S.C. Code § 54-9-10
Harboring deserting seamen or enticing them to desert
South Carolina · South Carolina Code Title 54, Chapter 9 — Offenses Relating to Seamen · Status: effective
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- S.C. Code § 54-9-10, Harboring deserting seamen or enticing them to desert, South Carolina, version 1 as recorded 2026-09-28, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/1589709
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Any person who shall be convicted of harboring deserting seamen or of inveigling or procuring them to desert any service for which they have engaged or disregard any article into which they have entered shall be held guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon trial and conviction, shall be punished by fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the judge, not to exceed three hundred dollars' fine and three months' imprisonment. Upon a second conviction the person so offending, if the keeper of a public or lodging house for seamen, in addition to the penalty before provided, shall forfeit his license.