South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 17 - Criminal Procedures
Chapter 13 - Arrest, Process, Searches And Seizures

Section 17-13-10. Circumstances when any person may arrest a felon or thief. - Upon (a) view of a felony committed, (b) certain information...

Section 17-13-20. Additional circumstances when citizens may arrest; means to be used. - A citizen may arrest a person in the nighttime by...

Section 17-13-30. Officers may arrest without warrant for offenses committed in view. - The sheriffs and deputy sheriffs of this State may arrest...

Section 17-13-40. Law enforcement officer jurisdiction when in pursuit of offender; authority, rights, privileges and immunities extended. - (A) When the police authorities of a town or city...

Section 17-13-45. Response to distress calls or requests for assistance in adjacent jurisdictions; extension of rights, privileges and immunities. - When a law enforcement officer responds to a distress call...

Section 17-13-47. Arrest in State by officer from Georgia or North Carolina; procedure for determining lawfulness of arrest; extradition. - (A) A law enforcement officer from Georgia or North Carolina...

Section 17-13-50. Right to be informed of ground of arrest; consequences of refusal to answer or false answer. - (A) A person arrested by virtue of process or taken...

Section 17-13-60. Circumstances when persons are not to be arrested but may be served process. - No person shall be arrested while actually engaged in or...

Section 17-13-70. Warrant authorizing breaking open gambling rooms. - The mayor, any of the aldermen or the sheriff of...

Section 17-13-80. Service of process on domestic and foreign corporations. - Whenever a warrant has been issued against a corporation under...

Section 17-13-90. Service of criminal process on Sunday. - Criminal process may be served on Sunday, as on any...

Section 17-13-100. Escaped prisoners may be retaken on Sunday. - It shall be lawful for the sheriff, deputy sheriff or...

Section 17-13-110. Confinement in industrial communities. - Any police officer or deputy sheriff in any industrial community...

Section 17-13-120. Persons shall not be removed from one prison to another without cause. - If any person, a citizen of this State, shall be...

Section 17-13-130. Penalty for signing warrant for illegal removal of prisoner. - If any person shall, after such commitment aforesaid, make out...

Section 17-13-140. Issuance, execution and return of search warrants for property connected with the commission of crime; inventory of property seized. - Any magistrate or recorder or city judge having the powers...

Section 17-13-141. Records to be kept by judiciary officers authorized to issue search warrants; penalty. - (A) Every judiciary official authorized to issue search warrants in...

Section 17-13-150. Person served search warrant shall be furnished copy of warrant and supporting affidavit. - When any person is served with a search warrant, such...

Section 17-13-160. Form of arrest warrants and search warrants shall be prescribed by Attorney General. - Notwithstanding any other provision of law, effective September 1, 1975,...

Section 17-13-170. Law enforcement authorization to determine immigration status; reasonable suspicion; procedures; data collection on motor vehicle stops. - (A) If a law enforcement officer of this State or...