S.C. Code Regs. § § 53-14

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 11, November 22, 2024

Section 53-14 - Exceptions

Exceptions to the prohibited acts stated in Section 48-27-120 of the 1976 Code shall be:

(A) Marking timber as a member of a crew, under the supervision of a registered forester, without responsibility for determination of objectives, volumes, values or other purposes for which the timber is being marked.

(B) Scaling of severed forest products.

(C) Management of woodyards, and the duties incident thereto.

(D) Cutting, hauling, loading, storing and processing forest products.

(E) Forest workers or forest fire fighters, including tractor plow operators, fire or crew bosses, dispatchers, lookouts, scouts, crew foremen, forest pest control workers, and the similar workers as determined by the Board.

(F) Silvicultural practices such as reforestation and timber stand improvements unless the individual has responsibility for any technical determinations and not just physical labor involved in applying the practices.

(G) The buying and selling of timber or woodlands unless engaged in the practice of forestry in connection with the transaction.

(H) Compassmen and tallymen in timber cruising parties supervised by a registered forester.

(I) Regular employees of persons owning lands on which forestry practices are being conducted by the landowner.

S.C. Code Regs. § 53-14

Replaced and amended by State Register Volume 45, Issue No. 05, eff. 5/28/2021.