Bill Text: SC H5065 | 2015-2016 | 121st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Cable service
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-08 - Referred to Committee on Labor, Commerce and Industry [H5065 Detail]
Download: South_Carolina-2015-H5065-Introduced.html
A BILL
TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 58-12-410 SO AS TO PROHIBIT A PERSON OR ENTITY WHO PROVIDES CABLE SERVICE FROM ALLOWING COMMERCIALS TO AIR AT A HIGHER VOLUME THAN THE TELEVISION PROGRAM THAT WAS AIRING AT THE TIME OF THE COMMERCIAL.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Article 3, Chapter 12, Title 58 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"Section 58-12-410. (A) A person or entity providing cable service in this State is prohibited from airing commercial messages at a higher volume than the television program that was airing at the time of the commercial.
(B) A person or entity providing cable service in this State who violates the provisions of this section is subject to a fine of one hundred dollars per violating advertisement, not to exceed one thousand dollars per day.
(C) Nothing in this section may be construed as to limit the rights of a person or entity providing cable service from seeking to recover any penalties levied against him from the advertiser who designed the commercial to play at a higher volume than normal programming."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
