(A) The TNC shall obtain certain background and qualification information from a TNC driver before the TNC driver is approved by the TNC to provide TNC services.

(B) The TNC driver qualification information shall include:

(1) a valid driver's license issued by the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles or the current state of residence for the driver;

(2) verification that the driver is twenty-one years of age or older;

(3) a certified copy of the driver's ten year driving record issued by the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles and a record from the department of motor vehicles or equivalent agency of the state where the driver has been domiciled for that period;

(4) conduct, or have a third party conduct, a local and national criminal background check for each applicant that must include:

(a) a multistate and multijurisdictional criminal records locator or other similar commercial nationwide database with validation (primary source search); and

(b) national sex offender registry database search; and

(5) proof of automobile liability insurance in the name of the TNC driver which meets the requirements of Section 38-77-140.

(C) The TNC shall verify the TNC driver meets all of the driver qualification requirements in this section at intervals of at least one each year.

(D) The TNC shall maintain documentation of initial and annual verification of TNC driver qualifications for a period of three years.

(E) The Office of Regulatory Staff may conduct inspections of TNC driver qualification records.

(F) The TNC shall not permit a TNC driver to provide TNC services who:

(1) does not meet the TNC driver qualifications listed in subsections (B) and (C);

(2) is registered or required to be registered as a sex offender with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division or the National Sex Offender Registry;

(3) has been convicted within the past ten years of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, driving with an unlawful alcohol concentration, fraud, use of a motor vehicle to commit a felony, a felony crime involving property damage, theft and crimes defined as violent pursuant to Section 16-1-60; or

(4) is under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Nothing in this section may be construed to require drug testing by a TNC of a TNC driver.

(G) Before a TNC driver is allowed to provide a TNC service, the TNC must disclose to the TNC driver that the:

(1) automobile liability insurance that the TNC provides while the TNC driver is engaged in TNC service or logged into the TNC digital network;

(2) TNC driver's automobile liability insurance may not provide coverage while the TNC driver is engaged in TNC service or logged into the TNC digital network;

(3) provision of TNC services may violate the terms of a contract or financing agreement with a lienholder; and

(4) provision of TNC services may have financial consequences related to personal income tax and personal property tax liabilities.

HISTORY: 2015 Act No. 88 (H.3525), Section 1, eff June 24, 2015.