Title 57, Highways, Bridges and Ferries

With the approval of the commission, the county officials may designate the department, acting through its agents and employees, as agents of the county in securing necessary rights-of-way and other lands.

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…

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 maintained by the department in a safe and serviceable condition as state highways. The department may u…

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…

Unless the context indicates another meaning or intent: (1) "Department" means the Department of Transportation; (2) "Turnpike facility" means any express highway or limited access highway constructed under the provisions of this article by the department, whether or not financed…

1. The department may designate, establish, plan, improve, construct, maintain, operate, and regulate turnpike facilities as a part of the state highway system or any federal aid system whenever the department determines the traffic conditions, present or future, justify the faci…

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 feasibility study required by Section 57-5-1330 and shall forward copies of the study to the Ch…

In addition to the powers listed above, the South Carolina Department of Transportation may: 1. Request the issuance of turnpike bonds for the purpose of paying all or any part of the cost of any one or more turnpike projects; 2. Fix and revise from time to time and charge and co…

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. The request may be in the form of resolution adopted at any regular or special meeting of …

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 effect, by resolution duly adopted, the issuance of turnpike bonds, or pending their issuan…

Turnpike bonds may be issued from time to time under the conditions prescribed by this article.

For the payment of the principal of and interest on all turnpike bonds, there is irrevocably pledged all turnpike revenues derived from the turnpike facility financed by the bonds to the extent and in the manner prescribed by the bond resolution. Any interest earned on turnpike f…

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 issue of turnpike bonds shall mature on the occasion prescribed by the State Fiscal Accountab…

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…

Turnpike bonds must be sold at private or public sale under conditions prescribed by the State Fiscal Accountability Authority. For the purpose of bringing about successful sales of the bonds, the State Fiscal Accountability Authority may do all things ordinarily and customarily …

All turnpike bonds must be executed in the name of and on behalf of the State of South Carolina and must be signed by the Governor and the State Treasurer. The Great Seal of the State must be affixed to, impressed, or reproduced upon each of them and they must be attested by the …

The proceeds derived from the sale of turnpike bonds must be applied only to the purposes for which bonds are issued.

Turnpike bonds must each be in the denomination of one thousand dollars or some multiple thereof.

Turnpike bonds issued pursuant to this article may be in the form of negotiable coupon bonds, payable to bearer, with the privilege to the holder of having them registered in his name on the books of the State Treasurer as to principal only, or as to both principal and interest, …

(A) The State Fiscal Accountability Authority, by resolution duly adopted, may make provision for the issuance of turnpike bonds. In the resolution, the State Fiscal Accountability Authority may prescribe: (1) the amount, denomination, and numbering of turnpike bonds to be issued…