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S.C. Code Ann. § 40-2-520

Unlicensed practice

1996 Act No. 453, SECTION 1; 2004 Act No. 289, SECTION 1; 2022 Act No. 174 (S.812), SECTION 1, eff May 16, 2022.

(A) No professional association, person, partnership, or other legal entity, other than a person, partnership, or other legal entity holding a permit to practice issued pursuant to this article, may engage in the practice defined in Section 40-2-510 unless he or it plainly indicates on all signs, cards, letterheads, advertisements, and directories used to disclose his or its practice or business that he or it does not hold a license to practice under this article.

(B) No professional association, person, partnership, or other legal entity, other than a person, partnership, or other legal entity holding a permit to practice issued pursuant to this article, may assume or use the title or designation "Accounting Practitioner" or any other title, designation, words, letters, abbreviation, sign, card, or device tending to indicate that the person is an accounting practitioner or that the partnership is composed of accounting practitioners or that the person, partnership, professional association, or other legal entity is authorized under this article to engage in the practice defined under Section 40-2-510.

Official source: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.