Bill Text: SC H5099 | 2011-2012 | 119th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: State House or Governor's Mansion grounds

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 44-7)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-28 - Referred to Committee on Judiciary [H5099 Detail]

Download: South_Carolina-2011-H5099-Introduced.html

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A BILL

TO AMEND SECTION 10-11-30, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO TRESPASSING, DAMAGING, OR DEFACING CERTAIN STATE PROPERTY, SO AS TO INCLUDE IN THE PURVIEW OF THE STATUTE THAT IT IS ILLEGAL TO PARTIALLY OR FULLY COVER, OR OTHERWISE OBSCURE FROM VIEW, ANY STATUE, MONUMENT, OR BUILDING ON THE STATE HOUSE OR GOVERNOR'S MANSION GROUNDS.

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

SECTION    1.    Section 10-11-30 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:

"Section 10-11-30.    It shall be is unlawful for any a person to trespass upon the grass plots or flower beds of the grounds of the State House or the Governor's mansion, or of the grounds surrounding any of the State office buildings located in the area bounded by Assembly, Gervais, Bull, and Pendleton Streets in the city of Columbia, ; to damage or deface any of the buildings, ; or to cut down, deface, mutilate or otherwise injure any of the statues, trees, shrubs, grasses or flowers on the grounds or commit any other trespass upon any property of the State, real or personal, ; or to partially or fully cover, or otherwise obscure from view, any state statue, monument, or building located thereon there."

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