Bill Text: SC H4407 | 2017-2018 | 122nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Traffic-control devices and RR signs and signals

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-14 - Member(s) request name added as sponsor: S.Rivers [H4407 Detail]

Download: South_Carolina-2017-H4407-Introduced.html

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A BILL

TO AMEND SECTION 56-5-1030, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE UNLAWFUL INTERFERENCE WITH TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICES, AND RAILROAD SIGNS AND SIGNALS, AND PENALTIES ASSOCIATED WITH THESE VIOLATIONS, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THESE PENALTIES ALSO APPLY TO THE UNLAWFUL INTERFERENCE WITH A ROAD OR STREET IDENTIFICATION SIGN.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION    1.    Section 56-5-1030 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:

"Section 56-5-1030.    (A)    No person shall wilfully without lawful authority attempt to or in fact alter, deface, injure, knock down, or remove an official traffic-control device or a railroad sign or signal or its inscriptions, shields, or insignia, or a road or street identification sign.

(B)    A person violating the provisions of this section is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, must be:

(1)    fined not less than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. The driver's license of a person convicted under this section must be revoked for not less than five years. In any case where a license has not been issued, the person is not eligible to obtain a license for five years from the date of conviction;

(2)    fined not less than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than ten years if injury results;

(3)    imprisoned not more than thirty years if death results."

SECTION    2.    This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.