Current Status Introducing Body:House Bill Number:3370 Ratification Number:215 Act Number:95 Primary Sponsor:Waldrop Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Video rentals, failure to return Date Bill Passed both Bodies:19930601 Computer Document Number:CYY/15059SD.93 Governor's Action:S Date of Governor's Action:19930611 Introduced Date:19930203 Date of Last Amendment:19930401 Last History Body:------ Last History Date:19930611 Last History Type:Act No. 95 Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Waldrop Type of Legislation:General Bill
Bill Body Date Action Description CMN Leg Involved
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3370 ------ 19930611 Act No. 95
3370 ------ 19930611 Signed by Governor
3370 ------ 19930610 Ratified R 215
3370 Senate 19930601 Read third time, enrolled for
ratification
3370 Senate 19930527 Read second time
3370 Senate 19930526 Committee Report: Favorable 11
3370 Senate 19930406 Introduced, read first time, 11
referred to Committee
3370 House 19930402 Read third time, sent to
Senate
3370 House 19930401 Amended, read second time,
unanimous consent for third
reading on Friday, April 2,
1993
3370 House 19930331 Committee Report: Favorable 26
with amendment
3370 House 19930203 Introduced read first time, 26
referred to Committee
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(A95, R215, H3370)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 16-13-425, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE UNLAWFUL FAILURE TO RETURN RENTED VIDEO OR CASSETTE TAPES, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT A PERSON IS NOT GUILTY OF THE OFFENSE OF PETIT LARCENY FOR HIS FAILURE TO RETURN THE VIDEO OR CASSETTE TAPE WHERE THE ORIGINAL DOLLAR AMOUNT OF THE LEASE OR RENTAL AGREEMENT IS TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS OR LESS UNLESS HE WILFULLY AND FRAUDULENTLY FAILS TO RETURN THE VIDEO OR CASSETTE TAPE WITHIN SEVENTY-TWO HOURS AFTER A LETTER DEMANDING RETURN OF THE VIDEO OR CASSETTE TAPE HAS BEEN MAILED TO HIM BY CERTIFIED OR REGISTERED MAIL AT HIS LAST KNOWN ADDRESS BY THE OWNER OF THE VIDEO OR CASSETTE TAPE OR HIS AGENT.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
Failure to return not unlawful under certain conditions
SECTION 1. Section 16-13-425 of the 1976 Code, as added by Act 485 of 1988, is further amended to read:
"Section 16-13-425. (A) Any person having a video or cassette tape in his possession or under his control by virtue of a lease or rental agreement, the original dollar amount of which is two hundred dollars or less, who wilfully and fraudulently fails to return the video or cassette tape within seventy-two hours after a letter demanding return of the video or cassette tape has been mailed to him by certified or registered mail return receipt requested at his last known address by the owner of the video or cassette tape or his agent or who fraudulently secretes or appropriates this property to any use or purpose not within the due and lawful execution of his lease or rental agreement is guilty of petit larceny which is also triable and punishable as such.
(B) Any person having a video or cassette tape in his possession or under his control by virtue of a lease or rental agreement, the original dollar amount of which is more than two hundred dollars, who wilfully and fraudulently fails to return the video or cassette tape within seventy-two hours after the lease or rental agreement has expired, or who fraudulently secretes or appropriates this property to any use or purpose not within the due and lawful execution of his lease or rental agreement is guilty of grand larceny which is also triable and punishable as such."
Time effective
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
Approved the 11th day of June, 1993.