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a. The Council may, from time to time, request South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) to place and maintain traffic-control devices upon the streets of the town, as deemed necessary, to regulate, warn or guide traffic in the town.
b. All such traffic-control devices shall conform to the specifications of SCDOT.
c. Drivers of all vehicles shall abide by signals of traffic officers and all automatic and stationary signals and lines painted on the streets to guide vehicular traffic.
d. No person shall willfully, without lawful authority, attempt to or alter, deface, injure, knock down or remove any traffic-control device or sign or street name sign or any part thereof. In addition, any unauthorized person found in possession of any street sign or traffic-control device from the town shall be deemed in violation of this section.
(S.C. Code § 56-5-930) (Prior Code, § 18.105)
a. Whenever the Council shall have determined on the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that the maximum speed imposed by this chapter is greater or less than is reasonable and safe under the conditions found to exist upon a highway or part of a highway, the Town Council may determine and declare a reasonable and safe maximum limit thereon which:
1. Decreases the limit at intersections;
2. Increases the limit within an urban district, but not to more than 55 mph; or
3. Decreases the limit outside an urban district, but not to less than 25 mph.
b. Any alteration of maximum limits on state highways or extensions thereof in the town, under the provisions of this article, shall not be effective until such alteration has been approved by SCDOT.
c. Any altered limit established, as authorized by this article, shall be effective at all times, when appropriate signs giving notice thereof have been erected.
(Prior Code, § 18.106)
a. No person shall operate a motor vehicle on any street without, in his or her possession, a valid driver’s license issued by this or another state to operate the vehicle, and said vehicle shall have current license tags.
b. This section shall not apply to persons expressly exempt by state law from the requirement of a driver’s license nor shall this section be construed so as to interfere with reciprocity rights under state law as concerns the driver of a vehicle bearing an out-of-state license to driving with an out-of-state driver’s license.
(S.C. Code §§ 56-1-20, 56-1-30, and 56-3-110 et seq.) (Prior Code, § 18.107)
a. It shall be unlawful to operator any motor vehicle upon or along any public street, road, alley or highway within the town, unless such vehicle has been insured by a licensed carrier with insurance meeting all requirements and specifications of the state or unless such fees or collateral as required by the state have been paid or deposited.
b. This section shall apply to every self-propelled vehicle designed for use upon a highway or street, excluding such vehicles as traction engines, road rollers, farm tractors, tractor cranes, electric shovels, well drillers and vehicles powered by electric power obtained by overhead wires but not operated upon rails.
(Prior Code, § 18.108)
Editor’s note:
Although this is a state responsibility, this section has been added to facilitate local enforcement.
a. Every person owning or operating a public service station or public garage shall keep the premises in such a neat and sanitary manner and shall keep the sidewalks, walkways and driveways in and about such service station or garage free from grease, oil, water or other substance.
b. Service stations or garages shall at all times be subject to the inspection of the Director of Public Services or his or her designated representatives.
c. The owner or operator shall promptly carry out the order of any such inspector with regard to the keeping of such station or garage.
(Prior Code, § 18.109)
It shall be unlawful for any person to drive, move or operate upon any public street or highway in the town any vehicle for which a transfer of the registration and license are required by the laws of the state and which transfer has not been made as provided by law.
(Prior Code, § 18.110)
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