S.C. Code Ann. § 8-13-720: Offering, soliciting, or receiving money for advice or assistance of public official, member, or employee.

No person may offer or pay to a public official, public member, or public employee and no public official, public member, or public employee may solicit or receive money in addition to that received by the public official, public member, or public employee in his official capacity for advice or assistance given in the course of his employment as a public official, public member, or public employee.