(a) Definitions. “Venerated objects” shall mean, but not be limited to official state or national objects which are of historical and patriotic value and shall include, but not be limited to the flag of the State of South Carolina and the flag of the United States of America.
(b) Public destruction unlawful; penalty. Any person who in any manner shall publicly mutilate, deface, defile, trample upon or burn venerated objects under such circumstances whereby said conduct is intended to be openly inflammatory, instigatory, promoting or conducive to onlookers or passersby to violently retaliate, engage in a riot, rout, affray, breach of the peace or public disorderly conduct shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished within the jurisdictional limits of magistrate’s court. Each such person, firm, corporation or agent shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each and every day or portion thereof during which any violation of any of the provisions of this article is committed, or continued.
(1976 Code, § 15-2) (Ord. 2032, §§ 1, 2, passed 9-5-1989; Ord. 2626, § 3, passed 9-6-1994)