2017 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 15 - Civil Remedies and Procedures
CHAPTER 43 - ABATEMENT OF NUISANCES
Section 15-43-70. Violation of injunction; punishment for contempt.
In case of the violation of any injunction granted under the provisions of this chapter the court or, in vacation, a judge thereof may summarily try and punish the offender. The proceeding shall be commenced by filing with the clerk of the court a complaint, under oath, setting out the alleged facts constituting such violation, upon which the court or judge shall cause a warrant to issue under which the defendant shall be arrested. The trial may be had upon affidavits, or either party may at any stage of the proceedings demand the production and oral examination of the witnesses. A party found guilty of contempt under the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than two hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail or State Penitentiary not less than three months nor more than six months, or by both fine and imprisonment.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10-1807; 1952 Code Section 10-1807; 1942 Code Section 578; 1932 Code Section 578; Civ. P. '22 Section 494; 1918 (30) 815.
