The Department of Motor Vehicles shall refuse to register and license or transfer registration upon one or more of the following grounds:
- (1) The application contains a false or fraudulent statement or the applicant has not furnished required information or reasonable additional information requested by the department.
- (2) The vehicle is mechanically unfit or unsafe to be operated or moved upon the highways.
- (3) The department has reasonable ground to believe the vehicle is stolen or the registration and licensing or transfer is a fraud against the rightful owner of the vehicle.
- (4) The registration and license of the vehicle is canceled, suspended, or revoked as provided in this chapter or other motor vehicle laws of this State.
- (5) The required fee has not been paid.
- (6) For a vehicle purchased outside this State, satisfactory evidence of payment of the South Carolina use tax has not been presented.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-18; 1952 Code Section 46-18; 1949 (46) 342; 1969 (56) 444; 1993 Act No. 164, Part II, Section 22B.