2013 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers
CHAPTER 15 - RAILROAD, STREET RAILWAY, STEAMBOAT AND CANAL COMPANIES
SECTION 58-15-870. Injuring railroad or electric railway generally.
Whoever wilfully and maliciously injures in any way any railroad or electric railway or anything appertaining thereto or any material or instrument for the construction or use thereof, or aids or abets in such trespass, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or imprisonment not exceeding one year and, except in the case of an electric railway, shall forfeit to the use of the corporation for each offense treble the amount of damages proved to have been sustained thereby to be recovered in an action of tort in the name of the corporation. Whoever commits any of the acts mentioned in this section in such manner as thereby to endanger life shall be punished as herein provided or by imprisonment in the Penitentiary not exceeding twenty years.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-738; 1952 Code Section 58-738; 1942 Code Sections 1198, 8451; 1932 Code Sections 1198, 8468; Civ. C. '22 Section 5004; Cr. C. '22 Section 87; Civ. C. '12 Section 3306; Cr. C. '12 Section 248; Civ. C. '02 Section 2200; Cr. C. '02 Section 191; G. S. 1518, 1519; R. S. 180, 1733; 1881 (17) 832; 1906 (25) 47.
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