Whenever in this Code or in any ordinance or resolution of the county or in any rule, regulation or order promulgated by any officer or agency of the county under authority duly vested in him or her or if any act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor, or wherever in such Code or ordinance, resolution, or rules or regulation or order the doing of an act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor, where no specific penalty is provided therefore either by this Code or by state law, the violation of any such provisions of this Code or any such ordinance, resolution, or rule, regulation or order shall be punished by a fine or imprisonment not to exceed the penalty jurisdiction of magistrates’ courts. Except where otherwise provided, each day any violation of any provision of this Code or of any ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation or order shall continue shall constitute a separate offense.
Statutory reference:
Designation of powers, penalty, see S.C. Code, § 4-9-30
Magistrates jurisdiction, fines and imprisonment, see S.C. Code, § 22-3-550