{"data":{"id":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-56-5-1560","jurisdiction":"us-sc","citation":"S.C. Code Ann. § 56-5-1560","heading":"Minimum speed limits.","body":"(a) Impeding traffic by slow speed prohibited. —No person shall drive a motor vehicle at such a slow speed as to impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic except when reduced speed is necessary for safe operation or in compliance with law.\n(b) Establishing minimum speed zones; signs. Whenever the Department of Transportation or local authorities within their respective jurisdictions determine on the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that slow speeds on any part of a highway consistently impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic, the Department of Transportation or local authority may determine and declare a minimum speed limit below which no person shall drive a vehicle except when necessary for safe operation or in compliance with law, when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected along the part of the highway for which a minimum speed limit is established. Also any minimum speed limit adopted by a municipality for a section of the state highway within the municipality shall not be effective until such minimum speed has been approved by the Department of Transportation.","path":["Title 56 - MOTOR VEHICLES","CHAPTER 5 Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways","ARTICLE 11 Restrictions on Speed; Racing"],"source_url":"https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t56c005.php","current_through":"2025 Session of the General Assembly","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T07:52:34Z","sha256":"6c946052a64e126f13df4e9795c392d30aed94be304eae8abcf0e8ed667f8960","source_id":"us-sc","stale":false,"prev":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-56-5-1550-to-56-5-1555","next":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-56-5-1570"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}