South Carolina § 15-43-10 Use of buildings or places for lewdness and the like declared a nuisance.

South Carolina Statutes

§ 15-43-10 — Use of buildings or places for lewdness and the like declared a nuisance.

South Carolina § 15-43-10

Title 15CIVIL REMEDIES AND PROCEDURES

Ch. 43ABATEMENT OF NUISANCES

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Bluebook

S.C. Code Ann. § 15-43-10 (2026).

Text

(A)A person who erects, establishes, continues, maintains, uses, owns, occupies, leases, or releases any building or other place used for the purposes of lewdness, assignation, prostitution, repeated acts of unlawful possession or sale of controlled substances, or continuous breach of the peace in this State is guilty of a nuisance; and the building, place, or the ground itself in or upon which the lewdness, assignation, prostitution, repeated acts of unlawful possession or sale of controlled substances, or continuous breach of the peace is conducted, permitted, carried on, continued, or exists and the furniture, fixtures, musical instruments, and movable property used in conducting or maintaining the nuisance also are declared a nuisance and shall be enjoined and abated as provided in th

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(A) A person who erects, establishes, continues, maintains, uses, owns, occupies, leases, or releases any building or other place used for the purposes of lewdness, assignation, prostitution, repeated acts of unlawful possession or sale of controlled substances, or continuous breach of the peace in this State is guilty of a nuisance; and the building, place, or the ground itself in or upon which the lewdness, assignation, prostitution, repeated acts of unlawful possession or sale of controlled substances, or continuous breach of the peace is conducted, permitted, carried on, continued, or exists and the furniture, fixtures, musical instruments, and movable property used in conducting or maintaining the nuisance also are declared a nuisance and shall be enjoined and abated as provided in this chapter. (B) As used in this section "continuous breach of the peace" means a pattern of repeated acts or conduct which either (1) directly disturbs the public peace or (2) disturbs the public peace by inciting or tending to incite violence. (C) Nothing in this section supplants, alters, or limits a statutory or common law right of a person to bring an action in court or the right of the State to prosecute a person for a violation of a statute or common law.

Legislative History

HISTORY: 1962 Code SECTION 10-1801; 1952 Code SECTION 10-1801; 1942 Code SECTION 575; 1932 Code SECTION 575; Civ. P. '22 SECTION 491; 1918 (30) 814; 1998 Act No. 261, SECTION 1.