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SC Code § 58-5-1060 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Gas, Heat, Water, Sewerage Collection And Disposal, And Street Railway Companies|Section 58-5-1060. Article inapplicable to liquefied petroleum gas.

 Nothing in this article shall be applicable to the regulation of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to the extent that this subject is regulated by Sections 39-43-10 through 39-43-180 and the regulations issued pertinent thereto.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-146; 1970 (56) 2420.
SC Code § 58-5-1070 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Gas, Heat, Water, Sewerage Collection And Disposal, And Street Railway Companies|Section 58-5-1070. Article inapplicable to anhydrous ammonia.

 The provisions of this article shall not be applicable to the regulation of anhydrous ammonia to the extent that this subject is regulated by Sections 39-47-10 to 39-47-70 and the regulations issued thereunder.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-147; 1970 (56) 2420.
SC Code § 58-5-1110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Gas, Heat, Water, Sewerage Collection And Disposal, And Street Railway Companies|Section 58-5-1110. Definitions.

 For purposes of this article:  (1) "Licensed health care provider" means a licensed medical doctor, physician's assistant, nurse practitioner, or advanced-practice registered nurse.  (2) "Special needs account customer" means the account of a residential customer:  (a) when the customer can furnish to the utility a certificate on a form provided by the utility and signed by a licensed health care provider that states that termination of natural gas service would be dangerous to the health of the customer or a member of his household at the premises to which natural gas service is rendered; or  (b) who suffers from Alzheimer's disease or dementia as certified by a licensed health care provider.  HISTORY: 2006 Act No. 313, Section 4, eff June 1, 2006; 2012 Act No. 122, Section 4, eff February 22, 2012.
SC Code § 58-5-1120 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Gas, Heat, Water, Sewerage Collection And Disposal, And Street Railway Companies|Section 58-5-1120. Termination procedures; contents.

 (A) Each public utility furnishing natural gas to residential customers must establish written procedures for termination of service due to nonpayment for a special needs account customer at any time and for all residential customers during weather conditions marked by extremely cold or hot temperatures. Each public utility furnishing natural gas to residential customers must submit its procedures to the Office of Regulatory Staff by November 1, 2006. Any subsequent revisions must be submitted semiannually by March first or September first.  (B) The procedures for termination must include the following:  (1) notification procedures so that the customer is made aware of an impending termination and the time within which he must make arrangements for payment prior to termination;  (2) arrangements for a payment arrangement plan to enable a residential customer, who has a satisfactory payment history as determined by the public utility, to pay by installments where the customer is unable to pay the full amount due for electric service;  (3) a procedure to advise customers who are unable to pay the full amount due or who are not approved for a payment arrangement plan that they may contact local social service agencies to determine the availability of public or private assistance with the payment of electric bills;  (4) a schedule of termination that takes into account the availability of the acceptance of payment and the reconnection of service; and  (5) the standards for determining weather conditions marked by extremely cold or hot temperatures.  HISTORY: 2006 Act No. 313, Section 4, eff June 1, 2006.
SC Code § 58-5-1130 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Gas, Heat, Water, Sewerage Collection And Disposal, And Street Railway Companies|Section 58-5-1130. Third-party notification program.

 Each public utility furnishing natural gas must consider establishing and maintaining a third-party notification program to allow a residential customer to designate a third party to be notified if the natural gas service is scheduled for termination.  HISTORY: 2006 Act No. 313, Section 4, eff June 1, 2006.
SC Code § 58-5-1140 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Gas, Heat, Water, Sewerage Collection And Disposal, And Street Railway Companies|Section 58-5-1140. Disconnection when public safety emergency exists.

 Notwithstanding another provision of this article, a public utility furnishing natural gas may disconnect a customer when it is determined that a public safety emergency exists.  HISTORY: 2006 Act No. 313, Section 4, eff June 1, 2006.
SC Code § 58-5-1150 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Gas, Heat, Water, Sewerage Collection And Disposal, And Street Railway Companies|Section 58-5-1150. Promulgation of regulations.

 Nothing in the article prohibits the commission from promulgating detailed regulations governing termination of service by a public utility furnishing natural gas so long as the regulations include the termination and third-party notification protections provided by this article.  HISTORY: 2006 Act No. 313, Section 4, eff June 1, 2006.
SC Code § 58-5-1160 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Gas, Heat, Water, Sewerage Collection And Disposal, And Street Railway Companies|Section 58-5-1160. Private right of action; new duty of care.

 This article does not create a new private right of action or a new duty of care. This article does not diminish, increase, affect, or evidence any duty of care existing under the laws of this State prior to the effective date of this article.  HISTORY: 2006 Act No. 313, Section 4, eff June 1, 2006.
SC Code § 58-7-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 7 - Special Provisions Affecting Gas, Water Or Pipeline Companies|Section 58-7-20. Rights, powers and privileges of telegraph and telephone companies conferred on water companies.

 Subject to the same duties and liabilities, all the rights, powers, and privileges conferred upon telegraph and telephone companies under Chapter 2 of Title 28, including the power to condemn property, are granted to companies engaged in supplying water or sewerage services incorporated under the laws of this State or to companies incorporated under the laws of any other state upon complying with the laws of this State regulating foreign corporations and by becoming a domestic corporation.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-152.1; 1952 Code Section 58-152.1; 1942 Code Section 8540; 1932 Code Section 8540; Civ. C. '22 Section 5024; Civ. C. '12 Section 3326; 1904 (24) 489; 1951 (47) 785; 1990 Act No. 588, Section 1, eff June 11, 1990.
SC Code § 58-7-25 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 7 - Special Provisions Affecting Gas, Water Or Pipeline Companies|Section 58-7-25. Right to repurchase unused condemned property.

 (A) If the property, or any portion of it, condemned by a corporation engaged in the business of supplying sewerage service, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, is not used for the purpose for which it was condemned within a five-year period from the date it was condemned, the former owner has the right to repurchase the property from the corporation upon payment of the original purchase price.  (B) Unless the former owner exercises his right to repurchase this property within a period of one year from the expiration of the five-year period as provided in subsection (A), the right to repurchase ceases when the corporation gives the former owner ninety days' notice that the right will expire at the end of the ninety-day period.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 588, Section 2, eff June 11, 1990.
SC Code § 58-7-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 7 - Special Provisions Affecting Gas, Water Or Pipeline Companies|Section 58-7-30. Water companies may condemn land for waterworks.

 (A) Any corporation engaged in the business of supplying water or sewerage services in this State or which may intend to engage in the business of supplying water or sewerage services has the same rights and powers of condemnation as are conferred upon municipal corporations pursuant to the provisions of Sections 5-31-420, 5-31-430, and 5-31-440.  (B) Before a corporation engaged in supplying sewer services as authorized under the provisions of this section exercises the right of condemnation, the governing body of the county in which the condemnation will occur must adopt an ordinance granting the corporation the authority to condemn property necessary to provide sewer services.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-152; 1952 Code Section 58-152; 1942 Code Section 7303; 1932 Code Section 7303; Civ. C. '22 Section 4451; Civ. C. '12 Section 3028; 1905 (24) 867; 1951 (47) 785; 1990 Act No. 588, Section 1, eff June 11, 1990.
SC Code § 58-7-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 7 - Special Provisions Affecting Gas, Water Or Pipeline Companies|Section 58-7-40. Water companies may contract with municipalities or public service districts to collect charges for sewage disposal and to disconnect water service for nonpayment of sewer charges.

 All private corporations, subject to the jurisdiction of the South Carolina Public Service Commission, engaged in the business of providing water service and selling and distributing water for domestic, commercial or industrial purposes may, if the approval of the South Carolina Public Service Commission is obtained, enter into contracts with any incorporated municipality or any special purpose district upon terms and conditions to be mutually agreed upon (including an agreement by the municipality or public service district to hold the private corporation harmless for any error by the municipality or public service district regarding the payment or nonpayment of sewer charges) by which the municipalities or special purpose districts shall (a) constitute the corporation the agent of the municipalities or special purpose districts, for the purpose of collecting such charges as the municipalities or special purpose districts shall from time to time impose upon those who utilize its sewage disposal facilities; and/or (b) empower the corporation as the agent of the municipalities or special purpose districts to disconnect water service upon failure of any user to pay sewer charges.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-152.2; 1965 (54) 683.  Editor's Note  Section 1 of 1965 Act No 381 (1965 (54) 683), contains legislative findings relative to this section, and provides:  "The General Assembly finds that in certain areas in South Carolina domestic, commercial and industrial water service is supplied by private corporations under the jurisdiction of the South Carolina Public Service Commission. Frequently incorporated municipalities and special purpose districts are located within the same areas. Such municipalities and special purpose districts are empowered to impose sewer service charges but have no ready means of collecting the charges inasmuch as they do not render water service. Such municipalities and special purpose districts have the power to enter into contracts with private corporations to collect such sewer service charge but there is no corresponding statutory authority permitting the private corporation to act for such municipalities and special purpose districts to collect such sewer service charge or to suspend water service in the event that the bill for sewer service is not paid, whether the sewer bill is rendered separately or is combined with the water bill into a single bill."
SC Code § 58-7-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 7 - Special Provisions Affecting Gas, Water Or Pipeline Companies|Section 58-7-50. Lease of property of gas company.

 Except as prohibited in section 7, article 9 of the Constitution of 1895, any gas company organized under the laws of this State may lease its property and franchises to any other gas company, upon such terms as may be agreed upon by a majority of the stockholders at a special meeting held after thirty days' advertisement thereof.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-153; 1952 Code Section 58-153; 1942 Code Section 8187; 1932 Code Section 8187; Civ. C. '22 Section 4367; Civ. C. '12 Section 2881; 1908 (25) 1090.  Editor's Note  Section 7, Article 9 of the Constitution of 1895, referred to in this Code section, no longer appears in the Constitution following the revision and rewriting of that article by amendment ratified by 1971 Act No. 64 (1971 (57) 47). Prior to the amendment that section read as follows:  "No railroad, or other transportation company, and no telegraph or other transmitting corporation, or the lessees, purchasers or managers of any such corporation, shall consolidate the stock, property or franchises of such corporation with, or lease or purchase the works or franchises of, or in any way control, any other railroad or other transportation, telegraph or other transmitting company owning or having under its control a parallel or competing line; and the question whether railroads or other transportation, telegraph or other transmitting companies are parallel or competing lines shall, when demanded by the party complainant, be decided by a jury as in other civil causes."
SC Code § 58-9-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Telephone, Telegraph And Express Companies|Section 58-9-20. Companies subject to Articles 1 through 13 of this chapter even before commencing operations.

 Corporations formed to acquire property or to transact business which would be subject to the provisions of Articles 1 through 13 of this chapter and corporations possessing franchises, powers or privileges for any of the purposes contemplated by Articles 1 through 13 of this chapter shall be deemed to be subject to the provisions of Articles 1 through 13 of this chapter, although no property may have been acquired, business transacted or franchises, powers or privileges exercised.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-354; 1952 Code Section 58-354; 1950 (46) 2466.
SC Code § 58-9-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Telephone, Telegraph And Express Companies|Section 58-9-30. Municipal rights, powers and privileges under Constitution not impaired.

 Nothing contained in Articles 1 through 13 of this chapter shall be so construed as to modify, abridge, or impair any of the rights or powers granted to cities and towns under any provision of the Constitution of this State and every right, power or privilege conferred upon any city or town by the Constitution of this State otherwise appearing to be modified, abridged or impaired by any provision of Articles 1 through 13 of this chapter is to be deemed excepted from the operation thereof.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-355; 1952 Code Section 58-355; 1950 (46) 2466.
SC Code § 58-9-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Telephone, Telegraph And Express Companies|Section 58-9-40. Municipal police regulations and ordinances not affected.

 Nothing contained in Articles 1 through 13 of this chapter shall be so construed as to limit or restrict the right of cities and towns to adopt and enforce reasonable police regulations and ordinances affecting telephone utilities, not inconsistent with the provisions of Articles 1 through 13 of this chapter, in the interest of public safety, morals, convenience, health and good order.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-356; 1952 Code Section 58-356; 1950 (46) 2466.
SC Code § 58-9-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Telephone, Telegraph And Express Companies|Section 58-9-50. Articles 1 through 13 of this chapter not applicable to interstate commerce.

 No provision of Articles 1 through 13 of this chapter shall apply or be construed to apply to commerce among the several states of the United States, except in so far as such application may be permitted under the provisions of the Constitution of the United States and the acts of Congress.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-357; 1952 Code Section 58-357; 1950 (46) 2466.
SC Code § 58-9-200 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Telephone, Telegraph And Express Companies|Section 58-9-200. Definitions.

 As used in Sections 58-9-295 and 58-9-297:  (1) "Communications service provider" means:  (a) a telephone utility as defined in Section 58-9-10(6);  (b) a government-owned telecommunications service provider as defined in Section 58-9-2610(1);  (c) a telephone cooperative as defined in Section 33-46-20(4);  (d) a person or entity providing telephone, voice over internet protocol, similar voice service, or any other voice replacement service, data service, video service, or any information service; or  (e) an entity using or allowing another entity to use its cable, wires, fiber, or any material, facilities, or equipment that have the ability to carry voice, data, video, or any other information transmissions.  "Communications service provider" does not mean a radio common carrier as defined in Section 58-11-10(f).  (2) "Communications service" means:  (a) telephone service, including without limitation basic local exchange telephone service as defined in Section 58-9-10(9);  (b) voice over internet protocol, or similar voice or voice replacement service;  (c) data service;  (d) video service; or  (e) any information service.  HISTORY: 2005 Act No. 134, Section 1, eff 45 days after approval (approved June 7, 2005).  Editor's Note  2005 Act No. 134, Section 4, provides as follows:  "If, as result of federal law, a finding of a federal administrative agency or a decision of a federal or state court of competent jurisdiction, this act is deemed to be inapplicable to any person, entity, or class of provider that otherwise meets the definition of a communications service provider in Section 58-9-200, this act shall become void and unenforceable as to all communications service providers."
SC Code § 58-9-210 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Telephone, Telegraph And Express Companies|Section 58-9-210. Rates shall be just and reasonable.

 Every rate made, demanded or received by any telephone utility or by any two or more telephone utilities jointly shall be just and reasonable.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-371; 1952 Code Section 58-371; 1950 (46) 2466.
SC Code § 58-9-230 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Telephone, Telegraph And Express Companies|Section 58-9-230. Adherence to schedules.

 (A) No telephone utility may directly or indirectly, by any device whatsoever or in any way, charge, demand, collect, or receive from any person or corporation a greater or less compensation for any service rendered or supplied, or to be rendered or supplied, by the telephone utility, than that prescribed in the schedules of the telephone utility applicable thereto then filed in the manner provided in Articles 1 through 13 of this chapter, nor may any person or corporation receive or accept any service from a telephone utility for a compensation greater or less than that prescribed in the schedules.  (B) Local exchange company centrex-type services or billing and collection services, or both, may be offered to subscribers without the schedules related thereto being filed as provided in subsection (A), if the Commission, after hearing, first determines that such services are subject to competition in the relevant product and geographic markets. The Commission shall retain regulatory authority, however, over the rates, revenues, investments, expenses, and quality of the services so offered.  (C) The charges for services offered by the utility pursuant to subsection (B) must, in every instance, be provided at a level above the cost of the service as determined by the commission. The regulatory staff shall have access to such data to ensure compliance with this section. The cost data is not subject to disclosure to the public. However, upon the application of any interested party and for good cause shown, the commission may enter an appropriate order which directs the manner in which the proprietary cost data provided to the regulatory staff may be made available to such interested party.  (D) When a local exchange company proposes to offer a service pursuant to subsections (B) and (C), the Commission shall first determine:  (1) whether monopoly elements are offered as part of the centrex-type service; and  (2) if the Commission finds the existence of a monopoly element, then it must decide whether or not that monopoly element should be unbundled from the detariffed service. If they find that the monopoly element should be unbundled, then only the competitive elements of that service may be detariffed.  (3) This section does not amend or repeal the provisions of Section 58-9-250.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-373; 1952 Code Section 58-373; 1950 (46) 2466; 1988 Act No. 537, eff May 17, 1988; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 33, eff May 24, 2006.
SC Code § 58-9-240 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Telephone, Telegraph And Express Companies|Section 58-9-240. Permitted free or reduced rates.

 Nothing herein contained shall prevent any telephone utility from granting free or reduced rate service to its officers, agents, employees, attorneys, physicians or surgeons, nor to prevent any telephone utility from granting free or reduced rate service to the State of South Carolina or any municipality therein or department thereof or to charitable and eleemosynary institutions and persons engaged in charitable and eleemosynary work, nor to prevent any telephone utility from granting free or reduced rate service with the object and for the purpose of providing relief in times and cases of flood, general epidemic, pestilence or other calamitous visitation, nor any such other instance when the Commission may deem that such service is not contrary to the public interest; provided, that such free or reduced rate service shall be granted in accordance with tariffs filed by such telephone utility with the Commission and which shall be subject to regulation and revision by the Commission in the same manner as other rates of telephone utilities. The terms "officers" and "employees" as used in this section shall include furloughed, pensioned and superannuated officers and employees of any such utility.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-374; 1952 Code Section 58-374; 1950 (46) 2466.