Title 57, Highways, Bridges and Ferries

Section effective until January 1, 2027. A county within a Department of Transportation district may not have a resident commission member for more than eight consecutive years and in no event shall any two persons from the same county serve as a commission member simultaneously.

Section effective until January 1, 2027. (A) The Governor shall submit his transportation district appointees to the Senate and the House of Representatives for referral. (B) Upon receipt of a referral, the legislative delegation shall meet to approve or disapprove the Governor's…

Section effective until January 1, 2027. (A) All commission members are appointed to a term of office of four years which expires on February fifteenth of the appropriate year. However, a commission member may not serve more than two consecutive terms, and may not serve more than…

Section effective until January 1, 2027. Each commission member, within thirty days after his appointment and confirmation, or approval by the appropriate legislative delegation, as the case may be, and before entering upon the discharge of the duties of his office, shall take, s…

Section effective until January 1, 2027. (A) The commission may adopt an official seal for use on official documents of the department. (B) The commission shall elect a chairman and adopt its own rules and procedures and may select such additional officers to serve such terms as …

(A) The State Auditor shall employ an individual to serve as the chief internal auditor of the department, and other professional, administrative, technical, and clerical personnel as the State Auditor determines to be necessary. The State Auditor also must provide professional, …

Section effective until January 1, 2027. See, also, section 57-1-370 effective January 1, 2027. (A) The commission must develop the long-range Statewide Transportation Plan, with a minimum twenty-year forecast period at the time of adoption, that provides for the development and …

Section effective July 1, 2027. (A) Upon notification from a county that the county has appropriated funds for projects to improve the state highway system, the department must review the priority list for projects to be undertaken pursuant to Section 57-1-370(B)(8) to see if the…

The Department shall prepare a Transportation Asset Management Plan which includes objectives and performance measures for the preservation and improvement of the State Highway System. In addition, the Transportation Asset Management Plan shall include objectives, performance mea…

Introductory paragraph of (A) effective until January 1, 2027. (A) It is unlawful for a member of the commission or an engineer, agent, or other employee, acting for or on behalf of the department or commission, to accept or agree to accept, receive or agree to receive, or ask or…

Section effective until January 1, 2027. See, also, section 57-1-410 effective January 1, 2027. The commission shall appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, a Secretary of Transportation who shall serve at the pleasure of the commission. A person appointed to this pos…

Text of (A) effective until January 1, 2027. (A) The secretary is charged with the affirmative duty to carry out the policies of the commission, to administer the day-to-day affairs of the department, to direct the implementation of the Statewide Transportation Improvement Progra…

The secretary shall have the exclusive authority to employ a chief counsel and such staff attorneys and support staff as are necessary to represent the department in legal matters, condemnation procedures, and other such litigation. Any extra legal services that may be required s…

The secretary shall appoint a director for each division of the department who shall serve at the pleasure of the secretary and shall recommend the salary for each director as allowed by statute or applicable law.

(A) The department shall be audited by a certified public accountant or firm of certified public accountants once each year to be designated by the State Auditor. The designated accountant or firm of accountants shall issue audited financial statements in accordance with generall…

The assent of the State is hereby given to the terms and provisions of any act providing for federal aid to the states for the construction of highways and other related transportation projects. The good faith of the State is hereby pledged to provide sufficient funds to meet the…

Section effective until January 1, 2027. See, also, section 57-1-500 effective January 1, 2027. The secretary must provide for a workshop of at least two biennial contact hours concerning ethics and the Administrative Procedures Act for the commissioners, the secretary, the chief…

The Governor, in addition to other duties and responsibilities conferred upon him by the Constitution and laws of this State, is charged with the responsibility for the administration of the state's highway safety programs and is further charged with the duty of contracting and d…

It is the sense of the General Assembly that the Department of Transportation should comply with Section 105(f) of the Federal Aid Highway Act. The department is directed to effectuate and assure the compliance through contract documents and regulations as may be necessary and su…

The Department of Transportation shall publish on its website the list of all public railroad crossings. The department also shall publish on its website the list of railroad crossings programmed for upgrades and designate it on its website "John's Law". Contingent upon the recei…

Text of (A) effective until January 1, 2027. (A) In formulating transportation policy, promulgating regulations, allocating funds, and planning, designing, constructing, equipping, operating and maintaining transportation facilities, no action of the South Carolina Transportation…

(A) The Department of Transportation is comprised of the following principal divisions: (1) finance and administration; (2) construction, engineering, and planning; and (3) intermodal and freight programs. (B) The Secretary of Transportation may establish other divisions, or anci…

The Department of Transportation shall have the following duties and powers: (1) lay out, build, and maintain public highways and bridges, including the exclusive authority to establish design criteria, construction specifications, and standards required to construct and maintain…

For the purposes of this title, the following words, phrases, and terms are defined as follows: (1) "Highway", "street", or "road" are general terms denoting a public way for the purpose of vehicular travel, including the entire area within the right-of-way, and the terms shall i…

(A) Subject to the conditions prescribed in subsection (B), the Department of Transportation, in its discretion upon application in writing and good cause being shown that it is in the public interest, may issue special permits authorizing the applicants to operate or move vehicl…

(A) The Department of Transportation, under the terms and conditions as in its judgment may be in the public interest for safety on the highways and in addition to other permits required by Title 57, may issue permits for the use on public highways of sheet tobacco trucks. For th…

(A) The Department of Transportation, under the terms and conditions it considers to be in the best interest of the public for safety on the highways, may issue multiple trip permits for the moving of over-dimensional or overweight nondivisible loads over specified state highways…

(A) Notwithstanding Section 56-5-4030 or another provision of Chapter 5 of Title 56, the Department of Transportation shall issue, under terms and conditions in the public interest for safety on the highways, a permit for the use on the public highways of cotton modular vehicles.…

Before issuance of an open-end permit, the permittee shall file with the Department of Transportation a: (1) bond in the amount of five hundred dollars or a greater amount the applicant determines at all times equals or exceeds the net value of all open-end permits issued to the …

All persons to whom open-end permits are issued shall file with the Department of Transportation before the twenty-first day of each January, April, July, and October reports showing the number of trips made during the preceding quarter ending on December thirty-first, March thir…

The Department of Transportation, in the public interest for safety on the highways, may issue open-end or annual permits for moving oversize loads and vehicles, oversize mobile homes, modular home units, utility buildings, and steel tanks, pursuant to Sections 57-3-160, 57-3-170…

Section effective July 1, 2027. See, also, section 57-3-20 effective until July 1, 2027. The responsibilities and duties of the following deputy secretaries must include, but not be limited to: (1) Deputy Secretary for Finance and Administration: (a) financial planning and manage…

From the funds appropriated to the Department of Transportation and from any other sources which may be available to the Department, the Department of Transportation may expend such funds as it deems necessary to enter into partnership agreements with political subdivisions inclu…

(A) The department may enter into public-private partnership arrangements between or among the department and any public or private entity for the purpose of planning, designing, financing, constructing, operating, or maintaining the highways, roads, streets, bridges, public tran…

Text of (A) effective until January 1, 2027. (A) The department is authorized to utilize public transit funds to contract directly with private operators of public transit systems to provide service to the general public, provided that the private operators have established a pla…

(A) A railroad right-of-way corridor held for railroad right-of-way preservation may be used for a public purpose compatible with preservation of the corridor for future transportation use on an interim basis until the corridor is used for rail transport. A railroad corridor held…

The Secretary of Transportation may convene a special advisory committee to assist the department in evaluating and addressing issues related to the facilitation of safe and efficient freight, transportation, and logistics infrastructure in the State. The advisory committee must …

(A) The Office of Railroads is established within the Division of Intermodal and Freight Programs. The office is principally responsible for: (1) preserving railroad rights-of-way for future use and coordinating the preparation of a state railroad corridor preservation and revita…

(A) The Office of Public Transit is established within the Division of Intermodal and Freight Programs. The office must develop and coordinate a general public transit program and policy for the State in order to encourage the efficient development, implementation, operation, eva…

Section effective until January 1, 2027. See, also, section 57-3-50 effective January 1, 2027. The commission may establish such highway districts as in its opinion shall be necessary for the proper and efficient performance of its duties. The commission, every ten years, must re…

Before a county or municipal corporation may accept a deed to a newly constructed road or agree to maintain a newly constructed road, it shall obtain an affidavit from the donor and the contractor who constructed the road that all construction costs have been paid, that the road …

Whenever a road, bridge, or other highway facility is dedicated and named in honor of an individual by act or resolution of the General Assembly, the Department of Transportation must be reimbursed all expenses incurred by the department to implement the dedication. Reimbursement…

Section effective July 1, 2027. See, also, section 57-3-615 effective until July 1, 2027. (A) No toll or usage charge may be imposed on the passage of any vehicle on any publicly owned or controlled road, bridge, highway, or interstate in this State except as provided by this sec…

Notwithstanding another provision of law, the Department of Transportation may impose and collect a toll on the proposed Interstate 73 corridor upon completion of this highway project. This toll must be used to pay for the cost of planning, right-of-way acquisitions, financing, c…

If access to a particular property or properties is controlled by a traffic signal, the Department of Transportation may require that improvements be made to the property within five hundred feet of the department's right of way which are necessary to improve traffic flow at the …

The department may bring suits in its name, whenever a cause of action shall accrue to the State by reason of the injury, damage, destruction, or obstruction of any road in the state highway system, any bridge, culvert, ditch, causeway, embankment, wharf, tollgate, tollhouse, or …