(A) The department may select one or more days to designate as a "South Carolina Youth Hunting Day", in addition to the regular seasons for a species of wild game. A youth hunting day must be held outside a regular season on a weekend, holiday, or other nonschool day when a youth hunter may have the maximum opportunity to participate. A day must be held on the Saturday before the regular game zone season framework for hunting antlered deer only. The daily bag limit on this day is one antlered deer. For all other game, the day may be held up to fourteen days before or after a regular season framework or within a split of a regular season, or within another open season.
(B) A person who is less than eighteen years of age may be a youth hunter. Youth hunters who have not completed the hunter education program pursuant to Section 50-9-310, who hunt on a statewide youth hunting day, must be accompanied by an adult who is at least twenty-one years of age. The adult may not harvest or attempt to harvest game during this special hunting event. A license or tag requirement pursuant to this chapter is waived for a youth hunter on a youth hunting day. A daily harvest limit remains the same as allowed during regular seasons for each species of game.
HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 299, Section 1; 2007 Act No. 23, Section 1, eff May 14, 2007; 2018 Act No. 200 (S.913), Section 1, eff May 17, 2018.
Effect of Amendment
The 2007 amendment, in subsection (B), rewrote the first sentence which formerly provided "Youth hunters must be at least ten years of age through seventeen years of age" and made nonsubstantive changes throughout subsections (A) and (B).
2018 Act No. 200, Section 1, rewrote the section, providing for a youth hunting day for hunting antlered deer only and a bag limit, providing that youth hunters who have not completed the hunter education program must be accompanied by an adult, and providing that the license or tag requirement is waived for a youth hunter on a youth hunting day.
Structure South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 50 - Fish, Game and Watercraft
Chapter 9 - Hunting And Fishing Licenses
Section 50-9-10. Unlicensed activities; violations; penalties.
Section 50-9-30. Residency requirements.
Section 50-9-35. Persons licensed by another state; transfer of residency.
Section 50-9-40. License procedures and fees.
Section 50-9-45. Licenses for South Carolinians in the Armed Services.
Section 50-9-50. Possession on person of license, permit, tag, or stamp; violations.
Section 50-9-60. Borrowing or lending of license, permit, tag, or stamp; violations.
Section 50-9-75. Surrender of combination licenses.
Section 50-9-80. Replacement licenses, permits, or tags.
Section 50-9-310. Program contents.
Section 50-9-320. Certificate of completion required for license.
Section 50-9-330. Lifetime hunting and fishing combination licenses.
Section 50-9-340. Shooting preserves.
Section 50-9-350. Apprentice hunting license.
Section 50-9-410. Freshwater commercial fishing license.
Section 50-9-420. Requirements for taking shad, herring, or eels for commercial purposes.
Section 50-9-430. Cost of scientific collection permit.
Section 50-9-450. Commercial fur license required; exceptions.
Section 50-9-460. Alligator propagation facility permits.
Section 50-9-510. Hunting and fishing licenses.
Section 50-9-515. Combination licenses; sportsman's licenses.
Section 50-9-520. Lifetime statewide combination licenses; fees.
Section 50-9-525. Licenses for disabled residents.
Section 50-9-530. Gratis, senior, and Catawba licenses.
Section 50-9-535. Conversion of lifetime licenses to senior lifetime license.
Section 50-9-545. Type of license required for taking shad, herring, or eels.
Section 50-9-550, 50-9-560. Omitted by 2010 Act No. 233, Section 8, eff July, 1, 2010.
Section 50-9-570. Unlawful to hunt migratory game birds without permit; exception.
Section 50-9-610. Additional requirements for attempting to take nongame freshwater fish.
Section 50-9-630. Federal Migratory Hunting and Conservation Stamp required; endorsement; fee.
Section 50-9-640. Wild turkey tag fees.
Section 50-9-650. Deer hunting.
Section 50-9-655. Pig transport and release permit; pig enclosure permit.
Section 50-9-675. Falconry permit.
Section 50-9-710. Children under sixteen years of age; private ponds; pay-to-fish businesses.
Section 50-9-715. Exemptions from recreational saltwater fishing license requirements.
Section 50-9-740. Designation of youth hunting days; requirements.
Section 50-9-750. Special authorization for hunting and fishing.
Section 50-9-910. Revenue from fines and forfeitures.
Section 50-9-920. Revenues from the sale of privileges, licenses, permits, and tags.
Section 50-9-925, 50-9-940. Omitted by 2010 Act No. 233, Section 11, eff July 1, 2010.
Section 50-9-950. Fish and Wildlife Protection Fund.
Section 50-9-955. Fish and Wildlife Deferred License Fund.
Section 50-9-960. Marine Resources Fund.
Section 50-9-965. Marine Resources Deferred License Fund.
Section 50-9-970. County Game and Fish Fund created.
Section 50-9-1110. "Conviction" defined.
Section 50-9-1120. Point system for violations.
Section 50-9-1130. Deduction of accumulated points.
Section 50-9-1140. Suspension of hunting and fishing privileges.
Section 50-9-1150. Notice of suspension; review by department.
Section 50-9-1160. Review by circuit judge.
Section 50-9-1170. Expiration of suspension period.
Section 50-9-1180. Administration; promulgation of regulations.
Section 50-9-1190. Other laws of the State.
Section 50-9-1200. Hunting or fishing while under suspension; violations; penalties.