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Ex. AGY-ST-DMV-SOS-RECORDERS-026 Context (guidance or announcement) Primary source read

SCDMV COVID-19 Update #1 (Executive Director's guidance of March 26, 2020)

SCDMV Update #1, March 26, 2020: credentials and registrations expiring March 1 to June 30, 2020 treated as valid until July 1, 2020

Kevin A. Shwedo, Executive Director, South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles · South Carolina (State agency: Department of Motor Vehicles) (State)

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Jurisdiction
South Carolina (State agency: Department of Motor Vehicles) · South Carolina
Level
State
Authority
S.C. Code Ann. sec. 56-1-5 et seq. (Department of Motor Vehicles; Executive Director's powers); Governor's Executive Order 2020-08 (Mar. 13, 2020) state of emergency; FMCSA guidance of March 24, 2020 for CDLs
Issued
2020-03-26 Mar. 26, 2020
Effective
2020-03-26
End
2020-07-01 (extended credentials); SCDMV announced the extensions' expiry on June 30, 2020 (AGY-ST-DMV-SOS-RECORDERS-025, pending) (read as 2020-07-01)
In force
Mar. 26, 2020 to July 1, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q3
Limitation types
Courts and public officesOther
Addressees
  • holders of identification cards, driver's licenses, permits and CDLs
  • vehicle owners and IRP carriers
  • law enforcement
  • 'All public and private businesses, companies, agencies, and organizations'
  • county treasurers' offices
Functions reached
  • DM registrations, temporary plates and titles (county offices 'closed to the public')
  • SR dealers' temporary plates extended
  • HR driver and CDL credentialing
  • FI (registration and property-tax collection)
  • CB
Character
context
Collection
State motor-vehicle offices, secretaries of state and recorders AGY-ST-DMV-SOS-RECORDERS

Operative words

Treat all identification cards, non-commercial driver's licenses, beginner's permits, non-hazmat commercial driver's licenses, and commercial learner's permit with expiration dates from March 1, 2020 through June 30, 2020, as valid until July 1, 2020. All public and private businesses, companies, agencies, and organizations of any kind are urged to accept these documents as valid.... Because some state residents are not able to pay vehicle property taxes in counties that are or will be closed to the public and because closure of county offices may delay issuance of tax bills, the Department of Motor Vehicles will suspend the collection of late fees for late vehicle registration renewals and suspend the suspension of driver's licenses for failure to pay property taxes for registration renewals that expire March 2020 through June 2020. Treat all traceable temporary license plates and 30-day temporary license plates with expiration dates of March 2020 through June 2020 as valid until July 1, 2020.

Enforcement

Executive Director's directive to the Department and request to law enforcement; late-fee and suspension provisions suspended

Notes

The Executive Director's own recital that county offices 'are or will be closed to the public' is the documentary link between the county closures and the State credential extensions.

Retrieval note

Scanned one-page letter; text read by OCR.

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