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South Carolina | S.C. Code Ann. § 14-25-65 | Maximum penalties that court may impose |
(A) If a municipal judge finds a party guilty of violating a municipal ordinance or a state law within the jurisdiction of the court, he may impose a fine of + See morenot more than five hundred dollars or imprisonment for thirty days, or both.
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$0 - $500 | All | No | Court | No |
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South Carolina | S.C. Code Ann. § 23-3-540(I) | Electronic monitoring; reporting damage to or removing monitoring device; penalty. |
(I) The person shall follow instructions provided by the Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services to maintain the active electronic monitoring device in working order. Incidental damage or defacement + See moreof the active electronic monitoring device must be reported to the Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services within two hours. A person who fails to comply with the reporting requirement of this subsection is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than five years.
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$0 - $5000 | Felony | No | Court | No |
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South Carolina | S.C. Code Ann. § 23-3-540(L) | Electronic monitoring; reporting damage to or removing monitoring device; penalty. |
(L) A person who intentionally removes, tampers with, defaces, alters, damages, or destroys an active electronic monitoring device is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, must be fined not + See moremore than five thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than five years.
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$0 - $5000 | Felony | No | Court | No |
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South Carolina | S.C. Code Ann. § 23-3-475(B)(1) | Sex Offender Registry- Registering with false information; penalties. |
(B)(1) A person convicted for a first offense is guilty of a misdemeanor and may be fined not more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned for not more than three + See morehundred sixty-six days, or both. Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 22-3-540, 22-3-545, 22-3-550, or any other provision of law, a first offense may be tried in magistrates court.
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$0 - $1000 | Misdemeanor | No | Court | No |
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South Carolina | S.C. Code Ann. § 23-3-470 | Sex Offender Registry- Failure to register or provide required notifications; penalties. |
(B)(1) A person convicted for a first offense is guilty of a misdemeanor and may be fined not more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned for not more than three + See morehundred sixty-six days, or both. Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 22-3-540, 22-3-545, 22-3-550, or any other provision of law, a first offense may be tried in magistrates court.
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$0 - $1000 | Misdemeanor | No | Court | No |
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South Carolina | S.C. Code Ann. 16-3-420 | Carrying or delivering challenge; serving as second. |
Whoever shall (a) willingly or knowingly carry or deliver any such challenge in writing or verbally deliver any message intended as, or purporting to be, such a challenge, (b) be + See morepresent at the fighting of any duel as a second or (c) aid or give countenance thereto shall, for every such offense, on conviction thereof, be forever disabled from holding any office of honor or trust in this State and shall be imprisoned in the Penitentiary for a term not exceeding two years, at the discretion of the court, and shall be fined in a sum not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars.
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$500 - $1000 | All | Yes | Court | No |
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South Carolina | S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-530 | Hazing Penalties |
Any person who violates the provisions of Sections 16-3-510 or 16-3-520 is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be punished by a fine not to exceed five hundred + See moredollars or by imprisonment for a term not to exceed twelve months, or both.
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$0 - $500 | Misdemeanor | No | Court | No |
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South Carolina | S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-600(D)(2) | Assault and battery |
(D)(1) A person commits the offense of assault and battery in the second degree if the person unlawfully injures another person, or offers or attempts to injure another person with + See morethe present ability to do so, and:(a) moderate bodily injury to another person results or moderate bodily injury to another person could have resulted; or
(b) the act involves the nonconsensual touching of the private parts of a person, either under or above clothing.
(2) A person who violates this subsection is guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than two thousand five hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not more than three years, or both.
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$0 - $2500 | Misdemeanor | No | Court | No |
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South Carolina | S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-600(E)(2) | Assault and battery |
(E)(1) A person commits the offense of assault and battery in the third degree if the person unlawfully injures another person, or offers or attempts to injure another person with + See morethe present ability to do so.(2) A person who violates this subsection is guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not more than thirty days, or both.
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South Carolina | S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-610 | Certain offenses committed with a carried or concealed deadly weapon. |
If a person is convicted of an offense pursuant to Section 16-3-29, 16-3-600, or manslaughter, and the offense is committed with a deadly weapon of the character as specified in + See moreSection 16-23-460 carried or concealed upon the person of the defendant, the judge shall, in addition to the punishment provided by law for such offense, sentence the person to imprisonment for the misdemeanor offense for not less than three months nor more than twelve months, or a fine of not less than two hundred dollars, or both.
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not less than $200 |
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South Carolina | S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-755. | Sexual battery with a student. |
(C) If a person affiliated with a public or private secondary school in an official capacity engages in sexual battery with a student enrolled in the school who is eighteen + See moreyears of age or older, and aggravated coercion or aggravated force is not used to accomplish the sexual battery, the person affiliated with the public or private secondary school in an official capacity is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned for thirty days, or both.
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$0 - $500 | Misdemeanor | No | Court | No |
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South Carolina | S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-1010 | Failing to remove doors from abandoned airtight containers |
Any person who abandons or discards any icebox, refrigerator, ice chest or other type of airtight container of a capacity sufficient to contain any child and who neglects prior to + See moresuch abandonment to remove the door, lid or other device for the closing thereof and any owner, lessee or other person in charge of property who knowingly permits any abandoned icebox, refrigerator, ice chest or other type of airtight container to remain thereon accessible to children without removing the door, lid or other closing device therefrom shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days.
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South Carolina | S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-1020 | Maintaining open and unprotected abandoned wells. |
It shall be unlawful for any owner or tenant to permit or allow any abandoned well to remain open and unprotected, curbed or fenced in on any place or premises + See moreowned or occupied in this State. Any person convicted of allowing any such abandoned well to remain open and unprotected, curbed or fenced in shall be fined in the sum of ten dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days.
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$10 | All | No | Court | No |
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South Carolina | S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-1040(C) | Threatening life, person or family of public official or public employee; punishment. |
(A) It is unlawful for a person knowingly and wilfully to deliver or convey to a public official or to a teacher or principal of an elementary or secondary school + See moreany letter or paper, writing, print, missive, document, or electronic communication or verbal or electronic communication which contains a threat to take the life of or to inflict bodily harm upon the public official, teacher, or principal, or members of his immediate family if the threat is directly related to the public official's, teacher's, or principal's professional responsibilities.(C) A person who violates the provisions of subsection (A), upon conviction, must be fined not more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
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$0 - $5000 | All | No | Court | No |
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South Carolina | S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-1040(D) | Threatening life, person or family of public official or public employee; punishment. |
(B) It is unlawful for a person knowingly and wilfully to deliver or convey to a public employee a letter or paper, writing, print, missive, document, or electronic communication or + See moreverbal or electronic communication which contains a threat to take the life of or to inflict bodily harm upon the public employee or members of his immediate family if the threat is directly related to the public employee's official responsibilities.(D) A person who violates the provisions of subsection (B), upon conviction, must be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.
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South Carolina | S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-1050(A) | Failure to report, perpetrating or interfering with an investigation of abuse, neglect or exploitation of a vulnerable adult; penalties. |
(A) A person required to report abuse, neglect, or exploitation of a vulnerable adult under Chapter 35 of Title 43 who has actual knowledge that abuse, neglect, or exploitation has + See moreoccurred and who knowingly and wilfully fails to report the abuse, neglect, or exploitation is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than twenty-five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than one year. A person required to report abuse, neglect, or exploitation of a vulnerable adult under Chapter 35 of Title 43 who has reason to believe that abuse, neglect, or exploitation has occurred or is likely to occur and who knowingly and wilfully fails to report the abuse, neglect, or exploitation is subject to disciplinary action as may be determined necessary by the appropriate licensing board.
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$0 - $2500 | Misdemeanor | No | Court | No |
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South Carolina | S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-1050(D) | Failure to report, perpetrating or interfering with an investigation of abuse, neglect or exploitation of a vulnerable adult; penalties. |
(D) A person who knowingly and wilfully exploits a vulnerable adult is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned + See morenot more than five years, or both, and may be required by the court to make restitution.
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Felony | No | Court | No |
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South Carolina | S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-1050(G) | Failure to report, perpetrating or interfering with an investigation of abuse, neglect or exploitation of a vulnerable adult; penalties. |
(G) A person who threatens, intimidates, or attempts to intimidate a vulnerable adult subject of a report, a witness, or any other person cooperating with an investigation conducted pursuant to + See morethis chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than three years.
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$0 - $5000 | Misdemeanor | No | Court | No |
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South Carolina | S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-1050(H) | Failure to report, perpetrating or interfering with an investigation of abuse, neglect or exploitation of a vulnerable adult; penalties. |
(H) A person who wilfully and knowingly obstructs or in any way impedes an investigation conducted pursuant to Chapter 35 of Title 43, upon conviction, is guilty of a misdemeanor + See moreand must be fined not more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than three years.
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$0 - $5000 | Misdemeanor | No | Court | No |
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South Carolina | S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-1060 | Receipt of compensation for relinquishing custody of child for adoption; penalty. |
Any person violating the provisions of this section or the provisions of Section 63-9-310(F) is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction or plea of guilty, must be fined not + See moremore than ten thousand dollars or imprisoned for not more than ten years, or both, in the discretion of the court.
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$0 - $10000 | Felony | No | Court | No |
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