South Carolina Code 63-19-1420. Driver’s license suspension
(A) If a child is adjudicated delinquent for a status offense or is found in violation of a court order relating to a status offense, the court may suspend or restrict the child’s driver’s license until the child’s eighteenth birthday.
Terms Used In South Carolina Code 63-19-1420
- Child: means a person under the age of eighteen. See South Carolina Code 63-1-40
- Court: means the family court. See South Carolina Code 63-19-20
- Department: means the Department of Juvenile Justice. See South Carolina Code 63-19-20
- Judge: means the judge of the family court. See South Carolina Code 63-19-20
- Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
- Status offense: means an offense which would not be a misdemeanor or felony if committed by an adult including, but not limited to, incorrigibility or beyond the control of parents, truancy, running away, playing or loitering in a billiard room, playing a pinball machine, or gaining admission to a theater by false identification. See South Carolina Code 63-19-20
(B) If a child is adjudicated delinquent for violation of a criminal offense or is found in violation of a court order relating to a criminal offense or is found in violation of a term or condition of probation, the court may suspend or restrict the child’s driver’s license until the child’s twentieth birthday.
(C) If the court suspends the child’s driver’s license, the child must submit the license to the court, and the court shall forward the license to the Department of Motor Vehicles for license suspension. However, convictions not related to the operation of a motor vehicle shall not result in increased insurance premiums.
(D) If the court restricts the child’s driver’s license, the court may restrict the child’s driving privileges to driving only to and from school or to and from work or as the court considers appropriate. Upon the court restricting a child’s driver’s license, the child must submit the license to the court and the court shall forward the license to the Department of Motor Vehicles for reissuance of the license with the restriction clearly noted.
(E) Notwithstanding the definition of a "child" as provided for in § 63-19-20, the court may suspend or restrict the driver’s license of a child under the age of seventeen until the child’s eighteenth birthday if subsection (B) applies.
(F) Upon suspending or restricting a child’s driver’s license under this section, the family court judge shall complete a form provided by and which must be remitted to the Department of Motor Vehicles.