{"data":{"id":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-61-6-4140","jurisdiction":"us-sc","citation":"S.C. Code Ann. § 61-6-4140","heading":"Employment of persons under the age of twenty-one years.","body":"It is unlawful for a person under the age of twenty-one years to work as an employee or otherwise in a retail, wholesale, or manufacturing liquor business or business establishment or for a person knowingly to employ another person under the age of twenty-one years in one of these businesses or business establishments. A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be punished as follows:\n(a) for a first offense, by a fine of one hundred dollars or imprisonment for thirty days;\n(b) for a second offense, by a fine of two hundred dollars or imprisonment for sixty days; and\n(c) for a third or subsequent offense, by a fine of three hundred dollars or imprisonment for ninety days.","path":["Title 61 - ALCOHOL AND ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES","CHAPTER 6 Alcoholic Beverage Control Act","ARTICLE 13 Offenses, Penalties, and Enforcement"],"source_url":"https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t61c006.php","current_through":"2025 Session of the General Assembly","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T08:07:59Z","sha256":"d52b67bcf587d00efc9ee0799e8b001779897f3971246827134ea52e1ebd6a63","source_id":"us-sc","stale":false,"prev":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-61-6-4130","next":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-61-6-4150"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}