South Carolina Code — 50
Browse 891 sections in division 50 of the South Carolina code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 50-1-5. Definitions.
- § 50-1-10. Wild birds, wild game, and fish are property of State.
- § 50-1-20. "Hunters" and "hunting" defined.
- § 50-1-30. Classifications of birds, animals, and fish.
- § 50-1-40. Stocked or released exotic game birds.
- § 50-1-50. Geographic boundaries for certain bodies of water.
- § 50-1-60. Division of State into game zones.
- § 50-1-70. Application of game laws to zones.
- § 50-1-80. Peace officers to assist in enforcement of game and fish laws.
- § 50-1-85. Use of firearms or archery tackle in criminally negligent manner; penalties; seizure of license; disposition of monetary penalties.
- § 50-1-90. Hunting, fishing, or trapping without consent on lands of others; penalties.
- § 50-1-100. Repealed by 2010 Act No. 200, SECTION 15, eff May 28, 2010.
- § 50-1-110. Disposition of game and fish unlawfully caught, taken, or killed.
- § 50-1-125. Wildlife defined; penalties for trafficking in wildlife.
- § 50-1-130. General penalties.
- § 50-1-135. Effect of forfeiture of bail, guilty plea, or plea of nolo contendere for violation of fish and game laws.
- § 50-1-136. Penalties for conspiracy.
- § 50-1-137. Impeding or obstructing hunting, trapping, fishing, or harvesting of marine species unlawful; penalty.
- § 50-1-140. Receiving portion of fine imposed for violation of game and fish laws.
- § 50-1-160. Release of seized property to innocent owner or lienholder.
- § 50-1-180. Consent of General Assembly to Congressional rulemaking.
- § 50-1-190. Agreements with United States respecting wildlife of national forest lands.
- § 50-1-200. Powers of department over national forest lands.
- § 50-1-210. Violation of department rules pertaining to national forest lands.
- § 50-1-220. Application of Sections 50-1-180 to 50-1-220 to other federal or state lands.
- § 50-1-240. Assent to act of Congress providing aid for wildlife restoration projects; implementation of act.
- § 50-1-250. Acquiring rights of way to certain waters for public use.
- § 50-1-260. Vandalizing property seized by department.
- § 50-1-270. Liability for gross destruction or injury to wildlife, aquatic life, endangered or threatened species, or state lands or waters.
- § 50-1-280. Nongame Wildlife and Natural Areas Fund.
- § 50-1-285. Admissibility of photographs; authentication.
- § 50-1-290. Unlawful to buy, sell, or possess for sale protected native wildlife; penalty.
- § 50-1-295. Removing or defacing buoys marking areas or bottoms; penalty.
- § 50-1-300. Promulgation of regulations.
- § 50-1-310. Mitigation Trust Fund.
- § 50-2-10. Short title.
- § 50-2-20. Purpose of Forest Management Protection Act.
- § 50-2-30. Definitions.
- § 50-2-40. Application of Forest Management Protection Act.
- § 50-2-50. Forestry operation as nuisance; established date of operation; local ordinance making forestry operation nuisance null and void.
- § 50-3-10. Former Wildlife and Marine Resources Department transferred to Department of Natural Resources.
- § 50-3-80. Investigations; reports and recommendations.
- § 50-3-90. Conducting game and fish cultural operations and investigations; sampling fish populations.
- § 50-3-100. Acquisition, sale or other disposition of real property for game reserves, fish ponds, or other related purposes.
- § 50-3-110. Supervision of enforcement officers; enforcement of laws.
- § 50-3-120. Wildlife law-enforcement personnel designated as enforcement officers.
- § 50-3-130. Uniforms and emblems of enforcement officers of Natural Resources Law Enforcement Division.
- § 50-3-140. Repealed.
- § 50-3-150. Use of present uniforms and motor vehicles.
- § 50-3-160. Injunctions.
- § 50-3-170. Quarterly reports on county fish and game funds and watercraft funds.
- § 50-3-180. Mitigation Trust Fund.
- § 50-3-190. Statewide Waterfowl Program Manager; duties; requirements.
- § 50-3-195. Waterfowl Advisory Committee established; membership.
- § 50-3-310. Appointment of enforcement officers; commissions; removal.
- § 50-3-315. Deputy enforcement officers.
- § 50-3-316. Criteria for hiring enforcement officers.
- § 50-3-320. Transmittal and delivery of commissions of enforcement officers.
- § 50-3-330. Oath; bond.
- § 50-3-340. Statewide authority of enforcement officers.
- § 50-3-350. Official badge.
- § 50-3-360. Repealed by 2008 Act No. 286, SECTION 11, eff June 11, 2008.
- § 50-3-370. Obtaining information on violations; checking bag limits.
- § 50-3-380. Search for and seizure of game and fish possessed unlawfully.
- § 50-3-390. Duty to enforce laws and prosecute.
- § 50-3-395. Enforcement officers may issue warning tickets.
- § 50-3-396. Use of enforcement officers' official summons for littering violations.
- § 50-3-400. Enforcement officers granted powers and authorities of constables and authority of inspectors.
- § 50-3-410. Summons; posting of monetary bond in lieu of personal appearance or incarceration.
- § 50-3-420. Immunity from prosecution.
- § 50-3-510. Authorization to contract; required findings; approval by State Forester.
- § 50-3-515. Exception for lands which were used for agriculture or managed forestland before acquisition by department.
- § 50-3-520. Advertising for bids; rejection of bids; terms of sale.
- § 50-3-525. Ecological or silviculture emergencies or natural disasters.
- § 50-3-530. Execution of deeds and contracts.
- § 50-3-540. Omitted by 2010 Act No. 186, SECTION 1, eff May 28, 2010.
- § 50-3-550. Disposition of proceeds of sale.
- § 50-3-710. Wildlife Endowment Fund; purpose.
- § 50-3-720. Board of Trustees of Wildlife Endowment Fund; State Treasurer as custodian of fund.
- § 50-3-730. Source of assets for fund.
- § 50-3-740. Limitations and restrictions on expenditures from fund.
- § 50-3-750. Authority of board to accumulate income and direct expenditures from income.
- § 50-3-760. Expenditures to be in accordance with general appropriation act.
- § 50-3-770. Fund as supplement to state appropriations.
- § 50-3-780. Fund not affected by dissolution or substitution of trustee agency or by amendment or repeal of statutes.
- § 50-3-900. Creation of Jocassee Gorges Trust Fund; purpose.
- § 50-3-910. Board of Trustees; duties; members.
- § 50-3-920. Sources of fund assets.
- § 50-3-930. Expenditures; limitations and restrictions.
- § 50-3-940. Investment income; expenditures for specified purposes.
- § 50-3-950. Procedure for making expenditures.
- § 50-3-960. Fund and income not to take place of state appropriations or department receipts.
- § 50-3-970. Alternate trusteeship of fund.
- § 50-3-1010. South Carolina Tom Yawkey Wildlife Center Trust Fund.
- § 50-3-1020. Board of Trustees.
- § 50-3-1030. Assets of fund.
- § 50-3-1040. Restrictions on expenditures from fund.
- § 50-3-1050. Expenditure of income.
- § 50-3-1060. State appropriations or department receipts placed in fund.
- § 50-3-1070. Successor agency.
- § 50-3-1110. Conservation Grant Fund established.
- § 50-3-1120. Board; administration of fund.
- § 50-3-1130. Funding.
- § 50-3-1140. Qualification for tax credit as requirement for real property to be subject of grant.
- § 50-3-1150. Uses of Fund revenues and grants; restrictions.
- § 50-3-1160. Grants; establishment of criteria for awarding; procedures.
- § 50-4-10. Short title.
- § 50-4-20. Voluntary site management practices.
- § 50-4-30. Native vegetation habitat and pollinator management plan.
- § 50-5-10. Citation of chapter.
- § 50-5-15. Definitions.
- § 50-5-17. Flounder Population Study Program.
- § 50-5-20. Jurisdiction of Department of Natural Resources.
- § 50-5-25. Powers and duties; deposit of revenues.
- § 50-5-30. Promulgation of regulations; civil offenses; penalties; suspension of permit.
- § 50-5-32. Closing salt water fishing seasons, areas, or activities in emergency; notice; penalty.
- § 50-5-35. Notice of opening or closing of commercial fishing season; health and environmental protection.
- § 50-5-40. Unauthorized tagging or marking and releasing of saltwater fish; penalty.
- § 50-5-45. Maintenance and publication of nonindigenous organisms list; introduction of organisms prohibited.
- § 50-5-50. Prosecutions for violations of chapter.
- § 50-5-55. Suspension of privileges; magistrates court jurisdiction; penalties and restitution orders.
- § 50-5-60. Conspiracy to violate provision of chapter.
- § 50-5-65. Seizure and disposition of contraband; separate offense defined.
- § 50-5-70. Sale of confiscated device; redemption by owner.
- § 50-5-75. Common areas for taking of fish.
- § 50-5-80. Dividing line between salt and fresh water on rivers.
- § 50-5-85. General Trawling Zone; subzones.
- § 50-5-90. Authority to enter and inspect buildings or stop and search fishing vessels; penalty for refusal to comply with order.
- § 50-5-95. Unlawful taking of saltwater fish; penalty.
- § 50-5-100. Knowingly obtaining saltwater fishery product taken or sold unlawfully.
- § 50-5-105. Unlawful activities affecting others; penalty.
- § 50-5-110. Use of poison, explosive, or bang stick to take marine resources; penalty.
- § 50-5-115. Responsibility for determining location of commercial fishing vessel.
- § 50-5-120. Boarding of vessel by law enforcement officers; penalty for failure to allow boarding and to cooperate.
- § 50-5-125. Use of vessel within 300 feet of public fishing pier; penalty.
- § 50-5-300. Commercial saltwater fishing license requirement for residents; fee; striker exception.
- § 50-5-305. Requirements for obtaining resident license; penalty.
- § 50-5-310. Commercial saltwater fishing license for nonresidents; fee; striker exception.
- § 50-5-315. Saltwater fishing without a license prohibited; penalty.
- § 50-5-320. State Shellfish Ground licenses; fees.
- § 50-5-325. Commercial equipment licenses and fees; specification of vessel on which used; tagging of equipment; penalties.
- § 50-5-330. Recreational fishing exceptions; minnow traps for commercial purposes; retrieving unattended recreational equipment.
- § 50-5-335. Channel net licenses; restrictions.
- § 50-5-340. Permits; use for commercial purposes and disposition of proceeds; violations and penalties.
- § 50-5-345. Commercial license a condition of permit; exceptions; revocation.
- § 50-5-350. Display of licenses, permits, and vessel's identification decal; transfer of licenses; penalty.
- § 50-5-355. Bait dealer licenses; fees; inspections; penalties.
- § 50-5-360. Wholesale seafood dealer, peeler crab, and molluscan shellfish licenses; display of license; roadside vendors; brood stock exception; penalties.
- § 50-5-365. Licensing requirements applicable to sale or transportation of live or fresh fish or saltwater fishery products; penalties.
- § 50-5-366. Documents required to be in possession of persons selling shrimp; exceptions; conspiracies; penalties.
- § 50-5-367. Sale, offer, or purchase of shrimp taken over bait; penalty.
- § 50-5-370. Purchase or removal from State for commercial purpose of saltwater fishery products not handled by licensed wholesale seafood dealer; penalty.
- § 50-5-375. Records of wholesale seafood dealers; inspection by department; penalties.
- § 50-5-380. Information or report by licensee or permittee to take saltwater fishery product for commercial or scientific purpose; confidentiality; penalties.
- § 50-5-385. Expiration of licenses and permits.
- § 50-5-390. Denial of or limitations on nonresident licenses.
- § 50-5-400. Commercial blue crab license; cost; eligibility; limitations; renewal.
- § 50-5-500. Use of nets; penalties.
- § 50-5-505. Net use requirements and restrictions; mariculture impoundment net use permit.
- § 50-5-510. Channel nets; season; observation of use by department; restrictions as to possession; requirements applicable to use of net and possession of license; penalties.
- § 50-5-515. Channel nets to be used only in designated areas; Turtle Excluder Device requirements; penalties.
- § 50-5-520. Channel net violations; forfeiture of license; seizure of equipment.
- § 50-5-525. Unlawful deployment of net; penalty.
- § 50-5-530. Placement of stationary and channel nets; time for setting and removal of channel nets; penalty.
- § 50-5-535. Placement of fishing equipment near public fishing pier or man-made jetty equipped with fishing walkway.
- § 50-5-540. Use of seine or gill net in state park; shrimp net exception.
- § 50-5-545. Commercial blue crab traps; escape vent requirements; peeler trap exemption.
- § 50-5-550. Trap buoy size, material, catch release feature and identification tag or other identifying information requirements; seizure of unmarked traps.
- § 50-5-555. Trap placement and attention requirements; department inspection, removal, seizure, and disposal.
- § 50-5-560. Blue crab traps on Cooper River.
- § 50-5-565. Time restrictions for placement of commercial traps.
- § 50-5-570. Use of live bait on lines with more than three hooks.
- § 50-5-575. Violation of provision for which no penalty provided; seizure and disposal of unlawful devices.
- § 50-5-580. Gigging for fish in saltwaters of Georgetown County.
- § 50-5-581. Gigging for flounder.
- § 50-5-700. Trawling prohibited.
- § 50-5-705. Trawling Zone established.
- § 50-5-710. Restrictions on trawling for shrimp in General Trawling Zone; prohibition on trawling outside General Trawling Zone; penalties; seizure and disposition of contraband.
- § 50-5-715. Trawling restriction areas within General Trawling Zone.
- § 50-5-720. Disposal of trawl bycatch; penalty.
- § 50-5-725. Trawling waters description references.
- § 50-5-730. Trawling near public fishing pier; penalty.
- § 50-5-735. Night trawling; finfish exception.
- § 50-5-740. Blue crab trawling season; penalty for trawling out of season; seizure and disposal of contraband.
- § 50-5-745. Blue crab taken by legal shrimp trawlers.
- § 50-5-750. Crab trawling equipment restrictions; penalty.
- § 50-5-755. Permits to trawl or dredge for finfish, blue crabs, whelks, and horseshoe crabs; limitations and conditions as to equipment; penalty.
- § 50-5-760. Illegal trawling.
- § 50-5-765. Use of turtle excluder devices; penalty.
- § 50-5-770. Shrimp trawl requirements; penalties.
- § 50-5-900. Commercial shellfish culture or mariculture permits; term.
- § 50-5-905. Permit applications; fee.
- § 50-5-910. Permit requirements; lottery; sworn statement as to distribution through properly licensed wholesale seafood dealer.
- § 50-5-915. Review of applications; permit requirements or conditions; revocation duties delegated to deputy director for Marine Resources.
- § 50-5-920. Mitigation of adverse impacts on shellfish bottoms and waters.
- § 50-5-925. Publication of notice of application.
- § 50-5-930. Preference.
- § 50-5-935. Fees; late payment penalty.
- § 50-5-940. Replanting for Shellfish Culture permittees; notice to department; revocation of permit or reduction of acreage for failure to replant.
- § 50-5-945. Permit to take shellfish for replanting or use in mariculture; conditions.
- § 50-5-950. Specification of other terms and conditions.
- § 50-5-955. Designation and maintenance of Public Shellfish Grounds; areas containing DHEC permitted structure; taking for commercial purpose prohibited.
- § 50-5-960. Rules governing recreational shellfish bottom harvests.
- § 50-5-965. Taking shellfish from bottoms designated for commercial harvest; individual harvester permits; written approvals; penalties.
- § 50-5-970. Mechanical harvest permits; penalties.
- § 50-5-975. Commercial and personal harvest limited to areas specified on permit; penalties; voluntary surrender of commercial permit.
- § 50-5-980. Erection and maintenance of signs; penalty.
- § 50-5-985. Setting season for taking shellfish; bringing shellfish into State during closed season; night harvests; penalties.
- § 50-5-990. Size limitations for hard clams of the genus Mercenaria; permits for possession and sale of undersized clams; penalties.
- § 50-5-995. Shellfish mariculture operation permits.
- § 50-5-997. Shellfish mariculture permittees; out-of-season harvest permits.
- § 50-5-1000. Wholesale seafood dealer prohibited from purchasing from unlicensed fisherman or dealer; maintenance of records; penalties.
- § 50-5-1005. Shellfish importation permits; conditions; penalties.
- § 50-5-1010. Shell removal permits; conditions; remedy in event of significant ecological perturbations; payment.
- § 50-5-1015. Unlawful removal of shell; penalty.
- § 50-5-1020. Possession of undersized whelk of genus Busycon taken for commercial purpose prohibited.
- § 50-5-1100. Lawful and unlawful taking of shrimp; penalties.
- § 50-5-1102. Persons who may not obtain or hold shrimp baiting license; penalty.
- § 50-5-1105. Catch limits; bait dealer taking and possession requirements; penalties.
- § 50-5-1110. Mesh size and stretch measure for shrimp cast nets.
- § 50-5-1300. Taking of sponge crabs prohibited; import permits; penalties.
- § 50-5-1302. Blue crab taking and possession limits.
- § 50-5-1305. Blue crabs; commercial taking at night prohibited; penalties.
- § 50-5-1310. Size limitations for blue crabs; peeler crab and clam mariculture exceptions.
- § 50-5-1315. Importation of undersize blue crabs; penalties.
- § 50-5-1320. Identification of vessels taking blue crabs by trap; buoy colors; penalty.
- § 50-5-1325. Stone crabs; claw size, removal and sale limitations; penalty.
- § 50-5-1330. Horseshoe crab permits, taking and handling requirements; penalty.
- § 50-5-1335. Use of blue crab traps in certain locations.
- § 50-5-1340. Repealed by 2012 Act No. 7, SECTION 12, March 22, 2013.
- § 50-5-1345. Season for taking blue crabs by trap.
- § 50-5-1500. Regulation of devices for taking shad, herring, or eels.
- § 50-5-1505. Taking of shad, herring, or sturgeon.
- § 50-5-1506. Zones, seasons, times catch limits, size limits, methods, and equipment for taking shad.
- § 50-5-1507. Zones, seasons, times, catch limits, size limits, methods, and equipment for taking herring.
- § 50-5-1508. Zones, seasons, times, catch limits, size limits, methods, and equipment for taking sturgeon.
- § 50-5-1510. Special provisions as to shad and herring.
- § 50-5-1515. Shad hook and line catch limits.
- § 50-5-1520. Herring catch limits.
- § 50-5-1525. Unlawful taking of Atlantic sturgeon; penalties.
- § 50-5-1530. Receiving Atlantic sturgeon; record keeping requirements; penalties.
- § 50-5-1535. Taking of shortnose sturgeon prohibited; penalty.
- § 50-5-1540. Net placement.
- § 50-5-1545. Removal of nets during off times and periods; penalties.
- § 50-5-1550. Seizure of net or seine containing decomposed fish.
- § 50-5-1555. Commercial eel taking permits; conditions; penalty.
- § 50-5-1556. Striped bass.
- § 50-5-1557. Shad, herring, or eel sale requirements.
- § 50-5-1560. Penalty for offense for which no penalty prescribed; seizure and disposal of equipment.
- § 50-5-1700. Taking of saltwater game fish; importation by wholesale or retail seafood dealer of red drum or spotted seatrout.
- § 50-5-1705. Catch limits.
- § 50-5-1707. Repealed by 2009 Act No. 47, SECTION 1, eff June 2, 2009.
- § 50-5-1710. Size limits.
- § 50-5-1711. Repealed by 2007, Act No. 85, SECTION 4, eff June 15, 2007.
- § 50-5-1713. Cobia limits established.
- § 50-5-1715. Penalties.
- § 50-5-1900. Article title.
- § 50-5-1915. Charter fishing vessel and public pier logs; penalties.
- § 50-5-1930. Reciprocal recognition of recreational fisheries licenses issued by other coastal states.
- § 50-5-1935. Commemorative stamps authorized.
- § 50-5-1940. Creation and design of stamps, licenses, prints, and related articles.
- § 50-5-1945. Repealed by 2009 Act No. 15, SECTION 10, eff July 1, 2009.
- § 50-5-1950. Saltwater Recreational Fisheries Advisory Committee established; composition; compensation; term.
- § 50-5-2017. Repealed by 2010 Act No. 140, SECTION 3, eff March 31, 2010.
- § 50-5-2105. Permits for licensed wholesale seafood dealers to sell undersize fish grown in mariculture operation; identification of fish; penalty.
- § 50-5-2300. Taking and possessing diamond-backed terrapins; penalty.
- § 50-5-2305. Permit to remove live wild rock; penalty.
- § 50-5-2310. Display of dolphins and whales prohibited; penalty.
- § 50-5-2500. Point values for suspension of saltwater privileges; relation to other penalties.
- § 50-5-2505. Point system administration.
- § 50-5-2510. Suspension of saltwater privileges for accumulation of points.
- § 50-5-2515. Notice of suspension; request for review.
- § 50-5-2517. Mammalian dolphin or porpoise; prohibited activities; penalty.
- § 50-5-2520. Appeals.
- § 50-5-2525. Points cleared when suspension expires; concurrent running of suspensions.
- § 50-5-2530. Administering of article.
- § 50-5-2535. Engaging in prohibited activities while under suspension; penalties.
- § 50-5-2536. Other violations while under suspension.
- § 50-5-2540. Activities prohibited while under commercial suspension.
- § 50-5-2545. Repealed.
- § 50-5-2700. Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Compact; members; term; vacancies.
- § 50-5-2705. Powers of Compact Commission and commissioners.
- § 50-5-2710. State officials to cooperate and furnish information.
- § 50-5-2715. Records, reports, and recommendations.
- § 50-5-2720. Audits.
- § 50-5-2725. Shark catch limits; boat or vessel permit to take sharks for commercial purposes; equipment requirements and prohibitions.
- § 50-5-2730. Federal fishing regulations declared to be law of State; exceptions.
- § 50-5-2740. Penalty for violation of article.
- § 50-9-10. Unlicensed activities; violations; penalties.
- § 50-9-15. Definitions.
- § 50-9-20. Duration of hunting and fishing licenses, permits, and tags for recreational purposes.
- § 50-9-30. Residency requirements.
- § 50-9-35. Persons licensed by another state; transfer of residency.
- § 50-9-40. License procedures and fees.
- § 50-9-45. Licenses for South Carolinians in the Armed Services.
- § 50-9-50. Possession on person of license, permit, tag, or stamp; violations.
- § 50-9-60. Borrowing or lending of license, permit, tag, or stamp; violations.
- § 50-9-70. Alteration or fraudulent issuance or obtainment of license, permit, tag, or stamp; violations.
- § 50-9-75. Surrender of combination licenses.
- § 50-9-80. Replacement licenses, permits, or tags.