2013 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 37 - Consumer Protection Code
CHAPTER 9 - EFFECTIVE DATE AND REPEALER
SECTION 37-9-103. Relationship between separate subsidiary corporations; obligations of parent and subsidiary.
A wholly owned subsidiary of a parent corporation which subsidiary has elected to be licensed under the provisions of this chapter, and a separate wholly owned subsidiary of the same parent corporation which subsidiary has elected to be licensed under the provisions of Chapter 29 of Title 34 are not considered to be related persons for purposes of Section 37-9-102; provided, that a parent corporation with these two subsidiaries operating under different licenses, shall not permit these or any other subsidiaries to exchange, convert, transfer, or sell a license or facility from one subsidiary to another and the failure to comply with the provisions of this proviso constitutes just cause for the revocation of the license exchanged, converted, transferred, or sold; and provided further, that the failure to take reasonable steps to determine if a consumer has a current loan on the books with another subsidiary of the same parent corporation shall serve as just cause for revocation of the license of the subsidiary failing to make this determination if a pattern of such misconduct is shown.
HISTORY: 1986 Act No. 370, Section 2.
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