2013 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers
CHAPTER 17 - THE GENERAL RAILROAD LAW
SECTION 58-17-2740. Shipper may designate routes; changing of route shall be unlawful.
All persons shipping from, into, within or through this State may designate the route or routes by which such goods shall be shipped, subject to such reasonable exceptions and regulations as the Public Service Commission shall from time to time prescribe, and it shall be unlawful for any person other than the holder of the bill of lading to vary such route so designated or to ship such goods by any other route or to receive such goods if so diverted, unless the route so designated shall be interrupted or be incapable of being used at the time by strike or casualty preventing the running of trains thereon.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1154; 1952 Code Section 58-1154; 1942 Code Section 8327; 1932 Code Section 8327; Civ. C. '22 Section 4874; Civ. C. '12 Section 3194; Civ. C. '02 Section 2105; 1896 (22) 119; 1944 (43) 1231.
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