Any corporation organized on a nonprofit or a cooperative basis for the purpose of furnishing electric energy to persons in rural areas who are not receiving central station service and owning and operating electric transmission or distribution lines in a state adjacent to this State shall be permitted to extend its lines into and to transact business in this State without complying with any statute of this State pertaining to the qualification of foreign corporations for the transaction of business in this State. HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 12-1081; 1952 Code Section 12-1081; 1942 Code Section 8555-116; 1939 (41) 240.
South Carolina Legal Code