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2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3010. Passenger trains shall stop at stations advertised as stops.

Every railroad company in this State shall cause all its trains of cars for passengers to stop entirely upon each arrival at a station advertised by such company as a station for receiving passengers upon such trains for a time sufficient to receive and let off passengers.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1171; 1952 Code Section 58-1171; 1942 Code Section 8361; 1932 Code Section 8361; Civ. C. '22 Section 4909; Civ. C. '12 Section 3225; Civ. C. '02 Section 2134; G. S. 1486; R. S. 1687; 1881 (17) 824.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3020. Passenger trains shall stop at county seats.

All passenger trains operated by and upon any railroad in this State shall stop to let off a passenger or upon signal to take on a passenger at all stations located at any county seat within this State. In case the county seat is not located on the main line of such railroad, but is served by a branch line therefrom, then such passenger trains shall stop at the junctional point of such branch line with such main line when such junctional point is not more than twenty-three miles distant from the county seat and the provisions of this section shall apply as to each junctional point in such county where such junctional points are more than thirty miles apart. Any railroad company violating any provision of this section shall pay a penalty of one hundred dollars for each and every offense, one half of such penalty to go to any person who shall sue for it and one half to the county in which the offense occurs. Nothing herein contained shall bar any action for actual or punitive damages growing out of any violation of this section and any such causes of action may be united in the same complaint.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1172; 1952 Code Section 58-1172; 1942 Code Section 8401; 1932 Code Section 8401; Civ. C. '22 Section 4949; Civ. C. '12 Section 3254; 1907 (25) 658; 1914 (28) 730; 1919 (31) 170.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3030. Connections with intersecting railroads; passenger train requirement.

The Office of Regulatory Staff must, from time to time, examine into the schedules of all the railroads in this State for the carriage of passengers, with a view to ascertaining if the roads can reasonably make close connection with intersecting roads and wherever, in its opinion, close connection can be made without injustice or material injury to any road it shall make the appropriate orders to require such connection. And, to better secure connections, upon petition of the Office of Regulatory Staff, the commission may require all persons operating railroads, except those in the hands of receivers, to run at least one unmixed daily passenger train each way over the railroad and may likewise require those persons to furnish to the traveling public facilities for passage over the railroads twice each way daily. A road may appeal an order of the commission as in cases of appeals from inferior courts.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1173; 1952 Code Section 58-1173; 1942 Code Section 8405; 1932 Code Section 8405; Civ. C. '22 Section 4953; Civ. C. '12 Section 3258; Civ. C. '02 Section 2163; 1896 (22) 115; 1897 (22) 455; 1901 (23) 718; 1935 (39) 25; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 127, eff May 24, 2006.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3040. Posting bulletins as to late trains.

Whenever any passenger train on any railroad in this State shall be more than one half hour behind its schedule time the railroad company shall keep posted at every telegraph station along its line, when a telegraph operator is on duty at such station, the time such train is behind its schedule and shall change such bulletin every quarter hour until such train arrives, stating therein the time such train is behind and the hour at which it is expected to arrive. But such bulletins shall not be required to be posted at any station until one half hour before the regular schedule time at which such train is to arrive at such station. Any railroad company which shall refuse or neglect to comply with the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars for each and every such refusal or neglect, such sum to be sued for and recovered by any person aggrieved in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such refusal or neglect occurs.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1174; 1952 Code Section 58-1174; 1942 Code Section 8417; 1932 Code Section 8417; Civ. C. '22 Section 4965; Civ. C. '12 Section 3270; Civ. C. '02 Section 2170; G. S. 1495; R. S. 1714; 1887 (19) 811; 1903 (24) 80; 1908 (25) 1075.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3050. Publishing change of timetable.

Notice of any change in passenger schedules or timetables shall be published at least three days before such change goes into effect.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1175; 1952 Code Section 58-1175; 1942 Code Section 8418; 1932 Code Section 8418; Civ. C. '22 Section 4966; Civ. C. '12 Section 3271; Civ. C. '02 Section 2171; R. S. 1715; 1889 (20) 378.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3060. Discontinuing passenger train or changing it to mixed train without approval of Commission shall be unlawful.

It shall be unlawful for any railroad company or person operating a railroad service in this State to discontinue the operation of any passenger train or to change any passenger train into a mixed passenger and freight train and operate it as such without first making application to and securing the approval of the Public Service Commission. Each day of the violation of the provisions of this section shall be considered a separate offense. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars, to be imposed and collected by any court of competent jurisdiction.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1176; 1952 Code Section 58-1176; 1942 Code Section 8250; 1940 (41) 1839.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3070. Accommodations for passengers.

Every railroad corporation shall furnish reasonable accommodations for the convenience and safety of passengers. For every wilful neglect to provide such accommodations such railroad corporation shall forfeit not less than five nor more than twenty dollars, to be recovered in an action against such corporation.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1177; 1952 Code Section 58-1177; 1942 Code Section 8395; 1932 Code Section 8395; Civ. C. '22 Section 4943; Civ. C. '12 Section 3248; Civ. C. '02 Section 2157; G. S. 1502; R. S. 1710; 1881 (17) 830.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3080. Waiting rooms for passengers.

Every railroad company owning or operating a railroad in this State shall erect and keep at every office where tickets are sold for travel over its road two good rooms or apartments of reasonable size for the amount of travel at such office, which must be furnished with comfortable seats for the accommodation of passengers. The rooms must be in charge of an employee of the company and kept open at such hours as to accommodate passengers traveling over the road on any of its passenger trains. The Office of Regulatory Staff must enforce the provisions of this section.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1178; 1952 Code Section 58-1178; 1942 Code Section 8413; 1932 Code Section 8413; Civ. C. '22 Section 4961; Civ. C. '12 Section 3266; Civ. C. '02 Section 2168; G. S. 1494; R. S. 1712; 1935 (39) 25; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 128, eff May 24, 2006.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3090. Requiring erection of depots.

The Public Service Commission may require all railroads at junctional points, and at other points as the travel and public interest in its judgment shall justify in this State, to erect union or other depots for the convenience and accommodation of the public and if any railroad company refuses or fails so to do, when required by the commission within the time specified by the commission, it shall forfeit and pay a sum of not less than fifty dollars per day after the expiration of time as set forth in the order or circular of the commission, to be recovered in an action in any county in this State in which such violation has occurred in the name of the State. The Office of Regulatory Staff shall institute any action.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1179; 1952 Code Section 58-1179; 1942 Code Section 8415; 1932 Code Section 8415; Civ. C. '22 Section 4963; Civ. C. '12 Section 3268; Civ. C. '02 Section 2169; 1897 (22) 418; 1907 (25) 504; 1906 (25) 9; 1935 (39) 25; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 129, eff May 24, 2006.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3100. Separate water closets shall be maintained at stations.

All railroads or other persons operating any system of cars, carriages or other conveyances for the purpose of transporting passengers for hire shall, when ordered so to do by the Public Service Commission, build, keep and maintain at all passenger stations and other places where people are regularly taken on and put off of such cars, carriages or other conveyances, two separate and distinct water closets, one for female passengers and one for male passengers and such closets shall be kept in fit and suitable condition for the use and convenience of passengers. But this section shall not be construed to have reference to flag stations on railroad lines where there is no regularly kept passenger station. Any person refusing, failing or neglecting to observe the provisions of this section shall be liable to pay a penalty of fifty dollars for each and every day he shall fail, refuse or neglect to provide such water closets, such penalty to be recovered by any citizen who will sue therefor, one half of such penalty to go to the school fund of the county in which such suit is brought and the other half to the citizen suing for it.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1180; 1952 Code Section 58-1180; 1942 Code Section 8414; 1932 Code Section 8414; Civ. C. '22 Section 4962; Civ. C. '12 Section 3267; 1906 (25) 4; 1935 (39) 25.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3110. Railroads not required to have second-class coaches.

No railroad to which the provisions of this chapter apply shall be required to have second-class coaches or to sell second-class tickets.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1181; 1952 Code Section 58-1181; 1942 Code Section 8407; 1932 Code Section 8407; Civ. C. '22 Section 4955; Civ. C. '12 Section 3260; 1906 (25) 44; 1920 (31) 900; 1923 (33) 124; 1935 (39) 25.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3120. Installation of cinder deflectors or wire screens; enforcement of requirement.

All railroad companies operating passenger trains or coaches by steam, within or through this State, must put cinder deflectors or wire screens that will effectually keep cinders from engines from entering cars upon all windows of passenger coaches, so as to protect passengers when the windows are raised. The deflectors must extend from the bottom of windows the entire length and three inches above the top of the sash and must be six inches wide and permanently fastened to each outside edge of each window. Any railroad company refusing or neglecting to comply with the provisions of this section is subject to a penalty of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars for each coach not screened as required by this section, to be recovered by the Office of Regulatory Staff at the request of any person aggrieved by such refusal or neglect, for the benefit of the State. The Office of Regulatory Staff must enforce this section.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1182; 1952 Code Section 58-1182; 1942 Code Section 8402; 1932 Code Sections 1693, 8402; Civ. C. '22 Section 4950; Cr. C. '22 Section 639; Civ. C. '12 Section 3255; Cr. C. '12 Section 664; 1908 (25) 1052; 1909 (26) 119; 1910 (26) 119; 1912 (27) 777; 1931 (37) 89; 1935 (39) 25; 1936 (39) 1713; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 130, eff May 24, 2006.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3130. Exemptions from requirements of cinder deflectors.

The provisions of Section 58-17-3120 shall not be construed to apply to Pullman or sleeping cars operated in this State which are equipped with deflectors that effectually prevent cinders from entering cars, nor shall it be necessary to equip any air-conditioned railroad passenger coaches, Pullman cars or dining cars with cinder deflectors or wire screens.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1183; 1952 Code Section 58-1183; 1942 Code Section 8402; 1932 Code Sections 1693, 8402; Civ. C. '22 Section 4950; Cr. C. '22 Section 639; Civ. C. '12 Section 3255; Cr. C. '12 Section 664; 1908 (25) 1052; 1909 (26) 119; 1910 (26) 119; 1912 (27) 777; 1931 (37) 89; 1935 (39) 25; 1936 (39) 1713.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3140. Use of baggage checks.

Every railroad corporation, when requested, shall give checks to their passengers for their baggage when delivered for transportation in good shipping order and shall redeliver such baggage to the passengers upon the surrender of their checks. Any corporation which wilfully refuses to comply with the provisions of this section shall forfeit ten dollars for each offense.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1184; 1952 Code Section 58-1184; 1942 Code Section 8410; 1932 Code Section 8410; Civ. C. '22 Section 4958; Civ. C. '12 Section 3263; Civ. C. '02 Section 2166; G. S. 1503; R. S. 1711; 1881 (17) 829.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3310. Certification of compliance of railroad or branch extension.

A railroad or branch or extension of a railroad must not be opened for public use until the Office of Regulatory Staff, after an examination, certifies that all laws relating to the construction thereof have been complied with and that the road appears to be in a safe condition for operation, unless the Office of Regulatory Staff, after ten days' written notice to it by the railroad company of such proposed opening, fails to make an examination.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1191; 1952 Code Section 58-1191; 1942 Code Section 8363; 1932 Code Section 8363; Civ. C. '22 Section 4911; Civ. C. '12 Section 3227; Civ. C. '02 Section 2136; G. S. 1516; R. S. 1689; 1881 (17) 824; 1935 (39) 25; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 131, eff May 24, 2006.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3320. Safety devices shall be installed and used on direction of Commission.

The Public Service Commission may require the installation and use by the railroads operating trains in or through this State of any safety device which, in its judgment, after due consideration and trial, shall have been proven materially to contribute to the safety of operation of trains and the protection of the lives and limbs of the crews operating such trains or the traveling public or to their reasonable comfort or the sanitation of passenger and freight trains on which passengers travel or employees work, as well as depots, both passenger and freight.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1192; 1952 Code Section 58-1192; 1942 Code Section 8225; 1932 Code Section 8268; Civ. C. '22 Section 4816; Civ. C. '12 Section 3144; 1911 (27) 159; 1935 (39) 25.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3330. Penalty for failure to obey orders of Commission regarding safety devices.

A failure to comply with any such order of the Commission within the time fixed by the Commission shall subject the railroad to a penalty of five hundred dollars, to be collected by suit in any court of competent jurisdiction by any person aggrieved. All penalties and forfeitures collected hereunder shall be paid over, one half into the State Treasury, and the other half into the county treasury of the county in which the suit is brought imposing the penalty, such revenues accruing from such collections to be used for general State and county purposes.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1193; 1952 Code Section 58-1193; 1942 Code Section 8226; 1932 Code Section 8271; Civ. C. '22 Section 4819; Civ. C. '12 Section 3145; 1911 (27) 159; 1935 (39) 25.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3340. Brakes and brakemen.

Every railroad corporation shall cause a good and sufficient brake to be attached to every car used upon its railroad for the transportation of passengers or freight, except four wheeled freight cars used only for transporting freight and shall cause to be stationed on every passenger train trusty and skillful brakemen, equal in number at least to one for every two cars in the train, except on passenger trains on which power brakes are used, and one such brakeman upon the last car of every freight train, which must always be equipped with a good and sufficient brake.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1194; 1952 Code Section 58-1194; 1942 Code Section 8350; 1932 Code Section 8350; Civ. C. '22 Section 4898; Civ. C. '12 Section 3217; Civ. C. '02 Section 2127; G. S. 1499; R. S. 1681.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3350. Tools and appliances.

Every railroad corporation must equip each of its trains, for use in case of accident, with such tools and appliances as the Office of Regulatory Staff may direct.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1195; 1952 Code Section 58-1195; 1942 Code Section 8351; 1932 Code Section 8351; Civ. C. '22 Section 4899; Civ. C. '12 Section 3218; Civ. C. '02 Section 2128; G. S. 1500; R. S. 1682; 1935 (39) 25; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 132, eff May 24, 2006.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3360. Electric hand lanterns.

All railroad carriers must equip trainmen in their employ engaged in switching and train movements in intrastate commerce in this State with electric hand lanterns, of a type approved by the Office of Regulatory Staff, containing at least one extra bulb capable of being immediately lighted in case of failure of the main bulb. The use by any railroad carrier of oil lanterns in connection with such movements is hereby prohibited. Any railroad carrier violating any of the provisions of this section must be punished by a fine not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars and each day during which any flagrant violation continues constitutes a separate offense.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1196; 1952 Code Section 58-1196; 1942 Code Section 1696; 1938 (40) 1621; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 133, eff May 24, 2006.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3370. Formation of passenger trains.

In forming a passenger train, baggage, freight, merchandise or lumber cars shall not be placed in rear of passenger cars.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1199; 1952 Code Section 58-1199; 1942 Code Section 8353; 1932 Code Section 8353; Civ. C. '22 Section 4901; Civ. C. '12 Section 3220; Civ. C. '02 Section 2130; G. S. 1481; R. S. 1680; 1881 (17) 823.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3380. Warning boards shall be maintained near drawbridges and grade crossings.

Every company, lessee, manager or receiver owning or operating a railroad in this State shall provide, maintain and place warning boards near drawbridges and places where railroads cross at grade. Such boards shall have letters of sufficient size to be clearly seen from the engine and to describe the place of danger and shall be placed not more than eight feet from the side of the track.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1200; 1952 Code Section 58-1200; 1942 Code Section 8357; 1932 Code Section 8357; Civ. C. '22 Section 4905; 1914 (28) 103; 1972 (57) 3061.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3390. Penalty for failure to erect or replace warning boards.

Any railroad company, receiver or lessee thereof doing business within this State which shall fail to comply with the provisions of Section 58-17-3380 after ten days' notice thereof in writing shall be subject to a fine of five dollars per day for every day thereafter that such failure shall continue and any such railroad, receiver or lessee failing to re-erect such warning board, in case any such board for any cause be down or removed, after ten days' notice in writing, shall be subject to the penalty herein provided of five dollars per day for each day that such railroad, receiver or lessee shall fail to so re-erect such warning boards. This penalty shall be recoverable by any person resident in this State in any court of competent jurisdiction, one half to go to the person bringing the action and one half to go into the county treasury in which such action may be brought, to be used for ordinary county purposes.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1201; 1952 Code Section 58-1201; 1942 Code Section 8359; 1932 Code Section 8359; Civ. C. '22 Section 4907; 1914 (28) 103.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3400. Removal of hand or lever cars from track and leaving it near crossing shall be unlawful.

It shall be unlawful for any railroad section master or any person in charge of or connected with any hand car or lever car to remove it from any railroad track and continue it stationary within fifty yards of any public crossing other than at any regular railroad section house except when necessary to avoid an approaching train or when in charge of employees engaged in actual work upon such crossing, and then only for such a period as is necessary to avoid such train or to perform such work. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, be fined not exceeding fifty dollars or be imprisoned not exceeding thirty days. Any railroad company shall be liable for damages for any horse frightened as a result of the violation of the provisions of this section by any of its employees.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1202; 1952 Code Section 58-1202; 1942 Code Section 8360; 1932 Code Sections 1692, 8360; Civ. C. '22 Section 4908; Cr. C. '22 Section 638; Civ. C. '12 Section 3224; Cr. C. '12 Section 663; 1902 (23) 1055.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3410. Shelter for employees in railroad shops or yards.

All railway companies having railroad shops in this State at division points, where cars are regularly taken out of trains for repairs or construction work or where other railroad equipment is regularly made, repaired, or constructed, must furnish or construct a building or shed in the shops or yards, with a suitable and sufficient roof over the repair and construction track or tracks so as to provide that all men or employees employed in the construction and repair of locomotives, cars, trucks, or other railroad equipment, except when slight or minor repairs or repairs are done in an emergency, must be under shelter and protected during snow, rain, sleet, hot sunshine, and other inclement weather. The Office of Regulatory Staff may direct the points at which sheds shall be erected and the character of the sheds after a hearing before the Public Service Commission of which public notice has been given. Any railroad found guilty of violating the provisions of this section is subject to a fine of fifty dollars per day for every day of the violation.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1203; 1952 Code Section 58-1203; 1942 Code Sections 8364, 8365; 1932 Code Sections 8364, 8365; Civ. C. '22 Sections 4912, 4913; 1914 (28) 706; 1935 (39) 25; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 134, eff May 24, 2006.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3420. Construction and maintenance of bridges.

Every railroad corporation shall, at its own expense, construct, and afterwards maintain and keep in repair, all bridges, with their approaches or abutments, which it is authorized or required to construct over or under any turnpike road, canal, highway or other way and any city or town may recover of the railroad corporation whose road crosses a highway or town way therein all damages, charges and expenses incurred by such city or town by reason of the neglect or refusal of the corporation to erect or keep in repair all structures required or necessary at such crossing. But if, after the laying out and making of a railroad, the governing body of a county has authorized a turnpike, highway or other way to be laid out across the railroad, all expenses of and incident to constructing and maintaining the turnpike or way at such crossing shall be borne by the turnpike corporation or the county, city, town or other owner of it.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1204; 1952 Code Section 58-1204; 1942 Code Section 8387; 1932 Code Section 8387; Civ. C. '22 Section 4935; Civ. C. '12 Section 3240; Civ. C. '02 Section 2149; G. S. 1498; R. S. 1702; 1881 (17) 826.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3430. Railroads shall keep grade at stations level with track.

Every railroad company operating a railroad within this State shall keep the grade of its right of way at all stations level with the ties and four feet wide on the station side for a distance of one hundred and fifty feet on each side of such station or stopping place. But in the case of a terminal station the provisions aforesaid shall be operative only as to so much of the territory as is opposite to those portions of such terminal station used for passenger service and the approaches thereto on one side. Any railroad company violating the provisions of this section shall be liable to a penalty of not more than one hundred dollars, on complaint of any person aggrieved thereby, one half of the penalty shall go to complainant and the other half thereof to the use of the public school in the county in which the complaint is made.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1205; 1952 Code Section 58-1205; 1942 Code Section 8416; 1932 Code Section 8416; Civ. C. '22 Section 4964; Civ. C. '12 Section 3269; 1910 (26) 680.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3440. Notice of accidents.

Every railroad corporation must cause immediate notice of each accident, in cases of an accident occurring on its road attended with injury to any person as the Public Service Commission may, by rules and regulations adopted by it, require, to be given to a physician most accessible to the place of accident, the Office of Regulatory Staff, and the commission by telegraph, telephone, or such other means as may be the quickest under the circumstances at the same time that notice is given officials of the road on which the accident occurred. A railroad corporation shall also give notice in like manner of any accident falling within any description of accidents of which the commission may by general regulation require notice to be given. For each omission to give notice, a corporation shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1206; 1952 Code Section 58-1206; 1942 Code Section 8375; 1932 Code Section 8375; Civ. C. '22 Section 4923; Civ. C. '12 Section 3228; Civ. C. '02 Section 2137; G. S. 1525; R. S. 1690; 1881 (17) 824; 1905 (24) 844; 1935 (39) 25; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 135, eff May 24, 2006.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3450. Investigation of causes of accidents.

The Office of Regulatory Staff shall investigate the cause of any accident on a railroad resulting in loss of life and of any accident not so resulting which, in its judgment, requires investigation.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1207; 1952 Code Section 58-1207; 1942 Code Section 8292-16; 1932 Code Section 8275; Civ. C. '22 Section 4823; Civ. C. '12 Section 3149; Civ. C. '02 Section 2071; G. S. 1459; R. S. 1634; 1881 (17) 819; 1935 (39) 25; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 136, eff May 24, 2006.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3460. Transportation to accident site.

Every railroad corporation must furnish immediate transportation for the Office of Regulatory Staff over its line to the place of accident occurring on its road and attended with any injury to any person of which it is required to give notice under the provisions of Section 58-17-3440, free of expense to the Office of Regulatory Staff and, if the Office of Regulatory Staff uses another railroad to reach the place of accident, the corporation on whose line the accident occurred must pay the expense of transportation thereon.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1208; 1952 Code Section 58-1208; 1942 Code Section 8375; 1932 Code Section 8375; Civ. C. '22 Section 4923; Civ. C. '12 Section 3228; Civ. C. '02 Section 2137; G. S. 1525; R. S. 1690; 1881 (17) 824; 1905 (24) 844; 1935 (39) 25; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 137, eff May 24, 2006.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3610. Police powers of conductors and station agents.

Conductors of railroad trains and station or depot agents are hereby declared to be conservators of the peace and they shall have the common-law power of constables to make arrests, except that the conductors shall only have such power on board of their respective trains and the agents at their respective places of business. Such conductors and agents may cause any person so arrested by them to be detained and delivered to the proper authorities for trial as soon as practicable.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1221; 1952 Code Section 58-1221; 1942 Code Section 8420; 1932 Code Sections 1701, 8420; Civ. C. '22 Section 4968; Cr. C. '22 Section 647; Civ. C. '12 Section 3273; Cr. C. '12 Section 672; Civ. C. '02 Section 2173; Cr. C. '02 Section 482; G. S. 1516; R. S. 1717; 1898 (22) 776; 1905 (24) 954.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3620. Ejection of disorderly passenger from train.

When any passenger shall be guilty of disorderly conduct, use any obscene or grossly profane language to the annoyance and vexation of passengers or play any game of cards or other game of chance for money or other valuable thing upon any railroad train, the conductor of such train may stop his train at any place where such offense has been committed and eject such passenger from the train, using only such force as may be necessary to accomplish such removal, and may command the assistance of the employees of the railroad company or any of the passengers to assist in such removal.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1222; 1952 Code Section 58-1222; 1942 Code Section 8421; 1932 Code Section 8421; Civ. C. '22 Section 4969; Civ. C. '12 Section 3274; Civ. C. '02 Section 2174; G. S. 1516a; R. S. 1718; 1882 (18) 17.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3630. Badges shall be worn by employees.

Every conductor, baggagemaster, engineer, brakeman or other servant of any railroad corporation employed on a passenger train, or at stations for passengers, shall wear on his hat or cap a badge which shall indicate his office and the initial letters of the style of the corporation by which he is employed. No conductor or collector without such badge shall have any authority to meddle or interfere with any passenger, his baggage or his property. Each railroad corporation shall see that such badges are worn.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1223; 1952 Code Section 58-1223; 1942 Code Section 8419; 1932 Code Section 8419; Civ. C. '22 Section 4967; Civ. C. '12 Section 3272; Civ. C. '02 Section 2172; G. S. 1485; R. S. 1716.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3710. "Common carrier" defined.

The term "common carrier" as used in this article shall include the receiver or receivers or other persons or corporations charged with the duty of the management and operation of the business of a common carrier.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1239; 1952 Code Section 58-1239; 1942 Code Section 8372; 1932 Code Section 8372; Civ. C. '22 Section 4920; 1916 (29) 970.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3720. Liability of railroads for negligence resulting in injuries to or death of employees; amount and disposition of damages in case of death of employee.

Every common carrier by railroad while engaging in commerce within this State shall be liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed by such carrier in such commerce or, in case of the death of such employee, to his personal representative for the benefit (a) of the surviving widow or husband and children of such employee, (b) if none, of such employee's parents and (c) if none, then of the next of kin, for such injury or death resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents or employees of such carrier or by reason of any defect or insufficiency, due to its negligence, in its cars, engines, appliances, machinery, track, roadbed, works, boats, wharves or other equipment. And in every such action the jury may give such damages as they may think proportioned to the injury or injuries resulting from such death to the parties, respectively, for whom and for whose benefit such action shall be brought and the amount so recovered shall be divided among the before-mentioned parties in such shares as they would have been entitled to if the deceased had died intestate and the amount recovered had been personal assets of his estate.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1231; 1952 Code Section 58-1231; 1942 Code Section 8366; 1932 Code Section 8366; Civ. C. '22 Section 4914; 1916 (29) 970.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3730. Effect of contributory negligence.

In all actions hereafter brought against any such common carrier by railroad under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this article to recover damages for personal injuries to any employee or when such injuries have resulted in his death, the fact that the employee may have been guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery, but the damages shall be diminished by the jury in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to such employee. But no such employee who may be injured or killed shall be held to have been guilty of contributory negligence when the violation by such common carrier of any statute enacted for the safety of employees contributed to the injury or death of such employee.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1232; 1952 Code Section 58-1232; 1942 Code Section 8367; 1932 Code Section 8367; Civ. C. '22 Section 4915; 1916 (29) 970.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3740. Assumption of risk.

In any action brought against any common carrier under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this article to recover damages for injuries to, or the death of, any of its employees, such employee shall not be held to have assumed the risks of his employment when the violation by such common carrier of any statute enacted for the safety of employees contributed to the injury or death of such employee.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1233; 1952 Code Section 58-1233; 1942 Code Section 8368; 1932 Code Section 8368; Civ. C. '22 Section 4916; 1916 (29) 970.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3750. Any exemption from liability under article shall be void.

Any contract, rule, regulation or device whatsoever the purpose or intent of which shall be to enable any common carrier to exempt itself from any liability created by this article shall to that extent be void.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1234; 1952 Code Section 58-1234; 1942 Code Section 8369; 1932 Code Section 8369; Civ. C. '22 Section 4917; 1916 (29) 970.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3760. Survival of right of action.

Any right of action given by this article to a person suffering injury shall survive to his personal representatives, for the benefit of (a) the surviving widow or husband and children of such employee, (b) if none, such employee's parents and (c) if none, then of the next of kin of such employee. But in such case there shall be only one recovery for the same injury.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1235; 1952 Code Section 58-1235; 1942 Code Section 8371; 1932 Code Section 8371; Civ. C. '22 Section 4919; 1916 (29) 970.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3770. Limitation of actions.

No action shall be maintained under this article unless commenced within two years from the day the cause of action accrued.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1236; 1952 Code Section 58-1236; 1942 Code Section 8370; 1932 Code Section 8370; Civ. C. '22 Section 4918; 1916 (29) 970.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3780. Setoffs.

In any action brought against any such common carrier under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this article such common carrier may set off therein any sum it has contributed or paid to any insurance, relief, benefit or indemnity that may have been paid to the injured employee or the person entitled thereto on account of the injury or death for which such action was brought.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1237; 1952 Code Section 58-1237; 1942 Code Section 8369; 1932 Code Section 8369; Civ. C. '22 Section 4917; 1916 (29) 970.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3790. Punitive damages.

Punitive damages shall not be recoverable in cases arising under this article except under circumstances under which exemplary damages are recoverable in cases arising under Section 58-17-3950.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1238; 1952 Code Section 58-1238; 1942 Code Section 8374; 1932 Code Section 8374; Civ. C. '22 Section 4922; 1916 (29) 970; 1951 (47) 782.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3800. Article shall be cumulative.

Nothing in this article shall be held to limit the duty or liability of common carriers or to impair the rights of their employees under any other law not inconsistent with the provisions of this article but the remedies and provisions herein shall be held to be in addition to, and cumulative of, existing remedies.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1240; 1952 Code Section 58-1240; 1942 Code Section 8373; 1932 Code Section 8373; Civ. C. '22 Section 4921; 1916 (29) 970.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3910. Liability to landowners for damages for wrongful obstruction of watercourses.

Railroad corporations shall be liable to landowners for all damages resulting from the wrongful obstruction of watercourses by such corporations and it shall not be necessary to allege and prove that such damages resulted from the negligent construction of the road or other works of such corporations, but any person who is damaged shall be entitled to recover as in actions against individuals upon showing the wrongful obstruction of such watercourses.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-967; 1952 Code Section 58-967; 1942 Code Section 8275; 1932 Code Section 8220; Civ. C. '22 Section 4784; Civ. C. '12 Section 3115; Civ. C. '02 Section 2041; 1897 (22) 489.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3920. Liability for damage caused by fire.

Every railroad corporation shall be responsible in damages to any person whose buildings or other property may be injured by fire communicated by its locomotive engines or originating within the limits of the right of way of such road in consequence of the act of any of its authorized agents or employees, except when property shall have been placed on the right of way of such corporation unlawfully or without its consent, and each such corporation shall have an insurable interest in the property upon its route for which it may be so held responsible and may procure insurance thereon in its own behalf.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1198; 1952 Code Section 58-1198; 1942 Code Section 8362; 1932 Code Section 8362; Civ. C. '22 Section 4910; Civ. C. '12 Section 3226; Civ. C. '02 Section 2135; G. S. 1511; R. S. 1688; 1881 (17) 824.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3930. Penalty for failure to obey orders of Commission.

Any railroad in this State refusing to obey any order of the Public Service Commission made under this chapter must forfeit not less than the sum of five hundred dollars nor more than two thousand dollars, to be recovered by the suit of the Office of Regulatory Staff in a suit in the court of common pleas. Any sum recovered must go to the general fund of this State.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1251; 1952 Code Section 58-1251; 1942 Code Section 8406; 1932 Code Section 8406; Civ. C. '22 Section 4954; Civ. C. '12 Section 3259; Civ. C. '02 Section 2164; 1935 (39) 25; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 138, eff May 24, 2006.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3940. Penalty for failure to pay recompense for violation of rule or regulation of Commission; action for recovery.

If any railroad company doing business in this State, by its agents or employees, is guilty of a violation of the rules and regulations provided and prescribed by the commission and if, after due notice of a violation given by the Office of Regulatory Staff to the principal officer thereof, ample and full recompense for the wrong or injury done to any person as may be directed by the Office of Regulatory Staff, is not made within thirty days from the time of the notice, the company shall incur a penalty for each offense of not less than one thousand dollars nor more than five thousand dollars, to be fixed by the presiding judge. An action for recovery of any penalty shall lie in any county in the State in which the violation has occurred or the wrong has been perpetrated and shall be in the name of the State. The Office of Regulatory Staff must institute any action.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1252; 1952 Code Section 58-1252; 1942 Code Section 8338; 1932 Code Section 8338; Civ. C. '22 Section 4885; Civ. C. '12 Section 3205; Civ. C. '02 Section 2116; R. S. 1666; 1892 (21) 14; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 139, eff May 24, 2006.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3950. Actions for injuries to persons through violation of rules or regulations of Commission.

If any railroad company doing business in this State shall, in violation of any rule or regulation provided by the Commission, inflict wrong or injury on any person, such person shall have a right of action and recovery for such wrong or injury in the county in which such wrong or injury was inflicted in any court having jurisdiction thereof and the damages to be recovered shall be the same as in an action between individuals, except that in cases of wilful violation of law such railroad companies shall be liable to exemplary damages.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1253; 1952 Code Section 58-1253; 1942 Code Section 8339; 1932 Code Section 8339; Civ. C. '22 Section 4886; Civ. C. '12 Section 3206; Civ. C. '02 Section 2117; R. S. 1667; 1892 (21) 14.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3960. Suits under foregoing section shall be brought within twelve months.

All suits under Section 58-17-3950 shall be brought within twelve months of the commission of the alleged wrong or injury.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1253.1; 1955 (49) 262.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3970. Acts declared unlawful shall be prohibited.

Each and every act, matter or thing in this chapter declared to be unlawful is hereby prohibited.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1253.2; 1952 Code Section 58-1253.1; 1942 Code Section 8453; 1932 Code Section 8470; Civ. C. '22 Section 5006; Civ. C. '12 Section 3308; Civ. C. '02 Section 2202; G. S. 1539; R. S. 1735; 1882 (17) 18.