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2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 19 - Protection Of Titles To And Interests In Motor Vehicles › Section 56-19-490. "Lemon Law" returns; notification; penalties.

(A) In every sale or transfer of a motor vehicle returned to the manufacturer under the provisions of Chapter 28, Title 56, a similar statute of another state, or as the result of a legal action, the title must have the following sentence printed on its face in large, bold, uppercase type: "RETURNED TO MANUFACTURER UNDER LEMON LAW OR OTHER PROCEEDING." The notice required under the provisions of this subsection must continue to appear on each title issued as a result of any subsequent sale or transfer of that motor vehicle.
(B) Any person who transfers or attempts to transfer a motor vehicle in violation of this section is subject to a fine of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than five thousand dollars if the person had knowledge that the motor vehicle was returned to the manufacturer for failure to meet express warranties under a "lemon law" or other similar proceeding.
HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 287, Section 6.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 19 - Protection Of Titles To And Interests In Motor Vehicles › Section 56-19-495. Establishment of working group to develop process for titling vehicles for which no title can be provided.

The Department of Motor Vehicles shall convene a working group chaired by the Director of the Department of Motor Vehicles, or the director's designee, for the purpose of assisting in the development of a process to be used for the titling of vehicles in this State for which no title can be provided, and assisting in the development of forms and regulations pursuant to this section. The working group must consist, at a minimum, of representative stakeholders from the classic car, dealer, insurance and lienholder industries, as well as from law enforcement agencies.
HISTORY: 2012 Act No. 264, Section 12, eff June 18, 2012.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 19 - Protection Of Titles To And Interests In Motor Vehicles › Section 56-19-500. Definitions.

As used in this article:
(1) "Affixed" means that the manufactured home is installed in accordance with the state required installation standards, with wheels, axles, and towing hitch removed, and with the owner of the home having an intention that the manufactured home becomes an improvement to the real property whereon it is situated as evidenced by the filing of the affidavits provided in this article. The filing of the affidavits provided for in this article is conclusive proof of the intent to affix the manufactured home to real property.
(2) "Division" means the Department of Motor Vehicles.
(3) "Homeowner" means, when referring to a manufactured home for which a title certificate is issued as required by Section 56-19-210, the person identified on the title certificate as the owner of the "manufactured home".
(4) "Manufactured home" means a "mobile home" as defined by law or a structure, transportable in one or more sections, which (a) in the traveling mode is eight body feet or more in width, or forty body feet or more in length, or (b) when erected on site, is three hundred twenty or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical systems contained in it.
(5) "Owner" means, when referring to a manufactured home for which the title certificate has been retired either pursuant to the procedure utilized before the effective date of this article by the department or pursuant to this article, the person who owns the real property or has a recorded leasehold estate of thirty-five or more years on the real property upon which the manufactured home has become affixed and the instrument creating the leasehold estate authorizes the lessee to encumber the real property with a lien.
(6) "Retire the title certificate" means to cancel through the procedure established by this article an existing manufactured home title certificate issued by this State.
(7) "Secured party" means any lienholder identified on the title certificate of a manufactured home, or the lender securing a loan through a mortgage, deed of trust, or real estate contract when referring to real property or real property to which a manufactured home has been affixed and the title certificate retired.
(8) "Security interest" means an interest in property to secure payment of a loan made by a secured party to a borrower or a lien created by operation of law.
(9) "Sever" means to physically remove the manufactured home from the real property to which it is affixed.
HISTORY: 2003 Act No. 88, Section 2.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 19 - Protection Of Titles To And Interests In Motor Vehicles › Section 56-19-530. Records of retired title certificates; written confirmation to homeowner.

The Department of Motor Vehicles must maintain a record of each manufactured home title certificate retired under this article, and provide written confirmation of the retirement of the title certificate to the homeowner.
HISTORY: 2003 Act No. 88, Section 2.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 19 - Protection Of Titles To And Interests In Motor Vehicles › Section 56-19-560. Manufactured home treated as real property.

Upon an owner of a manufactured home meeting all requirements of this article for retiring the title certificate on his manufactured home and having the manufactured home and the real property to which it is affixed classified as real property, the register of deeds or clerk of court in the county where it is located in all indexes and transactions regarding the manufactured home and the real property to which it is affixed must confer upon it the treatment required by Section 56-19-510(C) and may not in any particulars still treat the manufactured home as personal property.
HISTORY: 2005 Act No. 174, Section 1, eff June 7, 2005.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 19 - Protection Of Titles To And Interests In Motor Vehicles › Section 56-19-610. Chapter inapplicable to certain liens and security interests.

This chapter does not apply to or affect:
(1) A lien given by statute or rule of law to a supplier of services or materials for the vehicle;
(2) A lien given by statute to the United States, this State or any political subdivision of this State, if such lien is recorded on the title;
(3) A security interest in a vehicle created by a manufacturer or dealer who holds the vehicle for sale; or
(4) Attachment liens provided for in Section 29-15-20.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-150.41; 1957 (50) 595.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 19 - Protection Of Titles To And Interests In Motor Vehicles › Section 56-19-620. Security interest invalid against third parties unless properly perfected.

Unless excepted by Section 56-19-610, a security interest in a vehicle of a type for which a certificate of title is required is not valid against creditors of the owner or subsequent transferees or lienholders of the vehicle unless perfected as provided in this article. No other recordation shall be necessary to protect the interest of the lienholder.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-150.42; 1957 (50) 595; 1960 (51) 1730.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 19 - Protection Of Titles To And Interests In Motor Vehicles › Section 56-19-630. Perfecting security interest; time when effective.

A security interest is perfected by the delivery to the Department of Motor Vehicles of the existing certificate of title, if any, an application for a certificate of title containing the name and address of the lienholder and the date of his security agreement and the required fee. It is perfected as of the time of its creation if the delivery is completed within ten days thereafter, otherwise, as of the time of the delivery.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-150.43; 1957 (50) 595.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 19 - Protection Of Titles To And Interests In Motor Vehicles › Section 56-19-650. Procedure when owner creates security interest.

If an owner creates a security interest in a vehicle:
(1) The owner immediately shall execute the application, in the space provided for on the certificate of title or on a separate form the Department of Motor Vehicles prescribes, to name the lienholder on the certificate, showing the name and address of the lienholder and the date of his security agreement, and cause the certificate, application, and the required fee to be delivered to the lienholder.
(2) The lienholder immediately shall cause the certificate, application, and the required fee to be mailed or delivered to the department.
(3) If the certificate of title is in the possession of a lienholder and a supplemental lien is created by the owner, the subsequent lienholder shall secure the title from the first lienholder and forward to the department the required application and the title for perfecting the lien, together with the required fee. The department when satisfied that the application is in order shall issue a new certificate of title containing the name and address of the new lienholder and mail the certificate to the first lienholder named on it. The delivery of the certificate does not affect the rights of the first lienholder under his security agreement.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-150.45; 1957 (50) 595; 1963 (53) 161; 1996 Act No. 459, Section 238.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 19 - Protection Of Titles To And Interests In Motor Vehicles › Section 56-19-660. Filing notices of security interests; record.

The Department of Motor Vehicles shall file each notice of security interest received by it with the required fee and maintain a record of all notices of security interests filed by it.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-150.46; 1957 (50) 595.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 19 - Protection Of Titles To And Interests In Motor Vehicles › Section 56-19-670. Assignment of security interest; perfection; filing.

A lienholder may assign, absolutely or otherwise, his security interest in the vehicle to a person other than the owner without affecting the interest of the owner or the validity of the security interest, but any person without notice of the assignment is protected in dealing with the lienholder as the holder of the security interest, and the lienholder remains liable for any obligations as lienholder until an assignment by the lienholder is delivered to the Department of Motor Vehicles as provided in this section.
The assignee may, but need not, to perfect the assignment, deliver to the department an assignment by the lienholder in the form the department prescribes with the required fee.
The Department shall file each assignment received by it with the required fee and note the assignee as lienholder upon the record of security interests maintained by the Department pursuant to Section 56-19-660.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-150.47; 1957 (50) 595; 1990 Act No. 577, Section 3(A).
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 19 - Protection Of Titles To And Interests In Motor Vehicles › Section 56-19-680. Satisfaction of security interest for which certificate is in possession of lienholder; filing release.

(1) Upon the satisfaction of a security interest in a vehicle for which the certificate of title is in the possession of the lienholder, he shall, within ten days after demand and, in any event, within thirty days, execute a release of his security interest, in the space provided therefor on the certificate or as the Department of Motor Vehicles prescribes, and mail or deliver the certificate and release to the Department which shall file the release and note it upon the record of security interest maintained by the Department pursuant to Section 56-19-660. The Department shall then mail the certificate to the next lienholder or if no other lienholder, then to the owner. No charge shall be made by the lienholder for executing such release.
(2) Upon the satisfaction of a security interest in a vehicle for which the certificate of title is in the possession of a prior lienholder, the lienholder whose security interest is satisfied shall within ten days after demand, and, in any event, within thirty days execute a release in duplicate in the form the Department prescribes and deliver or mail a copy to the owner and a copy to the Department for notation upon the record of security interests maintained by the Department pursuant to Section 56-19-660.
(3) Upon failure of the lienholder to forward the certificate to the Department as required by this article he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars or be imprisoned for not more than thirty days.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-150.48; 1957 (50) 595, 1963 (53) 161.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 19 - Protection Of Titles To And Interests In Motor Vehicles › Section 56-19-700. Security interests in previously registered vehicles not needing certificates unaffected.

This chapter shall in no wise affect or impair any chattel mortgage, lien or other security interest in a previously registered vehicle for which no certificate of title or application for a certificate of title is required under this chapter.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-150.50; 1957 (50) 595.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 19 - Protection Of Titles To And Interests In Motor Vehicles › Section 56-19-710. Continuation of security interests previously perfected under other laws.

If a security interest in a previously registered vehicle was perfected under any other applicable law of this State on January 1, 1958, the security interest shall continue perfected until its perfection lapses under the law under which it was perfected or would lapse in the absence of a further recording or until the earlier lapse of two years and nine months from January 1, 1958 and thereafter, if previously perfected under this article.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-150.51; 1957 (50) 595.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 19 - Protection Of Titles To And Interests In Motor Vehicles › Section 56-19-720. Sale or security interest not created by terminal rental adjustment clause in motor vehicle or trailer lease.

Notwithstanding another provision of law, a transaction involving a motor vehicle or trailer does not create a sale or security interest merely because the agreement contains a terminal rental adjustment clause which provides that the rental price may be or must be adjusted either upward or downward by reference to the amount realized upon sale or other disposition of the motor vehicle or trailer.
HISTORY: 1998 Act No. 406, Section 1.
Editor's Note
1998 Act No. 406, Section 2,provides as follows:
"The clarification of existing law in Section 56-19-720 of the 1976 Code as contained in Section 1 of this act must be given effect in all court cases brought on or after the effective date of this act."
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 19 - Protection Of Titles To And Interests In Motor Vehicles › Section 56-19-810. Peace officers shall report theft or recovery of vehicles.

A peace officer who learns of the theft of a vehicle not since recovered or of the recovery of a vehicle whose theft or conversion he knows or has reason to believe has been reported to the Department of Motor Vehicles shall forthwith report the theft or recovery to the Department.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-150.61; 1957 (50) 595.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 19 - Protection Of Titles To And Interests In Motor Vehicles › Section 56-19-820. Owners of lienholders may report thefts or conversions; Department of Motor Vehicles may disregard report; recovery to be reported.

An owner or a lienholder may report the theft of a vehicle, or its conversion if a crime, to the Department of Motor Vehicles, but the Department may disregard the report of a conversion unless a warrant has been issued for the arrest of a person charged with the conversion. A person who has so reported the theft or conversion of a vehicle shall forthwith after learning of its recovery report the recovery to the Department.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-150.62; 1957 (50) 595.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 19 - Protection Of Titles To And Interests In Motor Vehicles › Section 56-19-830. Liability of officer or agency for acting on false theft report.

No peace officer or government agency shall be criminally or civilly liable for any act done in good faith as a result of a false report of the theft of a vehicle if no liability would have resulted from such act had the report been true.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-150.63; 1957 (50) 595.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 19 - Protection Of Titles To And Interests In Motor Vehicles › Section 56-19-840. Unclaimed vehicles in garages and certain other places to be reported; loss of storage lien for failure to report.

A proprietor, an owner, or an operator of any towing company, storage facility, garage, or repair shop or any person who repairs or furnishes any material for the repair of a vehicle, where a vehicle remains unclaimed for a period of thirty days, must report the vehicle as unclaimed to the Department of Motor Vehicles within five days after the expiration of the thirty-day period. The report must be on a form prescribed by the department. The form may be submitted before the thirty-day period expires.
A vehicle is considered "unclaimed" when the owner of the vehicle has not reclaimed it within thirty days after notification pursuant to Sections 29-15-10 and 56-5-5630. A person who fails to report a vehicle as unclaimed in accordance with this section forfeits all claims, liens, or costs associated with the towing and storage.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-150.64; 1957 (50) 595; 2004 Act No. 269, Section 9.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 19 - Protection Of Titles To And Interests In Motor Vehicles › Section 56-19-850. Records of reports of stolen, converted, recovered, and unclaimed vehicles; distribution of lists.

The Department of Motor Vehicles shall maintain and appropriately index cumulative public records of stolen, converted, recovered and unclaimed vehicles reported to it pursuant to this article. The Department may make and distribute weekly lists of such vehicles so reported to it to peace officers.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-150.65; 1957 (50) 595.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 19 - Protection Of Titles To And Interests In Motor Vehicles › Section 56-19-1010. Title for all-terrain vehicle (ATV); application.

An owner of an ATV may make application to the Department of Motor Vehicles for a title for the vehicle accompanied by the required fee and upon the appropriate form prescribed and furnished by the department. The application must be accompanied by a manufacturer's certificate of origin or previous title properly assigned to the applicant.
HISTORY: 2011 Act No. 24, Section 2, eff July 1, 2011.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 19 - Protection Of Titles To And Interests In Motor Vehicles › Section 56-19-1020. Application for title of previously-titled all-terrain vehicle (ATV) received by gift, trade, or other means; proof of ownership

When a person who is not a licensed ATV dealer receives by purchase, gift, trade, or by another means a vehicle that was titled in this State, the person who receives the vehicle may make application to the department for a title. The application must be accompanied by the required documents and fee for title. The department shall issue a certificate of title once it has received a properly completed application. An owner of an ATV, before the effective date of this article, who cannot provide proof of ownership, may request an affidavit from the sheriff in the county in which he resides. The affidavit shall state that the sheriff finds the person making application for the title is the legal owner of the ATV. Before issuing the affidavit, the sheriff must verify through the National Crime Information Center that the ATV is not stolen. The department shall issue a title application to the owner upon presentation of the affidavit, application, and fee.
HISTORY: 2011 Act No. 24, Section 2, eff July 1, 2011.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 19 - Protection Of Titles To And Interests In Motor Vehicles › Section 56-19-1030. Title fee for all-terrain vehicle (ATV).

The title fee for an ATV is contained in Section 56-19-420(A). For purposes of this article, an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) is defined as provided in Section 50-26-20.
HISTORY: 2011 Act No. 24, Section 2, eff July 1, 2011.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 21 - Regulation Of Traffic At State Institutions › Section 56-21-10. Governing boards of state institutions may employ security personnel and make traffic regulations.

The governing boards of all State institutions which provide for the operation and parking of vehicles upon the grounds, streets, drives and alleys or any other institutional property under its control are hereby authorized to employ security personnel and to promulgate such traffic regulations as may be deemed necessary. Such regulations may include the following:
(1) Fixing the rate of speed;
(2) Assigning parking spaces and designating parking areas and assessing charges therefor;
(3) Prohibiting parking in certain areas;
(4) Removing vehicles parked in violation of regulations at the expense of the violator;
(5) Instituting a system of registration for vehicle identification;
(6) Issuing parking and traffic tickets.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-771; 1972 (57) 2268.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 21 - Regulation Of Traffic At State Institutions › Section 56-21-20. Unlawful parking at state institutions.

It shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle upon any property under the control of a State institution except in the manner designated by such institution.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-772; 1972 (57) 2268.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 21 - Regulation Of Traffic At State Institutions › Section 56-21-30. Posting of speed limit and parking regulation signs at state institutions.

Notice of speed limits and parking regulations on property of the State institutions shall be provided by the posting of conspicuous signs in places deemed appropriate.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-773; 1972 (57) 2268.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 21 - Regulation Of Traffic At State Institutions › Section 56-21-40. Fines and forfeitures shall go to state institutions.

All fines and bail forfeitures collected under the provisions of Sections 56-21-10 to 56-21-60 shall be deposited in the general fund of the particular State institution wherein the violation occurred.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-774; 1972 (57) 2268.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 21 - Regulation Of Traffic At State Institutions › Section 56-21-50. Jurisdiction of courts within area of state institutions; duty of county treasurer receiving fines or forfeitures.

The recorder, judge or the magistrate having jurisdiction within the area where such State institution is situate shall have jurisdiction to hear, try and determine violations of the provisions of Sections 56-21-10 to 56-21-60. The county treasurer who receives fines or bail forfeitures collected by the recorder, judge or magistrate for violations of the provisions of Sections 56-21-10 to 56-21-60 shall remit such fines or forfeitures to the institutions concerned.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-775; 1972 (57) 2268.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 21 - Regulation Of Traffic At State Institutions › Section 56-21-60. Penalties for traffic and parking offenses at state institutions.

Any person violating the provisions of Sections 56-21-10 to 56-21-50 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in an amount not to exceed one hundred dollars or be imprisoned for a term not to exceed thirty days.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-776; 1972 (57) 2268.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 21 - Regulation Of Traffic At State Institutions › Section 56-21-70. Regulation of traffic and parking at State Hospital and Midlands Center; application of state laws.

The South Carolina Department of Mental Health may adopt and promulgate rules and regulations governing and controlling use of the roads, streets and parking facilities by operators of vehicles within the area and lands of the State Hospital and Midlands Center. No such rules and regulations shall be in conflict with any State law on the subject, all of such State laws being hereby declared in force and applicable to the roads, streets and parking facilities under the control and authority of the Department of Mental Health. Copies of the rules and regulations shall be filed with the administrative heads of both institutions, the Secretary of State, the Code Commissioner, the city of Columbia and the magistrate's office in Upper township in Richland County.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-808; 1959 (51) 484.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 21 - Regulation Of Traffic At State Institutions › Section 56-21-80. Enforcement of traffic and parking regulations at State Hospital and Midlands Center; summonses.

Marshals employed at both institutions shall enforce the laws, rules and regulations mentioned in Section 56-21-70 and shall issue summonses to all violators in the same manner as provided for highway patrolmen.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-809; 1959 (51) 484.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 21 - Regulation Of Traffic At State Institutions › Section 56-21-90. Jurisdiction of traffic and parking offenses at State Hospital and Midlands Center; forfeiture of bond.

Persons violating the provisions of any of the applicable laws, rules or regulations shall be tried by the magistrate or recorder having jurisdiction of the area in which the particular institution is situate; provided, any person who desires to forfeit bond may pay the amount of the minimum fine to the treasurer of the State Hospital or Midlands Center.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-810; 1959 (51) 484.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 21 - Regulation Of Traffic At State Institutions › Section 56-21-100. Penalties for traffic and parking offenses at State Hospital and Midlands Center.

Any person violating the provisions of any of the rules and regulations prescribed by the Department of Mental Health shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than two dollars nor more than fifty dollars or be imprisoned for not more than fifteen days, in accordance with the schedule published by the Department. Violations of any other laws shall be punished as provided therefor.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-811; 1959 (51) 484.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 21 - Regulation Of Traffic At State Institutions › Section 56-21-110. Fines and forfeitures shall go to State Hospital or Midlands Center.

All fines and bail forfeitures collected under the provisions of Sections 56-21-70 to 56-21-100 shall be credited to the general fund of the State Hospital or Midlands Center, dependent upon where the violation occurred. All fines and bail forfeitures resulting from the enforcement of Sections 56-21-70 to 56-21-100 shall be forthwith forwarded by the city recorder or magistrate to the State Hospital or Midlands Center to be credited to their respective general funds.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-812; 1959 (51) 484.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 23 - Driver Training Schools › Section 56-23-10. Licensing of driver education or training schools; classroom or behind the wheel training licenses.

A person may not engage in the business of training or educating persons to drive or operate motor vehicles or offer training or education to conduct either the classroom or the behind the wheel training, or both, for which a fee or charge is made, unless and until the person has obtained and holds a valid driver training school license issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles. A person may hold a license to teach classroom only or to teach behind the wheel training only. The licensee must have a permanent location in this State and all motor vehicles used for behind the wheel instruction must be registered in this State. If licensed for classroom training only, the motor vehicle requirement shall be waived.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-193; 1954 (48) 1536; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1494; 1996 Act No. 459, Section 239; 2006 Act No. 328, Section 1, eff January 1, 2007.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 23 - Driver Training Schools › Section 56-23-20. Certain courses exempt.

Classroom courses offered by state institutions and duly accredited and approved colleges, public, parochial, and private high schools in which classroom driver education is part of the curriculum, instruction offered by an entity described in Section 33-49-160(A) that is providing instruction to employees of its member organizations, or to employers giving instruction to their licensed employees shall be exempt from registration and license under this chapter. Courses offered to adults under adult education programs shall not qualify for the exemption.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-194; 1954 (48) 1536; 1976 Act No. 738 Section 3; 1978 Act No. 450 Section 1; 2022 Act No. 126 (S.947), Section 1, eff April 4, 2022.
Effect of Amendment
2022 Act No. 126, Section 1, in the first sentence, inserted ", instruction offered by an entity described in Section 33-49-160(A) that is providing instruction to employees of its member organizations," following "part of the curriculum", and made a nonsubstantive change.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 23 - Driver Training Schools › Section 56-23-30. Application for license.

Applications for driver training school licenses shall be made to the Department of Motor Vehicles on such forms as the Department may prescribe, and all applicants shall furnish such information as may be required by the Department.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-194.1; 1954 (48) 1536.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 23 - Driver Training Schools › Section 56-23-40. License fees; expiration of license; use of proceeds; corporate bond.

The license fee for each driver training school licensed under the provisions of this chapter is two hundred dollars. Prior to operation, each licensed driver training school also must obtain a corporate surety bond in the amount of ten thousand dollars. The bond must be given to the department and executed by the applicant, as principal, and by a corporate surety company authorized to do business in this State, as surety. The bond must be conditioned upon the applicant or licensee complying with the statutes applicable to the license and as indemnification for loss or damage suffered by a person having retained services of a driver training school. Licenses issued pursuant to this section expire on the last day of the month, forty-eight months after the license is issued. The proceeds from the sale of driver training school licenses must be placed in the state general fund for the administration and enforcement of this chapter and title.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-194.2; 1954 (48) 1536; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1495; 2006 Act No. 328, Section 2, eff January 1, 2007; 2023 Act No. 51 (S.549), Section 39, eff May 18, 2023.
Editor's Note
2023 Act No. 51, Section 40(F), provides as follows:
"[SECTION 40.](F) The remaining SECTIONS of this act, and Sections 56-3-214(A), 56-3-214(B)(1), 56-3-214(B)(2), 56-3-214(B)(3), 56-3-214(G), 56-1-20, 56-23-40, 56-23-60, and 56-23-105 take effect upon approval by the Governor."
Effect of Amendment
2023 Act No. 51, Section 39, in the first sentence, substituted "The license fee" for "The annual license fee" and "two hundred dollars" for "fifty dollars", in the fifth sentence, substituted "expire on the last day of the month, forty-eight months after the license is issued" for "expire on June thirtieth of the license year of issue", and made nonsubstantive changes.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 23 - Driver Training Schools › Section 56-23-50. Denial, suspension, or revocation of license.

A license shall be denied any person failing to meet and maintain the minimum standards and conditions of operation established by the Department of Motor Vehicles pursuant to Section 56-23-60. The Department shall also have the right to revoke or suspend any license where the Department finds that the licensee has failed to maintain the required minimum standards or conditions of operation or conducts the school in any way inimical to the public interest or safety on the highways.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-194.3; 1954 (48) 1536.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 23 - Driver Training Schools › Section 56-23-60. Minimum standards and conditions of operation for schools; inspection of schools.

The Department of Motor Vehicles may establish minimum standards for the operation of driver training schools authorized to be licensed under the provisions of this chapter and prescribe conditions of operation of the schools. The minimum standards must include, but are not limited to, a requirement that driver training schools have or have access to sufficient facilities and equipment to conduct an eight-hour driver training course for a minimum of ten students. All activities and operations of licensed driver training schools are at all times subject to inspection or examination by authorized representatives of the department. In addition, records of these activities and operations must be made available at the permanent location in this State for review by the department upon its request.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-194.4; 1954 (48) 1536; 1988 Act No. 612, Section 2; 2006 Act No. 328, Section 3, eff January 1, 2007; 2023 Act No. 51 (S.549), Section 35, eff May 18, 2023.
Editor's Note
2023 Act No. 51, Section 40(F), provides as follows:
"[SECTION 40.](F) The remaining SECTIONS of this act, and Sections 56-3-214(A), 56-3-214(B)(1), 56-3-214(B)(2), 56-3-214(B)(3), 56-3-214(G), 56-1-20, 56-23-40, 56-23-60, and 56-23-105 take effect upon approval by the Governor."
Effect of Amendment
2023 Act No. 51, Section 35, in the second sentence, substituted "eight-hour driver training course" for "eight-hour defensive driving course".
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 23 - Driver Training Schools › Section 56-23-70. Driver instructor qualifying courses; supervision by Department of Motor Vehicles.

Driver instructor qualifying courses may be conducted by recognized college, university, or driving school instructors who successfully have completed an approved forty-hour safety education course from a recognized college or university and have acquired an instructor permit from the Department of Motor Vehicles. Where such qualifying courses are offered, they must be supervised by the department and must be offered at least once a year.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-194.6; 1974 (58) 2251; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1496; 2006 Act No. 328, Section 4, eff January 1, 2007.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 23 - Driver Training Schools › Section 56-23-80. Temporary driver instructor permits; fee.

Temporary instructor permits may be issued after special examination by the Department of Motor Vehicles and upon payment of a twenty-dollar fee to the department. Temporary instructor permits are valid for six months and until the next available and approved qualifying class, but in no event shall such permits exceed one year. A temporary driver instructor's activities and instruction are subject to an audit of driving skills and classroom teaching by authorized representatives of the department. The proceeds from the sale of temporary instructor permits must be deposited in the state general fund.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-194.7; 1974 (58) 2248; 2006 Act No. 328, Section 5, eff January 1, 2007.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 23 - Driver Training Schools › Section 56-23-85. Driver instructor permits required.

A person connected with driver training schools or private, parochial, or public high schools shall not engage in either classroom only instruction, or behind the wheel only instruction, or both, unless the person has obtained and holds a valid driver instructor permit or temporary driver instructor permit issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Appropriate examination for an instructor permit must be at the discretion of the department. The annual fee for an instructor permit is twenty dollars, and all instructor permits expire on June thirtieth. Public and private high school instructors are not required to pay a fee for a permit. The proceeds from the sale of instructor permits must be deposited in the state general fund.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-194.8; 1976 Act No. 738 Section 4; 1978 Act No. 450 Section 2; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1497; 2006 Act No. 328, Section 6, eff January 1, 2007.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 23 - Driver Training Schools › Section 56-23-87. Certificate of completion of driver's training course.

A person successfully completing a driver's training course conducted by a person holding a valid driver's instructor permit as provided for in Section 56-23-85 must be issued a certificate of completion by the entity conducting the course in a form consistent with regulations issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
HISTORY: 1998 Act No. 258, Section 5.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 23 - Driver Training Schools › Section 56-23-90. Penalties.

Any person violating any provisions of this chapter, or of any driver training school license issued pursuant to this chapter, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days, or both, for such violation.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-194.5; 1954 (48) 1536.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 23 - Driver Training Schools › Section 56-23-95. Driver training school financial assistance.

All driver training schools licensed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter may offer financial assistance to students who attend public South Carolina high schools to cover the fees associated with the business of training or educating persons to drive or operate motor vehicles.
HISTORY: 2022 Act No. 126 (S.947), Section 2, eff April 4, 2022.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 23 - Driver Training Schools › Section 56-23-105. "Classroom training" defined.

For purposes of this chapter, "classroom training" means either in-person, virtual, or remote online training. The online classroom training must utilize a student username and password, measure the amount of time that the student spends in the course, provide technical support to students that is available twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week, utilize personal validation questions which appear periodically throughout the entire course, have measures in place that prevent a student from completing more than four hours of instruction in a calendar day, and provide a final examination at the completion of the program. A passing score or 80 percent or higher is required. Students may take up to three attempts to pass the online test to successfully complete the course.
HISTORY: 2023 Act No. 51 (S.549), Section 36, eff May 18, 2023.
Editor's Note
2023 Act No. 51, Section 40(F), provides as follows:
"[SECTION 40.](F) The remaining SECTIONS of this act, and Sections 56-3-214(A), 56-3-214(B)(1), 56-3-214(B)(2), 56-3-214(B)(3), 56-3-214(G), 56-1-20, 56-23-40, 56-23-60, and 56-23-105 take effect upon approval by the Governor."
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 25 - Nonresident Traffic Violator Compacts › Section 56-25-10. Compacts enacted as law; duty of Department of Motor Vehicles

The Nonresident Traffic Violator Compacts of 1972 and 1977 (compacts) are enacted into law by reference and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining therein. The director of the Department of Motor Vehicles shall execute all documents and perform all other acts necessary to carry out the provisions of the compacts. The department shall maintain a current list of those jurisdictions which have entered into the compacts. The list and copies of the compacts shall from time to time be disseminated to those agencies and individuals who are responsible for enforcement of their provisions.
HISTORY: 1980 Act No. 461; 1986 Act No. 383, Section 2; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1498; 1996 Act No. 459, Section 240.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 25 - Nonresident Traffic Violator Compacts › Section 56-25-20. Suspension of license for failure to comply with traffic citation or summons for litter violation; notification of licensing authority in compact jurisdiction.

When a South Carolina court or the driver licensing authority of a compact jurisdiction notifies the Department of Motor Vehicles that a resident of South Carolina or person possessing a valid South Carolina driver's license has failed to comply with the terms of a traffic citation or an official Department of Natural Resources summons for a littering violation issued in this or any compact jurisdiction, the department may suspend or refuse to renew the person's driver's license if the notice from a South Carolina court or the driver licensing authority of a compact jurisdiction is received no more than twelve months from the date on which the traffic citation or an official Department of Natural Resources summons for a littering violation was issued or adjudicated. The license must remain suspended until satisfactory evidence has been furnished to the department of compliance with the terms of the citation or an official Department of Natural Resources summons for a littering violation and any further order of the court having jurisdiction in the matter and until a reinstatement fee as provided in Section 56-1-390 is paid to the department. A person whose license is suspended under this section is not required to file proof of financial responsibility as required by the Financial Responsibility Act (Chapter 9 of Title 56) as a condition for reinstatement.
Upon notification by a South Carolina court that a nonresident licensed in a compact jurisdiction has failed to comply with the terms of a traffic citation or an official Department of Natural Resources summons for a littering violation, the department shall notify the licensing authority in the compact jurisdiction for such action as appropriate under the terms of the compacts.
HISTORY: 1980 Act No. 461; 1990 Act No. 596, Section 2; 1996 Act No. 459, Section 241; 2004 Act No. 306, Section 2.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 25 - Nonresident Traffic Violator Compacts › Section 56-25-30. Release of violator on personal recognizance; release of nonresident licensed by compact jurisdiction.

Any law enforcement officer who issues to a person a uniform traffic citation may, in addition to any other action authorized by law and subject to the exceptions noted in this section, allow the person to proceed without first either having to post bond or appear before a magistrate, recorder or other judicial officer if the person accepts the citation. Such acceptance shall constitute the person's recognizance to comply with the terms of the citation.
When issuing a citation for a traffic violation to a nonresident who is licensed by a compact jurisdiction, if the law enforcement officer receives the person's recognizance as above-described, the officer shall not, subject to the exceptions noted below, require the person to post bond but shall allow the person to proceed.
HISTORY: 1980 Act No. 461.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 25 - Nonresident Traffic Violator Compacts › Section 56-25-40. Violations for which person not entitled to release on personal recognizance; penalty for failure to appear as required by citation.

(a) No person shall be entitled to be released on personal recognizance pursuant to Section 56-25-30 if the officer requires the person to appear before a magistrate, recorder or other judicial officer or if the offense is:
(1) One which would result in the suspension or revocation of a person's license or privilege to drive under the laws of this State;
(2) A violation of Section 56-1-440 prohibiting the operation of a motor vehicle without a valid driver's license;
(3) A violation of a highway weight limitation.
(b) Any person who willfully fails to appear before the court as required by a uniform traffic citation without having posted such bond as may be required by the court or been granted a continuance by the court shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days.
HISTORY: 1980 Act No. 461.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 27 - Professional Housemoving › Section 56-27-10. Definitions.

As used in this chapter:
(a) "Person" means an individual, corporation, partnership, association, or any other business entity.
(b) "House" means a dwelling, building, or other structure in excess of fourteen feet in width.
(c) [Deleted]
HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 420; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1499; 1996 Act No. 459, Section 246A.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 27 - Professional Housemoving › Section 56-27-30. Term of license; renewal; fee.

A license issued under the provisions of this chapter is effective for a period of one year from the date of issuance and is renewable on an annual basis. The annual and renewal fee for the license is contained in Section 57-3-130. All persons issued licenses under the provisions of this chapter are required to carry the license on their persons at all times when engaged in the profession of housemoving on the roads and highways of this State.
HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 420; 2012 Act No. 110, Section 1, eff February 1, 2012.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 56 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 27 - Professional Housemoving › Section 56-27-40. Insurance.

(a) No license may be issued or renewed pursuant to this chapter unless the applicant presents to the Department of Transportation a certificate of insurance from an insurance company licensed to do business in this State providing:
(1) Motor vehicle insurance with minimum coverage of one hundred thousand dollars for bodily injury to or death of one person in any one accident, three hundred thousand dollars for bodily injury to or death of two or more persons in any one accident, and fifty thousand dollars for injury to or destruction of property of others in any one accident.
(2) Comprehensive general liability insurance with a minimum coverage of two hundred fifty thousand dollars combined single limit of liability.
(3) Workers' Compensation insurance that complies with Title 42 if the person licensed as a professional housemover is not exempt from the provisions of that title.
(b) The certificate shall provide for continuous coverage during the effective period of the license issued pursuant to this chapter.
HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 420.