Terms Used In South Carolina Code 58-11-30

  • commission: means the Public Service Commission of the State of South Carolina. See South Carolina Code 58-11-10
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • public: means the public generally, or any limited portion of the public, including a person or corporation. See South Carolina Code 58-11-10
  • radio common carrier: includes persons and corporations, their lessees, assignees, trustees, receivers, or other successors in interest now or hereafter owning or operating in this State equipment or facilities for the transmission of intelligence by a modulated radio frequency signal, for compensation to the public, including all things incident thereto and related to the operation of radio transmission, but shall not include telephone utilities or services regulated by Articles 1 through 13 of Chapter 9 of Title 58 of the 1976 Code. See South Carolina Code 58-11-10
  • regulatory staff: means the executive director or the executive director and the employees of the Office of Regulatory Staff. See South Carolina Code 58-11-10
Under such rules and regulations as the commission may prescribe, every radio common carrier shall file with the commission and the Office of Regulatory Staff, within such time and in such form as the commission may designate, schedules showing all rates, rules, and regulations established by it and collected or enforced, or to be collected or enforced within the jurisdiction of the commission, and the radio common carrier shall keep copies of such schedules open to public inspection upon request at reasonable intervals during business hours under such rules and regulations as the commission may prescribe.