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SC Code § 58-9-2689 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Telephone, Telegraph And Express Companies|Section 58-9-2689. Report of State Regulation of Public Utilities Review Committee.

 No later than five years from the effective date of this act and every five years following the submission of the first report, the State Regulation of Public Utilities Review Committee must submit to the General Assembly a report examining the effect of this act on residential and business consumers in areas served by communication providers. The reports must assess and determine the impact of the amendments to current law in this act on the availability of communications services to rural counties of the State and report whether the amendments to current law incorporated in this act have had an adverse impact on the provision of communications services in such rural areas. The reports must include data describing the extent of capital improvement and investment by communications service providers in rural counties since the adoption of the amendments to current law included in this act and present any recommendations it may have regarding the continuation, amendment, or repeal of the amendments to current law included in the act. The reports must not disclose any proprietary or confidential information about individual communications service providers.  HISTORY: 2012 Act No. 284, Section 10, eff June 29, 2012.  Editor's Note  2012 Act No. 284, Section 11, provides as follows:  "The provisions of this act do not expand, diminish, or otherwise affect the provisions of Chapter 151, Title 59 regarding the South Carolina LightRail Consortium"
SC Code § 58-9-3050 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Telephone, Telegraph And Express Companies|Section 58-9-3050. Relationship between electric cooperatives and broadband affiliates; disconnection of electric services based on customer's failure to pay for broadband service.

 (A) An electric cooperative may not condition the receipt of electric service on, nor provide more favorable terms for electric service for, persons that receive broadband service from the electric cooperative's broadband affiliate or any other broadband service provider.  (B) An electric cooperative may not share confidential information from an unaffiliated communications service provider obtained in a pole attachment request and approval process including, but not limited to, requested locations for pole attachments, the locations of customers to be served, or any identifying information regarding customers with its broadband affiliate or any other communications service provider.  (C) An electric cooperative shall not disconnect any customer from receiving electric services based on the customer's failure to pay for broadband service provided to the customer by the electric cooperative's broadband affiliate.  HISTORY: 2020 Act No. 175 (H.3780), Section 1, eff September 29, 2020.  Editor's Note  2020 Act No. 175, Section 6, provides as follows:  "SECTION 6. This act does not convey or confer any implied or express grant of authority to an investor-owned electric utility to provide broadband facilities or broadband services as defined in this act and any legal rights which may or may not belong to investor-owned electric utilities to provide broadband facilities or broadband services at the time of the passage of this act are neither expanded nor contracted by its passage."
SC Code § 58-11-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Radio Common Carriers|Section 58-11-10. Definitions.

 When used in this chapter:  (a) The term "commission" means the Public Service Commission of the State of South Carolina.  (b) The term "commissioner" means one of the members of the Public Service Commission.  (c) The term "corporation" includes all bodies corporate, joint stock companies, or associations, domestic or foreign, their lessees, assignees, trustees, receivers or other successors in interest, having any of the powers or privileges of corporations not possessed by individuals or partnerships.  (d) The term "person" includes all individuals, partnerships or associations other than corporations.  (e) The term "public" means the public generally, or any limited portion of the public, including a person or corporation.  (f) The term "radio common carrier" includes persons and corporations, their lessees, assignees, trustees, receivers, or other successors in interest now or hereafter owning or operating in this State equipment or facilities for the transmission of intelligence by a modulated radio frequency signal, for compensation to the public, including all things incident thereto and related to the operation of radio transmission, but shall not include telephone utilities or services regulated by Articles 1 through 13 of Chapter 9 of Title 58 of the 1976 Code.  (g) The term "intelligence" means the transfer of information either one way, or two way, by tone, data bit, voice, or other means as may be used to convey information to a person, persons, or machine.  (h) The term "rate" means and includes every compensation, charge, toll, rental and classification, or any of them, demanded, observed, charged or collected by any carrier for any communications service offered by it to the public, and any rules, regulations, practices or contracts affecting any such compensation, charge, toll, rental or classification.  (i) The term "securities" means and includes stock, stock certificates, bonds, notes, debentures, or other evidences of indebtedness, and any assumption or guaranty thereof.  (j) The term "service area" shall include that geographical area covered by a radio common carrier system by county unless otherwise specified by the Public Service Commission.  (k) The term "communication service" shall mean a service to transmit audio intelligence by means of a modulated radio frequency signal and shall not include telephone answering services.  (l) The term "regulatory staff" means the executive director or the executive director and the employees of the Office of Regulatory Staff.  HISTORY: 1975 (59) 598; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 73, eff May 24, 2006; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 74, eff May 24, 2006.
SC Code § 58-11-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Radio Common Carriers|Section 58-11-20. Rates shall be just and reasonable.

 Every rate made, demanded, or received by any radio common carrier, or by any two or more radio common carriers jointly, shall be just and reasonable.  HISTORY: 1975 (59) 598.
SC Code § 58-11-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Radio Common Carriers|Section 58-11-30. Filing schedules of rates, rules and regulations.

 Under such rules and regulations as the commission may prescribe, every radio common carrier shall file with the commission and the Office of Regulatory Staff, within such time and in such form as the commission may designate, schedules showing all rates, rules, and regulations established by it and collected or enforced, or to be collected or enforced within the jurisdiction of the commission, and the radio common carrier shall keep copies of such schedules open to public inspection upon request at reasonable intervals during business hours under such rules and regulations as the commission may prescribe.  HISTORY: 1975 (59) 598; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 75, eff May 24, 2006.
SC Code § 58-11-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Radio Common Carriers|Section 58-11-40. Compensation different from that in schedule shall not be charged or received.

 No radio common carrier shall directly or indirectly, by any device whatsoever, or in any way, charge, demand, collect or receive from any communications person or corporation a greater or less compensation for any service rendered or supplied, or to be rendered or supplied, such radio common carrier, than that prescribed in the schedules of such radio common carrier applicable thereto then filed in the manner provided in this chapter, nor shall any person or corporation receive or accept any service, from a radio common carrier for a compensation greater or less than that prescribed in such schedules.  HISTORY: 1975 (59) 598.
SC Code § 58-11-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Radio Common Carriers|Section 58-11-50. Unreasonable preferences and differences in rates shall not be made; reasonable classifications may be established.

 No radio common carrier shall, as to rates, or services, make or grant any unreasonable preference or advantage to any person or corporation or subject any person or corporation to any unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage. No radio common carrier shall establish or maintain any unreasonable difference as to rates or service, either as between localities or as between classes of service. Subject to the approval of the Commission, however, radio common carriers may establish classifications of rates and services, and such classifications may take into account the conditions and circumstances surrounding the service, such as the time when used, the purpose for which used, the demand upon plant facilities, the value of the service rendered, the cost of equipment at time of installation, or any other reasonable consideration. The Commission may determine any question arising under this section.  HISTORY: 1975 (59) 598.
SC Code § 58-11-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Radio Common Carriers|Section 58-11-60. Procedure for changes in rates initiated by radio common carrier.

 Whenever a radio common carrier desires to put into operation a new rate which affects the radio common carrier's general body of subscribers, the radio common carrier shall give the commission and the Office of Regulatory Staff not less than thirty days' notice of its intention to file and shall, after the expiration of the notice period, then file with the commission a schedule setting forth the proposed changes; provided, however, a hearing shall not be required when the proposed rate is a proposal to institute or modify an offering or regulation that is not part of a general rate case and does not affect the radio common carrier's general body of subscribers. Subject to the provisions of subsections (B) and (C) of Section 58-11-70, the proposed changes must not be put into effect in full or in part until approved by the commission.  HISTORY: 1975 (59) 598; 1983 Act No. 138 Section 24, eff June 15, 1983; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 76, eff May 24, 2006.
SC Code § 58-11-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Radio Common Carriers|Section 58-11-80. Service shall be adequate and efficient.

 Every radio common carrier shall provide and maintain facilities and equipment to furnish reasonably adequate and efficient service to its customers in this State.  HISTORY: 1975 (59) 598.
SC Code § 58-11-90 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Radio Common Carriers|Section 58-11-90. Commission may permit interconnection of facilities of radio common carriers and telephone utilities; determination of compensation and terms when parties fail to agree.

 Whenever the Commission shall find that public convenience and necessity require the interconnection of radio common carrier facilities to facilities of telephone utilities, and that the radio common carrier and telephone utility have failed to agree upon such interconnection or the terms and conditions or compensation for the same, the Commission may order that such interconnection be permitted and prescribe a reasonable compensation, terms and condition for the interconnection.  HISTORY: 1975 (59) 598.
SC Code § 58-11-100 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Radio Common Carriers|Section 58-11-100. Certificate of public convenience as prerequisite to construction or operation of system; applicability to commercial mobile service providers.

 (A) No radio common carrier shall begin or continue the construction or operation of a radio common carrier system, either directly or indirectly, without first obtaining from the commission a certificate that the public convenience and necessity requires the construction or operation.  (B) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (A) or another provision of law, neither the commission nor the Office of Regulatory Staff may impose requirements related to the terms, conditions, rates, or availability of, or otherwise regulate "commercial mobile service" as that term is presently defined in 47 U.S.C.A. Section 332(d)(1) for as long as Section 332 of 47 U.S.C. or similar federal legislation remains in effect.  (C) Nothing in this section affects any jurisdiction conferred upon the commission by Section 58-9-280(E)(3).  (D) Nothing in this section affects the commission's jurisdiction or authority to address and resolve issues relating to arrangements and compensation between telecommunications carriers and commercial mobile service providers, pursuant to 47 U.S.C. Sections 251 and 252 or pursuant to other applicable provisions of law.  (E) Nothing in this section shall prohibit the commission from applying to commercial mobile service providers that have sought and received designation from the commission, and operate as eligible telecommunications carriers, pursuant to 47 U.S.C. Section 214(e), or as carriers of last resort, as defined in Section 58-9-10(10), the same rules, requirements, or standards that are generally applicable to carriers that are subject to alternative regulation under Section 58-9-576 and that operate as eligible telecommunications carriers or as carriers of last resort.  HISTORY: 1975 (59) 598; 2005 Act No. 40, Section 1, eff April 15, 2005; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 78, eff May 24, 2006.
SC Code § 58-11-110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Radio Common Carriers|Section 58-11-110. Carrier shall file application with Federal Communications Commission.

 A radio common carrier upon receiving a certificate of authorization from the Commission shall file with the Federal Communications Commission an application for the service within ninety days from date of certificate as issued by the Commission or on August 15, 1975, whichever is later. The Commission shall revoke any certificate granted should the radio common carrier fail to file with the Federal Communications Commission within the required time set forth above. The radio common carrier shall furnish proof of such Federal Communications Commission filing to the Commission within thirty days after such filing.  HISTORY: 1975 (59) 598.
SC Code § 58-11-120 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Radio Common Carriers|Section 58-11-120. Extension of existing facilities.

 Any radio common carrier may establish, construct, maintain, and operate any reasonable extension of its facilities within its service area, after due notice of intent to the commission and the Office of Regulatory Staff by letter, without public hearing before the commission, unless otherwise ordered by the commission.  HISTORY: 1975 (59) 598; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 79, eff May 24, 2006.
SC Code § 58-11-130 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Radio Common Carriers|Section 58-11-130. Abandonment of service.

 No radio common carrier shall abandon all or any portion of its service to the public, except for ordinary discontinuance of service for nonpayment of lawful charge, or except for violation of rules and regulations approved by the Commission, unless written application is first made to the Commission for the issuance of a certificate and until the Commission in its discretion issues such certificate.  HISTORY: 1975 (59) 598.
SC Code § 58-11-140 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Radio Common Carriers|Section 58-11-140. Sale or other disposition of property, powers, franchises or privileges.

 No radio common carrier, without the approval of the Commission after due hearing and compliance with all other existing requirements of the laws of the State in relation thereto, shall sell, transfer, lease, consolidate or merge its property, powers, franchises or privileges or any of them used directly in the conduct of business as a radio common carrier.  HISTORY: 1975 (59) 598.
SC Code § 58-11-150 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Radio Common Carriers|Section 58-11-150. Restrictions on capitalization for rate-making purposes.

 No radio common carrier for rate-making purposes shall capitalize its franchises, rights, powers, privileges, or right to own and operate or enjoy any such franchise, rights, powers, or privileges in excess of the amount paid to the State or to any political subdivision of the State as the consideration for the grant thereof; or to capitalize any lease, or contract of sale or contract for consolidation or merger of two or more radio common carriers; or issue by way of substitution any capital stock, trust certificates, bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness, or other securities for any consolidated or merged company exceeding the aggregate value of the properties so consolidated or merged and any additional property or labor actually contributed in cash, and any additional property or labor actually contributed; provided, that the determination of such consideration or value as aforesaid shall be subject to the approval of the Commission.  HISTORY: 1975 (59) 598.
SC Code § 58-11-160 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Radio Common Carriers|Section 58-11-160. Systems of accounts.

 The Office of Regulatory Staff may, in its discretion, subject to approval of the commission, prescribe systems of accounts to be kept by radio common carriers subject to its jurisdiction, and it may prescribe the manner in which the accounts shall be kept, and may require every radio common carrier to keep its books, papers, and records accurately and faithfully according to the system of accounts as prescribed by the Office of Regulatory Staff; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall be construed to be in conflict with or in violation of the provisions of the Communications Act of Congress of 1934, as amended (U.S.C.A. Title 47, Sections 151 through 609), nor shall they be construed to be in conflict with any lawful order of the Federal Communications Commission issued pursuant to the authority invested in it by such act of Congress.  HISTORY: 1975 (59) 598; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 80, eff May 24, 2006.
SC Code § 58-11-170 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Radio Common Carriers|Section 58-11-170. Depreciation and retirement charges.

 Every radio common carrier shall have the right, and may be so required, to charge annually as an operating expense a reasonable sum for depreciation and credit the same to a reserve account for such purpose, which reserve account shall be charged with plant retirements, but if the reserve thus created shall at any time in the judgment of the Commission be excessive, the Commission after due hearing shall make such order as will result in credits to such reserve thereafter conforming to actual facts and conditions as ascertained by the Commission; provided, that the Commission shall have the right and power to control or limit such depreciation reserve; provided, further, that nothing in this section shall be construed to be in conflict with or in violation of the provisions of the Communications Act of Congress of 1934, as amended (U.S.C.A. Title 47, Sections 151 through 609), nor shall they be construed to be in conflict with any lawful order of the Federal Communications Commission issued pursuant to the authority invested in it by such act of Congress.  HISTORY: 1975 (59) 598.
SC Code § 58-11-180 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Radio Common Carriers|Section 58-11-180. Transactions with affiliates.

 When in the judgment of the Commission there is a reasonably substantial affiliation of any radio common carrier engaged in business in this State with any other corporation or person or when in the judgment of the Commission any other corporation or person either exercises, or is in position to exercise, by reason of ownership or control of securities or for any other cause, any reasonably substantial control over the business or policies of any radio common carrier engaged in business in this State, the burden of proof shall be upon the radio common carrier to establish as determined by the Commission the reasonableness, fairness, and absence of injurious effect upon the public interest of any fees or charges growing out of any transactions between any radio common carrier and such other corporation or person. Every radio common carrier shall be required to produce, if so ordered by the Commission, for the information of the commission and the public, all such contracts, papers, and documents relating thereto and explanatory thereof as may be required by the Commission, and unless the reasonableness of such fees and charges is established, as determined by the Commission, the same shall not be allowed by the Commission for rate-making purposes.  The Commission shall not allow for rate-making purposes any fees or expenses included in any contract or agreement with an affiliate representing charges that the Commission has directly disallowed in its rate-making orders.  HISTORY: 1975 (59) 598; 1983 Act No. 138 Section 15, eff June 15, 1983.
SC Code § 58-11-190 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Radio Common Carriers|Section 58-11-190. Participation in profits from efficiency.

 For the purposes of encouraging economy, efficiency, and improvements in methods of service any radio common carrier may participate, subject to the approval of the Commission, to such extent as may be permitted by the Commission, in the additional profits arising from any economy, efficiency or improvement in methods or service instituted by such radio common carrier.  HISTORY: 1975 (59) 598.
SC Code § 58-11-200 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Radio Common Carriers|Section 58-11-200. Annual and special reports.

 The Office of Regulatory Staff may require any radio common carrier to file annual reports in such form and of such content as the Office of Regulatory Staff may require and special reports concerning any matter about which the Office of Regulatory Staff is authorized to inquire or to keep itself informed, or which it is required to enforce. All reports shall be under oath when required by the Office of Regulatory Staff. At the same time a radio common carrier files a report with the Office of Regulatory Staff, it also must provide a copy to the commission.  HISTORY: 1975 (59) 598; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 81, eff May 24, 2006.