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SC Code § 58-17-4060 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law|Section 58-17-4060. Common carriers shall not interfere with contracts of shipment.

 If any person shall have contracted to deliver to any other person within this State certain commodities, no common carrier doing business in this State over whose road such commodities would be transported before delivery to the consignee shall interfere with the fulfillment of such contract between such shipper of freight and the proposed consignee, nor undertake to control or direct, or in any wise interfere with, the shipment of such commodities by the person who has contracted so to ship the same. To this end no common carrier doing business in this State over whose road such commodities would pass in transportation before delivery to the consignee in this State, when furnishing cars to the shippers thereof, may designate to what consignees freight loaded in such cars shall be consigned or in any way interfere with or seek to control the use of such cars by the shipper in making shipment to such consignee as he may desire to ship to or be under contract to ship to.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1262; 1952 Code Section 58-1262; 1942 Code Section 8317; 1932 Code Section 8317; Civ. C. '22 Section 4864; Civ. C. '12 Section 3185; 1906 (25) 107.
SC Code § 58-17-4070 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law|Section 58-17-4070. Liability of common carriers interfering with contracts of shipment.

 Any common carrier violating the provisions of Section 58-17-4060 shall be liable to such damages, including special and punitive damages, as may be found in an action maintained in the courts of this State. Any shipper or proposed consignee bringing suit for violation of the terms of Section 58-17-4060 may include in the same action actual damages sustained by him through such act of the common carrier as well as any special damages and may also recover in the same action such punitive damages as may be allowed to him.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1263; 1952 Code Section 58-1263; 1942 Code Section 8318; 1932 Code Section 8318; Civ. C. '22 Section 4865; Civ. C. '12 Section 3186; 1906 (25) 107.
SC Code § 58-17-4080 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law|Section 58-17-4080. Penalty and damages for obstruction of highway by railroad car, locomotive or other object.

 If any person, including any conductor of any train of railroad cars or any other agent or servant of any railroad company, shall obstruct unnecessarily any public road or highway by permitting any railroad car or locomotive to be or remain upon or across any street, public road or highway for a longer period than five minutes, after notice to remove such cars has been given to the conductor, engineer, agent or other such person in charge of such train or shall permit any timber, wood or other obstruction to remain upon or across any such street, road or highway to the hindrance or inconvenience of travelers or any person passing along or upon such street, road or highway, every such person so offending shall forfeit and pay for every such offense any sum not exceeding twenty nor less than five dollars and shall be liable for all damages arising to any highway, to be recovered by an action at the suit of the governing body of the county in which such offense shall have been committed or any person suing therefor, before any magistrate within the county in which such offense shall have been committed or by indictment in the court of general sessions or suit in the court of common pleas. All fines so accruing under the provisions of this section, when collected, shall be paid over by the magistrate to the county treasurer for the district in which such offense was committed. Every twenty-four hours such person, after being notified, shall suffer such obstructions to the hindrance or inconvenience of travelers or any person going along or upon such road or highway to continue shall be deemed an additional offense against the provisions of this section.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1264; 1952 Code Section 58-1264; 1942 Code Section 1674; 1932 Code Section 1674; Cr. C. '22 Section 621; Cr. C. '12 Section 648; 1902 (23) 1007.
SC Code § 58-17-4090 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law|Section 58-17-4090. Penalty for obstruction of railroad.

 If any person shall by himself or others place, or cause to be placed, on the track or other part of the passageway of any railroad on which steam engines, diesel engines or any other type engines or handcars are used any timber, stone or other obstruction, with intent to injure or impede the passage of any cars or means of conveyance, or shall in any manner obstruct any engine or car passing upon any railroad on which steam engines, diesel engines or any other type engines or handcars are used or endanger the safety of persons conveyed in or upon such railroads or assist therein, such person shall be guilty of a felony and, on being thereof convicted by due course of law, shall be punished by imprisonment in the Penitentiary for not less than one nor more than thirty years and fined in the discretion of the court, except when the death of some human being results from such impediment and in that case the offender shall be adjudged guilty of murder and shall suffer death.  Nothing in this section shall in any manner take away any right of action for damages for injuries to the person or property of any person or body corporate caused by any injury, obstruction or damage done to any railroad or its buildings, tracks or constructions.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1265; 1952 Code Section 58-1265; 1942 Code Sections 1104, 1115, 1116; 1932 Code Sections 1104, 1115, 1116; Cr. C. '22 Sections 4, 13, 14; Cr. C. '12 Sections 138, 151, 152; Cr. C. '02 Sections 111, 123, 124; G. S. 1520, 2456, 2467; R. S. 111, 123, 124; 1879 (18) 101; 1882 (18) 109; 1960 (51) 1602; 1961 (52) 496.
SC Code § 58-17-4095 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law|Section 58-17-4095. Parking or operating vehicle on railroad right-of-way prohibited; exceptions; penalty.

 (A) No person may park or operate a vehicle on a railroad right-of-way where there are existing tracks unless the person:  (1) is an employee of the railroad which owns the right-of-way in the performance of his duties;  (2) has authority from the railroad which owns the right-of-way;  (3) is using a public or private roadway which crosses over the railroad at an established grade crossing;  (4) is acting in an official capacity with the military, police force, a fire fighting organization, or some similar public authority and must enter onto the railroad right-of-way to carry out his or her responsibilities; or  (5) is an employee of a public utility or telecommunications carrier, or of the forestry industry, and must enter onto the railroad right-of-way to carry out his responsibilities.  (B) For the purposes of this section, the term "vehicle" includes all standard vehicles normally operated on roadways, such as automobiles, trucks, vans, and motorcycles, and all off-road vehicles. Off-road vehicles include, but are not limited to, four-wheel drive or low-pressure tire vehicles, two or three wheel vehicles, amphibious machines, and ground-effect or air-cushioned vehicles.  (C) A person violating the provisions of this section, upon conviction, shall pay a fine of not more than two hundred dollars or serve a term of imprisonment for not more than thirty days.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 542, eff May 17, 1988.
SC Code § 58-17-4096 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law|Section 58-17-4096. Trespassing upon railroad tracks.

 (A) It is unlawful, without proper authority, for a person to trespass upon railroad tracks.  (B) A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 458, Part II, Section 87, eff June 19, 1996.
SC Code § 58-17-4100 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law|Section 58-17-4100. Penalty for shooting or throwing at trains.

 A person who wilfully discharges any kind of firearms or throws any kind of missile at or into the engine or any car of a train is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than five years.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1266; 1952 Code Section 58-1266; 1942 Code Section 1199-1; 1932 Code Section 1709; Cr. C. '22 Section 655; Cr. C. '12 Section 680; Cr. C. '02 Section 484; R. S. 1734a; 1898 (22) 776; 1993 Act No. 184, Section 86, eff January 1, 1994.
SC Code § 58-17-4110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law|Section 58-17-4110. Penalty for loitering in or about station houses.

 Whoever, without right, loiters or remains within any station house of a railroad corporation or upon the platform or grounds adjacent to such station, after being requested to leave the same by any authorized railroad officer or employee, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction thereof, shall pay a fine of not more than fifty dollars or be confined in the county jail or required to work on the chain gang for not more than thirty days.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1267; 1952 Code Section 58-1267; 1942 Code Section 8413-1; 1932 Code Section 1704; Cr. C. '22 Section 650; Cr. C. '12 Section 675; Cr. C. '02 Section 481; G. S. 1515; R. S. 1731; 1881 (17) 832; 1898 (22) 776.
SC Code § 58-17-4120 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law|Section 58-17-4120. Certain persons shall be deemed agents of railroad corporation.

 Any person occupying an office or room in any railway station and attending to and transacting therein the business of any railroad under the charter of such railroad shall be deemed the agent of such corporation, notwithstanding he may claim to be the agent of some other person or corporation claiming to operate such railroad by virtue of any lease, contract or agreement. A bill of lading, receipt, agreement or contract signed or entered into by any such person as agent of any such person or corporation operating such railroad shall be deemed the contract of the corporation under the charter of which the railroad is authorized.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1268; 1952 Code Section 58-1268; 1942 Code Section 8256; 1932 Code Section 8201; Civ. C. '22 Section 4765; Civ. C. '12 Section 3100; Civ. C. '02 Section 2026; 1883 (18) 437.
SC Code § 58-17-4130 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law|Section 58-17-4130. Liabilities of corporation operating road of another and of trustees and receivers.

 When a railroad laid out and constructed by one corporation is lawfully maintained and operated by another corporation, the latter shall be subject to the duties, liabilities, restrictions and other provisions as they are set forth in the General Railroad Law respecting or arising from the maintenance and operation of such railroad in the same manner as if it had been laid out and constructed by the latter corporation. When a railroad is lawfully maintained and operated by trustees or receivers they shall in like manner be subject to the duties, liabilities, restrictions and other provisions respecting or arising from the maintenance and operation of such railroad which are attached in the General Railroad Law to the corporation for whose stockholders or creditors, or either, they are trustees or receivers.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1269; 1952 Code Section 58-1269; 1942 Code Section 8255; 1932 Code Section 8200; Civ. C. '22 Section 4764; Civ. C. '12 Section 3099; Civ. C. '02 Section 2025; G. S. 1415; R. S. 1598.
SC Code § 58-17-4140 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law|Section 58-17-4140. Collection of fines and penalties.

 All fines or forfeitures provided for or prescribed in the General Railroad Law must, unless otherwise expressly provided, be collected by an action to be brought in the name of the State against the offending person or corporation in any court of competent jurisdiction by the Office of Regulatory Staff or the solicitor of the circuit in which the offense is in whole or in part committed.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1270; 1952 Code Section 58-1270; 1942 Code Section 8458; 1932 Code Section 8475; Civ. C. '22 Section 5011; Civ. C. '12 Section 3313; Civ. C. '02 Section 2207; G. S. 1542; R. S. 1740; 1881 (17) 839; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 141, eff May 24, 2006.
SC Code § 58-17-4150 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law|Section 58-17-4150. Persons against whom judgments shall be rendered.

 Any judgment under the provisions of this chapter shall be rendered against the person violating its provisions and against the corporation in whose service or under whose authority he performed such unlawful acts.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1271; 1952 Code Section 58-1271; 1942 Code Section 8456; 1932 Code Section 8473; Civ. C. '22 Section 5009; Civ. C. '12 Section 3311; Civ. C. '02 Section 2205; G. S. 1539; R. S. 1738; 1882 (18) 18.
SC Code § 58-17-4160 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law|Section 58-17-4160. Procedure for attachment of cars and engines which are in use.

 Whenever railroad cars and engines are in use on railroads and making regular passage thereon, they shall not be attached upon mesne process in any suit within forty-eight hours previous to their fixed time of departure unless the officer making such attachment shall have first demanded of the owners or managers of such engines or cars, or any of the agents of such railroad, other property equal in value to the ad damnum in the writ upon which to make such attachment and such owners or managers shall have refused or neglected to comply with such demand. And any officer making such attachment shall, on his return upon the process upon which it is made, certify that he has made such demand for such other property and that such demand has been refused or neglected; otherwise such attachment shall be wholly void.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1272; 1952 Code Section 58-1272; 1942 Code Section 8428; 1932 Code Section 8428; Civ. C. '22 Section 4976; Civ. C. '12 Section 3278; Civ. C. '02 Section 2178; G. S. 1524; R. S. 1722; 1881 (17) 834.
SC Code § 58-17-4170 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law|Section 58-17-4170. Forfeiture of charter for repeated violations of law.

 Whenever a railroad corporation of this State has repeatedly and wilfully violated any of the provisions of this chapter, and has been found guilty or judgment had against it within this State of the violation more than once or penalties have been recovered in penal actions for the violations more than once, the commission may, if it thinks it consistent with the public interest, instruct the Office of Regulatory Staff to proceed against the corporation, in any court of competent jurisdiction, by an information in the nature of a quo warranto, alleging such convictions or recoveries as cause of forfeiture of its charter of incorporation and upon proof of such facts there shall be judgment of ouster and final execution as in other cases of proceedings by quo warranto.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1273; 1952 Code Section 58-1273; 1942 Code Section 8460; 1932 Code Section 8477; Civ. C. '22 Section 5013; Civ. C. '12 Section 3315; Civ. C. '02 Section 2209; G. S. 1546; R. S. 1742; 1881 (17) 841; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 142, eff May 24, 2006.
SC Code § 58-17-4180 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law|Section 58-17-4180. Request or advice of Commission shall not impair legal duties of railroad.

 No request or advice of the Commission shall impair, in any manner or degree, the legal duties and obligations of any railroad corporation or its liability for the consequence of its acts or of the neglect or mismanagement of any of its agents or servants.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1274; 1952 Code Section 58-1274; 1942 Code Section 8292-18; 1932 Code Section 8277; Civ. C. '22 Section 4825; Civ. C. '12 Section 3151; Civ. C. '02 Section 2073; G. S. 1461; R. S. 1636; 1881 (17) 819; 1935 (39) 25.
SC Code § 58-17-4190 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law|Section 58-17-4190. Chapter shall not affect rights of persons injured to action for private damages.

 This chapter shall not be so construed as to affect the right of any person injured by the violation of any law in regard to railroad corporations from prosecuting or proceeding for his private damages in any manner allowed by law.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1275; 1952 Code Section 58-1275; 1942 Code Section 8459; 1932 Code Section 8476; Civ. C. '22 Section 5012; Civ. C. '12 Section 3314; Civ. C. '02 Section 2208; G. S. 1543; R. S. 1741; 1881 (17) 839.
SC Code § 58-21-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways|Section 58-21-10. Commission shall have jurisdiction over interurban railroads.

 All authority, power, and duties conferred by law upon the commission as to steam railways, express and telegraph lines in this State, steamboat lines, and truck lines doing business as common carriers within this State are extended and conferred upon the commission as to all interurban railways, whether steam, electricity, or other power is used by them and whether or not the roads are partly without the corporate limits of towns or cities. The commission may not fix or approve the rates, fares, or charges for interurban railways.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1301; 1952 Code Section 58-1301; 1942 Code Section 8220; 1932 Code Section 8263; Civ. C. '22 Section 4812; 1913 (28) 179; 1917 (30) 162; 1920 (31) 722; 1935 (39) 25; 1989 Act No. 184, Section 4, eff June 8, 1989.
SC Code § 58-21-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways|Section 58-21-20. Powers of street railway corporations to produce and supply light, power and heat.

 Any street railway corporation organized under the provisions of Chapter 15 of this Title or the charter of which may be amended hereunder, shall be authorized and empowered, upon proper application therefor, to make, produce, generate and supply light, power and heat by the means of electricity and gas, or either of them, both for its corporate purposes and for sale to the public, subject to the restrictions and limitations that may be imposed by the municipalities in which it may seek to do business.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1302; 1952 Code Section 58-1302; 1942 Code Section 8186; 1932 Code Section 8186; Civ. C. '22 Section 4366; Civ. C. '12 Section 2880; Civ. C. '02 Section 1924; 1909 (26) 45.
SC Code § 58-21-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways|Section 58-21-30. Lease of property of one electric railway company to another.

 Any electric railway company organized under the laws of this State may lease its property and franchises to any other electric railway 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 58-1303; 1952 Code Section 58-1303; 1942 Code Section 8187; 1932 Code Section 8187; Civ. C. '22 Section 4367; Civ. C. '12 Section 2881; 1908 (25) 1090.
SC Code § 58-21-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways|Section 58-21-40. Rights and remedies of injured employees of street railways.

 Every employee of any street railway doing business in this State shall have the same rights and remedies for an injury suffered by him from the acts of omission of such corporation or any of its employees as are provided by the Constitution for employees of railroad corporations.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1304; 1952 Code Section 58-1304; 1942 Code Sections 6623, 8479; 1932 Code Sections 6623, 8479; Civ. C. '22 Sections 3533, 5038; Civ. C. '12 Sections 2440, 3948; Civ. C. '02 Section 2848; 1901 (23) 716.
SC Code § 58-21-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways|Section 58-21-50. Penalties.

 Any person owning and operating an electric railway or electric cars carrying passengers shall, for failure to perform any duty prescribed in Sections 58-21-210, 58-21-220, 58-21-240, 58-21-300, or 58-21-310, be liable to a penalty of two hundred and fifty dollars per day for each day during which such nonperformance shall happen or continue and any person feeling aggrieved by the violation of any of such provisions by any corporation or who may ascertain that such violation exists may bring an action at law or in equity to enforce any such provisions and shall, upon collection of the penalty herein provided for, be entitled to such part thereof as may be sufficient to defray the actual expenses of the action at law, such amount to be fixed by the presiding judge, the balance to be turned into the county treasury for county purposes. Such action may be brought in any county wherein any such violation of any of such provisions occurs and when so brought shall not be merged or destroyed by any action thereafter brought by the Attorney General. But only one penalty shall be imposed for any one violation of any of such provisions.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1305; 1952 Code Section 58-1305; 1942 Code Section 8505; 1932 Code Section 8505; Civ. C. '22 Section 5063; 1920 (31) 742.
SC Code § 58-21-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways|Section 58-21-60. Certain statutory provisions inapplicable to lines of more than fifty miles.

 None of the provisions of Sections 58-21-210, 58-21-220, 58-21-240, 58-21-300, or 58-21-310, shall apply to electric interurban railways operating more than fifty miles in length.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1306; 1952 Code Section 58-1306; 1942 Code Section 8505; 1932 Code Section 8505; Civ. C. '22 Section 5063; 1920 (31) 742.