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SC Code § 16-15-415 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 16 - Crimes and Offenses|Chapter 15 - Offenses Against Morality And Decency|Section 16-15-415. Promoting prostitution of a minor defined; defenses; penalties.

 (A) An individual commits the offense of promoting prostitution of a minor if he knowingly:  (1) entices, forces, encourages, or otherwise facilitates a minor to participate in prostitution; or  (2) supervises, supports, advises, or promotes the prostitution of or by a minor.  (B) Mistake of age is not a defense to a prosecution under this section.  (C) An individual who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, must be imprisoned for not less than three years nor more than twenty years. No part of the minimum sentence may be suspended nor is the individual convicted eligible for parole until he has served the minimum sentence. Sentences imposed pursuant to this section must run consecutively with and must commence at the expiration of another sentence being served by the individual sentenced.  HISTORY: 1987 Act No. 168 Section 3; 2004 Act No. 208, Section 12, eff April 26, 2004.
SC Code § 16-15-425 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 16 - Crimes and Offenses|Chapter 15 - Offenses Against Morality And Decency|Section 16-15-425. Participating in prostitution of a minor defined; defenses; penalties.

 (A) An individual commits the offense of participating in the prostitution of a minor if he is not a minor and he patronizes a minor prostitute. As used in this section, "patronizing a minor prostitute" means:  (1) soliciting or requesting a minor to participate in prostitution;  (2) paying or agreeing to pay a minor, either directly or through the minor's agent, to participate in prostitution; or  (3) paying a minor, or the minor's agent, for having participated in prostitution, pursuant to a prior agreement.  (B) Mistake of age is not a defense to a prosecution under this section.  (C) A person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, must be imprisoned not less than two years nor more than five years. No part of the minimum sentence may be suspended nor is the individual convicted eligible for parole until he has served the minimum term. Sentences imposed pursuant to this section shall run consecutively with and shall commence at the expiration of any other sentence being served by the individual sentenced.  HISTORY: 1987 Act No. 168 Section 3; 1993 Act No. 184, Section 183.
SC Code § 16-15-435 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 16 - Crimes and Offenses|Chapter 15 - Offenses Against Morality And Decency|Section 16-15-435. Circuit solicitor to request search and arrest warrants for violations of Sections 16-15-305 through 16-15-325; hearing on obscenity issue.

 (A) A search warrant or arrest warrant for a violation of Sections 16-15-305, 16-15-315, or 16-15-325 may be issued only upon request of a circuit solicitor.  (B) Following seizure of allegedly obscene property pursuant to a warrant requested by a solicitor, and issued by a neutral and detached magistrate based on supporting affidavits, any interested party may request and the court having appropriate jurisdiction must promptly conduct an adversarial hearing for the purpose of obtaining a judicial determination, based on a preponderance of the evidence, of the obscenity issue.  HISTORY: 1987 Act No. 168 Section 3.
SC Code § 16-15-445 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 16 - Crimes and Offenses|Chapter 15 - Offenses Against Morality And Decency|Section 16-15-445. Seizure and forfeiture of equipment used in committing violation; hearing; disposition of forfeited property; allocation of sale proceeds.

 (A) All equipment used directly by a person in committing a violation of Sections 16-15-305, 16-15-342, 16-15-395, 16-15-405, or 16-15-410, including necessary software, may be seized by the law enforcement agency making the arrest and ordered forfeited by the court in which the conviction was obtained.  (B) Prior to entering a forfeiture order, the court must conduct a hearing to determine ownership and the rights of innocent third parties with respect to the property, and notice of the hearing must be given to all interested parties. The court must incorporate into its forfeiture order provisions necessary to protect the interests of innocent third parties.  (C) Subject to the limitations of subsection (B), property forfeited pursuant to court order must be destroyed by the arresting law enforcement agency, unless that law enforcement agency can show good cause for retaining the property. Ownership of property so retained vests in the arresting law enforcement agency which may use the property in the performance of its duties, destroy it, or sell it at public auction. Retained property may be sold at public auction after giving notice, in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, of the date, time, and place of the auction and a description of the property to be auctioned. After payment of the expenses of the auction, one-half of the net proceeds may be retained by the arresting law enforcement agency, and one-half must be remitted to the State Treasurer for deposit to the credit of the Office of the Attorney General, South Carolina Crime Victim Services Division, Department of Crime Victim Compensation, Victim Compensation Fund.  HISTORY: 1987 Act No. 168 Section 3; 2004 Act No. 208, Section 13, eff April 26, 2004; 2017 Act No. 96 (S.289), Section 9, eff July 1, 2017.  Effect of Amendment  2017 Act No. 96, Pt. II, Section 9, in (C), substituted "Office of the Attorney General, South Carolina Crime Victim Services Division, Department of Crime Victim Compensation, Victim Compensation Fund" for "Victim's Compensation Fund".
SC Code § 16-16-25 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 16 - Crimes and Offenses|Chapter 16 - Computer Crime Act|Section 16-16-25. Compensatory damages and restitution.

 In addition to other civil remedies available, the owner or lessee of a computer, computer system, computer network, computer program, or data may bring a civil action against a person convicted under this chapter for compensatory damages, restitution, and attorney's fees. Compensatory damages and restitution may include:  (1) expenditures reasonably and necessarily incurred by the owner or lessee to verify whether a computer system, computer network, computer program, or data was altered, damaged, or deleted by the access;  (2) costs of repairing or, if necessary, replacing the affected computer, computer system, computer network, computer software, computer program, or data;  (3) lost profits for the period that the computer, computer system, computer network, computer software, computer program, or data was unusable; and  (4) costs of replacing or restoring the data lost or damaged as a result of a violation of this chapter.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 169, Section 4, eff February 8, 2002; 2002 Act No. 339, Section 11, eff July 2, 2002.  Editor's Note  2002 Act No. 339, Section 45, provides as follows:  "This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor, and applies to offenses committed after its effective date and to causes of action arising or accruing on or after the effective date."
SC Code § 16-16-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 16 - Crimes and Offenses|Chapter 16 - Computer Crime Act|Section 16-16-30. Venue.

 For the purpose of venue under this chapter, a violation of this chapter is considered to have been committed in the county in which the violation took place; however, upon proper motion and the proper showing before a judge, venue may be transferred if justice would be better served by the transfer, to one of the following:  (1) a county in which an act was performed in furtherance of a transaction which violated this chapter;  (2) the county of the principal place of business in this State of the owner or lessee of a computer, computer system, computer network, or any part of it, which has been subject to the violation; or  (3) a county in which a violator had control or possession of proceeds of the violation or of books, records, documents, property, financial instruments, computer software, computer programs, or other materials or objects which were used in the furtherance of the violation.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 442, Section 2; 2002 Act No. 169, Section 5, eff February 8, 2002; 2002 Act No. 339, Section 12, eff July 2, 2002.  Editor's Note  2002 Act No. 339, Section 45, provides as follows:  "This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor, and applies to offenses committed after its effective date and to causes of action arising or accruing on or after the effective date."
SC Code § 16-16-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 16 - Crimes and Offenses|Chapter 16 - Computer Crime Act|Section 16-16-40. Applicability of other criminal law provisions.

 The provisions of this chapter must not be construed to preclude the applicability of any other provision of the criminal law of this State, which presently applies or may in the future apply, to any transaction which violates this chapter.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 442, Section 2.
SC Code § 16-17-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 16 - Crimes and Offenses|Chapter 17 - Offenses Against Public Policy|Section 16-17-10. Barratry prohibited.

 Any person who shall:  (1) Wilfully solicit or incite another to bring, prosecute or maintain an action, at law or in equity, in any court having jurisdiction within this State and  (a) thereby seeks to obtain employment for himself or for another to prosecute or defend such action,  (b) has no direct and substantial interest in the relief thereby sought,  (c) does so with intent to distress or harass any party to such action,  (d) directly or indirectly pays or promises to pay any money or other thing of value to, or the obligations of, any party to such an action or  (e) directly or indirectly pays or promises to pay any money or other thing of value to any other person to bring about the prosecution or maintenance of such an action; or  (2) Wilfully bring, prosecute or maintain an action, at law or in equity, in any court having jurisdiction within this State and  (a) has no direct or substantial interest in the relief thereby sought,  (b) thereby seeks to defraud or mislead the court,  (c) brings such action with intent to distress or harass any party thereto or  (d) directly or indirectly receives any money or other thing of value to induce the bringing of such action;  Shall be guilty of the crime of barratry.  The crime of barratry shall be punishable by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars or by imprisonment of not more than two years, or both.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 16-521; 1957 (50) 23.
SC Code § 16-17-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 16 - Crimes and Offenses|Chapter 17 - Offenses Against Public Policy|Section 16-17-20. Persons convicted of barratry barred from practice of law.

 Any person convicted of barratry shall be forever barred from practicing law in this State.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 16-522; 1957 (50) 23.
SC Code § 16-17-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 16 - Crimes and Offenses|Chapter 17 - Offenses Against Public Policy|Section 16-17-30. Liability of corporations and unincorporated associations.

 As used in Section 16-17-10 the term "person" shall include corporations and unincorporated associations, and the statutes and laws of this State pertaining to criminal liability and enforcement thereof against corporations shall apply to any unincorporated association convicted of barratry.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 16-523; 1957 (50) 23.
SC Code § 16-17-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 16 - Crimes and Offenses|Chapter 17 - Offenses Against Public Policy|Section 16-17-40. Corporations or unincorporated associations convicted of barratry barred from doing business in State.

 Any corporation or unincorporated association found guilty of the crime of barratry shall be forever barred from doing any business or carrying on any activity within this State, and in the case of a corporation its charter or certificate of domestication shall be summarily revoked by the Secretary of State.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 16-524; 1957 (50) 23.
SC Code § 16-17-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 16 - Crimes and Offenses|Chapter 17 - Offenses Against Public Policy|Section 16-17-50. Article is cumulative.

 The provisions of this article are cumulative and shall not be construed as repealing any existing statute or the common law of this State with respect to the subject matter of any of the provisions hereof.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 16-525; 1957 (50) 23.
SC Code § 16-17-210 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 16 - Crimes and Offenses|Chapter 17 - Offenses Against Public Policy|Section 16-17-210. Definitions.

 The words "flag, standard, color or ensign," as used in Sections 16-17-220 and 16-17-230, shall include any flag, standard, color or ensign or any picture or representation made of any substance or represented on any substance and of any size, evidently purporting to be of the flag, standard, color or ensign of the United States, the Confederate States of America or this State, or a picture or representation upon which shall be shown the colors, the stars and the stripes, in any number or either thereof or by which the person seeing such picture or representation without deliberation may believe it to represent the flag, colors, standard or ensign of the United States, the Confederate States of America or this State.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 16-533; 1952 Code Section 16-533; 1942 Code Section 1274; 1932 Code Section 1274; Cr. C. '22 Section 169; 1916 (29) 925; 1958 (50) 1676.
SC Code § 16-17-220 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 16 - Crimes and Offenses|Chapter 17 - Offenses Against Public Policy|Section 16-17-220. Desecration or mutilation of United States, Confederate or State flags.

 Any person who in any manner, for exhibition or display, shall (a) knowingly place or cause to be placed any word, inscription, figure, mark, picture, design, device, symbol, name, characters, drawing, notice or advertisement of any nature upon any flag, standard, color or ensign of the United States, the Confederate States of America or this State or upon a flag, standard, color or ensign purporting to be such, (b) knowingly display, exhibit or expose or cause to be exposed to public view any such flag, standard, color or ensign upon which shall have been printed, painted or otherwise placed or to which shall be attached, appended, affixed or annexed any word, inscription, figure, mark, picture, design, device, symbol, name, characters, drawing, photographs, notice or advertisement of any nature, (c) expose to public view, manufacture, sell, expose for sale, give away or have in possession for sale, to give away, or for use for any purpose, any article or substance, being an article of merchandise or a receptacle of merchandise or article or thing for camping or transporting merchandise upon which shall have been printed, painted, attached or otherwise placed a representation of any such flag, standard, color or ensign to advertise, call attention to, decorate, mark or distinguish the article or substance on which placed or (d) publicly mutilate, deface, defile, defy, jeer at, trample upon or cast contempt, either by word or act, upon any such flag, standard, color or ensign shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the court, and shall also forfeit a penalty of fifty dollars for each offense, to be recovered with costs in a civil action or suit in any court having jurisdiction. Such action or suit may be brought by and in the name of any citizen of this State, and such penalty when collected, less the reasonable cost and expense of action or suit and recovery to be certified by the clerk of court of the county in which the offense is committed, shall be paid into the State Treasury. Two or more penalties may be sued for and recovered in the same action or suit.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 16-532; 1952 Code Sections 16-531, 16-532; 1942 Code Sections 1273, 1274; 1932 Code Sections 1273, 1274; Cr. C. '22 Sections 168, 169; Cr. C. '12 Section 207; 1910 (26) 753; 1916 (29) 925; 1950 (46) 1881; 1958 (50) 1676.
SC Code § 16-17-230 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 16 - Crimes and Offenses|Chapter 17 - Offenses Against Public Policy|Section 16-17-230. Presumption from possession.

 It is permissible to infer that possession by any person, other than a public officer as such, of any flag, standard, color, or ensign on which is anything made unlawful at any time by Section 16-17-220 or of any article, substance, or thing on which is anything made unlawful at any time by that section is in violation of that section.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 16-534; 1952 Code Section 16-534; 1942 Code Section 1274; 1932 Code Section 1274; Cr. C. '22 Section 169; 1916 (29) 925; 1922 (32) 858; 1987 Act No. 95 Section 8.
SC Code § 16-17-310 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 16 - Crimes and Offenses|Chapter 17 - Offenses Against Public Policy|Section 16-17-310. Imitation of organizations' names, emblems and the like.

 No person, society or organization shall assume, use, adopt, become incorporated under or continue to use the name and style or emblems of any incorporated benevolent, fraternal, social, humane or charitable organization previously existing in this State or a name and style or emblem so nearly resembling the name and style of such incorporated organization as to be a colorable imitation thereof. When two or more of such societies, associations or corporations claim the right to the same name or to a name substantially similar as above provided, the organization which was first organized and used the name and first became incorporated under the laws of the United States or of any state of the Union, whether incorporated in this State or not, shall be entitled in this State to the prior and exclusive use of such name, and the rights of such societies, associations or corporations and of their individual members shall be fixed and determined accordingly.  Any person who shall wear a badge, button or other emblem or shall use the name or claim to be a member of any benevolent, fraternal, social, humane or charitable organization which is entitled to the exclusive use of such name and emblems under this section, either in the identical form or in such near resemblance thereto as to be a colorable imitation of such emblems and name, unless entitled so to do under the laws, rules and regulations of such organization, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars or imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for not less than thirty days nor more than one year.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 16-542; 1952 Code Section 16-542; 1942 Code Section 1243; 1932 Code Section 1243; Cr. C. '22 Section 139; Cr. C. '12 Section 285; 1906 (25) 118; 1910 (26) 723, 779; 1925 (34) 20.
SC Code § 16-17-320 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 16 - Crimes and Offenses|Chapter 17 - Offenses Against Public Policy|Section 16-17-320. Injunction to restrain improper use of name and emblems.

 Whenever there shall be an actual or threatened violation of the provisions of Section 16-17-310, the organization entitled to the exclusive use of the name in question, under the terms of said section, shall have the right to apply to the proper courts for an injunction to restrain the infringement of its name and the use of its emblems. If it shall be made to appear to the court that the defendants are in fact infringing or about to infringe upon the name and style of a previously existing incorporated benevolent, fraternal, social, humane or charitable organization in the manner prohibited in said section or that the defendant or defendants are wearing and using the badge, insignia or emblems of such organization, without the authority thereof in violation of said section, an injunction may be issued by the court under the principles of equity, without requiring proof that any person has been in fact misled or deceived by the infringement of such name or the use of such emblem.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 16-543; 1952 Code Section 16-543; 1942 Code Section 1243; 1932 Code Section 1243; Cr. C. '22 Section 139; Cr. C. '12 Section 285; 1906 (25) 118; 1910 (26) 723, 779; 1925 (34) 20.
SC Code § 16-17-410 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 16 - Crimes and Offenses|Chapter 17 - Offenses Against Public Policy|Section 16-17-410. Conspiracy.

 The common law crime known as "conspiracy" is defined as a combination between two or more persons for the purpose of accomplishing an unlawful object or lawful object by unlawful means.  A person who commits the crime of conspiracy is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than five years.  A person who is convicted of the crime of conspiracy must not be given a greater fine or sentence than he would receive if he carried out the unlawful act contemplated by the conspiracy and had been convicted of the unlawful act contemplated by the conspiracy or had he been convicted of the unlawful acts by which the conspiracy was to be carried out or effected.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 16-550; 1957 (50) 58; 1993 Act No. 184, Section 35.
SC Code § 16-17-420 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 16 - Crimes and Offenses|Chapter 17 - Offenses Against Public Policy|Section 16-17-420. School disturbances by nonstudents; penalties.

 (A) It is unlawful for a person who is not a student to wilfully interfere with, disrupt, or disturb the normal operations of a school or college in this State by:  (1) entering upon school or college grounds or property without the permission of the principal or president in charge;  (2) loitering upon or about school or college grounds or property, after notice is given to vacate the grounds or property and after having reasonable opportunity to vacate;  (3) initiating a physical assault on, or fighting with, another person on school or college grounds or property;  (4) being loud or boisterous on school or college grounds or property after instruction by school or college personnel to refrain from the conduct;  (5) threatening physical harm to a student or a school or college employee while on school or college grounds or property; or  (6) threatening the use of deadly force on school or college property or involving school or college grounds or property when the person has the present ability, or is reasonably believed to have the present ability, to carry out the threat.  (B) For the purpose of this section, "person who is not a student" means a person who is not enrolled in, or who is suspended or expelled from, the school or college that the person interferes with, disrupts, or disturbs at the time the interference, disruption, or disturbance occurs.  (C) Any person who violates a provision of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than two thousand dollars or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 16-551; 1952 Code Section 16-551; 1942 Code Section 1129; 1932 Code Section 1129; Cr. C. '22 Section 28; 1919 (31) 239; 1968 (55) 2308; 1972 (57) 2620; 2010 Act No. 273, Section 12, eff June 2, 2010; 2018 Act No. 182 (S.131), Section 1, eff May 17, 2018.  Effect of Amendment  2018 Act No. 182, Section 1, rewrote the section.