Section 10-9-260. Interfering with State, department, or licensees; mining without license.

SC Code § 10-9-260 (2019) (N/A)

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Any person wilfully interfering with, molesting, or obstructing or attempting to interfere with, molest, or obstruct the State or the Department of Health and Environmental Control or anyone by it authorized or licensed in the peaceable possession and occupation of any of the marshes, navigable streams, or waters of the State, including the Coosaw River phosphate territory, or who shall dig or mine or attempt to dig or mine any of the phosphate rock or phosphatic deposits of this State without a license so to do issued by the department shall be punished for each offense by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or imprisonment for not less than one nor more than twelve months, or both, at the discretion of the court.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 1-381; 1952 Code Section 1-381; 1942 Code Section 1259; 1932 Code Section 1259; Cr. C. '22 Section 154; Cr. C. '12 Section 305; Cr. C. '02 Section 225; R. S. 515; 1890 (20) 694; 1950 (46) 3605; 2014 Act No. 121 (S.22), Pt V, Section 7.M, eff July 1, 2015.

Effect of Amendment

2014 Act No. 121, Section 7.M, substituted "Department of Health and Environmental Control" for "State Budget and Control Board", substituted "department" for "board", and made other nonsubstantive changes.

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