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South Carolina Farm Labor Laws

In South Carolina, S.C. Code Ann. § 16-17-610 provides that no person other than the South Carolina Employment Security Commission shall carry on the business of emigrant agent in this State without having first obtained a license therefor from the State Treasurer and the county treasurer of each county in which he solicits emigrants.  The term “emigrant agent,” as used in this section, shall be construed to mean any person engaged in hiring laborers or soliciting emigrants in this State to be employed beyond the limits of the State.  Any person shall be entitled to State and county licenses, which shall be good for one year, upon payment into the State Treasury for the use of the State of five hundred dollars for each county in which he operates or solicits emigrants for each year so engaged and upon payment into the county treasury of each county in which he operates or solicits emigrants, for the use of each such county, of two thousand dollars for each year so engaged.  Any person other than the South Carolina Employment Security Commission doing business as an emigrant agent without having first obtained each such license shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars in case of failure to obtain a State license and one thousand dollars in case of failure to obtain a county license and not more than five thousand dollars in either such case or may be imprisoned in the county jail or, in case of failure to obtain a county license, upon the public works not less than four months or confined in the State Prison, at hard labor, not exceeding two years for each and every offense, within the discretion of the court.

S.C. Code Ann. § 16-17-610 deals with exemption of solicitors of farm laborers to work in adjacent states.  Pursuant to the statute, the provisions of § 16-17-610 shall not be applicable to any person soliciting or hiring laborers in the state to be employed in agricultural work in any state bordering on this State when such adjacent state places no limitation on the solicitation or employment of farm labor by South Carolina employers.


Inside South Carolina Farm Labor Laws