Bill 861

                    Current Status

Bill Number:               861
Ratification Number:       379
Act Number                 348
Introducing Body:          Senate
Subject:                   Deputy wildlife conservation
                           officer

(A348, R379, S861)

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 50-3-315 SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR THE APPOINTMENT, TERMS, POWERS, DUTIES, REMOVAL, COMMISSIONING AND ESTABLISHMENT OF TERRITORIAL JURISDICTION FOR DEPUTY WILDLIFE CONSERVATION OFFICERS.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

Deputy Wildlife Conservation Officer

Section 1. The 1976 Code is amended by adding:

"Section 50-3-315. The South Carolina Wildlife and Marine Resources Commission may appoint deputy wildlife conservation officers to serve without pay, whose terms of office shall be for two years and whose territorial jurisdiction shall be as established by the Commission. Deputy wildlife conservation officers, when acting in their official capacity, shall have authority for the enforcement of all fish and game laws, trespass laws and litter laws within the territorial jurisdiction established for each by the Commission. The powers and duties of deputy wildlife conservation officers shall be as established by regulations of the Commission and any such officer may be removed by the Commission upon proof satisfactory to it that they have violated any regulation established by the Commission or that they are not fit persons for such positions. The Secretary of State shall transmit to the Director of the Division of Law Enforcement the commissions of all deputy wildlife conservation officers. The Commission shall transmit each commission to the office of the clerk of court for the county in which such deputy wildlife conservation officers reside only after the officers have filed oaths and bonds as required by Section 50-3-330."

Time effective

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon approval by the Governor.