or incapable of accurate interpretation by the recordkeeper or the Department of Motor Vehicles' inspector or agent are not in compliance with this section.  (C) If a wholesale motor vehicle auction fails to keep the required records or fails to make them available to the department or its authorized agents immediately upon a reasonable request, the wholesale motor vehicle auction is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, is subject to the provisions of Chapter 54 of Title 12.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 70, Section 1.
SC Code § 56-15-600 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 15 - Regulation Of Manufacturers, Distributors And Dealers|Section 56-15-600. Wholesale motor vehicle auction license plates.

 (A) The Department of Motor Vehicles may issue to a licensed wholesale motor vehicle auction, upon application and payment of the required fee to the department, wholesale motor vehicle auction license plates. The license plates are exclusively for the use of transporting motor vehicles in the course of doing business as a wholesale motor vehicle auction and must not be attached permanently. The license plate expires twelve months from the month of issuance. The documentation evidencing transport in the ordinary course of doing business as a wholesale motor vehicle auction must be by form approved by the Department of Revenue. The form at all times must accompany the license plates. A person who does not use the license plate exclusively to transport motor vehicles in the course of doing business as a wholesale motor vehicle auction is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined five hundred dollars.  (B) Wholesale motor vehicle auction license plates must not be issued by the department unless the wholesale motor vehicle auction furnishes proof in a form acceptable to the department that it has a wholesale motor vehicle auction license as required by this article and that at least twenty sales of motor vehicles have taken place through the wholesale motor vehicle auction in the twelve months preceding its application for a license. The sales requirement may be waived by the department if the wholesale motor vehicle auction has been licensed for less than one year.  (C) A wholesale motor vehicle auction may be issued two license plates for the first twenty vehicles auctioned during the preceding year and one additional license plate for each fifty vehicles auctioned beyond the initial twenty during the preceding year but not to exceed seventy-five license plates. For good cause shown, the department in its discretion may issue additional license plates. If the wholesale motor vehicle auction has been licensed less than one year, the department shall issue a number of license plates based on an estimated number of sales for the coming year. The department may increase or decrease the number of license plates issued based on actual sales made.  (D) The cost of each wholesale motor vehicle auction license plate issued is twenty dollars annually.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 70, Section 1.
SC Code § 56-16-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 16 - Regulation Of Motorcycle Manufacturers, Distributors, Dealers, And Wholesalers|Section 56-16-20. Manufacturer's specification of dealer's delivery and preparation obligations.

 Every manufacturer shall specify to the dealer the delivery and preparation obligations of its motorcycle dealers prior to delivery of new motorcycles to retail buyers. A copy of the delivery and preparation obligations of its motorcycle dealers and a schedule or statement of the compensation to be paid or credited to its motorcycle dealers for the work and services they are required to perform in connection with the delivery and preparation obligations must be filed with the Department of Motor Vehicles by every motorcycle manufacturer and is a dealer's only responsibility for product liability as between dealer and manufacturer. The compensation as set forth on such schedule or statement must be reasonable and paid or credited as set out in Section 56-16-30.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 511, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1487.
SC Code § 56-16-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 16 - Regulation Of Motorcycle Manufacturers, Distributors, Dealers, And Wholesalers|Section 56-16-30. Obligation to fulfill warranty agreement.

 Every manufacturer, distributor, wholesaler, distributor branch or division, factory branch or division, or wholesale branch or division shall fulfill any warranty agreement and compensate each of its motorcycle dealers for labor and parts. In determination of what constitutes reasonable compensation under this section, the principal factor to be given consideration is the prevailing wage rates paid by dealers in the community in which the dealer is doing business. The hourly labor rate paid to a dealer for warranty services must not be less than the rate charged by the dealer for like service to nonwarranty customers for nonwarranty service and repairs unless the rate is determined to be unreasonable. Dealers must be reimbursed for the current manufacturer suggested retail price for parts used on warranty work. All claims made by motorcycle dealers hereunder and under Section 56-16-20 for labor and parts must be paid within thirty days following their approval. All such claims are either approved or disapproved within thirty days after their receipt. When any claim is disapproved the motorcycle dealer who submits it must be notified in writing of its disapproval within such period, and each notice shall state the specific grounds upon which the disapproval is based. Any special handling of claims required by the manufacturer, distributor, wholesaler, distributor branch or division, factory branch or division, or wholesale branch or division, which is not uniformly required of all dealers of the type make, may be enforced after thirty days' notice in writing and upon good and sufficient reason.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 511, Section 1.
SC Code § 56-16-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 16 - Regulation Of Motorcycle Manufacturers, Distributors, Dealers, And Wholesalers|Section 56-16-50. Compensation of dealer upon termination, nonrenewal, or cancellation of franchise by manufacturer or distributor.

 (a) Upon the termination, nonrenewal, or cancellation of any franchise by the manufacturer or distributor, pursuant to this section, the new motorcycle dealer must be allowed fair and reasonable compensation by the manufacturer for the:  (1) new motorcycle inventory which has been acquired from the manufacturer within eighteen months, at a price not to exceed the original manufacturer's price to the dealer, which has not been altered or damaged, and which has not been driven more than two hundred miles, and for which no certificate of title has been issued;  (2) unused, undamaged, and unsold supplies and parts purchased from the manufacturer, at a price not to exceed the original manufacturer's price to the dealer, if the supplies and parts are currently offered for sale by the manufacturer or distributor in its current parts catalogs and are in salable condition;  (3) equipment and furnishings which have not been altered or damaged and which have been required by the manufacturer or distributor to be purchased by the new motorcycle dealer from the manufacturer or distributor, or their approved sources;  (4) special tools which have not been altered or damaged and which have been required by the manufacturer or distributor to be purchased by the new motorcycle dealer from the manufacturer or distributor, or their approved sources, within five years immediately preceding the termination, nonrenewal, or cancellation of the franchise.  (b) Fair and reasonable compensation for the above must be paid by the manufacturer within ninety days of the effective date of termination, cancellation, or nonrenewal, if the new motorcycle dealer has clear title to the inventory and has conveyed title and possession to the manufacturer.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 511, Section 1.
SC Code § 56-16-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 16 - Regulation Of Motorcycle Manufacturers, Distributors, Dealers, And Wholesalers|Section 56-16-60. Manufacturer's compensation of dealer for rental value or rental expense with respect to dealership facilities upon termination, cancellation, or nonrenewal of dealership.

 In the event of the termination, cancellation, or nonrenewal by the manufacturer or distributor under this section, except termination, cancellation, or nonrenewal for insolvency, license revocation, conviction of a crime involving moral turpitude, or fraud by a dealer-owner:  (a) Subject to paragraph (c), if the new motorcycle dealer is leasing the dealership facilities from a lessor other than the manufacturer, the manufacturer shall pay the new motorcycle dealer a sum equivalent to the rent for the unexpired term of the lease or one year's rent, whichever is less, or such longer term as is provided in the franchise agreement between the dealer and manufacturer; or  (b) Subject to paragraph (c), if the new motorcycle dealer owns the dealership facilities, the manufacturer shall pay the new motorcycle dealers a sum equivalent to the reasonable rental value of the dealership facilities for one year.  (c) Nothing in this section shall relieve a lessee or owner, from the obligation to mitigate damages under the lease, nor prevent a manufacturer from occupying and using the dealership facilities while paying rent under subsections (a) and (b), nor prevent a manufacturer from obligations by negotiating a lease termination, a sublease, or a new lease. Any amounts recovered by the lessee or owner resulting from mitigation of damages must be deducted from the amount due from the manufacturer.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 511, Section 1.
SC Code § 56-16-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 16 - Regulation Of Motorcycle Manufacturers, Distributors, Dealers, And Wholesalers|Section 56-16-70. Dealer's voluntary cancellation, nonrenewal, or termination of franchise agreement.

 The provisions of paragraphs (d) and (e) of Section 56-16-40 are not applicable when the termination, nonrenewal, or cancellation of the franchise agreement is the result of the voluntary act of the dealer.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 511, Section 1.
SC Code § 56-16-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 16 - Regulation Of Motorcycle Manufacturers, Distributors, Dealers, And Wholesalers|Section 56-16-80. Persons to whom chapter applies; jurisdiction of courts.

 Any person who engages directly or indirectly in purposeful contacts within this State in connection with the offering or advertising for sale or has business dealings with respect to a motorcycle within this State is subject to the provisions of this chapter and is subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of this State upon service of process in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 9 of Title 15.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 511, Section 1.
SC Code § 56-16-90 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 16 - Regulation Of Motorcycle Manufacturers, Distributors, Dealers, And Wholesalers|Section 56-16-90. Unfair competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices.

 (a) Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices as defined in Section 56-16-100 are declared to be unlawful.  (b) In construing paragraph (a) the courts may be guided by the definitions in the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 45).  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 511, Section 1.
SC Code § 56-16-110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 16 - Regulation Of Motorcycle Manufacturers, Distributors, Dealers, And Wholesalers|Section 56-16-110. Manufacturer's specification of dealer's delivery and preparation obligations.

 Every manufacturer shall specify to the dealer the delivery and preparation obligations of its motorcycle dealers prior to delivery of new motorcycles to retail buyers. A copy of the delivery and preparation obligations of its motorcycle dealers and a schedule or statement of the compensation to be paid or credited to its motorcycle dealers for the work and services they are required to perform in connection with such delivery and preparation obligations must be filed with the Department of Motor Vehicles by every motorcycle manufacturer and shall constitute any such dealer's only responsibility for product liability as between the dealer and the manufacturer. The compensation as set forth on the schedule or statement is reasonable and paid or credited as set out in Section 56-16-30.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 511, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1488.
SC Code § 56-16-120 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 16 - Regulation Of Motorcycle Manufacturers, Distributors, Dealers, And Wholesalers|Section 56-16-120. Imposition of restrictions on motorcycle dealer or franchisee.

 It is unlawful directly or indirectly to impose unreasonable restrictions on the motorcycle dealer or franchisee relative to transfer, sale, right to renew, termination, discipline, noncompetition covenants, site-control (whether by sublease, collateral pledge of lease, or otherwise), right of first refusal to purchase, option to purchase, compliance with subjective standards, and assertion of legal or equitable rights.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 511, Section 1.
SC Code § 56-16-130 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 16 - Regulation Of Motorcycle Manufacturers, Distributors, Dealers, And Wholesalers|Section 56-16-130. Manufacturer's, distributor's, or wholesaler's offer of inducement to dealer in connection with sale of motorcycle to state or political subdivision.

 In connection with a sale of a motorcycle to the State or to any political subdivision thereof, no manufacturer, distributor, or wholesaler may offer any discounts, refunds, or any other similar type of inducement to any dealer without making the same offer to all other of its dealers within the relevant market area and, if such inducements are made, the manufacturer, distributor, or wholesaler must give simultaneous notice thereof to all of its dealers within the relevant market area who have requested such notice.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 511, Section 1.
SC Code § 56-16-140 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 16 - Regulation Of Motorcycle Manufacturers, Distributors, Dealers, And Wholesalers|Section 56-16-140. License for dealer or wholesaler; exhibition license; fees; penalties for noncompliance.

 (A)(1) Before engaging in business as a motorcycle dealer or wholesaler in this State, every person must first make application to the Department of Motor Vehicles for a license. Every license issued expires twelve months from the date of issue and must be prominently displayed at the established place of business. The fee for the license is fifty dollars. The license applies to only one place of business of the applicant and is not transferable to any other person or place of business, except as provided in item (2).  (2)(a) A licensed dealer may exhibit motorcycles and their related products at fairs, recreational or sports shows, vacation shows, and other similar events or shows upon obtaining a dealer's exhibition license. Before exhibiting motorcycles and their related products as provided in this item, the dealer shall first apply to the department for an exhibition license. The applicant shall provide the department with the name, location, and dates of the particular exhibition for which he is seeking an exhibition license.  (b) A dealer must hold a valid dealer's license pursuant to this section to be issued an exhibition license. Exhibition licenses are valid for a period not to exceed ten consecutive days, must be prominently displayed at the exhibition site, apply to only the licensee, and may not be transferred to another dealer or exhibition location. A dealer may not purchase more than six exhibition licenses in any licensing period.  (B) A person who fails to secure a license as required in this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined:  (1) not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days for the first offense;  (2) not less than two hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both, for the second offense; and  (3) not less than one thousand dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars or imprisoned for not more than two years, or both, for the third or any subsequent offense.  For purposes of this subsection, the sale of each motorcycle constitutes a separate offense.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 511, Section 1; 1996 Act No. 459, Section 229; 2014 Act No. 217 (S.998), Section 1, eff June 2, 2014.