S.C. Code Regs. 103-122. Further Exemptions

1. The commission does not have jurisdiction over motor carriers solely: a. Carrying on the business of transporting passengers exclusively within the limits of any municipality in this State for which they have a license to operate within that municipality; b. Transporting passengers to or from state institutions located in Richland County; or c. Transporting passengers within a distance of ten miles from the limits of municipalities in Chester and Lancaster Counties when substantially all of the passengers are workers in industrial plants, eighty percent of the production of which is for defense materials; d. Having a seating capacity of twenty or more passengers which are operated within ten miles from the limits of any municipality with a population of seventy thousand or more inhabitants, according to the United States Census for 1940, by any electric utility company which regularly provides transportation service within the municipality itself. Item (d) does not permit the substantial duplication of any franchise or license in effect at the time service is undertaken by the electric utility company; or e. Used by a county to transport passengers or property. 2. Additionally, the commission does not have jurisdiction over any class of for-hire operations which has been or hereafter may be specifically exempted in the Code of Laws of South Carolina.