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2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3980. Damages and penalty for unlawful acts where no specific penalty provided.

If any person commits or allows to be committed any act, matter, or thing in this chapter declared to be unlawful, omits to do any act, matter, or thing in this chapter required to be done, or is guilty of any violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, that person must, when no specific penalty is herein provided for the violation, forfeit and pay to the person who may sustain damage thereby a sum equal to three times the amount of the damages so sustained, to be recovered by the person so damaged by suit in the circuit court of any county in this State in which the person causing the damage can be found or may have an agent, office, or place of business. But in the case of recovery, the damage shall not be assessed at a less sum than two hundred and fifty dollars. And the person so offending shall, for each offense, forfeit and pay a penalty of not less than one thousand dollars, to be recovered by the State by action in any such circuit court to be brought by the Office of Regulatory Staff upon the request of the Public Service Commission.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1254; 1952 Code Section 58-1254; 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 (18) 18; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 140, eff May 24, 2006.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-3990. Action under foregoing section shall be subject of equity jurisdiction.

Any action brought as provided in Section 58-17-3980 to recover any penalty or damages shall be regarded as a subject of equity jurisdiction and discovery and affirmative relief may be sought and obtained therein. In any such action so brought as a case of equitable cognizance, preliminary or final injunction may, without allegation or proof of damage to the complainant, be granted upon proper application, restraining, forbidding and prohibiting the commission or continuance of any act, matter or thing by this chapter prohibited or forbidden.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1255; 1952 Code Section 58-1255; 1942 Code Section 8454; 1932 Code Section 8471; Civ. C. '22 Section 5007; Civ. C. '12 Section 3309; Civ. C. '02 Section 2203; G. S. 1539; R. S. 1736; 1882 (18) 18.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-4000. Limitation of action.

No action provided for in Sections 58-17-3980 and 58-17-3990 shall be sustained unless brought within two years after the cause of action shall accrue.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1256; 1952 Code Section 58-1256; 1942 Code Section 8456; 1932 Code Section 8473; Civ. C. '22 Section 5009; Civ. C. '12 Section 3311; Civ. C. '02 Section 2205; G. S. 1539; R. S. 1738; 1882 (18) 18.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-4010. Testimony may be compelled; immunity from prosecution; production of books and papers.

In any action under Section 58-17-3980 and upon any application for any injunction under Section 58-17-3990 any director, officer, receiver or trustee of any railroad corporation or company or any receiver, trustee or person operating any railroad company or any agent of any such corporation or company, receiver, trustee or person aforesaid, or of any of them alone or with any other person may be compelled to attend, appear and testify and give evidence. No claim that any such testimony or evidence might tend to incriminate the person testifying or giving evidence shall be of any avail; but such evidence shall not be used against such person on the trial of any indictment against him. The attendance and appearance of any such person who may be compelled to appear or testify, and the giving of testimony or evidence by such person and the production of books and papers by him may be compelled as in the case of any other witness and if such deposition or evidence or the production of any books or papers may be desired or required for the purpose of applying for or sustaining any injunction it and the production of books and papers may be had, taken and compelled by or before the clerk of the court in which such action is pending or in any manner provided by the laws of this State as to the taking of other depositions or evidence or the attendance of witnesses or the production of other books or papers.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1257; 1952 Code Section 58-1257; 1942 Code Section 8455; 1932 Code Section 8472; Civ. C. '22 Section 5008; Civ. C. '12 Section 3310; Civ. C. '02 Section 2204; G. S. 1539; R. S. 1737; 1882 (17) 18.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-4020. Penalty for violation of chapter by individuals.

Any director or officer of any railroad corporation or company or any receiver, trustee, lessee or person acting or engaged as a railroad or any agent of any such corporation or company, receiver, trustee, lessee or person, or of one of them alone or with any other corporation, person or party, who shall (a) directly or indirectly do, or cause or willingly suffer or permit to be done, any act, matter or thing in this chapter prohibited or forbidden, (b) directly or indirectly aid or abet therein, (c) directly or indirectly omit or fail to do any act, matter or thing in this chapter required to be done, (d) cause or willingly suffer or permit any act, matter or thing, so directed or required to be done, not to be so done, (e) directly or indirectly aid or abet any such omission or failure, (f) directly or indirectly be guilty of any infraction of this chapter or (g) directly or indirectly aid or abet therein shall, unless otherwise herein specially provided, be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than two hundred dollars.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1258; 1952 Code Section 58-1258; 1942 Code Section 8457; 1932 Code Section 8474; Civ. C. '22 Section 5010; Civ. C. '12 Section 3312; Civ. C. '02 Section 2206; G. S. 1540; R. S. 1739; 1882 (17) 18.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-4030. Penalty for injury due to negligence or carelessness.

When an engineman, fireman or other agent or officer of a railroad corporation is guilty of negligence or carelessness whereby an injury is done to any person he shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding twelve months or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1259; 1952 Code Section 58-1259; 1942 Code Section 8374-1; 1932 Code Section 1689; Cr. C. '22 Section 635; Cr. C. '12 Section 660; Cr. C. '02 Section 472; G. S. 1526; R. S. 369; 1881 (17) 834.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-4040. Penalty for gross carelessness or negligence.

Whoever, having management of, or control over, a railroad train while being used for the common carriage of persons, is guilty of gross carelessness or neglect in, or in relation to, the management or control thereof shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars or be imprisoned not more than three years.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1260; 1952 Code Section 58-1260; 1942 Code Section 8374-2; 1932 Code Section 1690; Cr. C. '22 Section 636; Cr. C. '12 Section 661; Cr. C. '02 Section 473; G. S. 1527; R. S. 370; 1881 (17) 835.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-4050. Penalty for injury due to wilful violation.

Any engineer, conductor or other agent or employee of any railroad company in this State who shall wilfully neglect to observe or shall wilfully violate any rule or regulation of the company to which such engineer or conductor may belong, whereby any person shall sustain or be in danger of sustaining any bodily injury shall be liable to be indicted for every such offense and, upon conviction thereof, be fined two hundred dollars and imprisoned for not exceeding one year, at the discretion of the judge before whom such case may be tried. Nothing therein contained shall be so construed as to relieve such engineer or conductor from responsibility under the law when the life of any person is destroyed.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1261; 1952 Code Section 58-1261; 1942 Code Sections 1127, 1693; 1932 Code Sections 1127, 1691; Cr. C. '22 Sections 24, 637; Cr. C. '12 Sections 169, 662; Cr. C. '02 Sections 138, 474; G. S. 2478; R. S. 136; R. S. 371; 1857 (12) 634.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-4060. Common carriers shall not interfere with contracts of shipment.

If any person shall have contracted to deliver to any other person within this State certain commodities, no common carrier doing business in this State over whose road such commodities would be transported before delivery to the consignee shall interfere with the fulfillment of such contract between such shipper of freight and the proposed consignee, nor undertake to control or direct, or in any wise interfere with, the shipment of such commodities by the person who has contracted so to ship the same. To this end no common carrier doing business in this State over whose road such commodities would pass in transportation before delivery to the consignee in this State, when furnishing cars to the shippers thereof, may designate to what consignees freight loaded in such cars shall be consigned or in any way interfere with or seek to control the use of such cars by the shipper in making shipment to such consignee as he may desire to ship to or be under contract to ship to.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1262; 1952 Code Section 58-1262; 1942 Code Section 8317; 1932 Code Section 8317; Civ. C. '22 Section 4864; Civ. C. '12 Section 3185; 1906 (25) 107.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-4070. Liability of common carriers interfering with contracts of shipment.

Any common carrier violating the provisions of Section 58-17-4060 shall be liable to such damages, including special and punitive damages, as may be found in an action maintained in the courts of this State. Any shipper or proposed consignee bringing suit for violation of the terms of Section 58-17-4060 may include in the same action actual damages sustained by him through such act of the common carrier as well as any special damages and may also recover in the same action such punitive damages as may be allowed to him.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1263; 1952 Code Section 58-1263; 1942 Code Section 8318; 1932 Code Section 8318; Civ. C. '22 Section 4865; Civ. C. '12 Section 3186; 1906 (25) 107.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-4080. Penalty and damages for obstruction of highway by railroad car, locomotive or other object.

If any person, including any conductor of any train of railroad cars or any other agent or servant of any railroad company, shall obstruct unnecessarily any public road or highway by permitting any railroad car or locomotive to be or remain upon or across any street, public road or highway for a longer period than five minutes, after notice to remove such cars has been given to the conductor, engineer, agent or other such person in charge of such train or shall permit any timber, wood or other obstruction to remain upon or across any such street, road or highway to the hindrance or inconvenience of travelers or any person passing along or upon such street, road or highway, every such person so offending shall forfeit and pay for every such offense any sum not exceeding twenty nor less than five dollars and shall be liable for all damages arising to any highway, to be recovered by an action at the suit of the governing body of the county in which such offense shall have been committed or any person suing therefor, before any magistrate within the county in which such offense shall have been committed or by indictment in the court of general sessions or suit in the court of common pleas. All fines so accruing under the provisions of this section, when collected, shall be paid over by the magistrate to the county treasurer for the district in which such offense was committed. Every twenty-four hours such person, after being notified, shall suffer such obstructions to the hindrance or inconvenience of travelers or any person going along or upon such road or highway to continue shall be deemed an additional offense against the provisions of this section.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1264; 1952 Code Section 58-1264; 1942 Code Section 1674; 1932 Code Section 1674; Cr. C. '22 Section 621; Cr. C. '12 Section 648; 1902 (23) 1007.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-4090. Penalty for obstruction of railroad.

If any person shall by himself or others place, or cause to be placed, on the track or other part of the passageway of any railroad on which steam engines, diesel engines or any other type engines or handcars are used any timber, stone or other obstruction, with intent to injure or impede the passage of any cars or means of conveyance, or shall in any manner obstruct any engine or car passing upon any railroad on which steam engines, diesel engines or any other type engines or handcars are used or endanger the safety of persons conveyed in or upon such railroads or assist therein, such person shall be guilty of a felony and, on being thereof convicted by due course of law, shall be punished by imprisonment in the Penitentiary for not less than one nor more than thirty years and fined in the discretion of the court, except when the death of some human being results from such impediment and in that case the offender shall be adjudged guilty of murder and shall suffer death.
Nothing in this section shall in any manner take away any right of action for damages for injuries to the person or property of any person or body corporate caused by any injury, obstruction or damage done to any railroad or its buildings, tracks or constructions.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1265; 1952 Code Section 58-1265; 1942 Code Sections 1104, 1115, 1116; 1932 Code Sections 1104, 1115, 1116; Cr. C. '22 Sections 4, 13, 14; Cr. C. '12 Sections 138, 151, 152; Cr. C. '02 Sections 111, 123, 124; G. S. 1520, 2456, 2467; R. S. 111, 123, 124; 1879 (18) 101; 1882 (18) 109; 1960 (51) 1602; 1961 (52) 496.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-4095. Parking or operating vehicle on railroad right-of-way prohibited; exceptions; penalty.

(A) No person may park or operate a vehicle on a railroad right-of-way where there are existing tracks unless the person:
(1) is an employee of the railroad which owns the right-of-way in the performance of his duties;
(2) has authority from the railroad which owns the right-of-way;
(3) is using a public or private roadway which crosses over the railroad at an established grade crossing;
(4) is acting in an official capacity with the military, police force, a fire fighting organization, or some similar public authority and must enter onto the railroad right-of-way to carry out his or her responsibilities; or
(5) is an employee of a public utility or telecommunications carrier, or of the forestry industry, and must enter onto the railroad right-of-way to carry out his responsibilities.
(B) For the purposes of this section, the term "vehicle" includes all standard vehicles normally operated on roadways, such as automobiles, trucks, vans, and motorcycles, and all off-road vehicles. Off-road vehicles include, but are not limited to, four-wheel drive or low-pressure tire vehicles, two or three wheel vehicles, amphibious machines, and ground-effect or air-cushioned vehicles.
(C) A person violating the provisions of this section, upon conviction, shall pay a fine of not more than two hundred dollars or serve a term of imprisonment for not more than thirty days.
HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 542, eff May 17, 1988.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-4096. Trespassing upon railroad tracks.

(A) It is unlawful, without proper authority, for a person to trespass upon railroad tracks.
(B) A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days.
HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 458, Part II, Section 87, eff June 19, 1996.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-4100. Penalty for shooting or throwing at trains.

A person who wilfully discharges any kind of firearms or throws any kind of missile at or into the engine or any car of a train is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than five years.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1266; 1952 Code Section 58-1266; 1942 Code Section 1199-1; 1932 Code Section 1709; Cr. C. '22 Section 655; Cr. C. '12 Section 680; Cr. C. '02 Section 484; R. S. 1734a; 1898 (22) 776; 1993 Act No. 184, Section 86, eff January 1, 1994.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-4110. Penalty for loitering in or about station houses.

Whoever, without right, loiters or remains within any station house of a railroad corporation or upon the platform or grounds adjacent to such station, after being requested to leave the same by any authorized railroad officer or employee, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction thereof, shall pay a fine of not more than fifty dollars or be confined in the county jail or required to work on the chain gang for not more than thirty days.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1267; 1952 Code Section 58-1267; 1942 Code Section 8413-1; 1932 Code Section 1704; Cr. C. '22 Section 650; Cr. C. '12 Section 675; Cr. C. '02 Section 481; G. S. 1515; R. S. 1731; 1881 (17) 832; 1898 (22) 776.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-4120. Certain persons shall be deemed agents of railroad corporation.

Any person occupying an office or room in any railway station and attending to and transacting therein the business of any railroad under the charter of such railroad shall be deemed the agent of such corporation, notwithstanding he may claim to be the agent of some other person or corporation claiming to operate such railroad by virtue of any lease, contract or agreement. A bill of lading, receipt, agreement or contract signed or entered into by any such person as agent of any such person or corporation operating such railroad shall be deemed the contract of the corporation under the charter of which the railroad is authorized.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1268; 1952 Code Section 58-1268; 1942 Code Section 8256; 1932 Code Section 8201; Civ. C. '22 Section 4765; Civ. C. '12 Section 3100; Civ. C. '02 Section 2026; 1883 (18) 437.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-4130. Liabilities of corporation operating road of another and of trustees and receivers.

When a railroad laid out and constructed by one corporation is lawfully maintained and operated by another corporation, the latter shall be subject to the duties, liabilities, restrictions and other provisions as they are set forth in the General Railroad Law respecting or arising from the maintenance and operation of such railroad in the same manner as if it had been laid out and constructed by the latter corporation. When a railroad is lawfully maintained and operated by trustees or receivers they shall in like manner be subject to the duties, liabilities, restrictions and other provisions respecting or arising from the maintenance and operation of such railroad which are attached in the General Railroad Law to the corporation for whose stockholders or creditors, or either, they are trustees or receivers.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1269; 1952 Code Section 58-1269; 1942 Code Section 8255; 1932 Code Section 8200; Civ. C. '22 Section 4764; Civ. C. '12 Section 3099; Civ. C. '02 Section 2025; G. S. 1415; R. S. 1598.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-4140. Collection of fines and penalties.

All fines or forfeitures provided for or prescribed in the General Railroad Law must, unless otherwise expressly provided, be collected by an action to be brought in the name of the State against the offending person or corporation in any court of competent jurisdiction by the Office of Regulatory Staff or the solicitor of the circuit in which the offense is in whole or in part committed.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1270; 1952 Code Section 58-1270; 1942 Code Section 8458; 1932 Code Section 8475; Civ. C. '22 Section 5011; Civ. C. '12 Section 3313; Civ. C. '02 Section 2207; G. S. 1542; R. S. 1740; 1881 (17) 839; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 141, eff May 24, 2006.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-4150. Persons against whom judgments shall be rendered.

Any judgment under the provisions of this chapter shall be rendered against the person violating its provisions and against the corporation in whose service or under whose authority he performed such unlawful acts.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1271; 1952 Code Section 58-1271; 1942 Code Section 8456; 1932 Code Section 8473; Civ. C. '22 Section 5009; Civ. C. '12 Section 3311; Civ. C. '02 Section 2205; G. S. 1539; R. S. 1738; 1882 (18) 18.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-4160. Procedure for attachment of cars and engines which are in use.

Whenever railroad cars and engines are in use on railroads and making regular passage thereon, they shall not be attached upon mesne process in any suit within forty-eight hours previous to their fixed time of departure unless the officer making such attachment shall have first demanded of the owners or managers of such engines or cars, or any of the agents of such railroad, other property equal in value to the ad damnum in the writ upon which to make such attachment and such owners or managers shall have refused or neglected to comply with such demand. And any officer making such attachment shall, on his return upon the process upon which it is made, certify that he has made such demand for such other property and that such demand has been refused or neglected; otherwise such attachment shall be wholly void.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1272; 1952 Code Section 58-1272; 1942 Code Section 8428; 1932 Code Section 8428; Civ. C. '22 Section 4976; Civ. C. '12 Section 3278; Civ. C. '02 Section 2178; G. S. 1524; R. S. 1722; 1881 (17) 834.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-4170. Forfeiture of charter for repeated violations of law.

Whenever a railroad corporation of this State has repeatedly and wilfully violated any of the provisions of this chapter, and has been found guilty or judgment had against it within this State of the violation more than once or penalties have been recovered in penal actions for the violations more than once, the commission may, if it thinks it consistent with the public interest, instruct the Office of Regulatory Staff to proceed against the corporation, in any court of competent jurisdiction, by an information in the nature of a quo warranto, alleging such convictions or recoveries as cause of forfeiture of its charter of incorporation and upon proof of such facts there shall be judgment of ouster and final execution as in other cases of proceedings by quo warranto.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1273; 1952 Code Section 58-1273; 1942 Code Section 8460; 1932 Code Section 8477; Civ. C. '22 Section 5013; Civ. C. '12 Section 3315; Civ. C. '02 Section 2209; G. S. 1546; R. S. 1742; 1881 (17) 841; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 142, eff May 24, 2006.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-4180. Request or advice of Commission shall not impair legal duties of railroad.

No request or advice of the Commission shall impair, in any manner or degree, the legal duties and obligations of any railroad corporation or its liability for the consequence of its acts or of the neglect or mismanagement of any of its agents or servants.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1274; 1952 Code Section 58-1274; 1942 Code Section 8292-18; 1932 Code Section 8277; Civ. C. '22 Section 4825; Civ. C. '12 Section 3151; Civ. C. '02 Section 2073; G. S. 1461; R. S. 1636; 1881 (17) 819; 1935 (39) 25.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 17 - The General Railroad Law › Section 58-17-4190. Chapter shall not affect rights of persons injured to action for private damages.

This chapter shall not be so construed as to affect the right of any person injured by the violation of any law in regard to railroad corporations from prosecuting or proceeding for his private damages in any manner allowed by law.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1275; 1952 Code Section 58-1275; 1942 Code Section 8459; 1932 Code Section 8476; Civ. C. '22 Section 5012; Civ. C. '12 Section 3314; Civ. C. '02 Section 2208; G. S. 1543; R. S. 1741; 1881 (17) 839.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways › Section 58-21-10. Commission shall have jurisdiction over interurban railroads.

All authority, power, and duties conferred by law upon the commission as to steam railways, express and telegraph lines in this State, steamboat lines, and truck lines doing business as common carriers within this State are extended and conferred upon the commission as to all interurban railways, whether steam, electricity, or other power is used by them and whether or not the roads are partly without the corporate limits of towns or cities. The commission may not fix or approve the rates, fares, or charges for interurban railways.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1301; 1952 Code Section 58-1301; 1942 Code Section 8220; 1932 Code Section 8263; Civ. C. '22 Section 4812; 1913 (28) 179; 1917 (30) 162; 1920 (31) 722; 1935 (39) 25; 1989 Act No. 184, Section 4, eff June 8, 1989.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways › Section 58-21-20. Powers of street railway corporations to produce and supply light, power and heat.

Any street railway corporation organized under the provisions of Chapter 15 of this Title or the charter of which may be amended hereunder, shall be authorized and empowered, upon proper application therefor, to make, produce, generate and supply light, power and heat by the means of electricity and gas, or either of them, both for its corporate purposes and for sale to the public, subject to the restrictions and limitations that may be imposed by the municipalities in which it may seek to do business.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1302; 1952 Code Section 58-1302; 1942 Code Section 8186; 1932 Code Section 8186; Civ. C. '22 Section 4366; Civ. C. '12 Section 2880; Civ. C. '02 Section 1924; 1909 (26) 45.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways › Section 58-21-30. Lease of property of one electric railway company to another.

Any electric railway company organized under the laws of this State may lease its property and franchises to any other electric railway company, upon such terms as may be agreed upon by a majority of the stockholders at a special meeting held after thirty days' advertisement thereof.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1303; 1952 Code Section 58-1303; 1942 Code Section 8187; 1932 Code Section 8187; Civ. C. '22 Section 4367; Civ. C. '12 Section 2881; 1908 (25) 1090.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways › Section 58-21-40. Rights and remedies of injured employees of street railways.

Every employee of any street railway doing business in this State shall have the same rights and remedies for an injury suffered by him from the acts of omission of such corporation or any of its employees as are provided by the Constitution for employees of railroad corporations.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1304; 1952 Code Section 58-1304; 1942 Code Sections 6623, 8479; 1932 Code Sections 6623, 8479; Civ. C. '22 Sections 3533, 5038; Civ. C. '12 Sections 2440, 3948; Civ. C. '02 Section 2848; 1901 (23) 716.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways › Section 58-21-50. Penalties.

Any person owning and operating an electric railway or electric cars carrying passengers shall, for failure to perform any duty prescribed in Sections 58-21-210, 58-21-220, 58-21-240, 58-21-300, or 58-21-310, be liable to a penalty of two hundred and fifty dollars per day for each day during which such nonperformance shall happen or continue and any person feeling aggrieved by the violation of any of such provisions by any corporation or who may ascertain that such violation exists may bring an action at law or in equity to enforce any such provisions and shall, upon collection of the penalty herein provided for, be entitled to such part thereof as may be sufficient to defray the actual expenses of the action at law, such amount to be fixed by the presiding judge, the balance to be turned into the county treasury for county purposes. Such action may be brought in any county wherein any such violation of any of such provisions occurs and when so brought shall not be merged or destroyed by any action thereafter brought by the Attorney General. But only one penalty shall be imposed for any one violation of any of such provisions.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1305; 1952 Code Section 58-1305; 1942 Code Section 8505; 1932 Code Section 8505; Civ. C. '22 Section 5063; 1920 (31) 742.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways › Section 58-21-60. Certain statutory provisions inapplicable to lines of more than fifty miles.

None of the provisions of Sections 58-21-210, 58-21-220, 58-21-240, 58-21-300, or 58-21-310, shall apply to electric interurban railways operating more than fifty miles in length.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1306; 1952 Code Section 58-1306; 1942 Code Section 8505; 1932 Code Section 8505; Civ. C. '22 Section 5063; 1920 (31) 742.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways › Section 58-21-210. Damaged electric cars shall not be used; adequate number of cars in good condition shall be maintained.

No electric car shall be operated for the purpose of carrying passengers which has a flat wheel, broken window or windowpanes, broken door or door panes or a leaky roof, side or other part thereof. All corporations operating electric railways shall have and keep in constant operation a sufficient number of convenient, comfortable and clean cars to transport the usual number of persons desiring transportation and shall, in addition thereto, keep in reserve a sufficient number of cars, power, equipment, ways, means and facilities to supply transportation in case of emergency. But the penalties provided for the enforcement of this section shall not apply when it can be shown that the damaged equipment was used only on the day such damage occurred.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1311; 1952 Code Section 58-1311; 1942 Code Section 8501; 1932 Code Section 8501; Civ. C. '22 Section 5059; 1920 (31) 742; 1935 (39) 25.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways › Section 58-21-220. Commission may prescribe number of cars and other matters during temporary increase in demand for transportation.

When demand for transportation shall temporarily increase it shall be the duty of the Public Service Commission to prescribe the number and condition of cars, power, equipment, ways, means and facilities that may be reasonably necessary under the circumstances.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1312; 1952 Code Section 58-1312; 1942 Code Section 8501; 1932 Code Section 8501; Civ. C. '22 Section 5059; 1920 (31) 742; 1935 (39) 25.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways › Section 58-21-230. Enforcement orders of Commission.

The Commission may enforce its orders under Sections 58-21-210, 58-21-220, 58-21-240, 58-21-300, or 58-21-310 as may be provided by law in other cases.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1313; 1952 Code Section 58-1313; 1942 Code Section 8501; 1932 Code Section 8501; Civ. C. '22 Section 5059; 1920 (31) 742; 1935 (39) 25.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways › Section 58-21-240. Maintenance of tracks, structures and cars.

Every person owning or operating an electric railway shall keep and maintain all of its tracks and roadbed and all structures along its line in a secure, safe and substantial condition, capable of bearing such burden as it may reasonably be subject to. Any such person shall keep and maintain its cars as required by Section 58-21-210 or otherwise required by law.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1314; 1952 Code Section 58-1314; 1942 Code Section 8501; 1932 Code Section 8501; Civ. C. '22 Section 5059; 1920 (31) 742; 1935 (39) 25.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways › Section 58-21-250. Electric railway companies shall affix enclosed vestibules to cars in certain months.

Electric railway companies shall affix to their cars or coaches enclosed vestibules of wood, iron or glass and maintain side doors on such vestibules for the protection of motormen and passengers during the months of December, January, February and March. The failure of any such company to comply with the provisions of this section subjects it to a penalty of ten dollars per day, to be recovered by any citizen in the city or town in which such company does business, one fourth thereof to go to the person bringing suit to enforce the law and the remaining three fourths for the benefit of the State.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1315; 1952 Code Section 58-1315; 1942 Code Section 8480; 1932 Code Section 8480; Civ. C. '22 Section 5039; Civ. C. '12 Section 3949; 1902 (23) 1057; 1904 (24) 423; 1909 (26) 120; 1910 (26) 565; 1914 (28) 461.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways › Section 58-21-260. Interurban railways shall affix enclosed vestibules in November.

All interurban railroads operating in this State shall affix to their cars or coaches enclosed vestibules of wood, iron or glass for the protection of motormen and passengers during the month of November also. The failure of any such company to comply with the provisions of this section shall subject it to a penalty of ten dollars per day for each car operated by such company without such vestibule affixed, to be recovered by any citizen of any county in which such company does business, one fourth thereof to go to the person bringing the suit to enforce the law and the remaining three fourths for the benefit of the county. In the construction of this section the phrase "interurban railroad" shall be construed to include all railroads and railways operated by electricity whose main business consists in the transportation of passengers from one municipality to another.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1316; 1952 Code Section 58-1316; 1942 Code Sections 8482, 8483; 1932 Code Sections 8482, 8483; Civ. C. '22 Sections 5041, 5042; Civ. C. '12 Sections 3951, 3952; 1910 (26) 761.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways › Section 58-21-270. Electric street railway cars shall have fenders.

Every electric street railway company shall have attached to its cars or coaches good and sufficient fenders and, failing to do so, shall be subject to the same penalty as provided in Section 58-21-250.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1317; 1952 Code Section 58-1317; 1942 Code Section 8481; 1932 Code Section 8481; Civ. C. '22 Section 5040; Civ. C. '12 Section 3950; 1910 (26) 566.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways › Section 58-21-280. Electric street railway companies shall heat cars.

All electric street railway companies doing business in this State shall provide and furnish all their streetcars or electric cars with sufficient heat for all passengers and employees. Any streetcar company violating the provisions of this section shall be liable to a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1318; 1952 Code Section 58-1318; 1942 Code Sections 8484, 8485; 1932 Code Sections 8484, 8485; Civ. C. '22 Sections 5043, 5044; Cr. C. '22 Section 302; 1914 (28) 594; 1918 (30) 822.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways › Section 58-21-290. Certain interurban railways shall heat cars.

All interurban railroads operating within this State shall furnish their cars, and the vestibule portions of their cars, for the carriage of passengers with heating apparatus or appliances necessary to the comfort of all passengers and operators using them. But this section shall not apply to any railway whose direct line is more than fifty miles long. Any interurban railroad failing or refusing to comply with the provisions of this section shall be subject to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars for each day of such failure or refusal, to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction. Such fine shall be paid into the county treasury of the county in which the action or suit is brought, to be applied to the public school fund of such county. The term "interurban railroads" as used in this section shall have the same meaning as is provided in Section 58-21-260.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1319; 1952 Code Section 58-1319; 1942 Code Sections 8486, 8487, 8488; 1932 Code Sections 8486, 8487, 8488; Civ. C. '22 Sections 5045, 5046, 5047; Cr. C. '22 Section 303; 1918 (30) 725; 1919 (31) 216.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways › Section 58-21-300. Notice of transfer points.

Upon the approach to a transfer point by an electric car carrying passengers therefor the conductor shall announce the approach to such transfer point before arrival and again upon arrival at such point, together with such other information as may advise passengers of the destination of connecting cars.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1321; 1952 Code Section 58-1321; 1942 Code Section 8499; 1932 Code Section 8499; Civ. C. '22 Section 5057; 1920 (31) 742.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways › Section 58-21-310. Electric cars shall not be delayed to check fares.

No electric car shall be held at any point for checking up passengers or any other method used that will necessitate such holding to determine whether fares have been registered or otherwise accounted for.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1322; 1952 Code Section 58-1322; 1942 Code Section 8500; 1932 Code Section 8500; Civ. C. '22 Section 5058; 1920 (31) 742.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 21 - Electric, Interurban And Street Railways › Section 58-21-320. Certain employees of electric railways shall have powers of peace officers.

Conductors and other employees of electric railways while in charge of the cars of such railway are hereby invested with the powers of peace officers and authorized to make arrests as in the case of conductors of steam railroads.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1323; 1952 Code Section 58-1323; 1942 Code Sections 1270, 8420; 1932 Code Sections 1270, 1701, 8420; Civ. C. '22 Section 4968; Cr. C. '22 Sections 165, 647; Civ. C. '12 Section 3273; Cr. C. '12 Sections 316, 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 23 - Motor Vehicle Carriers › Section 58-23-10. Definitions.

As used in Articles 1 to 11 of this chapter:
(1) The term "corporation" means a corporation, company, association or joint stock association;
(2) The term "person" means an individual, a firm or a copartnership;
(3) The term "Commission" means the Public Service Commission;
(4) The term "motor vehicle carrier" means every corporation or person, their lessees, trustees or receivers, owning, controlling, operating or managing any motor propelled vehicle, not usually operated on or over rails, used in the business of transporting persons or property for compensation over any improved public highway in this State;
(5) The term "trailer" means a vehicle equipped to carry a load and which is attached to and drawn by a motor vehicle and trailers shall be classed as motor vehicles and subject to the provisions of Articles 1 to 11 of this chapter; and
(6) The term "improved public highway" means every improved public highway in this State which is or may hereafter be declared to be a part of the State Highway System or any county highway system or a street of any city or town.
(7) The term "ridesharing" means an arrangement for the transportation of not more than fifteen persons on a nonprofit basis utilizing a motor vehicle of which operating costs and a reasonable depreciation cost for such vehicle are paid principally by those people utilizing such arrangement.
(8) The term "regulatory staff" means the executive director or the executive director and employees of the Office of Regulatory Staff.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1401; 1952 Code Section 58-1401; 1942 Code Section 8507; 1932 Code Section 8507; 1925 (34) 252; 1928 (35) 1238; 1935 (39) 25; 1979 Act No. 152 Section 2, eff July 6, 1979; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 143, eff May 24, 2006.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 23 - Motor Vehicle Carriers › Section 58-23-20. Transportation by motor vehicle for compensation regulated.

No corporation or person, his lessees, trustees, or receivers may operate a motor vehicle for the transportation of persons, hazardous waste for disposal, or household goods for compensation on an improved public highway in this State except in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, except where the use of a motor vehicle is incidental only to the operation, and any such operation is subject to control, supervision, and regulation by the commission in the manner provided by this chapter. The commission may not fix or approve the rates, fares, or charges for Class A, B, C, D, E, or F certificates.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1402; 1952 Code Section 58-1402; 1942 Code Section 8508; 1932 Code Section 8508; 1925 (34) 252; 1930 (36) 1327; 1989 Act No. 184, Section 5, eff June 8, 1989; 2022 Act No. 214 (S.1045), Section 1, eff May 23, 2022.
Effect of Amendment
2022 Act No. 214, Section 1, in the first sentence, substituted ", hazardous waste for disposal, or household goods" for "or property", in the second sentence, substituted "Class A, B, C, D, E, or F certificates" for "buses", and deleted the third sentence, which provided that nothing herein shall affect the commission's jurisdiction to regulate street railway service or any successor to street railway service under Chapter 5 of Title 58.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 23 - Motor Vehicle Carriers › Section 58-23-25. Public Service Commission's motor carrier regulatory authority, defined.

Nothing in this chapter, unless specifically provided, may be construed as granting authority to the Public Service Commission to regulate, approve, fix, or charge a fee on a matter of rates, prices, changes, routes, or services of a motor vehicle carrier of property, including private carriers, except certificate carriers of household goods or hazardous wastes for disposal.
HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 145, Part II, Section 51A, eff June 29, 1995; 2022 Act No. 214 (S.1045), Section 2, eff May 23, 2022.
Effect of Amendment
2022 Act No. 214, Section 2, substituted "may be construed" for "must be construed".
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 23 - Motor Vehicle Carriers › Section 58-23-30. "For compensation" defined.

"For compensation" as used in Section 58-23-20 means a payment in money or property for transportation of persons, hazardous waste for disposal, or household goods by motor vehicle over public highways within the State of South Carolina.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1402.1; 1972 (57) 2327; 2022 Act No. 214 (S.1045), Section 3, eff May 23, 2022.
Effect of Amendment
2022 Act No. 214, Section 3, rewrote the section.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers › Chapter 23 - Motor Vehicle Carriers › Section 58-23-40. Certificate and fee requirements.

A motor vehicle carrier shall obtain a certificate from the Office of Regulatory Staff, pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 of this chapter and pay the license fee required pursuant to Article 5 of this chapter before the motor vehicle carrier may: (1) transport persons, hazardous waste for disposal, or household goods for compensation on any improved public highway in this State; or (2) advertise as an operator for the transportation of persons, hazardous waste for disposal, or household goods for compensation on any improved public highway in this State.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1403; 1952 Code Section 58-1403; 1942 Code Section 8509; 1932 Code Section 8509; 1925 (34) 252; 1930 (36) 1068; 1933 (38) 429; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 144, eff May 24, 2006; 2006 Act No. 393, Section 1, eff June 14, 2006; 2022 Act No. 214 (S.1045), Section 4, eff May 23, 2022.
Effect of Amendment
2022 Act No. 214, Section 4, in (1) and (2), substituted ", hazardous waste for disposal, or household goods" for "or property".