Current Status Introducing Body:Senate Bill Number:394 Primary Sponsor:Hayes Committee Number:07 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Big game permits, free for disabled residents Residing Body:Senate Current Committee:Fish, Game & Forestry Computer Document Number:NO5/8858BD.93 Introduced Date:19930209 Last History Body:Senate Last History Date:19930209 Last History Type:Introduced, read first time, referred to Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Hayes Peeler Type of Legislation:General Bill
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394 Senate 19930209 Introduced, read first time, 07
referred to Committee
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TO AMEND SECTION 50-9-810, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO FREE HUNTING AND FISHING LICENSES FOR TOTALLY AND PERMANENTLY DISABLED RESIDENTS, SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR FREE BIG GAME PERMITS AND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA PERMITS.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 50-9-810 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 50-9-810. (A) Any A person who has been a resident of this State for three years and can produce a certificate from a licensed doctor of medicine that he is totally and permanently disabled may secure, without cost, a license to hunt and fish in this State, big game permit, and wildlife management area permit.
(B) For the purposes of this section, total and permanent disability shall mean means the physical inability to perform work in any an occupation, which physical inability appears to be of a permanent nature.
(C) Applications for licenses shall must be obtained from the local game warden conservation manager and shall must be forwarded by the applicant to the South Carolina Wildlife and Marine Resources Department. The department shall review the application and issue licenses to qualified persons. All Applications shall must include the required doctor of medicine's medicine certificate.
(D) Any An applicant who wilfully misrepresents his eligibility for a license or permit under the terms of this section shall be deemed is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall must be fined not more than one hundred dollars nor less than twenty-five dollars."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.