Current Status Bill Number:426 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:Senate Introduced Date:19950131 Primary Sponsor:McConnell All Sponsors:McConnell Drafted Document Number:pfm\7115bdw.95 Companion Bill Number:3373 Residing Body:Senate Current Committee:Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee 01 SANR Subject:Cruelty to animals
Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ _______________________________________ _______ ____________ Senate 19950131 Introduced, read first time, 01 SANR referred to CommitteeView additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.
TO AMEND SECTION 47-1-160, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO FINES PERTAINING TO CRUELTY TO ANIMALS, SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR DISTRIBUTION OF THE FINES TO ALL NONPROFIT ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETIES.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 47-1-160 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 47-1-160. All fines collected upon complaint or information for violation of this chapter shall inure and be paid over must be distributed as follows:
(1) If the prosecution was brought by the township a municipal deputy, one-half shall must be paid to him and remaining one-half shall must be paid (a):
(a) equally to the local branch or chapter of the South Carolina Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and other nonprofit animal humane societies in the municipality, in aid of the benevolent objects for which it was they were incorporated,; or
(b) if there be is no local branch or chapter of such the society or other society in the town or city municipality in which the prosecution took place, to the county for general county purposes; or.
(2) If the prosecution was not brought by the township a municipal deputy, one-half shall must be paid to the county in which the prosecution was brought for general county purposes and the remaining one-half shall must be paid (a) to the local branch or chapter of the South Carolina Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, for the purpose aforesaid, if there be such a branch or chapter in the town or city in which the prosecution took place or (b) if there be no such local branch or chapter, such remaining half shall likewise be paid to the county for general county purposes as provided in subitems (a) and (b) of item (1)."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.