South Carolina H 3133: Registration plate, illumination

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2025-2026 Bill 3133 Text of Previous Version (Dec. 06, 2024) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 3133

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TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING 
SECTION 56-5-4530, RELATING TO ILLUMINATION OF REAR REGISTRATION PLATES, SO AS 
TO MAKE A TECHNICAL CHANGE, AND TO PROVIDE VEHICLES MAY NOT BE STOPPED FOR 
HAVING INOPERABLE TAIL LAMPS OR SEPARATE LAMPS IN THE ABSENCE OF A VIOLATION OF 
ANOTHER LAW.

Be it enacted by the 
General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION 1. Section 56-5-4530 of the S.C. Code is amended to read:

 Section 
56-5-4530. (A) Either a tail lamp or a separate lamp shall be so 
constructed and placed as to illuminate with a white light the rear registrationlicense plate and 
render it clearly legible from a distance of fifty feet to the rear. Any tail 
lamp or tail lamps, together with any separate lamp for illuminating the rear 
registration plate, shall be so wired as to be lighted whenever the head lamps 
or auxiliary driving lamps are lighted.

 (B) A law 
enforcement officer may not stop a driver of a motor vehicle whose tail lamp or 
separate lamp is inoperable in the absence of a violation of another motor 
vehicle law.

SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval 
by the Governor.

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