Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter, or any rule or regulation, permit or permit condition, final determination or order of the Department, shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed ten thousand dollars per day of such violation.
S.C. Code Ann. § 48-1-330
Civil penalties
Known as the Pollution Control Act
The act spans §§ 48–48 (41 sections).
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case City of Rock Hill v. South Carolina Department of Health & Environmental Control (1990)
Most recently applied in Naturaland Trust v. Dakota Finance LLC (July 2022)
1962 Code SECTION 63-195.35:1; 1973 (58) 788; 1975 (59) 241.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.