South Carolina § 56-3-700 - Fee for trailers, semitrailers, and pole trailers; exemptions.
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§ 56-3-700. Fee for trailers, semitrailers, and pole trailers; exemptions.
For every trailer, semitrailer, or pole trailer, not exempted by Section 56-3-120(5), the biennial registration fee is twenty dollars. The Department of Motor Vehicles must include in this classification every trailer, semitrailer, or pole trailer designed for carrying property, except house trailers, utility trailers, those trailers and semitrailers exempted by Section 56-3-120(5), and boat trailers as otherwise provided in this article. Semitrailers or pole trailers weighing less than five hundred pounds with load capacity of less than one thousand pounds and trailers and semitrailers with an actual unloaded weight of fifteen hundred pounds or less and carrying a load capacity not exceeding twenty-five hundred pounds and which are designed, adapted, and used exclusively for agriculture, horticulture, or livestock-raising operations or for lifting or carrying an implement of husbandry need not be registered or licensed.
HISTORY: 1962 Code SECTION 46-35.2; 1952 Code SECTION 46-35; 1949 (46) 342; 1959 (51) 391; 1960 (51) 1962; 1993 Act No. 164, Part II, SECTION 22L; 1997 Act No. 125, SECTION 1J.
Source: official South Carolina text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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