H 3706 Session 123 (2019-2020) H 3706 General Bill, By Martin A BILL TO AMEND SECTION 16-17-420, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO OFFENSES INVOLVING DISTURBING SCHOOLS, SO AS TO RESTRUCTURE THE OFFENSES.
TO AMEND SECTION 16-17-420, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO OFFENSES INVOLVING DISTURBING SCHOOLS, SO AS TO RESTRUCTURE THE OFFENSES. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina: SECTION 1. Section 16-17-420 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 182 of 2018, is further amended to read:
"Section 16-17-420.
(A) It is unlawful: (1) for any person wilfully or unnecessarily to: (a) interfere with or to disturb in any way or in any place the students or teachers of any school or college in this State; (b) loiter about such school or college premises; or (c) act in an obnoxious manner on school or college premises; or (2) for any person to: (a) enter upon any such school or college premises; or (b) loiter around the premises, except on business, without the permission of the principal or president in charge. (B) Any person violating any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than one thousand dollars or be imprisoned in the county jail for not more than ninety days. (C) The summary courts are vested with jurisdiction to hear and dispose of cases involving a violation of this section. If the person is a child, as defined by Section 63-19-20, jurisdiction must remain vested in the family court." SECTION 2. The repeal or amendment by this act of any law, whether temporary or permanent or civil or criminal, does not affect pending actions, rights, duties, or liabilities founded thereon, or alter, discharge, release or extinguish any penalty, forfeiture, or liability incurred under the repealed or amended law, unless the repealed or amended provision shall so expressly provide. After the effective date of this act, all laws repealed or amended by this act must be taken and treated as remaining in full force and effect for the purpose of sustaining any pending or vested right, civil action, special proceeding, criminal prosecution, or appeal existing as of the effective date of this act, and for the enforcement of rights, duties, penalties, forfeitures, and liabilities as they stood under the repealed or amended laws. SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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