South Carolina Code — 47
Browse 322 sections in division 47 of the South Carolina code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 47-1-10. Definitions.
- § 47-1-20. Acts of agents imputed to corporations.
- § 47-1-40. Ill-treatment of animals generally; penalties.
- § 47-1-50. Cruel work; carriage in vehicles; penalties.
- § 47-1-60. Cutting muscles of tails of horses, asses, mules, mares, or geldings prohibited.
- § 47-1-70. Abandonment of animals; penalties; hunting dog exception.
- § 47-1-75. Immunity from civil and criminal liability.
- § 47-1-80. Destruction of abandoned infirm animal.
- § 47-1-90. Overloading and length of confinement of animals in railroad cars.
- § 47-1-100. Care of animals unloaded during transit.
- § 47-1-110. Violations of Sections 47-1-90 and 47-1-100.
- § 47-1-120. Custody of animals in charge of arrested persons.
- § 47-1-125. Coloring or dying animals prohibited; sale or distribution of certain young animals prohibited; penalty.
- § 47-1-130. Arrest by law enforcement officers for violation of laws prohibiting cruelty to animals.
- § 47-1-140. Notice to owners; care of animals after arrest of person in charge.
- § 47-1-145. Custody and care of animal after arrest; custodial costs.
- § 47-1-150. Issuance of search warrant; purpose of section; motions regarding custody of animal; notice; care, disposal of, or return of animal.
- § 47-1-170. Penalties for violations of chapter.
- § 47-1-200. Requirements for transfer of animals and importation or exportation of dog or cat; penalties for violations.
- § 47-1-210. Live animals as prizes; exceptions; penalties.
- § 47-1-225. Animal cruelty instruction for certain judges.
- § 47-2-10. Definitions.
- § 47-2-20. Application of chapter.
- § 47-2-30. Possession or purchase of large wild cat, non-native bear, or great ape prohibited; exceptions; registration.
- § 47-2-40. Animal control authority authorized to confiscate a large wild cat, non-native bear, or great ape.
- § 47-2-50. Adoption of ordinances.
- § 47-2-60. Enforcement of chapter.
- § 47-2-70. Penalties.
- § 47-3-10. Definitions.
- § 47-3-20. Local animal care and control ordinances authorized.
- § 47-3-30. Establishment of animal shelters; funding.
- § 47-3-40. Impoundment or quarantine of cat or dog running at large; release to owner.
- § 47-3-50. Allowing dogs or cats to run at large; penalty.
- § 47-3-55. Animal shelter personnel to contact owner if known; implant of identifying microchip in adopted or redeemed dogs and cats.
- § 47-3-60. Disposition of quarantined or impounded animals.
- § 47-3-70. County and municipal powers not limited by article.
- § 47-3-75. Transfer of domestic animal to animal shelter ten days after date owner was to pick up animal; requirements.
- § 47-3-110. Liability for attacks by dogs, provoked attacks, trained law enforcement dogs.
- § 47-3-210. Buying, selling, receiving, or keeping sheep-killing dog prohibited.
- § 47-3-220. Dog found in act of worrying or destroying sheep may be killed.
- § 47-3-230. Liability of owner of sheep-killing dog for payment to owner of sheep killed or injured.
- § 47-3-310. Disposal or removal of feral dogs from certain property.
- § 47-3-320. Training of conservation officers to remove dogs; liability of officers.
- § 47-3-410. Animal shelter defined.
- § 47-3-420. Methods of euthanasia.
- § 47-3-430. Provision governing shelters.
- § 47-3-440. Penalties; injunction.
- § 47-3-450. Exceptions.
- § 47-3-470. Definitions.
- § 47-3-480. Provisions for sterilization; exceptions; payment of costs; subsequent notification of sterilization for animals not sterile when acquired.
- § 47-3-490. Failure to comply; remedies.
- § 47-3-500. Adoption of additional policies by other entities.
- § 47-3-510. Owner may register dog; fee.
- § 47-3-520. Availability of registration file.
- § 47-3-530. Penalties for stealing or killing identifiable dog.
- § 47-3-540. Destruction of identifiable dog by animal control officer; prior notification of owner.
- § 47-3-550. Promulgation of regulations.
- § 47-3-610. Unlawful to taunt, torment, tease, beat, strike, or administer desensitizing drug to police dog or horse.
- § 47-3-620. Unlawful to torture, mutilate, injure, disable, poison, or kill police dog or horse.
- § 47-3-630. Penalties.
- § 47-3-710. Definitions.
- § 47-3-720. Dangerous animal not to go unconfined on premises; "unconfined" defined; exceptions.
- § 47-3-730. Dangerous animal not permitted beyond premises unless safely restrained.
- § 47-3-740. Owning or harboring animal for fighting or attacking humans or domestic animals prohibited; selling, breeding, buying or attempting to buy, or intent to do same, prohibited; exceptions.
- § 47-3-750. Seizure and impoundment of dangerous animal.
- § 47-3-760. Penalties; registration of dangerous animals.
- § 47-3-770. When person is lawfully on premises; authority to use force to repel attack by dangerous animal when lawfully on premises; no liability for action taken to repel or restrain unprovoked attack of dangerous animal.
- § 47-3-910. Short title.
- § 47-3-920. Definitions.
- § 47-3-930. Interference with use of a guide dog or service animal; misdemeanor.
- § 47-3-940. Injury, disability, or death; reckless disregard; penalties.
- § 47-3-950. Unauthorized control over guide dog or service animal; penalties.
- § 47-3-960. Intentional injury, disability, or death; penalties.
- § 47-3-970. Restitution.
- § 47-3-980. Intentional misrepresentation of animal as service animal; penalties.
- § 47-3-990. Rules and regulations related to access of places of public accommodation by nonservice animals.
- § 47-4-10. Purpose; membership.
- § 47-4-20. Definitions.
- § 47-4-30. Promulgation and enforcement of rules and regulations; permitted operations.
- § 47-4-40. Delegation of duties to director.
- § 47-4-50. Promulgation of regulations listing diseases; reporting suspected existence of disease.
- § 47-4-60. Certificate of veterinary inspection; requirement for out-of-state livestock or poultry; quarantine of uncertified animals; exceptions.
- § 47-4-65. Transport of live swine without identification prohibited.
- § 47-4-70. Quarantine of livestock or poultry; violation; penalty; segregation of animals; liens; abandoned animals.
- § 47-4-80. Condemned and destroyed livestock or poultry; indemnification of owner.
- § 47-4-90. Stop of livestock transport to check for proper documentation.
- § 47-4-100. Penalty for illegal transportation of livestock or poultry; civil liability.
- § 47-4-110. Police power of commission members and agents; livestock law enforcement officers; employment, removal, duties; bond.
- § 47-4-120. Inhibition of livestock inspection; penalty.
- § 47-4-130. Violation of provision of Title 47 is a misdemeanor; penalties; enforcement of commission regulations in court.
- § 47-4-140. Disposition of fines and fees.
- § 47-4-150. Advisory committees.
- § 47-4-160. Livestock and poultry regulation; local laws and ordinances preempted; exceptions.
- § 47-4-170. Confidential information; exemptions.
- § 47-5-10. Short title.
- § 47-5-20. Definitions.
- § 47-5-30. Public health veterinarian; duties.
- § 47-5-40. Interference with authorized representative carrying out duties.
- § 47-5-50. Prohibition on sale of wild carnivores as pets; sale of domesticated ferrets.
- § 47-5-60. Inoculation of pets; certificates and tags.
- § 47-5-80. Notice to health department of animal affected or suspected of being affected by rabies.
- § 47-5-90. Reports of animal bites to health department.
- § 47-5-100. Quarantine, examination, and destruction of biting or attacking dog, cat, or ferret.
- § 47-5-110. Pets bitten or otherwise exposed to animal suspected of having rabies.
- § 47-5-120. Danger of rabies spread; quarantine and inoculation of pets; reduction of stray and feral animal population.
- § 47-5-150. Department to provide or insure availability of human vaccine; reimbursement.
- § 47-5-180. Enforcement.
- § 47-5-190. Liability for accident or subsequent disease from inoculation.
- § 47-5-200. Violation; penalty.
- § 47-5-210. Power of political subdivisions to prohibit pets running at large and impose additional control measures.
- § 47-6-10. Citation of Chapter.
- § 47-6-20. Definitions.
- § 47-6-30. Authority of state veterinarian and Livestock-Poultry Health Service of Clemson University.
- § 47-6-40. Notification; investigation; public notice; elimination of disease from herd.
- § 47-6-50. Imported swine.
- § 47-6-60. Violation of chapter as misdemeanor; penalties.
- § 47-7-10. "Estray" defined.
- § 47-7-20. Public sale of estrays.
- § 47-7-30. Application of proceeds of sale.
- § 47-7-40. Penalties for violations or for appropriating estrays.
- § 47-7-110. Permitting domestic animals to run at large unlawful.
- § 47-7-120. Stock coming into State shall not be permitted to run at large.
- § 47-7-130. Liability of owners of trespassing stock.
- § 47-7-140. Right to seize trespassing stock.
- § 47-7-150. Liability of owner for maintenance; bond; recovery of possession.
- § 47-7-160. Rescuing animal from custody of person impounding it unlawful.
- § 47-7-170. Satisfaction as defense in criminal prosecutions.
- § 47-9-10. Marking, branding, or disfiguring large animals of another.
- § 47-9-20. Marking, branding, or disfiguring small animals of another.
- § 47-9-30. Use of horse, mare, or mule without permission.
- § 47-9-40. Alterations of teeth of horses or mules.
- § 47-9-50. Permit required for hauling cattle or swine at night by truck.
- § 47-9-60. Appeal of livestock and poultry facility permits.
- § 47-9-65. Polo horse performance enhancing mineral or drug compounds; certification by compounding pharmacist; penalty.
- § 47-9-210. Definitions.
- § 47-9-220. Branding is lawful.
- § 47-9-230. Earmarking.
- § 47-9-240. One brand per person.
- § 47-9-250. Separate brands of wife or minor.
- § 47-9-260. Application and fee for adoption of brand.
- § 47-9-270. Issuance of certificate.
- § 47-9-280. Recording certificate.
- § 47-9-290. Certificate as evidence of ownership of livestock; foreign certificates.
- § 47-9-300. Registered brands for livestock.
- § 47-9-330. Transfers of brands.
- § 47-9-340. Cancellation of registration.
- § 47-9-350. Revocation of registration.
- § 47-9-360. Age at which livestock should be branded.
- § 47-9-370. Witnesses required when branding purchased or acquired livestock.
- § 47-9-380. Unlawful branding.
- § 47-9-390. Brand records.
- § 47-9-400. Rules and regulations.
- § 47-9-410. Violations.
- § 47-9-420. Prohibition of the interference or interaction with farm animals being transported by a motor vehicle.
- § 47-9-710. Definitions.
- § 47-9-720. Equine liability immunity; exceptions to grant of immunity.
- § 47-9-730. Warning signs; contract to contain warning notice; immunity revoked for failure to comply.
- § 47-11-10. Administration of article.
- § 47-11-20. Permits; fees; operation without a permit is a misdemeanor.
- § 47-11-30. Application for permit; approval of changes in operating and ownership.
- § 47-11-60. Bond.
- § 47-11-70. Facilities regulations; inspections; penalties.
- § 47-11-80. Records; identification required of persons selling at market; livestock haulers exempt from licenses.
- § 47-11-85. Identification of animals sold in public livestock market or equine sales facility.
- § 47-11-90. Brucellosis testing.
- § 47-11-100. Tuberculosis and paratuberculosis tests required for all animals except those for immediate slaughter.
- § 47-11-110. Establishment of slaughter assembly points.
- § 47-11-120. Liability of person removing livestock for slaughter.
- § 47-11-130. Infected or exposed animals or poultry.
- § 47-11-140. Services of veterinarians provided for auctions; cost of tests.
- § 47-11-150. Promulgation and enforcement of regulations.
- § 47-11-160. Enforcement.
- § 47-11-170. Violations.
- § 47-11-310. Declaration of purpose.
- § 47-11-320. Definitions.
- § 47-11-330. Grading of livestock for quality and pooling for sale.
- § 47-11-340. Grading service conducted by Department of Agriculture.
- § 47-11-350. Department authorized to adopt standards and grades.
- § 47-11-360. Department authorized to adopt identification method or system.
- § 47-11-370. Department authorized to adopt rules and regulations and designate effective date of grading and inspection requirements; notice and hearing on rules.
- § 47-11-380. Participation in grading and inspection program voluntary.
- § 47-11-390. Violations; penalties and injunctions.
- § 47-11-510. Commissioner authorized to regulate sales and license public livestock sales establishments.
- § 47-11-520. Procedure for payment of livestock purchased at auction.
- § 47-11-530. Notification of dishonored check or draft.
- § 47-11-540. Rules and regulations.
- § 47-11-550. Article applies only to public sales establishments.
- § 47-13-10. Provisions on diseases and infections to be administered by State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission.
- § 47-13-20. Powers and duties of commission.
- § 47-13-30. Penalties for violations of chapter.
- § 47-13-60. Sale of diseased livestock or fowl unlawful.
- § 47-13-70. Selling flesh of diseased or injured animals.
- § 47-13-80. Commissioner of Agriculture charged with enforcement of Section 47-13-70.
- § 47-13-110. Sale of biological products containing living disease-producing agent.
- § 47-13-130. Appropriation of funds in event of outbreak of diseases in animals and poultry.
- § 47-13-150. Quarantine against importing slaughtered meat or poultry from disease-affected areas.
- § 47-13-160. Fitness of registered companion dog or cat for sale; definitions; certifications; remedies.
- § 47-13-310. Notice to disinfect; violation is a misdemeanor.
- § 47-13-320. Orders to disinfect animals exposed to cattle fever tick.
- § 47-13-340. Venue of prosecutions under Section 47-13-310.
- § 47-13-360. Indemnity payments for killing of certain animals.
- § 47-13-370. Blank forms used to certify test results.
- § 47-13-380. Appointment of appraisers of animals to be killed.
- § 47-13-390. Procedure in event prescribed appraisal method is unsatisfactory to owner.
- § 47-13-400. Form and payment of appraisements.
- § 47-13-410. Procedure when animal killed because exposed to contagion or infection.
- § 47-13-420. Expenses of appraisal.
- § 47-13-430. Indemnity for animals condemned for foot and mouth disease, vesicular exanthema, or rinderpest.
- § 47-13-510. "Brucellosis" defined; declaring animal infected.
- § 47-13-520. "Approved accredited veterinarian" defined.
- § 47-13-530. Conduct of control.
- § 47-13-540. Exposed or suspected animals subject to quarantine.
- § 47-13-550. Vaccination.
- § 47-13-560. Tattooing or branding of vaccinated animals.
- § 47-13-570. Sale of vaccine.
- § 47-13-580. Sale of cattle generally.
- § 47-13-590. Sale of infected animals.
- § 47-13-600. Liability for sale of infected animal except for slaughter.
- § 47-13-610. Veterinarian shall require testing of suspected animals.
- § 47-13-620. Compulsory tests of cattle.
- § 47-13-630. Blood samples to be drawn by veterinarian.
- § 47-13-640. Report and branding of infected animals.
- § 47-13-650. Cooperation with United States Department of Agriculture; inspectors.
- § 47-13-660. Reports.
- § 47-13-670. Enforcement of rules and regulations.
- § 47-13-680. Violations.
- § 47-13-690. Cooperation of State with federal government in paying indemnity for infected cattle.
- § 47-13-810. Tuberculosis and paratuberculosis declared contagious and infectious; animals subject to quarantine.
- § 47-13-820. Tuberculin and paratuberculin tests; observation.
- § 47-13-830. Quarantine of herds in which reactors are found.
- § 47-13-840. Branding and slaughtering of reacting animals; disinfecting quarters and equipment.
- § 47-13-850. Liability for disposing of affected animal except for immediate slaughter.
- § 47-13-860. Official tests.
- § 47-13-870. Inspectors; accepting assistance from United States Government.
- § 47-13-880. Violations.
- § 47-13-1210. Definitions.
- § 47-13-1220. Authority and functions of commission.
- § 47-13-1230. Promulgation of regulations by commission; poultry advisory committee.
- § 47-13-1240. Penalties.
- § 47-13-1310. Definitions.
- § 47-13-1315. State veterinarian and Livestock-Poultry Service to develop and institute programs for control of equine infectious anemia.
- § 47-13-1330. Official tests.
- § 47-13-1340. Reporting of tests.
- § 47-13-1350. Unlawful for horse to enter State unless tested; rules and regulations.
- § 47-13-1360. Quarantine of exposed horses.
- § 47-13-1365. Disposition of animal after second confirmatory test.
- § 47-13-1370. Proof of tests required for public assembly of horses.
- § 47-13-1380. Preventive measures for race tracks, horse shows, rodeos, horse owners, and veterinarians.
- § 47-13-1390. False certificates unlawful; penalties.
- § 47-13-1400. Additional penalties for violation of article.
- § 47-15-10. Definitions.
- § 47-15-20. Unlawful to feed garbage to swine.
- § 47-15-30. Unlawful to sell hogs consuming garbage; unlawful to permit hogs on garbage dumps.
- § 47-15-40. Notification required from certain persons disposing of garbage.
- § 47-15-50. Inspection of premises where swine are kept.
- § 47-15-60. Exemptions.
- § 47-15-70. Administration and enforcement.
- § 47-15-80. Penalties; injunctions.
- § 47-17-10. Short title.
- § 47-17-20. Definitions.
- § 47-17-30. Antemortem and postmortem inspections; quarantine, segregation, and reinspection; condemnation of unwholesome livestock and meat.
- § 47-17-40. Sanitary conditions and practices required in slaughtering and processing establishments.
- § 47-17-50. Official inspection marks and other information on or accompanying containers and carcasses.
- § 47-17-60. Prohibited acts.
- § 47-17-70. Slaughtering or processing except in compliance with article prohibited.
- § 47-17-80. Records.
- § 47-17-90. Exemptions from provisions requiring inspection by Director.
- § 47-17-100. Violations.
- § 47-17-120. Permit required; fee; application; refusal, revocation, or suspension.
- § 47-17-130. Rules and regulations.
- § 47-17-140. Article inapplicable to transactions regulated under Federal Meat Inspection Act; cooperation with Federal, state, and local agencies; inadequate personnel.
- § 47-17-150. Cost of inspection.
- § 47-17-310. Unlawful importation of foreign meat containing communicable diseases.
- § 47-17-320. Enforcement; confiscation and destruction of meat.
- § 47-17-510. Prohibition against misleading or deceptive practices, labeling, or misrepresenting product that is cell-cultivated meat.
- § 47-17-520. Application of article.
- § 47-17-530. Violations; penalties.
- § 47-19-10. Short title; administration of chapter.
- § 47-19-20. Definitions.
- § 47-19-25. Voluntary inspection programs for certain birds by the Livestock-Poultry Health Commission.
- § 47-19-30. Designation of state agency for cooperating with Secretary of Agriculture under Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act.
- § 47-19-35. Permits for slaughtering and packaging poultry; fees.
- § 47-19-40. Inspection of live poultry, carcasses and poultry products; quarantine, segregation and reinspection; condemnation and destruction or reprocessing of adulterated carcasses.
- § 47-19-50. Sanitary conditions and practices required in slaughtering and processing establishments.
- § 47-19-60. Information required on containers and carcasses; styles and sizes of type; definitions and standards; false or misleading marking or labeling.
- § 47-19-70. Prohibited acts.
- § 47-19-80. Processing except in compliance with chapter is prohibited.
- § 47-19-90. Poultry and poultry products not intended for use as human food need not be inspected.
- § 47-19-100. Persons required to keep records.
- § 47-19-110. Registration with director required of persons engaged in poultry related businesses.
- § 47-19-120. Violations; interference with person performing official duties under chapter.
- § 47-19-130. Notice of violations and opportunity to be heard.
- § 47-19-140. Exemptions.
- § 47-19-150. Limiting entry of poultry products into inspected establishments.
- § 47-19-165. Application of chapter to pigeons.
- § 47-19-170. Rules and regulations.
- § 47-19-180. Costs of inspection.
- § 47-20-165. Promulgation and effect of separate and distinct confined swine feeding operations regulations.
- § 47-21-10. Short title.
- § 47-21-20. Definitions.