S.C. Code § 30-1-30

Current through 2024 Act No. 120.
Section 30-1-30 - Unlawful removing, defacing or destroying public records

A person who unlawfully removes a public record from the office where it usually is kept or alters, defaces, mutilates, secretes, or destroys it is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not less than five hundred dollars nor more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days. Magistrates and municipal courts have jurisdiction to try violations of this section.

S.C. Code § 30-1-30

1995 Act No. 2, Section 1; 1990 Act No. 546, Section 1; 1973 (58) 350; 1962 Code Section 1-583.