South Carolina Code 50-15-90. Article not retroactive; certain importation not prohibited
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Terms Used In South Carolina Code 50-15-90
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Fish: means finfish, shellfish including mollusks, crustaceans, horseshoe crabs, whelks (conchs), turtles, and terrapin or products thereof. See South Carolina Code 50-5-15
- Native: means any species or subspecies considered to be indigenous and naturally occurring in this State. See South Carolina Code 50-15-10
- Person: means any individual, firm, corporation, association, or partnership. See South Carolina Code 50-15-10
- Wildlife: means any wild mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, mollusk, crustacean, or other wild animal or any part, product, egg or offspring, or the dead body or parts thereof. See South Carolina Code 50-15-10
None of the provisions of this article shall be construed to apply retroactively or to prohibit importation into the State of wildlife which may be lawfully imported into the United States or lawfully taken or removed from another state or to prohibit entry into the State or possession, transportation, exportation, processing, sale or offer for sale, or shipment of any wildlife whose species or subspecies is deemed to be threatened with statewide extinction in this State but not in the state where originally taken if the person engaging therein demonstrates by substantial evidence that such wildlife was lawfully taken or removed from such state; provided, that this section shall not be construed to permit the possession, transportation, exportation, processing, sale or offer for sale, or shipment within this State of wildlife on the United States’ List of Endangered Native Fish and Wildlife, as amended and accepted in accordance with § 50-15-30(D), except as permitted in the proviso to § 50-15-30(C) and § 50-15-40(D).