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SC Code § 61-6-4360 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-4360. Notice of motor vehicle seizure.

 (A) If a chattel seized under this article is a vehicle registered with the Department of Motor Vehicles, the sheriff must obtain from the Department of Motor Vehicles the name and address of the person in whose name the car is registered and must notify the person by registered mail of the seizure. If the chattel is a vehicle registered in another state, the sheriff must request from the Department of Motor Vehicles the name and address of the registered owner of the vehicle and must notify the owner in like manner.  (B) Immediately upon notification from the sheriff as required by subsection (A) or upon notice from the department that the name of the registered owner of the seized vehicle cannot be ascertained, the sheriff must give notice of the seizure made under this article by advertisement at least once a week for a period of three weeks in a paper of general circulation in the county. The advertisement must allege the seizure, describe the chattel, set forth in general terms the grounds of forfeiture of the seized property, and the date upon which the sale is to be made, which date must be not less than sixty days after seizure of the chattel.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-4370 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-4370. Sale of chattel.

 If, before the date set for sale of a chattel seized under this article, no person claiming an interest in the chattel, as owner, lienholder, or otherwise appears and gives notice to the sheriff as required in Section 61-6-4390, the chattel must be sold at public auction to the highest bidder.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-4380 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-4380. Proceeds of sale.

 If a chattel has been seized by municipal officers, the proceeds of a sale under Section 61-6-4370, less the necessary expenses of advertising and storage, must be paid to the municipality for its use. Otherwise, the proceeds must be paid to the county treasurer of the county where the chattel was seized.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-4390 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-4390. Actions to recover possession of chattel.

 Before sale of a chattel under Section 61-6-4370, the owner, any person indebted or liable for the purchase price of the chattel, and any lienholder may bring an action to recover possession of the chattel or to recover the value of his interest in the property from the proceeds of the sale; in a proceeding under this section, the sheriff must be made a party defendant. The solicitor of the circuit in which the seizure occurred must defend all these suits.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-4400 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-4400. Stay of sale; appraisals.

 Upon service upon the sheriff of a proceeding under Section 61-6-4390, he must stay the sale, retain the chattel, and await the order of the court. The sheriff must have the chattel appraised as appraisals are provided for in attachment cases under Section 15-19-270, must transmit the appraisal to the court, and must keep a copy of the appraisal in his office.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-4410 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-4410. Bonds for immediate possession of chattel.

 If the owner or other person claiming an interest in a chattel seized under this article desires to obtain immediate possession of the chattel, the court may order delivery to the claimant upon execution by him of a bond payable to the sheriff having possession of the seized property, in an amount equal to the appraised value of the chattel, with security to be approved by the clerk of court. The bond must be conditioned on returning the chattel at the time of the hearing of the proceeding or at a time as the court may order. In addition, the court may order the claimant to pay the difference between the appraised value of the chattel as of the time it has been so released on bond and the appraised value as of the time of its return; and conditioned further that if the chattel is not returned as ordered, the bond stands in lieu of and is forfeited in the same manner as the chattel. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, the court may, in its discretion, refuse to order delivery of possession.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-4420 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-4420. Proof of claim.

 In a proceeding brought to recover possession of a chattel seized under this article or to recover the value of an interest therein, no claim shall be allowed unless the claimant proves: (a) that he has an interest in the chattel, as owner or otherwise, which he acquired in good faith; (b) that he had at no time knowledge or reason to believe that the chattel was being or would be used in violation of the laws of this State relating to liquor; and (c) if it appears that the interest asserted by the claimant was acquired after March 28, 1956, and arises out of or is subject to any contract or agreement under which a person having a record or reputation for violating state or federal laws relating to liquor, has a right with respect to the chattel, that, before the claimant acquired his interest, or other person acquired his right under the contract or agreement, whichever occurred later, the claimant, his officer, or agent was informed, in answer to his inquiry, at the headquarters of the sheriff and police chief of the locality in which the other person acquired his right under the contract or agreement and of the locality in which the other person then resided, that the other person had no such record or reputation.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-4430 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-4430. Release of seized chattel.

 If the claimant is the owner of the chattel and he prevails in a proceeding under Section 61-6-4390, the court must release the chattel from forfeiture and restore it to the owner.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-4440 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-4440. Settlement of claims; joint claimants.

 If the claimant in a proceeding under Section 61-6-4390 is a lienholder whose claim is allowed and whose interest is first in order of priority among the claims and is of an amount equal to or in excess of the appraised value of the chattel, the court must release the chattel from forfeiture and order its return to him. If the claim is less than the appraised value of the chattel, the claimant may have the chattel delivered to him upon payment of the difference. If the claims of two or more lienholders whose interests are not subject to any prior or intervening interests claimed and allowed in the proceedings are allowed and are of a total amount equal to or in excess of the appraised value of the chattel, the court must, at the request of these claimants, order return of the chattel to the joint requesting claimants as are designated in the request. If the total amount of the claim is less than the appraised value of the chattel, the claimants may, upon payment of the difference, have the chattel delivered to those who are designated in the request.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-4450 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-4450. Distribution of proceeds.

 If delivery is not demanded by the claimant or claimants in a proceeding under Section 61-6-4390, the court must order the sale of the chattel by the sheriff. Out of the proceeds of the sale the following must be paid in the following order of priority:  (1) the claim or claims allowed in order of their priority as determined by the court;  (2) the costs; and  (3) the residue must be paid to the municipality or to the county treasurer as set forth in Section 61-6-4380.  If no claim is proven and established as provided in this section, the court must order the sale of the chattel by the sheriff and the proceeds from the sale, after payment of costs, paid as set forth in this section.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-4460 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-4460. Clear title.

 A person who purchases any chattel at a sale made by the sheriff under the provisions of this article acquires full and complete title to the chattel free and clear of prior claims, liens, or encumbrances.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-4470 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-4470. Proceedings against confiscated alcoholic liquors.

 For the purpose of confiscating alcoholic liquors under the ABC Act, the provisions of Sections 12-21-2900 to 12-21-2950 must be followed as nearly as practicable.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-4480 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-4480. Sheriffs' reports of seized chattels.

 The sheriff of each county must, upon seizure of or delivery to him of a chattel seized under the provisions of this article, report the seizure of the chattel to the department setting forth in the report a description of the chattel, the name of the owner if known, the grounds upon which the chattel was seized, by whom the chattel was seized, and the appraised value of the chattel if an appraisal has been made. The sheriff must, after the chattel has been sold or disposed of in accordance with the provisions of this article, make a report to the department setting forth the amount of the sale, the purchaser, the disposition of the proceeds, or whatever disposition has been made of the chattel by the sheriff pursuant to an order of the court.  The department must establish a system for the filing and recording of these reports.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-4490 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-4490. Preemption of field.

 Ordinances of political subdivisions of this State prohibiting the acts prohibited by the provisions of this article, except Section 61-6-4720, are hereby suspended, it being declared that the State has occupied the field of the subjects covered thereby. Judicial and law enforcement officers of political subdivisions of this State must enforce these provisions within their respective jurisdictions.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-4500 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-4500. Municipal court jurisdiction.

 Municipal courts must try and determine all cases involving a violation of this article, except Section 61-6-4720, occurring within the limits of the municipality in cases where the penalties prescribed do not exceed a fine of one hundred dollars or imprisonment for thirty days. These courts have jurisdiction over these criminal cases the same as that had by magistrates, with the right and duty of sending these cases occurring within the municipal limits but beyond their jurisdiction to try to higher courts. A person convicted hereunder in municipal court must be treated as a municipal prisoner.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-4510 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-4510. Municipal police officers.

 Municipal police officers have the power of constables to enforce the provisions of this article, except Section 61-6-4720, in cases arising within the municipal limits; and in addition, have all powers to enforce these provisions as they have to enforce municipal ordinances. When in fresh and continuous pursuit of a suspect for violations of these provisions occurring within the municipal limits, police officers may follow and arrest the suspect anywhere in the State.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-4520 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-4520. Federal labeling law.

 It is unlawful for a person to sell or otherwise introduce into commerce alcoholic liquors lawful under the provisions of this title, unless labeled in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Alcoholic Administration Act and rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. A violation of the provisions of this section subjects the alcoholic liquors found in the possession of a person violating this section to seizure, confiscation, and sale, as provided in Section 61-6-4310.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-4530 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-4530. Notes of indebtedness.

 A note or other evidence of indebtedness contracted in the sale or transportation of unlawful liquors is null and void. Nor may an action or suit for the recovery of the indebtedness be entertained in any court in this State.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-4540 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-4540. Search warrants.

 Upon affidavit, which may be on information and belief, to the effect that contraband liquors are being unlawfully concealed, kept, or stored in any place, a search warrant may be issued by a magistrate of the county empowering an officer or person who may be deputized to enter the place and to search the premises for the purpose of seizing the contraband liquors concealed, kept, or stored. The liquors, when seized, must be disposed of as provided for the disposition of unlawful liquors.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-4550 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-4550. Discount prices.

 No person who holds a biennial license to sell alcoholic liquors for on-premises consumption may advertise, sell, or dispense these beverages for free, at a price less than one-half of the price regularly charged, or on a two or more for the price of one basis. Alcoholic liquors may be sold at a price less than the price regularly charged from four o'clock p.m. until eight o'clock p.m. only. The prohibition against dispensing the beverages for free does not apply to dispensing to a customer on an individual basis, to a fraternal organization in the course of its fund-raising activities, to a person attending a private function on premises for which a biennial license has been issued, or to a customer attending a function sponsored by the person who holds a biennial license. However, no more than two functions may be sponsored each year, and must be authorized by the department. A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not less than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not less than three months, in the discretion of the court.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.  Subarticle 1  Authorized and Unauthorized Possession and Consumption of Alcoholic Liquors
SC Code § 61-6-4700 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-4700. Consumption of alcoholic liquor on premises.

 It is unlawful for a person to drink alcoholic liquors on the premises of a retail, wholesale, or manufacturing alcoholic liquor business or business establishment. A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be punished as follows:  (a) for a first offense, by a fine of one hundred dollars or imprisonment for thirty days;  (b) for a second offense, by a fine of two hundred dollars or imprisonment for sixty days; and  (c) for a third or subsequent offense, by a fine of three hundred dollars or imprisonment for ninety days.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-4710 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-4710. Lawful possession or consumption.

 (A) A person who is twenty-one years of age or older may possess or consume lawfully acquired alcoholic liquors:  (1) in a private residence, hotel room, or motel room;  (2) or on other property not engaged in business or commercial activity, at private gatherings, receptions, or occasions of a single and isolated nature and not on a repetitive or continuous basis, with the express permission of the owner and any other person in possession of the property, and to which the general public is not invited. However, this must not be construed to authorize the possession or consumption of alcoholic liquors on premises open to the general public for which a license has been obtained pursuant to Sections 61-6-1600 or 61-6-1610.  (3) in separate and private areas of an establishment whether or not the establishment includes premises which are licensed pursuant to Sections 61-6-1600 or 61-6-1610, where specific individuals have leased these areas for a function not open to the general public.  (B) It is unlawful for a person to possess or consume alcoholic liquors upon any premises where the person has been forbidden to possess or consume alcoholic liquors by the owner, operator, or person in charge of the premises.  A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-4720 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-4720. Consumption of alcoholic liquor in public conveyance.

 A person who drinks alcoholic liquors in a public conveyance in this State is considered guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than one hundred dollars or be imprisoned not more than thirty days. This section does not apply to a railroad dining or club car or to an aircraft of a commercial airline transporting passengers for hire.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-8-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 8 - Nuisances|Section 61-8-10. Common nuisances.

 The unlawful sale, barter, exchange, storage or keeping in possession in this State of spirituous, malt, vinous, fermented, brewed (whether lager or rice beer) or other liquors or beverages or a compound or mixture thereof which contains alcohol and is used as a beverage is hereby declared a common nuisance.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-8-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 8 - Nuisances|Section 61-8-20. Arrest warrants and search warrants.

 Any person may appear before a magistrate in the county and swear out an arrest warrant on personal knowledge or on information and belief charging a nuisance, giving the names of witnesses against the keeper or manager of the place and his aides and assistants, if any. The magistrate must direct the arrest warrant either to the sheriff of the county or to a special constable commanding the defendant to be arrested and brought before him to be dealt with according to law and may issue a search warrant in which the premises in question must be particularly described, commanding the sheriff or constable to search thoroughly the premises in question and to seize all alcoholic liquors found thereon, to seize all vessels, bar fixtures, screens, bottles, glasses, and appurtenances apparently used or suitable for use in retailing liquors, and to make a complete inventory thereof and deposit it with the sheriff. Liquors so seized must, if no action to recover them is begun within thirty days after the seizure or if an action is begun and the judgment of the court is adverse to the plaintiff, be destroyed publicly by the sheriff of the county.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-8-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 8 - Nuisances|Section 61-8-30. Disposition; binding over for trial.

 Under the arrest warrant, the defendant must be arrested and brought before a magistrate and the case must be disposed of as other crimes, except that when the magistrate commits or binds over the parties for trial to the next term of court of general sessions for the county, he must make out each paper in the case in duplicate and file one with the clerk of the court for the county and immediately transmit the other to the solicitor of the circuit.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-8-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 8 - Nuisances|Section 61-8-40. Restraining orders or injunctions.

 Upon receipt of any such paper, the solicitor immediately must apply to a circuit judge at chambers in that circuit, or to the nearest circuit judge if there is none in that circuit, for an order or injunction restraining the defendants, their servants, or agents from keeping, receiving, bartering, selling, or giving away alcoholic liquors until the further order of the court or perpetually after hearing after notice to the defendant. The circuit judge must grant the restraining order or injunction without requiring a bond or undertaking upon the hearing or receipt by him of the magistrate court papers from the solicitor. A violation of the restraining order or injunction is considered a contempt of court and punishable as contempt by the court or another circuit judge, as for the violation of an order or injunction.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.