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SC Code § 58-21-210 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways|Section 58-21-210. Damaged electric cars shall not be used; adequate number of cars in good condition shall be maintained.

 No electric car shall be operated for the purpose of carrying passengers which has a flat wheel, broken window or windowpanes, broken door or door panes or a leaky roof, side or other part thereof. All corporations operating electric railways shall have and keep in constant operation a sufficient number of convenient, comfortable and clean cars to transport the usual number of persons desiring transportation and shall, in addition thereto, keep in reserve a sufficient number of cars, power, equipment, ways, means and facilities to supply transportation in case of emergency. But the penalties provided for the enforcement of this section shall not apply when it can be shown that the damaged equipment was used only on the day such damage occurred.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1311; 1952 Code Section 58-1311; 1942 Code Section 8501; 1932 Code Section 8501; Civ. C. '22 Section 5059; 1920 (31) 742; 1935 (39) 25.
SC Code § 58-21-220 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways|Section 58-21-220. Commission may prescribe number of cars and other matters during temporary increase in demand for transportation.

 When demand for transportation shall temporarily increase it shall be the duty of the Public Service Commission to prescribe the number and condition of cars, power, equipment, ways, means and facilities that may be reasonably necessary under the circumstances.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1312; 1952 Code Section 58-1312; 1942 Code Section 8501; 1932 Code Section 8501; Civ. C. '22 Section 5059; 1920 (31) 742; 1935 (39) 25.
SC Code § 58-21-230 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways|Section 58-21-230. Enforcement orders of Commission.

 The Commission may enforce its orders under Sections 58-21-210, 58-21-220, 58-21-240, 58-21-300, or 58-21-310 as may be provided by law in other cases.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1313; 1952 Code Section 58-1313; 1942 Code Section 8501; 1932 Code Section 8501; Civ. C. '22 Section 5059; 1920 (31) 742; 1935 (39) 25.
SC Code § 58-21-240 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways|Section 58-21-240. Maintenance of tracks, structures and cars.

 Every person owning or operating an electric railway shall keep and maintain all of its tracks and roadbed and all structures along its line in a secure, safe and substantial condition, capable of bearing such burden as it may reasonably be subject to. Any such person shall keep and maintain its cars as required by Section 58-21-210 or otherwise required by law.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1314; 1952 Code Section 58-1314; 1942 Code Section 8501; 1932 Code Section 8501; Civ. C. '22 Section 5059; 1920 (31) 742; 1935 (39) 25.
SC Code § 58-21-250 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways|Section 58-21-250. Electric railway companies shall affix enclosed vestibules to cars in certain months.

 Electric railway companies shall affix to their cars or coaches enclosed vestibules of wood, iron or glass and maintain side doors on such vestibules for the protection of motormen and passengers during the months of December, January, February and March. The failure of any such company to comply with the provisions of this section subjects it to a penalty of ten dollars per day, to be recovered by any citizen in the city or town in which such company does business, one fourth thereof to go to the person bringing suit to enforce the law and the remaining three fourths for the benefit of the State.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1315; 1952 Code Section 58-1315; 1942 Code Section 8480; 1932 Code Section 8480; Civ. C. '22 Section 5039; Civ. C. '12 Section 3949; 1902 (23) 1057; 1904 (24) 423; 1909 (26) 120; 1910 (26) 565; 1914 (28) 461.
SC Code § 58-21-260 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways|Section 58-21-260. Interurban railways shall affix enclosed vestibules in November.

 All interurban railroads operating in this State shall affix to their cars or coaches enclosed vestibules of wood, iron or glass for the protection of motormen and passengers during the month of November also. The failure of any such company to comply with the provisions of this section shall subject it to a penalty of ten dollars per day for each car operated by such company without such vestibule affixed, to be recovered by any citizen of any county in which such company does business, one fourth thereof to go to the person bringing the suit to enforce the law and the remaining three fourths for the benefit of the county. In the construction of this section the phrase "interurban railroad" shall be construed to include all railroads and railways operated by electricity whose main business consists in the transportation of passengers from one municipality to another.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1316; 1952 Code Section 58-1316; 1942 Code Sections 8482, 8483; 1932 Code Sections 8482, 8483; Civ. C. '22 Sections 5041, 5042; Civ. C. '12 Sections 3951, 3952; 1910 (26) 761.
SC Code § 58-21-270 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways|Section 58-21-270. Electric street railway cars shall have fenders.

 Every electric street railway company shall have attached to its cars or coaches good and sufficient fenders and, failing to do so, shall be subject to the same penalty as provided in Section 58-21-250.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1317; 1952 Code Section 58-1317; 1942 Code Section 8481; 1932 Code Section 8481; Civ. C. '22 Section 5040; Civ. C. '12 Section 3950; 1910 (26) 566.
SC Code § 58-21-280 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways|Section 58-21-280. Electric street railway companies shall heat cars.

 All electric street railway companies doing business in this State shall provide and furnish all their streetcars or electric cars with sufficient heat for all passengers and employees. Any streetcar company violating the provisions of this section shall be liable to a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1318; 1952 Code Section 58-1318; 1942 Code Sections 8484, 8485; 1932 Code Sections 8484, 8485; Civ. C. '22 Sections 5043, 5044; Cr. C. '22 Section 302; 1914 (28) 594; 1918 (30) 822.
SC Code § 58-21-290 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways|Section 58-21-290. Certain interurban railways shall heat cars.

 All interurban railroads operating within this State shall furnish their cars, and the vestibule portions of their cars, for the carriage of passengers with heating apparatus or appliances necessary to the comfort of all passengers and operators using them. But this section shall not apply to any railway whose direct line is more than fifty miles long. Any interurban railroad failing or refusing to comply with the provisions of this section shall be subject to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars for each day of such failure or refusal, to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction. Such fine shall be paid into the county treasury of the county in which the action or suit is brought, to be applied to the public school fund of such county. The term "interurban railroads" as used in this section shall have the same meaning as is provided in Section 58-21-260.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1319; 1952 Code Section 58-1319; 1942 Code Sections 8486, 8487, 8488; 1932 Code Sections 8486, 8487, 8488; Civ. C. '22 Sections 5045, 5046, 5047; Cr. C. '22 Section 303; 1918 (30) 725; 1919 (31) 216.
SC Code § 58-21-300 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways|Section 58-21-300. Notice of transfer points.

 Upon the approach to a transfer point by an electric car carrying passengers therefor the conductor shall announce the approach to such transfer point before arrival and again upon arrival at such point, together with such other information as may advise passengers of the destination of connecting cars.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1321; 1952 Code Section 58-1321; 1942 Code Section 8499; 1932 Code Section 8499; Civ. C. '22 Section 5057; 1920 (31) 742.
SC Code § 58-21-310 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways|Section 58-21-310. Electric cars shall not be delayed to check fares.

 No electric car shall be held at any point for checking up passengers or any other method used that will necessitate such holding to determine whether fares have been registered or otherwise accounted for.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1322; 1952 Code Section 58-1322; 1942 Code Section 8500; 1932 Code Section 8500; Civ. C. '22 Section 5058; 1920 (31) 742.
SC Code § 58-21-320 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways|Section 58-21-320. Certain employees of electric railways shall have powers of peace officers.

 Conductors and other employees of electric railways while in charge of the cars of such railway are hereby invested with the powers of peace officers and authorized to make arrests as in the case of conductors of steam railroads.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1323; 1952 Code Section 58-1323; 1942 Code Sections 1270, 8420; 1932 Code Sections 1270, 1701, 8420; Civ. C. '22 Section 4968; Cr. C. '22 Sections 165, 647; Civ. C. '12 Section 3273; Cr. C. '12 Sections 316, 672; Civ. C. '02 Section 2173; Cr. C. '02 Section 482; G. S. 1516; R. S. 1717; 1898 (22) 776; 1905 (24) 954.
SC Code § 58-23-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 23 - Motor Vehicle Carriers|Section 58-23-10. Definitions.

 As used in Articles 1 to 11 of this chapter:  (1) The term "corporation" means a corporation, company, association or joint stock association;  (2) The term "person" means an individual, a firm or a copartnership;  (3) The term "Commission" means the Public Service Commission;  (4) The term "motor vehicle carrier" means every corporation or person, their lessees, trustees or receivers, owning, controlling, operating or managing any motor propelled vehicle, not usually operated on or over rails, used in the business of transporting persons or property for compensation over any improved public highway in this State;  (5) The term "trailer" means a vehicle equipped to carry a load and which is attached to and drawn by a motor vehicle and trailers shall be classed as motor vehicles and subject to the provisions of Articles 1 to 11 of this chapter; and  (6) The term "improved public highway" means every improved public highway in this State which is or may hereafter be declared to be a part of the State Highway System or any county highway system or a street of any city or town.  (7) The term "ridesharing" means an arrangement for the transportation of not more than fifteen persons on a nonprofit basis utilizing a motor vehicle of which operating costs and a reasonable depreciation cost for such vehicle are paid principally by those people utilizing such arrangement.  (8) The term "regulatory staff" means the executive director or the executive director and employees of the Office of Regulatory Staff.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1401; 1952 Code Section 58-1401; 1942 Code Section 8507; 1932 Code Section 8507; 1925 (34) 252; 1928 (35) 1238; 1935 (39) 25; 1979 Act No. 152 Section 2, eff July 6, 1979; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 143, eff May 24, 2006.
SC Code § 58-23-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 23 - Motor Vehicle Carriers|Section 58-23-20. Transportation by motor vehicle for compensation regulated.

 No corporation or person, his lessees, trustees, or receivers may operate a motor vehicle for the transportation of persons or property for compensation on an improved public highway in this State except in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, except where the use of a motor vehicle is incidental only to the operation, and any such operation is subject to control, supervision, and regulation by the commission in the manner provided by this chapter. The commission may not fix or approve the rates, fares, or charges for buses. Provided, however, nothing herein shall affect the commission's jurisdiction to regulate street railway service or any successor to street railway service under Chapter 5 of Title 58.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1402; 1952 Code Section 58-1402; 1942 Code Section 8508; 1932 Code Section 8508; 1925 (34) 252; 1930 (36) 1327; 1989 Act No. 184, Section 5, eff June 8, 1989.
SC Code § 58-23-25 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 23 - Motor Vehicle Carriers|Section 58-23-25. Public Service Commission's motor carrier regulatory authority, defined.

 Nothing in this chapter, unless specifically provided, must be construed as granting authority to the Public Service Commission to regulate, approve, fix, or charge a fee on a matter of rates, prices, changes, routes, or services of a motor vehicle carrier of property, including private carriers, except certificate carriers of household goods or hazardous wastes for disposal.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 145, Part II, Section 51A, eff June 29, 1995.
SC Code § 58-23-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 23 - Motor Vehicle Carriers|Section 58-23-30. "For compensation" defined.

 "For compensation" as used in Section 58-23-20 means a return in money or property for transportation of persons or property by motor vehicle over public highways, whether paid, received or realized, and shall specifically include any profit realized on the delivered price of cargo where title or ownership is temporarily vested during transit in the carrier as a subterfuge for the purpose of avoiding regulation under this chapter. Where the profit is equal to or less than the regularly established rate applicable to the transportation of property by common carriers authorized by law to transport property for compensation, such scheme or device shall be presumed to be a subterfuge for the purpose of avoiding regulation under this chapter for those other than certificated carriers within their operating authority; provided, however, nothing herein shall prohibit the vendor from delivering any purchased property to the vendee.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1402.1; 1972 (57) 2327.
SC Code § 58-23-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 23 - Motor Vehicle Carriers|Section 58-23-40. Certificate and fee requirements.

 A motor vehicle carrier shall obtain a certificate from the Office of Regulatory Staff, pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 of this chapter and pay the license fee required pursuant to Article 5 of this chapter before the motor vehicle carrier may: (1) transport persons or property for compensation on any improved public highway in this State; or (2) advertise as an operator for the transportation of persons or property for compensation on any improved public highway in this State.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1403; 1952 Code Section 58-1403; 1942 Code Section 8509; 1932 Code Section 8509; 1925 (34) 252; 1930 (36) 1068; 1933 (38) 429; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 144, eff May 24, 2006; 2006 Act No. 393, Section 1, eff June 14, 2006.
SC Code § 58-23-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 23 - Motor Vehicle Carriers|Section 58-23-50. Chapter not applicable to transportation for certain purposes.

 (A) Articles 1 to 11 of this chapter do not apply to:  (1) motor vehicles used exclusively for transporting persons to and from schools, Sunday Schools, churches, or religious services, or to or from picnics or upon special prearranged excursions;  (2) the United States mail carriers operating star routes, while engaged solely in carrying mail;  (3) farmers or dairymen hauling dairy or farm products;  (4) persons transporting agricultural livestock and poultry feeds, including ingredients;  (5) other persons engaged in hauling perishable products of the farm or dairy products for hire from the farm to the first market when sold in South Carolina;  (6) lumber haulers engaged in transporting lumber from the forest to shipping points in this State;  (7) haulers engaged in transporting logs, chips, or wood residues which are subject to the South Carolina Unmanufactured Forest Products Trucking Regulations which are promulgated and adopted by the Department of Public Safety's Transport Police Division;  (8) a vehicle engaged in hauling, towing, or transporting wrecked or damaged vehicles;  (9) vehicles used in ridesharing;  (10) single-source lessors of vehicles and drivers who lease the motor vehicles and drivers to uncertificated motor vehicle carriers that conduct transportation of property (other than used household goods) in furtherance of and within the scope of their nontransportation primary enterprises, when the period of the lease is for thirty days or more, the lessee maintains insurance coverage for the protection of the public, a copy of the lease is carried in the motor vehicle during the period of the lease, and there is displayed on both sides of the motor vehicle a placard identifying the lessee.  (B) For the purposes of this section, perishable products of the farm include hay and straw.  (C) Articles 1 to 11 of this chapter also do not apply to Transportation Network Companies and Transportation Network Company Drivers.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1404; 1952 Code Section 58-1404; 1942 Code Section 8508; 1932 Code Section 8508; 1925 (34) 252; 1930 (36) 1327; 1956 (49) 2020; 1957 (50) 551; 1962 (52) 1911; 1978 Act No. 490, eff May 5, 1978; 1979 Act No. 152 Section 3, eff July 6, 1979; 1983 Act No. 138 Section 13, eff June 15, 1983; 1985 Act No. 112, Section 1, eff May 24, 1985; 1996 Act No. 425, Section 6, eff January 1, 1996; 2015 Act No. 88 (H.3525), Section 3, eff June 24, 2015.  Effect of Amendment  2015 Act No. 88, Section 3, added (C).
SC Code § 58-23-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 23 - Motor Vehicle Carriers|Section 58-23-60. Chapter not applicable to business within certain areas.

 Nothing in Articles 1 to 11 of this chapter applies to motor vehicles:  (1) carrying on the business of transporting passengers or property within the limits of a municipality in this state;  (2) transporting passengers to or from state institutions located in Richland County;  (3) transporting passengers within a distance of ten miles from the limits of municipalities in Chester and Lancaster counties when substantially all of the passengers are workers in industrial plants, eighty percent of the production of which is for defense materials;  (4) having a seating capacity of twenty or more passengers which are operated within ten miles from the limits of a municipality with a population of seventy thousand or more inhabitants, according to the United States Census for 1940, by an electric utility company which regularly provides transportation service within the municipality itself. This item does not permit the substantial duplication of a franchise or license in effect at the time service is undertaken by the electric utility company; or  (5) used by a county to transport passengers or property.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1501; 1952 Code Section 58-1501; 1942 Code Sections 8510, 8522; 1932 Code Sections 8510, 8522; 1925 (34) 252; 1930 (36) 1068; 1935 (39) 349; 1939 (41) 376; 1942 (42) 1478; 1943 (43) 262; 1944 (43) 1270; 1983 Act No. 138 Section 12, eff June 15, 1983; 1990 Act No. 487, Section 1, eff May 29, 1990.
SC Code § 58-23-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 23 - Motor Vehicle Carriers|Section 58-23-70. Chapter not applicable to occasional trip.

 Nothing contained in Articles 1 to 11 of this chapter shall be construed to prevent the use or hiring of any motor vehicle for the purpose of making some particular trip when the owner of such vehicle does not make such transportation a business.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1405; 1952 Code Section 58-1405; 1942 Code Section 8522; 1932 Code Section 8522; 1925 (34) 252; 1935 (39) 349; 1939 (41) 376.
SC Code § 58-23-100 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 23 - Motor Vehicle Carriers|Section 58-23-100. Transfer of property pending suit shall be invalid.

 During the pendency of an action for damage against the holder of a certificate issued pursuant to Article 3 of this chapter any transfer of the property of such certificate holder shall be held to be invalid.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1472; 1952 Code Section 58-1472; 1942 Code Section 8524; 1932 Code Section 8524; 1925 (34) 252.
SC Code § 58-23-110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 23 - Motor Vehicle Carriers|Section 58-23-110. Motor carrier transportation contracts; definition; hold harmless provisions; exception.

 (A) Notwithstanding another provision of law, a provision, clause, covenant, or agreement contained in, collateral to, or affecting a motor carrier transportation contract that purports to indemnify, defend, or hold harmless, or has the effect of indemnifying, defending, or holding harmless, the contract's promisee from or against any liability for loss or damage resulting from the negligence or intentional acts or omissions of the contract's promisee, or any agents, employees, servants, or independent contractors who are directly responsible to the contract's promisee, is against the public policy of this State and is unenforceable.  (B) As used in this section "motor carrier transportation contract" means a contract, agreement, or understanding covering:  (1) the transportation of property for compensation or hire by the motor carrier;  (2) the entrance on property by the motor carrier for the purpose of loading, unloading, or transporting property for compensation or for hire; or  (3) a service incidental to activity described in items (1) or (2) including, but not limited to, storage of property.  (C) Nothing contained in this section affects a provision, clause, covenant, or agreement where the motor carrier indemnifies or holds harmless the contract's promisee against liability for damages to the extent that the damages were caused by and resulting from the negligence of the motor carrier, its agents, employees, servants, or independent contractors who are directly responsible to the motor carrier.  (D) Notwithstanding the other provisions contained in this section, a " motor carrier transportation contract" shall not include the Uniform Intermodal Interchange and Facilities Access Agreement administered by the Intermodal Association of North America, as that agreement may be amended by the Intermodal Interchange Executive Committee.  HISTORY: 2005 Act No. 35, Section 1, eff upon approval (became law without the Governor's signature on April 19, 2005).