Bill Text: SC H4688 | 2015-2016 | 121st General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Unlawful interference with traffic control devices and railroad signals
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-03-17 - Referred to Committee on Transportation [H4688 Detail]
Download: South_Carolina-2015-H4688-Amended.html
AMENDED
March 16, 2016
H. 4688
Introduced by Reps. Clemmons, Felder, Clary, Collins, Daning, R.L. Brown, Forrester and Rivers
S. Printed 3/16/16--H.
Read the first time January 19, 2016.
A BILL
TO AMEND SECTION 56-5-1030, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO UNLAWFUL INTERFERENCE WITH TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES AND RAILROAD SIGNS AND SIGNALS, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THIS SECTION ALSO APPLIES TO PORTABLE ROAD CLOSURE SIGNS AND DEVICES, AND TO THE UNLAWFUL REPOSITIONING OF TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES AND RAILROAD SIGNS AND SIGNALS.
Amend Title To Conform
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. This act may be cited as the "Timothy Wayne Gibson Act".
SECTION 2. Section 56-5-1030(A) of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"(A) No person shall wilfully without lawful authority attempt to or in fact alter, deface, injure, knock down, reposition, or remove an official traffic-control device, a temporary road closure sign or device, or a railroad sign or signal, or its inscriptions, shields, or insignia."
SECTION 3. Section 56-5-1030 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding the following appropriately lettered subsection:
"( ) However, it is not a violation of this section for a person otherwise entitled to access to any premises to move an official temporary traffic-control device or temporary road closure sign or device for the purpose of ingress, egress, or regress to the premises, and immediately replaces such sign or device."
SECTION 4. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.