Any person who shall wilfully expose his person, or commit any other indecent conduct upon the streets or in any public place shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
('64 Code, § 17-17) Penalty, see § 130.99
Statutory reference:
Indecent exposure, see S.C. Code § 16-15-130
(A) Any person who shall use profane or obscene language on the streets or in any public place within the city shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
('64 Code, § 17-25)
(B) It shall be unlawful for anyone to use profane or obscene language in any public building in the city or at any public gathering or entertainment in the city.
('64 Code, § 17-26) Penalty, see § 130.99
(A) For the purpose of this section the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
"BAWDY HOUSE." A house to which persons resort for the purpose of illegal sexual relations or prostitution, whether the same be a house in which the prostitutes or persons of evil fame live, or a house of assignation.
('64 Code, § 13-5)
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person to maintain, keep, live at, or frequent any bawdy house within the city.
('64 Code, § 13-6)
(C) It shall be unlawful for any person to rent or let, whether himself or by agent or whether he be principal or agent, any house within the city when he has reason to believe the same is being rented or let for the purpose of maintaining therein a bawdy house, or to permit any property he may own or have in charge as agent to be used for the purpose of maintaining a bawdy house.
('64 Code, § 13-7)
(D) When any person owning or any agent for any person owning any house within the city shall be served with a written notice, signed by the Chief of Police, that such house is being used as a bawdy house, it shall be the duty of such person immediately to investigate the same, and if the same is being used for such purpose to cause the tenants to vacate the same within 15 days after such notice. If it be subsequently established that such house was at that time being used as a bawdy house and that the owner or agent failed or refused to comply with the terms of this section, he shall be deemed to have violated this section.
('64 Code, § 13-8)
(E) Whenever any citizen shall report to the Chief of Police that illegal sexual relation or prostitution has occurred in any hotel, rooming house, lodginghouse, dwelling, or other house, or that any house within the city is being used or is suspected of being used as a bawdy house, it shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to cause an investigation pursuant to such report to be made within five days. A record of such reports and the investigation thereon shall be kept at the headquarters of the Police Department of the city, which record shall be open to public inspection.
('64 Code, § 13-9) Penalty, see § 130.99
(A) It shall be unlawful for any person owning or operating a hotel, rooming house, lodginghouse, boardinghouse, dwelling, or other house within the city to permit any room or portion thereof to be used for the purpose of prostitution or illegal sexual relations. If it shall be established that prostitution or illegal sexual relations have been practiced in such hotel, rooming house, lodginghouse, boardinghouse, dwelling, or other house, and that the owner or keeper thereof has not used reasonable precaution to prevent the same, the owner or keeper thereof shall be deemed to have violated this section.
(B) Violation of this section shall, on the first offense, be subject to the penalty set forth in § 130.99(B). Second and subsequent offenses shall be punished under appropriate state law.
(S.C. Code §§ 16-15-90 - 16-15-110)
('64 Code, § 13-1) Penalty, see § 130.99
(A) It shall be unlawful for any person or driver of any public conveyance, vehicle, or common carrier of any kind whatsoever, within the city, to transport, carry, convey, or assist by aiding, abetting, encouraging, requesting, or otherwise in transporting, carrying, conveying, or accompanying by any ways or means whatsoever any woman for immoral purpose.
(B) Violation of this section shall, on the first offense, be subject to the penalty set forth in § 130.99(B). Second and subsequent offenses shall be punished under appropriate state law.
(S.C. Code §§ 16-15-90 - 16-15-110)
('64 Code, § 13-2) Penalty, see § 130.99
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