S.C. Code Ann. § 39-1-10: Licensing of nonresidents to do business in State.

No nonresident of the State shall be licensed to do business in the State, except as a special agent or when the state in which the nonresident agent resides has a reciprocal license law, and then only when he reports his business for record as South Carolina business to some general or district agent of his company in the State or having territory within the State.