South Carolina · statute · S.C. Code tit. 58, ch. 13 · 36 active provisions
It is unlawful for any agent, servant, baggage master, or other person in the service or employment of a carrier of persons or property for hire, carelessly, negligently, or wilfully to open, break into, or injure a package, parcel, or baggage while in the custody or under the control of the common carrier. A person vi…
Any baggage master or other person whose duty it is to handle, remove or take care of the baggage of passengers who shall wilfully or recklessly injure or destroy any trunk, valise, box, package or parcel while loading, transporting, unloading, delivering or storing it shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty do…
Whoever fraudulently evades or attempts to evade the payment of any toll or fare, lawfully established, for the carrying of passengers, by giving a false answer to the collector of the fare, by traveling beyond the point to which fare has been paid or otherwise attempting to ride without paying the toll or fare, by rid…
The provisions of Section 58-13-30 and of Articles 3, 5, 7, 9 and 13 of this Chapter, other than Sections 58-13-270 and 58-13-280 shall not apply to any common carriers by water routes.
Every common carrier doing business in this State shall, if notice be given it that prompt shipment is required, transport to its destination all freight received by it for transportation within this State within a reasonable time after receipt thereof, to wit: Between points not over one hundred miles apart, seventy-t…
Any such common carrier failing to comply with the provisions of Section 58-13-110, except for good and sufficient cause the burden of proof of which shall be on the common carrier so failing, shall be subject, in addition to the liabilities and remedies otherwise existing for unreasonable delay in the transportation o…
If any such common carrier shall prove that no delay in violation of this chapter occurred in the transportation of such freight after receipt thereof by it, that it extended the notice that prompt shipment was required to its connecting line and that, by the exercise of due diligence, it was unable to discover the cau…
Any such common carrier shall, within ten days after demand in writing therefor by any consignee of delayed freight or the owner or holder of the bill of lading, furnish a statement in writing, specifying the date of its receipt of such freight, the cause of delay and the name of the common carrier responsible therefor…
No public notice or declaration shall limit or in any way affect the liability at common law of common carrier for or in respect of any goods to be carried by them but they shall be liable, as at common law, to answer for the loss of or injury to any articles and goods delivered to them for transportation, any public n…
In every case of loss, damage, destruction or failure to deliver any property by a common carrier shipped over its line or any connecting line, the initial, every intermediate and the terminal carrier, upon notice of such loss, damage, destruction or failure to deliver, shall within forty days trace such property lost,…
Only one penalty shall be recoverable under the provisions of Section 58-13-220 upon the same cause of action.
All common carriers for transportation, over whose lines or parts thereof any freight, baggage or other property received by another such carrier for through shipment or transportation by such carriers on a contract for through carriage recognized, acquiesced in or acted upon by such carriers, shall in this State, with…
For any damages for injury or damage to, or loss or delay of, any freight, baggage or other property sustained anywhere in such through transportation over connecting lines, or any of them, as defined in Section 58-13-240, any of such connecting carriers which the person sustaining such damages may first elect to sue i…
If any common carrier shall convert and appropriate to its own use any property of another held by it on consignment or in course of transportation, it shall be liable to the consignee or other owner of such property, not only for the value of such property, but for an additional amount, as a penalty for such conversio…
Common carriers doing business in this State with whom a claim has been filed for loss of, or damage to, freight, when the carrier denies liability, or fails to notify claimant of its disposition of claims as required by law, shall return to the claimant with the letter or statement denying liability the claim and all…
Nothing in Section 58-13-270 shall be construed to affect any other rights that the claimant may have against the carrier arising from its failure to return promptly any or all of such papers.
All persons hauling, moving, transporting or carrying goods or chattels from place to place in this State or from a point without this State into this State shall have a lien on such goods or chattels to the extent of such carrying charges as have been agreed upon or, in case no carrying charges have been agreed upon,…
Each such common carrier shall inform any consignee or consignees of the correct amount due for freight, according to such classifications and rates. And upon payment or tender of the amount due on any shipment or on any part of any shipment which has arrived at its destination, according to such classifications and ra…
All common carriers doing business in this State shall settle their freight charges according to the rate stipulated in the bill of lading if the rate therein stipulated be in conformity with the classifications and rates made and filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission, in case of shipments from without this Sta…
Every claim for freight overcharged or for loss of or damage to property and baggage while in the possession of such common carrier shall be adjusted and paid within thirty days, in the case of shipments wholly within this State, and within forty days, in case of shipments from without this State, after the filing of s…
All common carriers doing business in this State and making collections on C. O. D. shipments for shippers or other persons designated by the shipper shall pay over to such shipper or person designated by such shipper the returns or moneys collected on C. O. D. shipments within fifteen days after the date of such colle…
Any railroad, steamboat, express or other transportation company which shall have had unclaimed or refused freight, not perishable, in its possession for a period of sixty days in the case of unclaimed freight or thirty days in the case of refused freight, may, after having given the consignor and the consignee, when k…
In case such refused or unclaimed freight shall be in its nature perishable, then in order to protect the interests of all concerned, it may be sold as soon as it can be. The proceeds of such sale shall be applied to the charges of transportation, storage and demurrage on such freight and all other lawful charges asses…
In case such refused or unclaimed freight is livestock, then, in order to protect the interests of all concerned, it may be sold after ten days' notice in writing to the consignor and the consignee, when known, by United States mail or otherwise. The proceeds of such sale shall be applied to the charges of transportati…
Such railroad, steamboat, express or transportation company shall keep books of record of all such sales as aforesaid containing copies of such notices, proofs of advertisements and postings when required to be made, affidavits of sale, with the amount thereof, the total amount of charges against such freight and the a…