Current Status Introducing Body:House Bill Number:3969 Primary Sponsor:Sharpe Committee Number:25 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Video poker machines, regulation of Residing Body:House Current Committee:Judiciary Computer Document Number:PT/22052DW.93 Introduced Date:19930414 Last History Body:House Last History Date:19930414 Last History Type:Introduced, read first time, referred to Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Sharpe H. Brown Wofford Riser Type of Legislation:General Bill
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3969 House 19930414 Introduced, read first time, 25
referred to Committee
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TO AMEND SECTIONS 4-9-30 AND 5-7-30, BOTH AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE POWERS CONFERRED ON COUNTIES
AND MUNICIPALITIES, SO AS TO AUTHORIZE THEM TO REGULATE THE DAYS AND HOURS OF OPERATION OF VIDEO POKER MACHINES.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 4-9-30 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 114 of 1991, is further amended by adding an appropriately numbered item to read:
"( ) To regulate, by ordinance, the days and hours of operation of coin-operated machines licensed by the South Carolina Tax Commission pursuant to the provisions of Section 12-21-2720(a)(3);"
SECTION 2. The first paragraph of Section 5-7-30, of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 495 of 1988, is further amended to read:
"Each municipality of the State, in addition to the powers conferred to its specific form of government, may enact regulations, resolutions, and ordinances, not inconsistent with the constitution and general law of this State, including the exercise of powers in relation to roads, streets, markets, law enforcement, health, and order in the municipality or respecting any subject which appears to it necessary and proper for the security, general welfare, and convenience of the municipality or for preserving health, peace, order, and good government in it, including the authority to levy and collect taxes on real and personal property and as otherwise authorized in this section, make assessments, and establish uniform service charges relating to them; the authority to abate nuisances; grant franchises for the use of public streets and make charges for them; engage in the recreation function; levy a business license tax on gross income, but a wholesaler delivering goods to retailers in a municipality is not subject to the business license tax unless he maintains within the corporate limits of the municipality a warehouse or mercantile establishment for the distribution of wholesale goods; and a business engaged in making loans secured by real estate is not subject to the business license tax unless it has premises located within the corporate limits of the municipality and no entity which is exempt from the license tax under another law nor a subsidiary or affiliate of such an exempt entity is subject to the business license tax; regulate, by ordinance, the days and hours of operation of coin-operated machines licensed by the South Carolina Tax Commission pursuant to the provisions of Section 12-21-2720(A) (3); borrow in anticipation of taxes; and pledge revenues to be collected and the full faith and credit of the municipality against its note and conduct advisory referenda. The municipal governing body may fix fines and penalties for the violation of municipal ordinances and regulations not exceeding two hundred dollars or imprisonment not exceeding thirty days."
SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.