South Carolina
South Carolina Code — Title 16, Crimes; Title 44 Controlled Substances
456 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.
- § 16-3-1540 — Department of Juvenile Justice to confer with victims before taking certain actions
- § 16-3-1545 — Juvenile cases; notification to victims of right to submit victim impact statement for disposition proceeding; form of statement; other required information for victims
- § 16-3-1550 — Restriction on employers of victims and witnesses; protection of rights of victims and witnesses
- § 16-3-1555 — Expert witness fees; distribution, maintenance and use of victim's impact statements
- § 16-3-1560 — Notification to victim of post-conviction proceedings affecting probation, parole, or release, and of victim's right to attend
- § 16-3-1565 — No cause of action against public employees or agencies
- § 16-3-1610 — Definitions
- § 16-3-1620 — Department of Crime Victim Ombudsman
- § 16-3-1630 — Ombudsman; responsibilities; authority; annual report
- § 16-3-1640 — Confidentiality of information and files
- § 16-3-1650 — Cooperation with the criminal and juvenile justice systems and victim assistance programs
- § 16-3-1660 — Grounds for dismissal
- § 16-3-1670 — Purpose
- § 16-3-1680 — Recommendation of regulations
- § 16-3-1690 — Submission of complaints; appeals
- § 16-3-1700 — Definitions
- § 16-3-1705 — Electronic mail service provider; immunity; definition
- § 16-3-1710 — Penalties for conviction of harassment in the second degree
- § 16-3-1720 — Penalties for conviction of harassment in the first degree
- § 16-3-1730 — Penalties for conviction of stalking
- § 16-3-1735 — Law enforcement officer empowered to sign warrant in place of victim
- § 16-3-1740 — Mental health evaluations of persons convicted of stalking or harassment; notice to victim in person of unsupervised release
- § 16-3-1750 — Action seeking a restraining order against a person engaged in harassment or stalking; jurisdiction and venue; forms; enforceability
- § 16-3-1760 — When temporary restraining orders may be granted without notice; notice and hearing on motion seeking restraining order
- § 16-3-1770 — Form and content of temporary restraining order
- § 16-3-1780 — Expiration of temporary restraining orders and restraining orders; extensions and modifications
- § 16-3-1790 — Service of certified copies of restraining orders
- § 16-3-1800 — Arrest upon violation of restraining order
- § 16-3-1810 — Law enforcement officer's responsibilities when responding to a harassment or stalking incident
- § 16-3-1820 — Immunity from liability for filing a report or complaint or participating in a judicial proceeding concerning alleged harassment or stalking; rebuttable presumption of good faith
- § 16-3-1830 — Availability of other civil and criminal remedies
- § 16-3-1840 — Mental health evaluation prior to setting bail; purpose; report
- § 16-3-1900 — Definitions
- § 16-3-1910 — Permanent restraining orders; procedure
- § 16-3-1920 — Emergency restraining orders; procedure
- § 16-3-20 — Punishment for murder; separate sentencing proceeding when death penalty sought
- § 16-3-2010 — Definitions
- § 16-3-2020 — Trafficking in persons; penalties; minor victims; defenses
- § 16-3-2030 — Criminal liability of principal owners of business; loss of profits and government contracts; penalties
- § 16-3-2040 — Restitution for victims of trafficking
- § 16-3-2050 — Interagency task force established to develop and implement State Plan for Prevention of Trafficking in Persons; members; responsibilities; grants
- § 16-3-2060 — Civil action for victim of trafficking; statute of limitations
- § 16-3-2070 — Compensation for victims of trafficking; identity of victim and victim's family confidential
- § 16-3-2080 — Unlawful disclosure; trespassing notice; unlawful entrance or presence on grounds of domestic violence or trafficking shelter; exceptions; penalties
- § 16-3-2090 — Forfeiture
- § 16-3-21 — Jury instruction as to discussion of verdict
- § 16-3-210 — Assault and battery by mob; investigation and apprehension; civil liability
- § 16-3-2100 — Posting of information regarding National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline in certain establishments; fines
- § 16-3-2210 — Definitions
- § 16-3-2220 — Female mutilation; penalty
- § 16-3-2230 — Defenses not applicable to violations of this article; procedures excepted from this article; revocation of professional license or certification
- § 16-3-2240 — Charges, conviction, or punishment for other violations of law arising out of same occurrence
- § 16-3-25 — Punishment for murder; review by Supreme Court of imposition of death penalty
- § 16-3-26 — Punishment for murder; notice to defense attorney of solicitor's intention to seek death penalty; appointment of attorneys for indigent; investigative, expert or other services
- § 16-3-28 — Punishment for murder; right of defendant to make last argument
- § 16-3-29 — Attempted murder
- § 16-3-410 — Sending or accepting challenge to fight
- § 16-3-420 — Carrying or delivering challenge; serving as second
- § 16-3-440 — Principal or second compelled to give testimony
- § 16-3-450 — Persons concerned in duel as witnesses
- § 16-3-460 — Pleading in bar by State's witness to subsequent indictment
- § 16-3-5 — Person causing injury which results in death at least three years later not to be prosecuted for homicide
- § 16-3-50 — Manslaughter
- § 16-3-510 — Hazing unlawful; definitions
- § 16-3-520 — Unlawful to assist in or fail to report hazing
- § 16-3-530 — Penalties
- § 16-3-540 — Consent not a defense
- § 16-3-60 — Involuntary manslaughter; "criminal negligence" defined
- § 16-3-600 — Assault and battery; definitions; degrees of offenses
- § 16-3-610 — Certain offenses committed with a carried or concealed deadly weapon
- § 16-3-615 — Spousal sexual battery
- § 16-3-625 — Resisting arrest with deadly weapon; sentencing; "deadly weapon" defined; application of section
- § 16-3-651 — Criminal sexual conduct; definitions
- § 16-3-652 — Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree
- § 16-3-653 — Criminal sexual conduct in the second degree
- § 16-3-654 — Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree
- § 16-3-655 — Criminal sexual conduct with a minor; aggravating and mitigating circumstances; penalties; repeat offenders
- § 16-3-656 — Criminal sexual conduct; assaults with intent to commit
- § 16-3-657 — Criminal sexual conduct; testimony of victim need not be corroborated
- § 16-3-658 — Criminal sexual conduct; when victim is spouse
- § 16-3-659 — Criminal sexual conduct; males under fourteen not presumed incapable of committing crime of rape
- § 16-3-659.1 — Criminal sexual conduct; admissibility of evidence concerning victim's sexual conduct
- § 16-3-660 — Deposition testimony of rape victim or victim of assault with intent to ravish
- § 16-3-670 — Procedure for taking deposition
- § 16-3-680 — Sheriff shall secure attendance of accused; absence of counsel
- § 16-3-690 — Custody of deposition
- § 16-3-70 — Administering or attempting to administer poison
- § 16-3-700 — Reading deposition to jury
- § 16-3-710 — Depositions in rebuttal
- § 16-3-720 — Destruction of deposition
- § 16-3-730 — Publishing name of victim of criminal sexual conduct unlawful
- § 16-3-740 — Testing of certain convicted offenders for Hepatitis B and HIV
- § 16-3-75 — Tampering with human drug product or food item; penalty
- § 16-3-750 — Request that victim submit to polygraph examination
- § 16-3-755 — Sexual battery with a student
- § 16-3-80 — Fentanyl-induced homicide
- § 16-3-800 — Definitions
- § 16-3-810 — Engaging child for sexual performance; penalty
- § 16-3-820 — Producing, directing or promoting sexual performance by child; penalty
- § 16-3-830 — Reasonable belief as to majority of child as affirmative defense
- § 16-3-840 — Methods of judicial determination of age of child
- § 16-3-85 — Homicide by child abuse; definitions; penalty; sentencing
- § 16-3-850 — Film processor or computer technician to report film or computer images containing sexually explicit pictures of minors
- § 16-3-910 — Kidnapping
- § 16-3-920 — Conspiracy to kidnap
- § 16-3-95 — Infliction or allowing infliction of great bodily injury upon a child; penalty; definition; corporal punishment and traffic accident exceptions
- § 20-7-105 — Section 44-53-160(B) authorizes the Department of Public Health, formerly the Department of Health and Environmental Control, to add, delete, or reschedule a substance as a controlled substance when the General Assembly is not in session, and Section 44-53-160(C) requires the department to make such
- § 44-53-10 — General powers of Department of Health and Environmental Control regarding controlled substances
- § 44-53-110 — Definitions
- § 44-53-1110 — Prohibition on aromatic hydrocarbons used as intoxicants
- § 44-53-1120 — Unlawful use or possession of aromatic hydrocarbons
- § 44-53-1130 — Penalties
- § 44-53-120 — Duties of State Law Enforcement Division
- § 44-53-1210 — Definitions
- § 44-53-1220 — Sale of caustic or corrosive substance in misbranded parcel, package, or container prohibited
- § 44-53-1230 — Confiscation of misbranded caustic or corrosive substance parcels, packages, or containers
- § 44-53-1240 — Enforcement; approval of brands and labels
- § 44-53-1250 — Penalties
- § 44-53-130 — Coordination of law enforcement
- § 44-53-1310 — Short title
- § 44-53-1320 — Definitions
- § 44-53-1350 — Exemptions
- § 44-53-1360 — Program for early diagnosis of cases of childhood lead poisoning; examinations; records
- § 44-53-1370 — Childhood lead poisoning prevention education program
- § 44-53-1380 — Notification of incidents of lead poisoning
- § 44-53-1390 — Investigation of lead poisoning case reports; right of entry
- § 44-53-140 — Certain communications and observations privileged
- § 44-53-1400 — Warrants for purpose of conducting investigation; oath or affirmation showing probable cause; contents of warrant
- § 44-53-1430 — Notice of identification of lead-based hazard; order that it be remediated; appeals
- § 44-53-1440 — Restriction on rental; existing occupants
- § 44-53-1450 — Regulations
- § 44-53-1460 — Legal actions not affected
- § 44-53-1480 — Penalties
- § 44-53-1485 — Civil penalties
- § 44-53-1490 — Private causes of action; action by municipality
- § 44-53-1495 — Funding contingency
- § 44-53-1510 — Definition of "anabolic steroid"; exceptions
- § 44-53-1520 — Unprofessional conduct to dispense under certain circumstances
- § 44-53-1530 — Possessing anabolic steroids without a prescription, or prescribing anabolic steroids, by nonpractitioner, pharmacist, or veterinarian unlawful; penalties
- § 44-53-1550 — What constitutes a prior offense
- § 44-53-160 — Manner in which changes in schedule of controlled substances made
- § 44-53-1610 — Citation of article
- § 44-53-1620 — Purpose
- § 44-53-1630 — Definitions
- § 44-53-1640 — Authority to establish and maintain prescription monitoring program; electronic submission of information by dispensers; exemptions
- § 44-53-1645 — Requirement to review patient's prescription history
- § 44-53-1650 — Confidentiality; persons to whom data may be released
- § 44-53-1655 — Practitioner prescription report cards
- § 44-53-1660 — Contract for administration by other state agency or private vendor
- § 44-53-1670 — Promulgation of regulations
- § 44-53-1680 — Violations and penalties
- § 44-53-170 — Nomenclature of controlled substances in schedules
- § 44-53-180 — Tests for inclusion of substance in Schedule I
- § 44-53-1810 — Definitions
- § 44-53-1820 — FDA approved clinical trials to treat patients who have certain forms of epilepsy with cannabidiol; principal investigators; subinvestigators
- § 44-53-1830 — Cannabidiol for use in clinical trials
- § 44-53-1840 — Immunity
- § 44-53-190 — Schedule I
- § 44-53-1910 — Definitions
- § 44-53-1920 — Limited immunity for a person who seeks medical assistance for another
- § 44-53-1930 — Limited immunity for overdose victim
- § 44-53-1940 — Decision to seek medical assistance a mitigating factor
- § 44-53-1950 — Limitation of immunity to allow prosecution for other crimes arising out of the drug or alcohol-related overdose
- § 44-53-1960 — Construction of article
- § 44-53-1970 — Civil and criminal immunity for law enforcement officers
- § 44-53-20 — "Food" and "drug" defined
- § 44-53-200 — Tests for inclusion of substance in Schedule II
- § 44-53-2010 — Definitions
- § 44-53-2020 — Kratom processors and retailers; unlawful acts
- § 44-53-2030 — Kratom products; labels
- § 44-53-2040 — Violations; penalties
- § 44-53-210 — Schedule II
- § 44-53-220 — Tests for inclusion of substance in Schedule III
- § 44-53-230 — Schedule III
- § 44-53-240 — Tests for inclusion of substance in Schedule IV
- § 44-53-250 — Schedule IV
- § 44-53-260 — Tests for inclusion of substance in Schedule V
- § 44-53-270 — Schedule V
- § 44-53-280 — Promulgation of rules and regulations; requirement of professional license; expiration of registration; failure to renew registration; reinstatement; fees and penalties
- § 44-53-290 — Requirement of and authority granted by registration; individuals exempt from registration; registration for maintenance and detoxification treatment
- § 44-53-30 — Persons selling certain articles to furnish samples for analysis
- § 44-53-300 — Granting of registration
- § 44-53-310 — Grounds for denial, revocation, or suspension of registration; civil fine
- § 44-53-320 — Procedure for denial, revocation, or suspension of registration; administrative consent order
- § 44-53-330 — Copy of judgment sent to licensing board upon conviction
- § 44-53-340 — Records and inventories of registrants
- § 44-53-350 — Order forms for distribution of controlled substances
- § 44-53-360 — Prescriptions
- § 44-53-361 — Prescriptions for opioid antidotes
- § 44-53-362 — Controlled substance take-back events and mail-back programs; collectors
- § 44-53-363 — Prerequisites to issuing opioid analgesics to minors
- § 44-53-365 — Theft of controlled substance; penalty
- § 44-53-370 — Prohibited acts A; penalties
- § 44-53-372 — Prohibited acts relating to xylazine; penalties
- § 44-53-373 — Authorized users of xylazine
- § 44-53-375 — Possession, manufacture, and trafficking of methamphetamine and cocaine base and other controlled substances; penalties
- § 44-53-376 — Disposal of waste from production of methamphetamine; penalty; emergency or environmental response restitution; exemptions
- § 44-53-378 — Exposing child to methamphetamine
- § 44-53-379 — Felony possession of a firearm
- § 44-53-380 — Prohibited acts B; penalties