2016 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 56 - Motor Vehicles
CHAPTER 7 - TRAFFIC TICKETS
Section 56-7-40. Penalty for failure to account for ticket, use of nonuniform ticket, or failure to forward ticket.
Section effective January 1, 2017. See, also, section 56-7-40 effective until January 1, 2017.
Any person intentionally violating the provisions of Section 56-7-10 or 56-7-30 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than two hundred fifty dollars nor more than fifteen hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both, for each ticket unaccounted for, or each use of a nonuniform ticket, or each failure to timely electronically forward the Department of Motor Vehicles a copy of the ticket. If the failure to account for a ticket, or the use of a nonuniform ticket, or the failure to timely forward the Department of Motor Vehicles a copy of the ticket is inadvertent or unintentional, such misuse shall be triable in magistrates court and, upon conviction, shall be punishable by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-874; 1967 (55) 203; 1980 Act No. 353, Section 4; 2016 Act No. 185 (H.3685), Section 3, eff January 1, 2017.
Code Commissioner's Note
Pursuant to the directive to the Code Commissioner in 2003 Act No. 51, Section 18, "Department of Motor Vehicles" was substituted for "department".
Effect of Amendment
2016 Act No. 185, Section 3, rewrote the section.
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