2013 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 56 - Motor Vehicles
CHAPTER 7 - TRAFFIC TICKETS
SECTION 56-7-10. Use of uniform traffic ticket; vesting of jurisdiction; forms; utilization of electronic devices.

(A) There will be a uniform traffic ticket used by all law enforcement officers in arrests for traffic offenses and for the following additional offenses:

Offense Citation

Interfering with Police Officer Serving Process Section 16-5-50

Dumping Trash on Highway/Private Property Section 16-11-700

Indecent Exposure Section 16-15-130

Disorderly Conduct Section 16-17-530

Damaging Highway Section 57-7-10

Place Glass, Nails, Etc. on Highway Section 57-7-20

Obstruction of Highway by Railroad Cars, Etc. Section 57-7-240

Signs Permitted on Interstate Section 57-25-140

Brown Bagging Section 61-5-20

Drinking Liquors in Public Conveyance Section 61-13-360

Poles Dragging on Highway Section 57-7-80

Open Container Section 61-9-87

Purchase or Possession of Beer or Wine by a Person Section 63-19-2440

Under Age

Purchase or Possession of Alcoholic Liquor by a Person Section 63-19-2450

Under Age Twenty-One

Unlawful Possession and Consumption of Alcoholic Section 61-5-30

Liquors

Sale of Beer or Wine on Which Tax Has Not Been Paid Section 61-9-20

Falsification of Age to Purchase Beer or Wine Section 61-9-50

Unlawful Purchase of Beer or Wine for a Person Who Section 61-9-60

Cannot Legally Buy

Unlawful Sale or Purchase of Beer or Wine, Giving Section 61-9-85

False Information as to Age, Buying Beer or Wine

Unlawfully for Another

Employment of a Person Under the Age of Twenty-One as Section 61-13-340

an Employee in Retail or Wholesale or Manufacturing

Liquor Business

Failure to Remove Doors from Abandoned Refrigerators Section 16-3-1010

Malicious Injury to Animals or Personal Property Section 16-11-510

Timber, Logs, or Lumber Cutting, Removing, Section 16-11-580

Transporting Without Permission, Valued at Less Than

Fifty Dollars

Littering Section 16-11-700

Larceny of a Bicycle Valued at Less Than One Hundred Section 16-13-80

Dollars

Shoplifting Section 16-13-110

Cock Fighting Section 16-17-650

Ticket Scalping Section 16-17-710

Criminal Domestic Violence, First Offense and Second Section 16-25-20

Offense (B)(1) and (2)

Glue Sniffing Section 44-53-1110

Trespassing Section 16-11-755

Trespassing Section 16-11-600

Trespassing Section 16-11-610

Trespassing Section 16-11-620

Negligent Operation of Watercraft; Operation of Section 50-21-110

Watercraft While Under Influence of Alcohol or Drugs

Negligence of Boat Livery to Provide Proper Equipment Section 50-21-120

and Registration

Interference with Aids to Navigation or Regulatory Section 50-21-170

Markers or Operation of Watercraft in Prohibited

Area

Operation of Watercraft Without a Certificate of Title Section 50-23-190

Parking on private property without permission Section 16-11-760

Certificate of Veterinary Inspection; Requirement for Section 47-4-60

Out-of- State Livestock or Poultry

Inhibition of Livestock Inspection Section 47-4-120

Imported Swine Section 47-6-50

Operating Equine Sales Facility or Livestock Market Section 47-11-20

Without Permit

Liability of Person Removing Livestock for Slaughter Section 47-11-120

Notice to Disinfect Section 47-13-310

Quarantine of Livestock or Poultry Section 47-4-70

Unlawful for Horse to Enter State Unless Tested Section 47-13-1350

Quarantine of Exposed Horses Section 47-13-1360

Proof of Test Required for Public Assembly of Horses Section 47-13-1370

False Certificates Section 47-13-1390

Unlawful to Feed Garbage to Swine Section 47-15-20

Notification Required from Certain Persons Disposing Section 47-15-40

of Garbage

Sale of Uninspected Meat and Meat Products Section 47-17-60

Sale of Uninspected Poultry and Poultry Product Section 47-19-70

(B) In addition to the offenses contained in subsection (A), a uniform traffic ticket may be used in an arrest for a misdemeanor offense within the jurisdiction of magistrates court that has been freshly committed or is committed in the presence of a law enforcement officer.

(C) No other ticket may be used for these offenses. The service of the uniform traffic ticket shall vest all traffic, recorders', and magistrates' courts with jurisdiction to hear and to dispose of the charge for which the ticket was issued and served. This ticket will be designed by the department and approved by the Attorney General within thirty days of submission by the department. A law enforcement agency may utilize computers and other electronic devices to issue uniform traffic citations and store information resulting from the issuance of a traffic citation if this method of issuing a citation has been approved by the Department of Public Safety.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-871; 1967 (55) 203; 1971 (57) 474; 1980 Act No. 353, Section 1; 1984 Act No. 467; 1985 Act No. 158, Section 1; 1987 Act No. 185 Section 2; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1468; 1996 Act No; 459, Section 214; 2003 Act No. 54, Section 2; 2005 Act No. 68, Section 1, eff May 23, 2005; 2013 Act No. 78, Section 1, eff June 13, 2013.