S.C. Code Ann. § 47-17-530 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 17 / Article 5 / Section 47-17-530
SECTION 47-17-530. Violations; penalties.
Status: in_force

A person who violates this article is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be imprisoned not more than one year, or fined not more than one thousand dollars, or both.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-860 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 13 / Article 7 / Section 47-13-860
SECTION 47-13-860. Official tests.
Status: in_force

The intradermal and thermal tuberculosis test for tuberculosis and the intradermal test for paratuberculosis will be recognized as official tests when applied by an approved accredited veterinarian, under the direction of the State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission and when the certificate is filed with the State Veterinarian immediately after the completion of the test.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-15-10 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 15 / Section 47-15-10
SECTION 47-15-10. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter: (a) "Garbage" means any animal wastes resulting from handling, preparation, cooking, or consumption of foods, including animal carcasses, parts of animal carcasses, or contents of offal. Unpasteurized milk and unpasteurized milk products are animal waste. (b) "Person" means the State, any municipality, political subdivision, institution, public or private corporation, individual, partnership, or any other entity. (c) "Garbage dump" means a place or area where ordinary household garbage is disposed of from two or more families.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-4-30 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 4 / Section 47-4-30
SECTION 47-4-30. Promulgation and enforcement of rules and regulations; permitted operations.
Status: in_force

(A) The commission, in accordance with the Administrative Procedures Act, may promulgate and enforce reasonable regulations necessary to ensure the continued health and safety of the livestock and poultry industries in the State and to carry out the responsibilities assigned by law to the commission. The commission may regulate or prohibit the shipment within, or the importation into, this State of livestock, poultry, or associated products of any nature or character from a state, territory, or foreign country when, in the opinion of the commission, the regulation or prohibition is necessary to prevent the introduction or distribution of diseased, infirm, or unhealthy livestock or poultry, or both. (B) The commission may carry out operations including quarantines, destruction of livestock or poultry, or other measures to locate, suppress, control, or eradicate or to retard the spread of diseases of livestock or poultry, or both, independently or in cooperation with counties or their political subdivisions, municipalities, farmers, associations or similar organizations, individuals, federal agencies, or agencies of other states, by regulation, compliance agreement, judicial action, or other appropriate means.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-5-90 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 5 / Section 47-5-90
SECTION 47-5-90. Reports of animal bites to health department.
Status: in_force

Every physician after his first professional attendance upon a person bitten by a pet or other animal, by the end of the next working day, shall report the bite to the county health department and the name, age, sex, weight, address, and telephone number of the person bitten. If no physician attends to the bite, it is the responsibility of the bitten adult or the parent or guardian of a bitten minor child to report the bite by the end of the next working day to the county health department.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-3-40 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 47-3-40
SECTION 47-3-40. Impoundment or quarantine of cat or dog running at large; release to owner.
Status: in_force

The county or municipal animal shelter personnel or governmental animal control officers shall pick up and impound or quarantine any dog running at large or quarantining any cat. To obtain release of his dog or cat, an owner or keeper must satisfy the animal shelter personnel that the dog or cat is currently inoculated against rabies and also pay an impound or quarantine fee determined by the governing body of the county or municipality. Payment of this fee bars prosecution under Section 47-3-50. All fees collected must be delivered to the county or municipal treasurer for deposit in the general fund of the county or municipality.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-3-920 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 3 / Article 15 / Section 47-3-920
SECTION 47-3-920. Definitions.
Status: in_force

For purposes of this article: (1) "Guide dog" means a dog that is trained for the purpose of guiding blind persons or a dog trained for the purpose of assisting hearing impaired persons. (2) "Humane euthanasia" means the termination of a terminally ill or critically injured guide dog or service animal's life by a means that produces a rapid and minimally painful death as provided in Section 47-3-420. (3) "Notice" means an actual verbal or written warning prescribing the behavior of another person and a request that the person stop the behavior. (4)(a) "Service animal" or "service animal-in-training" means an animal that is trained or that is being trained to do work or perform tasks for an individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disability. A service animal is not a pet and is limited to a dog or a miniature horse. The work done or tasks performed must be directly related to the individual's disability and may include, but are not limited to: (i) guiding an individual who is visually impaired or blind; (ii) alerting an individual who is deaf or hard of hearing; (iii) pulling a wheelchair; (iv) assisting with mobility or balance; (v) alerting others and protecting an individual if the individual is having a seizure; (vi) retrieving objects; (vii) alerting an individual to the presence of allergens; (viii) providing physical support and assistance with balance and stability to an individual with a mobility disability; (ix) helping an individual with a psychiatric or neurological disability by preventing or interrupting impulsive or destructive behaviors; (x) reminding an individual with a mental illness to take his prescribed medications; (xi) calming an individual with post-traumatic stress disorder during an anxiety attack; or (xii) doing other specific work or performing other special tasks. (b) The crime-deterrent effect of an animal's presence and the provision of emotional support, well-being, comfort, or companionship do not constitute work or tasks for the purposes of this definition. (5) "Value" means the value to the guide dog or service animal user and does not refer to the cost or fair market value. (6) "Emotional support animal" means an animal intended to provide companionship and reassurance. (7) "Places of public accommodation" means airports, train stations, bus stations, and establishments defined in Section 45-9-10. Editor's Note 2019 Act No. 44, preamble, provides as follows: "Whereas, service animals that are properly trained to assist persons with disabilities play a vital role in establishing independence for such persons; and "Whereas, the term 'service animal' has a distinct meaning in the law. A service animal means an animal that is trained for the purposes of assisting or accommodating the sensory, mental, or physical disability of a disabled person. Under the law, the provision of emotional support, well-being, comfort, or companionship does not constitute the work or tasks of a service animal; and "Whereas, no vest, other marking, or documentation is required for an animal to qualify as a service animal, nor are such vests, markings, or documentation a reliable indication of whether an animal is, by law, a service animal. People sometimes erroneously think that a therapy animal, an emotional support animal, or any animal wearing a vest or having any other type of marking is a service animal as defined by law; and "Whereas, there is an increasing number of occurrences in which people exploit the confusion related to service animals and attempt to bring an animal into a place that it would otherwise not be allowed to enter by passing off the pet, therapy animal, or emotional support animal as a service animal, either by oral misrepresentation, placement of a vest or other marking on the animal, or presentation of a 'certificate', despite knowing that it is not a service animal; and "Whereas, some companies mislead individuals into believing that they will be entitled to the rights or privileges for individuals with disabilities with service animals if they buy the company's vests or obtain some type of certificate. These misrepresentations, in some cases, are unlawful deceptive trade practices and compound the confusion around service animals; and "Whereas, commendably, federal and state laws require places of public accommodation, including airports, restaurants, theaters, stores, hospitals, and more, to allow any animal that is presented as a service animal into the place of public accommodation. These same places of public accommodation face a dilemma if someone enters the premises and intentionally misrepresents his animal as a service animal; and "Whereas, when people try to falsely represent a nonservice animal as a service animal, business owners and other places of public accommodation become increasingly distrustful that the animals being represented to them as service animals are, in fact, service animals. Misrepresentation of service animals delegitimizes the program and makes it harder for persons with disabilities to gain unquestioned acceptance of their legitimate, properly trained, and essential service animals. Now, therefore, [Text of Act]." Effect of Amendment 2019 Act No. 44, SECTION 3, rewrote (4). 2019 Act No. 44, SECTION 4, added (6) and (7), relating to the definitions of "Emotional support animal" and "Places of public accommodation".
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-390 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 13 / Article 3 / Section 47-13-390
SECTION 47-13-390. Procedure in event prescribed appraisal method is unsatisfactory to owner.
Status: in_force

If the method of appraisal prescribed by Section 47-13-380 is unsatisfactory to the owner, within twenty-four hours after receipt of notice from the State Veterinarian, the owner may file with the State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission a protest stating under oath, to the best of his knowledge and belief, the animal is not infected with tuberculosis or glanders. If the animal is killed an autopsy must be held by three experts who must be graduate veterinarians of a recognized college. One must be appointed and paid by the owner, one must be appointed by the State Veterinarian and paid by the State, and one must be the State Veterinarian or his assistant. These three experts shall appraise the animal before it is killed at its actual cash value, and if the autopsy shows the animal is free entirely from the disease, the cash value of the animal immediately before the killing must be paid to the owner by the State, less the value of the carcass.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-9-220 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 9 / Article 3 / Section 47-9-220
SECTION 47-9-220. Branding is lawful.
Status: in_force

It is lawful to brand livestock with the owner's brand in accordance with the provisions of this article.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-80 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 13 / Article 1 / Section 47-13-80
SECTION 47-13-80. Commissioner of Agriculture charged with enforcement of Section 47-13-70.
Status: in_force

The Commissioner of Agriculture and his assistants designated for the purpose shall be charged with the enforcement of Section 47-13-70.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-3-420 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 3 / Article 7 / Section 47-3-420
SECTION 47-3-420. Methods of euthanasia.
Status: in_force

(A) Only the following methods of euthanasia may be used to kill animals impounded or quarantined in animal shelters, and the procedure applicable to the method selected must be strictly followed: (1) Sodium pentobarbital or a derivative of it by means of: (a) intravenous injection by hypodermic needle of a lethal solution; (b) intraperitoneal injection by hypodermic needle of lethal solution as a last resort only when location of an injection into the vein is difficult or impossible; (c) intracardial injection by hypodermic needle if the dog or cat is unconscious; (d) intravenous injection of these solutions must be specifically injected according to the directions of the manufacturers for intravenous injections; (e) an animal may be sedated with an approved and humane substance before euthanasia is performed; (f) the solutions may not be administered via intrathoracic, intrapulmonary, subcutaneous, intramuscular, intrarenal, intrasplenic, or intrathecal routes or in any other nonvascular injection route except as provided above; (g) administration of injections must be done only by a licensed veterinarian or by a euthanasia technician or Department of Natural Resources employee, trained and certified for this purpose in a euthanasia training class taught by a licensed South Carolina veterinarian or an individual or entity approved by the State Board of Veterinary Examiners, which must include training in tranquilizing animals. A person certified pursuant to this subitem must continue to maintain his proficiency by successfully completing a training course taught by a licensed South Carolina veterinarian or an individual or entity approved by the State Board of Veterinary Examiners every five years; (h) all injections must be administered using an undamaged hypodermic needle of a size suitable for the size and species of animal; (i) an animal shelter or governmental animal control agency may obtain sodium pentobarbital or a derivative or tranquilizing agent by direct licensing. The animal shelter or governmental animal control agency must apply for a Controlled Substance Registration Certificate from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and a State Controlled Substances Registration from the Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC). If an animal shelter or governmental animal control agency is issued a certificate by the DEA and a registration by DHEC pursuant to this subitem, the animal shelter or governmental animal control agency director or his designee are responsible for maintaining their respective records regarding the inventory, storage, and administration of controlled substances. An animal shelter or governmental animal control agency and its certified euthanasia technician are subject to inspection and audit by DHEC and the DEA regarding the recordkeeping, inventory, storage, and administration of controlled substances used under authority of this article; (j) oral administration of sodium pentobarbital is permitted for the purpose of anesthetizing animals, provided a lethal dose of sodium pentobarbital is administered to euthanize the animal; and (k) carbon monoxide gas, carbon dioxide gas, or other nonanesthetic inhalants may not be used to perform euthanasia. (2) A substance which is clinically proven to be as humane as sodium pentobarbital and which has been officially recognized as such by the American Veterinary Medical Association may be used in lieu of sodium pentobarbital to perform euthanasia on dogs and cats, but succinylcholine chloride, curare, curariform mixtures, carbon monoxide gas, carbon dioxide gas, or any substance which acts as a neuromuscular blocking agent may not be used on a dog or cat in lieu of sodium pentobarbital for euthanasia purposes. (3) Shooting may be used in a location other than a shelter as a means of euthanasia only in an emergency situation to prevent extreme suffering or in which the safety of people or other animal life is threatened or where it is considered necessary by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources to eliminate or control the population of feral animals. (4) In cases of extraordinary circumstance where a dog or cat poses an extreme risk or danger to the veterinarian, physician, or lay person performing euthanasia, the person is allowed the use of any other substance or procedure that is necessary to perform euthanasia on a dangerous dog or cat. (B) In any of the previously listed methods, an animal may not be left unattended between the time euthanasia procedures have commenced and the time death occurs, and the animal's body may not be disposed of until death is confirmed by a certified euthanasia technician. (C) Under no circumstance shall a chamber using commercially bottled carbon monoxide gas or other lethal gas or a chamber which causes a change in body oxygen by means of altering atmospheric pressure or which is connected to an internal combustion engine and uses the engine exhaust for euthanasia purposes be permitted. Code Commissioner's Note At the direction of the Code Commissioner in 2016, in (A)(2), "curare" was substituted for "curate" to correct a typographical error. Effect of Amendment 2016 Act No. 175, SECTION 1, rewrote the section. 2022 Act No. 135, SECTION 2, in (A)(1), rewrote (i), removing references to the Department of Natural Resources.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-640 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 13 / Article 5 / Section 47-13-640
SECTION 47-13-640. Report and branding of infected animals.
Status: in_force

Any animals found infected with brucellosis shall be reported in writing to the State Veterinarian within five days after the test and the infected animal and all other animals exposed to such animal shall be quarantined on the owner's premises. Animals infected with brucellosis shall be branded with the letter "B" on the left jaw, not less than three nor more than four inches high, and be tagged with a suitable ear tag.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-9-350 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 9 / Article 3 / Section 47-9-350
SECTION 47-9-350. Revocation of registration.
Status: in_force

The registration of any brand granted under this article may be revoked by the order of any court in this State upon a showing of improper use of the brand.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-3-210 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 3 / Article 3 / Section 47-3-210
SECTION 47-3-210. Buying, selling, receiving, or keeping sheep-killing dog prohibited.
Status: in_force

No persons shall buy, sell, receive, give away or otherwise own, control, have or keep in possession any dog commonly called "sheep-killing" and known to be such. The violation, knowingly, in any one or all respects of the foregoing prohibition shall be a misdemeanor punishable, upon conviction, by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or imprisonment for not exceeding thirty days.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-9-20 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 9 / Article 1 / Section 47-9-20
SECTION 47-9-20. Marking, branding, or disfiguring small animals of another.
Status: in_force

Whoever shall be lawfully convicted of wilfully and knowingly marking, branding or disfiguring any sheep, goat or hog of any other person shall, for each and every sheep, goat or hog which he shall be convicted of marking, branding or disfiguring as aforesaid, be subject to a penalty of twenty-five dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twenty days. In case such offender shall afterwards repeat the same or commit a like offense, on conviction thereof he shall be liable to a fine of fifty dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding thirty days for each and every sheep, goat or hog by him so marked, branded or disfigured.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-5-20 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 5 / Section 47-5-20
SECTION 47-5-20. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter: (1) "Carnivore" means a flesh-eating animal and includes those animals known to be reservoirs of rabies including, but not limited to, raccoons, foxes, skunks, and bobcats and related species including, but not limited to, coyotes, wolves, wolf dogs, weasels, civet cats, spotted skunks, and lynx or the offspring born to any combinations of crossbreeding between these wild animals and domestic dogs or cats. (2) "Department" means the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, including county health departments. (3) "Domesticated animal" means owned or stray cats, dogs, and ferrets or other animals for which there exists a rabies vaccine approved by the department and licensed by the United States Department of Agriculture. (4) "Inoculation against rabies" means the injection, subcutaneously, intramuscularly or otherwise, of antirabic vaccine as approved by the department and by the United States Department of Agriculture. (5) "Licensed veterinarian" means a person licensed by law to practice veterinary medicine in this State. (6) "Owner" means any person who: (a) has a right of property in a pet; (b) keeps or harbors a pet or who has it in his care or acts as its custodian; or (c) permits a pet to remain on or about any premises occupied by him. (7) "Pet" means only domesticated cats, dogs, and ferrets. (8) "Quarantine" means a prescribed, restricted confinement of a pet or other animal up to and including a state of enforced isolation. The quarantine is for the purpose of observation of the animal for signs or symptoms, or both, of rabies and for the prevention of potential rabies transmission by the animal to a person, other pets, or other animals. The location, conditions, and length of the quarantine must be prescribed by the department.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-7-110 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 7 / Article 3 / Section 47-7-110
SECTION 47-7-110. Permitting domestic animals to run at large unlawful.
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for the owner or manager of any domestic animal of any description wilfully or negligently to permit any such animal to run at large beyond the limits of his own land or the lands leased, occupied or controlled by him. Any owner, manager or person violating the provisions of this section shall be subject to a fine for each offense of not more than twenty-five dollars or to imprisonment for not more than twenty-five days.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-2-60 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 2 / Section 47-2-60
SECTION 47-2-60. Enforcement of chapter.
Status: in_force

(A) The animal control authority and its staff and agents, local law enforcement agents, state law enforcement agents, and county sheriffs are authorized and empowered to enforce the provisions of this chapter. (B) The possessor of a large wild cat, non-native bear, or great ape, at all reasonable times, shall allow the animal control authority or other persons designated by this chapter to enter the premises where the animal is being kept to ensure compliance with this chapter. Editor's Note 2017 Act No. 86, SECTION 4, provides as follows: "This act takes effect January 1, 2018, and applies to acts committed on or after that date."
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-6-50 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 6 / Section 47-6-50
SECTION 47-6-50. Imported swine.
Status: in_force

(A) All swine imported into this State must be accompanied by a certificate of veterinary inspection. All swine must be identified to the herd of origin with an ear tag or other acceptable method of permanent identification approved by the commission. Purebred swine, if not ear-tagged, must be identified by registry name and number and a description sufficient to identify the animal. (B) The following is the procedure for importing swine for other than feeding purposes. The swine: (1) have been tested and found negative for pseudorabies within thirty days before movement; or (2) originated from a Qualified Pseudorabies Negative Herd as defined in Title 9, Part 85 of the Code of Federal Regulations; or (3) originated from a Stage V state as defined by USDA-APHIS 91-55-022, Pseudorabies Eradication Program Standards. (C) The following is the procedure for importing swine for feeding purposes. The swine: (1) have been tested and found negative for pseudorabies within thirty days before movement; or (2) originated from a Qualified Pseudorabies Negative Herd as defined in Title 9, Part 85 of the Code of Federal Regulations; or (3) originated from a Stage V or Stage IV state as defined in USDA-APHIS 91-55-022, Pseudorabies Eradication Program Standards. Swine entering the State from Stage V or Stage IV states must remain under quarantine on the farm of destination as designated on the certificate of veterinary inspection until they are moved directly to slaughter or moved with the permission of the State Veterinarian or an assistant; or (4) originated from a monitored feeder pig herd. For purposes of this section, in order to qualify as a monitored feeder pig herd, testing must have been performed in accordance with the following standards: (a) In herds of ten or less breeding swine, the swine must test negative within twelve months before movement. (b) In herds of eleven to thirty-five breeding swine, ten randomly-selected breeding animals including gilts, sows, and boars must test negative within twelve months before movement. (c) In herds of more than thirty-five breeding swine, either thirty or thirty percent of the total herd, whichever is less, randomly-selected breeding gilts, sows, and boars must test negative within twelve months before movement. (d) Swine entering the State through the monitored feeder pig herd procedure remain under quarantine on the farm of destination as designated by the certificate of veterinary inspection until they are moved directly to slaughter or moved with written permission of the State Veterinarian or an assistant.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-590 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 13 / Article 5 / Section 47-13-590
SECTION 47-13-590. Sale of infected animals.
Status: in_force

No animal infected with brucellosis shall be sold, traded or otherwise disposed of except for immediate slaughter or as designated by the State Veterinarian and the person disposing of such infected animals shall see that they are promptly slaughtered and that a written report thereof is made to the State Veterinarian. But the State Veterinarian may permit the sale of valuable purebred, registered animals that have reacted to an official brucellosis test or are suspected of such reaction, provided such animals go direct to infected herds that have been vaccinated with Brucella vaccine, as provided for in this article, and are held under quarantine in accordance with the law and regulations covering such quarantine.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-11-100 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 47-11-100
SECTION 47-11-100. Tuberculosis and paratuberculosis tests required for all animals except those for immediate slaughter.
Status: in_force

All animals except those for immediate slaughter must be tested for tuberculosis and paratuberculosis when considered advisable by the commission before they are released from the stockyards.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-660 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 13 / Article 5 / Section 47-13-660
SECTION 47-13-660. Reports.
Status: in_force

Reports, made in duplicate, of all activities of all personnel engaged in the testing or vaccination of cattle in connection with brucellosis are compulsory and shall be made promptly to the State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission, such reports to be made on forms furnished by the department.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-4-65 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 4 / Section 47-4-65
SECTION 47-4-65. Transport of live swine without identification prohibited.
Status: in_force

(A) It is unlawful to transport live swine on a public road or waterway within the State unless the swine have an official form of identification approved by the State Veterinarian and are transported in such a way that the swine is visible. Live swine transported without identification are presumed to have been taken from the wild and in violation of Section 50-16-25. (B) It is unlawful for a person to misuse or alter a permit, tag, or other form of identification or attempt to obtain a permit, tag, or form of identification by fraud or misrepresentation. A person is deemed to have misused identification by using the identification that was not assigned to them or assigned to another owner, knowingly providing identification to a person other than the owner of the swine, or by engaging in any other activity to circumvent the provisions of this section. (C) Absent an official form of identification, it is unlawful to transport live swine on a public road or waterway within this State unless accompanied by a document that may be presented in lieu of an official form of identification, including a dated bill of lading, invoice, receipt, bill of sale, or similar document showing the quantity of swine to be sold or transported and the name of the wholesale producer or dealer from whom the live swine were purchased or received. (D) Live swine that do not leave the premises of the swine owner are not subject to the identification requirement. (E) A person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, is subject to the penalty prescribed in Section 47-4-130. Each violation constitutes a separate offense. (F) Notwithstanding Chapter 3, Title 22, magistrates court has jurisdiction over actions arising under this section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-19-20 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 19 / Section 47-19-20
SECTION 47-19-20. Definitions.
Status: in_force

For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings stated below: (a) "Commission" means the State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission. (b) "Director" means the Director of State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission or his delegate. (c) "Poultry products broker" means any person engaged in the business of buying or selling poultry products on commission or otherwise negotiating purchases or sales of such articles other than for his own account or as an employee of another person. (d) "Renderer" means any person engaged in the business of rendering carcasses, or parts or products of the carcasses, of poultry, except rendering conducted under inspection or exemption under this chapter. (e) "Animal food manufacturer" means any person engaged in the business of manufacturing or processing animal food derived wholly or in part from carcasses, or parts or products of the carcasses, of poultry. (f) "Poultry" means any domesticated bird, whether live or dead. (g) "Poultry product" means any poultry carcass, or part thereof, or any product which is made wholly or in part from any poultry carcass or part thereof, excepting products which contain poultry ingredients only in a relatively small proportion or historically have not been considered by consumers as products of the poultry food industry, and which are exempted by the director from definition as a poultry product under such conditions as the board may prescribe to assure that the poultry ingredients in such products are not adulterated and that such products are not represented as poultry products. (h) "Capable of use as human food" shall apply to any carcass, or part or product of a carcass, of any poultry, unless it is denatured or otherwise identified as required by regulations prescribed by the board to deter its use as human food, or it is naturally inedible by humans. (i) "Processed" means slaughtered, canned, salted, stuffed, rendered, boned, cut up or otherwise manufactured or processed. (j) "Adulterated" shall apply to any poultry product under one or more of the following circumstances: (1) If it bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render it injurious to health; but in case the substance is not an added substance, such article shall not be considered adulterated under this clause if the quantity of such substance in or on such article does not ordinarily render it injurious to health; (2)(A) If it bears or contains (by reason of administration of any substance to the live poultry or otherwise) any added poisonous or added deleterious substance (other than one which is (i) a pesticide chemical in or on a raw agricultural commodity; (ii) a food additive; or (iii) a color additive) which may, in the judgment of the director, make such article unfit for human food; (B) If it is, in whole or in part, a raw agricultural commodity and such commodity bears or contains a pesticide chemical which is unsafe within the meaning of section 408 of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act; (C) If it bears or contains any food additive which is unsafe within the meaning of section 409 of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act; (D) If it bears or contains any color additive which is unsafe within the meaning of section 706 of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act; provided, that an article which is not otherwise deemed adulterated under clause (B), (C) or (D) shall nevertheless be deemed adulterated if use of the pesticide chemical, food additive or color additive in or on such article is prohibited by regulations of the board in official establishments; (3) If it consists in whole or in part of any filthy, putrid or decomposed substance or is for any other reason unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome or otherwise unfit for human food; (4) If it has been prepared, packed or held under insanitary conditions whereby it may have become contaminated with filth or whereby it may have been rendered injurious to health; (5) If it is, in whole or in part, the product of any poultry which has died otherwise than by slaughter; (6) If its container is composed, in whole or in part, of any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render the contents injurious to health; (7) If it has been intentionally subjected to radiation, unless the use of the radiation was in conformity with a regulation or exemption in effect pursuant to section 409 of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act; or (8) If any valuable constituent has been, in whole or in part, omitted or abstracted therefrom; if any substance has been substituted, wholly or in part, therefor; if damage or inferiority has been concealed in any manner; or if any substance has been added thereto or mixed or packed therewith so as to increase its bulk or weight, reduce its quality or strength or make it appear better or of greater value than it is. (k) "Misbranded" shall apply to any poultry product under one or more of the following circumstances: (1) If its labeling is false or misleading in any particular; (2) If it is offered for sale under the name of another food; (3) If it is an imitation of another food, unless its label bears, in type of uniform size and prominence, the word "imitation" and, immediately thereafter, the name of the food imitated; (4) If its container is so made, formed or filled as to be misleading; (5) Unless it bears a label showing (A) the name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer or distributor; and (B) an accurate statement of the quantity of the product in terms of weight, measure or numerical count; provided, that under clause (B) of this subparagraph (5), reasonable variations may be permitted, and exemptions as to small packages or articles not in packages or other containers may be established, by regulations prescribed by the board; (6) If any word, statement or other information required by or under authority of this chapter to appear on the label or other labeling is not prominently placed thereon with such conspicuousness and in such terms as to render it likely to be read and understood by the ordinary individual under customary conditions of purchase and use; (7) If it purports to be or is represented as a food for which a definition and standard of identity or composition has been prescribed by regulations to the board under Section 47-19-60 unless (A) it conforms to such definition and standard, and (B) its label bears the name of the food specified in the definition and standard and, insofar as may be required by such regulations, the common names of optional ingredients (other than spices, flavoring and coloring) present in such food; (8) If it purports to be or is represented as a food for which a standard or standards of fill of container have been prescribed by regulations of the board under Section 47-19-60, and it falls below the standard of fill of container applicable thereto, unless its label bears, in such manner and form as such regulations specify, a statement that it falls below such standard; (9) If it is not subject to the provisions of subparagraph (7), unless its label bears (A) the common or usual name of the food, if there be any, and (B) in case it is fabricated from two or more ingredients, the common or usual name of each such ingredient; except that spices, flavorings and colorings may, when authorized by the director, be designated as spices, flavorings and colorings without naming each; provided, that, to the extent that compliance with the requirements of clause (B) of this subparagraph (9) is impracticable or results in deception or unfair competition, exemptions shall be established by regulations promulgated by the board; (10) If it purports to be or is represented for special dietary uses, unless its label bears such information concerning its vitamin, mineral and other dietary properties as the director, after consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, determines to be, and by regulations prescribes as, necessary in order fully to inform purchasers as to its value for such uses; (11) If it bears or contains any artificial flavoring, artificial coloring or chemical preservative, unless it bears labeling stating that fact; provided, that, to the extent that compliance with the requirements of this subparagraph (11) is impracticable, exemptions shall be established by regulations promulgated by the board; or (12) If it fails to bear on its containers, and in the case of nonconsumer-packaged carcasses (if the director so required) directly thereon, as the board may by regulations prescribe, the official inspection legend and official establishment number of the establishment where the article was processed, and, unrestricted by any of the foregoing, such other information as the board may require in such regulations to assure that it will not have false or misleading labeling and that the public will be informed of the manner of handling required to maintain the article in a wholesome condition. (l) "Label" means a display of written, printed or graphic matter upon any article or the immediate container (not including package liners) of any article. (m) "Labeling" means all labels and other written, printed or graphic matter (1) upon any article or any of its containers or wrappers, or (2) accompanying such article. (n) "Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act" means the act so entitled approved August 28, 1957 (71 Stat. 441), as amended by the Wholesome Poultry Products Act (82 Stat. 791). (o) "Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act" means the act so entitled, approved June 25, 1938 (52 Stat. 1040), and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto. (p) "Pesticide chemical," "food additive," "color additive" and "raw agricultural commodity" shall have the same meanings for purposes of this chapter as under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. (q) "Official mark" means the official inspection legend or any other symbol prescribed by regulation of the board to identify the status of any article or poultry under this chapter. (r) "Official inspection legend" means any symbol prescribed by regulation of the board showing that an article was inspected for wholesomeness in accordance with this chapter. (s) "Official certificate" means any certificate prescribed by regulation of the board for issuance by an inspector or other person performing official functions under this chapter. (t) "Official device" means any device prescribed or authorized by the director for use in applying any official mark. (u) "Official establishment" means any establishment, as determined by the director, at which inspection of the slaughter of poultry or the processing of poultry products is maintained under the authority of this chapter. (v) "Inspection service" means the official government service of the State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission having the responsibility for carrying out this chapter. (w) "Inspector" means an employee or official of the commission authorized by the commission to inspect poultry and poultry products under the authority of this chapter. (x) "Container" or "package" includes any box, can, tin, cloth, plastic or other receptacle, wrapper or cover. (y) "Shipping container" means any container used or intended for use in packaging the product packed in an immediate container. (z) "Immediate container" includes any consumer package or any other container in which poultry products, not consumer packaged, are packed.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-1-145 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 1 / Section 47-1-145
SECTION 47-1-145. Custody and care of animal after arrest; custodial costs.
Status: in_force

(A)(1) Notwithstanding another provision of law, any sheriff, deputy sheriff, deputy state constable, constable, law enforcement officer, or other entity that is awarded custody of an animal under the provisions of Section 47-1-150 or who has seized an animal because of a violation of any provision of Chapter 1, Title 47 or Chapter 27, Title 16 may file a petition with a court of competent jurisdiction to hear civil cases requesting the court to require the owner of the animal or animals to deposit funds at specified intervals in an amount sufficient to secure payment of all anticipated costs of the seizure and care of the animals pending the disposition of the litigation. (2) If the defendant is found guilty, then the custodian of the animal may then determine if the animal is suitable for adoption or rescue and if adoption or rescue can be arranged for the animal. The animal may not be adopted by the defendant or by any person residing in the defendant's household if the defendant was found guilty. If no adoption or rescue can be arranged after the forfeiture or if the animal is unsuitable for adoption or rescue, then the custodian shall humanely euthanize the animal. (3) At any time prior to final adjudication, the owner has the right to forfeit ownership of the animal and avoid all future custodial costs related to the animal's care but not costs already accrued, beginning with the date of the seizure. (4) In the event that an owner is adjudicated not guilty of all charges related to the animal seizure or all charges are dismissed not pursuant to plea negotiations or an intervention program, the owner shall receive from the filing agency a refund of all costs paid by the owner pursuant to the petition. The court may award interest on the amount refunded to an owner under this subsection. (B)(1) Every petition filed pursuant to subsection (A) shall contain a description of the time, place, and circumstances of the seizure, the legal authority for the seizure, and the name and address of the owner of the animal seized. (2) Any sheriff, deputy sheriff, deputy state constable, constable, or other law enforcement officer shall personally serve written process of the petition on the owner of the animal. If the officer is unable to personally serve written process of the petition on the owner of the animal within thirty days of the filing of the petition, the officers shall, within ten days thereafter, post a copy of the petition on the door of the residence of the owner or in another conspicuous place at the location where the animal was seized. (C)(1)(a) Upon the court's receipt of return of process of the petition on the owner, the court shall set a hearing on the petition to determine the need to care for and provide for the animal pending the final disposition of the animal. The hearing shall be conducted no less than ten days and no more than fifteen business days after the court's receipt of return of service of process of the petition on the owner. Any sheriff, deputy sheriff, deputy state constable, constable, or other law enforcement officer is authorized to serve written notice on the owner of the date, time, and location of the hearing. If no name and address for the owner are set forth in the petition, then such notice shall be posted in a conspicuous place at the location where the animal or animals were seized. (b) If the owner is financially unable to retain counsel, then counsel shall be provided upon order of the appropriate judge pursuant to Chapter 3, Title 17, unless the owner voluntarily and intelligently waives court-appointed counsel. (c) The court may reduce the amount the owner is required to pay under this section if the owner is indigent. (2) The scope of the hearing is limited to whether probable cause existed to seize the animal. Upon such a showing, the court shall require payment to the clerk of court of an amount sufficient to cover reasonable costs of seizure and care, as determined by the court, for a period beginning as of the date of seizure and ending thirty days after the date of the order. Neither the result of a hearing provided for under this section nor a statement of an owner made at any such hearing shall be admissible in any criminal prosecution related to the seizure of the animal. (3) The owner shall be ordered to deposit an amount equal to the portion of the original deposit amount attributable to the first thirty days after the date of the initial order and every thirty days thereafter until the owner relinquishes the animal or until the final disposition of the animal. If the required funds are not deposited within five days of the original order setting the amount of funds, or within five days after the expiration of each applicable subsequent thirty-day period, then the animal shall be forfeited to the petitioning agency by operation of law and may be disposed of via transfer to another person or entity capable of providing care or other humane disposition. (4) The court may correct, alter, or otherwise adjust the owner's thirty-day obligation of payment upon a motion made by the owner or the petitioning agency at least five days before the expiration date of the then current thirty-day payment period. The hearing shall be held within ten days of service of the motion on the opposing party, and any adjustment to the thirty-day payment amount shall become effective five days after the court orders, or refuses to order, an adjustment. (D)(1) Upon the deposit of funds with the court in accordance with this section, the entity incurring the costs of care may immediately begin to draw from those funds for payment of the actual costs incurred by the petitioning agency in keeping and caring for the animal from the date of seizure to the date of the final disposition of the underlying criminal action regarding the owner and the animal. (2) Upon final disposition of the animal, remaining funds deposited with the court shall be refunded to the owner. (E) The remedy provided for in this section is in addition to any other remedy provided by law. Editor's Note 2019 Act No. 43, SECTION 10, provides as follows: "SECTION 10. The General Assembly finds it is the best practice for a shelter, public or private, to prepare and maintain records documenting the number of animals admitted to the facility and the method by which those animals exit the facility, whether by adoption, fostering, natural death, euthanasia, transfer to another state, or other means of discharge." Effect of Amendment 2024 Act No. 199, SECTION 2, rewrote the section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-340 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 13 / Article 3 / Section 47-13-340
SECTION 47-13-340. Venue of prosecutions under Section 47-13-310.
Status: in_force

A person owning, possessing, or controlling animals, livestock, or poultry which may be found infested or infected with or exposed to a carrier of an infectious, a contagious, or a communicable disease in a county within this State other than the county in which the person resides may be tried for a violation of Section 47-13-310 in the county where the animal, livestock, or poultry is kept or the county in which the person owning, possessing, or controlling the animal, livestock, or poultry resides.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-810 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 13 / Article 7 / Section 47-13-810
SECTION 47-13-810. Tuberculosis and paratuberculosis declared contagious and infectious; animals subject to quarantine.
Status: in_force

It is hereby declared that the diseases of animals known as tuberculosis and paratuberculosis are of a contagious and infectious character, and animals affected with or exposed to these diseases, or suspected of being carriers of these diseases, shall be subject to quarantine and the rules and regulations promulgated by the State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-1-225 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 1 / Section 47-1-225
SECTION 47-1-225. Animal cruelty instruction for certain judges.
Status: in_force

Every four years, at their mandatory continuing legal education programs, magistrates and municipal court judges must receive at least two hours of instruction on issues concerning animal cruelty. The content of the continuing legal education must be determined by the South Carolina Court Administration at the direction of the Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. Editor's Note 2019 Act No. 43, SECTION 10, provides as follows: "SECTION 10. The General Assembly finds it is the best practice for a shelter, public or private, to prepare and maintain records documenting the number of animals admitted to the facility and the method by which those animals exit the facility, whether by adoption, fostering, natural death, euthanasia, transfer to another state, or other means of discharge."
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-15-80 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 15 / Section 47-15-80
SECTION 47-15-80. Penalties; injunctions.
Status: in_force

A person who violates this chapter or regulations promulgated under it is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be punished in accordance with Section 47-4-130. The person may be enjoined from continuing the violation. Each day on which a violation occurs constitutes a separate violation.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-1240 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 13 / Article 11 / Section 47-13-1240
SECTION 47-13-1240. Penalties.
Status: in_force

A person violating this article or regulations promulgated by its authority is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be punished in accordance with Section 47-4-130. Each violation constitutes a separate offense.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-3-50 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 47-3-50
SECTION 47-3-50. Allowing dogs or cats to run at large; penalty.
Status: in_force

(A) It is unlawful in any county or municipality adopting penalty provisions pursuant to the provisions of this article for any dog or cat owner or other keeper of a dog or cat to: (1) allow his dog to run at large off of property owned, rented, or controlled by him; (2) keep a vicious or unruly dog unless under restraint by a fence, chain, or other means so that the dog cannot reach persons not on land owned, leased, or controlled by him; (3) release or take out of impoundment or quarantine without proper authority any dog or cat or resist county or municipal shelter personnel engaging in the capture and impoundment or quarantine of a dog or quarantining of a cat. (B) Any person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined fifty dollars for a first offense and not more than one hundred dollars for each subsequent offense.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-3-940 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 3 / Article 15 / Section 47-3-940
SECTION 47-3-940. Injury, disability, or death; reckless disregard; penalties.
Status: in_force

(A) It is unlawful for a person with reckless disregard to injure, disable, or cause the death of a guide dog or service animal. (B) It is unlawful for a person with reckless disregard to allow his dog to injure, disable, or cause the death of a guide dog or service animal. (C) A person who violates subsection (A) or (B) is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than two thousand five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-19-120 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 19 / Section 47-19-120
SECTION 47-19-120. Violations; interference with person performing official duties under chapter.
Status: in_force

(a) Any person who violates the provisions of Sections 47-19-70, 47-19-80, 47-19-90, 47-19-100, 47-19-35, or 47-19-110 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished in accordance with Section 47-4-130; but if such violation involves intent to defraud, or any distribution or attempted distribution of an article that is adulterated, such person shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. When construing or enforcing the provisions of such sections, the act, omission, or failure of any person acting for or employed by any individual, partnership, corporation or association within the scope of his employment or office shall in every case be deemed the act, omission, or failure of such individual, partnership, corporation or association, as well as of such person. (b) No carrier shall be subject to the penalties of this chapter, other than the penalties for violation of Section 47-19-90, by reason of his receipt, carriage, holding or delivery, in the usual course of business, as a carrier of poultry or poultry products owned by another person unless the carrier has knowledge or is in possession of facts which would cause a reasonable person to believe that such poultry or poultry products were not inspected or marked in accordance with the provisions of this chapter or were otherwise not eligible for transportation under this chapter or unless the carrier refuses to furnish on request of a representative of the director the name and address of the person from whom he received such poultry or poultry products and copies of all documents, if there be any, pertaining to the delivery of the poultry or poultry products to such carrier. (c)(1) A person who forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with a person while engaged in or on account of the performance of his official duties under this 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, or both. (2) A person who, in the commission of any acts contained in item (1), uses a deadly or dangerous weapon is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than ten thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-19-40 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 19 / Section 47-19-40
SECTION 47-19-40. Inspection of live poultry, carcasses and poultry products; quarantine, segregation and reinspection; condemnation and destruction or reprocessing of adulterated carcasses.
Status: in_force

(a) For the purpose of preventing the entry into or flow or movement in intrastate commerce of any poultry product which is capable of use as human food and is adulterated, the director shall, where and to the extent considered by him necessary, cause to be made by inspectors antemortem inspection of poultry in each official establishment engaged in processing poultry or poultry products solely for intrastate commerce. (b) The director, whenever processing operations are being conducted, shall cause to be made by inspectors postmortem inspection of the carcass of each bird processed, and at any time such quarantine, segregation and reinspection as he deems necessary of poultry and poultry products capable of use as human food in each official establishment engaged in processing such poultry or poultry products solely for intrastate commerce. (c) All poultry carcasses and parts thereof and other poultry products found to be adulterated shall be condemned and shall, if no appeal be taken from such determination of condemnation, be destroyed for human food purposes under the supervision of an inspector; provided, that carcasses, parts and products, which may by reprocessing be made not adulterated, need not be so condemned and destroyed if so reprocessed under the supervision of an inspector and thereafter found to be not adulterated. If an appeal be taken from such determination, the carcasses, parts or products shall be appropriately marked and segregated pending completion of an appeal inspection, which appeal shall be at the cost of the appellant if the director determines that the appeal is frivolous. If the determination of condemnation is sustained, the carcasses, parts and products shall be destroyed for food purposes under the supervision of an inspector.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-11-360 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 11 / Article 3 / Section 47-11-360
SECTION 47-11-360. Department authorized to adopt identification method or system.
Status: in_force

The Department is hereby authorized to adopt an identification method or system by the use of marks, tags, paint or other methods to be affixed to livestock whereby such livestock may be identified with respect to their grade and physical condition in order that the prospective buyers or bidders may determine the grade and condition of the livestock at the time of sale.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-1330 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 13 / Article 13 / Section 47-13-1330
SECTION 47-13-1330. Official tests.
Status: in_force

The official test for equine infectious anemia is: (1) the agar gel immunodiffusion (AGID) blood test or any other test approved by the United States Department of Agriculture accomplished by a laboratory approved by the United States Department of Agriculture on blood samples collected by accredited veterinarians. Only antigen produced by or standardized by the United States Department of Agriculture may be used in official testing of animals for equine infectious anemia by the AGID method; (2) other tests as may be devised and approved by the United States Department of Agriculture and the state veterinarian.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-5-110 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 5 / Section 47-5-110
SECTION 47-5-110. Pets bitten or otherwise exposed to animal suspected of having rabies.
Status: in_force

The county health department shall serve a written notice to the owner of a pet that has been bitten by or otherwise exposed to any animal affected or suspected of being affected by rabies. The notice must require the owner to have a currently inoculated pet revaccinated immediately and to quarantine the pet for a period of not less than forty-five days. An uninoculated pet must be quarantined for a period of not less than one hundred eighty days. The uninoculated pet must be inoculated after one hundred fifty days of the quarantine period and released from quarantine thirty days after that if no sign of rabies is observed.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-3-410 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 3 / Article 7 / Section 47-3-410
SECTION 47-3-410. Animal shelter defined.
Status: in_force

The term "animal shelter" means any place or premises kept for the care, keeping, impounding, housing or boarding of any animal, whether the premises are owned or operated by a municipality, county, private association, institution, humane organization, or any other business or corporation.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-11-370 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 11 / Article 3 / Section 47-11-370
SECTION 47-11-370. Department authorized to adopt rules and regulations and designate effective date of grading and inspection requirements; notice and hearing on rules.
Status: in_force

The Department is hereby authorized and empowered to promulgate and adopt such rules and regulations as are reasonably necessary to carry out the provisions and requirements of this article. The Department shall also be authorized to designate the effective date on which the grading and inspection requirements of this article shall become effective which shall not be later than January 1, 1973. Before any rules and regulations, including grading requirements shall be approved and adopted, every public livestock market in this State shall be given at least fifteen days notice that such rules and regulations will be considered by the Department for approval in order that livestock market operators may appear and be heard concerning the adoption of such rules and regulations. Following adoption and approval of any and all rules and regulations, the Department, within thirty days, shall give notice to the livestock market operators of such rules and regulations approved and adopted and such rules and regulations shall not become effective until thirty days after notice has been given to the livestock market operators.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-4-100 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 4 / Section 47-4-100
SECTION 47-4-100. Penalty for illegal transportation of livestock or poultry; civil liability.
Status: in_force

(A) A person transporting livestock or poultry, or both, in violation of this title is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be punished in accordance with Section 47-4-130. (B) A person transporting livestock or poultry, or both, in violation of this title is liable in a civil action to a person injured for the full amount of damages that may result for a violation of this chapter. The action may be brought in the county in which the animals are sold, offered for sale, or delivered to a purchaser or where they may be detained in transit for violation of this chapter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-22-30 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 22 / Section 47-22-30
SECTION 47-22-30. Duties of commission and director.
Status: in_force

The commission is the governing and policymaking body for the department, and is authorized to promulgate regulations that are necessary and proper to carry out the purpose and provisions of this chapter. The commission must delegate the administrative and enforcement duties provided for in this chapter to the director. The director, acting through the division, must administer the provisions of this chapter, enforce the required minimum standards set forth in Section 47-22-60, and all other laws pertaining to rendering livestock, poultry, and raw material in this State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-6-40 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 6 / Section 47-6-40
SECTION 47-6-40. Notification; investigation; public notice; elimination of disease from herd.
Status: in_force

(A) Whenever a veterinarian or other person in this State performing disease diagnostic services has knowledge or reason to suspect a swine or herd of swine has pseudorabies, he shall notify, within forty-eight hours, the state veterinarian of this fact. (B) Upon receipt of a report of pseudorabies, the state veterinarian shall conduct an immediate investigation to determine the origin and avenue of transmission of the infection. Assistants to the state veterinarian may enter the place or premise for the investigation and inspection as may be necessary for these determinations provided they follow any reasonable request of the owner in regard to protective clothing, sanitized boots, etc. (C) Whenever the state veterinarian has reason to believe that the pseudorabies may spread within a county or the geographical area, the state veterinarian may serve public notice by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the county or geographical areas requiring the owners of swine to confine their animals for any period necessary to prevent the spread of pseudorabies. (D) Herds that are infected with pseudorabies must be quarantined by the state veterinarian. Quarantined herds must not be removed from the premise where the infection was detected except with the written authorization of the state veterinarian or an assistant. (E) An approved herd plan for the elimination of the disease from the infected herd must be developed within ninety days.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-22-50 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 22 / Section 47-22-50
SECTION 47-22-50. Permit applications; information required; permit valid until revoked, relinquished, or abandoned.
Status: in_force

Application for a permit required by this chapter must be made to the director on forms provided by the division. The application must set forth the name and address of the applicant, the present or proposed place of business, the particular method used or to be used in the collection, transportation, processing, disposition, and disposal of raw material, and all other information as the director may require. Plant flow diagrams of any existing or proposed rendering plant and of equipment used in rendering operations must be available at the plant for review by division inspectors. A permit is valid until revoked pursuant to Section 47-4-130, or until relinquished or abandoned by the person to whom the permit was issued.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-17-50 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 17 / Article 1 / Section 47-17-50
SECTION 47-17-50. Official inspection marks and other information on or accompanying containers and carcasses.
Status: in_force

(A) Each shipping container of meat, meat food product, or meat by-product inspected pursuant to the authority of this article and found to be wholesome and not adulterated, must at the time the product leaves the official establishment, bear in distinctly legible form, the official inspection mark and the approved plant number of the official establishment in which the contents were processed. Each immediate container of meat, meat food product, or meat by-product inspected under the authority of this article and found to be wholesome and not adulterated, must at the time the product leaves the official establishment, bear in addition to the official inspection mark in distinctly legible form, the name of the product, a statement of ingredients if fabricated from two or more ingredients, including a declaration as to artificial flavors or colors, if any, the net weight or other appropriate measure of the contents, the name and address of the processor, and the approved plant number of the official establishment in which the contents were processed. The name and address of the distributor may be used in lieu of the name and address of the processor if the approved plant number is used to identify the official establishment in which the article was prepared and packed. Each livestock carcass and each primal part of the carcass shall bear the official inspection mark and approved plant number of the establishment. The director, by rules or regulations, may require additional marks or label information to appear on livestock carcasses or its parts, meat food products, or meat by-products when they leave the official establishments or at the time of their transportation or sale in this State, and he may permit reasonable variations and grant exemptions from the marking and labeling requirements of this paragraph in any manner not in conflict with the purposes of this article. Marks and labels required under this paragraph may be applied only by, or under the supervision of an inspector. (B) The use of any written, printed, or graphic matter upon or accompanying any livestock carcass, or its parts, meat food product, or meat by-product inspected or required to be inspected pursuant to the provisions of this article, or the container which is false or misleading in any particular is prohibited. No livestock carcasses or its parts, meat food products, or meat by-products inspected or required to be inspected pursuant to the provisions of this article may be sold or offered for sale by a person under any false or deceptive name; but established trade names which are usual to those articles and which are not false or deceptive and which are approved by the director are permitted. If the director has reason to believe that a label in use or prepared for use is false or misleading in any particular, he may direct that the use of the label be withheld unless it is modified in a manner as he may prescribe so that it will not be false or misleading. If the person using or proposing to use the label does not accept the determination of the director, he may request a hearing, but the use of the label, if the director so directs, must be withheld pending hearing and final determination by the director. A determination by the director is conclusive unless within thirty days after the receipt of notice of the final determination the person adversely affected appeals to the Administrative Law Court as provided in Sections 1-23-380(B) and 1-23-600(D). Editor's Note 2006 Act No. 387, SECTION 53, provides as follows: "This act is intended to provide a uniform procedure for contested cases and appeals from administrative agencies and to the extent that a provision of this act conflicts with an existing statute or regulation, the provisions of this act are controlling." 2006 Act No. 387, SECTION 57, provides as follows: "This act takes effect on July 1, 2006, and applies to any actions pending on or after the effective date of the act. No pending or vested right, civil action, special proceeding, or appeal of a final administrative decision exists under the former law as of the effective date of this act, except for appeals of Department of Health and Environmental Control Ocean and Coastal Resource Management and Environmental Quality Control permits that are before the Administrative Law Court on the effective date of this act and petitions for judicial review that are pending before the circuit court. For those actions only, the department shall hear appeals from the administrative law judges and the circuit court shall hear pending petitions for judicial review in accordance with the former law. Thereafter, any appeal of those actions shall proceed as provided in this act for review. For all other actions pending on the effective date of this act, the action proceeds as provided in this act for review."
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-17-100 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 17 / Article 1 / Section 47-17-100
SECTION 47-17-100. Violations.
Status: in_force

(A) A person who violates Section 47-17-60, 47-17-70, 47-17-80, or 47-17-120 is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be punished in accordance with Section 47-4-130; but if such violation involves intent to defraud, or any distribution or attempted distribution of an article that is adulterated, such person shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. When construing or enforcing the provision of such sections, the act, omission, or failure of any person acting for or employed by any individual, partnership, corporation, or association within the scope of his employment or office shall in every case be deemed the act, omission, or failure of such individual, partnership, corporation, or association as well as of such person. (B) When construing or enforcing this article, the act, omission, or failure of a person acting for or employed by an individual, a partnership, a corporation, an association, or other business unit, within the scope of his employment or office, is deemed the act, omission, or failure of the individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other business unit, as well as of the person. (C) No carrier or warehouseman is subject to the penalties of this article, other than the penalties for violation of Section 47-17-80, by reason of his receipt, carriage, holding, or delivery, in the usual course of business, as a carrier or warehouseman, of livestock carcasses or their parts, meat food products, or meat by-products owned by another person unless the carrier or warehouseman has knowledge, or is in possession of facts which would cause a reasonable person to believe, that the articles were not inspected or marked in accordance with this article or were not otherwise in compliance with this article.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-1-40 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 1 / Section 47-1-40
SECTION 47-1-40. Ill-treatment of animals generally; penalties.
Status: in_force

(A) A person who knowingly or intentionally overloads, overdrives, overworks, or ill-treats an animal, deprives an animal of necessary sustenance or shelter, inflicts unnecessary pain or suffering upon an animal, or by omission or commission knowingly or intentionally causes these acts to be done, is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be punished by imprisonment not exceeding ninety days or by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or both, for a first offense; or by imprisonment not exceeding two years or by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, or both, for a second or subsequent offense. (B) A person who tortures, torments, needlessly mutilates, cruelly kills, or inflicts excessive or repeated unnecessary pain or suffering upon an animal or by omission or commission causes these acts to be done, is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, must be punished by imprisonment of not less than one hundred eighty days and not to exceed five years and by a fine of five thousand dollars. (C) This section does not apply to fowl, accepted animal husbandry practices of farm operations and the training of animals, the practice of veterinary medicine, agricultural practices, forestry and silvacultural practices, wildlife management practices, or activity authorized by Title 50, including an activity authorized by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources or an exercise designed for training dogs for hunting, if repeated contact with a dog or dogs and another animal does not occur during this training exercise. Editor's Note 2024 Act No. 199, SECTION 4, provides as follows: "SECTION 4. Nothing in this act may be applied in contradiction to the exemptions and protections provided to hunting dogs, sporting dogs, or working dogs under Section 47-1-40, Section 16-27-60, and Section 16-27-80."
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-1-125 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 1 / Section 47-1-125
SECTION 47-1-125. Coloring or dying animals prohibited; sale or distribution of certain young animals prohibited; penalty.
Status: in_force

(1) It is unlawful for any person to dye or color artificially any animal or fowl, including but not limited to rabbits, baby chickens, and ducklings, or to bring any dyed or colored animal or fowl into this State. (2) It is unlawful for any person to sell, offer for sale or give away as merchandising premiums, baby chickens, ducklings or other fowl under four weeks of age or rabbits under two months of age to be used as pets, toys or retail premiums. (3) This section shall not be construed to apply to any animal or fowl, including but not limited to rabbits, baby chickens and ducklings to be used or raised for agricultural purposes by persons with proper facilities to care for them or for poultry or livestock exhibitions. (4) Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-9-410 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 9 / Article 3 / Section 47-9-410
SECTION 47-9-410. Violations.
Status: in_force

Any person convicted of a violation of this article shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not less than thirty days nor more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-3-980 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 3 / Article 15 / Section 47-3-980
SECTION 47-3-980. Intentional misrepresentation of animal as service animal; penalties.
Status: in_force

(A) It is unlawful for a person to intentionally misrepresent an animal in his possession as a service animal or service animal-in-training for the purpose of obtaining any right or privilege provided to a disabled person if the person knows that the animal in his possession is not a service animal or service animal-in-training. (B) A person who is adjudicated to be in violation of the provisions of subsection (A) must be fined: (1) for a first offense, an amount not more than two hundred fifty dollars; (2) for a second offense, an amount not more than five hundred dollars; and (3) for a third or subsequent offense, an amount not more than one thousand dollars. (C) Inquiries made in order to investigate and enforce the provisions of this section are limited to those inquiries allowed by the Department of Justice pursuant to 28 C.F.R. Section 36.302. (D) A custodial arrest for a violation of subsection (A) must not be made, except upon a warrant issued for failure to appear in court when summoned or for failure to pay an imposed fine. A violation of subsection (A) does not constitute a criminal offense. Editor's Note 2019 Act No. 44, preamble, provides as follows: "Whereas, service animals that are properly trained to assist persons with disabilities play a vital role in establishing independence for such persons; and "Whereas, the term 'service animal' has a distinct meaning in the law. A service animal means an animal that is trained for the purposes of assisting or accommodating the sensory, mental, or physical disability of a disabled person. Under the law, the provision of emotional support, well-being, comfort, or companionship does not constitute the work or tasks of a service animal; and "Whereas, no vest, other marking, or documentation is required for an animal to qualify as a service animal, nor are such vests, markings, or documentation a reliable indication of whether an animal is, by law, a service animal. People sometimes erroneously think that a therapy animal, an emotional support animal, or any animal wearing a vest or having any other type of marking is a service animal as defined by law; and "Whereas, there is an increasing number of occurrences in which people exploit the confusion related to service animals and attempt to bring an animal into a place that it would otherwise not be allowed to enter by passing off the pet, therapy animal, or emotional support animal as a service animal, either by oral misrepresentation, placement of a vest or other marking on the animal, or presentation of a 'certificate', despite knowing that it is not a service animal; and "Whereas, some companies mislead individuals into believing that they will be entitled to the rights or privileges for individuals with disabilities with service animals if they buy the company's vests or obtain some type of certificate. These misrepresentations, in some cases, are unlawful deceptive trade practices and compound the confusion around service animals; and "Whereas, commendably, federal and state laws require places of public accommodation, including airports, restaurants, theaters, stores, hospitals, and more, to allow any animal that is presented as a service animal into the place of public accommodation. These same places of public accommodation face a dilemma if someone enters the premises and intentionally misrepresents his animal as a service animal; and "Whereas, when people try to falsely represent a nonservice animal as a service animal, business owners and other places of public accommodation become increasingly distrustful that the animals being represented to them as service animals are, in fact, service animals. Misrepresentation of service animals delegitimizes the program and makes it harder for persons with disabilities to gain unquestioned acceptance of their legitimate, properly trained, and essential service animals. Now, therefore, [Text of Act]."
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-650 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 13 / Article 5 / Section 47-13-650
SECTION 47-13-650. Cooperation with United States Department of Agriculture; inspectors.
Status: in_force

The State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission may cooperate with the United States Department of Agriculture in the control and eradication of brucellosis. The livestock and poultry health department may appoint and commission, without salary from the State, as its inspectors, representatives of the Animal Disease Eradication Division, United States Department of Agriculture, and may accept from the United States Government such assistance, financial and otherwise, for carrying out the purpose of this article, as may be available from time to time.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-21-200 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 21 / Article 5 / Section 47-21-200
SECTION 47-21-200. Unlawful acquisition or exercise of control.
Status: in_force

Without the effective consent of the owner, it is unlawful for a person to acquire or otherwise exercise control over a crop operation, a crop from a crop operation, or other property from a crop operation with the intent to deprive the owner of the operation, crop, or property, and to disrupt or damage the enterprise conducted at the crop operation.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-360 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 13 / Article 3 / Section 47-13-360
SECTION 47-13-360. Indemnity payments for killing of certain animals.
Status: in_force

To obtain indemnity payments pursuant to this section, cattle infected with tuberculosis, paratuberculosis or brucellosis, or glandered horses, mules or asses shall not be killed until they have been inspected by the State Veterinarian, or his designee, or another veterinarian licensed by the State Board of Veterinary Examiners and determined by him to be so infected. When any such animal is killed because of any of the above-mentioned diseases, the actual cash value of the diseased animal immediately prior to killing shall be fixed within twenty-four hours thereafter by appraisers chosen in the manner described in Section 47-13-380. Indemnity payments, less salvage value, which in no case shall exceed the appraised value of the animal, shall be made by the State to the owner from State or other available sources but in no case shall the State's share of indemnity payments exceed one hundred fifty dollars for a horse, mule or ass nor in the case of cattle shall such share exceed two hundred dollars for any single animal. No animal shall be indemnified for under this section which was imported into the State within six months of the time it is killed. The provisions of this section and the indemnity herein provided may be extended to include individual animals or entire herds exposed to but not yet infected with disease when in the judgment of the officials responsible for disease control and indemnity payments the killing of such exposed animals would contribute substantially to the eradication of the disease to which such animals have been exposed.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-7-120 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 7 / Article 3 / Section 47-7-120
SECTION 47-7-120. Stock coming into State shall not be permitted to run at large.
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for any person to drive, cause to be driven or in any other manner permit to come into this State any horse, mule, hog, cattle, sheep or other livestock and suffer it to run at large in any marsh, forest lands or range in this State. Any person so offending shall be subjected to a penalty of five dollars for each head so permitted to run at large, to be recovered for the benefit of anyone who may sue for it, or the offender shall be proceeded against by attachment in case he cannot be found in this State. But this section shall not apply to any person owning lands in this State who permits such stock to run at large, as aforesaid, upon his own lands, nor to any person driving or causing to be driven any such stock to or from market or for breeding purposes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-4-160 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 4 / Section 47-4-160
SECTION 47-4-160. Livestock and poultry regulation; local laws and ordinances preempted; exceptions.
Status: in_force

(A) For the purposes of this section, "care and handling" means accepted animal husbandry practices. (B) Units of local government in this State may not enact ordinances, orders, or other regulations concerning the care and handling of livestock and poultry. (C) It is the intent of the General Assembly to occupy the field of regulation of care and handling of livestock and poultry. All local laws and ordinances related to the regulation of and the enforcement of the care and handling of livestock and poultry in this State are preempted and superseded by laws enacted by the General Assembly and regulations promulgated by state agencies pursuant to those laws. (D) The provisions of this section do not apply to Chapter 45, Title 46 concerning nuisance suits related to agricultural operations, commonly referred to as the Right to Farm Act, and do not affect a local unit of government's authority to enact ordinances concerning new swine operations and new slaughterhouse operations. (E) The provisions of this section do not preclude or limit a unit of local government's right to exercise its land use and zoning authority.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-22-10 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 22 / Section 47-22-10
SECTION 47-22-10. Short title.
Status: in_force

This chapter may be cited as the "South Carolina Rendering Act of 1998".
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-1-10 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 1 / Section 47-1-10
SECTION 47-1-10. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter: (1) "Animal" means a living vertebrate creature except a homo sapien. (2) "Sustenance" means adequate food provided at suitable intervals of quantities of wholesome foodstuff suitable for the species and age, sufficient to maintain a reasonable level of nutrition to allow for proper growth and weight and adequate water provided with constant access to a supply of clean, fresh, and potable water provided in a suitable manner for the species. (3) "Shelter" means shelter that reasonably may be expected to protect the animal from physical suffering or impairment of health due to exposure to the elements or adverse weather.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-1350 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 13 / Article 13 / Section 47-13-1350
SECTION 47-13-1350. Unlawful for horse to enter State unless tested; rules and regulations.
Status: in_force

It is unlawful to enter the State with a horse unless the horse has been tested for equine infectious anemia and is accompanied by an official Equine Infectious Anemia test chart showing that the horse reacted negatively to an official Equine Infectious Anemia test within twelve months before entry. The state veterinarian, with the advice of the commanding officer of the State Highway Patrol, shall promulgate regulations to provide for the enforcement of this section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-17-520 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 17 / Article 5 / Section 47-17-520
SECTION 47-17-520. Application of article.
Status: in_force

The provisions of this article do not apply to plant-based meat substitutes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-19-150 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 19 / Section 47-19-150
SECTION 47-19-150. Limiting entry of poultry products into inspected establishments.
Status: in_force

The director may limit the entry of poultry products and other materials into any official establishment under such conditions as he may prescribe to assure that allowing the entry of such articles into such inspected establishments will be consistent with the purposes of this chapter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-1-100 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 1 / Section 47-1-100
SECTION 47-1-100. Care of animals unloaded during transit.
Status: in_force

Animals unloaded as required by Section 47-1-90 shall be properly fed, watered and sheltered during such rest by the owner or person having the custody thereof or, in case of his default in so doing, then by the railroad company transporting such animals at the expense of the owner or person in custody thereof; and the company shall, in such case, have a lien upon such animals for food, care and custody furnished and shall not be liable for any detention of such animals.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-19-30 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 19 / Section 47-19-30
SECTION 47-19-30. Designation of state agency for cooperating with Secretary of Agriculture under Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act.
Status: in_force

(A) The Livestock-Poultry Health Commission is designated as the state agency which is responsible for cooperating with the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States under the provisions of Section 5 of the Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act. The commission shall cooperate with the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States in developing and administering the poultry products inspection program of this State under this chapter to assure that not later than August 18, 1970, the state requirements are at least equal to those imposed under Sections 1-4, 6-10, and 12-22 of the Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act and in developing and administering the program of this State under this act in a manner so as to effectuate the purposes of this chapter and the federal act. (B) In its cooperative efforts, the commission may accept from the secretary advisory assistance in planning and otherwise developing the state program, technical and laboratory assistance and training, including necessary curricular and instructional materials and equipment, and financial and other aid for administration of the program. The commission may spend public funds of this State appropriated for administration of this chapter to pay the share of the estimated total cost of the cooperative program agreed upon by the commission and the secretary. (C) The commission may recommend to the Secretary of Agriculture officials or employees of this State necessary for appointment to the advisory committees provided for in Section 5 of the Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act. The Director of the Division of Livestock-Poultry Health Programs of Clemson University shall serve as the representative of the Governor for consultation with the secretary under paragraph (c) of Section 5 of the act unless the Governor selects another representative.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-4-130 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 4 / Section 47-4-130
SECTION 47-4-130. Violation of provision of Title 47 is a misdemeanor; penalties; enforcement of commission regulations in court.
Status: in_force

(A) A person violating this chapter or another chapter or section of Title 47 assigned to the jurisdiction of the commission or related regulations is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than that amount authorized as the jurisdictional maximum for a summary court or imprisoned not more than that period of time authorized as the jurisdictional maximum for a summary court, or both, for a first offense and in the discretion of the court for a second offense. (B) The director, after opportunity for a hearing, may deny, suspend, modify, or revoke a permit for a violation of state or federal law or regulation or duly published requirements of the commission. In addition to denial, suspension, revocation, or modification of a permit or other penalties set forth in this chapter, the permittee who violates the provisions in subsection (A) may be assessed a civil penalty by the director of not more than one thousand dollars for each violation. Each day a violation continues constitutes a separate violation. The director may suspend a permit against which a civil penalty has been imposed if the permittee has not satisfied the penalty within thirty days after the permittee receives notification of the final decision of the director to impose the penalty. The permittee is entitled to a hearing on the suspension, but the suspension remains in effect pending the hearing and the decision of the director. Matters considered by the hearing officer are limited to whether a duly issued final order of the director existed, whether the permittee had notice of the final order, and whether the assessed penalty was paid within thirty days of the notice. A determination by the director is final unless within thirty days after the receipt of the notice of final determination the person adversely affected appeals to the Administrative Law Court as provided in Sections 1-23-380(B) and 1-23-600(D). The filing of a judicial appeal does not act as an automatic stay of enforcement of the suspension. (C) The commission may enforce its ordinances and regulations in a court of competent jurisdiction by civil as well as criminal proceedings. If it is necessary to issue a writ of injunction, no court in this State has the right previous to a trial upon the merits to set aside the writ on bond. The commission may utilize its own counsel or call upon the Attorney General or the appropriate solicitor, or all of the foregoing. The commission and its agents in the discharge of the duties and in the enforcement of the powers delegated in this chapter may administer oaths and hear witnesses, and to that end the sheriffs of the State shall serve all summons and other papers upon the request of the commission. Editor's Note 2006 Act No. 387, SECTION 53, provides as follows: "This act is intended to provide a uniform procedure for contested cases and appeals from administrative agencies and to the extent that a provision of this act conflicts with an existing statute or regulation, the provisions of this act are controlling." 2006 Act No. 387, SECTION 57, provides as follows: "This act takes effect on July 1, 2006, and applies to any actions pending on or after the effective date of the act. No pending or vested right, civil action, special proceeding, or appeal of a final administrative decision exists under the former law as of the effective date of this act, except for appeals of Department of Health and Environmental Control Ocean and Coastal Resource Management and Environmental Quality Control permits that are before the Administrative Law Court on the effective date of this act and petitions for judicial review that are pending before the circuit court. For those actions only, the department shall hear appeals from the administrative law judges and the circuit court shall hear pending petitions for judicial review in accordance with the former law. Thereafter, any appeal of those actions shall proceed as provided in this act for review. For all other actions pending on the effective date of this act, the action proceeds as provided in this act for review."
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-9-60 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 9 / Article 1 / Section 47-9-60
SECTION 47-9-60. Appeal of livestock and poultry facility permits.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, only property owners and residents within a two-mile radius of a permitted livestock or poultry facility, with the exception of a swine facility, may appeal a permit issued by the Department of Health and Environmental Control pertaining to the facility.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-4-150 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 4 / Section 47-4-150
SECTION 47-4-150. Advisory committees.
Status: in_force

The commission by regulation may establish advisory committees which fairly reflect the particular portion of the industry being regulated as well as other concerned groups or agencies. The members of these committees serve at the pleasure of the commission. In nominating the members of the advisory committees the director shall consult with officials of representative trade associations, the Administrator of the South Carolina Department of Consumer Affairs, the Commissioner of Agriculture, and the Commissioner of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. The committee members serve at no cost to the State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-19-60 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 19 / Section 47-19-60
SECTION 47-19-60. Information required on containers and carcasses; styles and sizes of type; definitions and standards; false or misleading marking or labeling.
Status: in_force

(A) All poultry products inspected at an official establishment under the authority of this chapter and found to be not adulterated at the time they leave the establishment, must bear in distinctly legible form on their shipping containers and immediate containers, as the director may require, the information required by this chapter. In addition, the director, whenever he determines action is practicable and necessary for the protection of the public, may require nonconsumer-packaged carcasses at the time they leave the establishment to bear directly in distinctly legible form any information required by this chapter. (B) The director, whenever he determines action is necessary for the protection of the public, may prescribe: (1) the styles and sizes of type to be used with respect to material required to be incorporated in labeling to avoid false or misleading labeling in marking or otherwise labeling the articles or poultry subject to this chapter; (2) definitions and standards of identity or composition for articles subject to this chapter and standards of fill of container for the articles not inconsistent with standards established under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, or under the Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act, and there must be consultation between the director and the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States prior to the issuance of these standards to avoid inconsistency between such standards and the federal standards. (C) No article subject to this chapter may be sold or offered for sale by a person in intrastate commerce, under a name or other marking or labeling which is false or misleading or in a container of a misleading form or size, but established trade names and other marking and labeling and containers which are not false or misleading and which are approved by the director are permitted. (D) If the director has reason to believe that the marking or labeling or the size or form of a container in use or proposed for use with respect to the article subject to this chapter is false or misleading in any particular, he may direct that the use be withheld unless the marking, labeling, or container is modified in a manner as he may prescribe so that it will not be false or misleading. If the person using or proposing to use the marking, labeling, or container does not accept the determination of the director, the person may request a hearing, but the use of the marking, labeling, or container, if the director so directs, must be withheld pending hearing and final determination by the director. A determination by the director is conclusive unless, within thirty days after receipt of notice of the final determination, the person adversely affected appeals to the Administrative Law Court as provided in Sections 1-23-380(B) and 1-23-600(D). Editor's Note 2006 Act No. 387, SECTION 53, provides as follows: "This act is intended to provide a uniform procedure for contested cases and appeals from administrative agencies and to the extent that a provision of this act conflicts with an existing statute or regulation, the provisions of this act are controlling." 2006 Act No. 387, SECTION 57, provides as follows: "This act takes effect on July 1, 2006, and applies to any actions pending on or after the effective date of the act. No pending or vested right, civil action, special proceeding, or appeal of a final administrative decision exists under the former law as of the effective date of this act, except for appeals of Department of Health and Environmental Control Ocean and Coastal Resource Management and Environmental Quality Control permits that are before the Administrative Law Court on the effective date of this act and petitions for judicial review that are pending before the circuit court. For those actions only, the department shall hear appeals from the administrative law judges and the circuit court shall hear pending petitions for judicial review in accordance with the former law. Thereafter, any appeal of those actions shall proceed as provided in this act for review. For all other actions pending on the effective date of this act, the action proceeds as provided in this act for review."
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-19-70 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 19 / Section 47-19-70
SECTION 47-19-70. Prohibited acts.
Status: in_force

(a) No person shall (1) Slaughter any poultry or process any poultry products which are capable of use as human food at any establishment processing any such articles solely for intrastate commerce, except in compliance with the requirements of this chapter; (2) Sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, (A) any poultry products which are capable of use as human food and are adulterated or misbranded at the time of such sale, transportation, offer for sale or transportation or receipt for transportation; or (B) any poultry products required to be inspected under this chapter unless they have been so inspected and passed; (3) Do any act, with respect to any poultry products which are capable of use as human food, while they are being transported in intrastate commerce or held for sale after such transportation, which is intended to cause or has the effect of causing such products to be adulterated or misbranded; (4) Sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce or from an official establishment, any slaughtered poultry from which the blood, feathers, feet, head or viscera have not been removed in accordance with regulations promulgated by the board, except as may be authorized by regulations of the board; (5) Use to his own advantage or reveal, other than to the authorized representatives of the State government or any other government in their official capacity or as ordered by a court in any judicial proceedings, any information acquired under the authority of this chapter concerning any matter which is entitled to protection as a trade secret. (b) No brand manufacturer, printer or other person shall cast, print, lithograph or otherwise make any device containing any official mark or simulation thereof, any label bearing any such mark or simulation or any form of official certificate or simulation thereof, except as authorized by the director. (c) No person shall (1) Forge any official device, mark or certificate; (2) Without authorization from the director, use any official device, mark or certificate, or simulation thereof, or alter, detach, deface or destroy any official device, mark or certificate; (3) Contrary to the regulations prescribed by the board, fail to use or to detach, deface or destroy any official device, mark or certificate; (4) Knowingly possess, without promptly notifying the director or his representative, any official device or any counterfeit, simulated, forged or improperly altered official certificate or any device or label or any carcass of any poultry, or part or product thereof, bearing any counterfeit, simulated, forged or improperly altered official mark; (5) Knowingly make any false statement in any shipper's certificate or other nonofficial or official certificate provided for in the regulations prescribed by the board; or (6) Knowingly represent that any article has been inspected and passed or exempted under this chapter when, in fact, it has not been so inspected and passed or exempted.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-11-30 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 47-11-30
SECTION 47-11-30. Application for permit; approval of changes in operating and ownership.
Status: in_force

(A) Application for a permit must be made on forms furnished by the commission and must show the: (1) full name and address of all persons having a financial interest in the market. This requirement is not necessary for publicly-owned joint stock corporations; (2) name, address, and telephone number of the officer, manager, or other person in charge; (3) name under which the market will operate; (4) operating days and hours; (5) location and type facilities for holding and segregating animals. (B) Changes in operating days or hours require the prior written approval of the commission. The commission must be advised in writing within ten days of all other changes in the required information. However, a change of ownership or management must be reported to the commission in writing within thirty days after occurrence.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-3-60 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 47-3-60
SECTION 47-3-60. Disposition of quarantined or impounded animals.
Status: in_force

(A) After any animal has been quarantined pursuant to South Carolina Rabies Control Act and is unclaimed by its owner, after the animal shelter employees have made a good faith effort to contact the identified owner as required by Section 47-3-540, the animal shelter employees, unless the animal must be kept pending disposition of a criminal or civil trial involving the animal or unless a hearing on the disposition of the animal is held prior to the trial, may dispose of the animal by adoption or by euthanasia or the animal may be turned over to any organization established for the purpose of caring for animals, such as the Humane Society. (B) Notwithstanding subsection (C), a litter of unidentifiable dogs or cats four months of age or younger may be turned over to any organization established for the purpose of caring for animals immediately, so long as the litter is turned over for life-saving purposes. (C) After any animal has been impounded for five calendar days and is unclaimed by its owner, and after the animal shelter employees have made a good faith effort to contact the identified owner as required by Section 47-3-540, the animal shelter employees, unless the animal must be kept pending disposition of a criminal or civil trial involving the animal or unless a hearing on the disposition of the animal is held prior to the trial, may dispose of the animal by adoption or by euthanasia or the animal may be turned over to any organization established for the purpose of caring for animals, such as the Humane Society. (D) Complete records must be kept by shelter officials as to the disposition of all animals impounded. Editor's Note 2019 Act No. 43, SECTION 10, provides as follows: "SECTION 10. The General Assembly finds it is the best practice for a shelter, public or private, to prepare and maintain records documenting the number of animals admitted to the facility and the method by which those animals exit the facility, whether by adoption, fostering, natural death, euthanasia, transfer to another state, or other means of discharge." Effect of Amendment 2019 Act No. 43, SECTION 3, inserted (B); redesignated (B) and (C) as (C) and (D); and in (C), substituted "five calendar days" for "five days".
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-11-520 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 11 / Article 5 / Section 47-11-520
SECTION 47-11-520. Procedure for payment of livestock purchased at auction.
Status: in_force

Payment for livestock purchased at auction shall be made on the same date of purchase of the livestock, and the proceeds therefrom shall be deposited by the public livestock sales establishment in a custodial account not later than the next banking day following the date of sale. Payment for livestock purchased at auction shall be made by cash, check or draft. There shall be no loans made from the custodial account of any public livestock sales establishment to any purchaser of livestock at such sales establishment.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-11-70 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 47-11-70
SECTION 47-11-70. Facilities regulations; inspections; penalties.
Status: in_force

The commission shall promulgate regulations to provide requirements necessary for facilities for holding livestock, such as proper and adequate pens for holding and segregating, proper protection from the weather, adequate water supply, access to medical treatment, sanitation, disinfection, and cleanliness and other equipment or procedures necessary and appropriate. The commission shall conduct periodic inspections of the various livestock markets in this State and may take remedial action or require remedial action appropriate under the law. The commission may invoke civil or criminal penalties, or both, provided in Section 47-4-130 for violations.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-5-10 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 5 / Section 47-5-10
SECTION 47-5-10. Short title.
Status: in_force

This chapter may be referred to as the "Rabies Control Act".
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-9-330 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 9 / Article 3 / Section 47-9-330
SECTION 47-9-330. Transfers of brands.
Status: in_force

Any brand registered under the terms of this article may be conveyed to another by an instrument in writing, in duplicate, duly executed, but the conveyance shall not be complete until the instrument has been registered with the Secretary of State. Upon registration of the instrument and payment of a fee of three dollars, the Secretary of State shall issue to the purchaser, in his name, a new certificate for the remainder of the term of registration. The certificate shall be recorded, and the fee shall be paid, as provided for in Section 47-9-280.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-3-550 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 3 / Article 9 / Section 47-3-550
SECTION 47-3-550. Promulgation of regulations.
Status: in_force

The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources may promulgate regulations to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-3-990 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 3 / Article 15 / Section 47-3-990
SECTION 47-3-990. Rules and regulations related to access of places of public accommodation by nonservice animals.
Status: in_force

Places of public accommodation may establish rules and regulations related to access to such facilities by nonservice animals, including emotional support animals. Editor's Note 2019 Act No. 44, preamble, provides as follows: "Whereas, service animals that are properly trained to assist persons with disabilities play a vital role in establishing independence for such persons; and "Whereas, the term 'service animal' has a distinct meaning in the law. A service animal means an animal that is trained for the purposes of assisting or accommodating the sensory, mental, or physical disability of a disabled person. Under the law, the provision of emotional support, well-being, comfort, or companionship does not constitute the work or tasks of a service animal; and "Whereas, no vest, other marking, or documentation is required for an animal to qualify as a service animal, nor are such vests, markings, or documentation a reliable indication of whether an animal is, by law, a service animal. People sometimes erroneously think that a therapy animal, an emotional support animal, or any animal wearing a vest or having any other type of marking is a service animal as defined by law; and "Whereas, there is an increasing number of occurrences in which people exploit the confusion related to service animals and attempt to bring an animal into a place that it would otherwise not be allowed to enter by passing off the pet, therapy animal, or emotional support animal as a service animal, either by oral misrepresentation, placement of a vest or other marking on the animal, or presentation of a 'certificate', despite knowing that it is not a service animal; and "Whereas, some companies mislead individuals into believing that they will be entitled to the rights or privileges for individuals with disabilities with service animals if they buy the company's vests or obtain some type of certificate. These misrepresentations, in some cases, are unlawful deceptive trade practices and compound the confusion around service animals; and "Whereas, commendably, federal and state laws require places of public accommodation, including airports, restaurants, theaters, stores, hospitals, and more, to allow any animal that is presented as a service animal into the place of public accommodation. These same places of public accommodation face a dilemma if someone enters the premises and intentionally misrepresents his animal as a service animal; and "Whereas, when people try to falsely represent a nonservice animal as a service animal, business owners and other places of public accommodation become increasingly distrustful that the animals being represented to them as service animals are, in fact, service animals. Misrepresentation of service animals delegitimizes the program and makes it harder for persons with disabilities to gain unquestioned acceptance of their legitimate, properly trained, and essential service animals. Now, therefore, [Text of Act]."
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-11-20 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 47-11-20
SECTION 47-11-20. Permits; fees; operation without a permit is a misdemeanor.
Status: in_force

(A) A person operating a public livestock market or an equine sales facility, as defined in Section 47-4-20, shall obtain from the commission a permit authorizing the operation. Issued permits are effective until the next March first, unless sooner revoked or canceled. (B) The permit fee is five dollars annually or for a part of a year. The permit year is March first to the last day of February. The commission by regulation may increase the fee to not more than one hundred dollars. (C) The commission may retain the fees. (D) A person operating a public livestock market or an equine sales facility without a current permit is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be punished in accordance with Section 47-4-130.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-9-720 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 9 / Article 7 / Section 47-9-720
SECTION 47-9-720. Equine liability immunity; exceptions to grant of immunity.
Status: in_force

(A) Except as provided in subsection (B), an equine activity sponsor or an equine professional is not liable for an injury to or the death of a participant resulting from an inherent risk of equine activity, and no participant or participant's representative may make a claim against, maintain an action against, or recover from an equine activity sponsor, or an equine professional, for injury, loss, damage, or death of the participant resulting from an inherent risk of equine activity. (B) Nothing in subsection (A) prevents or limits the liability of an equine activity sponsor, or an equine professional, if the equine activity sponsor, or equine professional: (1)(a) provided the equipment or tack and knew or should have known that the equipment or tack was faulty, and the equipment or tack was faulty to the extent that it caused the injury; or (b) provided the equine and failed to make reasonable and prudent efforts to determine the ability of the participant to engage safely in the equine activity and to manage safely the particular equine based on the participant's representations of his ability; (2) owns, leases, rents, or otherwise is in lawful possession and control of the land or facilities upon which the participant sustained injuries because of a dangerous latent condition which was known or should have been known to the equine activity sponsor, equine professional, or person and for which warning signs have not been conspicuously posted; (3) committed an act or omission that constitutes wilful or wanton disregard for the safety of the participant and that act or omission caused the injury; or (4) intentionally injured the participant. (C) Nothing in subsection (A) prevents or limits the liability of an equine activity sponsor or an equine professional under liability provisions as set forth in the products liability laws. (D) The provisions of this article shall not cover or apply to any liability arising from the ownership, maintenance, or use of any motor vehicle.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-4-110 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 4 / Section 47-4-110
SECTION 47-4-110. Police power of commission members and agents; livestock law enforcement officers; employment, removal, duties; bond.
Status: in_force

(A) The members of the commission and their assistants, deputies, and agents have police power in executing this chapter and other sections and chapters assigned by law. (B) In addition to the other inspectors employed by the commission, it may employ a maximum of six livestock law enforcement officers who must be commissioned by the Governor upon the recommendation of the commission. The commission may remove an officer if it finds he is unfit for that position. The officer shall possess and exercise all of the powers and authority held by constables at common law, and while acting in their official capacity, they have statewide authority for the enforcement of all laws entrusted to the commission. (C) Before entering upon the duties of his office, each officer shall take and subscribe before an officer authorized to administer an oath to perform faithfully the duties of his office and to execute properly the laws of this State. (D) Each officer shall execute a bond with a licensed surety company in the amount of not less than ten thousand dollars. The bond must be filed with the commission and must be conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties, for the prompt and proper accounting of funds which may come into his hands, and for the payment of a judgment rendered against him in a court of competent jurisdiction upon a cause of action arising out of breech or abuse of official duty or power and damages sustained by a member of the public from an unlawful act of the officer. Coverage under the bond does not include damage to persons or property arising out of the negligent operation of a motor vehicle. The bond may be individual, schedule, or blanket and must be approved by the Attorney General. The premiums on the bond must be paid by the commission from appropriated funds. (E) Violations of those provisions of Title 47 assigned to the enforcement authority of the State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission, the maximum punishment for which are within the jurisdictional maximum of the summary court, may be charged by use of the Uniform Traffic Ticket, pursuant to the provisions of Section 56-7-10. A violation of this section shall not subject the defendant's driving record to assessment of any points, nor shall the violation be considered by any insurance company for automobile insurance or merit rating system and recoupment purposes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-870 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 13 / Article 7 / Section 47-13-870
SECTION 47-13-870. Inspectors; accepting assistance from United States Government.
Status: in_force

The State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission is vested with authority to appoint and commission, without salary from the State, as its inspectors, representatives of the Animal Disease Eradication Division, United States Department of Agriculture, and to accept from the United States Government such assistance, financial and otherwise, for carrying out the purpose of this article, as may be available from time to time.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-21-60 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 21 / Article 3 / Section 47-21-60
SECTION 47-21-60. Unlawful entry or presence with notice to not enter or leave.
Status: in_force

(A) Without the effective consent of the owner, it is unlawful for a person to enter or remain in an animal facility with the intent to disrupt or damage the enterprise conducted at the animal facility, and the person: (1) had notice that the entry was forbidden; or (2) received notice to depart but failed to do so. (B) For purposes of this section, "notice" means: (1) oral or written communication by the owner or someone with apparent authority to act for the owner; (2) fencing or other enclosure obviously designed to exclude intruders or to contain animals; or (3) a sign or signs posted on the property or at the entrance to the building, reasonably likely to come to the attention of intruders, indicating that entry is forbidden.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-21-80 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 21 / Article 3 / Section 47-21-80
SECTION 47-21-80. Violations; penalties.
Status: in_force

(A) A person violating Sections 47-21-30, 47-21-40, and 47-21-50 is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than ten thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. (B) A person violating Section 47-21-60 is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-510 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 13 / Article 5 / Section 47-13-510
SECTION 47-13-510. "Brucellosis" defined; declaring animal infected.
Status: in_force

"Brucellosis" (Bang's disease) shall mean the disease wherein an animal is infected with the Brucella organisms, irrespective of the occurrence or absence of an abortion. An animal shall be declared infected with brucellosis if it reacts to a serological test made in an approved laboratory or if the Brucella organisms have been found in the body or its secretions or discharges.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-1-200 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 1 / Section 47-1-200
SECTION 47-1-200. Requirements for transfer of animals and importation or exportation of dog or cat; penalties for violations.
Status: in_force

(A) During transportation, an animal must not be confined in one area for more than twenty-four consecutive hours without being adequately exercised, rested, fed, and watered. The time may be extended reasonably when an act of God causes a delay. The animal must be provided adequate space and ventilation. (B) A dog or cat under eight weeks of age must not be imported or exported without being accompanied by its dam. (C) A person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not less than two hundred nor more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days, or both.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-22-60 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 22 / Section 47-22-60
SECTION 47-22-60. Location and equipment requirements for transfer centers, rendering plants, and vehicles used to transfer raw materials.
Status: in_force

(A) Transfer centers must: (1) be located on a site in compliance with local zoning ordinances and have a potable water supply, wastewater and solid disposal, and air pollution facilities as required by any governmental authority having jurisdiction over the site; (2) be covered by a metal roof or other permanent type covering with sufficient screened ventilators to allow air flow, yet preventing the entrance of rodents, birds, and insects; (3) have walls, floors, and ceilings made of durable, nonabsorbent materials that can be cleaned and maintained in a sanitary condition; (4) have adequate drains in an impervious floor with a supply of hot water sufficient to thoroughly clean the transfer center's building, equipment, and all vehicles transporting raw material to the transfer center; (5) be cleaned and sanitized at the end of each daily operation; (6) hold inedible materials no longer than allowed by good manufacturing practices, and dispose of all product and unused raw material in a lawful manner; (7) be operated in such a manner that objectionable odors are not detected off site of the transfer center. (B) Rendering plants must: (1) be located on a site in compliance with local zoning ordinances and have a potable water supply, wastewater and solid disposal, and air pollution facilities as required by any governmental authority having jurisdiction over the site; (2) utilize buildings of sufficient size and shape to accommodate all phases of actual processing, with partitions installed therein sufficient to prevent any contact between raw materials and finished product, and to prevent contamination of finished product; (3) utilize buildings constructed with materials and in a manner that will ensure adequate drainage and sanitation in all phases of operation, and that contain walls, floors, and ceilings constructed with durable, nonabsorbent materials that can be cleaned and maintained in a sanitary manner; (4) have a supply of hot water and cleaning agents sufficient to facilitate cleaning of the building, equipment, and vehicles used to move and handle raw material and product in a sanitary manner; (5) be operated using reasonable precautions while handling, storing, or preparing raw material to prevent objectionable odors from being discharged beyond the boundaries of the permittee's property, to ensure that raw material does not remain on site any longer than allowed by good manufacturing practice, and to dispose of all product and unused raw material in a lawful manner; (6) be operated using appropriate and properly-functioning rendering equipment including, but not limited to, working, efficient, and effective odor-control systems to prevent the emission of objectionable odors; (7) diligently practice rodent and vermin control in buildings and keep surrounding grounds clean and free of refuse, trash, and manure; (8) mark all barrels used for transportation and storage of raw materials with the word "inedible" in letters clearly visible and not less than two inches in height; and (9) have a control and recontamination program, as approved by the director, that specifically provides for the prevention of cross-contamination between raw material and finished product. (C) Vehicles used to transport raw materials must: (1) be so constructed and maintained as to prevent any dripping, seeping, discharge, or escape of raw material from the truck, and have body sides of such height that no portion of the raw material transported therein is subject to spillage under normal circumstances; provided, on a case-by-case basis, the director may require the complete covering of a load of raw material for biosecurity purposes. (2) after unloading, be cleaned with hot water and a suitable cleansing agent to prevent a buildup of grease, solids, or other raw material residue, and no vehicle used to transport raw material may be taken out or operated on a public road or highway without first being thoroughly cleaned. (3) be licensed by the division as suitable for the purpose of transporting raw material.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-10 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 13 / Article 1 / Section 47-13-10
SECTION 47-13-10. Provisions on diseases and infections to be administered by State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission.
Status: in_force

This chapter must be administered, unless otherwise indicated, by the State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission in accordance with this chapter and Chapter 4 of this title.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-4-120 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 4 / Section 47-4-120
SECTION 47-4-120. Inhibition of livestock inspection; penalty.
Status: in_force

A person who seeks to prevent an inspection under the direction of the commission or the director or his deputies, assistants, or agents or who otherwise interferes with the director or his assistants, deputies, or agents while in the performance of their duties under this chapter and other chapters or sections of this title assigned to the jurisdiction of the commission is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be punished in accordance with Section 47-4-130.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-3-770 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 3 / Article 13 / Section 47-3-770
SECTION 47-3-770. When person is lawfully on premises; authority to use force to repel attack by dangerous animal when lawfully on premises; no liability for action taken to repel or restrain unprovoked attack of dangerous animal.
Status: in_force

(A) A person lawfully is upon the premises of the owner within the meaning of this article when he is on the premises in the performance of a duty imposed upon him by the laws of this State, by the laws or postal regulations of the United States, when he is on the premises upon invitation, expressed or implied, of the owner, or when he is in the performance of a duty relative to public safety, which includes policemen, firemen, or other authorized personnel. A person may ingress to and egress from the premises for a purpose connected with the performance of the public safety duty. (B) A person who lawfully is on the owner's premises and who is attacked by a dangerous animal or witnesses the attack may use reasonable force to repel the attack. A person is not liable in damages or otherwise for action to repel or action taken to restrain or control an animal from an unprovoked attack.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-4-140 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 4 / Section 47-4-140
SECTION 47-4-140. Disposition of fines and fees.
Status: in_force

(A) Fines resulted from prosecutions under this chapter and other chapters or sections of this title assigned to the commission must be paid to the State Treasurer and deposited to the credit of the State Treasury. (B) The commission may establish a fee schedule for the various services provided by the commission. These fees must be retained by the commission and utilized in carrying out the mandates of this chapter and other requirements imposed by law.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-310 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 13 / Article 3 / Section 47-13-310
SECTION 47-13-310. Notice to disinfect; violation is a misdemeanor.
Status: in_force

The commission may give written notice to a person owning, possessing, or controlling livestock which may be found infested or infected with, or exposed to a carrier of an infectious, a contagious, or a communicable disease, or a barn, shed, yard, or field which is capable of conveying the infection or contagion to disinfect the livestock or premises or have them disinfected within five days from the service of the notice. A person who refuses or neglects for five days from the service of the notice to disinfect the animals, livestock, or premises in the manner and method prescribed, to commence the treatment prescribed, or to complete the treatment prescribed is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be punished in accordance with Section 47-4-130.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-3-70 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 47-3-70
SECTION 47-3-70. County and municipal powers not limited by article.
Status: in_force

Nothing in this article may be construed to limit the power of any municipality or county to prohibit animals from running at large, whether or not they have been inoculated as provided in this article; and nothing in this article may be construed as to limit the power of any municipality or county to regulate and control further in the county or municipality to enforce other and additional measures for the restriction and control of rabies.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-6-30 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 6 / Section 47-6-30
SECTION 47-6-30. Authority of state veterinarian and Livestock-Poultry Health Service of Clemson University.
Status: in_force

The state veterinarian and the Livestock-Poultry Health Service of Clemson University are vested with the authority to develop and institute programs to provide for the control and eradication of pseudorabies in this State and to adopt regulations necessary to carry out the programs and the provisions of this chapter. The state veterinarian may also appoint assistants to assist him with his duties.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-820 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 13 / Article 7 / Section 47-13-820
SECTION 47-13-820. Tuberculin and paratuberculin tests; observation.
Status: in_force

When the State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission shall be conducting tuberculosis or paratuberculosis eradication work in any county, in cooperation with the Animal Disease Eradication Division, United States Department of Agriculture, under the area plan or under its general authority, to eradicate, control and prevent contagious and infectious diseases of animals, all persons owning or having animals in their charge shall upon notice assemble or have assembled such animals at a time and place designated by an inspector or veterinarian of the State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission or of the Animal Disease Eradication Division, United States Department of Agriculture, in order that tuberculin or paratuberculin tests may be applied. Assistance shall be given in confining these animals in order that the test may be administered properly, and the same animals shall be returned for observation at a time and place designated by such inspector or veterinarian. Any herd or animals or all animals in the modified accredited area or other areas shall be tuberculin or paratuberculin tested or retested at such times as deemed advisable by the State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-11-310 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 11 / Article 3 / Section 47-11-310
SECTION 47-11-310. Declaration of purpose.
Status: in_force

The intent and purpose of this article is to improve, further develop and expand livestock production and marketing in South Carolina by encouraging livestock producers to produce a better grade and quality of livestock in order that such agricultural commodity may sell in competition with livestock produced in other areas. The livestock industry is of great economic importance, not only to the agricultural economy of this State but to the general economy of the State as well, and it is hereby determined that to encourage the production of livestock of higher quality will more fully utilize our potential of land productivity, favorable climatic conditions and other natural resources for the expansion of this important industry. Therefore, it is deemed to be in the best interest and for the advancement of the agricultural economy and the general welfare of this State to provide for the grading and inspection of livestock marketed at public livestock markets in the manner hereinafter provided.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-7-20 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 7 / Article 1 / Section 47-7-20
SECTION 47-7-20. Public sale of estrays.
Status: in_force

Any person finding an estray may take possession thereof and shall, if the owner is not found and no claim to such estray is made within three days, deliver or report the finding and taking up of such estray to the nearest magistrate, who shall sell such estray at public sale after ten days' notice posted in three public places in the county, one of which shall be the courthouse door.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-21-250 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 21 / Article 5 / Section 47-21-250
SECTION 47-21-250. Violations; penalties.
Status: in_force

(A) A person violating Sections 47-21-200, 47-21-210, and 47-21-220 is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than ten thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. (B) A person violating Section 47-21-230 is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-880 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 13 / Article 7 / Section 47-13-880
SECTION 47-13-880. Violations.
Status: in_force

A person violating this article or regulations of the State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission promulgated under it is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be punished in accordance with Section 47-4-130.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-9-400 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 9 / Article 3 / Section 47-9-400
SECTION 47-9-400. Rules and regulations.
Status: in_force

The Secretary of State may promulgate rules and regulations which, in his judgment, may be necessary or proper to supplement or clarify the provisions of this article. The violation of any rule or regulation made and promulgated hereunder shall constitute a violation of this article.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-17-20 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 17 / Article 1 / Section 47-17-20
SECTION 47-17-20. Definitions.
Status: in_force

For purposes of this article: (a) The term "intrastate commerce" means commerce within this State. (b) The commission, which has the responsibility of administering this article, means the State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission. (c) The term "livestock" means cattle, sheep, swine or goats. (d) The term "carcass" means all parts, including viscera, of slaughtered livestock that are capable of being used for human food. (e) The term "meat" means the edible part of the muscle of cattle, sheep, swine or goats which is skeletal or which is found in the tongue, in the diaphragm, in the heart, or in the esophagus, with or without the accompanying and overlying fat, and the portions of bone, skin, sinew, nerve, and blood vessels which normally accompany the muscle tissue and which are not separated from it in the process of dressing. It does not include the muscle found in the lips, snout and ears. (f) The term "meat by-products" means any edible part other than meat which has been derived from one or more cattle, sheep, swine, or goats. (g) The term "meat food product" means any article of food, or any article intended for or capable of use as human food, which is derived or prepared, in whole or in part, from any portion of any livestock, unless exempted by the Director upon his determination that the article (1) contains only a minimal amount of meat and is not represented as a meat food product or (2) is for medicinal purposes and is advertised only to the medical profession. (h) The term "wholesome" means sound, healthful, clean, and otherwise fit for human food. (i) The term "unwholesome" means (1) unsound, injurious to health, containing any biological residue not permitted by rules or regulations prescribed by the Director, or otherwise rendered unfit for human food; (2) consisting in whole or in part of any filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance; (3) processed, prepared, packed, or held under unsanitary conditions whereby any livestock carcass or part thereof or any meat food product or meat by-product may have become contaminated with filth or may have been rendered injurious to health; (4) produced in whole or in part from livestock which has died otherwise than by slaughter; or (5) packaged in a container composed of any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render the contents injurious to health. (j) The term "adulterated" shall apply to any livestock carcass, part thereof, meat food product or meat by-product under one or more of the following circumstances: (1) If it bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render it injurious to health; but, in case the substance is not an added substance, such article shall not be considered adulterated under this clause if the quantity of such substance does not ordinarily render it injurious to health; (2) if it bears or contains any added poisonous or added deleterious substance, unless such substance is permitted in its production or unavoidable under good manufacturing practices as may be determined by rules and regulations prescribed by the Director. Provided, that any quantity of such added substances exceeding the limit so fixed shall also be deemed to constitute adulteration; (3) if any substance has been substituted, wholly or in part, therefor; (4) if damage or inferiority has been concealed in any manner; (5) if any valuable constituent has been in whole or in part omitted or abstracted therefrom; (6) if any substance has been added thereto or mixed or packed therewith so as to increase its bulk or weight, or reduce its quality or strength, or make it appear better or of greater value than it is. (k) The term "inspector" means an employee or official of this State authorized by the Director to inspect livestock or carcasses or parts thereof, meat food products, or meat by-products under the authority of this article. A "veterinary inspector" means an inspector who is a graduate veterinarian approved by the Director and acting under his authority. (l) The term "official inspection mark" means any symbol, formulated pursuant to rules and regulations prescribed by the Director, for the marking of livestock, carcasses, parts of carcasses and containers of meat or meat products. (m) The term "inspection service" means the official government service within the Livestock-Poultry Health Department of Clemson University of this State designated by the Director as having the responsibility for carrying out the provisions of this article. The "inspection service" shall be administered by a veterinarian approved by the Director and acting under his authority. (n) The term "container" and "package" include any box, can, tin, cloth, plastic, or any other receptacle, wrapper, or cover. (o) The term "official establishment" means any establishment in this State as determined by the Director at which inspection of the slaughter of livestock or the processing of livestock or parts thereof, meat food products, or meat by-products, is maintained under the authority of this article. (p) The term "label" means any written, printed, or graphic material upon the shipping container, if any, or upon the immediate container, including but not limited to an individual consumer package, of an article, or accompanying such article. (q) The term "shipping container" means any container used or intended for use in packaging the article packed in an immediate container. (r) The term "immediate container" means any consumer package or any other container in which an article, not consumer packaged, is packed. (s) The term "Federal Meat Inspection Act" means the act of Congress approved March 4, 1907, as amended.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-3-450 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 3 / Article 7 / Section 47-3-450
SECTION 47-3-450. Exceptions.
Status: in_force

The provisions of this article do not apply to persons engaged in scientific endeavors by institutions of higher education.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-1380 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 13 / Article 13 / Section 47-13-1380
SECTION 47-13-1380. Preventive measures for race tracks, horse shows, rodeos, horse owners, and veterinarians.
Status: in_force

(A) Officials at race tracks, horse shows, and rodeos are requested to: (1) see that sanitary and other protective measures prescribed by the state veterinarian are carried out; (2) ensure that tattoo instruments and saliva collecting equipment are adequately sterilized before being used on any horse; (3) enforce rules preventing the use of hypodermic syringes and needles on horses by other than accredited veterinarians; (4) require provision for and operation of adequate isolation facilities. (B) Horse owners and practicing veterinarians are requested to: (1) report immediately any suspect horse to the state veterinarian; (2) use disposable hypodermic needles and syringes (one needle - one horse); (3) institute and carry out proper sanitary and preventive measures, including control of biting insects. (C) Organizations representing particular breeds of horses should recommend to individual farms and owners that the test for equine infectious anemia be administered to all animals and preventive measures as set forth in this article be instituted.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-4-90 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 4 / Section 47-4-90
SECTION 47-4-90. Stop of livestock transport to check for proper documentation.
Status: in_force

A municipal, county, or state law enforcement officer or highway patrolman may stop and ascertain whether a conveyance transporting livestock or poultry by whatever means of transportation within the State has the proper certificate of veterinary inspection, permit, receipt, or other documents required by this title.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-9-340 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 9 / Article 3 / Section 47-9-340
SECTION 47-9-340. Cancellation of registration.
Status: in_force

The Secretary of State shall cancel the registration of any brand: (1) at the written request of the owner; or (2) upon the order of any court of competent jurisdiction.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-3-30 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 47-3-30
SECTION 47-3-30. Establishment of animal shelters; funding.
Status: in_force

The governing body of the county or municipality is authorized to establish an animal shelter for the county or municipality for the purpose of impounding and quarantining dogs and quarantining cats and shall employ such personnel, including enforcement personnel, as may be necessary to administer the provisions of this article. If an animal shelter is established, funds to establish and operate the shelter and employ necessary personnel may be provided in the annual county or municipal appropriations.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-4-170 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 4 / Section 47-4-170
SECTION 47-4-170. Confidential information; exemptions.
Status: in_force

Information prepared, owned, used, submitted to, in the possession of, or retained by the commission or the State Veterinarian related to the exercise of its official duties pursuant to this chapter, including, but not limited to, certificates of veterinary inspection, animal medical records, laboratory reports, or other records that may be used to identify a person or private business activities subject to regulation by the commission is confidential and exempt from disclosure pursuant to Chapter 4, Title 30 unless the State Veterinarian determines that disclosure is necessary to implement the programs contained in this chapter or the State Veterinarian determines that disclosure is necessary to prevent the spread of animal disease or to protect the public health. Information prepared, owned, used, submitted to, in the possession of, or retained by the commission or the State Veterinarian related to the exercise of its official duties pursuant to this chapter concerning the receipt and expenditure of public funds and summaries of agency activities are not subject to the exemption from Chapter 4, Title 30 provided in this section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-3-530 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 3 / Article 9 / Section 47-3-530
SECTION 47-3-530. Penalties for stealing or killing identifiable dog.
Status: in_force

Any person stealing any positively identifiable dog is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction must be fined not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned for not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or both. Any person killing any dog when owner may be identified by means of a collar bearing sufficient information or some other form of positive identification is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction must be fined not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned for not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or both. This paragraph does not apply to the killing of a dog threatening to cause or causing personal injury or property damage.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-600 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 13 / Article 5 / Section 47-13-600
SECTION 47-13-600. Liability for sale of infected animal except for slaughter.
Status: in_force

Any person who knowingly sells or otherwise disposes of an animal infected with brucellosis to another, except for immediate slaughter, shall be liable in a civil action to any person injured and for all damages resulting therefrom and shall be equally responsible for violation of this article and the regulations promulgated by the State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-11-110 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 47-11-110
SECTION 47-11-110. Establishment of slaughter assembly points.
Status: in_force

The commission, by regulation, may establish slaughter assembly points.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-4-40 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 4 / Section 47-4-40
SECTION 47-4-40. Delegation of duties to director.
Status: in_force

The commission shall delegate the duties provided in this chapter and other applicable sections and chapters of this title to the director who may administer and enforce the provisions and promulgate related regulations.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-3-620 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 3 / Article 11 / Section 47-3-620
SECTION 47-3-620. Unlawful to torture, mutilate, injure, disable, poison, or kill police dog or horse.
Status: in_force

It is unlawful for a person to wilfully or maliciously torture, mutilate, injure, disable, poison, or kill a dog or horse used by a law enforcement department or agency in the performance of the functions or duties of the department or when a dog is placed in a kennel off duty or a horse is placed in a stable off duty. However, a police officer or veterinarian may perform euthanasia in emergency situations when delay would cause the dog or horse undue suffering and pain.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-9-390 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 9 / Article 3 / Section 47-9-390
SECTION 47-9-390. Brand records.
Status: in_force

The Secretary of State shall keep an accurate record of all brands registered under the terms of this article and the names and addresses of the owners of the brands, which records shall be open to inspection by the public.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-1-170 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 1 / Section 47-1-170
SECTION 47-1-170. Penalties for violations of chapter.
Status: in_force

The owner or person having charge or custody of an animal cruelly used who is convicted of any violation of this chapter forfeits ownership, charge, or custody of the animal, and at the discretion of the court, the person who is charged with or convicted of a violation of this chapter may be ordered, if not previously ordered, to pay costs incurred to care for the animal and related expenses. Effect of Amendment 2024 Act No. 199, SECTION 3, substituted "may be ordered, if not previously ordered," for "must be ordered" and made a nonsubstantive change.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-5-150 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 5 / Section 47-5-150
SECTION 47-5-150. Department to provide or insure availability of human vaccine; reimbursement.
Status: in_force

The department must ensure the availability of antirabic (human) vaccine and globulin products for persons bitten by or otherwise exposed to a pet or other animal found or suspected to be affected by rabies. The provision of such products shall be in accordance with departmental guidelines. The department is authorized to seek reimbursement for the cost of such products from sources to include, but not limited to, personal/medical insurance and/or Medicaid/Medicare coverage of the person receiving the products.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-21-50 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 21 / Article 3 / Section 47-21-50
SECTION 47-21-50. Unlawful entry or concealed presence.
Status: in_force

Without the effective consent of the owner, and with the intent to disrupt or damage the enterprise conducted at the animal facility, it is unlawful for a person to: (1) enter an animal facility, not then open to the public, with intent to commit an act prohibited by this section; (2) remain concealed, with intent to commit an act prohibited by this section, in an animal facility; or (3) enter an animal facility and commit or attempt to commit an act prohibited by this section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-620 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 13 / Article 5 / Section 47-13-620
SECTION 47-13-620. Compulsory tests of cattle.
Status: in_force

When the director of the State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission shall deem it advisable to test all cattle in any specified county within the State, in accordance with the provisions of this article or upon receipt of a petition containing at least seventy-five per cent or more of the livestock owners holding ninety-five per cent or more of the cattle in the county, the test of all cattle in such county shall become compulsory and the cattle owners or persons in charge, upon notification from the livestock and poultry health department or one of the department's inspectors, shall assemble or have assembled such animals at the times and places designated by an inspector of the livestock and poultry health department or the Animal Disease Eradication Division, United States Department of Agriculture, and give such assistance as may be necessary for the proper testing of the cattle. Inspectors engaged in the area testing of cattle for brucellosis shall have due authority to enter premises. No cattle, except for immediate slaughter, shall be brought into the county in which area work is being or has been conducted, unless accompanied by a proper test chart and health certificate issued by an approved accredited veterinarian, showing that the cattle have passed a proper test for brucellosis.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-21-230 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 21 / Article 5 / Section 47-21-230
SECTION 47-21-230. Unlawful entry or presence with notice to not enter or leave.
Status: in_force

(A) Without the effective consent of the owner, it is unlawful for a person to enter or remain in a crop operation with the intent to disrupt or damage the enterprise conducted at the crop operation, and the person: (1) had notice that the entry was forbidden; or (2) received notice to depart but failed to do so. (B) For purposes of this section, "notice" means: (1) oral or written communication by the owner or someone with apparent authority to act for the owner; (2) fencing or other enclosure obviously designed to exclude intruders or to contain a crop; or (3) a sign or signs posted on the property or at the entrance to the building, reasonably likely to come to the attention of intruders, indicating that entry is forbidden.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-3-710 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 3 / Article 13 / Section 47-3-710
SECTION 47-3-710. Definitions.
Status: in_force

(A) As used in this article "dangerous animal" means an animal of the canine or feline family: (1) which the owner knows or reasonably should know has a propensity, tendency, or disposition to attack unprovoked, cause injury, or otherwise endanger the safety of human beings or domestic animals; (2) which: (a) makes an unprovoked attack that causes bodily injury to a human being and the attack occurs in a place other than the place where the animal is confined as required by Section 47-3-720; or (b) commits unprovoked acts in a place other than the place where the animal is confined as required by Section 47-3-720 and those acts cause a person to reasonably believe that the animal will attack and cause bodily injury to a human being; (3) which is owned or harbored primarily or in part for the purpose of fighting or which is trained for fighting. (B) "Dangerous animal" does not include: (1) an animal used exclusively for agricultural purposes; or (2) an animal which attacks a person who is trespassing or who appears to be trespassing. A trespasser is a person who is not lawfully upon the premises of the owner, as set forth in Section 47-3-770(A). (C) An animal is not a "dangerous animal" solely by virtue of its breed or species. (D) As used in this article "owner" means a person who owns or has custody or control of the animal. (E) As used in this article, "injury" or "bodily injury" means (1) broken bones, (2) lacerations, (3) punctures of the skin, or (4) any physical injury resulting in death.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-11-130 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 47-11-130
SECTION 47-11-130. Infected or exposed animals or poultry.
Status: in_force

Animals or poultry known to be infected with or exposed to one or more of the diseases provided in Section 47-4-50 or that reacts to a test indicating the presence of the diseases must be held separate and apart from healthy animals and must not be sold, traded, moved off premises, or otherwise disposed of except for immediate slaughter only in accordance with applicable state and federal regulation or with the prior approval of the commission.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-7-130 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 7 / Article 3 / Section 47-7-130
SECTION 47-7-130. Liability of owners of trespassing stock.
Status: in_force

Whenever any domestic animals shall be found upon the lands of any other person than the owner or manager of such animals, the owner of such trespassing stock shall be liable for all damages sustained and for the expenses of seizure and maintenance. Such damages and expenses shall be recovered, when necessary, by action in any court of competent jurisdiction. And the trespassing stock shall be held liable for such damages and expenses, in preference to all other liens, claims or encumbrances upon it.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-17-510 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 17 / Article 5 / Section 47-17-510
SECTION 47-17-510. Prohibition against misleading or deceptive practices, labeling, or misrepresenting product that is cell-cultivated meat.
Status: in_force

(A) For the purposes of this section: (1) "artificial or cell-cultivated food product" means any food product developed in a laboratory or facility and grown from a biopsy of living animal cells including, but not limited to, livestock, poultry, fish, crustaceans, or other animal protein; and (2) "sells, or holds or offers for sale" does not include retail sales except under the circumstances where a retailer is also the manufacturer. (B) It shall be unlawful for any person to label any artificial or cell-cultivated food product as beef, poultry, fish, crustacean, or any other animal protein that the artificial or cell-cultivated food product may resemble for the purposes of advertising, manufacturing, selling, or holding or offering for sale in this State. (C) No person who advertises, manufactures, sells, or holds or offers for sale any artificial or cell-cultivated food product in this State shall engage in a misleading or deceptive practice related to an artificial or cell-cultivated food product including, but not limited to, misrepresenting an artificial or cell-cultivated food product as being derived from harvested production beef, poultry, fish, crustacean, or other animal protein. The front of all artificial or cell-cultivated food product packaging must contain a conspicuous label that indicates that the artificial or cell-cultivated food product is not beef, poultry, fish, crustacean, or any other animal protein that the artificial or cell-cultivated food product may resemble. (D) Each package that violates a provision of this section shall be a separate and distinct offense. Effect of Amendment 2025 Act No. 14, SECTION 1, rewrote the section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-9-710 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 9 / Article 7 / Section 47-9-710
SECTION 47-9-710. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter: (1) "Engages in an equine activity" means riding, training, providing, or assisting in providing medical treatment of, driving, or being a passenger upon an equine, mounted or unmounted, or a person assisting a participant or show management. It does not include being a spectator at an equine activity, except in cases where the spectator places himself in an unauthorized area and in immediate proximity to the equine activity. (2) "Equine" means a horse, pony, mule, donkey, or hinny. (3) "Equine activity" means: (a) an equine show, fair, competition, performance, parade, or trail riding that involves a breed of equine and an equine discipline, including, but not limited to, dressage, hunter and jumper horse shows, grand prix jumping, three-day events, combined training, rodeos, driving, pulling, cutting, polo, steeplechasing, English and Western performance riding, trail riding and Western games, and hunting. (b) equine training or teaching activities, or both; (c) boarding equines; (d) riding, inspecting, or evaluating an equine belonging to another, whether the owner has received monetary consideration or another thing of value for the use of the equine or is permitting a prospective purchaser of the equine to ride, inspect, or evaluate the equine; (e) a ride, trip, hunt, or other equine activity, however informal or impromptu, that is sponsored by an equine activity sponsor; (f) placing or replacing a horseshoe on an equine; (g) examining or administering medical treatment to an equine by a veterinarian. (4) "Equine activity sponsor" means an individual, a group, a club, a partnership, or a corporation, whether the sponsor is operating for profit or nonprofit, which sponsors, organizes, or provides the facilities for an equine activity, including, but not limited to, a pony club, 4-H club, hunt club, riding club, school and college-sponsored class, program, and activity, therapeutic riding program, and an operator, instructor, and promoter of an equine facility, including, but not limited to, a stable, clubhouse, ponyride string, fair, and an arena at which the activity is held or a landowner who has given permission for the use of his land in an equine activity either by easement or other means. (5) "Equine professional" means a person engaged for compensation in: (a) instructing a participant or renting to a participant an equine for the purpose of riding, driving, or being a passenger upon the equine; (b) renting equipment or tack to a participant; or (c) examining or administering medical treatment to an equine as a veterinarian. (6) "Inherent risk of equine activity" means those dangers or conditions which are an integral part of equine activities, including, but not limited to: (a) the propensity of an equine to behave in ways that may result in injury, harm, or death to a person on or around the equine; (b) the unpredictability of an equine's reaction to sound, sudden movement, an unfamiliar object, a person, or another animal; (c) certain hazards such as surface and subsurface conditions; (d) collisions with other equines or objects; and (e) the potential of a participant to act in a negligent manner that may contribute to injury to the participant or others, as failing to maintain control over the animal or not acting within the participant's ability. (7) "Participant" means a person, amateur or professional, who engages in an equine activity, whether or not a fee is paid to participate in the equine activity.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-560 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 13 / Article 5 / Section 47-13-560
SECTION 47-13-560. Tattooing or branding of vaccinated animals.
Status: in_force

Such vaccinated animals shall be permanently identified by tattooing or other methods approved by the State Veterinarian and no indemnity shall be paid on any such vaccinated animal. All such vaccinated animals that show a positive reaction to an official brucellosis test eighteen months or more after vaccination shall be considered as infected with brucellosis and shall be branded with the letter "B" in accordance with the law covering such branding.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-1370 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 13 / Article 13 / Section 47-13-1370
SECTION 47-13-1370. Proof of tests required for public assembly of horses.
Status: in_force

(A) All horses must be accompanied by written proof of an approved negative test for equine infectious anemia when entering any public assembly of horses. These public assemblies include, but are not limited to, shows, fairs, organized trail rides, rodeos and other exhibitions, as well as organized sales. Animals moving directly to a slaughter plant or assembly point for slaughter which has been specifically approved by the state veterinarian are not subject to the negative test requirement. The owner, operator, or person in charge of these shows, fairs, organized trail rides, rodeos and other exhibitions, organized sales, and other public places where horses are assembled shall require that each animal be accompanied by an official certificate showing that it has been negative to an approved test for equine infectious anemia within the last twelve months. (B) Horses which are permanently maintained at a public stable or other public facility must be tested for equine infectious anemia each twelve months. (C) The Coggins Test or other test for equine infectious anemia, whether administered within or without this State, is required to be administered only once each twelve months to a horse or an animal regardless of the number of times the animal is shown, sold, exhibited, or housed in a public stable or place in this State during that period. The state veterinarian and the Livestock-Poultry Health Service of Clemson University may require proof of annual test administrations as they consider necessary.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-3-470 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 3 / Article 8 / Section 47-3-470
SECTION 47-3-470. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this article: (1) "Animal Shelter" means: (a) a facility operated by or under contract for the State or a county, a municipal corporation, or other political subdivision of the State for the purpose of impounding or harboring seized, stray, homeless, abandoned, or unwanted dogs, cats, and other animals; (b) a veterinary hospital or clinic operated by a veterinarian or veterinarians which operates for the purpose set forth in subitem (a) in addition to its customary purposes; (c) a facility operated, owned, or maintained by an incorporated humane society, animal welfare society, or other nonprofit organization for the purpose of providing for and promoting the welfare, protection, and humane treatment of animals. (2) "Humane society" means an unincorporated nonprofit organization existing for the purpose of prevention of cruelty to animals. (3) "Public or private rescue organization" means harborers of unwanted animals of any breed, including crossbreeds, who provide food, shelter, and confinement for a group of dogs, a group of cats, or a combination of dogs and cats. (4) "Sexually mature animal" means a dog or cat that has reached the age of one hundred eighty days or six months or more. (5) "Sterilization" means the surgical removal of the reproductive organs of a dog or cat in order to render the animal unable to reproduce. Editor's Note 2019 Act No. 43, SECTION 10, provides as follows: "SECTION 10. The General Assembly finds it is the best practice for a shelter, public or private, to prepare and maintain records documenting the number of animals admitted to the facility and the method by which those animals exit the facility, whether by adoption, fostering, natural death, euthanasia, transfer to another state, or other means of discharge." Effect of Amendment 2019 Act No. 43, SECTION 7, in (3), substituted "Public or private rescue organization" for "Public or private animal refuge".
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-430 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 13 / Article 3 / Section 47-13-430
SECTION 47-13-430. Indemnity for animals condemned for foot and mouth disease, vesicular exanthema, or rinderpest.
Status: in_force

Should an outbreak of any of the diseases which are commonly known as "foot and mouth disease," "vesicular exanthema," or "rinderpest" occur, the value to be placed on animals condemned and destroyed on account of being affected with, or having been exposed to, any of such diseases shall be fixed in accordance with the provisions of Section 47-13-360 and funded in accordance with Section 47-13-130; provided, however, that the limitation on indemnity for animals imported into the State within six months shall not apply to the diseases mentioned above in this section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-6-60 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 6 / Section 47-6-60
SECTION 47-6-60. Violation of chapter as misdemeanor; penalties.
Status: in_force

A person violating this chapter or a regulation promulgated by authority of the state veterinarian is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be punished in accordance with Section 47-4-130. Each day's violation is considered a separate offense. The court may enjoin a person from continued violations of this chapter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-17-30 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 17 / Article 1 / Section 47-17-30
SECTION 47-17-30. Antemortem and postmortem inspections; quarantine, segregation, and reinspection; condemnation of unwholesome livestock and meat.
Status: in_force

(a) For the purpose of preventing the entry into or movement in intrastate commerce of any livestock carcass, part thereof, meat food product or meat by-product which is unwholesome or adulterated and is intended for or capable of use as human food, the Director shall, where and to the extent considered by him necessary, cause to be made by inspectors antemortem inspection of livestock in any official establishment where livestock is slaughtered. (b) For the purpose stated in paragraph (a), the Director whenever slaughtering or other processing operations are being conducted, shall cause to be made by inspectors postmortem inspection of the carcasses and parts thereof of each animal slaughtered in any such official establishment and shall cause to be made by inspectors an inspection of all meat food products processed in any official establishment in which meat food products are processed for intrastate commerce. (c) The Director shall also cause, at any time, such quarantine, segregation, and reinspection of livestock, livestock carcasses and parts thereof, meat food products and meat by-products in official establishments as he deems necessary to effectuate the purposes of this article. (d) All livestock carcasses and parts thereof, meat food products and meat by-products found by an inspector to be unwholesome or adulterated in any official establishment shall be condemned and shall, if no appeal be taken from such determination of condemnation, be destroyed for human food purposes under the supervision of an inspector. Provided, that articles, which may by reprocessing be made wholesome and not adulterated, need not be so condemned and destroyed if so reprocessed under the supervision of an inspector and thereafter found to be wholesome and not adulterated. If an appeal be taken from such determination, the articles shall be appropriately marked and segregated pending completion of an appeal inspection, which appeal shall be at the cost of the appellant if the Director determines that the appeal is frivolous. If the determination of condemnation is sustained, the articles shall be destroyed for human food purposes under the supervision of an inspector. (e) For the purposes stated in this section all condemnations of livestock, livestock carcasses, parts thereof, meat food products or meat by-products, will be made only by authority of a veterinary inspector.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-680 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 13 / Article 5 / Section 47-13-680
SECTION 47-13-680. Violations.
Status: in_force

A person violating this article or regulations promulgated under it by the State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be punished in accordance with Section 47-4-130.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-21-70 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 21 / Article 3 / Section 47-21-70
SECTION 47-21-70. Exemptions.
Status: in_force

This chapter does not apply to, affect, or otherwise prohibit actions taken by: (1) the Department of Agriculture, any other federal, state, or local department or agency, or an official or employee of these entities while in the exercise or performance of a power or duty imposed by law or regulation; (2) a licensed veterinarian practicing veterinary medicine pursuant to Chapter 69, Title 40 and according to customary standards of care; or (3) a person holding a legal interest in an animal facility, an animal from an animal facility, or other property in or on an animal facility who has an interest in the facility, animal, or other property superior to the interest held by the person incurring damages.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-21-90 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 21 / Article 3 / Section 47-21-90
SECTION 47-21-90. Damages; attorney fees and costs.
Status: in_force

A person who suffers damages resulting from the commission of an act prohibited by this article has a civil cause of action for treble the amount of his actual damages, for consequential damages, for punitive damages, an injunction, and any other appropriate relief in law or equity. Upon prevailing in the civil action, the plaintiff may recover reasonable attorney's fees and costs.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-3-320 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 3 / Article 5 / Section 47-3-320
SECTION 47-3-320. Training of conservation officers to remove dogs; liability of officers.
Status: in_force

Two enforcement officers of the Natural Resources Enforcement Division of the Department of Natural Resources from each of the state's twenty-eight law enforcement units shall be trained by the Department in the identification, capture and humane disposal of feral dogs and these officers shall have the responsibility of answering all complaints concerning feral dogs within the geographical boundaries of their respective law enforcement units. Such enforcement officers shall be held harmless of any personal liability that may occur during the lawful execution of their duties under this act except in case of gross negligence.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-1340 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 13 / Article 13 / Section 47-13-1340
SECTION 47-13-1340. Reporting of tests.
Status: in_force

All positive tests for equine infectious anemia must be reported to the state veterinarian including tests conducted in approved laboratories within the State and tests from veterinarians submitting blood samples for testing to laboratories outside this State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-19-80 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 19 / Section 47-19-80
SECTION 47-19-80. Processing except in compliance with chapter is prohibited.
Status: in_force

No establishment processing poultry or poultry products solely for intrastate commerce shall process any poultry or poultry product capable of use as human food except in compliance with the requirements of this chapter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-520 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 13 / Article 5 / Section 47-13-520
SECTION 47-13-520. "Approved accredited veterinarian" defined.
Status: in_force

The words "approved accredited veterinarian" shall be construed to mean a graduate veterinarian approved by the State Veterinarian and the Director of the Animal Disease Eradication Division, United States Department of Agriculture, for the testing of cattle intended for interstate shipment.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-3-910 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 3 / Article 15 / Section 47-3-910
SECTION 47-3-910. Short title.
Status: in_force

This article may be cited as "Layla's Law".
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-9-210 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 9 / Article 3 / Section 47-9-210
SECTION 47-9-210. Definitions.
Status: in_force

The following words and phrases, as used in this article, shall have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Livestock" includes neat cattle, horses, mules, asses, hogs, sheep and goats; and (2) "Owner" and "stock owner" mean any person who owns livestock.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-17-10 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 17 / Article 1 / Section 47-17-10
SECTION 47-17-10. Short title.
Status: in_force

This article may be cited as the "South Carolina Meat and Meat Food Regulations and Inspection Law of 1967."
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-3-960 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 3 / Article 15 / Section 47-3-960
SECTION 47-3-960. Intentional injury, disability, or death; penalties.
Status: in_force

(A) It is unlawful for a person to intentionally injure, disable, or cause the death of a guide dog or service animal, except in the case of self-defense or humane euthanasia. (B) A person who violates subsection (A) is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-3-630 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 3 / Article 11 / Section 47-3-630
SECTION 47-3-630. Penalties.
Status: in_force

A person who violates any of the provisions of this article, except for Section 47-3-620, is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or both. A person who violates the provisions of Section 47-3-620 is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, must be fined not less than two thousand dollars nor more than five thousand dollars and imprisoned not less than one year nor more than five years.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-19-140 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 19 / Section 47-19-140
SECTION 47-19-140. Exemptions.
Status: in_force

(a) The board shall, by regulation and under such conditions and requirements as to sanitary standards, practices and procedures as it may prescribe, exempt from specific provisions of this chapter with respect to processing of poultry or poultry products solely for intrastate commerce and distribution of poultry or poultry products only in such commerce: (1) Retail dealers with respect to poultry products sold directly to consumers in individual retail stores, if the only processing operation performed by such retail dealers is the cutting up of poultry products on the premises where such sales to consumers are made; (2) For such period of time as the director determines that it would be impracticable to provide inspection and the exemption will aid in the effective administration of this chapter, any person engaged in the processing of poultry or poultry products and the poultry or poultry products processed by such person; provided, however, that no such exemption shall continue in effect after October 29, 1969; (3) Persons slaughtering, processing or otherwise handling poultry or poultry products which have been or are to be processed as required by recognized religious dietary laws, to the extent that the director determines necessary to avoid conflict with such requirements while still effectuating the purposes of this chapter; (4) The slaughtering by any person of poultry of his own raising, and the processing by him and transportation of the poultry products exclusively for use by him and members of his household and his nonpaying guests and employees; (5) The custom slaughter by any person of poultry delivered by the owner thereof for such slaughter, and the processing by such slaughterer and transportation of the poultry products exclusively for use in the household of such owner by him and members of his household and his nonpaying guests and employees; provided, that such custom slaughterer does not engage in the business of buying or selling any poultry products capable of use as human food; (6) The slaughtering and processing of poultry products by any poultry producer on his own premises with respect to sound and healthy poultry raised on his premises and the distribution by any person of the poultry products derived from such operations if, in lieu of other labeling requirements, such poultry products are identified with the name and address of such poultry producer, and if they are not otherwise misbranded and are sound, clean and fit for human food when so distributed; and (7) The slaughtering of sound and healthy poultry or the processing of poultry products of such poultry by any poultry producer or other person for distribution by him directly to household consumers, restaurants, hotels and boarding houses for use in their own dining rooms, or in the preparation of meals for sales direct to consumers if, in lieu of other labeling requirements, such poultry products are identified with the name and address of the processor and if they are not otherwise misbranded and are sound, clean and fit for human food when distributed by such processor. (b) In addition to the specific exemptions authorized in paragraph (a) of this section, the director shall, when he determines that the protection of consumers from adulterated or misbranded poultry products will not be impaired by such action, provide by regulation for the exemption of the operation and products of small enterprises (including poultry producers), not exempted under paragraph (a) of this section, which are engaged in slaughtering or cutting up poultry for distribution as carcasses or parts thereof, solely for distribution within this State, from such provisions of this chapter as he deems appropriate, while still protecting the public from adulterated or misbranded products, under such conditions and sanitary requirements as he shall prescribe to effectuate the purposes of this chapter. (c) The exemptions provided for in subparagraphs (a) (5) and (6) of this section shall not apply if the poultry producer or other person engages in the current calendar year in the business of buying or selling any poultry or poultry products other than as specified in such subparagraphs. No exemption under subparagraph (a) (5) or (6) or paragraph (b) of this section shall apply to any poultry producer or other person who slaughters or processes the products of more than five thousand turkeys or an equivalent number of poultry of all species in the current calendar year (four birds of other species being deemed the equivalent of one turkey). (d) The provisions of this chapter requiring inspection shall not apply to operations of types traditionally and usually conducted at retail stores and restaurants, when conducted at any retail store or restaurant or similar retail-type establishment for sale in normal retail quantities or service of such articles to consumers at such establishments, if no poultry or poultry products are processed at the establishment for distribution outside this State or otherwise subject to inspection under the Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act. (e) The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to poultry producers with respect to poultry of their own raising on their own farms if (i) such producers slaughter not more than two hundred fifty turkeys, or not more than an equivalent number of birds of all species during the calendar year for which this exemption is being determined (four birds of other species being deemed the equivalent of one turkey); (ii) such poultry producers do not engage in buying or selling poultry products other than those produced from poultry raised on their own farms; and (iii) such poultry moves only in intrastate commerce. (f) The adulteration and misbranding provisions of this chapter, other than the requirement of the inspection legend, shall apply to articles which are exempted from inspection under this section, except as otherwise specified under paragraph (a), (b) or (e). (g) The director may by order suspend or terminate any exemption under paragraph (a) or (b) of this section with respect to any person whenever he finds that such action will aid in effectuating the purposes of this chapter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-550 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 13 / Article 5 / Section 47-13-550
SECTION 47-13-550. Vaccination.
Status: in_force

The State Veterinarian may set up a program for the vaccination of calves between the ages of four and twelve months, and older cattle, with Brucella vaccine in accordance with the recommendations of the Animal Disease Eradication Division, United States Department of Agriculture. Such vaccination shall be done under the rules and regulations promulgated by the State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-850 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 13 / Article 7 / Section 47-13-850
SECTION 47-13-850. Liability for disposing of affected animal except for immediate slaughter.
Status: in_force

Any person or persons who knowingly sells or otherwise disposes of to another, except for immediate slaughter, an animal affected with tuberculosis or paratuberculosis shall be liable in a civil action to any person injured, and for any and all damages resulting therefrom and shall be equally responsible for violation of this article and the regulations promulgated by the State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-9-30 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 9 / Article 1 / Section 47-9-30
SECTION 47-9-30. Use of horse, mare, or mule without permission.
Status: in_force

Whoever knowingly and wilfully shall take and use any horse, mare or mule without the consent of the owner thereof, but without intent to steal, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for a period of not more than one year or both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-3-520 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 3 / Article 9 / Section 47-3-520
SECTION 47-3-520. Availability of registration file.
Status: in_force

The department shall have this file available for county, city, or subdivision animal control agencies or departments and individuals. The entire cost must be assessed upon dog owners in registration fees.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-3-230 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 3 / Article 3 / Section 47-3-230
SECTION 47-3-230. Liability of owner of sheep-killing dog for payment to owner of sheep killed or injured.
Status: in_force

The owner of or person having in his care or keeping any dog shall be liable to pay to the person damaged double the value of any sheep that may be killed or injured by such dog, to be recovered by action at the suit of the person damaged in any court having competent jurisdiction. In all such actions the recovery of ten dollars or more shall carry costs.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-2-50 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 2 / Section 47-2-50
SECTION 47-2-50. Adoption of ordinances.
Status: in_force

A city or county may adopt an ordinance governing large wild cat, non-native bear, or great ape that is more restrictive than this chapter. However, nothing in this chapter requires a city or county to adopt an ordinance to be in compliance with this chapter. Editor's Note 2017 Act No. 86, SECTION 4, provides as follows: "This act takes effect January 1, 2018, and applies to acts committed on or after that date."
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-1360 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 13 / Article 13 / Section 47-13-1360
SECTION 47-13-1360. Quarantine of exposed horses.
Status: in_force

(A) When a reactor horse is identified on a premises, the state veterinarian shall quarantine all horses on that premises. All exposed quarantined horses tested must be properly identified by a mane or tail tag or other type of identification authorized by the state veterinarian. The reactor may be isolated not less than two hundred yards from other unaffected equines with the knowledge of the testing accredited veterinarian and state veterinarian and only may be moved with the permission of the state veterinarian. A sign must be displayed prominently at the location of the quarantined and isolated premises of the exposed and reactor horses indicating that the premises are quarantined for exposed horses or isolated for reactor horses at the expense of the horse owner. (B) Before a quarantine for equine infectious anemia may be lifted by the state veterinarian, all exposed animals must be tested negative no sooner than forty-five days after the reactor has been removed from the herd.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-1-50 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 1 / Section 47-1-50
SECTION 47-1-50. Cruel work; carriage in vehicles; penalties.
Status: in_force

(A) An owner, a possessor, or a person having the charge or custody of an animal may not: (1) cruelly drive or work it when unfit for labor; (2) carry it, or cause it to be carried, in or upon a vehicle or otherwise in an unnecessarily cruel or inhumane manner. (B) A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be punished for each offense in the manner prescribed in Section 47-1-40(A).
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-9-40 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 9 / Article 1 / Section 47-9-40
SECTION 47-9-40. Alterations of teeth of horses or mules.
Status: in_force

Any person who files down or drills, bores holes or otherwise makes alterations in the teeth of any horse or mule for the purpose of deception as to the age of such animal shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment for not exceeding thirty days or by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-21-240 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 21 / Article 5 / Section 47-21-240
SECTION 47-21-240. Exemptions.
Status: in_force

This chapter does not apply to, affect, or otherwise prohibit actions taken by: (1) the Department of Agriculture, any other federal, state, or local department or agency, or an official or employee of these entities while in the exercise or performance of a power or duty imposed by law or regulation; or (2) a person holding a legal interest in a crop operation, a crop from a crop operation, or other property in or on a crop operation who has an interest in the operation, crop, or other property superior to the interest held by the person incurring damages.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-11-350 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 11 / Article 3 / Section 47-11-350
SECTION 47-11-350. Department authorized to adopt standards and grades.
Status: in_force

The Department of Agriculture is authorized to promulgate and adopt the standards or grades which shall be used for the grading of livestock and it shall be authorized to adopt, as official standards for such grading, the standards and grades which have been promulgated by the United States Department of Agriculture as feeder and slaughter livestock grades.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-15-70 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 15 / Section 47-15-70
SECTION 47-15-70. Administration and enforcement.
Status: in_force

The State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission is charged with administration and enforcement of this chapter in accordance with the terms of this chapter and Chapter 4 of Title 47.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-21-30 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 21 / Article 3 / Section 47-21-30
SECTION 47-21-30. Unlawful acquisition or exercise of control.
Status: in_force

Without the effective consent of the owner, it is unlawful for a person to acquire or otherwise exercise control over an animal facility, an animal from an animal facility, or other property from an animal facility with the intent to deprive the owner of the facility, animal, or property, and to disrupt or damage the enterprise conducted at the animal facility.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-11-330 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 11 / Article 3 / Section 47-11-330
SECTION 47-11-330. Grading of livestock for quality and pooling for sale.
Status: in_force

All livestock offered for sale in South Carolina may be graded for quality and pooled for sale with the consent of the seller.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-20-165 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 20 / Section 47-20-165
SECTION 47-20-165. Promulgation and effect of separate and distinct confined swine feeding operations regulations.
Status: repealed

(A) In addition to any regulations authorized to be promulgated pursuant to this chapter, the Department of Health and Environmental Control shall promulgate regulations regarding confined swine feeding operations which are separate and distinct from the regulations promulgated pursuant to this chapter. (B) The separate and distinct regulations shall not be proposed until after the regulations required to be promulgated pursuant to this chapter take effect. (C) The provisions of this chapter and Section 46-45-30 are severable and enforceable irrespective of whether a particular regulation has been promulgated. (D)(1) The separate and distinct regulations shall include, but are not limited to, including the following: (a) definitions; (b) setback requirements; (c) land application rates for animal waste and waste storage ponds; (d) lagoon construction and maintenance requirements; (e) odor control; (f) vector control; (g) application and annual operation fees; (h) monitoring wells; (i) certification of owners or operators of confined animal feeding operations and waste management systems; (j) public notice requirements; and (k) permit renewals. (2) In addition, the separate and distinct regulations shall be based upon an evaluation of the impact upon the interests of the environment and agribusiness. (3) In promulgating the separate and distinct regulations, the department shall use the limits, distances, and other requirements provided in this chapter as the basis for the regulations. When the department submits the proposed regulations to the General Assembly for approval, in addition to the information which must be filed pursuant to Section 1-23-120 of the 1976 Code, the department shall include an explanation for each change proposed in the separate and distinct regulations from the requirements of this chapter. (E) When the regulations promulgated by the department pursuant to this section are approved by the General Assembly or take effect without action of the General Assembly, the provisions of this chapter and Section 46-45-30, and any regulations promulgated pursuant to authority granted in this chapter, are thereby repealed and shall no longer have the force and effect of law.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-1-60 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 1 / Section 47-1-60
SECTION 47-1-60. Cutting muscles of tails of horses, asses, mules, mares, or geldings prohibited.
Status: in_force

Any person who (a) cuts the tissue or muscle of the tail of any horse, ass, mule, mare or gelding, or otherwise operates upon it in any manner for the purpose or with the effect of altering the natural carriage of the tail, except when such cutting or operation is necessary for the health or life of the animal, as certified to in writing by a licensed veterinarian, (b) causes, procures or knowingly permits such cutting or operation to be done or (c) assists in or is voluntarily present at such cutting or operation shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Any person convicted of violating any of the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not less than fifteen nor more than thirty days.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-11-380 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 11 / Article 3 / Section 47-11-380
SECTION 47-11-380. Participation in grading and inspection program voluntary.
Status: in_force

Participation in this program of grading and inspection of livestock shall be completely voluntary on the part of all persons so affected by the provisions of this article. Any person, in his discretion, may elect not to have his livestock graded and inspected as provided herein and nothing herein shall give the Department authority to compel any person to have his livestock so graded and inspected. A person may elect to include any or all classes of cattle and swine, or either of them, under the provisions of this article.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-9-10 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 9 / Article 1 / Section 47-9-10
SECTION 47-9-10. Marking, branding, or disfiguring large animals of another.
Status: in_force

Whoever shall be lawfully convicted of wilfully and knowingly marking, branding or disfiguring any horse, mare, gelding, filly, ass, mule, bull, cow, steer, ox or calf of any other person shall, for each and every such animal which he shall be convicted of marking, branding or disfiguring as aforesaid, be subject to a penalty of one hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or both, in the discretion of the court. In case such offender shall afterwards repeat the same or commit a like offense, on conviction thereof he shall be liable to a fine of two hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or both, in the discretion of the court, for each animal by him so marked, branded or disfigured.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-1390 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 13 / Article 13 / Section 47-13-1390
SECTION 47-13-1390. False certificates unlawful; penalties.
Status: in_force

It is unlawful for any person to have in his possession a false certificate showing a negative Coggins test for any horse . A person convicted of having a false or forged certificate as set forth above must be punished in accordance with the provisions of Section 47-4-130.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-21-40 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 21 / Article 3 / Section 47-21-40
SECTION 47-21-40. Unlawful damage or destruction.
Status: in_force

Without the effective consent of the owner, it is unlawful for a person to damage or destroy an animal facility, an animal, or property in or on an animal facility with the intent to disrupt or damage the enterprise conducted at the animal facility.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-5-210 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 5 / Section 47-5-210
SECTION 47-5-210. Power of political subdivisions to prohibit pets running at large and impose additional control measures.
Status: in_force

Nothing in this chapter may be construed to limit the power of any political subdivision within the State to prohibit pets from running at large, whether or not they have been inoculated as provided in this chapter; this chapter may not be construed to limit the power of any political subdivision to regulate and control further and to enforce other and additional measures for the restriction and control of rabies.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-5-60 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 5 / Section 47-5-60
SECTION 47-5-60. Inoculation of pets; certificates and tags.
Status: in_force

A pet owner must have his pet inoculated against rabies at a frequency to provide continuous protection of the pet from rabies using a vaccine approved by the department and licensed by the United States Department of Agriculture. The rabies inoculation for pets must be administered by a licensed veterinarian or someone under a licensed veterinarian's direct supervision, as defined in Section 40-69-20. Evidence of rabies inoculation is a certificate signed by a licensed veterinarian. The rabies vaccination certificate forms may be provided by the licensed veterinarian or by the department or its designee. The veterinarian may stamp or write his name and address on the certificate. The certificate must include information recommended by the National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians. The licensed veterinarian administering or supervising the administration of the vaccine shall provide one copy of the certificate to the owner of the pet and must retain one copy in his files for not less than three years. With the issuance of the certificate, the licensed veterinarian shall furnish a serially numbered metal license tag bearing the same number and year as the certificate with the name and telephone number of the veterinarian, veterinary hospital, or practice. The metal license tag at all times must be attached to a collar or harness worn by the pet for which the certificate and tag have been issued. Annually before February first, the veterinarian shall report to the department the number of animals inoculated against rabies during the preceding year. The department, in conjunction with licensed veterinarians, shall promote annual rabies clinics. The fee for rabies inoculation at these clinics may not exceed ten dollars, including the cost of the vaccine, and this charge must be paid by the pet owner. Fees collected by veterinarians at these clinics are their compensation.
S.C. Code Ann. § 47-9-240 — SC Code / Title 47 / Chapter 9 / Article 3 / Section 47-9-240
SECTION 47-9-240. One brand per person.
Status: in_force

No person shall have or use more than one brand.