South Carolina General Assembly
106th Session, 1985-1986

Bill 2515


                    Current Status

Bill Number:               2515
Ratification Number:       163
Act Number:                112
Introducing Body:          House
Subject:                        Motor vehicles exempt from Public
                           Service Commission regulations
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(A112, R163, H2515)

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 58-23-50, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES WHICH ARE EXEMPT FROM PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION REGULATIONS, SO AS TO EXEMPT SINGLESOURCE LESSORS OF VEHICLES AND DRIVERS WHO LEASE THE MOTOR VEHICLES AND DRIVERS TO UNCERTIFICATED MOTOR VEHICLE CARRIERS THAT CONDUCT TRANSPORTATION OF PROPERTY (OTHER THAN USED HOUSEHOLD GOODS) IN FURTHERANCE OF AND WITHIN THE SCOPE OF THEIR NONTRANSPORTATION PRIMARY ENTERPRISES SUBJECT TO CERTAIN CONDITIONS AND TO ELIMINATE WRECKERS FROM THE EXEMPTION.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

Vehicles exempt from regulation

SECTION 1. Section 58-23-50 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 138 of 1983, is further amended to read:

"Section 58-23-50. Nothing in Articles 1 to 11 of this chapter applies to motor vehicles while used exclusively for transporting persons to and from schools, Sunday schools, churches, or religious services, or to or from picnics or upon special prearranged excursions, or to the United States mail carriers operating star routes, while engaged solely in carrying mail, or to farmers or dairymen hauling dairy or farm products, or to persons transporting agricultural livestock and poultry feeds, including ingredients, or to any other persons engaged in hauling perishable products of the farm or dairy products for hire from the farm to the first market when sold in South Carolina, or to lumber haulers engaged in transporting lumber and logs from the forest to the shipping points in this State, or haulers engaged in transporting chips or wood residues, or any vehicle engaged in the business of hauling, towing, or transporting wrecked or damaged vehicles or vehicles used in ridesharing, or to single-source lessors of vehicles and drivers who lease the motor vehicles and drivers to uncertificated motor vehicle carriers that conduct transportation of property (other than used household goods) in furtherance of and within the scope of their nontransportation primary enterprises, when the period of the lease is for thirty days or more, the lessee maintains insurance coverage for the protection of the public, a copy of the lease is carried in the motor vehicle during the period of the lease, and there is displayed on both sides of the motor vehicle a placard identifying the lessee.

For the purposes of this section, perishable products of the farm include hay and straw."

Time effective

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon approval by the Governor.