Current Status Bill Number:4799 Ratification Number:473 Act Number:361 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:19980312 Primary Sponsor:Altman All Sponsors:Altman, Kelley, Keegan, Lanford, Rhoad, Witherspoon and Meacham Drafted Document Number:egm\18689djc.98 Companion Bill Number:1145 Date Bill Passed both Bodies:19980528 Date of Last Amendment:19980527 Governor's Action:S Date of Governor's Action:19980609 Subject:Shrimp boats, drag nets, Kiawah, Seabrook Island Beaches; Fish and Game; Watercraft, Beaufort, Hilton Head Island
Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved
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------ 19980617 Act No. A361
------ 19980609 Signed by Governor
------ 19980604 Ratified R473
House 19980528 Ordered enrolled for ratification
Senate 19980527 Free Conference Committee Report 89 SFCC
adopted
Senate 19980527 Free Conference Powers granted, 89 SFCC Land
appointed Senators to Committee Cork
of Free Conference Washington
Senate 19980527 Reconsidered vote whereby the
Conference Committee Report was adopted
House 19980527 Free Conference Committee Report 99 HFCC
adopted
House 19980527 Free Conference Powers granted, 99 HFCC Rhoad
appointed Reps. To Committee of Sharpe
Free Conference Witherspoon
House 19980514 Conference Committee Report rejected
Senate 19980513 Conference Committee Report adopted 88 SCC
House 19980505 Conference powers granted, 98 HCC Rhoad
appointed Reps. To Committee of Sharpe
Conference Witherspoon
Senate 19980430 Conference powers granted, 88 SCC Land
appointed Senators to Committee Cork
of Conference Washington
Senate 19980430 Insists upon amendment
House 19980429 Non-concurrence in Senate amendment
Senate 19980424 Read third time, returned to House
with amendment
Senate 19980423 Amended, read second time,
unanimous consent for third reading
on Friday, 19980424
Senate 19980421 Committee report: Favorable 07 SFGF
Senate 19980407 Introduced, read first time, 07 SFGF
referred to Committee
House 19980403 Read third time, sent to Senate
House 19980402 Unanimous consent for third
reading on the next Legislative day
House 19980402 Amended, read second time
House 19980401 Committee report: Favorable with 20 HANR
amendment
House 19980312 Introduced, read first time, 20 HANR
referred to Committee
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(A361, R473, H4799)
AN ACT TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 50-21-136 SO AS TO ESTABLISH NO WAKE ZONES ON CERTAIN CREEKS AND COVES ON HILTON HEAD ISLAND AND ON THE NEW RIVER IN BEAUFORT COUNTY AND TO PROVIDE PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS; AND TO AMEND SECTION 50-17-1010, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO COASTAL FISHERIES LAWS, SO AS TO ALLOW SHRIMP BOATS TO DRAG NETS NO CLOSER THAN ONE-FOURTH MILE OF KIAWAH AND SEABROOK ISLAND BEACHES.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
Hilton Head no wake zones; penalties
SECTION 1. The 1976 Code is amended by adding:
Section 50-21-136. (A) There are established no wake zones on the following creeks and coves on Hilton Head Island in Beaufort County:
Broad Creek, to begin at the end of the existing no wake zone at Palmetto Bay Marina, running upstream in an easterly direction to the Cross Island Parkway Bridge, including all waters to the high tide line; to begin 50 feet downstream of the Broad Creek Marina, running in a northwest to southeast direction to the low tide lines that bound its channel, to 50 feet upstream of Nautical Day Marker Number 10, running in a southwest to northeast direction to 550 feet west of a dock located at 63 River Club Drive (Lot 3) to the low tide lines that bound its channel; to begin 50 feet downstream of the Long Cove docks, running in a north to south direction to the low tide lines that bound its channel, to 50 feet upstream of the Long Cove docks, running in a north to south direction to the low tide lines that bound its channel; and to begin at Nautical Day Marker Number 19, running upstream in a northeasterly direction to the headwaters of Broad Creek, including all waters to the high tide line.
Old House Creek;
Bear Creek (also known as Park Creek);
Lawton Creek;
Jarvis Creek;
Braddock Cove;
Calibogue Creek (also known as Baynard Cove);
Folly Creek;
Fish Haul Creek (also known as Coggin Creek);
Point Comfort Creek;
Jenkins Creek;
Skull Creek between Nautical Day Marker Number 13 and Nautical Day Marker Number 14.
There is also established a no wake zone between one hundred yards north of Nautical Day Marker Number 40 and Nautical Day Marker Number 41 on the New River in Beaufort County.
The no wake zone boundaries must be marked clearly with signs. The signs must be designed and installed as specified by the department.
(B) Any person violating the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be punished by a fine of two hundred fifty dollars or imprisonment for a period not exceeding ten days, or both, for a first offense or a fine of five hundred dollars or imprisonment for a period not exceeding thirty days, or both, for a second or subsequent offense.
Restricted area for trawling
SECTION 2. Section 50-17-1010 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 348 of 1992, is further amended by adding:
"(5) All that area bounded by a closed line beginning at the point on the southwestern end of Seabrook Island where the inshore trawl boundary crossing North Edisto River Inlet intersects the shoreline, thence following the shoreline of Seabrook Island and crossing Captain Sams Inlet; thence following the shoreline of Kiawah Island to the easternmost point of Kiawah Island (Sandy Point) at latitude 32° 37.18' N, longitude 079° 59.65' W; thence southerly following a straight line on a geodetic azimuth of 180 degrees, to the point one-fourth nautical mile seaward from the shoreline; thence southwesterly following a line that is one-fourth nautical mile seaward of the shoreline to the point at the intersection of said line and the inshore trawl boundary, thence easterly following the inshore trawl boundary to the point of beginning; the above-described area being based on NOS chart 11521 (22nd edition, January 20, 1996)."
Time effective
SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
Approved the 9th day of June, 1998.