2013 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 50 - Fish, Game and Watercraft
CHAPTER 11 - PROTECTION OF GAME
SECTION 50-11-745. Releasing confiscated property to innocent owner or lienholder; failure to recover property.
(A) Notwithstanding another provision of law, the Department of Natural Resources may administratively release any vehicle, boat, trailer, other means of conveyance, animal, firearm, or device confiscated from a person charged with hunting of deer or bear at night to an innocent owner or lienholder of the property.
(B) Notwithstanding another provision of law, if an innocent owner or lienholder of property contained in subsection (A) fails to recover property contained in that subsection, then the Department of Natural Resources may maintain or dispose of the property.
(C) Before confiscated property is released to an innocent owner or lienholder, he shall provide the department with:
(1) proof of ownership or a lienholder interest in the confiscated property;
(2) certification that he will not release the property to a person who has been charged with a violation of this chapter which resulted in the confiscation of the property to be released.
HISTORY: 1997 Act No. 18, Section 1; 2013 Act No. 54, Section 2, eff June 7, 2013.
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