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SC Code § 50-3-1010 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 50 - Fish, Game and Watercraft|Chapter 3 - Department Of Natural Resources|Section 50-3-1010. South Carolina Tom Yawkey Wildlife Center Trust Fund.

 There is created the South Carolina Tom Yawkey Wildlife Center Trust Fund, the income and principal of which must be used only for the purposes of supporting the operation and maintenance and the acquisition of additional real property complementary to those tracts of real property owned by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources in Georgetown County, South Carolina, including South Island and the greater parts of North Island and Cat Island, known collectively as the Tom Yawkey Wildlife Center. All gifts, grants, and contributions for this purpose must be accounted for separately from other assets of the fund. The State Treasurer is the custodian of the fund and shall invest its assets in an interest-bearing account pursuant to South Carolina law.  HISTORY: 2014 Act No. 168 (S.1010), Section 1, eff May 16, 2014.
SC Code § 50-3-1020 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 50 - Fish, Game and Watercraft|Chapter 3 - Department Of Natural Resources|Section 50-3-1020. Board of Trustees.

 There is created the Board of Trustees of the Tom Yawkey Wildlife Center Trust Fund of the Department of Natural Resources, with full authority over the administration of the fund, whose chairman and members, serving ex officio, are the chairman and members of the board of the Department of Natural Resources.  HISTORY: 2014 Act No. 168 (S.1010), Section 1, eff May 16, 2014.
SC Code § 50-3-1030 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 50 - Fish, Game and Watercraft|Chapter 3 - Department Of Natural Resources|Section 50-3-1030. Assets of fund.

 The assets of the fund may be derived from:  (1) appropriations of state general funds, federal funds, donations, gifts, bond-issue receipts, securities, and other monetary instruments of value;  (2) the proceeds of any gifts, grants, and contributions to the State which are designated specifically for inclusion;  (3) funds derived from the Yawkey Foundation, a charitable trust established under the will of Thomas A. Yawkey, deceased;  (4) funds received through sale, exchange, or otherwise, of products of the property including, but not limited to, timber;  (5) restricted interest income, contributions, and donations;  (6) other lawful sources; and  (7) the reimbursement for monies expended from this fund which must be redeposited into the fund.  HISTORY: 2014 Act No. 168 (S.1010), Section 1, eff May 16, 2014.
SC Code § 50-3-1040 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 50 - Fish, Game and Watercraft|Chapter 3 - Department Of Natural Resources|Section 50-3-1040. Restrictions on expenditures from fund.

 The fund constitutes a special trust derived from a contractual relationship between the State and contributors to the fund, including members of the public. In recognition of the special trust, the following limitations and restrictions are placed on expenditures from the fund:  (1) Any limitations or restrictions specified by the donors on the uses of the income derived from the gifts, grants, and voluntary contributions are respected but are not binding.  (2) After applying income received and accruing from the investments of gifts, grants, and contributions, the board of trustees of the fund may liquidate and expend the principal of the fund.  (3) The assets of the fund, both principal and income received and accruing from the investments, must be spent only in furthering the operation and maintenance of the Tom Yawkey Wildlife Center and to acquire additional real property complementary to or protective of the Tom Yawkey Wildlife Center.  (4) Balances in this fund may be used to match available federal funds.  (5) Balances in this fund shall be retained and carried forward from year to year and do not revert to the General Fund of the State and may be used to match available federal funds.  HISTORY: 2014 Act No. 168 (S.1010), Section 1, eff May 16, 2014.
SC Code § 50-3-1050 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 50 - Fish, Game and Watercraft|Chapter 3 - Department Of Natural Resources|Section 50-3-1050. Expenditure of income.

 Expenditure of the income derived from the fund must be made through the board in accordance with the provisions of the general appropriations act.  HISTORY: 2014 Act No. 168 (S.1010), Section 1, eff May 16, 2014.
SC Code § 50-3-1060 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 50 - Fish, Game and Watercraft|Chapter 3 - Department Of Natural Resources|Section 50-3-1060. State appropriations or department receipts placed in fund.

 The fund and income do not take the place of state appropriations or department receipts placed in the fund and must be used in accordance with Section 50-3-1040(3).  HISTORY: 2014 Act No. 168 (S.1010), Section 1, eff May 16, 2014.
SC Code § 50-3-1070 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 50 - Fish, Game and Watercraft|Chapter 3 - Department Of Natural Resources|Section 50-3-1070. Successor agency.

 If the board of the Department of Natural Resources is dissolved, the succeeding agency shall assume the trusteeship of the fund and is bound by all the limitations and restrictions placed by this article on expenditures from the fund.  HISTORY: 2014 Act No. 168 (S.1010), Section 1, eff May 16, 2014.
SC Code § 50-3-1110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 50 - Fish, Game and Watercraft|Chapter 3 - Department Of Natural Resources|Section 50-3-1110. Conservation Grant Fund established.

 There is created in the state treasury a fund separate and distinct from the general fund of the State and all other funds styled the "Conservation Grant Fund". The income and principal of the fund must be used only to stimulate the use of conservation easements and fee simple gifts of land for conservation to qualified conservation organizations to improve the capacity of private nonprofit land trusts successfully to accomplish conservation projects and to provide an opportunity to leverage private and public monies for conservation easements.  HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 283, Section 1(D).
SC Code § 50-3-1120 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 50 - Fish, Game and Watercraft|Chapter 3 - Department Of Natural Resources|Section 50-3-1120. Board; administration of fund.

 The board of the Department of Natural Resources serves ex officio as the Conservation Grant Fund Board with full authority over the administration of the fund.  HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 283, Section 1(D).
SC Code § 50-3-1130 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 50 - Fish, Game and Watercraft|Chapter 3 - Department Of Natural Resources|Section 50-3-1130. Funding.

 The Conservation Grant Fund shall consist of any monies appropriated to it by the General Assembly and other monies received from public or private sources.  HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 283, Section 1(D).
SC Code § 50-3-1140 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 50 - Fish, Game and Watercraft|Chapter 3 - Department Of Natural Resources|Section 50-3-1140. Qualification for tax credit as requirement for real property to be subject of grant.

 In order for real property to be the subject of a grant under this article, the land must qualify for the tax credit allowed pursuant to Section 12-6-3515.  HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 283, Section 1(D).
SC Code § 50-3-1150 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 50 - Fish, Game and Watercraft|Chapter 3 - Department Of Natural Resources|Section 50-3-1150. Uses of Fund revenues and grants; restrictions.

 (A) Revenues in the Conservation Grant Fund may be used by the department only to:  (1) defray the administrative costs of the department in administering the grant purpose provided for by this article;  (2) provide education on conservation easements and fee simple gifts of land for conservation, including information material intended for landowners and education for staff and volunteers; and  (3) make conservation grants.  (B) A grant from the Conservation Grant Fund may be used only to pay for one or more of the following costs:  (1) reimbursement for total or partial transaction costs for donations that otherwise would not be made because of insufficient financial revenues;  (2) management support, including initial baseline inventory and planning;  (3) monitoring compliance with conservation easements;  (4) education on conservation easements and fee simple gifts of land for conservation, including information materials intended for landowners, and education for staff and volunteers.  (C) Fund proceeds may not be used to pay the purchase price of any interest in real property.  HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 283, Section 1(D).
SC Code § 50-3-1160 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 50 - Fish, Game and Watercraft|Chapter 3 - Department Of Natural Resources|Section 50-3-1160. Grants; establishment of criteria for awarding; procedures.

 The board shall establish the procedures and criteria for awarding grants under this article. The criteria shall focus grants on those areas, approaches, and techniques that are likely to provide the optimum positive effect on conservation. The board shall make recommendations to the General Assembly on the award of grants. Upon approval by the General Assembly by concurrent resolution, the board shall award the grants and provide public notice of the award.  HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 283, Section 1(D).
SC Code § 50-4-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 50 - Fish, Game and Watercraft|Chapter 4 - South Carolina Solar Habitat Act|Section 50-4-10. Short title.

 This chapter may be cited as the "South Carolina Solar Habitat Act".  HISTORY: 2018 Act No. 253 (H.4875), Section 1, eff May 25, 2018.
SC Code § 50-4-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 50 - Fish, Game and Watercraft|Chapter 4 - South Carolina Solar Habitat Act|Section 50-4-20. Voluntary site management practices.

 An owner of a ground-mounted commercial solar energy generation site is encouraged to follow voluntary site management practices that:  (1) provide native perennial vegetation and foraging habitats beneficial to gamebirds, songbirds, and pollinators; and  (2) reduce storm water runoff and erosion at the solar generation site.  HISTORY: 2018 Act No. 253 (H.4875), Section 1, eff May 25, 2018.
SC Code § 50-4-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 50 - Fish, Game and Watercraft|Chapter 4 - South Carolina Solar Habitat Act|Section 50-4-30. Native vegetation habitat and pollinator management plan.

 The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, working in conjunction with other state agencies and nonprofit conservation organizations, shall establish a native vegetation habitat and pollinator management plan to be used as technical guidance for the purposes of this act.  An owner of a solar energy generation site implementing solar site management practices under this section may claim that the site increases the habitat value by providing benefits to gamebirds, songbirds, pollinators, and small mammals only if the site adheres to guidance set forth by the wildlife habitat and pollinator plan provided by the department or any other gamebird, songbird, or pollinator foraging-friendly vegetation standard established by the department. An owner wishing to make a beneficial habitat claim must make the site's vegetation management plan available to the public and provide a copy of the plan to the department for review.  The department or another entity may issue a certificate of compliance to the owner of a solar site meeting the plan guidelines that the owner may use to promote its participation in the program.  HISTORY: 2018 Act No. 253 (H.4875), Section 1, eff May 25, 2018.
SC Code § 50-5-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 50 - Fish, Game and Watercraft|Chapter 5 - Marine Resources Act|Section 50-5-10. Citation of chapter.

 This chapter may be cited as the "South Carolina Marine Resources Act of 2000".  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 28-180; 1952 Code Section 28-180; 1942 Code Section 3299; 1932 Code Section 3299; 1924 (33) 1016; 1936 (39) 1644; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1259; 2000 Act No. 245, Section 1.
SC Code § 50-5-17 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 50 - Fish, Game and Watercraft|Chapter 5 - Marine Resources Act|Section 50-5-17. Flounder Population Study Program.

 (A) There is established the Flounder Population Study Program to be administered by the Department of Natural Resources. The program shall study the effects of flounder catch limits and the prohibition of artificial illumination produced by motor fuel powered generators on flounder (Paralichthys species), located in the waters of Pawleys Inlet north to the northern terminus of Main Creek at Garden City Beach. For purposes of this resolution, "gigging" means using a prong, spear, or similar device, including a bow and arrow to spear a fish.  (B) During the term of the program in the area defined in subsection (A):  (1) the lawful flounder gigging and fishing catch limit is ten per day for any individual, not to exceed twenty flounder in any one day on any boat;  (2) it is unlawful to use any type of artificial illumination produced by motor fuel powered generators while gigging or fishing for flounder from a boat or while wading in the water.  (C) The program shall run for five years, beginning January 1, 2010, and ending June 30, 2014.  (D) For purposes of this section, "motor fuel" has the same meaning as defined in Section 12-28-110(39).  HISTORY: 2010 Act No. 140, Section 1, eff March 31, 2010.
SC Code § 50-5-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 50 - Fish, Game and Watercraft|Chapter 5 - Marine Resources Act|Section 50-5-20. Jurisdiction of Department of Natural Resources.

 (A) The department has jurisdiction over all saltwater fish, fishing, fisheries, and marine resources within the salt waters of this State, including the territorial sea.  (B) The department is authorized to conduct research, surveys, and other investigations to manage fish and marine resources; to provide for protection of the salt waters and the marine habitat upon which these resources are dependent; and to provide for the development of saltwater fisheries and mariculture.  (C) Except as otherwise provided, the provisions of this chapter do not apply to fish or fishing in the freshwaters of this State.  (D) The provisions of this chapter apply to all impounded waters seaward of the freshwater/saltwater dividing line which are intermittently filled or drained by the action of the tide.  (E) Impoundments seaward of the freshwater/saltwater dividing line which are naturally occurring or are not influenced by the action of the tide are freshwaters for purposes of jurisdiction of this title.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 28-159; 1952 Code Section 28-159; 1942 Code Section 3301; 1932 Code Section 3301; 1924 (33) 1016; 1925 (34) 225; 1952 (47) 2890; 1955 (49) 478; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1259; 2000 Act No. 245, Section 1.
SC Code § 50-5-25 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 50 - Fish, Game and Watercraft|Chapter 5 - Marine Resources Act|Section 50-5-25. Powers and duties; deposit of revenues.

 (A) The department shall enforce all laws for collection of revenues due this State from the saltwater fishing industries and from permitting the use of bottoms and waters.  (B) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department is authorized to open and maintain a financial escrow account in which funds received from violations of this chapter and proceeds of the sale of items seized pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited and held pending final adjudication of the case.  (C) All revenues, other than from fines and forfeitures, not otherwise provided for in this title derived from the regulation of saltwater fisheries shall be transmitted to the department for deposit in the department's general operating fund and shall be used by the department in support of the conservation of those fisheries. Revenues and funds so collected but not expended shall be carried forward annually and used for the same purpose. All fines and forfeitures under this chapter shall be transmitted to the department and deposited in the county game and fish fund for the county in which the offense occurred.  (D) Proceeds from sales of experimental mariculture products produced by the department shall be deposited in the state general fund to the credit of the Mariculture Research and Development Fund of the department to further encourage and promote development of the mariculture industry of this State by supporting operational research and development projects of the division and transfer of information to the mariculture industry. Funds deposited in the Mariculture Research and Development Fund shall be carried forward annually and used for the same purpose.  HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 245, Section 1.
SC Code § 50-5-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 50 - Fish, Game and Watercraft|Chapter 5 - Marine Resources Act|Section 50-5-30. Promulgation of regulations; civil offenses; penalties; suspension of permit.

 (A) The department may promulgate regulations for the government of the force under its control and for the control of fisheries, not contrary to or inconsistent with the laws and policy of the State, having the force and effect of law.  (B) In promulgating regulations, the department shall consider scientific and other available information regarding:  (1) current condition and trends of the species or stocks involved;  (2) environmental factors, including water quality and climatological data;  (3) biological data, including abundance, size, and distribution of species involved;  (4) economic conditions including market value;  (5) potential impacts upon fishermen and other resource users;  (6) safety of the public and persons utilizing the resource;  (7) effects of added development, population growth, fishing pressure, and demand for the resource; and  (8) other factors pertinent to the management and wise use of fishery resources.  (C) Nothing in this section reduces the authority of the department to act under other provisions of law.  (D) Violation of a regulation is a civil offense. The department may impose a civil penalty of up to two hundred dollars or suspend the license of a person adjudicated in violation, or both.  (E) For violation of a permit condition, in addition to any statutory criminal penalty, the department may impose a civil penalty of up to five hundred dollars and suspend or revoke the permit, or both.  (F) The department may suspend or revoke a permit for violation of any conservation law.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 28-160; 1952 Code Section 28-160; 1942 Code Section 3308; 1932 Code Section 3308; 1924 (33) 1016; 1952 (47) 2890; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1259; 2000 Act No. 245, Section 1.
SC Code § 50-5-32 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 50 - Fish, Game and Watercraft|Chapter 5 - Marine Resources Act|Section 50-5-32. Closing salt water fishing seasons, areas, or activities in emergency; notice; penalty.

 (A) The department has the authority to close any commercial or recreational fishing season, area, or activity in the salt waters of this State when a natural or man-induced emergency threatens the future or present well-being of a fishery resource or its habitat in a part of or in all of the salt waters of this State.  (B) The department must use all reasonable means to give notice to the public of an emergency closure issued pursuant to subsection (A) as soon as practicable. An emergency closure notice must specify the cause of the emergency and the fishing season, area, or activity closed, and, if known, the duration of the closure.  (C) When taking emergency action under this section, the department must notify the appropriate standing committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives of its actions as soon as practicable. Supporting resource assessments, scientific documentation, and notice of action taken must be provided to the committees.  (D) During the first three days of an emergency closure instituted under this section, the department must issue only warnings for first offense, noncommercial violations of the closure.  (E) The department must monitor the situation or occurrence under which the emergency arose and must reopen the closed season, area, or activity as soon as, but only when, the threat to the resource or its habitat no longer exists.  (F) It is unlawful to possess specified saltwater fish in violation of an emergency closure. A person violating an emergency closure is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 342, Section 3; 2012 Act No. 249, Section 3, eff June 18, 2012.  Effect of Amendment  The 2012 amendment rewrote subsection (A) and, in subsection (F), substituted "possess specified" for "take or attempt to take".
SC Code § 50-5-35 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 50 - Fish, Game and Watercraft|Chapter 5 - Marine Resources Act|Section 50-5-35. Notice of opening or closing of commercial fishing season; health and environmental protection.

 (A) In opening or closing any commercial fishing season pursuant to this chapter, except under the emergency closure authority provided in Section 50-5-32, the department shall give at least twenty-four hours notice of any action and shall use all reasonable means to inform the public.  (B) Except as provided in Section 50-5-955(B), nothing in this chapter alters, reduces, or amends the authority of the Department of Health and Environmental Control to regulate for public health and environmental protection.  HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 245, Section 1; 2002 Act No. 342, Section 4.
SC Code § 50-5-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 50 - Fish, Game and Watercraft|Chapter 5 - Marine Resources Act|Section 50-5-40. Unauthorized tagging or marking and releasing of saltwater fish; penalty.

 Unless authorized by the department, no person may tag or mark and release saltwater fish or promote such activity. A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 28-161; 1952 Code Section 28-161; 1942 Code Section 3315; 1932 Code Section 3315; 1924 (33) 1016; 1952 (47) 2890; 1986 Act No. 540, Part II, Section 19; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1259; 2000 Act No. 245, Section 1; 2013 Act No. 7, Section 3, eff March 22, 2013.  Effect of Amendment  The 2013 amendment, in the first sentence, moved "unless authorized by the department" from the end to the beginning of the sentence.
SC Code § 50-5-45 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 50 - Fish, Game and Watercraft|Chapter 5 - Marine Resources Act|Section 50-5-45. Maintenance and publication of nonindigenous organisms list; introduction of organisms prohibited.

 (A) The department shall maintain and publish a list of any species, varieties, or strains of nonindigenous organisms known or suspected to present an adverse impact to fish or marine resources of this State. The list shall include the common and scientific name and the actual or potential adverse impact of each organism.  (B) It is unlawful:  (1) to place in the salt waters of this State, or in privately owned waters directly connected to salt waters of this State, any live, fresh, or frozen whole, part, or product of any listed organism; or  (2) to sell or offer for sale as bait, any live, fresh, or frozen whole, part, or product of any listed organism.  HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 245, Section 1.