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Vehicle Registration Exemptions - South Carolina

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Every motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, pole trailer and special mobile equipment vehicle driven, operated or moved on a highway in South Carolina must be registered and licensed.

The following vehicles are exempt from registration and licensing under this chapter:

  • A vehicle driven, operated, or moved upon a highway pursuant to the provisions relating to nonresidents or under temporary permits issued by the department;
  • Any implement of husbandry, including a knuckleboom loader mounted on a trailer or straight truck, whether of a type otherwise subject to registration and license which is only incidentally operated or moved upon a highway;
  • A special mobile equipment (defined below) vehicle which only occasionally is moved over a highway and special mobile equipment vehicles of South Carolina or its departments, agencies, or political subdivisions;
  • A vehicle owned and operated by the government of the United States;
  • A trailer or semitrailer commonly used in combination with a large commercial motor vehicle, as defined in Section 12-37-2810, for which trailer or semitrailer the fee imposed pursuant to Section 12-37-2860 is paid and applicable registration requirements provided pursuant to Article 23, Chapter 37, Title 12, are met, and a distinctive permanent plate has been issued pursuant to Section 12-37-2860; and
  • Firefighting vehicles that are publicly owned by South Carolina or a county, municipality, or special purpose district as follows:
    • Motorized firefighting vehicles that carry a pump or water tank more than 300 gallons;
    • Motorized firefighting vehicles containing a hydraulically operated ladder; and
    • Specialized support vehicles that specifically transport equipment utilized for rescue operations, hazardous materials response, wildfire emergencies, breathing air refill support, and incident command.

“Special mobile equipment” includes every vehicle, with or without motive power, not designed or used primarily for the transportation of persons or pay-load property and incidentally operated or moved over the highways, including farm tractors, road construction and maintenance machinery, ditch-digging apparatus, well-boring apparatus, truck cranes or mobile shovel cranes, and similar vehicles; this enumeration is deemed partial and does not operate to exclude other vehicles which are within the general terms of this definition.

Boat trailers under 2,500 pounds, farm trailers and other utility trailers which are privately owned and not for hire

Need not be licensed or registered.

Professional racing cars

Not operated under their own power but towed by another vehicle going to or from a race track need not be registered or licensed.

Vehicles operated under reciprocity with another jurisdiction

The Department of Motor Vehicles may grant to any other state, country, territory or district reciprocity with respect to the operation of any vehicles in South Carolina without being registered and licensed if such other jurisdiction extends under its laws, rules and regulations like privileges to vehicles registered and licensed in South Carolina, subject to the conditions that every such vehicle is at all times, when operated in South Carolina is duly registered or licensed in such jurisdiction in accordance with the lawful requirements of such jurisdiction and that there is displayed thereon a valid registration card and registration or license plate or plates.

Vehicles operated under special permits

The department may issue in writing special permits to operate vehicles otherwise required to be registered and licensed. A special permit must specify the date on which it expires and be carried on the vehicle authorized to be operated.

Citations

  • S.C. Code Ann. 56-3-110 Vehicles required to be registered and licensed
  • S.C. Code Ann. 56-3-120 Exemptions from registration and licensing requirement
  • S.C. Code Ann. 56-3-20 Definitions (11) “Special mobile equipment”
  • S.C. Code Ann. 56-3-140 Exemption of certain professional racing cars
  • S.C. Code Ann. 56-3-170 Reciprocity with respect to the operation of vehicles licensed out of state
  • S.C. Code Ann. 56-3-180 Special permits to operate vehicles otherwise required to be registered and licensed; restrictions
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