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SC Code § 46-9-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 9 - State Crop Pest Commission|Section 46-9-30. Confidentiality of business information; penalties for unlawful disclosure or use of information.

 The commission by regulation shall establish procedures dealing with confidential business information. It is unlawful for an authorized representative of the commission in an official capacity to disclose under this chapter or another applicable chapter of this title information entitled to protection as confidential business information or as a trade secret. This information includes, but is not limited to, research information or new techniques, procedures, or products whether so denominated under federal or state law or regulation. It is unlawful also for the representative to use the information for personal gain or to reveal it to an unauthorized person if the confidential business information or trade secret clearly is delineated as such. A person who violates this section must be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days. He also may be dismissed from his position.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 3-103; 1952 Code Section 3-103; 1942 Code Section 3256; 1932 Code Section 3256; Civ. C. '22 Section 962; Civ. C. '12 Section 878; Civ. C. '02 Section 744; 1901 (23) 703; 1903 (24) 22; 1912 (27) 748; 1992 Act No. 389, Section 1, eff May 15, 1992.
SC Code § 46-9-35 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 9 - State Crop Pest Commission|Section 46-9-35. Licensing exams and questions confidential; applicant review of failed exam.

 (A) Licensing examinations and licensing examination questions maintained or administered, or both, by the commission, its agents, or employees are confidential and are exempt from public disclosure.  (B) The commission shall within twenty-one days after receipt of a written request from an applicant who failed the licensing examination, arrange a meeting between a commission agent and the applicant to review the applicant's licensing examination answers. Such a meeting must be held in the commission office nearest the applicant's residence.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 206, Section 1, eff April 22, 2002.
SC Code § 46-9-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 9 - State Crop Pest Commission|Section 46-9-40. Authority to promulgate and enforce regulations; other powers of commission.

 The commission, in accordance with the Administrative Procedures Act, may promulgate and enforce reasonable regulations as in the judgment of the commission may be necessary to eradicate or prevent the introduction, spread, or dissemination of plant pests, including genetically engineered plants or plant pest organisms, and prevent fraud or misrepresentation in the sale and dissemination of fruit trees, nut trees, shade and ornamental trees, vines, shrubs, plants, bulbs, and roots for propagation purposes. The commission may regulate or prohibit the shipment within, or the importation into, this State of plants, farm products, or other articles of any nature or character from a state, territory, or foreign country when, in the opinion of the commission, the regulation or prohibition is necessary to prevent the introduction or dissemination of plant pests.  The commission may carry out operations, including quarantines or measures to locate, suppress, control, or eradicate or to prevent or retard the spread of plant pests, independently or in cooperation with counties or their political subdivisions, municipalities, farmers' associations or similar organizations, individuals, federal agencies, or agencies of other states, by regulation, compliance agreement, judicial action, or other appropriate means.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 3-104; 1952 Code Section 3-104; 1942 Code Section 3257; 1932 Code Section 3257; Civ. C. '22 Section 963; Civ. C. '12 Section 876; Civ. C. '02 Section 742; 1901 (23) 703; 1903 (24) 22; 1912 (27) 748; 1922 (32) 975; 1992 Act No. 389, Section 1, eff May 15, 1992.
SC Code § 46-9-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 9 - State Crop Pest Commission|Section 46-9-50. Delegation of duties of commission to director; powers and duties of director.

 The commission shall delegate the duties provided in this chapter and other applicable chapters of this title to the director who may administer and enforce the provisions and promulgate related regulations.  The director is the final decision authority in approving releases or the introduction of genetically engineered organisms for agricultural use in this State. The director may hold public hearings at appropriate geographical locations, after thirty days' public notice in at least one newspaper of general circulation within the area. In making a final decision the director may rely on the findings of federal or state agencies involved.  The director may promulgate regulations designating plant pests. In the designation he may rely upon prior determinations by federal authorities and in effect in Title 7, Code of Federal Regulations. If prior determinations have not been made, the director shall comply with the Administrative Procedures Act.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 3-105; 1961 (52) 261; 1992 Act No. 389, Section 1, eff May 15, 1992.
SC Code § 46-9-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 9 - State Crop Pest Commission|Section 46-9-70. Police powers of commission, assistants, deputies, and agents; violations reported to commission.

 The members of the commission and their assistants, deputies, and agents have police power in executing this chapter and as otherwise provided by law. Every person shall report violations to the commission.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 3-109; 1952 Code Section 3-109; 1942 Code Section 3261; 1932 Code Section 3265; Civ. C. '22 Section 971; 1912 (27) 748; 1992 Act No. 389, Section 1, eff May 15, 1992.
SC Code § 46-9-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 9 - State Crop Pest Commission|Section 46-9-80. Penalties for interfering with commission, director, deputies, assistants, or agents.

 A person who seeks to prevent an inspection under the direction of the commission, the director, or his deputies, assistants, or agents or who otherwise interferes with the director or his assistants, deputies, or agents, while in the performance of their duties under this chapter and other chapters of this title assigned to the jurisdiction of the commission, is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned not less than ten nor more than thirty days, or both, for a first offense and for a second offense in the discretion of the court.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 3-110; 1952 Code Section 3-110; 1942 Code Section 3260; 1932 Code Section 3264; Civ. C. '22 Section 970; Cr. C. '22 Section 275; 1912 (27) 748; 1992 Act No. 389, Section 1, eff May 15, 1992.
SC Code § 46-9-100 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 9 - State Crop Pest Commission|Section 46-9-100. Fines deposited to credit of State Treasury.

 Fines resulting from prosecutions under this chapter and other chapters of this title assigned to the commission must be paid to the State Treasurer and deposited to the credit of the State Treasury.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 3-112; 1952 Code Section 3-112; 1942 Code Section 3262; 1932 Code Section 3266; Civ. C. '22 Section 972; 1912 (27) 748; 1992 Act No. 389, Section 1, eff May 15, 1992.
SC Code § 46-9-110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 9 - State Crop Pest Commission|Section 46-9-110. Local ordinances void.

 Local ordinances pertaining to the subject matter assigned by law to the commission, whether or not in conflict, are void.  HISTORY: 1992 Act No. 389, Section 1, eff May 15, 1992.
SC Code § 46-9-120 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 9 - State Crop Pest Commission|Section 46-9-120. Reporting of agricultural product diseases caused by chemical or other terrorism.

 Every farmer, agriculturalist, county extension agent, agricultural products processor, crop advisor, or other person working in agriculture, or person having responsibility for agricultural production or processing must report agricultural products having or suspected of having any disease or infection from any crop pest whatsoever that may be caused by chemical terrorism, bioterrorism, radiological terrorism, epidemic or pandemic disease, or novel and highly infectious agents and which might cause serious agricultural threat to the State. The report must be made by telephone, in writing, or by compatible electronic format within twenty-four hours to the Director, Regulatory and Public Service Programs, Clemson University, and must include as much of the following information as is available: the geographic location of the agricultural product and/or its origin; the name and address of any known owner, the name and address of any known shipper; the name and address of the owner of the point of origin; and the name and address of the reporting individual. The director must report to the Department of Health and Environmental Control any incidents which affect public health, or which create a public health emergency, as defined in Section 44-4-130. For purposes of this section, the terms chemical terrorism, bioterrorism, and radiological terrorism have the same meanings as provided in Section 44-4-130.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 339, Section 28, eff July 2, 2002.
SC Code § 46-10-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 10 - Boll Weevil Eradication|Section 46-10-10. Short title.

 This chapter may be cited as the "South Carolina Boll Weevil Eradication Act".  HISTORY: 1976 Act No. 649 Section 11.
SC Code § 46-10-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 10 - Boll Weevil Eradication|Section 46-10-20. Definitions.

 The following terms as used in this chapter shall mean:  (1) Commission: The State Crop Pest Commission, as designated by the Board of Trustees of Clemson University, or any officer or employee of the commission to whom authority to act in its stead has been or hereafter may be delegated.  (2) Pest: Anthonomus grandis Boheman, boll weevil in any stage of development.  (3) Host: Any plant or plant product upon which a pest is dependent for completion of any portion of its life cycle.  (4) Infested: Actually infested or infected with a pest or so exposed to infestation that it would be reasonable to believe that an infestation exists.  (5) Person: Any individual, corporation, company, society, association or other business entity.  (6) Move: To ship, offer for shipment, receive for transportation, carry or otherwise transport, move or allow to be moved.  (7) Regulated article: Any article of any character as described in the quarantine carrying or capable of carrying the plant pest against which the quarantine is directed.  (8) Certificate: A document issued or authorized by the commission indicating that a regulated article is not contaminated with a pest.  (9) Permit: A document issued or authorized by the commission to provide for the movement of regulated articles to restricted destinations for limited handling, utilization or processing.  (10) Commercial Cotton Producer: Any person who grew cotton and received direct income from the sale of the crop during the year preceding the referendum provided for in Section 46-10-120 as certified by the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agriculture.  (11) Director: The Director, Division of Regulatory and Public Service Programs, College of Agricultural Sciences, Clemson University.  (12) Division: The Division of Regulatory and Public Service Programs, College of Agricultural Sciences, Clemson University.  HISTORY: 1976 Act No. 649 Section 1; 1982 Act No. 281, Section 1; 1983 Act No. 36 Sections 1, 2.
SC Code § 46-10-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 10 - Boll Weevil Eradication|Section 46-10-30. Administration of chapter; rules and regulations.

 The commission shall administer the provisions of this chapter. The commission may assign functions provided for in this chapter to any unit of the commission and delegate any authority provided for in this chapter to any officer or employee thereof, to be exercised under its general supervision. The commission shall promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary for the efficient execution of the provisions in this chapter.  This chapter is subject to all the provisions of the Administrative Procedures Act (Sections 1-23-10 et seq.).  HISTORY: 1976 Act No. 649 Section 2; 1983 Act No. 36 Section 3.
SC Code § 46-10-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 10 - Boll Weevil Eradication|Section 46-10-40. Powers of commission.

 The commission, either independently or in cooperation with counties or political subdivisions thereof, cities, towns, farmers' associations or similar organizations, individuals, federal agencies or agencies of other states, may carry out operations or measures to locate, suppress, control or eradicate, or to prevent or retard the spread of pests.  HISTORY: 1976 Act No. 649 Section 3; 1983 Act No. 36 Section 4.
SC Code § 46-10-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 10 - Boll Weevil Eradication|Section 46-10-50. Quarantines; hearings and notice.

 The commission may quarantine this State or any portion thereof when it shall determine that such action is necessary to prevent or retard the spread of a pest within or from this State and to quarantine any other state or portion thereof whenever it determines that a pest exists therein and that such action is necessary to prevent or retard its spread into this State. Before promulgating its determination that a quarantine is necessary, the commission shall, after due notice to interested parties, hold a public hearing under such rules as it shall promulgate, at which hearing any interested party may appear and be heard either in person or by attorney. The commission may impose a temporary quarantine for a period not to exceed ninety days during which time a public hearing, as provided herein, shall be held if it appears that a quarantine for more than the ninety-day period will be necessary to prevent or retard the spread of the pest. The commission shall give notice of the establishment of the quarantine in such newspapers in the quarantined area as it may select. The commission may limit the application of the quarantine to the infested portion of the quarantined area and appropriate environs, to be known as the regulated area and may without further hearing extend the regulated area to include additional portions of the quarantined area upon publication of a notice to that effect in such newspapers in the quarantined area as it may select or by direct written notice to those concerned.  Following establishment of the quarantine, no person shall move any regulated article described in the quarantine or move the pest against which the quarantine is established within, from, into or through this State contrary to regulations promulgated by the commission. Notice of the regulations shall be published in such newspapers in the quarantined area as the commission may select.  The regulations may restrict the movement of the pest and any regulated articles from the quarantined or regulated area in this State into or through other parts of this State or other states and from the quarantined or regulated area in other states into or through this State and shall impose such inspection, disinfection, certification or permit and other requirements as the commission deems necessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter.  HISTORY: 1976 Act No. 649 Section 4.
SC Code § 46-10-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 10 - Boll Weevil Eradication|Section 46-10-60. Additional powers of commission.

 Whenever the commission finds any article that is infested or reasonably believed to be infested or a host or pest exists on any premises or is in transit in this State, it may, upon giving notice to the owner or his agent in possession thereof, seize, quarantine, treat or otherwise dispose of such pest, host or article in such manner as the commission deems necessary to suppress, control, eradicate or to prevent or retard the spread of a pest, or the commission may order such owner or agent to so treat or otherwise dispose of the pest, host or article. The owner of any property destroyed or ordered to be treated or otherwise disposed of under this section may, in an action against this State in the appropriate court for the county in which he resides or the property was located, recover just compensation for any property so destroyed or the reasonable costs of disposal of any property so ordered if he establishes that the property was not a pest, host or infested article.  HISTORY: 1976 Act No. 649 Section 5.
SC Code § 46-10-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 10 - Boll Weevil Eradication|Section 46-10-70. Inspections.

 To effectuate the purposes of this chapter, the commission may with a warrant or the consent of the owner make reasonable inspection of any premises in this State and any property therein or thereon and may without a warrant stop and inspect, in a reasonable manner, any means of conveyance moving within this State upon probable cause to believe it contains or carries any pest, host or other article subject to this chapter and may make any other reasonable inspection of any premises or means of conveyance for which, under the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of this State, no warrant is required.  The courts of this State shall have authority to issue warrants for such inspections upon a showing by the commission that there is probable cause to believe that there exists in or on the property to be inspected a pest, host or other article subject to this chapter.  HISTORY: 1976 Act No. 649 Section 6.
SC Code § 46-10-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 10 - Boll Weevil Eradication|Section 46-10-80. Cooperation with federal and adjacent state agencies.

 (1) The commission may cooperate with any agency of the federal government in such operations and measures as is deemed necessary to suppress, control, eradicate or to prevent or retard the spread of any plant pest including the right to expend state funds on federal lands.  (2) The commission may cooperate with agencies of adjacent states in such operations and measures as it deems necessary to locate; to suppress, control or eradicate; or to prevent or retard the spread of any pest. The use of funds appropriated to carry out this chapter for operations in adjacent states must be approved in advance by the Governor or his designee.  HISTORY: 1976 Act No. 649 Section 7.
SC Code § 46-10-85 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 10 - Boll Weevil Eradication|Section 46-10-85. Certification of cotton growers' organization; eligibility requirements; certifying resolution; revocation.

 (A) The commission may certify a cotton growers' organization for the purpose of entering into agreements with the State of South Carolina, other states, and federal agencies as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter.  A cotton growers' organization may apply to the commission for certification. In order to be eligible for certification by the commission, an organization must demonstrate to the satisfaction of the commission that:  (1) It is a nonprofit organization and may qualify as a tax exempt organization under Section 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 [26 USC 501(a)];  (2) Membership in the organization is open to all cotton growers in this State;  (3) The organization has only one class of members with each member entitled to only one vote;  (4) The organization's board of directors is composed of five cotton growers from this State being appointed by the commission on recommendation of the Director, and in accordance with the grower organization's bylaws, for a one year term. Their successors shall be elected for two year terms by the members of the approved cotton growers' organization. The Director or his designee shall also serve on the board;  (5) All books and records of account and minutes of proceedings of the organization are available for inspection or audit by the Director or his representative at any reasonable time;  (6) Employees or agents of the growers' organization who handle funds of the organization are adequately bonded.  (B) Upon determination by the commission that the organization meets the requirements of subsection (A), the commission must adopt a resolution certifying the organization as the official boll weevil eradication organization.  The commission may certify only one organization but may revoke the certification of the organization if at any time the organization fails to meet the requirements of this chapter.  HISTORY: 1983 Act No. 36 Section 5.
SC Code § 46-10-90 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 10 - Boll Weevil Eradication|Section 46-10-90. Treatment or destruction of cotton.

 The commission or its authorized agent may destroy or in its discretion treat with pesticides, volunteer or other noncommercial cotton, and establish procedures by regulation for the purchase and destruction of commercial cotton when such action is deemed necessary to implement the purposes of this chapter.  HISTORY: 1976 Act No. 649 Section 8; 1983 Act No. 36 Section 6.
SC Code § 46-10-100 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 10 - Boll Weevil Eradication|Section 46-10-100. Penalties.

 (A) A person who violates Section 46-10-60 or who alters, forges, counterfeits, or uses without authority a certificate, a permit, or other document provided for in this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year, or both, in the discretion of the court.  (B) A person who knowingly moves a regulated article into this State from a quarantined area of another state which has not been treated or handled under provisions of the quarantine and regulations in effect at the point of origin is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be punished as in subsection (A).  HISTORY: 1976 Act No. 649 Section 9; 1983 Act No. 36 Section 7; 1985 Act No. 13, Section 1; 1991 Act No. 66, Section 1, eff May 22, 1991; 2017 Act No. 31 (S.570), Section 3, eff May 10, 2017.  Effect of Amendment  2017 Act No. 31, Section 3, in (A), deleted "or in regulations of the commission" following "in this chapter".
SC Code § 46-10-110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 46 - Agriculture|Chapter 10 - Boll Weevil Eradication|Section 46-10-110. Caution in use of pesticides or in eradication methods.

 The commission shall use all means necessary to insure that the pesticides used or the methods employed to eradicate the pest will not harm organisms other than the pest habitating the treatment area or surrounding areas.  The commission may regulate the pasturage of livestock, entrance by unauthorized persons, and location of honey bee colonies in any quarantined area or in any field which has been or is to be treated with pesticides, or otherwise treated to cause the eradication of the pest.  Extreme caution shall be employed by the commission to guard against the spread of any harmful substances used in the eradication of the boll weevil to areas other than the treatment area.  HISTORY: 1976 Act No. 649 Section 10.