Current StatusView additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.Bill Number: 275 Ratification Number: 82 Act Number 51 Introducing Body: Senate Subject: Blind persons, orphans, and Boy and Girl Scouts being exempt from hunting and fishing license requirements
(A51, R82, S275)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 50-9-830, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO BLIND PERSONS, ORPHANS, AND BOY AND GIRL SCOUTS BEING EXEMPT FROM HUNTING AND FISHING LICENSE REQUIREMENTS UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS, SO AS TO INCLUDE MENTALLY RETARDED PERSONS WITHIN THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
License not required
SECTION 1. Section 50-9-830 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 50-9-830. All blind residents of this State, all orphans of any orphanage or other eleemosynary institution of this State, any boy or girl scout, and physically handicapped and mentally retarded persons, as defined by Section 44-21-30(4), may hunt or fish within any county in this State without obtaining a license to do so, if the blind person or the superintendent or person in charge of the institution, scouts, or physically handicapped or mentally retarded persons shall first apply to the Director of the Division of Game for a permit allowing the blind person, orphans, scouts, or physically handicapped or mentally retarded persons to hunt or fish, giving the name of the blind person or each orphan, scout, or physically handicapped or mentally retarded person and the name of the institution, sponsoring entity, or troop. The superintendent or person in charge of the orphans, scouts, or physically handicapped or mentally retarded persons shall accompany them on the hunting or fishing trip for which the permit is granted. The director may issue the permit when the above conditions have been complied with.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this section or any other provision of law, mentally retarded persons permitted to hunt or fish pursuant to this section are not authorized in any instance to carry or use firearms while hunting or fishing hereunder."
Time effective
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.