The commission may remit, in whole or in part, upon payment of the expenses incident to an investigation, any penalty provided for in this article except the penalties provided for the deficiency in analysis, where the offending person or registrant is able to show that its violation of this chapter was beyond its reasonable ability to prevent; such remission of penalty by the commission to be on such condition as to it may seem equitable and fair.
S.C. Code § 46-25-1130