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SC Code § 56-10-530 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 10 - Motor Vehicle Registration And Financial Security|Section 56-10-530. Involvement in accident resulting in death, injury, or property damage when uninsured motor vehicle fee unpaid; suspension of driver's license, license plates and registration certificates; contested case hearing.

 When it appears to the director from the records of his office that an uninsured motor vehicle as defined in Section 56-9-20, subject to registration in the State, is involved in a reportable accident in the State resulting in death, injury, or property damage with respect to which motor vehicle the owner thereof has not paid the uninsured motor vehicle fee as prescribed in Section 56-10-510, the director shall, in addition to enforcing the applicable provisions of Section 56-10-10, et seq. of this chapter, suspend such owner's driver's license and all of his license plates and registration certificates until such person has complied with those provisions of law and has paid to the director of the Department of Motor Vehicles a reinstatement fee as provided by Section 56-10-510, to be disposed of as provided by Section 56-10-550, with respect to the motor vehicle involved in the accident and furnishes proof of future financial responsibility in the manner prescribed in Section 56-9-350, et seq. However, no order of suspension required by this section must become effective until the director has offered the person an opportunity for a contested case hearing before the Office of Motor Vehicle Hearings to show cause why the order should not be enforced. Notice of the opportunity for a contested case hearing must be included in the order of suspension. Notice of such suspension shall be made in the form provided for in Section 56-1-465. However, when three years have elapsed from the effective date of the suspension herein required, the director may relieve such person of the requirement of furnishing proof of future financial responsibility. The presentation by a person subject to the provisions of this section of a certificate of insurance, executed by an agent or representative of an insurance company qualified to do business in this State, showing that on the date and at the time of the accident the vehicle was an insured motor vehicle as herein defined or, presentation by such person of evidence that the additional fee applicable to the registration of an uninsured motor vehicle had been paid to the department before the date and time of the accident, is sufficient bar to the suspension provided for in this section.  HISTORY: 1997 Act No. 154, Section 2; 2008 Act No. 279, Section 11, eff October 1, 2008.
SC Code § 56-10-535 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 10 - Motor Vehicle Registration And Financial Security|Section 56-10-535. Conviction of certain traffic violations; requirement of furnishing proof of financial responsibility.

 The director, upon receiving notice at the time of application or at any time during participation in the fund that a titled owner of a motor vehicle has been convicted of one of the following violations: disobedience of any official traffic device; failure to stop for law enforcement officer when signaled; disobedience to any officer directing traffic; failure to stop for a school bus; leaving the scene of an accident where injury to a person or damage to property results; theft or unlawful taking of a vehicle; racing on public highways; driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor or narcotic drugs or where injury to a person of over six hundred dollars per person or damage to property of the insured or other person of over one thousand dollars results; reckless driving where injury to a person of over six hundred dollars per person or damage to property of the insured or other person of over one thousand dollars results, homicide or assault arising out of the operation of a motor vehicle; any felony involving the use of a motor vehicle; the transporting of illegal whiskey or unlawful drugs or other controlled or narcotic substances; reckless homicide; wilful making of false statements in the application for license or registration; impersonating an applicant for license or registration or procuring a license or registration through impersonation whether for himself or another; any three or more moving traffic convictions; any two or more accidents for which the owner is responsible and where injury to a person of over six hundred dollars per person or damage to property of the insured or other persons of over one thousand dollars results, or if any household driver has been licensed for less than three years; then the director shall require the owner to furnish proof of financial responsibility in the manner prescribed by the director.  However, when three years have elapsed from the effective date of any conviction for the above offenses, the director may relieve such person of the requirement of furnishing proof of future financial responsibility.  HISTORY: 1997 Act No. 154, Section 2.
SC Code § 56-10-540 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 10 - Motor Vehicle Registration And Financial Security|Section 56-10-540. Other proof of financial responsibility; suspension and return of driver's license, registration, certificates, and license plates and decals.

 Whenever any proof of financial responsibility filed by any person as required by this chapter no longer fulfills the purpose for which required, the director shall require other proof of financial responsibility as required by this chapter and shall suspend such person's driver's license, registration, certificates, and license plates and decals pending the furnishing of proof in a manner prescribed by the director. Notice of such suspension shall be made in the form provided for in Section 56-1-465.  A person whose driver's license or registration certificates, or license plates and decals have been suspended as provided in this chapter and have not been reinstated shall immediately return every such license, registration certificate, and set of license plates and decals held by him to the director. A person failing to comply with this requirement shall be guilty of a traffic infraction and, upon conviction, shall be punished as provided in Section 56-9-310, et seq.  HISTORY: 1997 Act No. 154, Section 2.
SC Code § 56-10-550 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 10 - Motor Vehicle Registration And Financial Security|Section 56-10-550. Deposit of funds collected in Uninsured Motorists Fund.

 Except as provided in Sections 56-10-552 and 56-10-554, funds collected by the director of the Department of Motor Vehicles under the provisions of this chapter must be placed on deposit with the State Treasurer and held in a special fund to be known as the "Uninsured Motorists Fund" to be disbursed as provided by law. The director of the Department of Insurance as provided in Sections 38-77-151 and 38-77-154 may expend monies from such funds for the administration of Title 38.  HISTORY: 1997 Act No. 154, Section 2.
SC Code § 56-10-551 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 10 - Motor Vehicle Registration And Financial Security|Section 56-10-551. Cancellation or termination of insurance policy certified under this chapter; notice to director.

 When any insurance policy certified under this chapter is canceled or terminated, the insurer shall report the fact to the director within fifteen days after the cancellation on a form prescribed by the director.  HISTORY: 1997 Act No. 154, Section 2.
SC Code § 56-10-552 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 10 - Motor Vehicle Registration And Financial Security|Section 56-10-552. Uninsured Enforcement Fund; use of reinstatement fee.

 (A) For each two dollars of the yearly premium for uninsured motorist coverage paid to the Department of Motor Vehicles pursuant to Section 38-73-470, one dollar and twenty cents must be placed by the Comptroller General into the State Highway Fund as established by Section 57-11-20, to be distributed as provided in Section 11-43-167. The remaining eighty cents must be placed in a special fund, to be known as the "Uninsured Enforcement Fund", to be used by the Department of Public Safety for the purpose of enforcement and administration of Article 3, Chapter 10, Title 56.  (B) Fifty percent of the reinstatement fee as provided by Section 56-10-510(1) must be transferred by the Department of Public Safety and recorded to the Uninsured Enforcement Fund to be used by the Department of Public Safety as provided by subsection (A) of this section. The remaining fifty percent of the reinstatement fee as provided by Section 56-10-510 must be retained in the Uninsured Motorist Fund to be used as provided in Sections 56-10-550, 38-77-151, and 38-77-154.  HISTORY: 1997 Act No. 154, Section 2; 2012 Act No. 264, Section 6, eff June 18, 2012; 2016 Act No. 275 (S.1258), Section 81, eff July 1, 2016.
SC Code § 56-10-553 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 10 - Motor Vehicle Registration And Financial Security|Section 56-10-553. Collection data and maintenance of statistics.

 The Department of Motor Vehicles must collect data and maintain statistics on the total number of vehicles registered in the State as of June thirtieth of each year, the number of motorists who voluntarily paid the five hundred fifty dollar fee at the time of registration during the fiscal year, the number of motorists who paid the penalty fee after being detected by the Department of Motor Vehicles as being uninsured during the fiscal year, the number of certificates of insurance filed during the fiscal year, the net revenue collections for these fees by the fiscal year, the net funds available in the Uninsured Motorist Fund, and the net funds received from the Department of Insurance from the uninsured motorist fee during the fiscal year.  The Department of Motor Vehicles must provide an annual report to the General Assembly and the Department of Insurance containing the information required in this section.  HISTORY: 1997 Act No. 154, Section 2; 2002 Act No. 324, Section 2.
SC Code § 56-10-554 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 10 - Motor Vehicle Registration And Financial Security|Section 56-10-554. Recoupment Fund; recoupment of facility assessments or losses; discontinuance of collection for recoupment of facilities losses.

 As provided in Section 56-10-510, fifty dollars of the uninsured motor vehicle fee paid per vehicle is nonrefundable and must be used to recoup assessments or losses of the South Carolina Reinsurance Facility. Upon collection by the director of the Department of Motor Vehicles from any person registering an uninsured vehicle, this money must be placed by the director of the Department of Motor Vehicles on deposit with the State Treasurer to be held in a special account called the "Recoupment Fund", payable on a quarterly basis, to provide for the recoupment of facility assessments or losses. Upon final recoupment of facility losses as the South Carolina Reinsurance Facility ceases to exist, the director of the Department of Insurance shall by order (1) set the uninsured motor vehicle fee which does not include the fifty dollars dedicated for the recoupment of facility assessments or losses; (2) inform the director of the Department of Motor Vehicles that the facility assessments or losses have been recouped and when the Department of Motor Vehicles must cease collection from every person registering an uninsured motor vehicle, as well as transmittal to the State Treasurer, of this fifty dollar portion; and (3) direct the State Treasurer to transfer any used portion of the "Recoupment Fund" to the "Uninsured Motorist Fund". The director of the Department of Motor Vehicles must cease collection of this fifty dollars as part of the uninsured motor vehicle fee which has been dedicated for the recoupment of facility assessments or losses as provided in the order issued by the director of the Department of Insurance.  HISTORY: 1997 Act No. 154, Section 2.
SC Code § 56-10-610 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 10 - Motor Vehicle Registration And Financial Security|Section 56-10-610. Short title.

 This article may be cited as the "Motorist Insurance Database Program Act".  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 324, Section 1.
SC Code § 56-10-615 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 10 - Motor Vehicle Registration And Financial Security|Section 56-10-615. Information regarding cancellations; requests for proof of insurance.

 The Department of Motor Vehicles shall obtain information from insurers regarding cancellations of automobile insurance policies. The department shall request proof of insurance from persons identified by the Motorist Insurance Database. A person who fails to respond to the department must be penalized as provided in Article 5 of this chapter.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 324, Section 8.
SC Code § 56-10-620 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 10 - Motor Vehicle Registration And Financial Security|Section 56-10-620. Definitions.

 As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires:  (1) "Contractor" means designated agent or the party with which the Department of Motor Vehicles contracts pursuant to Section 56-10-640.  (2) "Database" means the motorist insurance database described in Section 56-10-640.  (3) "Department" means the Department of Motor Vehicles.  (4) "Division" means the Department of Motor Vehicles.  (5) "Program" means the motorist insurance database program created in Section 56-10-640.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 324, Section 1.
SC Code § 56-10-630 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 10 - Motor Vehicle Registration And Financial Security|Section 56-10-630. Purpose of article.

 (A) The General Assembly finds that the purpose of this article is to help reduce the uninsured motorist population in this State and to measure the effectiveness of the motorist insurance database established pursuant to this article.  (B) The General Assembly further recognizes that the information and data required to be disclosed by insurers in creating and maintaining the motorist insurance database is proprietary in nature. Accordingly, the parties handling this information and data must at all times maintain its confidential and proprietary nature.  (C) The motorist insurance database program is created for the purpose of establishing a database to use when verifying compliance with the motor vehicle financial security requirements in this chapter.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 324, Section 1.
SC Code § 56-10-650 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 10 - Motor Vehicle Registration And Financial Security|Section 56-10-650. Suspension of owner's driving privileges and license plates of uninsured motor vehicle; notification of owner; proof of insurance.

 (A) If the database indicates that a motor vehicle is not insured or if the Department of Motor Vehicles receives notification as prescribed by regulation that a vehicle may not be insured, the department shall notify the owner of the motor vehicle that he has twenty working days to provide the department with one of the following, or the owner's driving privileges and the vehicle license plates will be suspended:  (1) proof of complying coverage in accordance with Sections 56-10-10 or 56-10-220, or of self-insurance in accordance with Section 56-9-60; or  (2) proof of exemption from the financial security requirements.  (B) Verification in a manner prescribed by regulation from an insurer or agent verifying that the person had the required motor vehicle insurance coverage on the date specified is considered proof of financial responsibility for purposes of this section.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 324, Section 1; 2004 Act No. 241, Section 6.  Code Commissioner's Note  2002 Act No. 324, Section 12, provides as follows:  "This act takes effect July 1, 2002; provided, however, that Section 56-10-650 and Sections 5, 6, and 9 are effective one hundred eighty days after the latter of certification by the department to the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives that the program has been implemented and is fully prepared to accept data transmitted by the insurers or publication of final regulations by the department."
SC Code § 56-10-660 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 10 - Motor Vehicle Registration And Financial Security|Section 56-10-660. Database information disclosure; fee.

 (A) The division, for a fee as prescribed and promulgated by regulation, shall disclose an individual's reported database information upon request by the following individuals and agencies only:  (1) the individual;  (2) the parent or legal guardian of an individual who is an unemancipated minor;  (3) the legal guardian of an individual who is legally incapacitated;  (4) a person who has power of attorney from the individual;  (5) a person who submits a notarized release from the individual that is dated no more than ninety days before the date the request is made;  (6) a person suffering loss or injury or against whom a claim is made for loss or injury in a motor vehicle accident in which the individual is involved, but only as part of an accident report authorized in Section 56-9-351;  (7) a state or local government agency investigating, litigating, or enforcing the person's compliance with the financial security requirements; or  (8) persons regulated under Title 38 of the 1976 Code for the purposes of paying or adjudicating claims and preventing fraud or abuse.  (B) The funds collected from this fee described by subsection (A) must be placed by the Comptroller General into a special restricted account to be used by the Department of Motor Vehicles to defray its expenses.  (C) The State is not liable to any person for gathering, managing, or using information in the database pursuant to this article.  (D) No insurer is liable to any person for performing its duties under this article unless, and to the extent, the insurer commits a wilful and wanton act or omission.  (E) Insurers shall be required to pay only those actual costs attributed to the transmission to or retrieval of their records from the Department of Motor Vehicles, pursuant to regulations promulgated by the Department of Insurance. The funds collected from the insurers pursuant to this subsection must be placed by the Comptroller General into a special restricted account to be used by the Department of Motor Vehicles to defray its expenses.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 324, Section 1; 2005 Act No. 164, Section 30, eff June 10, 2005.
SC Code § 56-10-670 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 10 - Motor Vehicle Registration And Financial Security|Section 56-10-670. Scope of article.

 This article shall not supersede other actions or penalties that may be taken or imposed for violation of the financial security requirements of this chapter.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 324, Section 1.
SC Code § 56-11-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 11 - Road Tax On Motor Carriers|Section 56-11-10. Definitions.

 When used in this chapter, the term "motor carrier" means every person who operates or causes to be operated on any highways in this State road tractors, truck tractors, trucks having more than two axles, or passenger vehicles designed to seat more than twenty occupants. For the purposes of this section, the federal government, the State, counties, municipalities, churches, and any agents of them, and special mobile equipment as defined in item (11) of Section 56-3-20, must not be deemed "motor carriers".  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 459, Section 224.
SC Code § 56-11-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 11 - Road Tax On Motor Carriers|Section 56-11-20. Enforcement of motor carrier road tax provisions; International Fuel Tax Agreement (IFTA).

 The Department of Motor Vehicles and the Department of Public Safety each shall enforce this chapter with respect to the possession of correct registration and display of the proper identification marker. Notwithstanding other provisions of this chapter, the department may enter into an agreement with other states in a registration and identification marker reciprocal agreement known as the International Fuel Tax Agreement (IFTA). Qualified vehicles operating in accordance with this agreement are not required to purchase other fuel markers in member states.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 459, Section 224.
SC Code § 56-11-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 11 - Road Tax On Motor Carriers|Section 56-11-30. Applicability of other laws to administration and enforcement of motor carrier road tax.

 For the purposes of administration and enforcement of this chapter, the provisions of Title 12, wherever applicable, are adopted and made a part of this chapter.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 459, Section 224.
SC Code § 56-11-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 11 - Road Tax On Motor Carriers|Section 56-11-40. Examination of motor carrier books and records.

 The Department of Motor Vehicles, the Department of Public Safety, and their agents and representatives have the right at any reasonable time to examine the books and records of any motor carrier.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 459, Section 224.
SC Code § 56-11-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 11 - Road Tax On Motor Carriers|Section 56-11-50. Effect of operation of motor carrier in violation of chapter.

 When any person is discovered in this State operating a vehicle in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, it is unlawful for anyone thereafter to operate the vehicle on the streets or highways in this State except to remove it from the street or highway for the purpose of parking or storing it unless and until a bond in the amount of five hundred dollars is furnished to the Department of Motor Vehicles in such form and with such surety or sureties or otherwise as it may prescribe, conditioned upon a proper registration card and identification marker being applied for within ten days and conditioned upon the payment of any taxes, penalties, or interest found to be due pursuant to this chapter.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 459, Section 224.
SC Code § 56-11-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 11 - Road Tax On Motor Carriers|Section 56-11-60. Penalties and interest under International Fuel Tax Agreement (IFTA).

 In lieu of all other penalties and interest provided by law, penalties and interest provided under the International Fuel Tax Agreement apply to all reports filed with the State as a result of the International Fuel Tax Agreement.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 459, Section 224.
SC Code § 56-11-210 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 56 - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 11 - Road Tax On Motor Carriers|Section 56-11-210. Requirement of registration card and vehicle identification marker.

 No motor carrier shall operate or cause to be operated in South Carolina any vehicle described in Section 56-11-10 until the motor carrier has secured from the Department of Motor Vehicles a registration card and an identification marker for each vehicle.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 459, Section 224.