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SC Code § 46-45-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 45 - Nuisance Suits Related To Agricultural Operations|Section 46-45-20. Definitions.

 (A) For purposes of this chapter, "agricultural facility" includes, but is not limited to, any land, building, structure, pond, impoundment appurtenance, machinery, or equipment which is used for the commercial production or processing of crops, trees, livestock, animals, poultry, honeybees, honeybee products, livestock products, poultry products, or products which are used in commercial aquaculture.  (B) For purposes of this chapter "agricultural operation" means:  (1) the plowing, tilling, or preparation of soil at the agricultural facility;  (2) the planting, growing, fertilizing, or harvesting of crops, ornamental horticulture, floriculture, and turf grasses;  (3) the application of pesticides, herbicides, or other chemicals, compounds, or substances to crops, weeds, or soil in connection with the production of crops, livestock, animals, or poultry;  (4) the breeding, hatching, raising, producing, feeding, keeping, slaughtering, or processing of livestock, hogs, aquatic animals, equines, chickens, turkeys, poultry, or other fowl normally raised for food, mules, cattle, sheep, goats, rabbits, or similar farm animals for commercial purposes;  (5) the production and keeping of the honeybees, the production of honeybee products, and honeybee processing facilities;  (6) the production, processing, or packaging of eggs or egg products;  (7) the manufacturing of feed for poultry or livestock;  (8) the rotation of crops;  (9) commercial aquaculture;  (10) the application of existing, changed, or new technology, practices, processes, or procedures to an agricultural operation;  (11) the operation of a roadside market; and  (12) silviculture.  (C) For purposes of this chapter "new swine operations" means: porcine production operations not in existence on June 30, 2006.  (D) For purposes of this chapter, "new slaughterhouse operations" means agricultural operations that:  (1) are established after this chapter's effective date; and  (2) slaughter or process more than two hundred million pounds of livestock, hogs, aquatic animals, equine, chickens, turkeys, poultry, or other fowl normally raised for food, mules, cattle, sheep, goats, rabbits, or similar farm animals for commercial purposes.  (3) a new slaughterhouse operation does not include a slaughterhouse located within the corporate limits of a city that relocates within that same county.  HISTORY: 1980 Act No. 452; 1990 Act No. 442, Section 1, eff April 24, 1990; 1992 Act No. 473, Section 1, eff June 18, 1992; 2006 Act No. 290, Section 1, eff upon approval (became law without the Governor's signature on May 30, 2006).
SC Code § 46-45-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 45 - Nuisance Suits Related To Agricultural Operations|Section 46-45-40. Established date of operation.

 For the purposes of this chapter, the established date of operation is the date on which an agricultural operation commenced operation. If the physical facilities of the agricultural operation are expanded subsequently or new technology adopted, the established date of operation for each change is not a separately and independently established date of operation and the commencement of the expanded operation does not divest the agricultural operation of a previously established date of operation.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 442, Section 1, eff April 24, 1990; 2006 Act No. 290, Section 1, eff upon approval (became law without the Governor's signature on May 30, 2006).
SC Code § 46-45-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 45 - Nuisance Suits Related To Agricultural Operations|Section 46-45-50. Liability for pollution and flooding.

 The provisions of Section 46-45-70 do not affect or defeat the right of a person to recover damages for any injuries or damages sustained by him because of pollution of, or change in condition of, the waters of a stream or because of an overflow on his lands.  HISTORY: 1980 Act No. 452; 1976 Code Section 46-45-40; 1990 Act No. 442, Section 1, eff April 24, 1990; 2002 Act No. 340, Section 11, eff June 30, 2002; 2006 Act No. 290, Section 1, eff upon approval (became law without the Governor's signature on May 30, 2006).
SC Code § 46-45-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 45 - Nuisance Suits Related To Agricultural Operations|Section 46-45-60. Local ordinances to contrary null and void.

 (A) Notwithstanding any local law or ordinance, an agricultural operation or facility is considered to be in compliance with the local law or ordinance if the operation or facility would otherwise comply with state law or regulations governing the facility or operation. With the exception of new swine operations and new slaughterhouse operations, to the extent an ordinance of a unit of local government:  (1) attempts to regulate the licensing or operation of an agricultural facility in any manner that is not identical to the laws of this State and regulations of the Department of Health and Environmental Control and amendments thereto;  (2) makes the operation of an agricultural facility or an agricultural operation at an agricultural facility a nuisance or providing for abatement as a nuisance in derogation of this chapter; or  (3) is not identical to state law and regulations governing agricultural operations or agricultural facilities, is null and void. The provisions of this section do not apply whenever a nuisance results from the negligent, illegal, or improper operation of an agricultural facility. The provisions of this section do not apply to an agricultural facility or agricultural operation at an agricultural facility located within the corporate limits of a city.  (B) The provisions of this section shall not preclude any right a county may have to determine whether an agricultural use is a permitted use under the county's land use and zoning authority; provided, if an agricultural facility or an agricultural operation is a permitted use, or is approved as a use pursuant to any county conditional use, special exception or similar county procedure, county development standards, or other ordinances that are not identical with the laws of this State or the regulations of the Department of Health and Environmental Control are null and void to the extent they (a) apply to agricultural operations or facilities otherwise permitted by this chapter, the laws of this State, and the regulations of the Department of Health and Environmental Control, and (b) are not identical to this chapter, the laws of this State, and the regulations of the Department of Health and Environmental Control.  HISTORY: 1980 Act No. 452; 1976 Code Section 46-45-50; 1990 Act No. 442, Section 1, eff April 24, 1990; 2006 Act No. 290, Section 1, eff upon approval (became law without the Governor's signature on May 30, 2006).
SC Code § 46-45-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 45 - Nuisance Suits Related To Agricultural Operations|Section 46-45-70. Established agricultural facility as nuisance; changed conditions in surrounding locality.

 No established agricultural facility or any agricultural operation at an established agricultural facility is or may become a nuisance, private or public, by any changed conditions in or about the locality of the facility or operation. This section does not apply whenever a nuisance results from the negligent, improper, or illegal operation of an agricultural facility or operation.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 340, Section 6, eff June 30, 2002; 2006 Act No. 290, Section 1, eff upon approval (became law without the Governor's signature on May 30, 2006).
SC Code § 46-45-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 45 - Nuisance Suits Related To Agricultural Operations|Section 46-45-80. Setback distances; waiver.

 Any setback distances given in R. 61-43, Standards for Permitting of Agricultural Animal Facilities, are minimum siting requirements as established by the Department of Health and Environmental Control. As long as the established setbacks are achieved, the department may not require additional setback distances. Such distances from property lines or residences may be waived or reduced by written consent of the adjoining property owners. All animal facilities affected by these setback provisions must have an evergreen buffer between the facility and the affected residence as established by DHEC unless otherwise agreed to in writing by the adjoining landowners.  HISTORY: 2006 Act No. 290, Section 1, eff upon approval (became law without the Governor's signature on May 30, 2006); 2018 Act No. 139 (H.3929), Section 3, eff March 12, 2018.  Editor's Note  2018 Act No. 139, Section 4, provides as follows:  "SECTION 4. Nothing in this act shall be construed as affecting or applying to confined swine feeding operations."  Effect of Amendment  2018 Act No. 139, Section 3, in the second sentence, inserted "As long as the established setbacks are achieved," and substituted "the department may not require additional setback distances" for "The department may require additional setback distances on a case-by-case basis considering the factors set forth in the regulation"; in the third sentence, inserted "from property lines or residences" and deleted ", or otherwise without consent of the adjoining property owners, when there are innovative and alternative technologies approved by the department pursuant to the Innovative and Alternative Technologies Section of R. 61-43" following "adjoining property owners"; and in the fourth sentence, substituted "All animal facilities" for "All agricultural animal facilities" and "must have an evergreen buffer" for "must have a vegetative buffer".
SC Code § 46-49-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 49 - Supervision And Regulation Of Milk And Milk Products|Section 46-49-10. Definitions.

 As used in this chapter, unless otherwise stated or the context of the subject matter clearly indicates otherwise:  (1) "Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other business entity.  (2) "Distributor" means one or more of the persons listed in this item wherever located or operating, within or without South Carolina, doing business and engaged in receiving, producing, processing, manufacturing, subdistributing, distributing, marketing, or handling one or more of the products covered by this chapter and offering the products for sale in this State. Distributor means a person, whether or not a producer, except a distributor who sells less than one hundred gallons of fluid milk products a day produced on his own farm, who:  (a) receives, processes, manufactures, and packages products covered by this article for human consumption;  (b) offers for sale products covered by this chapter at wholesale or retail;  (c) operates a store or other establishment from which products covered by this chapter are offered for sale at retail.  (3) "Producer" means a person, whether or not the person also is a distributor or member or a producer association who produces milk for sale as fluid milk in the State.  (4) "Independent producer" means a producer who is not a member of a producer association or association of producers.  (5) "Market" means a county or group of counties within this State, including the State as a whole.  (6) "Producer association or association of producers" means a cooperative association of producers incorporated and existing under the cooperative laws of South Carolina or an association incorporated and existing under similar laws of another state, which is authorized to do business in South Carolina and which the board determines to have full authority for the sales of milk and dairy products of its members.  (7) "Store" means an establishment which purchases or otherwise acquires in processed and packaged form one or more of the products covered by this chapter for use or resale for human consumption.  (8) "Licensee" means a person required to obtain a license by this chapter and who is a de facto licensee under this chapter.  (9) "Milk" means the clean lacteal secretion obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows, including milk cooled, pasteurized, standardized, or otherwise processed with a view of selling it as fluid milk, cream, skimmed milk, cultured milk, or as another fluid milk product.  (10) "Doing business" means the engaging in or the transaction of activity in this State for financial profit or gain.  (11) "Department" means the South Carolina Department of Agriculture.  HISTORY: 1986 Act No. 540, Part II, Section 32A; 1992 Act No. 407, Section 1, eff June 1, 1992.
SC Code § 46-49-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 49 - Supervision And Regulation Of Milk And Milk Products|Section 46-49-20. Products covered by chapter.

 The products covered by this chapter are all Grade A milk and milk products defined pursuant to Section 44-1-140. The products include Grade A raw milk for pasteurization, reconstituted milk derived by recombining dry milk solids, evaporated or condensed milk with water, which is processed for sale as a fluid milk product, and all Grade A milk products from whatever source derived which include, but are not limited to, pasteurized, homogenized, flavored and cultured milk, skim milk, lowfat milk, creamy buttermilk, and cultured milk products.  HISTORY: 1986 Act No. 540, Part II, Section 32A.
SC Code § 46-49-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 49 - Supervision And Regulation Of Milk And Milk Products|Section 46-49-40. Authority of Department of Agriculture to hold hearings to investigate matters affecting dairy industry; additional powers.

 The department may hold hearings to investigate any matters affecting the state dairy industry.  The department has the authority under this section to issue subpoenas, take depositions of witnesses, and grant immunity from prosecution for violation of terms under the statutes for giving testimony or furnishing records in the course of an investigation.  The department may apply to any court of competent jurisdiction for orders requiring compliance by persons failing or refusing to comply with the provisions of this chapter.  HISTORY: 1986 Act No. 540, Part II, Section 32A.
SC Code § 46-49-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 49 - Supervision And Regulation Of Milk And Milk Products|Section 46-49-60. Issuance of licenses by Department of Agriculture; suspension or revocation of licenses; monetary penalties.

 A distributor shall not engage, either directly or indirectly, in doing business in any market until he has applied for and obtained a license from the department. A store is not required to make application for a license but is considered to be a de facto licensee as required in this chapter. The department may classify licensees and may issue licenses to distributors to produce, receive, process, manufacture, or sell any of the products covered by this chapter in any particular market.  The department may decline to grant a license or may suspend or revoke a license already granted upon due notice and after a hearing before the department whenever the applicant or licensee has violated regulations issued by the Department of Health and Environmental Control, or any provisions of this chapter.  The department may, in lieu of license suspensions, invoke a penalty of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five thousand dollars. All receipts from the penalties must be paid by the department to the State Treasurer.  HISTORY: 1986 Act No. 540, Part II, Section 32A.
SC Code § 46-49-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 49 - Supervision And Regulation Of Milk And Milk Products|Section 46-49-70. Violations and penalties.

 Any person violating any provision of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days, and each day during which the violation continues is considered a separate violation.  HISTORY: 1986 Act No. 540, Part II, Section 32A; 2017 Act No. 31 (S.570), Section 7, eff May 10, 2017.  Effect of Amendment  2017 Act No. 31, Section 7, deleted "or any regulations or orders promulgated pursuant to this chapter or any license issued by the department" following "of this chapter", and made nonsubstantive changes.
SC Code § 46-49-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 49 - Supervision And Regulation Of Milk And Milk Products|Section 46-49-80. Liability of all persons participating in violation or using misrepresentation, threat, intimidation, or boycott to effectuate commission of violation.

 Solicitation by or collusion or joint participation between or among any producer, association of producers, manufacturer, distributor or store, or any representative, to violate any of the provisions of this chapter and regulations or orders issued pursuant to this chapter, or the use of any misrepresentation, threat, intimidation, or boycott to effectuate the commission of the violations makes all persons participating subject to the same penalties as for actual violations.  HISTORY: 1986 Act No. 540, Part II, Section 32A.
SC Code § 46-49-90 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 49 - Supervision And Regulation Of Milk And Milk Products|Section 46-49-90. Promulgation of regulations by Department of Agriculture.

 The department shall promulgate regulations to carry out the provisions of this chapter.  HISTORY: 1986 Act No. 540, Part II, Section 32A.
SC Code § 46-50-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 50 - Southern Interstate Dairy Compact|Section 46-50-10. Short title.

 This chapter may be cited as the "Southern Interstate Dairy Compact Act of 1998".  HISTORY: 1998 Act No. 420, Section 1, eff June 8, 1998.
SC Code § 46-50-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 50 - Southern Interstate Dairy Compact|Section 46-50-20. Execution and ratification of compact; exchange of documents with other ratifying states.

 (A) The Governor on behalf of this State may execute a compact, in substantially the form set out in Section 46-50-30, with any two or more of the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia, and the legislature hereby signifies in advance its approval and ratification of the compact when the compact has been enacted into law by any three of the compact states, including South Carolina, and the consent of Congress to the interstate compact has been obtained.  (B) When the Governor has executed the compact on behalf of this State, and caused a verified copy to be filed with the Secretary of State, and when the compact has been ratified by three or more of the states named in Article VIII, Section 20 of the compact, including South Carolina, the compact shall become operative and effective as between this State and the states that have ratified the compact. The Governor shall take such action as may be necessary to complete the exchange of official documents between this State and any other state ratifying the compact, and to otherwise carry out the provisions of this chapter.  (C) Upon the compact becoming operative and effective between this State and other states ratifying the compact, it is hereby declared to be the policy of this State to perform and carry out the compact and to accomplish the purposes thereof.  HISTORY: 1998 Act No. 420, Section 1, eff June 8, 1998.
SC Code § 46-50-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 50 - Southern Interstate Dairy Compact|Section 46-50-30. Text of compact.

 The Southern Interstate Dairy Compact is as follows:  ARTICLE I.  STATEMENT OF PURPOSE, FINDINGS, AND DECLARATION OF POLICY
SC Code § 2 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 50 - Southern Interstate Dairy Compact|Section 2. DEFINITIONS.

 For the purposes of this compact, and of any supplemental or concurring legislation enacted pursuant thereto, except as may be otherwise required by the context:  (1) "Class I milk" means milk disposed of in fluid form or as a fluid milk product, subject to further definition in accordance with the principles expressed in subdivision (b) of section three.  (2) "Commission" means the Southern Dairy Compact Commission established by this compact.  (3) "Commission marketing order" means regulations adopted by the commission pursuant to sections nine and ten of this compact in place of a terminated federal marketing order or state dairy regulation. Such order may apply throughout the region or in any part or parts thereof as defined in the regulations of the commission. Such order may establish minimum prices for any or all classes of milk.  (4) "Compact" means this interstate compact.  (5) "Compact over-order price" means a minimum price required to be paid to producers for Class I milk established by the commission in regulations adopted pursuant to sections nine and ten of this compact, which is above the price established in federal marketing orders or by state farm price regulation in the regulated area. Such price may apply throughout the region or in any part or parts thereof as defined in the regulations of the commission.  (6) "Milk" means the lacteal secretion of cows and includes all skim, butterfat, or other constituents obtained from separation or any other process. The term is used in its broadest sense and may be further defined by the commission for regulatory purposes.  (7) "Partially regulated plant" means a milk plant not located in a regulated area but having Class I distribution within such area. Commission regulations may exempt plants having such distribution or receipts in amounts less than the limits defined therein.  (8) "Participating state" means a state which has become a party to this compact by the enactment of concurring legislation.  (9) "Pool plant" means any milk plant located in a regulated area.  (10) "Region" means the territorial limits of the states which are parties to this compact.  (11) "Regulated area" means any area within the region governed by and defined in regulations establishing a compact over-order price or commission marketing order.  (12) "State dairy regulation" means any state regulation of dairy prices, and associated assessments, whether by statute, marketing order, or otherwise.
SC Code § 3 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 50 - Southern Interstate Dairy Compact|Section 3. RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.

 (a) This compact shall not be construed to displace existing federal milk marketing orders or state dairy regulation in the region but to supplement them. In the event some or all federal orders in the region are discontinued, the compact shall be construed to provide the commission the option to replace them with one or more commission marketing orders pursuant to this compact.  (b) This compact shall be construed liberally in order to achieve the purposes and intent enunciated in section one. It is the intent of this compact to establish a basic structure by which the commission may achieve those purposes through the application, adaptation, and development of the regulatory techniques historically associated with milk marketing and to afford the commission broad flexibility to devise regulatory mechanisms to achieve the purposes of this compact. In accordance with this intent, the technical terms which are associated with market order regulation and which have acquired commonly understood general meanings are not defined herein but the commission may further define the terms used in this compact and develop additional concepts and define additional terms as it may find appropriate to achieve its purposes.  ARTICLE III.  COMMISSION ESTABLISHED