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2013 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 50 - Fish, Game and Watercraft
CHAPTER 9 - HUNTING AND FISHING LICENSES
ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS- SECTION 50-9-10. Unlicensed activities; violations; penalties.
- SECTION 50-9-15. Definitions.
- SECTION 50-9-20. Duration of hunting and fishing licenses, permits, and tags for recreational purposes.
- SECTION 50-9-30. Residency requirements.
- SECTION 50-9-35. Persons licensed by another state; transfer of residency.
- SECTION 50-9-40. License procedures and fees.
- SECTION 50-9-45. Licenses for South Carolinians in the Armed Services.
- SECTION 50-9-50. Possession on person of license, permit, tag, or stamp; violations.
- SECTION 50-9-60. Borrowing or lending of license, permit, tag, or stamp; violations.
- SECTION 50-9-70. Alteration or fraudulent issuance or obtainment of license, permit, tag, or stamp; violations.
- SECTION 50-9-75. Surrender of combination licenses.
- SECTION 50-9-80. Replacement licenses, permits, or tags.
- SECTION 50-9-310. Program contents.
- SECTION 50-9-320. Certificate of completion required for license.
- SECTION 50-9-330. Lifetime hunting and fishing combination licenses.
- SECTION 50-9-340. Shooting preserves.
- SECTION 50-9-350. Apprentice hunting license.
- SECTION 50-9-410. Freshwater commercial fishing license.
- SECTION 50-9-420. Requirements for taking shad, herring, or eels for commercial purposes.
- SECTION 50-9-430. Cost of scientific collection permit.
- SECTION 50-9-450. Commercial fur license required; exceptions.
- SECTION 50-9-510. Hunting and fishing licenses.
- SECTION 50-9-515. Combination licenses; sportsman's licenses.
- SECTION 50-9-520. Lifetime statewide combination licenses; fees.
- SECTION 50-9-525. Licenses for disabled residents.
- SECTION 50-9-530. Gratis, senior, and Catawba licenses.
- SECTION 50-9-535. Conversion of lifetime licenses to senior lifetime license.
- SECTION 50-9-540. Recreational statewide saltwater fishing licenses; recreational statewide freshwater fishing licenses; annual saltwater public fishing pier licenses; annual charter vessel licenses.
- SECTION 50-9-545. Type of license required for taking shad, herring, or eels.
- SECTION 50-9-550, 50-9-560. Omitted by 2010 Act No. 233, Section 8, eff July, 1, 2010.
- SECTION 50-9-570. Unlawful to hunt migratory game birds without permit; exception.
- SECTION 50-9-610. Additional requirements for attempting to take nongame freshwater fish.
- SECTION 50-9-650. Annual individual antlerless deer tags.
- SECTION 50-9-655. Pig transport and release permit; pig enclosure permit.
- SECTION 50-9-660. Alligator Draw Hunt Program; Private Lands Alligator Program; nonresident alligator hunting fee; fees nonrefundable.
- SECTION 50-9-665. Bear tags.
- SECTION 50-9-670. Migratory waterfowl permits; commemorative stamps.
- SECTION 50-9-710. Children under sixteen years of age; private ponds; pay-to-fish businesses.
- SECTION 50-9-715. Exemptions from recreational saltwater fishing license requirements.
- SECTION 50-9-720. Physically or mentally disabled persons; residents of eleemosynary institutions; Boy or Girl Scouts.
- SECTION 50-9-730. July fourth and National Memorial Day exempt from freshwater recreational fishing license and permit requirements; exceptions; free hunting days must be established.
- SECTION 50-9-740. Designation of youth hunting days; requirements.
- SECTION 50-9-910. Revenue from fines and forfeitures.
- SECTION 50-9-920. Revenues from the sale of privileges, licenses, permits, and tags.
- SECTION 50-9-925, 50-9-940. Omitted by 2010 Act No. 233, Section 11, eff July 1, 2010.
- SECTION 50-9-950. Fish and Wildlife Protection Fund.
- SECTION 50-9-955. Fish and Wildlife Deferred License Fund.
- SECTION 50-9-960. Marine Resources Fund.
- SECTION 50-9-965. Marine Resources Deferred License Fund.
- SECTION 50-9-970. County Game and Fish Fund created.
- SECTION 50-9-1110. "Conviction" defined.
- SECTION 50-9-1120. Point system for violations.
- SECTION 50-9-1130. Deduction of accumulated points.
- SECTION 50-9-1140. Suspension of hunting and fishing privileges.
- SECTION 50-9-1150. Notice of suspension; review by department.
- SECTION 50-9-1160. Review by circuit judge.
- SECTION 50-9-1170. Expiration of suspension period.
- SECTION 50-9-1180. Administration; promulgation of regulations.
- SECTION 50-9-1190. Other laws of the State.
- SECTION 50-9-1200. Hunting or fishing while under suspension; violations; penalties.
- SECTION 50-9-1210. Effect of points and penalties.
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