2 rules for unincorporated Dorchester County, South Carolina.
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South Carolina has no statewide juvenile curfew - repeated bills to create one failed - and unincorporated Dorchester County enforces no countywide curfew. Any curfew here is municipal, and Summerville has used only temporary emergency curfews.
S.C. Code Ann. § 4-9-25
All counties of the State, in addition to the powers conferred to their specific form of government, have authority to enact regulations, resolutions, and ordinances, not inconsistent with the Constitution and general law of this State, including the exercise of these powers in relation to health and order in counties or respecting any subject as appears to them necessary and proper for the sec...
Dorchester County parks run on posted hours. Most, like Ashley River Park and Pine Trace Park, are open dawn to dusk; Davis-Bailey Park stays open until 9:30 PM in summer. After-hours presence is trespassing.
S.C. Code Ann. § 16-11-620
Any person who, without legal cause or good excuse, enters into the dwelling house, place of business, or on the premises of another person after having been warned not to do so or any person who, having entered into the dwelling house, place of business, or on the premises of another person without having been warned fails and refuses, without good cause or good excuse, to leave immediately up...
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