Current Status Introducing Body:Senate Bill Number:8 Primary Sponsor:Martin Committee Number:15 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Drivers licenses, age raised for issuance Residing Body:Senate Current Committee:Transportation Computer Document Number:S.8 Introduced Date:19930112 Last History Body:Senate Last History Date:19930112 Last History Type:Introduced, read first time, referred to Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Martin Rose Type of Legislation:General Bill
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8 Senate 19930112 Introduced, read first time, 15
referred to Committee
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TO AMEND SECTIONS 56-1-40 AND 56-1-180, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF DRIVERS' LICENSES AND SPECIAL RESTRICTED LICENSES, SO AS TO INCREASE THE AGE WHEN A PERSON MAY OBTAIN A LICENSE FROM SIXTEEN YEARS TO SEVENTEEN YEARS OR OBTAIN A SPECIAL RESTRICTED LICENSE FROM FIFTEEN YEARS TO SIXTEEN YEARS.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 56-1-40 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 56-1-40. The department shall may not issue any a motor vehicle driver's license under this article to:
(1) Any a person who is under sixteen seventeen years of age, except that the department may issue a beginner's or instruction permit as provided in Sections 56-1-50 and 56-1-60 to any a person who is at least fifteen years of age and except that the department may issue a special restricted driver's license to any a person who is at least fifteen sixteen years old and less than sixteen seventeen years as provided in Section 56-1-180;
(2) Any a person whose license has been suspended during such suspension or any person whose license has been is revoked or suspended or is subject to being revoked or suspended, except as otherwise provided for in this article;
(3) Any a person who is an habitual drunkard, an habitual user of narcotic drugs, or an habitual user of any other drug to a degree which renders him incapable of safely driving a motor vehicle;
(4) Any a person who has previously has been adjudged to be afflicted with or suffering from any a mental disability or mental disease and who has not at the time of application been restored to competency by methods provided by law;
(5) Any a person who is required by this article to take an examination, unless such the person shall have successfully has passed such the examination;
(6) Any a person who is required under the laws of this State to deposit furnish proof of financial responsibility and who has not deposited such furnished the proof; or
(7) Any any other person who may must not be issued a license as otherwise provided by the laws of this State."
SECTION 2. Section 56-1-180 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 56-1-180. The department may issue a special restricted driver's license to a person who is at least fifteen sixteen years old and less than sixteen seventeen years old, who first has acquired a beginner's permit or an instruction permit and who has successfully passed the road tests or other requirements as the department may in its discretion prescribe. The special restricted driver's license is valid only under the following conditions:
(1) in the operation of all type vehicles, except that between the hours of six o'clock p.m. and six o'clock a.m. the holder of the special restricted driver's license must be accompanied by a licensed adult, twenty-one years of age or more, or accompanied by the holder's parent or guardian. However, beginning on the day that daylight saving time goes into effect through the day that daylight saving time ends, the holder of the license does not need to be accompanied before eight o'clock p.m.;
(2) in the operation of farm machinery and equipment, other than a passenger car, while engaged in agricultural pursuits; and
(3) in the operation of a motor scooter or light motor-driven cycle of five-brake horsepower or less."
SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.