# S.C. Code Ann. Section 58-5-920 - Definitions **Citation:** S.C. Code Ann. Section 58-5-920 **Type / status:** regulation / current **Agency:** South Carolina General Assembly **Effective:** 2006-05-24 **Published:** 2006-05-24 When used in this article: (a) The term "commission" means the Public Service Commission of the State of South Carolina. (b) The term "commissioner" means one of the members of the Public Service Commission of South Carolina. (c) The term "corporation" includes all private or public corporations, business trusts, joint stock companies or associations, domestic or foreign, their lessees, assignees, trustees, receivers ## Document text When used in this article: (a) The term "commission" means the Public Service Commission of the State of South Carolina. (b) The term "commissioner" means one of the members of the Public Service Commission of South Carolina. (c) The term "corporation" includes all private or public corporations, business trusts, joint stock companies or associations, domestic or foreign, their lessees, assignees, trustees, receivers or other successors in interest, having any of the powers or privileges of corporations not possessed by individuals or partnerships. (d) The term "Federal safety standards" shall mean the minimum standards of gas safety adopted by the United States Department of Transportation pursuant to the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968 (P.L. 90-481, 49 U.S.C. Section 1672), as may be amended from time to time, and any rules and regulations promulgated by any regulatory agency of the United States of America having jurisdiction thereof. (e) The term "gas" means natural gas, flammable gas or gas which is toxic or corrosive. (f) The term "gas utility" includes persons, corporations and gas authorities, municipalities, public service districts and other political subdivisions of this State and which are not subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Power Commission as provided for by Section 3(b) of the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968. (P.L. 90-481) (49 U.S.C. Section 1672(b)). Provided, however, that gas authorities, municipalities and public service districts and other political subdivisions of this State shall remain exempt from any economic regulation by the Commission. (g) The term "person" includes all individuals, partnerships or associations, cooperatives, lessees, assignees, trustees, receivers or other successors in interest, other than corporations. (h) The term "pipeline system" or "pipeline facilities" shall mean new and existing pipe rights-of-way and any equipment, facility or building used in the transportation of gas or the treatment of gas during the course of transportation; but the Commission is not authorized to prescribe the location or routing of any pipeline facility "rights-of-way." (i) The term "public" means the public generally, or any limited portion of the public, including a person or corporation. (j) The term "regulatory staff" means the executive director or the executive director and the employees of the Office of Regulatory Staff. (k) The term "transportation of gas" when used in this article means gathering, transmission, distribution, and storage of gas. HISTORY: 1962 Code SECTION 58-136.1; 1970 (56) 2420; 2006 Act No. 318, SECTION 20, eff May 24, 2006. ## Provenance - Official: Yes - Source: - Source ID: `sc-leg-pipeline-safety` - SHA-256: `f2351ae075a8345874832682a9267f59bd5643a0435f900effabcb04cfc06d9f` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T11:28:25.511Z - Exported: 2026-08-24T03:58:30.235Z - Document slug: `sc-code-58-5-920` ### Source metadata ```json { "jurisdiction": "US-SC", "documentClass": "statute", "code": "South Carolina Code of Laws", "publicationObservedOn": "2026-08-20", "certification": "49 U.S.C. 60105 intrastate-gas program", "hazardousLiquidSafetyJurisdiction": false, "interstateGasEnforcementJurisdiction": false, "dynamicFederalIncorporation": true, "sourceNote": "HISTORY: 1962 Code SECTION 58-136.1; 1970 (56) 2420; 2006 Act No. 318, SECTION 20, eff May 24, 2006.", "references": [ { "citation": "49 CFR 192", "referenceType": "federal_regulation", "url": "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-192" } ], "caveats": { "exactScope": "This bounded corpus contains 27 current, direct South Carolina gas-pipeline safety provisions: 14 provisions from Chapter 103, Article 4, including only pipeline-safety portions 103-412(2.6)-(2.7), and 13 provisions from the South Carolina Gas Safety Act of 1970, S.C. Code Sections 58-5-920 through 58-5-1070. The complete current Chapter 103 gas-systems article and complete current Gas Safety Act article are inventoried as the completeness boundary.", "excludedScope": "Customer deposits, billing, rates, certificates, economic service, routine metering, gas quality, curtailment, ordinary utility records, and related engineering provisions are adjacent or excluded and are not searchable. Chapter 58-36 excavation and one-call law, tariffs, dockets, orders, inspection forms, enforcement files, federal text, private standards, and non-gas programs require separate corpora. Interstate gas and all hazardous-liquid pipelines are excluded from the proven state-certification scope.", "applicability": "Applicability depends on the statutory definition of gas utility and pipeline facility, public-utility and gas-system status, commodity, facility type, intrastate or interstate status, federal jurisdiction, statutory exclusions for liquefied petroleum gas and anhydrous ammonia, waivers, and the text in force on the relevant date. PHMSA identifies South Carolina as certified for intrastate gas only and retains interstate gas and both intrastate and interstate hazardous-liquid enforcement. This connector does not infer hazardous-liquid certification.", "incorporation": "Regulation 103-490 and Sections 58-5-920, 58-5-970, and 58-5-1050 use rolling language for federal gas-safety standards as amended from time to time. Regulation 103-461 also points to editions of private standards referenced by federal rules. This connector links but does not reproduce incorporated federal or private standards and does not decide edition, preemption, or incorporation-validity questions.", "publication": "The South Carolina Legislature's current Code of Regulations index, official Chapter 103 PDF, and current Code of Laws HTML are the controlling publication set used here. Rule histories and statutory history notes support only the explicit events emitted; retrieval time is a publication observation, not a legal event or historical version.", "rights": "Official South Carolina and federal-government artifacts are retained with attribution and SHA-256 provenance. Public access does not establish unrestricted rights in site presentation, agency marks, forms, photographs, linked material, or incorporated private standards; private standards are not reproduced." }, "region": "SC" } ```