{"data":{"id":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-48-1-85","jurisdiction":"us-sc","citation":"S.C. Code Ann. § 48-1-85","heading":"Requirements for houseboats with marine toilets.","body":"(A) It is unlawful for a person to operate or float a houseboat on the waters of this State unless it has a marine toilet that discharges only into a holding tank.\n(B) As used in this section:\n(1) \"Holding tank\" means a container designed to receive and hold sewage and other wastes discharged from a marine toilet and constructed and installed in a manner so that it may be emptied only by pumping out its contents.\n(2) \"Houseboat\" means watercraft primarily used as habitation and not used primarily as a means of transportation.\n(3) \"Marine toilet\" includes equipment for installation on board a houseboat designed to receive, retain, treat, or discharge sewage. A marine toilet must be equipped with a holding tank.\n(C) When an owner of a houseboat having a marine toilet applies to the Department of Natural Resources for a certificate of title pursuant to Section 50-23-20, he shall certify in the application that the toilet discharges only into a holding tank.\n(D) Houseboat holding tanks may be emptied only by a pump-out system permitted by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control.\n(E) A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than two hundred dollars for each day's violation or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.","path":["Title 48 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION","CHAPTER 1 Pollution Control Act"],"source_url":"https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t48c001.php","current_through":"2025 Session of the General Assembly","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T07:41:39Z","sha256":"a85ad397d4593c34ca38645e833b54bc26d124c66cacc80156b4ba9881b7dc98","source_id":"us-sc","stale":false,"prev":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-48-1-83","next":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-48-1-87"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}