S.C. Code Ann. § 58-23-60: Chapter not applicable to business within certain areas.

Nothing in Articles 1 to 11 of this chapter applies to motor vehicles:

(1) carrying on the business of transporting passengers or property within the limits of a municipality in this state;

(2) transporting passengers to or from state institutions located in Richland County;

(3) 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;

(4) having a seating capacity of twenty or more passengers which are operated within ten miles from the limits of a municipality with a population of seventy thousand or more inhabitants, according to the United States Census for 1940, by an electric utility company which regularly provides transportation service within the municipality itself. This item does not permit the substantial duplication of a franchise or license in effect at the time service is undertaken by the electric utility company; or

(5) used by a county or municipality to transport passengers or property.