2017 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 50 - Fish, Game and Watercraft
CHAPTER 11 - PROTECTION OF GAME
Section 50-11-2400. Definitions.

For the purpose of this article:

(a) "Fur bearing animal" includes red and gray fox, coyote, raccoon, opossum, muskrat, mink, skunk, otter, bobcat, weasel, or beaver.

(b) "Fur buyer" means any person who purchases any whole fur bearing animal, raw or green furs, pelts, or hides.

(c) "Take" means to shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or attempt to shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect.

(d) "Commercial purposes" means taking or possessing any fur, pelt, hide, or whole animal for exchange, sale, trade, or barter and taking or possessing more than five furs, pelts, hides, or whole animals.

(e) "Trapper" means any person who takes or attempts to take animals by trapping.

(f) "Trap" means any device, other than a weapon, designed or constructed for taking animals.

(g) "Foot-hold trap" means a steel-jawed, spring-loaded device designed to capture the animal by the foot.

(h) "Live trap" means any box or cage designed for capturing and holding any animal unharmed.

(i) "Processor" means any person engaged in tanning or dressing furs, pelts, or hides of fur bearing animals for commercial purposes.

(j) "Transfer" includes selling, bartering, exchanging, and transporting.

(k) "Owner" means an individual or entity that owns property or equipment.

(l) "Agent" means an individual or entity appointed by the owner to act in his place.

HISTORY: [Derived from former Section 50-11-4310 (1985 Act No. 148, Section 1)]; 1988 Act No. 561, Section 1; 1988 Act No. 567, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1262; 2012 Act No. 257, Section 4, eff June 18, 2012.

Effect of Amendment

The 2012 amendment inserted "coyote," in item (a); removed "is taking for commercial purposes" from item (d); added items (k) and (l); and made other nonsubstantive changes.