1900 S.C. Acts 449
| dc.coverage.spatial | South Carolina | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T14:18:37Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T17:13:37Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T13:24:14Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1900 | |
| dc.description.abstract | No. 254, § 1: That any person who shall, without just cause or excuse, or while under the influence, or feigning to be under the influence of intoxicating liquors, engage in any boisterous conduct, or who shall, without just cause or excuse, discharge any gun, pistol or other firearm while upon or within fifty yards of any public road or highway, except upon his own premises, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall pay a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or beimprisoned for not more than thirty days. | |
| dc.description.lawtext | SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, That an Act entitled "An Act to prevent drunkenness and shooting upon the highway," be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out after the word "conduct," on line 3 thereof the words "under the influence of intoxicating liquors, or while feigning to be under the influence of such liquors, or;" and after the word "excuse," strike out the word "shall," and inserting the words after "shall," on line 2, the words "without just cause or excuse, or while under the influence, or feigning to be under the influence, of intoxicating liquors;" so that said Act, when so amended, shall read as follows: That any person who shall, without just cause or excuse, or while under the influence, or feigning to be under the influence, of intoxicating liquors, engage in any boisterous conduct, or who shall, without just cause or excuse, discharge any gun, pistol or other firearm while upon or within fifty yards of any public road or highway, except upon his own premises, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall pay a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned for not more than thirty days. | |
| dc.description.summary | The Act prohibited boisterous conduct while intoxicated or pretending to be intoxicated, as well as unjustified discharge of a firearm on or within 50 yards of a public road or highway, except on one’s own property. Violations were misdemeanors punishable by up to a $100 fine or 30 days’ imprisonment. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/5292 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://www.google.com/books/edition/Acts_and_Joint_Resolutions_of_the_Genera/R_NJAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1 | |
| dc.subject | DISCHARGE | |
| dc.title | 1900 S.C. Acts 449 |