Title 15, Civil Remedies and Procedures

Service can be made in respect to a foreign corporation under the provisions of SECTION 15-9-210 only (a) when it has property within the State, (b) when the cause of action arose therein or (c) when such service shall be made in this State personally upon the president, cashier,…

(a) The registered agent of a foreign business or nonprofit corporation authorized to transact business in this State is the corporation's agent for service of process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served on the foreign corporation. (b) A foreign business …

(a) Every foreign business or nonprofit corporation which is not authorized to do business in this State, by doing in this State, either itself or through an agent, any business, including any business activity for which authority need not be obtained as provided by Section 33-15…

Service of process may be made upon the Secretary of State as agent for a foreign rural electric cooperative pursuant to his appointment as such under the provisions of SECTION 33-49-1320. In the event of such service, the Secretary of State shall forthwith forward it by register…

The summons and any other legal process in any action or proceeding against it must be served on an insurance company as defined in Section 38-1-20, including fraternal benefit associations, by delivering two copies of the summons or any other legal process to the Director of the…

(a) Any act of transacting an insurance business as set forth in Section 38-25-110 by an unauthorized insurer is equivalent to and constitutes an irrevocable appointment by the insurer, binding upon him, his executor or administrator, or successor in interest if a corporation, of…

(a) The issuance and delivery of a policy of insurance or contract of insurance or indemnity to any person in this State or the collection of a premium thereon by an insurer not licensed in this State, as required, irrevocably constitutes the Chief Insurance Commissioner, and his…

Service of process in any action, suit, or proceeding involving an unauthorized insurer is, in addition to the manners provided in SECTION 15-9-280 and SECTION 15-9-285, valid if served upon any person within this State who, in this State on behalf of the insurer, is: (1) solicit…

Nothing contained in SECTION 15-9-280, SECTION 15-9-285, or SECTION 15-9-290 limits or abridges the right to serve any process, notice, or demand upon any insurer in any other manner permitted by law.

Service of process on the attorney, as defined in Section 38-45-20, for subscribers, as defined in Section 38-45-10, to reciprocal or interinsurance contracts shall be made by serving three copies thereof upon the Director of the Department of Insurance as the agent of such attor…

In suits brought against any joint-stock company formed after December 23, 1879 service upon the president, chief manager, purser or other principal officer named in such articles of agreement shall be good service upon each and every one of the company or association at that tim…

Process served on any agent of any unincorporated association doing business in this State under the name and style by which it is usually known shall be sufficient to make such association a party in any court of record in the county in which such agent may be served.

The acceptance by a nonresident of the rights and privileges conferred by the laws in force in this State permitting the operation of motor vehicles, as evidenced by the operation of a motor vehicle by such nonresident on the public highways, the streets of any incorporated munic…

The acceptance by a nonresident motor carrier of the rights and privileges conferred by the laws now or hereafter in force in this State, permitting the operation of motor vehicles as evidenced by the operation of a motor vehicle by such nonresident either personally or through a…

Service of process upon the Director of the Department of Motor Vehicles, as agent of a: (a) nonresident driver under the provisions of Section 15-9-350; (b) resident driver who subsequently becomes a nonresident; (c) nonresident motor carrier under the provisions of Section 15-9…

If the defendant in any such cause shall fail or refuse to accept and receipt for certified mail containing the notice of service and copy of the process and it shall be returned to the plaintiff or the Department of Motor Vehicles, the original envelope as returned shall be reta…

Service of process upon the Secretary of Commerce, as agent of the nonresident operator of any aircraft which has set down in South Carolina, shall be made by leaving a copy thereof, with a fee of four dollars, in the hands of the Secretary of Commerce or his office and such serv…

If the defendant in any such cause shall fail or refuse to accept and receipt for certified mail containing the notice of service and copy of the process and it shall be returned to the plaintiff or Director, the original envelope as returned shall be retained and the notice and …

The provisions of Sections 15-9-390 and 15-9-400 shall not apply to any incorporated air carrier holding a certificate of public convenience and necessity from the Division of Aeronautics of the Department of Commerce.

Service of process upon the Director of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, as agent of the nonresident operator of any vessel as defined in Section 50-21-10 in the waters of this State as defined in Section 50-21-10, shall be made by leaving a copy thereof, with …

If the defendant in any such cause shall fail or refuse to accept and receipt for certified mail containing the notice of service and copy of the process and it shall be returned to the plaintiff or Executive Director, the original envelope as returned shall be retained and the n…

Service of any process in any action or proceeding against any circus or other traveling show exhibiting under canvas or outdoors for gain may be made upon any clerk of court appointed agent or attorney of such show under the provisions of SECTION 52-1-60 and such service must be…

(a) Each director of a domestic business corporation who is a nonresident of this State at the time of his election or who becomes a nonresident during his term in office, shall by his acceptance of election or by continuing in office as director, be deemed to have appointed the …

(1) Service on resident trustee constitutes service on all other trustees. —Service upon one resident trustee of an inter vivos trust shall constitute service on all other trustees, resident and nonresident, of the same trust, for the purpose of adjudicating any action or proceed…

Service, upon any individual nonresident executor, administrator, guardian, conservator, or trustee, of any claim, demand, debt, dues, summons, or any other process, or pleading in suits or actions relating to the administration of the estate in his charge may be made upon the re…

Service of process on any person who shall have appointed the Secretary of State as his agent to accept service under the provisions of SECTION 46-33-40 may be made by serving such process upon the Secretary of State.

The director of a state mental health facility must not accept service of legal papers, or consent to the appointment of a guardian ad litem, for any patient. When a legal paper is served on a patient in a facility, a copy of the legal paper must be filed with the director who sh…

When the person on whom the service of the summons is to be made cannot, after due diligence, be found within the State and (a) that fact appears by affidavit to the satisfaction of the court or judge thereof, the clerk of the court of common pleas, the master, or the probate jud…

(A) For the purposes of this section, "court" means a court, judge, clerk of court, master-in-equity, special referee, or judge of probate of competent jurisdiction in the county where the action is pending. (B)(1) A court shall grant an order allowing a party with an interest in…

In any action or proceeding in this State in which the defendant is a corporation created by or organized under the laws of this State when no officer or agent thereof upon whom service of process can be made can, after due diligence, be found in this State and this is made to ap…

The order of publication shall direct the publication to be made in one newspaper, to be designated by the officer before whom the application is made, most likely to give notice to the person to be served and for such length of time as may be deemed reasonable not less than once…

Personal service of the summons out of State shall be equivalent to publication and deposit in the post office, and when such service is had no affidavit, as provided for in SECTION 15-9-710, order for publication or deposit in the post office shall be necessary. Such personal se…