(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