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Bill 4135

                    Current Status

Bill Number:                      4135
Type of Legislation:              General Bill GB
Introducing Body:                 House
Introduced Date:                  20010516
Primary Sponsor:                  Kelley
All Sponsors:                     Kelley, Edge and Keegan
Drafted Document Number:          l:\council\bills\bbm\10364htc01.doc
Residing Body:                    House
Current Committee:                Judiciary Committee 25 HJ
Subject:                          Fireworks, cannot discharge within six 
                                  hundred feet of residential area with density 
                                  of thirty or more residences an acre


                        History

Body    Date      Action Description                     Com     Leg Involved
______  ________  ______________________________________ _______ ____________
House   20010516  Introduced, read first time,           25 HJ
                  referred to Committee


              Versions of This Bill

TO AMEND SECTION 23-35-120, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE OFFENSE OF SELLING PERMISSIBLE FIREWORKS TO CHILDREN AND THE UNLAWFUL DISCHARGE OF FIREWORKS, SO AS TO EXTEND THE LIMIT OF SIX HUNDRED FEET OF A CHURCH, HOSPITAL, ASYLUM, OR PUBLIC SCHOOL WITHIN WHICH IT IS UNLAWFUL TO DISCHARGE TO ANY RESIDENTIAL AREA WITH A DENSITY OF THIRTY OR MORE RESIDENCES AN ACRE AND TO UPDATE A REFERENCE.

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

SECTION    1.    Section 23-35-120 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:

    "Section 23-35-120.    It shall be is unlawful to:

    (1)    To offer for sale or to sell permissible fireworks to children under the age of fourteen years unless accompanied by a parent;

    (2)    To explode or ignite fireworks within six hundred feet of any a church, hospital, asylum mental health facility, or public school, or residential area with a density of thirty or more residences an acre;

    (3)    To explode or ignite fireworks within seventy-five feet of where fireworks are stored, sold, or offered for sale;

    (4)    To ignite or discharge any permissible fireworks within or throw the same permissible fireworks from any motor vehicle; and

    (5)    To place or throw any ignited fireworks into or at any motor vehicle."

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

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