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2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 3 - Department Of Transportation › Section 57-3-200. Department of Transportation authorized to enter into agreements to finance construction and maintenance of highways, roads, streets, and bridges.

From the funds appropriated to the Department of Transportation and from any other sources which may be available to the Department, the Department of Transportation may expend such funds as it deems necessary to enter into partnership agreements with political subdivisions including authorized transportation authorities, and private entities to finance, by tolls and other financing methods, the cost of acquiring, constructing, equipping, maintaining and operating highways, roads, streets and bridges in this State. The provisions of this Section must not be construed to confer upon the Department of Transportation or political subdivisions any power to finance by tolls or other means the acquisition, construction, equipping, maintenance or operation which the Department of Transportation or political subdivisions does not possess under other provisions of this Code.
HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 497, Part II, Section 128.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 3 - Department Of Transportation › Section 57-3-210. Contracting with private operators of public transit systems; coordination of funding and resources; annual progress report of department; reporting requirements for entities using public funds for public transportation purposes; exemptions.

(A) The department is authorized to utilize public transit funds to contract directly with private operators of public transit systems to provide service to the general public, provided that the private operators have established a plan of service that has been approved by the local governmental entity that has jurisdiction over the area to be served, the department, the commission, and the federal government.
(B)(1) The department shall plan and develop mechanisms for increasing coordination of funding streams and resources for public transportation at both the state and local levels to improve access and delivery of transportation services, especially in rural areas. The department shall work with each agency that provides funding for transportation and assure input in the process from major local providers of transportation services to the public, including current providers of coordinated public service.
(2) The department shall prepare and submit a progress report to the General Assembly on or before January fifteenth each year. The progress report required by this section may be combined with the Department of Transportation Annual Report required pursuant to Section 57-3-760 and the Office of Public Transit Report required by Section 57-3-40.
(C)(1) Any agency, local government, or other entity, including nonprofit organizations, using state funds or state-administered federal funds to transport members of the general public on a regular basis must:
(a) provide input and information concerning its operations upon request by the Office of Public Transit for planning purposes. The input and information must be provided in a timely manner and in a format specified by the office; and
(b) demonstrate progress toward the development of or participation in a public transportation coordination plan.
(2) No transportation funds may be provided to any entity not in compliance with the requirements of this subsection.
(3) The Department of Corrections, the Department of Education, school districts, and institutions of higher education are exempt from the requirements of this subsection.
HISTORY: 2010 Act No. 206, Section 7, eff June 7, 2010.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 3 - Department Of Transportation › Section 57-3-220. Interim use of railroad right-of-way corridor held for railroad right-of-way preservation; reporting requirements.

(A) A railroad right-of-way corridor held for railroad right-of-way preservation may be used for a public purpose compatible with preservation of the corridor for future transportation use on an interim basis until the corridor is used for rail transport. A railroad corridor held for railroad right-of-way preservation is not abandoned for the purpose of any law.
(B) Each railroad and railway, as defined in Section 58-17-10, shall file a report with the Office of Railroads concerning active, inactive, to be abandoned, and abandoned rail lines. The report must be amended to reflect additions, changes, and revisions to the status of reporting entity's rail lines within three months of the addition, change, or revision.
(C) To assist the facilitation of a comprehensive intermodal transportation program for the effective and efficient interstate and intrastate movement of people and freight, the Office of Railroads must be:
(1) notified by the State Ports Authority of any existing or future plans for expanding the authority's transportation infrastructure; and
(2) provided with master plans or construction plans for airport transportation improvements by the Division of Aeronautics.
HISTORY: 2010 Act No. 206, Section 7, eff June 7, 2010.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 3 - Department Of Transportation › Section 57-3-230. Secretary authorized to convene special advisory committee; purpose; membership; participation of other state agencies.

The Secretary of Transportation may convene a special advisory committee to assist the department in evaluating and addressing issues related to the facilitation of safe and efficient freight, transportation, and logistics infrastructure in the State. The advisory committee must include members of the general public to represent the freight transportation and supply chain industries. The secretary also may invite other state agencies to participate in the committee.
HISTORY: 2010 Act No. 206, Section 7, eff June 7, 2010.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 3 - Department Of Transportation › Section 57-3-600. Newly constructed roads.

Before a county or municipal corporation may accept a deed to a newly constructed road or agree to maintain a newly constructed road, it shall obtain an affidavit from the donor and the contractor who constructed the road that all construction costs have been paid, that the road complies with all applicable construction specifications and standards for construction, and that the road is free of all encumbrances.
A donor or contractor who knowingly submits a false affidavit affirming that all construction costs have been paid for a road or that a road is free of all encumbrances, or both, is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days.
For the purposes of this section, a "newly constructed road" is one which has been completed within two years of the date of the city's or county's consideration of whether to accept the deed or to maintain a newly constructed road.
HISTORY: 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1508.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 3 - Department Of Transportation › Section 57-3-610. Naming a road, bridge, or highway in honor of an individual.

Whenever a road, bridge, or other highway facility is dedicated and named in honor of an individual by act or resolution of the General Assembly, the Department of Transportation must be reimbursed all expenses incurred by the department to implement the dedication.
Reimbursement for expenses incurred by the department must first be approved by a majority of each county legislative delegation of the county in which the road, bridge, or facility is located. Reimbursement must be from the State Secondary "C" Apportionment Fund of the county or counties in which the road, bridge, or facility is located, and expenses under this section are limited to five hundred dollars.
Reimbursement for expenses incurred by the department to name and dedicate a highway facility pursuant to a request from other than the General Assembly must be by agreement between the requesting entity and the department.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-71; 1952 Code Section 33-71; 1951 (47) 457; 1977 Act No. 82 Section 5; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1508.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 3 - Department Of Transportation › Section 57-3-615. Highway tolls; usage.

If a toll is administered on a project by the Department of Transportation, the toll must be used to pay for the construction, maintenance costs, and other expenses for only that project. A toll project that is in excess of one hundred fifty million dollars may only be initiated as provided in Chapter 37 of Title 4.
No toll may be imposed on passage of any vehicle on federal interstate highways in this State which were in existence as of January 1, 1997, unless the imposition is otherwise affirmatively approved by the General Assembly in separate legislation enacted solely for that purpose.
HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 309, Section 1; 1995 Act No. 52, Section 4; 1997 Act No. 148, Section 3.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 3 - Department Of Transportation › Section 57-3-618. Imposition and collection of toll on Interstate 73.

Notwithstanding another provision of law, the Department of Transportation may impose and collect a toll on the proposed Interstate 73 corridor upon completion of this highway project. This toll must be used to pay for the cost of planning, right-of-way acquisitions, financing, construction, operation, and other expenses associated with this highway project, and for the removal of the tolls upon payment of all such costs. This toll must not be imposed upon a state-owned or district-owned school bus.
HISTORY: 2006 Act No. 228, Section 1, eff February 6, 2006.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 3 - Department Of Transportation › Section 57-3-625. Improvements bordering right-of-way at signal-controlled intersection; demolition or alteration of permanent building may not be required; property owner not to pay.

If access to a particular property or properties is controlled by a traffic signal, the Department of Transportation may require that improvements be made to the property within five hundred feet of the department's right of way which are necessary to improve traffic flow at the intersection controlled by the traffic signal. The required improvements must be limited to lane widening, adding a lane, curb cuts, medians, and similar improvements. Under this section, demolition or alteration of a permanent building on the property must not be required by the department. The property owner is not required to pay for improvements performed by the department.
HISTORY: 1993 Act No. 119, Section 1.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 3 - Department Of Transportation › Section 57-3-630. Bringing of suits.

The department may bring suits in its name, whenever a cause of action shall accrue to the State by reason of the injury, damage, destruction, or obstruction of any road in the state highway system, any bridge, culvert, ditch, causeway, embankment, wharf, tollgate, tollhouse, or other facility or any equipment, apparatus, or property, real or personal, belonging to the state highway system. Suits for the recovery of appropriate damages, and other proceedings incident thereto, shall be instituted in any court of competent jurisdiction, for and in behalf of the State in the name of the department as plaintiff. Complaints and other pleadings requiring verification may be verified by the director or any other person duly authorized by him.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-73; 1952 Code Section 33-73; 1951 (47) 457; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1508.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 3 - Department Of Transportation › Section 57-3-640. Driveways and roads in state parks.

The department may construct and maintain necessary driveways and roads in state parks. All work to be performed by the department pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be with the consent and approval of the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism, and such work shall not result in the assumption by the department of any liability whatsoever on account of damages to property, injuries to persons or death growing out of or in any way connected with such work. Such driveways and roads taken over in state parks shall not affect the respective counties' portion of mileage to be taken over by the department under any other statute. The construction and maintenance work by the department authorized by this section shall be paid for from the state highway fund.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-74; 1952 Code Section 33-74; 1951 (47) 457; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1508.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 3 - Department Of Transportation › Section 57-3-650. Restoration, preservation, and enhancement of scenic beauty along highways; information centers.

(a) Highway construction and maintenance by the department as authorized in this title shall include the authority to acquire strips of land along highways and to landscape and develop the strips and other lands within the highway right-of-way in order to restore, preserve, and enhance the scenic beauty along the highways. The department may construct and maintain on such land public rest and recreational areas or trails, roadside parks, sanitary and other facilities reasonably necessary to accommodate the traveling public.
(b) In order to provide information in the specific interest of the traveling public, the department is authorized to construct and maintain such information centers at the aforesaid recreational and rest areas as it may deem desirable. For the purpose of informing the public of places of interest within the State and providing such other information as may be considered desirable, these centers shall distribute maps, informational directories, and advertising pamphlets. Information centers shall be staffed by persons hired and paid by the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism.
(c) The department is authorized to enter into agreements with the United States Secretary of Commerce as provided for in Title 23 of the United States Code, relating to the establishment and operation of information centers at rest and recreational areas, and to take action in the name of the State to comply with the terms of such agreements.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-74.1; 1961 (52) 288; 1965 (54) 271; 1966 (54) 2106; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1508.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 3 - Department Of Transportation › Section 57-3-660. Streets, roads, and driveways at state institutions.

The department may hard surface and otherwise improve such streets, roads, and driveways, including sidewalks, at state institutions as the department, together with the board of trustees or other governing body of any such state institution, may deem necessary. The cost of such improvements shall be paid for out of the state highway fund.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-75; 1952 Code Section 33-75; 1951 (47) 457; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1508.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 3 - Department Of Transportation › Section 57-3-670. Cooperation and contracts with Federal Highway Administration.

The department may cooperate and enter into contracts with the Federal Highway Administration and do any and all things necessary to carry out the provisions of any Federal-Aid Highway Act, including, but not limited to, the planning, construction, and maintenance of federal-aid highways, access roads, flight strips, and all other eligible projects, regardless of whether such projects are a part of the state highway system and may condemn or otherwise acquire lands necessary for rights-of-way in connection therewith under the procedure prescribed by law in condemning and acquiring lands for state highway purposes.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-76; 1952 Code Section 33-76; 1951 (47) 457; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1508.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 3 - Department Of Transportation › Section 57-3-680. Federal-aid projects which are not part of state system.

If any such project to be constructed under the provisions of Section 57-3-670 is not a part of the state highway system, no part of the actual costs of rights-of-way, construction, or maintenance shall be paid for from state highway funds. Any political subdivision having jurisdiction over a project not a part of the state highway system shall deposit with the department its estimated share of the cost of such project before the contract is awarded, except that state highway funds may be advanced to meet current payments to contractors and others when existing agreements provide for reimbursements by the federal government of such funds advanced by the department. Article 13 of Chapter 5 of this title shall not apply to any project that is not a part of the state highway system.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-77; 1952 Code Section 33-77; 1951 (47) 457; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1508.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 3 - Department Of Transportation › Section 57-3-690. Construction of county roads with Federal funds.

Whenever the department shall with federal funds, undertake the construction of any county road or shall, in anticipation of federal funds becoming available for such purpose, establish the location of any such road, the lawfully authorized officials of the county concerned shall provide, without cost to the department, all necessary rights-of-way for such construction, including lands for borrow and material pits. In order to secure such rights-of-way and other necessary lands such county officials may exercise any or all of the usual powers of condemnation lawfully authorized to be exercised by them in the case of other county roads.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-78; 1952 Code Section 33-78; 1942 Code Section 5866-1; 1936 (39) 1309; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1508.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 3 - Department Of Transportation › Section 57-3-700. Department as agent for counties.

With the approval of the commission, the county officials may designate the department, acting through its agents and employees, as agents of the county in securing necessary rights-of-way and other lands.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-79; 1952 Code Section 33-79; 1942 Code Section 5866-1; 1936 (39) 1309, 1987 Act No. 173 Section 37; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1508.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 3 - Department Of Transportation › Section 57-3-710. Counties shall make land payments and be liable for damages.

All payments to be made or obligated on account of rights-of-way and other lands acquired for the purposes contemplated by Section 57-3-690 shall be made by the county on order of the department. Any person having any claim on account of damages to property, injuries to person, or death growing out of any such construction as is contemplated in said section shall have such right of action against the county concerned as is authorized by law, and the remedy thus afforded shall be exclusive.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-80; 1952 Code Section 33-80; 1942 Code Section 5866-1; 1936 (39) 1309; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1508.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 3 - Department Of Transportation › Section 57-3-720. Access facilities to state ports shipping and warehousing facilities.

The department is authorized to construct and maintain street and road access facilities to state ports shipping and warehousing facilities, airports, railroad marshalling yards, and trucking terminals, the cost of same to be paid from the state highway fund; provided, however, that all such construction and maintenance shall be limited to work on publicly owned property.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-80.1; 1969 (56) 738; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1508.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 3 - Department Of Transportation › Section 57-3-730. Cooperation with drainage districts in carrying drainage canals across state highways.

The department may cooperate with any drainage district within the State, organized in accordance with the laws of the State, in order to carry drainage canals across state highways. But the cost to be assumed by the department incident to any such crossing shall not exceed the actual cost of the structure necessary to carry the waters of the drainage canal across the state highway.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-81; 1952 Code Section 33-81; 1951 (47) 457; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1508.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 3 - Department Of Transportation › Section 57-3-750. Records of road projects, contacts, and force accounts, must be kept and open.

A full account of each road project shall be kept by the department so that it may ascertain at any time the expenditures or liabilities against all projects. The department shall also keep records of contracts and force account work. The account records, together with all supporting documents, shall be open at all times to the inspection of the Governor, other state officials, and the public.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-83; 1952 Code Section 33-83; 1951 (47) 457; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1508.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 3 - Department Of Transportation › Section 57-3-755. Online transaction register of all funds expended; exemption; role of Comptroller General.

(A) The Department of Transportation shall maintain a transaction register that includes a complete record of all funds expended, from whatever source for whatever purpose. The register must be prominently posted on the department's Internet website and made available for public viewing and downloading.
(1)(a) The register must include for each expenditure:
(i) the transaction amount;
(ii) the name of the payee;
(iii) the identification number of the transaction; and
(iv) a description of the expenditure, including the source of funds, a category title, and an object title for the expenditure.
(b) The register must include all reimbursements for expenses, but must not include an entry for salary, wages, or other compensation paid to individual employees.
(c) The register must not include a social security number.
(d) The register must be accompanied by a complete explanation of any codes or acronyms used to identify a payee or an expenditure.
(e) At the option of the department, the register may exclude any information that can be used to identify an individual employee.
(f) This section does not require the posting of any information that is not required to be disclosed under Chapter 4, Title 30.
(2) The register must be searchable and updated at least once a month. Each monthly register must be maintained on the Internet website for at least three years.
(B) The department shall be responsible for providing on its Internet website a link to the Internet website of any agency, other than the department, that posts on its Internet website the institution's monthly state procurement card statements or monthly reports containing all or substantially all of the same information contained in the monthly state procurement card statements. The link must be to the specific webpage or section on the website of the agency where the state procurement card information for the institution can be found. The information posted may not contain the state procurement card number.
(C) Any information that is expressly prohibited from public disclosure by federal or state law or regulation must be redacted from any posting required by this section.
(D) In the event the department has a question or issue relating to technical aspects of complying with the requirements of this section or the disclosure of public information under this section, it shall consult with the Office of Comptroller General, which may provide guidance.
(E) The Department of Transportation may fulfill the requirements of this section by providing, on its Internet website, a link to the Internet website of another state agency, to the extent that the link provides the information required by this section.
HISTORY: 2012 Act No. 230, Section 1, eff June 18, 2012.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 3 - Department Of Transportation › Section 57-3-760. Annual report.

The department, at the beginning of each regular session of the General Assembly, shall make a full, printed, detailed report to the General Assembly showing an analysis of:
(1) the department's accomplishments in the past year;
(2) a ten-year plan detailing future needs of the State in the fields of planning, construction, maintenance, and operation of the state highway system;
(3) a five-year plan detailing the regulation of traffic which includes the administration and enforcement of traffic, driver, and motor vehicle laws and other laws relating to such subjects, the coordination of state and federal programs relating to mass transportation among the departments, agencies, and other bodies politic and legally constituted agencies in the State; and
(4) a listing of all firms, companies, or businesses of any type doing business with the department and the amount of such contracts entered into by the department.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-84; 1952 Code Section 33-84; 1951 (47) 457; 1977 Act No. 82 Section 6; 1992 Act No. 501, Part II Section 41F; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1508.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 3 - Department Of Transportation › Section 57-3-770. Gift of dirt and topsoil to landowner.

The department when cleaning or removing dirt and topsoil from ditches or roadbeds along roads, highways, and highway rights-of-way under its jurisdiction is authorized to give this dirt and topsoil to the landowner whose property adjoins the road which is being cleaned. The department is further authorized to haul this dirt and topsoil to a location on the adjoining landowner's property which location is designated by him; provided, that this location must be within one hundred yards of the road being cleaned.
HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 443, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1508.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 3 - Department Of Transportation › Section 57-3-780. Determinations required as to feasibility of high occupancy vehicle lanes, sidewalks, and bicycle lanes.

Before building new or expanding existing primary highways, roads, and streets, the department shall consider and make a written determination whether it is financially and physically feasible to include:
(1) high occupancy vehicle lanes, when the construction or expansion is in a metropolitan area;
(2) pedestrian walkways or sidewalks; and
(3) bicycle lanes or paths.
A copy of this determination must be submitted to the State Energy Office.
HISTORY: 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1508.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 3 - Department Of Transportation › Section 57-3-785. Highway construction work zone signs.

(A) The Department of Transportation shall require the placement of construction work zone signs when necessary to inform motorists of ongoing construction. The department shall direct the removal of these signs when work is substantially completed and normal traffic flow has resumed. The department shall assume responsibility for traffic maintenance upon the removal of these signs pursuant to this section.
(B) Work zone signs posted pursuant to Section 56-5-1535(C)(1) must be removed or covered with weather resistant material when a work zone becomes inactive for more than three days.
HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 2, Section 1.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 5 - State Highway System › Section 57-5-10. Composition of state highway system in general.

The state highway system shall consist of a statewide system of connecting highways that shall be constructed to the Department of Transportation's standards and that shall be maintained by the department in a safe and serviceable condition as state highways. The department may utilize funding sources including, but not limited to, the State Non-Federal Aid Highway Fund and the State Highway Fund as established by Section 57-11-20 in carrying out the provisions of this section. The complete state highway system shall mean the system of state highways as now constituted, consisting of the roads, streets, and highways designated as state highways or designated for construction or maintenance by the department pursuant to law, together with the roads, streets, and highways added to the state highway system by the Commission of the Department of Transportation, and the roads, streets, and highways that may be added to the system pursuant to law. Roads and highways in the state highway system are classified into three classifications:
(1) interstate system of highways;
(2) state highway primary system; and
(3) state highway secondary system.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-101; 1952 Code Section 33-101; 1951 (47) 457; 1967 (55) 207; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1509; 2013 Act No. 98, Section 1, eff June 24, 2013.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 5 - State Highway System › Section 57-5-20. Interstate system of highways.

The interstate system of highways shall consist of the segments of highways in South Carolina in the officially designated national system of interstate and defense highways.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-102; 1952 Code Section 33-102; 1951 (47) 457; 1967 (55) 207; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1509.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 5 - State Highway System › Section 57-5-30. State highway primary system.

The state highway primary system shall consist of a connected system of principal state highways, not to exceed ten thousand miles, connecting centers of population, as determined by the Commission of the Department of Transportation.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-103; 1952 Code Section 33-103; 1951 (47) 457; 1967 (55) 207; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1509.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 5 - State Highway System › Section 57-5-40. State highway secondary system.

The state highway secondary system shall consist of all roads, streets and highways in the state highway system not otherwise designated as highways in the interstate system or the state highway primary system.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-104; 1952 Code Section 33-104; 1951 (47) 457; 1967 (55) 207; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1509.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 5 - State Highway System › Section 57-5-50. Transfers between secondary and primary systems.

The commission may transfer any route or section of route from the state highway secondary system to the state highway primary system, or vice versa, when, in its judgment, such transfer is advisable to better serve the traveling public.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-105; 1952 Code Section 33-105; 1951 (47) 457; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1509.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 5 - State Highway System › Section 57-5-60. Permitted additions to primary system.

The department may add to the state highway primary system any sections or connections which, in the judgment of the department may be necessary in the proper development of the federal-aid primary highway system or the state highway primary system.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-106; 1952 Code Section 33-106; 1951 (47) 457; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1509.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 5 - State Highway System › Section 57-5-70. Highway transfers to the state highway system.

A county or municipality and the department may by mutual consent agree to transfer a road from the county or municipal road system to the state highway system. The transfer may be of the road "as is", without further improvement to the road or upon such terms and conditions as the parties mutually agree. Notification of the transfer must be given to the county's legislative delegation. If the department determines that a road in the county or municipal road system is necessary for the interconnectivity of the state highway system, and the municipality or county does not consent to the transfer, the department may initiate a condemnation action to acquire the road, or a portion of it, and the county or municipality is not required to make any further improvements to it.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-106.1; 1952 (47) 2031; 1959 (51) 33; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1509; 2013 Act No. 98, Section 2, eff June 24, 2013.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 5 - State Highway System › Section 57-5-80. Highway transfers from the state secondary system.

The department may transfer from the state highway secondary system any road under its jurisdiction, determined by the department to be of low traffic importance, to one of the parties indicated in this section if mutual consent is reached between the department and the party that the road is being transferred to:
(a) a county or municipality;
(b) a school;
(c) a governmental agency;
(d) a nongovernmental entity; or
(e) a person.
In all cases, the county or municipality shall have right of first refusal to accept roads into their maintenance responsibility when roads are considered for transfer from the state highway system to a nongovernmental entity or person and in no case may a state road be transferred to a nongovernmental entity unless all persons and businesses located on that road are in agreement with the transfer. Maintenance responsibility for roads transferred from the state highway system pursuant to the provisions of this section shall transfer from the jurisdiction of the department to the jurisdiction of the county or municipality, school, governmental agency, nongovernmental entity, or person, effective upon notice from the department of official action removing the road from the state highway system. Notification of the transfer must be given to the county's legislative delegation.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-106.2; 1952 (47) 2031; 1959 (51) 33; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1509; 2013 Act No. 98, Section 3, eff June 24, 2013.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 5 - State Highway System › Section 57-5-90. Belt lines and spurs.

The commission may establish such belt lines or spurs as it deems proper and construct and maintain such belt lines and spurs from funds otherwise provided by law for the construction and maintenance of the state highway system, but the total length of such belt lines and spurs to be established or constructed in any county shall not exceed two miles in any one fiscal year; provided, that should the commission fail to establish belt lines or spurs during a fiscal year the allocation to the counties shall be continued from year to year and the mileage shall be cumulative. Provided, further, that any mileage that accumulated prior to June 30, 1972, under this section shall remain to the credit of the county to which it accumulated.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-107; 1952 Code Section 33-107; 1951 (47) 457; 1958 (50) 1721; 1961 (52) 470; 1973 (58) 28; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1509.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 5 - State Highway System › Section 57-5-100. Other additions by department prohibited.

Except as authorized herein, or by other law, the department is hereby prohibited from adding roads to the state highway system.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-108; 1952 Code Section 33-108; 1951 (47) 457; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1509.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 5 - State Highway System › Section 57-5-110. Relocations in federal and state primary systems.

The Department of Transportation may relocate any section of highways included in the federal-aid primary highway system or the state highway primary system when such relocation is required in order to conform to the standards adopted for the highways comprising such systems.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-109; 1952 Code Section 33-109; 1951 (47) 457; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1509.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 5 - State Highway System › Section 57-5-120. Abandonment of section of relocated highway.

The department may abandon as a part of the state highway system any section of highway which may be relocated, and every such section so abandoned as a part of the state highway system shall revert to the jurisdiction of the respective appropriate local authorities involved or be abandoned as a public way. But the department, in its discretion, may retain in the system any such relocated section when it serves as a needed connection to the new section or when it serves as a proper part of the state highway system.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-110; 1952 Code Section 33-110; 1951 (47) 457; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1509.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 5 - State Highway System › Section 57-5-130. Department shall publish description of roads.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when the Department of Transportation publishes the name or description of a state road or highway in a newspaper of general circulation, it shall include not only the numerical designation of such road or highway but also a general description of it. In the general description the department, where possible, shall include the designated name of the road or highway and its general location as compared to other roads and highways in the general vicinity.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-111; 1974 (58) 2785; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1509.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 5 - State Highway System › Section 57-5-140. State highways within municipalities.

The state highways designated as parts of the state highway system shall include the sections of such highways lying within the limits of incorporated municipalities, and such sections shall be equally as eligible in all respects to receive the attention of the department for construction, reconstruction, and maintenance as are the sections of the highways lying wholly without incorporated places. But the department shall not share in the cost of any construction or improvement made by any municipality on any street or highway prior to the date the road or street so constructed or improved was added to the state highway system.
But nothing in this chapter shall prevent a municipality from undertaking any improvements or performing any maintenance work on state highways in addition to what the department is able to undertake with the available funds. The Department of Transportation shall not, however, be liable for damages to property or injuries to persons, as otherwise provided for in Section 15-78-10 et seq., as a consequence of the negligence by a municipality in such improvements or maintenance work by a municipality.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-112; 1952 Code Section 33-112; 1951 (47) 457; 1969 (56) 154; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1509.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 5 - State Highway System › Section 57-5-150. Cost of rights-of-way in municipalities and of urban transportation projects shall be paid from state highway fund.

The entire cost of the rights-of-way for state highway construction in municipalities shall be paid for from the state highway fund, as authorized in Section 57-5-140, on the same basis as rights-of-way are paid for in rural areas, and also that the Department of Transportation shall pay from the state highway fund the entire cost of urban transportation plan projects, including all of the costs of all rights-of-way.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-113; 1972 (57) 3088; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1509.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 5 - State Highway System › Section 57-5-160. Department authorized to enter into agreement with Atomic Energy Commission and others regarding highway within Savannah River Project.

The Department of Transportation is authorized to enter into agreement with the United States Atomic Energy Commission and such other parties as may be necessary to accept and place into the state highway system portions of the highways formerly designated as Nos. 28 and 125 lying within the boundaries of the Savannah River Project. The department, after consultation with the Atomic Energy Commission, shall promulgate rules and regulations governing the manner in which the highway within the Savannah River Project may be utilized by the traveling public, which regulations, when duly promulgated shall have the force of law.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-241; 1967 (55) 679; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1509.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 5 - State Highway System › Section 57-5-170. Regulations affecting traffic on highway within Savannah River Project.

In order to protect the national security, the regulations may include provisions to restrict the area of the highway within the limits of the Savannah River Project to vehicular traffic, capable of maintaining the minimum posted speed limit; to designate any and all points of access to and from the segment of highway lying within the area and may provide for a system of closure at points upon the highway so as to enable the department or Atomic Energy Commission to identify vehicles and individuals using the highway and to enable the Department of Transportation or the Atomic Energy Commission to determine the transit time along the highway within the limits of the area.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-242; 1967 (55) 679; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1509.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 5 - State Highway System › Section 57-5-180. Filing of agreement with Secretary of State regarding highway within Savannah River Project; effect of agreement.

Upon execution of an agreement with the Atomic Energy Commission, the Department of Transportation shall file with the Secretary of State a copy of the agreement and shall publicly declare the date on which the highway shall be a part of the state highway system. After such execution, the terms of the agreement shall have full force notwithstanding any other provisions of law relating to highways in this State.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-243; 1967 (55) 679; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1509.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 5 - State Highway System › Section 57-5-190. Penalty involving highway within Savannah River Project.

Any person convicted of violating the provisions of Sections 57-5-160 through 57-5-180 may be punished in any court of competent jurisdiction by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or imprisonment for not more than thirty days.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-244; 1967 (55) 679; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1509.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 5 - State Highway System › Section 57-5-195. Bob Harrell Bridge and Interchange.

The I-526 bridge and interchange that span U.S. Highway 17 and U.S. Highway 7 in Charleston County is named the "Bob Harrell Bridge and Interchange" in honor of this distinguished South Carolinian. The Department of Transportation shall install appropriate markers or signs at this bridge as the department considers appropriate that contain this designation.
HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 233, Section 1.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 5 - State Highway System › Section 57-5-310. Ownership of real estate.

The commission and the Department of Transportation may own such real estate, in fee simple or by lease, as shall be deemed necessary for the purpose of facilitating the proper operation of the department or for the building and maintenance of the public highways in the state highway system.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-121; 1952 Code Section 33-121; 1951 (47) 457; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1510.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 5 - State Highway System › Section 57-5-320. Acquisition of property generally; liability for abandonment after condemnation and trial.

The department may acquire an easement or fee simple title to real property by gift, purchase, condemnation or otherwise as may be necessary, in the judgment of the department, for the construction, maintenance, improvement or safe operation of highways in this State or any section of a state highway or for the purpose of acquiring sand, rock, clay, and other material necessary for the construction of highways, including:
(a) land for drainage ditches and canals that may be needed in order to correct existing land drainage facilities impaired or interfered with by the department in connection with its road improvement work; and
(b) property, either within or without incorporated towns, to be used for borrow pits from which to secure embankment and surfacing materials.
Other property required, as determined by the department, for the construction, maintenance and safe operation of state highways may be acquired by condemnation in the manner described in this article. Provided, however, after condemnation, trial and rendition of verdict by jury there shall be no abandonment by the department without the payment of expenses incurred by the landowner including a reasonable fee to the attorney or attorneys representing the landowner, which fee and expenses shall be set and approved by the trial judge.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-122; 1952 Code Section 33-122; 1951 (47) 457; 1963 (53) 159; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1510.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries › Chapter 5 - State Highway System › Section 57-5-330. Minimum width of rights-of-way.

The minimum width of the right-of-way required for the construction, maintenance and safe operation of state highways is hereby fixed at sixty-six feet. But the department, in its discretion, may accept a lesser width than sixty-six feet within incorporated towns or where existing structures of a permanent nature would necessarily be moved or damaged in order to afford the full minimum width of sixty-six feet. And the department may acquire such additional width above the minimum herein fixed as in its judgment may be necessary to meet the exigencies of construction, maintenance, and safe operation of any particular highway.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-123; 1952 Code Section 33-123; 1951 (47) 457; 1961 (52) 502; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1510.