Bill 793

                    Current Status

Bill Number:               793
Ratification Number:       582
Act Number                 487
Introducing Body:          Senate
Subject:                   Exceptions from the provisions governing
                           motor vehicle carriers

(A487, R582, S793)

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 58-23-60, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO EXCEPTIONS FROM THE PROVISIONS GOVERNING MOTOR VEHICLE CARRIERS, SO AS TO DELETE THE EXCEPTION OF TRANSPORTING PASSENGERS WITHIN A DISTANCE OF FIVE MILES FROM THE LIMITS OF A MUNICIPALITY.

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

Exceptions

SECTION 1. Section 58-23-60 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:

"Section 58-23-60. 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."

Time effective

SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

Approved the 29th day of May, 1990.