Title 57, Highways, Bridges and Ferries

If any such project to be constructed under the provisions of Section 57-3-670 is not a part of the state highway system, no part of the actual costs of rights-of-way, construction, or maintenance shall be paid for from state highway funds. Any political subdivision having jurisd…

Whenever the department shall with federal funds, undertake the construction of any county road or shall, in anticipation of federal funds becoming available for such purpose, establish the location of any such road, the lawfully authorized officials of the county concerned shall…

Section effective January 1, 2027. See, also, section 57-3-700 effective until January 1, 2027. With the approval of the Secretary of Transportation, the county officials may designate the department, acting through its agents and employees, as agents of the county in securing ne…

All payments to be made or obligated on account of rights-of-way and other lands acquired for the purposes contemplated by Section 57-3-690 shall be made by the county on order of the department. Any person having any claim on account of damages to property, injuries to person, o…

The department is authorized to construct and maintain street and road access facilities to state ports shipping and warehousing facilities, airports, railroad marshalling yards, and trucking terminals, the cost of same to be paid from the state highway fund; provided, however, t…

The department may cooperate with any drainage district within the State, organized in accordance with the laws of the State, in order to carry drainage canals across state highways. But the cost to be assumed by the department incident to any such crossing shall not exceed the a…

A full account of each road project shall be kept by the department so that it may ascertain at any time the expenditures or liabilities against all projects. The department shall also keep records of contracts and force account work. The account records, together with all suppor…

(A) The Department of Transportation shall maintain a transaction register that includes a complete record of all funds expended, from whatever source for whatever purpose. The register must be prominently posted on the department's Internet website and made available for public …

The department, at the beginning of each regular session of the General Assembly, shall make a full, printed, detailed report to the General Assembly showing an analysis of: (1) the department's accomplishments in the past year; (2) a ten-year plan detailing future needs of the S…

The department when cleaning or removing dirt and topsoil from ditches or roadbeds along roads, highways, and highway rights-of-way under its jurisdiction is authorized to give this dirt and topsoil to the landowner whose property adjoins the road which is being cleaned. The depa…

Before building new or expanding existing primary highways, roads, and streets, the department shall consider and make a written determination whether it is financially and physically feasible to include: (1) high occupancy vehicle lanes, when the construction or expansion is in …

(A) The Department of Transportation shall require the placement of construction work zone signs when necessary to inform motorists of ongoing construction. The department shall direct the removal of these signs when work is substantially completed and normal traffic flow has res…

(A) The State waives its immunity under the 11th Amendment of the United States Constitution and consents to suit in a federal court for lawsuits arising out of the department's compliance, discharge, or enforcement of responsibilities assumed pursuant to 23 U.S.C. Sections 326 a…

Section effective July 1, 2027. The Department of Transportation may enter into reciprocal agreements with other jurisdictions including the federal government and any state, or agencies or departments thereof, to enforce toll or usage charge violations. The agreement shall provi…

Section effective until January 1, 2027. See, also, section 57-5-10 effective January 1, 2027. The state highway system shall consist of a statewide system of connecting highways that shall be constructed to the Department of Transportation's standards and that shall be maintaine…

Except as authorized herein, or by other law, the department is hereby prohibited from adding roads to the state highway system.

When used in this article: (1) "Controlled-access facility" means a State highway or section of State highway especially designed for through traffic, and over, from or to which highway owners or occupants of abutting property or others shall have only a controlled right or easem…

The Department may designate, establish, abandon, improve, construct, maintain and regulate controlled-access facilities as a part of the State highway primary system, national system of interstate highways and Federal-aid primary system whenever the Department determines that tr…

The Department may designate and establish controlled-access highways as new and additional facilities, or an existing highway may be designated as a controlled-access facility, or included in a new controlled-access facility.

The Department may so design any controlled-access facility and so regulate or prohibit access as to best serve the traffic for which such facility is intended. No person shall have any right of ingress or egress to, from or across controlled-access facilities to or from abutting…

The Department may provide for the elimination of intersections at grades with existing State or county roads and city or town streets or other public ways, if the public interest shall be served thereby, or may provide for the elimination of intersections at grade by closing off…

The Department, in order to carry out the purposes and provisions of this article, may designate, establish, improve, construct, abandon, maintain and regulate frontage roads and exercise the same jurisdiction thereover as is authorized over controlled-access facilities under thi…

The Department may acquire such lands and property, including rights of access, as may be needed for controlled-access facilities, by gift, devise, purchase or condemnation, in the same manner as now or hereafter authorized by law for acquiring property or property rights in conn…

On all highways or sections of highways in the State highway primary system not designated as controlled-access facilities, it shall be unlawful for any person to open up, construct or reconstruct any private driveway or side-road entrance or exit thereto which is intended for us…

The Department may issue permits for driveways and side-road entrances or exits as referred to in Section 57-5-1080, and include in such permits such requirements and restrictions for design and location of the driveways and side-road entrances or exits as may be deemed necessary…

The Department of Transportation may relocate any section of highways included in the federal-aid primary highway system or the state highway primary system when such relocation is required in order to conform to the standards adopted for the highways comprising such systems.

Any such existing driveway or side-road entrance or exit constructed prior to February 16, 1956, and adjudged by the Department to be unsafe for the traveling public may be changed by the Department so as to eliminate any unsafe features or closed or displaced by substitution the…

The Department may barricade, displace or otherwise close any side-road or driveway entrance or exit constructed or maintained in violation of Sections 57-5-1080 to 57-5-1100 or of any of the provisions of any permit for the construction of such side-road or driveway entrance or …

Any abutting property owner or lessee may file an application within thirty days from a decision of the department in the administration of Sections 57-5-1080 to 57-5-1110 for a hearing in the matter before a circuit judge at chambers or in open court in the judicial circuit in w…

Any person violating any of the provisions of this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days.

The department shall construct at its expense with its maintenance forces the portion within the right-of-way of entrances and aprons to state highways at any point necessary to render adequate ingress and egress to the abutting property at locations where the driveways will not …

The department may abandon as a part of the state highway system any section of highway which may be relocated, and every such section so abandoned as a part of the state highway system shall revert to the jurisdiction of the respective appropriate local authorities involved or b…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when the Department of Transportation publishes the name or description of a state road or highway in a newspaper of general circulation, it shall include not only the numerical designation of such road or highway but also a general des…

This article is intended to provide an additional and an alternative method for the provision of and financing of highways and appurtenant facilities to the end that such highways may be undertaken in such manner as may best be calculated to expedite relief of hazardous and conge…

Section effective July 1, 2027. See, also, section 57-5-1320 effective until July 1, 2027. As used in this article: (1) "Department" means the Department of Transportation; (2) "Choice lane facility" means any express highway or limited access highway or any specified lanes or po…

Section effective July 1, 2027. See, also, section 57-5-1330 effective until July 1, 2027. (A) The department may designate, establish, plan, improve, construct, maintain, operate, and regulate choice lane facilities as a part of the state highway system or any federal aid system…

Section effective until July 1, 2027. See, also, section 57-5-1335 effective July 1, 2027. The Department of Transportation, before constructing a bridge or replacing an existing bridge which qualifies as a turnpike facility as defined in Section 57-5-1320, shall conduct the feas…

Section effective July 1, 2027. See, also, section 57-5-1340 effective until July 1, 2027. In addition to the powers listed above, the South Carolina Department of Transportation may: (1) request the issuance of bonds for the purpose of paying all or any part of the cost of any o…

Section effective July 1, 2027. (A) In order to administer, collect, and enforce any toll or usage charge, toll or usage charge violation, processing fee, civil penalty, or registration-based enforcement mechanism authorized by this title, the Department of Transportation shall c…

Section effective until July 1, 2027. See, also, section 57-5-1350 effective July 1, 2027. Whenever it becomes necessary that monies be raised for a turnpike facility, the commission may make request to the State Fiscal Accountability Authority for the issuance of turnpike bonds.…

Section effective until July 1, 2027. See, also, section 57-5-1360 effective July 1, 2027. Following the receipt of a request pursuant to Section 57-5-1350, the State Fiscal Accountability Authority shall review the request and, to the extent that it approves the request, it may …

Section effective until July 1, 2027. See, also, section 57-5-1370 effective July 1, 2027. Turnpike bonds may be issued from time to time under the conditions prescribed by this article.

Section effective July 1, 2027. See, also, section 57-5-1380 effective until July 1, 2027. (A) For the payment of the principal of and interest on all bonds, there is irrevocably pledged choice lane facility revenues to the extent and in the manner prescribed by the bond resoluti…

Section effective until July 1, 2027. See, also, section 57-5-1390 effective July 1, 2027. Turnpike bonds shall bear interest, payable on occasions prescribed by the State Fiscal Accountability Authority, at a rate not exceeding the maximum prescribed by Section 11-9-350. Each is…

The state highways designated as parts of the state highway system shall include the sections of such highways lying within the limits of incorporated municipalities, and such sections shall be equally as eligible in all respects to receive the attention of the department for con…

Section effective July 1, 2027. See, also, section 57-5-1400 effective until July 1, 2027. Bonds must be sold at private or public sale under conditions prescribed by the bond resolution. For the purpose of bringing about successful sales of the bonds, the State Fiscal Accountabi…