S 0463 General Bill, By Drummond
    A Bill to amend Section 50-9-1020, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, relating to the point system for hunting and fishing violations, so as to increase the points from fourteen to eighteen for attempting escape after lawful arrest, illegal commercialization of wildlife and fish, deer hunting from a motorboat, and shining while armed in violation of Section 50-17-710, to increase the penalty from five to six for illegally possessing buckshot and from four to six for illegally hunting with an unplugged gun, to provide that illegal use of permits, tags, and stamps by a person or transporting or possessing more than the legal limit of fish or game results in point assessments, to change the assessment of points for violation of game management area regulations to assessments for violation of any wildlife area regulations, to provide for an eighteen-point assessment for killing or possessing a wild turkey during the closed season and fourteen-point assessment for killing or possessing a wild turkey hen during the spring gobbler season, to provide that assessments must be made for roost shooting of wild turkeys between thirty minutes after official sunset and thirty minutes before official sunrise instead of from between official sunset and official sunrise, and to provide that violations of Title 50 provisions (except Chapters 17 and 21) not specifically mentioned in Section 50-9-1020 may result in six-point assessments.

03/02/89	Senate	Introduced and read first time SJ-4
03/02/89	Senate	Referred to Committee on Fish, Game and Forestry SJ-4
04/13/89	Senate	Committee report: Favorable Fish, Game and Forestry SJ-8
04/18/89	Senate	Read second time SJ-15
04/18/89	Senate	Ordered to third reading with notice of amendments SJ-15
04/27/89	Senate	Read third time and sent to House SJ-139
05/02/89	House	Introduced and read first time HJ-40
05/02/89	House	Referred to Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources HJ-41