South Carolina Code 38-55-173. Unlawful vehicle glass repair business practices; penalties
(1) a third person for the third person’s referral of an insurance claimant to the vehicle glass repair business for the repair or replacement of vehicle safety glass;
Terms Used In South Carolina Code 38-55-173
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- insurance: includes annuities. See South Carolina Code 38-1-20
- Person: means a corporation, agency, partnership, association, voluntary organization, individual, or another entity, organization, or aggregation of individuals. See South Carolina Code 38-1-20
- Property insurance: means each insurance against direct or indirect loss of or damage to a property resulting from fire, smoke, weather disturbances, climatic conditions, earthquake, volcanic eruption, rising waters, insects, blight, animals, war damage, riot, civil commotion, destruction by order of civil authority to prevent spread of conflagration or for other reason, water damage, vandalism, glass breakage, explosion of a water system, collision, theft of automobiles, and personal effects in them (but no other forms of theft insurance), loss of or damage to domestic or wild animals, and any other perils to property which in the discretion of the director or his designee form proper subjects of property insurance, if not specified in items (1), (7), (11), (35), (40), (54), or (59) of this section. See South Carolina Code 38-1-20
(2) an insurance claimant in connection with the repair or replacement of vehicle safety glass; or
(3) waive, rebate, give, or pay all or part of an insurance claimant’s casualty or property insurance deductible as consideration for selecting the vehicle glass repair business.
(B) If the amount of the payment or transfer of subsection (A) has a value of:
(1) one thousand dollars or more, the person, upon conviction, must be fined in the discretion of the court or imprisoned for not more than three years, or both, per violation; or
(2) less than one thousand dollars, the person, upon conviction, must be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days, or both, per violation.