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Bill 50

                    Current Status

Bill Number:                      50
Type of Legislation:              General Bill GB
Introducing Body:                 Senate
Introduced Date:                  20010110
Primary Sponsor:                  Ford
All Sponsors:                     Ford, Richardson, Elliott, Reese, 
                                  Leventis, Branton
Drafted Document Number:          l:\s-res\rf\020adve.jh.doc
Residing Body:                    Senate
Current Committee:                Judiciary Committee 11 SJ
Subject:                          Advertising statements, untrue or 
                                  misleading prohibited; Advertisements, Crimes, 
                                  Offenses, Consumer Affairs, Businesses


                        History

Body    Date      Action Description                     Com     Leg Involved
______  ________  ______________________________________ _______ ____________
Senate  20010110  Introduced, read first time,           11 SJ
                  referred to Committee


              Versions of This Bill

TO AMEND SECTION 39-1-20, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO MAKING INTENTIONALLY UNTRUE STATEMENTS IN ADVERTISING, SO AS TO PROHIBIT ADVERTISING IN ANY FORM, INCLUDING TELEVISION, RADIO, AND INTERNET BROADCASTS, WHICH IS KNOWN OR SHOULD BE KNOWN TO BE UNTRUE OR MISLEADING.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION 1. Section 39-1-20 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:

"Section 39-1-20. Any person who knowingly with intent to sell or in any wise way dispose of merchandise, securities, service services, or anything offered by such the person, directly or indirectly, to the public for sale or distribution, or with intent to increase the consumption thereof, to induce the public in any manner to enter into any obligation relating thereto or to acquire title thereto or an interest therein makes, publishes, disseminates, circulates, broadcasts, or places before the public or causes, directly or indirectly, to be made, published, disseminated, circulated, broadcast, or placed before the public, in a newspaper, or other publication or in the form of a book, notice, handbill, poster, bill, circular, pamphlet, letter, broadcast over the Internet, television, radio, or in any other way form, an advertisement of any sort regarding merchandise, securities, service services, or anything so offered to the public which contains any assertion, representation, or statement of fact which is intentionally untrue shall be is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall must be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment at hard labor for not less than thirty days nor more than six months, in the discretion of the court."

SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

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