CHAPTER 131: OFFENSES AGAINST PROPERTY
Section
   131.01   Larceny
   131.02   Receiving stolen goods
   131.03   Damaging or destroying property of another
   131.04   Trespassing
   131.05   Trespassing on airport property
   131.06   Evading traffic-control devices
§ 131.01 LARCENY.
   Any person who shall, within the city, commit a simple larceny of any article of personal property below the value of $200, or as established by S.C. Code § 16-13-30, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
('64 Code, § 17-18) (Ord., passed 11-25-74) Penalty, see § 130.99
§ 131.02 RECEIVING STOLEN GOODS.
   It is unlawful for any person knowingly to buy or receive stolen goods, chattels, or other property. A person is guilty of this offense whether or not anyone is convicted of the theft of the property. If the value of the property is $200 or less, any person found guilty of violating the provisions of this section shall be subject to the penalty provisions of § 130.99(B).
('64 Code, § 17-29) (Am. Ord., passed 8-27-91) Penalty, see § 130.99
                    
Statutory reference:
   Receiving stolen goods, see S.C. Code § 16-13-180
§ 131.03 DAMAGING OR DESTROYING PROPERTY OF ANOTHER.
   The destruction, injuring, damaging, mutilation, or removal of the property of another is hereby prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to destroy, damage, mutilate, or remove the property of another. The following acts, among others, are declared to be in violation of this section, but this enumeration shall not be deemed to be exclusive.
   (A)   Personal property. Any person within the city who shall wilfully, unlawfully, and maliciously cut, shoot, maim, wound, or otherwise injure any personal property below the value of $200 of another person, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
(S.C. Code § 16-11-510)
   (B)   Fixtures and real property. Any person within the city who shall wilfully, unlawfully, and maliciously cut, mutilate, deface, or otherwise injure any tree, house, outside fence, or fixture of another, or commit any other trespass upon real property in the possession of another, when the value of such property is less than $200, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
(S.C. Code § 16-11-520)
   (C)   Municipal property. No person within the city, unless authorized by city officials, shall remove, interfere with, or destroy any city property.
   (D)   Cemeteries. No person shall damage or deface in any way whatever any well, pump, building, tombstone, seat, bench, chair, railing, enclosure, tree, shrub, vine, bulb, flower, or other thing placed, put, or growing in any cemetery.
   (E)   Grass plots, flowers and the like. No person shall drive any animal or vehicle along, on, or across any grass plot in any street, public place, or sidewalk, or trample, pluck, mutilate, or injure the grass, shrubs, or flowers planted or growing in such place.
   (F)   Trees and shrubs. No person shall cut, scar, mutilate, dig up, or otherwise injure or destroy any trees or shrubs on the public streets or in the parks of the city.
   (G)   No person shall operate a metal detecting device and/or dig in any public park or playground or on any city-owned property located with the Historical District overlay without prior authorization by the City Manager.
('64 Code, § 17-27; Am. Ord., passed 4-25-89) Penalty, see § 130.99
§ 131.04 TRESPASSING.
   Any person who, without legal cause or good excuse, enters into the dwelling house, place of business, or on the premises of another person, after having been warned within the preceding six months not to do so; or any person, who, having entered into the dwelling house, place of business, or on the premises of another person, without having been warned within six months not to do so, and who fails and refuses, without good cause or excuse, to leave immediately upon being ordered or requested to do so by the person in possession, or his agent or representative, shall be guilty of a violation of this section.
(S.C. Code § 16-11-620)
('64 Code, § 17-36) (Ord., passed 6-27-60) Penalty, see § 130.99
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