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Terms Used In South Carolina Code 58-11-40

  • 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.
  • corporation: includes all bodies corporate, joint stock companies, or associations, domestic or foreign, their lessees, assignees, trustees, receivers or other successors in interest, having any of the powers or privileges of corporations not possessed by individuals or partnerships. See South Carolina Code 58-11-10
  • person: includes all individuals, partnerships or associations other than corporations. 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
No radio common carrier shall directly or indirectly, by any device whatsoever, or in any way, charge, demand, collect or receive from any communications person or corporation a greater or less compensation for any service rendered or supplied, or to be rendered or supplied, such radio common carrier, than that prescribed in the schedules of such radio common carrier applicable thereto then filed in the manner provided in this chapter, nor shall any person or corporation receive or accept any service, from a radio common carrier for a compensation greater or less than that prescribed in such schedules.