S.C. Code Ann. § 38-23-70: Sales by dealers in ordinary course of business excepted.

Section 38-23-50 does not apply to any purchase and sale, or sale and purchase, and Section 38-23-60 does not apply to any sale of an equity security of a domestic stock insurer, not then or theretofore held by him in an investment account, by a dealer in the ordinary course of his business and incident to the establishment or maintenance by him of a primary or secondary market, otherwise than on an exchange as defined in the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, for the security. The department may, by any regulation it considers necessary or appropriate in the public interest, define and prescribe terms and conditions with respect to securities held in an investment account and transactions made in the ordinary course of business and incident to the establishment or maintenance of a primary or secondary market.