South Carolina Code 33-15-101. Authority to transact business required
(b) The following activities, among others, do not constitute transacting business within the meaning of subsection (a):
Terms Used In South Carolina Code 33-15-101
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
(1) maintaining, defending, or settling a proceeding;
(2) holding meetings of the board of directors or shareholders or carrying on other activities concerning internal corporate affairs;
(3) maintaining bank accounts;
(4) maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of the corporation’s own securities or maintaining trustees or depositories with respect to those securities;
(5) selling through independent contractors;
(6) soliciting or obtaining orders, whether by mail or through employees or agents or otherwise, if the orders require acceptance outside this State before they become contracts;
(7) creating or acquiring any indebtedness, mortgages, and security interests in real or personal property;
(8) securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages, security interests, or other rights in property securing debts;
(9) owning, without more, real or personal property;
(10) conducting an isolated transaction that is completed within thirty days and that is not one in the course of repeated transactions of a like nature;
(11) transacting business in interstate commerce;
(12) owning and controlling a subsidiary corporation incorporated in or transacting business within this State; or
(13) owning, without more, an interest in a limited liability company organized or transacting business in this State.
(c) The list of activities in subsection (b) is not exhaustive.