2016 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 41 - Labor and Employment
CHAPTER 18 - SOUTH CAROLINA AMUSEMENT RIDES SAFETY CODE
Section 41-18-30. Applicability; exceptions.
(A) This chapter applies to amusement devices at carnivals, fairs, and amusement parks where an admission or fee is customarily or usually charged located within the State or at other places open to the public and to the managers of these devices, to the persons employed in connection with these devices, and to their employees.
(B) This chapter does not apply to single passenger, coin-operated, manually, mechanically, or electrically operated rides, except where admission is charged for the use of the equipment, and this chapter may not be construed so as to limit the right of a person to conduct any hotel, restaurant, or eating place at an amusement park.
(C) This chapter does not apply to air-supported structures.
HISTORY: 1985 Act No. 103, Section 2; 1993 Act No. 144, Section 1, eff June 14, 1993; 1998 Act No. 283, Section 1, eff upon approval (became law without the Governor's signature on April 8, 1998).
Effect of Amendment
The 1993 amendment, in subsection 1, added "or at other places open to the public".
The 1998 amendment added subsection (C), exempting air supported structures; and made nonsubstantive changes throughout the section.
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