S.C. Code Ann. § 57-5-1340: Additional powers.

In addition to the powers listed above, the South Carolina Department of Transportation may:

(1) request the issuance of bonds for the purpose of paying all or any part of the cost of any one or more choice lane projects;

(2) fix and revise from time to time and charge and collect a program of usage charges for transit over each designated choice lane facility; and each program may provide for dynamic charges, scheduled charges, variable charges, uniform charges, or some combination thereof, and may take into account the weight and class of certain vehicles, real-time and planned usage, and any other factors deemed appropriate by the department;

(3) combine, for the purposes of financing any choice lane facilities, any two or more choice lane facilities;

(4) control access to choice lane facilities;

(5) to the extent permitted by a bond resolution, expend choice lane facility revenues in advertising the choice lane facilities and services of the choice lane facility or facilities to the traveling public;

(6) receive and accept from any federal agency grants for or in the aid of the construction of any choice lane facility;

(7) establish a separate division to administer choice lane facilities and a separate choice lane facility account;

(8) do all acts and things necessary or convenient to carry out the powers expressly granted in this article.