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H. 4407
STATUS INFORMATION
General Bill
Sponsors: Reps. Ridgeway, Brown, Clyburn, Henegan and S. Rivers
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Introduced in the House on January 9, 2018
Currently residing in the House Committee on Education and Public Works
Summary: Traffic-control devices and RR signs and signals
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS
Date Body Action Description with journal page number
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11/9/2017 House Prefiled
11/9/2017 House Referred to Committee on Education and Public Works
1/9/2018 House Introduced and read first time (House Journal-page 99)
1/9/2018 House Referred to Committee on Education and Public Works
(House Journal-page 99)
2/14/2018 House Member(s) request name added as sponsor: S.Rivers
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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
TO AMEND SECTION 56-5-1030, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE UNLAWFUL INTERFERENCE WITH TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICES, AND RAILROAD SIGNS AND SIGNALS, AND PENALTIES ASSOCIATED WITH THESE VIOLATIONS, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THESE PENALTIES ALSO APPLY TO THE UNLAWFUL INTERFERENCE WITH A ROAD OR STREET IDENTIFICATION SIGN.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 56-5-1030 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 56-5-1030. (A) No person shall wilfully without lawful authority attempt to or in fact alter, deface, injure, knock down, or remove an official traffic-control device or a railroad sign or signal or its inscriptions, shields, or insignia, or a road or street identification sign.
(B) A person violating the provisions of this section is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, must be:
(1) fined not less than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. The driver's license of a person convicted under this section must be revoked for not less than five years. In any case where a license has not been issued, the person is not eligible to obtain a license for five years from the date of conviction;
(2) fined not less than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than ten years if injury results;
(3) imprisoned not more than thirty years if death results."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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