2001-2002 Bill 4135: Fireworks, Cannot Discharge Within Six Hundred Feet of Residential

BIL: 4135

TYP: General Bill GB

INB: House

IND: 20010516

PSP: Kelley

SPO: Kelley, Edge and Keegan

DDN: l:\council\bills\bbm\10364htc01.doc

RBY: House

COM: Judiciary Committee 25 HJ

SUB: Fireworks, cannot discharge within six hundred feet of residential area with density of thirty or more residences an acre

HST:

Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved

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House 20010516 Introduced, read first time, 25 HJ

referred to Committee

Versions of This Bill

TXT:

A BILL

TO AMEND SECTION 2335120, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE OFFENSE OF SELLING PERMISSIBLE FIREWORKS TO CHILDREN AND THE UNLAWFUL DISCHARGE OF FIREWORKS, SO AS TO EXTEND THE LIMIT OF SIX HUNDRED FEET OF A CHURCH, HOSPITAL, ASYLUM, OR PUBLIC SCHOOL WITHIN WHICH IT IS UNLAWFUL TO DISCHARGE TO ANY RESIDENTIAL AREA WITH A DENSITY OF THIRTY OR MORE RESIDENCES AN ACRE AND TO UPDATE A REFERENCE.

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

SECTION 1. Section 2335120 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:

“Section 2335120. It shall be is unlawful to:

(1) To offer for sale or to sell permissible fireworks to children under the age of fourteen years unless accompanied by a parent;

(2) To explode or ignite fireworks within six hundred feet of any a church, hospital, asylum mental health facility, or public school, or residential area with a density of thirty or more residences an acre;

(3) To explode or ignite fireworks within seventyfive feet of where fireworks are stored, sold, or offered for sale;

(4) To ignite or discharge any permissible fireworks within or throw the same permissible fireworks from any motor vehicle; and

(5) To place or throw any ignited fireworks into or at any motor vehicle.”

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

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