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Chapter 1 - Sundays
Section 53-1-5. Provisions inapplicable after 1:30 p.m. on Sunday; rights of employees, lessees, and franchisees to refuse to work; discrimination against persons who worship on Saturday prohibited. - The provisions of this chapter do not apply after the...
Section 53-1-6. Failure of law enforcement officer to enforce provisions of chapter. - A determination that a sheriff or other law enforcement officer...
Section 53-1-10. Permit required for holding sports and entertainment events. - (A) It shall be unlawful to operate for professional purposes...
Section 53-1-15. Certain automobile races exempt from prohibitions of section 53-1-10. - The provisions of Section 53-1-10 do not apply to automobile...
Section 53-1-20. College and university campuses exempt from prohibition on Sunday public sports and pastimes. - Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, college and...
Section 53-1-30. Amusement parks and certain fairs exempt from prohibition on Sunday public sports and pastimes. - All amusement parks and recognized state and county fairs may...
Section 53-1-40. Unlawful to work on Sunday. - On the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday,...
Section 53-1-50. Exceptions to prohibition on Sunday work. - Section 53-1-40 does not apply to the following: (1) The...
Section 53-1-60. Sale of certain items on Sunday prohibited. - The sale or offer to sell the following items on...
Section 53-1-70. Penalties for violating prohibition on Sunday work. - A violation of any of the provisions of Section 53-1-40...
Section 53-1-80. Sunday work declared public nuisance; injunctive relief; time off to attend church. - The doing of any worldly work or labor, business of...
Section 53-1-90. Prohibitions on Sunday work and sales shall not affect certain businesses. - The provisions of Sections 53-1-40 to 53-1-80 shall not be...
Section 53-1-100. Operation of machine shops exempt from chapter; conscientious opposition to Sunday work. - Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the operation of machine...
Section 53-1-110. Manufacture or finishing of textile products exempt from chapter; conscientious opposition to Sunday work. - Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the manufacture and finishing...
Section 53-1-120. Employment of children in mercantile or manufacturing establishments on Sunday; conscientious opposition to Sunday work; "mercantile establishment" defined. - It shall be unlawful for any person to employ, require...
Section 53-1-130. Exceptions for manufacturing plants requiring continuous operation. - The provisions of Sections 53-1-5 through 53-1-120 do not apply...
Section 53-1-140. Manufacturing of bakery products as requiring continuous operation. - For the purpose of this chapter, the "manufacturing of bakery...
Section 53-1-150. Exemption of certain counties; rights of employees, lessees, and franchisees to refuse to work; discrimination against persons who worship on Saturday prohibited. - (A) The General Assembly finds that certain areas of the...
Section 53-1-160. Suspension of Sunday work prohibitions. - (A) In addition to other exemptions provided by statute, the...
Chapter 3 - Special Days
Section 53-3-10. Arbor Day. - The first Friday of December of each year is set...
Section 53-3-20. Frances Willard Day. - The fourth Friday in October in each year shall be...
Section 53-3-30. General Pulaski's Memorial Day. - The Governor shall issue a proclamation calling upon officials of...
Section 53-3-35. General Francis Marion Memorial Day. - The twenty-seventh day of February of each year is designated...
Section 53-3-40. Mother's Day. - The Governor is requested to issue annually a proclamation calling...
Section 53-3-45. Family Respect Day. - The Friday immediately preceding Mother's Day of each year is...
Section 53-3-50. Grandmother's Day. - The second Sunday in October of each year is hereby...
Section 53-3-60. South Carolina Day. - The public schools shall observe Calhoun's birthday, the eighteenth of...
Section 53-3-65. Spirit of '45 Day. - The second Sunday in August is hereby designated as "Spirit...
Section 53-3-70. Loyalty Day. - May first of every year shall be designated as Loyalty...
Section 53-3-75. Eartha Kitt Day. - January seventeenth of each year, the birthday of the late...
Section 53-3-80. Martin Luther King Day. - The third Monday of January of each year, is declared...
Section 53-3-85. Juneteenth Celebration of Freedom Day. - (A) The nineteenth day of June of each year is...
Section 53-3-90. Family Week designated. - The last week in August of each year is declared...
Section 53-3-100. Family Week: creation of committee to choose "South Carolina Family of the Year." - A committee is created to choose and honor the "South...
Section 53-3-105. Fibromyalgia Awareness Day. - The twelfth day of May of each year is designated...
Section 53-3-110. Garden Week designated. - The week beginning the first Sunday of June each year...
Section 53-3-115. Golden-September Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. - The month of September of every year is declared "Golden-September...
Section 53-3-117. Water Safety Awareness Month. - The month of May of every year is declared "Water...
Section 53-3-120. Purple Heart Day. - The seventh day of August of each year is designated...
Section 53-3-125. Aynor Harvest Hoe-Down Festival Weekend. - The third Saturday in September of each year is designated...
Section 53-3-130. Golf week designated. - The last week in April in each year is designated...
Section 53-3-140. "Carolina Day" declared. - June twenty-eighth of each year, the anniversary of the Battle...
Section 53-3-150. Patriot Day, Constitution Day, and Patriotism Week observations. - (A) The week which includes the eleventh day of November...
Section 53-3-160. September eleventh. - The eleventh day of September of each year is designated...
Section 53-3-165. POW/MIA Recognition Day. - (A) The third Friday in September of each year is...
Section 53-3-166. Bill of Rights Day. - (A) December fifteenth of each year, the anniversary of the...
Section 53-3-170. South Carolina State Guard Week. - The first week of June of each year is designated...
Section 53-3-185. Vietnam Veterans Survivors' and Remembrance Day. - The first Friday in May of each year is declared...
Section 53-3-195. Veterans' Spouses and Families Day. - In gratitude and acknowledgment of the many and varied contributions...
Section 53-3-200. Italian American Heritage Month. - The month of October of every year is designated "Italian...
Section 53-3-205. Post-Traumatic Stress Injury Awareness Day. - June twenty-seventh of each year is designated as South Carolina...
Section 53-3-210. South Carolina Day of Service. - The third Saturday in May of each year is declared...
Section 53-3-215. South Carolina Native Plant Week. - The third week in October of each year is declared...
Section 53-3-220. Fibroid Tumor Awareness Month. - The month of July of each year is designated as...
Section 53-3-225. Barbers' Day. - The third Wednesday in February of each year is designated...
Section 53-3-230. Penn Center Heritage Day. - The second Saturday of November of each year is designated...
Section 53-3-240. Dr. Ronald McNair Day. - The twenty-first day of October of each year is designated...
Section 53-3-250. Atomic Veterans Day. - The sixteenth day of July of each year is designated...
Section 53-3-260. Historically Black Colleges and Universities Day. - The third Tuesday in February of each year is designated...
Chapter 5 - Legal Holidays
Section 53-5-10. Legal holidays enumerated; holiday schedules of public colleges and universities. - The first day of January-New Year's Day, the third Monday...
Section 53-5-20. Repealed by 2009 Act No. 33, Section 2, eff June 2, 2009. - Editor's Note Former Section 53-5-20 was entitled "Christmas Eve may...
Section 53-5-30. Certain Mondays and Fridays declared holidays; effect on presentment of bills, notes and checks. - Whenever any of the legal holidays mentioned in Section 53-5-10...
Section 53-5-40. Repealed by 1993 Act No. 62, Section 2, eff May 13, 1993. - Editor's Note Former Section 53-5-40, which was derived from 1962...
Section 53-5-50. Repealed by 1993 Act No. 62, Section 2, eff May 13, 1993. - Editor's Note Former Section 53-5-50, which was derived from 1962...
Section 53-5-55. Holidays for banks and savings and loan institutions. - Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in South Carolina holidays...
Section 53-5-60. All first Mondays in month shall be business days for certain purposes. - Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 53-5-10 and 53-5-30, each first...
Section 53-5-70. Banks and cash depositories may do business on any day except Sunday. - Any business transacted by any bank or cash depository on...
Section 53-5-80. Time at which commercial paper or other security maturing on Sunday or legal holiday shall be collectible. - Any commercial paper or other security which shall mature and...
Section 53-5-90. Banks, building and loan associations and other financial institutions may close one additional day a week. - Any commercial bank, building and loan association, savings and loan...
Section 53-5-100. Days of closing under Section 53-5-90 constitute legal holidays. - Any day on which any institution referred to in Section...