S.C. Code Ann. § 43-26-90
This chapter shall not apply to hospitals, four-year institutions of higher learning and their branches, public elementary and secondary schools, technical education institutions, facilities devoted primarily to athletics or to state, municipal, county or civic center auditoriums and assembly halls nor shall there be any prohibitions to the placement of up to two coin operated vending machines in buildings on the public property provided they are not located in a building where there is a vending facility operated by the Commission.