2012 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 44 - Health
Chapter 67 - LITTER CONTROL
Section 44-67-50 - Enforcement.

The director may designate trained employees of the department to be vested with police powers to enforce and administer the provisions of this chapter and all rules and regulations adopted thereunder. The director shall also have authority to contract with other state and local governmental agencies having law enforcement capabilities for services and personnel reasonably necessary to carry out the enforcement provisions of this chapter. In addition, state highway patrol officers, enforcement officers of the Natural Resources Enforcement Division of the Department of Natural Resources , fire marshals and police officers, and those employees of the Department of Health and Environmental Control and the Parks, Recreation and Tourism Department vested with police powers all shall enforce the provisions of this chapter and all rules and regulations adopted thereunder and are hereby empowered to issue citations to or arrest, without warrant, persons violating any provision of this chapter or any of the rules and regulations adopted hereunder.

All of the foregoing enforcement officers may serve and execute all warrants, citations and other process issued to enforce the provisions of this chapter.

HISTORY: 1978 Act No. 496 Section 6; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1142.