(A) No person may own or harbor an animal for the purpose of fighting or train, torment, badger, bait, or use an animal for the purpose of causing or encouraging the animal to unprovoked attacks upon human beings or domestic animals.

(B) No person may possess with intent to sell, offer for sale, breed, or buy or attempt to buy a known dangerous animal; however, this subsection does not apply to a person who is licensed to possess and breed an animal under the classifications specified and regulated by the United States Department of Agriculture under the Animal Welfare Act as codified in Title 7 of the United States Code.

Terms Used In South Carolina Code 47-3-740

  • dangerous animal: means an animal of the canine or feline family:

    (1) which the owner knows or reasonably should know has a propensity, tendency, or disposition to attack unprovoked, cause injury, or otherwise endanger the safety of human beings or domestic animals;

    (2) which:

    (a) makes an unprovoked attack that causes bodily injury to a human being and the attack occurs in a place other than the place where the animal is confined as required by § 47-3-720; or

    (b) commits unprovoked acts in a place other than the place where the animal is confined as required by § 47-3-720 and those acts cause a person to reasonably believe that the animal will attack and cause bodily injury to a human being;

    (3) which is owned or harbored primarily or in part for the purpose of fighting or which is trained for fighting. See South Carolina Code 47-3-710
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