Any person who (a) without permission of the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism, shall remove any shrub or tree or attempt so to do from any State park, (b) shall cut or mutilate any shrub or tree growing in any State park in this State without such permission, (c) shall mutilate or deface any property, real or personal, upon any State park or (d) shall destroy scenic values by dumping rubbish within the confines of any State park or in any other way whatsoever shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or imprisonment for not more than thirty days, within the discretion of the court.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 51-9; 1952 Code Section 51-9; 1942 Code Section 3284-4; 1937 (40) 569.
Structure South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 51 - Parks, Recreation and Tourism
Section 51-3-10. Control and maintenance of State parks.
Section 51-3-50. Power to open parks to normal public use.
Section 51-3-70. Rules and regulations for State parks.
Section 51-3-80. Acquisitions of land.
Section 51-3-90. Sales, exchanges, or leases of lands; use of funds.
Section 51-3-100. Necessary and incidental powers of Department.
Section 51-3-110. Use of unobligated funds to develop lands; sale of products.
Section 51-3-120. Use of revenues from such lands.
Section 51-3-130. Obligations of Department payable only from revenues.
Section 51-3-140. Defacement of State park.
Section 51-3-145. Certain acts unlawful at state parks.
Section 51-3-146. Penalties for certain unlawful acts.