2013 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers
CHAPTER 23 - MOTOR VEHICLE CARRIERS
SECTION 58-23-60. Chapter not applicable to business within certain areas.

Nothing in Articles 1 to 11 of this chapter applies to motor vehicles:

(1) carrying on the business of transporting passengers or property within the limits of a municipality in this state;

(2) transporting passengers to or from state institutions located in Richland County;

(3) transporting passengers within a distance of ten miles from the limits of municipalities in Chester and Lancaster counties when substantially all of the passengers are workers in industrial plants, eighty percent of the production of which is for defense materials;

(4) having a seating capacity of twenty or more passengers which are operated within ten miles from the limits of a municipality with a population of seventy thousand or more inhabitants, according to the United States Census for 1940, by an electric utility company which regularly provides transportation service within the municipality itself. This item does not permit the substantial duplication of a franchise or license in effect at the time service is undertaken by the electric utility company; or

(5) used by a county to transport passengers or property.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1501; 1952 Code Section 58-1501; 1942 Code Sections 8510, 8522; 1932 Code Sections 8510, 8522; 1925 (34) 252; 1930 (36) 1068; 1935 (39) 349; 1939 (41) 376; 1942 (42) 1478; 1943 (43) 262; 1944 (43) 1270; 1983 Act No. 138 Section 12, eff June 15, 1983; 1990 Act No. 487, Section 1, eff May 29, 1990.