Bill 1013

                    Current Status

Bill Number:               1013
Ratification Number:       640
Act Number                 559
Introducing Body:          Senate
Subject:                   Relating to unlawful use of and
                           fraudulent application for a motor vehicle
                           driver's license

(A559, R640, S1013)

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 56-1-510, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO UNLAWFUL USE OF AND FRAUDULENT APPLICATION FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE DRIVER'S LICENSE, SO AS TO INCREASE THE PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION, AND FURTHER PROVIDE FOR WHAT CONSTITUTES VIOLATIONS OF THE SECTION INCLUDING UNLAWFUL USE OF PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION CARDS, AND TO AMEND SECTION 56-9-530 RELATING TO CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES WHEN PROOF OF FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IS REQUIRED, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT ANY PERSON WHO HAS HIS DRIVING PRIVILEGE REVOKED PURSUANT TO SECTION 56-1-510 IS NOT BY REASON OF THAT FACT ALONE, REQUIRED TO FURNISH PROOF OF FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

Penalties increased and conditions for violation revised

SECTION 1. Section 56-1-510 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:

"Section 56-1-510. It is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars or imprisonment for not more than thirty days for a first offense and not more than five hundred dollars or imprisonment for not more than six months for a second or subsequent offense for any person:

(1) to display or cause or permit to be displayed or have in his possession any cancelled, revoked, suspended, or fraudulently altered driver's license or personal identification card;

(2) to lend his driver's or personal identification card to any other person or knowingly permit the use of it by another;

(3) to display or represent as one's own driver's license or personal identification card any driver's license acquired in violation of this section;

(4) to fail or refuse to surrender to the Department upon lawful demand any driver's license which has been suspended, cancelled, or revoked;

(5) to use a false or fictitious name in any application for a driver's license or personal identification card or knowingly make a false statement or to knowingly conceal a material fact or otherwise commit a fraud in any such application;

(6) to permit any unlawful use of a driver's license or personal identification card issued to him; or

(7) to do any act forbidden or fail to perform any act required by this article."

Proof of financial responsibility

SECTION 2. Section 56-9-530 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding at the end:

"In addition, any person who has his driving privilege revoked pursuant to Section 56-1-510 is not, by reason of that fact alone, required to furnish proof of financial responsibility."

Time effective

SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.