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SC Code § 15-3-590 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 15 - Civil Remedies and Procedures|Chapter 3 - Limitation Of Civil Actions|Section 15-3-590. Actions against motor carriers for overcharges.

 (1) Actions at law for the recovery of overcharges against motor carriers subject to Chapter 23 of Title 58 shall be commenced within two years from the time the cause of action accrues and not thereafter, subject to the provisions of subsection (2) of this section; provided, that if a claim for the overcharge has been presented in writing to the carrier within the two-year period of limitation, the period shall be extended to include six months from the time notice in writing was given by the carrier to the claimant of disallowance of the claim, or any part or parts thereof.  (2) The cause of action against a motor carrier for overcharges shall for the purpose of this section be deemed to accrue at the time the charges are paid to the carrier.  (3) The term "overcharges" as used in this section shall be deemed to mean charges for transportation services in excess of those applicable thereto under the tariffs lawfully on file with the Public Service Commission.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10-147.2; 1952 (47) 2170.
SC Code § 15-3-600 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 15 - Civil Remedies and Procedures|Chapter 3 - Limitation Of Civil Actions|Section 15-3-600. Action for other relief.

 An action for relief not provided for in this chapter must be commenced within ten years after the cause of action shall have accrued.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10-148; 1952 Code Section 10-148; 1942 Code Section 394; 1932 Code Section 394; Civ. P. '22 Section 337; Civ. P. '12 Section 143; Civ. P. '02 Section 118; 1870 (14) 448 Section 120.
SC Code § 15-3-610 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 15 - Civil Remedies and Procedures|Chapter 3 - Limitation Of Civil Actions|Section 15-3-610. Action upon current account.

 In an action brought to recover a balance due upon a mutual, open and current account when there have been reciprocal demands between the parties, the cause of action shall be deemed to have accrued from the time of the last item proved in the account on either side.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10-149; 1952 Code Section 10-149; 1942 Code Section 392; 1932 Code Section 392; Civ. P. '22 Section 335; Civ. P. '12 Section 141; Civ. P. '02 Section 116; 1870 (14) 448 Section 118.
SC Code § 15-3-620 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 15 - Civil Remedies and Procedures|Chapter 3 - Limitation Of Civil Actions|Section 15-3-620. Actions by State.

 The limitations prescribed by this article shall apply to actions brought in the name of the State or for its benefit in the same manner as to actions by private parties; provided, however, that limitations against claims for charges for care, training, maintenance or treatment received by any patient or trainee from the South Carolina State Hospital, any State training school, or any State mental health facility, shall commence to run against the State, its boards, commissions or agencies charged with the operation of the above institutions only from the last date upon which care, training, maintenance or treatment was furnished to any such patient or trainee.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10-150; 1952 Code Section 10-150; 1942 Code Section 396; 1932 Code Section 396; Civ. P. '22 Section 339; Civ. P. '12 Section 145; Civ. P. '02 Section 119; 1870 (14) 448 Section 121; 1954 (48) 1732.
SC Code § 15-3-630 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 15 - Civil Remedies and Procedures|Chapter 3 - Limitation Of Civil Actions|Section 15-3-630. Actions against architects, professional engineers or contractors; definitions.

 As used in Sections 15-3-630 to 15-3-670, the terms set out hereinbelow shall be defined as follows: (a) "Person" shall mean an individual, corporation, partnership, business, trust, unincorporated organization, association or joint-stock company; (b) "substantial completion" shall mean that degree of completion of a project, improvement, or a specified area or portion thereof (in accordance with the contract documents, as modified by any change orders agreed to by the parties) upon attainment of which the owner can use the same for the purpose for which it was intended; the date of substantial completion may be established by written agreement between the contractor and owner.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10-151; 1970 (56) 2397.
SC Code § 15-3-660 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 15 - Civil Remedies and Procedures|Chapter 3 - Limitation Of Civil Actions|Section 15-3-660. Construction of Sections 15-3-640 through 15-3-670; extension of limitations periods.

 Nothing in Sections 15-3-640 through 15-3-670 may be construed as extending the period, or periods, provided by the laws of South Carolina, except by agreement between the parties for the bringing of any action.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10-154; 1970 (56) 2397; 1986 Act No. 412, Section 2.
SC Code § 15-3-670 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 15 - Civil Remedies and Procedures|Chapter 3 - Limitation Of Civil Actions|Section 15-3-670. Circumstances in which limitations provided by Sections 15-3-640 through 15-3-660 are not available as defense.

 (A) The limitation provided by Sections 15-3-640 through 15-3-660 may not be asserted as a defense by a person in actual possession or control, as owner, tenant, or otherwise, of the improvement at the time the defective or unsafe condition constitutes the proximate cause of the injury or death for which it is proposed to bring an action, in the event the person in actual possession or control knows, or reasonably should have known, of the defective or unsafe condition. The limitations provided by Sections 15-3-640 through 15-3-660 are not available as a defense to a person guilty of fraud, gross negligence, or recklessness in providing components in furnishing materials, in developing real property, in performing or furnishing the design, plans, specifications, surveying, planning, supervision, testing or observation of construction, construction of, or land surveying, in connection with such an improvement, or to a person who conceals any such cause of action.  (B) For the purposes of subsection (A), the violation of a building code of a jurisdiction or political subdivision does not constitute per se fraud, gross negligence, or recklessness, but this type of violation may be admissible as evidence of fraud, negligence, gross negligence, or recklessness.  (C) The limitation provided by Section 15-3-640 may not be asserted as a defense to an action for personal injury, including a personal injury resulting in death, or property damage which is:  (1) by its nature not discoverable in the exercise of reasonable diligence at the time of its occurrence; and  (2) the result of ingestion of or exposure to some toxic or harmful or injury producing substance, element, or particle, including radiation, over a period of time as opposed to resulting from a sudden and fortuitous trauma.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10-155; 1970 (56) 2397; 1986 Act No. 412, Section 3; 2011 Act No. 52, Section 5, eff January 1, 2012.  Editor's Note  2011 Act No. 52, Section 7, provides as follows:  "SECTION 7. This act takes effect January 1, 2012, and applies to all actions that accrue on or after the effective date except the provisions of SECTION 3 do not apply to any matter pending on the effective date of this act."  Effect of Amendment  The 2011 amendment inserted subsection (B) relating to fraud per se, gross negligence, or negligence, added subsection identifiers (A) and (C), changed subsection designators (i) and (ii) to (1) and (2), and made nonsubstantive changes.
SC Code § 15-3-680 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 15 - Civil Remedies and Procedures|Chapter 3 - Limitation Of Civil Actions|Section 15-3-680. Construction of Sections 15-3-640 through 15-3-670; creation of causes of action not heretofore recognized; preclusion of causes of action accrued on May 12, 1986.

 Nothing in Sections 15-3-640 through 15-3-670 of the 1976 Code may be construed as creating any cause of action not heretofore existing or recognized or barring any cause of action existing or accrued on May 12, 1986.  HISTORY: 1986 Act No. 412, Section 4.
SC Code § 15-3-690 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 15 - Civil Remedies and Procedures|Chapter 3 - Limitation Of Civil Actions|Section 15-3-690. Immunity from civil liability for liquefied petroleum gas dealers; definitions; scope.

 (A) As used in this subsection, the following definitions apply:  (1) "System" or "systems" means assembly of equipment consisting of the container and any device that is connected to the container for the utilization of liquefied petroleum gas.  (2) "Dealer" means a person engaging in the installation of liquefied petroleum gas systems or in the manufacture, distribution, sale, storing, or transporting by tank truck, tank trailer, or container of liquefied petroleum gases or engaging in installing, servicing, repairing, adjusting, disconnecting, or connecting appliances to liquefied petroleum gas systems and containers.  (3) "Liquefied petroleum gas" means material composed predominately of hydrocarbons or mixtures of hydrocarbons, including propane, propylene, butanes (normal butane or isobutane), and butylenes.  (B) A liquefied petroleum gas dealer shall be immune from civil liability if the proximate cause of the injury or damage was:  (1) an alteration, modification, or repair of the liquefied petroleum gas system or gas burning appliance that could not have been discovered by the liquefied petroleum gas dealer in the exercise of reasonable care; or  (2) the use of the liquefied petroleum gas system or gas burning appliance in a manner or for a purpose other than that for which the liquid petroleum gas system or gas burning appliance was intended to be used or for which could reasonably have been foreseen, provided that the liquefied petroleum gas dealer or the manufacturer of the liquefied petroleum gas system or gas burning appliance took reasonable steps to warn the ultimate consumer of the hazards associated with foreseeable misuses of the liquefied petroleum gas system or gas burning appliance.  (C) Nothing in this subsection shall be construed as affecting, modifying, or eliminating the liability of a manufacturer of the liquefied petroleum gas system or gas burning appliance, or its employees or agents from any other legal claim, including, but not limited to, product liability claims.  (D) Nothing in this subsection shall apply to a cylinder exchange company as defined pursuant to Section 40-82-20(3) or a reseller as defined pursuant to Section 40-82-20(7).  HISTORY: 2010 Act No. 155, Section 1, eff upon approval (became law without the Governor's signature on May 13, 2010).
SC Code § 15-3-700 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 15 - Civil Remedies and Procedures|Chapter 3 - Limitation Of Civil Actions|Section 15-3-700. Immunity for property damage incurred in rescue from locked vehicle.

 A person is immune from civil liability for property damage resulting from his forcible entry into a motor vehicle for the purpose of removing a minor or vulnerable adult from the vehicle if the person has a reasonable good faith belief that forcible entry into the vehicle is necessary because the minor or vulnerable adult is in imminent danger of suffering harm.  HISTORY: 2016 Act No. 133 (H.3145), Section 1, eff February 16, 2016.
SC Code § 15-5-45 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 15 - Civil Remedies and Procedures|Chapter 5 - Parties|Section 15-5-45. Capacity of partnerships to sue and be sued; effect of judgment.

 Any partnership formed under the laws of this State or of another jurisdiction shall have the capacity with or without the joinder of one or more of its partners to sue and be sued in the courts and agencies of this State as a separate entity under the name specified in any recorded certificate of partnership, or, if the partnership conducts business under an assumed name or there is no recorded certificate, under the name by which it does business. All judgments and executions against any such partnership shall bind its real and personal property. Its partners shall also be liable for judgment and be subject to execution to the extent and in the manner provided by law.  HISTORY: 1986 Act No. 533, Section 4.
SC Code § 15-5-90 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 15 - Civil Remedies and Procedures|Chapter 5 - Parties|Section 15-5-90. Survival of right of action.

 Causes of action for and in respect to any and all injuries and trespasses to and upon real estate and any and all injuries to the person or to personal property shall survive both to and against the personal or real representative, as the case may be, of a deceased person and the legal representative of an insolvent person or a defunct or insolvent corporation, any law or rule to the contrary notwithstanding.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10-209; 1952 Code Section 10-209; 1942 Code Section 419; 1932 Code Section 419; Civ. P. '22 Section 375; Civ. C. '12 Section 3963; Civ. C. '02 Section 2859; R.S. 2323; 1892 (21) 18; 1905 (24) 945.
SC Code § 15-5-100 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 15 - Civil Remedies and Procedures|Chapter 5 - Parties|Section 15-5-100. Damages under Sections 15-5-90 or 15-51-10 may include funeral expenses.

 Damages recoverable under either Sections 15-5-90 or 15-51-10 may include reasonable funeral expenses, but such funeral expenses shall be sought in only one action.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10-209:1; 1962 (52) 1946.
SC Code § 15-5-110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 15 - Civil Remedies and Procedures|Chapter 5 - Parties|Section 15-5-110. Executors' or administrators' actions against trespassers.

 Executors or administrators in cases of trespass done to their decedents, as of the goods and chattels of the decedents carried away in their life, shall have an action against the trespassers and may recover their damages in like manner as they, whose executors or administrators they are, should have had it if they were alive.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10-210; 1952 Code Section 10-210; 1942 Code Section 415; 1932 Code Section 415; Civ. P. '22 Section 371; Civ. C. '12 Section 3959; Civ. C. '02 Section 2855; G.S. 2187; R.S. 2319; 4 Ed. 3c. 7; 1712 (2) 425; 1972 (57) 2485.
SC Code § 15-5-120 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 15 - Civil Remedies and Procedures|Chapter 5 - Parties|Section 15-5-120. Actions against executors or administrators when one or more is out of State.

 In cases in which there are two or more executors or administrators to any estate and any one or more of them has withdrawn or shall withdraw or shall reside out of the State, any creditor or person having a right or cause of action against such estate may commence his action against all the executors or administrators, naming and setting forth therein the executor or administrator, one or more, who is out of the State. In such case if the summons be served in the usual form upon those who are within the State the suit shall be deemed to be good and effectual in law to all intents and purposes, saving only that the judgment in such cases shall not extend to work any devastavit upon the person so absent or to affect him in his private right.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10-211; 1952 Code Section 10-211; 1942 Code Section 417; 1932 Code Section 417; Civ. P. '22 Section 373; Civ. C. '12 Section 3961; Civ. C. '02 Section 2857; G.S. 2189; R.S. 2321; 1793 (7) 282.
SC Code § 15-5-130 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 15 - Civil Remedies and Procedures|Chapter 5 - Parties|Section 15-5-130. Representative of deceased nonresident motor vehicle operator.

 In the event a nonresident who shall have operated a motor vehicle on the public highways or streets of any incorporated municipality of this State causing injuries or death shall have died, any person who may have an interest therein may apply to the probate court of the county of residence of such party so interested or of the county in which such wrong may have been inflicted for the appointment of a personal representative of such deceased wrongdoer and, upon such appointment, action may be commenced against such personal representative of such nonresident deceased and service of such process shall be made upon such personal representative and a copy of such process mailed to the address of such deceased person as provided in Section 15-9-370.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10-212; 1952 Code Section 10-212; 1949 (46) 342.
SC Code § 15-5-140 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 15 - Civil Remedies and Procedures|Chapter 5 - Parties|Section 15-5-140. Representative of deceased nonresident motor vehicle operator; substitution of other representative.

 The foreign personal representative of any such deceased wrongdoer or any other person interested in defending such action may within sixty days after service as provided in Section 15-9-370 apply to the court in which such action may be pending for an order staying such action for a reasonable period of not exceeding sixty days and during such time may apply to the probate court and procure the appointment of some other suitable person to act as personal representative of such deceased person. Upon such appointment such personal representative shall be forthwith made a party defendant on motion of plaintiff without further service of process. If no such application for a stay be made the personal representative so originally appointed shall answer such process within sixty days from the date of such service upon him or be adjudged in default.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10-213; 1952 Code Section 10-213; 1949 (46) 342.
SC Code § 15-5-150 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 15 - Civil Remedies and Procedures|Chapter 5 - Parties|Section 15-5-150. Foreign corporations as defendants.

 An action against a corporation created by or under the laws of any other state, government or country may be brought in the circuit court:  (1) By any resident of this State for any cause of action; or  (2) By a plaintiff not a resident of this State when the cause of action shall have arisen or the subject of the action shall be situated within this State.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10-214; 1952 Code Section 10-214; 1942 Code Section 826; 1932 Code Section 826; Civ. P. '22 Section 774; Civ. P. '12 Section 461; Civ. P. '02 Section 423; 1870 (14) 522 Section 442.
SC Code § 15-5-160 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 15 - Civil Remedies and Procedures|Chapter 5 - Parties|Section 15-5-160. By what name unincorporated associations may be sued.

 All unincorporated associations may be sued and proceeded against under the name and style by which they are usually known without naming the individual members of the association.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10-215; 1952 Code Section 10-215; 1942 Code Section 7796; 1932 Code Section 7796; Civ. C. '22 Section 5070; Civ. C. '12 Section 3336; Civ. C. '02 Section 2229; G.S. 1410; R.S. 1776; 1865 (13) 315.
SC Code § 15-5-170 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 15 - Civil Remedies and Procedures|Chapter 5 - Parties|Section 15-5-170. Action by and against married woman.

 A married woman may sue and be sued as if she were unmarried. When the action is between herself and her husband she may likewise sue or be sued alone.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10-216; 1952 Code Section 10-216; 1942 Code Section 400; 1932 Code Section 400; Civ. P. '22 Section 357; Civ. P. '12 Section 163; Civ. P. '02 Section 135; 1870 (14) Section 137; 1925 (34) 263.
SC Code § 15-5-210 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 15 - Civil Remedies and Procedures|Chapter 5 - Parties|Section 15-5-210. Unemancipated child as party to motor vehicle accident action.

 An unemancipated child may sue and be sued by his parents in an action for personal injuries arising out of a motor vehicle accident. In any such action there shall be appointed a guardian ad litem as provided by law for such child.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-802.2; 1974 (58) 2718.
SC Code § 15-7-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 15 - Civil Remedies and Procedures|Chapter 7 - Venue|Section 15-7-10. Actions which must be tried where subject matter situated.

 An action for the following causes must be tried in the county in which the subject of the action or some part of the property is situated, subject to the power of the court to change the place of trial in certain cases as provided in Section 15-7-100:  (1) for the recovery of real property or of an estate or interest in real property, for the determination in any form of the right or interest, and for injuries to real property;  (2) for the partition of real property;  (3) for the foreclosure of a mortgage of real property;  (4) for the recovery of personal property distrained for any cause; and  (5) for all matters between landlord and tenant pursuant to Chapters 33 through 40 of Title 27 including, but not limited to, an action for (a) possession of land, (b) payment or collection of rent including collection of rent by distraint on a tenant's property, or (c) damage to or destruction of rental property.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10-301; 1952 Code Section 10-301; 1942 Code Section 420; 1932 Code Section 420; Civ. P. '22 Section 376; Civ. P. '12 Section 172; Civ. P. '02 Section 144; 1870 (14) 453 Section 146; 1887 (19) 835; 1894 (21) 793; 2006 Act No. 354, Section 1, eff June 9, 2006.  Effect of Amendment  The 2006 amendment added item (5) relating to matters between landlord and tenant.
SC Code § 15-7-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 15 - Civil Remedies and Procedures|Chapter 7 - Venue|Section 15-7-20. Actions which must be tried where cause of action arose.

 Actions for the following causes must be tried in the county where the cause or some part thereof arose, subject to the like power of the court to change the place of trial:  (1) For the recovery of a penalty or forfeiture imposed by statute, except that when it is imposed for an offense committed on a lake, river or other stream of water situated in two or more counties the action may be brought in any county bordering on such lake, river or stream, and opposite to the place where the offense was committed; and  (2) Against a public officer or person specially appointed to execute his duties for an act done by him in virtue of his office or against a person who by his command or in his aid shall do anything touching the duties of such officer.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10-302; 1952 Code Section 10-302; 1942 Code Section 421; 1932 Code Section 421; Civ. P. '22 Section 377; Civ. P. '12 Section 173; Civ. P. '02 Section 145; 1870 (14) 453 Section 147.
SC Code § 15-7-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 15 - Civil Remedies and Procedures|Chapter 7 - Venue|Section 15-7-40. Suits against certain fiduciaries.

 Any administrator or administratrix appointed by any probate court of this State may be sued in the county where such administration has been granted. Any executor or executrix may likewise be sued in the county where the testator's will has been proved or admitted to probate. Any guardian may likewise be sued in the county in which the letters of guardianship have been issued.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10-304; 1952 Code Section 10-304; 1942 Code Section 422; 1932 Code Section 422; Civ. P. '22 Section 378; Civ. P. '12 Section 174; Civ. P. '02 Section 146; 1870 (14) 453 Section 148; 1875 (15) 913; 1898 (22) 687; 1905 (24) 848.