South Carolina § 58-9-2010 Telephone and telegraph wires shall be erected and maintained so as to protect persons and property.

South Carolina Statutes

§ 58-9-2010 — Telephone and telegraph wires shall be erected and maintained so as to protect persons and property.

South Carolina § 58-9-2010

Title 58PUBLIC UTILITIES, SERVICES AND CARRIERS

Ch. 9TELEPHONE, TELEGRAPH AND EXPRESS COMPANIES

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S.C. Code Ann. § 58-9-2010 (2026).

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No telegraph or telephone wire shall be erected or maintained within fifty yards of any public road or highway in this State unless it shall be so constructed, erected and maintained and provided with sufficient lightning guards and arresters as may be necessary for the protection of persons and property. Any person erecting or maintaining any such wire in violation of the provisions hereof shall forfeit and pay as a penalty therefor five dollars a day for each day such default continues after he shall have been given thirty days' written notice specifying the fault or defect in the manner of erection, construction or maintenance thereof, to be recovered at the suit of any citizen of any county in which such violation occurs. The sum so recovered, after paying therefrom all the expenses in

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No telegraph or telephone wire shall be erected or maintained within fifty yards of any public road or highway in this State unless it shall be so constructed, erected and maintained and provided with sufficient lightning guards and arresters as may be necessary for the protection of persons and property. Any person erecting or maintaining any such wire in violation of the provisions hereof shall forfeit and pay as a penalty therefor five dollars a day for each day such default continues after he shall have been given thirty days' written notice specifying the fault or defect in the manner of erection, construction or maintenance thereof, to be recovered at the suit of any citizen of any county in which such violation occurs. The sum so recovered, after paying therefrom all the expenses incurred in the prosecution of such suit, shall be paid into the county treasury for ordinary county purposes.

Legislative History

HISTORY: 1962 Code SECTION 58-7; 1952 Code SECTION 58-7; 1942 Code SECTION 8531; 1932 Code SECTION 8531; Civ. C. '22 SECTION 5015; Civ. C. '12 SECTION 3317; Civ. C. '02 SECTION 2211; 1899 (23) 61; 1904 (24) 490. Editor's Note 2006 Act No. 318, SECTION 234 , provides as follows: "Nothing in this act shall be deemed to repeal or modify any prior act of the General Assembly that removes or modifies the regulation of any service provided by any telephone utility."