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Current Status Bill Number:View additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.4816 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:20020227 Primary Sponsor:Knotts All Sponsors:Knotts, Trotter, Rutherford, Bales, Whatley, Rhoad, Bingham, Fleming, Moody-Lawrence and Riser Drafted Document Number:l:\council\bills\swb\5164djc02.doc Residing Body:House Current Committee:Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee 26 HLCI Subject:Taxicab driver operating vehicle as a lessee is classified as an independent contractor History Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ ______________________________________ _______ ____________ House 20020424 Referred to Committee 26 HLCI House 20020424 Recalled from Committee 21 HEPW House 20020227 Introduced, read first time, 21 HEPW referred to Committee Versions of This Bill
TO AMEND CHAPTER 23, TITLE 58, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE CARRIERS, BY ADDING SECTION 58-23-1273 SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT A DRIVER OPERATING A TAXICAB UNDER A SIGNED INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR LEASE AGREEMENT WITH A COMPANY WHICH OWNS THE TAXICAB AND WHICH ALLOWS THE DRIVER TO OPERATE THE TAXICAB AS A LESSEE IS AN INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR NOTWITHSTANDING SECTION 42-1-130.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Chapter 23, Title 58 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"Section 58-23-1273. A driver who has or is operating a taxicab under a signed independent contractor lease agreement with a company which owns the taxicab and which allows the driver to operate the taxicab as a lessee is an independent contractor notwithstanding Section 42-1-130."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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