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SC Code § 48-28-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 28 - Forest Renewal Practices|Section 48-28-50. Powers and duties of State Forester in connection with administration of cost-sharing provisions.

 The State Forester may administer the cost-sharing provisions of this chapter which shall include, but not be limited to, the following duties:  1. Prescribing the requirements for making application for cost-sharing funds.  2. Identifying those approved practices as defined in item 6 of Section 48-28-30 which shall be approved for cost-sharing under the provisions of this chapter.  3. Reviewing periodically the cost of forest renewal practices and establishing allowable ranges for cost-sharing purposes for approved practices under varying conditions throughout the State.  4. Determining, prior to approving cost-sharing payments to any landowner, that all proposed practices are appropriate and are comparable in cost to the prevailing cost of those practices.  5. Determining, prior to approving cost-sharing payments, that an approved forest management plan as defined in item 7 of Section 48-28-30 for the eligible land has been filed with the State Forester and that the landowner has indicated in writing his intent to comply with the terms of such management plan that related to cost-share payments.  6. Determining, prior to approving cost-sharing payments, that the approved practices for which payment is requested have been completed in a satisfactory manner, conform to the approved forest management plan submitted under item 5 of this section and otherwise meet the requirements of this chapter.  7. Disbursing from the forest renewal fund, comprised of appropriated funds and forest assessment funds, to eligible landowners, cost-sharing payments or satisfactory completion of practices provided for by this chapter and insofar as is practicable disbursing funds equally from the state appropriated funds and the forest renewal assessment funds, until appropriated funds are expended after which expenditures shall come from the forest renewal assessment funds subject to limitations of Section 48-28-100.  8. Applying directly funds resulting from slippage as defined in item 10 of Section 48-28-30 to the revolving forest renewal fund which shall be available for applying to cost-sharing for additional landowners.  9. Publishing guidelines for implementing this chapter.  10. Initiating recollection of all cost-share payments if a landowner does not meet the requirements of Section 48-28-80, for ten years.  HISTORY: 1981 Act No. 70, Section 1.
SC Code § 48-28-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 28 - Forest Renewal Practices|Section 48-28-60. Rate of cost-sharing payments; maximum payments to eligible landowners; exclusion of land for which federal cost-sharing payments are received.

 An eligible landowner may receive cost-sharing payments for satisfactory completion of approved practices as determined by the State Forester at rates established by him. The cost-share rates for all practices shall not exceed the cost-sharing rate of any other compatible governmental forestry program that may be in effect.  The maximum amount of cost-sharing funds allowed to any eligible landowner in one fiscal year shall be limited to the amount needed to complete approved practices on one hundred acres of land subject to provisions under paragraph one of this section.  Eligible landowners may not use state cost-sharing funds if funds from any federal cost-sharing program are used on the same acreage for forestry practices during the same fiscal year.  HISTORY: 1981 Act No. 70, Section 1.
SC Code § 48-28-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 28 - Forest Renewal Practices|Section 48-28-70. No limitation on woodland acreage of eligible landowner.

 There shall be no limitation of woodland acreage owned by an eligible landowner.  HISTORY: 1981 Act No. 70, Section 1.
SC Code § 48-28-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 28 - Forest Renewal Practices|Section 48-28-80. Landowners required to submit forest management plan and maintain land in forest condition.

 The eligible landowner shall be required to submit an approved forest management plan to the State Forester and during tenure shall be required to maintain eligible lands in a forest condition for a period of ten years or until commercial harvest or the landowner shall be required to remit the cost-sharing payment back to the forest renewal fund.  HISTORY: 1981 Act No. 70, Section 1.
SC Code § 48-28-90 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 28 - Forest Renewal Practices|Section 48-28-90. Governmental agencies ineligible for forest renewal payments.

 No governmental agency, federal, state or local, shall be eligible for forest renewal payments under the provisions of this chapter.  HISTORY: 1981 Act No. 70, Section 1.
SC Code § 48-28-100 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 28 - Forest Renewal Practices|Section 48-28-100. Forest renewal fund.

 There is created in the Commission the forest renewal fund for which fiscal management and responsibility is vested in the State Forester.  The fund shall be the depository for all revenue derived from the forest development assessment on primary forest product processors as authorized by the General Assembly and for any funds appropriated specifically for the forest renewal program from the general fund. State appropriated funds remaining in the forest renewal fund at the end of any fiscal year shall revert to the general fund. Revenues derived from the forest renewal assessment shall not revert but shall remain in the forest renewal fund until expended under the provisions of this chapter.  In any fiscal year, new funding agreements from the forest renewal fund are limited to five times the amount of the state appropriation for the Forest Renewal Law for that year plus the amount of any cancellation or slippage funds from previous agreements. Whenever necessary to comply with the terms of a contract, payments in a fiscal year may exceed five times the amount of the state appropriation.  In any fiscal year, expenditures from the forest renewal fund shall be limited to five times the amount of the state appropriation for the Forest Renewal Law for that year.  In any fiscal year, no more than five percent of the available funds generated by the Primary Forest Products Assessment Law, Chapter 30 of this title, shall be used for program support under the provisions of Section 48-28-40.  Funds used for the purchase of equipment under the provisions of Section 48-28-40 shall be limited to state appropriations to the forest renewal fund designated specifically for equipment purchase.  The Commission shall serve as the disbursing agency for funds expended from and deposited in the forest renewal fund.  HISTORY: 1981 Act No. 70, Section 1; 1990 Act No. 572, Section 1.
SC Code § 48-29-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 29 - Forest Pest Outbreaks|Section 48-29-10. Definitions.

 For the purpose of this chapter:  (a) "Forest pest" means any insect, disease or closely related organism which is harmful, injurious, or destructive to forests or timber.  (b) "Forest land" or "forest" means land supporting a stand or potential stand of trees valuable for timber products, watershed or wildlife protection, recreational uses, or for other purposes.  (c) "Timber" includes forest trees standing or down, alive or dead, and shall include shade trees of any species around houses, along highways, within cities and towns, and any other locations which constitute insect and disease menaces to nearby timber trees or forests.  (d) "Control zone" means an area of potential or actual forest pest outbreak with designated boundaries clearly described in a manner to definitely identify the zone.  (e) "Outbreak" means the existence of populations of a forest pest in such proportions as to threaten forests or timber and the benefits derived from them.  (f) "Action programs" shall mean those programs which are necessary to detect, control, suppress or eradicate forest pests which are in outbreak proportion.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 29-65; 1963 (53) 104.
SC Code § 48-29-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 29 - Forest Pest Outbreaks|Section 48-29-20. State Commission of Forestry to detect and control forest pest outbreaks.

 The purpose and intent of this chapter is to place with the State Commission of Forestry the authority and responsibility for action programs to detect and control forest pest outbreaks in South Carolina. The establishment of quarantine regulations and other actions to prevent the introduction into or the spread of introduced forest pests in South Carolina shall remain the responsibility of the State Crop Pest Commission, and the provisions of this chapter shall not abrogate or change any power or authority vested in the State Crop Pest Commission except as defined herein in regard to action programs to detect and control forest pests.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 29-65.1; 1963 (53) 104.
SC Code § 48-29-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 29 - Forest Pest Outbreaks|Section 48-29-30. Duties of State Commission of Forestry as to forest pest outbreaks.

 Whenever a forest pest outbreak is suspected, the State Commission of Forestry shall make surveys and observations, consulting with the State Crop Pest Commission's technical personnel for assistance with evaluation of pest populations and survey data. If the State Commission of Forestry determines that a forest pest outbreak exists and control measures are deemed necessary, it shall:  (a) Establish a control zone, and designate and clearly describe the boundaries.  (b) Give notice to all affected forest landowners within the control zone of the existence of the control zone and the actions to be taken under this chapter.  (c) Be responsible for surveys in conjunction with the determined action programs.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 29-65.2; 1963 (53) 104.
SC Code § 48-29-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 29 - Forest Pest Outbreaks|Section 48-29-40. Authority of State Commission of Forestry as to uncontrolled outbreaks.

 Whenever the State Commission of Forestry determines that a forest pest outbreak cannot be or is not being controlled by the forest landowners in the control zone, the State Commission of Forestry is authorized to:  (a) Take necessary measures to control the forest pest.  (b) Procure necessary equipment, supplies and services to control, suppress, or eradicate the forest pest.  (c) Enter into agreements with the United States Forest Service or other federal or State agencies, corporations, and others to carry out the provisions of this chapter.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 29-65.3; 1963 (53) 104.
SC Code § 48-29-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 29 - Forest Pest Outbreaks|Section 48-29-50. State Commission of Forestry or its agents may enter property to investigate or control forest pests.

 The State Commission of Forestry or its authorized agents shall have the power to go upon any land in the State to investigate, take measures to control, suppress, or eradicate forest pests. If any person refuses to allow the State Commission of Forestry or its agents to go upon his land to carry out the purposes of this chapter, or interferes with the investigation and control of forest pests, the State Commission of Forestry may apply to any court of competent jurisdiction for an injunction or other appropriate means to restrain the person from interfering with the State Commission of Forestry or its agents.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 29-65.4; 1963 (53) 104.
SC Code § 48-29-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 29 - Forest Pest Outbreaks|Section 48-29-60. Dissolution of control zones.

 When the State Commission of Forestry determines that pest control work within an established control zone is no longer necessary or feasible, the State Commission of Forestry shall dissolve the zone.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 29-65.5; 1963 (53) 104.
SC Code § 48-30-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 30 - Primary Forest Product Assessment|Section 48-30-10. Short title.

 This chapter shall be known as the "Primary Forest Product Assessment Law".  HISTORY: 1981 Act No. 70, Section 2.
SC Code § 48-30-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 30 - Primary Forest Product Assessment|Section 48-30-20. Purpose.

 The purpose of this chapter is to create an assessment on primary forest products processed from South Carolina timber to provide a source of funds to finance the operations provided for in Chapter 18 [28] of this title.  All assessments levied under the provisions of this chapter shall be used only for the purposes specified in this chapter and in Chapter 28 of this title.  HISTORY: 1981 Act No. 70, Section 2.
SC Code § 48-30-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 30 - Primary Forest Product Assessment|Section 48-30-30. Definitions.

 For purposes of this chapter:  A. 1. "Primary forest products" shall mean those products of the tree after they are severed from the stump or separated from the soil and cut or processed to its first roundwood or other product for further conversion and shall include, but are not limited to, whole trees for chipping, whole tree logs, sawlogs, pulpwood, veneer bolts, posts, poles and piling, and stumps.  2. "Processor" shall mean the individual, group, association or corporation that procures primary forest products at their initial point of concentration for conversion to secondary products or for shipment to others for such conversion.  3. "Forest renewal fund" shall mean the special fund established by Chapter 28 of this title.  4. "State Forester" shall mean director of the State Commission of Forestry.  5. "Department of Revenue" shall mean the South Carolina Department of Revenue.  B. For the purpose of this chapter, the following shall not be considered "primary forest products":  1. Christmas trees and associated greens.  2. Pine straw.  3. Material harvested from an individual's own land and used by such individual for the construction of fences, buildings or other personal use.  4. Fuelwood harvested for personal use or for use in individual homes.  HISTORY: 1981 Act No. 70, Section 2; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1231.
SC Code § 48-30-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 30 - Primary Forest Product Assessment|Section 48-30-40. Assessment on primary forest products; conditions for suspension of assessment.

 There is levied in assessment on all primary forest products harvested from lands within the State at rates established in Section 48-30-60 and the proceeds of such assessment shall be deposited in the forest renewal fund as provided in Section 48-28-100.  Collection of the assessment shall be suspended in any fiscal year in which the General Assembly fails to make general fund appropriations to the forest renewal fund.  Collection of the assessment shall be suspended in any fiscal year in which there is carried forward from previous years a balance of unobligated funds in the forest renewal fund greater than four times the amount appropriated from the general fund for that fiscal year.  If the assessment is suspended because of either paragraph 2 or 3 of this section, the suspension shall cease when the condition causing the suspension no longer exists.  HISTORY: 1981 Act No. 70, Section 2.
SC Code § 48-30-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 30 - Primary Forest Product Assessment|Section 48-30-50. Collection of assessment by Department of Revenue; information and assistance to be provided by State Forester; reimbursement of department for collection costs.

 1. The Department of Revenue shall develop the necessary administrative procedures to collect the assessment, collect the assessment from primary forest product processors, deposit funds collected from the assessment in the forest renewal fund and audit the records of processors to determine compliance with the provisions of this chapter.  2. The State Forester shall provide quarterly to the Department of Revenue lists of processors subject to the assessment, advise the Department of Revenue of the appropriate methods to convert measurements of primary forest products by systems other than those authorized in this chapter, establish in September the estimated total assessment that shall be collectable in the next budget period and inform the Governor and the General Assembly and notify, within thirty days of certification of the state budget, the Department of Revenue of the need to collect the assessment for the period covered by the approved budget.  The Department of Revenue shall be reimbursed for those expenditures incurred as a cost of collecting the assessment for the forest renewal fund. This amount shall be transferred from the forest renewal fund in equal increments at the end of each quarter of the fiscal year to the Department of Revenue. This amount shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars annually.  HISTORY: 1981 Act No. 70, Section 2; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1232.  Code Commissioner's Note  At the direction of the Code Commissioner, references in this section to the offices of the former State Budget and Control Board, Office of the Governor, or other agencies, were changed to reflect the transfer of them to the Department of Administration or other entities, pursuant to the directive of the South Carolina Restructuring Act, 2014 Act No. 121, Section 5(D)(1).
SC Code § 48-30-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 30 - Primary Forest Product Assessment|Section 48-30-60. Assessment rates.

 A. The assessment rates shall be based on the following standards:  1. For primary forest products customarily measured in board feet, the 'Scribner Log Rule', as identified in the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service publication 'Tables for Measuring Board Foot Volume of Timber' or equivalent shall be used.  2. For primary forest products customarily measured in cords, the standard cord of 128 cubic feet or equivalent, as defined in Section 39-9-130 shall be used.  3. For any other type of forest product separated from the soil, the State Forester shall determine a fair unit assessment rate, based on the cubic foot volume of one thousand foot board measure, Scribner Log Rule as defined in item 1 above, or one standard cord, as defined in Section 39-9-130.  B. The assessment levied on primary forest products shall be at the following rates:  1. Fifty cents per thousand board feet for softwood, sawtimber, veneer logs and bolts and all other softwood, including bald cypress, products normally measured in board feet.  2. Twenty-five cents per thousand board feet for hardwood and sawtimber, veneer and all other hardwood products normally measured in board feet.  3. Twenty cents per cord for softwood pulpwood and other softwood products normally measured in cords.  4. Seven cents per cord for hardwood pulpwood and other hardwood products normally measured in cords.  5. All material harvested within South Carolina for shipment outside the State for primary processing shall be assessed at yield rates equal to rates on material harvested and processed within the State.  HISTORY: 1981 Act No. 70, Section 2.
SC Code § 48-30-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 30 - Primary Forest Product Assessment|Section 48-30-70. Time and manner of payment of assessments; processors to maintain production records for assessment purposes; confidentiality of records.

 The assessment shall be levied against the processor of the primary forest product.  It shall be submitted on a quarterly basis of the state's fiscal year due and payable the twenty-fifth of the month following the end of each quarter.  It shall be remitted to the Department of Revenue, by check or money order, with such production reports as may be required by the Department of Revenue.  The processor shall maintain for a period of three fiscal years and make available to the Department of Revenue such production records necessary to verify proper reporting and payment of revenue due the forest renewal fund. The production reports of the various processors shall be used only for assessment purposes. Production information on an individual processor basis shall not be made a part of the public record.  Any official or employee of the State who discloses information obtained from a production report, except as may be necessary for administration and collection of the assessment, or in the performance of official duties, or in administrative or judicial proceedings related to the levy of collection of the assessment, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days.  HISTORY: 1981 Act No. 70, Section 2; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1233.
SC Code § 48-30-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 30 - Primary Forest Product Assessment|Section 48-30-80. Enforcement of primary forest product assessment.

 The Department of Revenue shall enforce collection of the primary forest product assessment in accordance with statutory remedies and procedures pertaining to collection of revenue by it.  HISTORY: 1981 Act No. 70, Section 2; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1234.
SC Code § 48-31-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 31 - Emergency Powers Of Governor To Protect Forests|Section 48-31-10. Proclamation forbidding use of fire in forests or woodlands when conditions are abnormal; annulment of proclamation.

 Whenever by reason of a drought, low humidity, high winds, and other conditions, the forests and woodlands in the State are in danger of fires, the Governor, upon recommendation of the State Forester, may in the interest of public safety and the preservation of natural resources, have authority by proclamation to forbid the use of fire therein. When the Governor is satisfied that the occasion has passed for maintaining the provisions of the proclamation he shall annul it by another proclamation.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 29-41; 1955 (49) 178.
SC Code § 48-31-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 31 - Emergency Powers Of Governor To Protect Forests|Section 48-31-20. Unlawful to start fires or throw burning materials in protected areas.

 During such periods and in such areas as the Governor shall proclaim, it shall be unlawful for any person to build or ignite any fire of any nature, or for any person to throw or cause to be thrown any matches, ashes, tobacco or other burning material on or adjacent to forests, woodlands, brushlands, or grasslands under protection from forest fires. It shall be unlawful to burn or cause to be burned any right of way.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 29-42; 1955 (49) 178.