South Carolina General Assembly
104th Session, 1981-1982

Bill 583

                    Current Status

Bill Number:               583
Ratification Number:       342
Act Number                 302
Introducing Body:          Senate
Subject:                   Relating to the penalties for violations
                           of shrimp trawling provisions
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(A302, R342, S583)

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 50-17-1615, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS OF SHRIMP TRAWLING PROVISIONS, SO AS TO INCREASE THE FINE PENALTY FROM ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS TO TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS, TO INCREASE THE FIRST OFFENSE SUSPENSION PENALTY FROM FIFTEEN DAYS TO THIRTY DAYS, THE SECOND OFFENSE SUSPENSION PENALTY FROM SIXTY DAYS TO ONE YEAR, AND THE THIRD OFFENSE SUSPENSION PENALTY FROM ONE YEAR TO TWO YEARS.

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

Penalties

Section 1. The first and second paragraphs of Section 50-17-1615 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 110 of 1979, are further amended to read:

"The captain of any boat found trawling for shrimp at any time in violation of Sections 50-17-1530, 50-17-1600 or 50-17-1610 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction for a first and subsequent offense shall be fined two hundred dollars or be imprisoned for thirty days and his license shall be suspended for a period of one year from the date of conviction. Any license issued to him during the period of suspension shall be invalid. Any person whose captain's license has been suspended who is found operating any boat trawling for shrimp during the period for which his license has been suspended shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined one thousand dollars to be imprisoned for ninety days.

The license of any boat found operating in violation of the provisions of Sections 50-17-1530, 50-17-1600 or 50-17-1610 shall for a first offense be suspended for the next thirty open season days after the conviction of a captain for violation of any of these sections; for a second offense, within one year from the date of conviction for violation of any of these sections for the first offense, the boat license shall be suspended for the next one year; and for a third offense within one year from the date of conviction for violation of any of these sections for a first offense, the boat license shall be suspended for two years from the date of conviction. Any license issued for a boat during the period of license suspension shall be invalid."

Time effective

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