The Department of Motor Vehicles shall suspend a motor vehicle's current registration and shall not register or reregister a motor vehicle that was operated when its driver failed to pay a toll and whose owner has an outstanding judgment for failure to pay a toll pursuant to Section 57-5-1495(E) entered against him. The suspension or denial of registration or reregistration shall remain in effect until the judgment is satisfied, evidence of the satisfaction has been provided to the Department of Motor Vehicles, and a reinstatement fee of fifty dollars has been paid. The reinstatement fee collected must be placed by the Comptroller General into the State Highway Fund as established by Section 57-11-20, to be distributed as provided in Section 11-43-167.
S.C. Code Ann. § 56-3-1335
Suspension of vehicle's registration for failure to pay toll; reinstatement fee
Known as the South Carolina Motor Vehicle Registration and Licensing Act
The act spans §§ 56–56 (320 sections).
2006 Act No. 267, SECTION 1, eff nine months after approval (approved May 2, 2006); 2016 Act No. 275 (S.1258), SECTION 31, eff July 1, 2016.
Official source: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.