Title 6 ANIMALS
Chapter 6.04 ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL REGULATIONS
6.04.200 Litter enforcement responsibilities.
A. The director of animal care and control and the animal
control officers are assigned additional responsibilities for the enforcement of
litter control ordinances, statutes, and regulations in the course of their
daily duties. Such responsibilities shall be performed in coordination with the
law enforcement litter control officer when applicable.
B. For the performance of these duties, the director of
animal care and control and the animal control officers shall have available an
ordinance summons which complies with the South Carolina Code of Laws, 1976, as
amended.
C. The animal care and control department shall be
responsible for having the summons book printed, issuing black summons books and
keeping a record of the summons forms assigned to an individual.
D. Any animal control officer issuing a summons shall be
responsible for forwarding the copy of the summons labeled “Court
Copy” to the appropriate judicial office within twenty-four (24) hours of
issuing the summons. It shall be the issuing officer’s responsibility to
keep the copy of the summons labeled “Officer Copy” until the
appointed hearing time. After all action concerning the summons has been
concluded, the issuing officer shall turn the “Officer Copy” of the
summons in to the animal care and control department within twenty-four (24)
hours.
E. The animal care and control department shall be
responsible for keeping the summons forms which have been turned in by officers
in a manner which will allow for an annual audit of the summons forms.
F. Failure to appear before the court as required by such
summons will not prevent the court proceeding from going forward.
G. Violations of the provisions of the Litter Control Codes
as adopted by Colleton County shall be subject to penalties as provided in Title
9, public peace and welfare.
H. The ordinance codified in this chapter summons may not be
used to perform a custodial arrest. Further, no county ordinance regulating the
use of motor vehicles on the public roads of this state can be enforced using
the ordinance codified in this chapter summons. (Ord. 04-O-09 § 5,
2004)