The Department of Motor Vehicles may assign a new identifying number to a vehicle if it has none, its identifying number is destroyed or obliterated or its motor is changed and shall either issue a new certificate of title showing the new identifying number or make an appropriate endorsement on the original certificate.
S.C. Code Ann. § 56-19-430
Assignment of new identifying number; issuance of new, or endorsement of, original certificate
1962 Code SECTION 46-150.22; 1957 (50) 595.
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