No person other than the South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce shall carry on the business of emigrant agent in this State without having first obtained a license therefor from the State Treasurer and the county treasurer of each county in which he solicits emigrants. The term "emigrant agent," as used in this section, shall be construed to mean any person engaged in hiring laborers or soliciting emigrants in this State to be employed beyond the limits of the State. Any person shall be entitled to State and county licenses, which shall be good for one year, upon payment into the State Treasury for the use of the State of five hundred dollars for each county in which he operates or solicits emigrants for each year so engaged and upon payment into the county treasury of each county in which he operates or solicits emigrants, for the use of each such county, of two thousand dollars for each year so engaged. Any person other than the South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce doing business as an emigrant agent without having first obtained each such license shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars in case of failure to obtain a State license and one thousand dollars in case of failure to obtain a county license and not more than five thousand dollars in either such case or may be imprisoned in the county jail or, in case of failure to obtain a county license, upon the public works not less than four months or confined in the State Prison, at hard labor, not exceeding two years for each and every offense, within the discretion of the court.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 16-564; 1952 Code Section 16-564; 1942 Code Sections 1377, 1378; 1932 Code Sections 1377, 1378; Cr. C. '22 Sections 308, 309; Cr. C. '12 Sections 895, 896; Cr. C. '02 Section 608; R. S. 488; 1891 (20) 1084; 1893 (21) 429; 1898 (22) 812; 1907 (25) 543; 1949 (46) 415, 417; 1954 (48) 1415.
Structure South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 16 - Crimes and Offenses
Chapter 17 - Offenses Against Public Policy
Section 16-17-10. Barratry prohibited.
Section 16-17-20. Persons convicted of barratry barred from practice of law.
Section 16-17-30. Liability of corporations and unincorporated associations.
Section 16-17-50. Article is cumulative.
Section 16-17-210. Definitions.
Section 16-17-220. Desecration or mutilation of United States, Confederate or State flags.
Section 16-17-230. Presumption from possession.
Section 16-17-310. Imitation of organizations' names, emblems and the like.
Section 16-17-320. Injunction to restrain improper use of name and emblems.
Section 16-17-410. Conspiracy.
Section 16-17-420. School disturbances by nonstudents; penalties.
Section 16-17-425. Student threats.
Section 16-17-430. Unlawful communication.
Section 16-17-440. Venue for prosecution under Section 16-17-430.
Section 16-17-446. Regulation of automatically dialed announcing device (ADAD).
Section 16-17-450. Refusal to relinquish party telephone line for emergency call.
Section 16-17-470. Eavesdropping, peeping, voyeurism.
Section 16-17-480. Section 16-17-470 not applicable to law officers.
Section 16-17-490. Contributing to delinquency of a minor.
Section 16-17-495. Custodial interference.
Section 16-17-501. Definitions.
Section 16-17-502. Distribution of tobacco product or alternative nicotine product samples.
Section 16-17-503. Enforcement; reporting requirements.
Section 16-17-504. Implementation; local laws.
Section 16-17-506. Sale of e-liquid containers; restrictions.
Section 16-17-510. Enticing enrolled child from attendance in school.
Section 16-17-520. Disturbance of religious worship.
Section 16-17-525. Wilfully, knowingly or maliciously disturbing funeral service; penalties.
Section 16-17-530. Public disorderly conduct; conditional discharge for first-time offenders.
Section 16-17-540. Bribery with respect to agents, servants or employees.
Section 16-17-550. Bribery of athletes and athletic officials.
Section 16-17-570. Interference with fire and police alarm boxes; giving false alarms.
Section 16-17-580. Removing State line marks.
Section 16-17-610. Soliciting emigrants without licenses.
Section 16-17-620. Exemption of solicitors of farm laborers to work in adjacent states.
Section 16-17-630. Exemption of solicitors of household or domestic employees.
Section 16-17-650. Cockfighting.
Section 16-17-660. Using dry wells for sewerage in towns of 500 or over.
Section 16-17-670. Record kept by dealers in crossties.
Section 16-17-690. Fortunetelling for purpose of promoting another business.
Section 16-17-710. Resale of ticket to event; price restriction; exceptions; penalties.
Section 16-17-720. Impersonating law enforcement officer.
Section 16-17-722. Filing of false police reports; knowledge; offense; penalties.
Section 16-17-730. Charges for political advertisements in newspapers.
Section 16-17-740. Sale or possession of "cigarette load"; penalty.