(A) Articles 1 to 11 of this chapter do not apply to:
(1) motor vehicles 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;
(2) the United States mail carriers operating star routes, while engaged solely in carrying mail;
(3) farmers or dairymen hauling dairy or farm products;
(4) persons transporting agricultural livestock and poultry feeds, including ingredients;
(5) 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;
(6) lumber haulers engaged in transporting lumber from the forest to shipping points in this State;
(7) haulers engaged in transporting logs, chips, or wood residues which are subject to the South Carolina Unmanufactured Forest Products Trucking Regulations which are promulgated and adopted by the Department of Public Safety's Transport Police Division;
(8) a vehicle engaged in hauling, towing, or transporting wrecked or damaged vehicles;
(9) vehicles used in ridesharing;
(10) 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.
(B) For the purposes of this section, perishable products of the farm include hay and straw.
(C) Articles 1 to 11 of this chapter also do not apply to Transportation Network Companies and Transportation Network Company Drivers.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1404; 1952 Code Section 58-1404; 1942 Code Section 8508; 1932 Code Section 8508; 1925 (34) 252; 1930 (36) 1327; 1956 (49) 2020; 1957 (50) 551; 1962 (52) 1911; 1978 Act No. 490, eff May 5, 1978; 1979 Act No. 152 Section 3, eff July 6, 1979; 1983 Act No. 138 Section 13, eff June 15, 1983; 1985 Act No. 112, Section 1, eff May 24, 1985; 1996 Act No. 425, Section 6, eff January 1, 1996; 2015 Act No. 88 (H.3525), Section 3, eff June 24, 2015.
Effect of Amendment
2015 Act No. 88, Section 3, added (C).