South Carolina Code 40-29-80. Suspension, revocation, restriction, or denial of license
(1) false, misleading, or deceptive advertising;
Terms Used In South Carolina Code 40-29-80
- Authorized official: means a person acting on behalf of a manufactured home retail dealer. See South Carolina Code 40-29-20
- Board: means the South Carolina Manufactured Housing Board. See South Carolina Code 40-29-20
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Established place of business: means the office, building, or display area where the exercise of the ordinary and regular functions of the business are conducted for the purpose of carrying on the business of the owner and where books, records, files, inventory, and equipment necessary to properly conduct the business are maintained. See South Carolina Code 40-29-20
- Manufactured home: means a structure, transportable in one or more sections which, in the traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in width or forty body feet or more in length or when erected on site is three hundred twenty or more square feet and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical systems contained in it. See South Carolina Code 40-29-20
- Manufactured home contractor: means a person or entity, other than an employee of a licensed manufactured home retail dealer or a person licensed by the board or licensed by the South Carolina Contractor's Licensing Board to perform a particular function, who for valuable consideration engages in the installation, modification, alteration, or repair to the structural, mechanical, or electrical systems of a manufactured home. See South Carolina Code 40-29-20
- New manufactured home: means a home that has not been previously titled and is still in the possession of the original retail dealer. See South Carolina Code 40-29-20
- Person: means an individual, natural person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, legal representative, or other recognized legal entity. See South Carolina Code 40-29-20
- sale: include lease-purchase transactions. See South Carolina Code 40-29-20
(2) knowingly contracting or performing a service beyond the scope of the license;
(3) misrepresentation or omission of a material fact by the applicant in obtaining a license;
(4) misrepresentation or omission of a material fact in a manufactured home transaction;
(5) failure to comply with the warranty requirements of this chapter or regulations of the board pursuant to those requirements;
(6) failure by a manufacturer or dealer to transfer good and sufficient title to the purchaser of a manufactured home;
(7) failing to have an established place of business;
(8) wilfully defrauding a retail buyer, to the buyer’s damage through misrepresentation or misappropriation of funds belonging to the buyer;
(9) employment of fraudulent devices, methods, or practices in connection with compliance with the requirements of this chapter;
(10) having used unfair methods of competition or deceptive acts or practices;
(11) knowingly advertising or selling a used manufactured home as a new manufactured home;
(12) failing to obtain a license before doing business in this State;
(13) having knowingly failed or refused to account for or to pay funds or other valuables belonging to others which have come into the licensee’s possession arising out of the sale of manufactured homes;
(14) failing to appear before the board upon due notice or to follow directives of the board;
(15) failing to comply with adopted state or federal standards in the manufacture, sale, installation, repair, modification, or delivery of manufactured housing;
(16) employing unlicensed retail salesmen or persons barred from participating in a business licensed by the board or knowingly contracting with an unlicensed manufactured home contractor, installer, or repairer;
(17) knowingly purchasing a manufactured home from an unlicensed manufacturer or knowingly selling or offering a manufactured home to an unlicensed manufactured home dealer;
(18) conviction of a felony within the prior seven years or other crime of moral turpitude.
(B) Any licensee whose license has been suspended or revoked, or any person who has applied for a license but whose application has been denied, is barred from participating in any manner in a business licensed by the board until that person has obtained a license or the person’s license has been restored.
(C) No business licensed by the board may permit or allow a person identified in subsection (B) to participate in any manner in the business licensed by the board.
(D) Violations of this section are subject to the sanctions provided for in § 40-29-60(C).