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TO AMEND SECTION 16-17-420 OF THE CODE OF LAWS TO CHANGE THE MISDEMEANOR PENALTY FOR BEING FOUND GUILTY OF INTERFERING WITH OR DISTURBING STUDENTS OR TEACHER, LOITERING, OR ACTING OBNOXIOUS, ON THE GROUNDS OF ANY SCHOOL OR COLLEGE IN THIS STATE OR BEING ON THE PREMISE WITHOUT PERMISSION EXCEPT ON BUSINESS TO A FINE OF NOT LESS THAN $100 NOR MORE THAN $1,000 OR IMPRISONMENT IN A COUNTY JAIL FOR NOT MORE THAN THIRTY DAYS.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 16-17-420 of the 1976 Code of Laws is amended to read:
"Section 16-17-420. It shall be unlawful:
(1) For any person wilfully or unnecessarily (a) to interfere with or to disturb in any way or in any place the students or teachers of any school or college in this State, (b) to loiter about such school or college premises or (c) to act in an obnoxious manner thereon; or
(2) For any person to (a) enter upon any such school or college premises or (b) loiter around the premises, except on business, without the permission of the principal or president in charge.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction thereof, shall pay a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars or be imprisoned in the county jail for not less more than thirty days nor more than ninety days."
SECTION . This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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