2018 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 46 - Agriculture
CHAPTER 9 - STATE CROP PEST COMMISSION
Section 46-9-30. Confidentiality of business information; penalties for unlawful disclosure or use of information.
The commission by regulation shall establish procedures dealing with confidential business information. It is unlawful for an authorized representative of the commission in an official capacity to disclose under this chapter or another applicable chapter of this title information entitled to protection as confidential business information or as a trade secret. This information includes, but is not limited to, research information or new techniques, procedures, or products whether so denominated under federal or state law or regulation. It is unlawful also for the representative to use the information for personal gain or to reveal it to an unauthorized person if the confidential business information or trade secret clearly is delineated as such. A person who violates this section must be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days. He also may be dismissed from his position.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 3-103; 1952 Code Section 3-103; 1942 Code Section 3256; 1932 Code Section 3256; Civ. C. '22 Section 962; Civ. C. '12 Section 878; Civ. C. '02 Section 744; 1901 (23) 703; 1903 (24) 22; 1912 (27) 748; 1992 Act No. 389, Section 1, eff May 15, 1992.
