S.C. Code Ann. § 9-13-140: Eligibility of person who was thirty-five years of age when first employed as a fireman.

No person who had or has attained thirty-five years of age upon first becoming regularly employed as a member of the fire department shall ever be eligible for any benefits under this chapter unless he has been regularly and continuously a volunteer member of the same department since before he attained thirty-five years of age.