S.C. Code Ann. § 2-17-50 – State Ethics Commission to enforce filing requirements of chapter and to assess penalties for failure to file; filing of required reports and payment of fine constitutes compliance; payment of fine without filing not to excuse or exempt person from filing requirements

(A) The State Ethics Commission shall:
1. (1) require a person to submit information pursuant to the requirements of this chapter;
2. (2) in addition to any other penalty in this chapter, require any person who files a late statement or fails to file a required statement to be assessed a civil penalty as follows:
  1. (a) a fine of one hundred dollars if not filed within ten days after the established deadline provided in this chapter;
  2. (b) after notice has been given by certified or registered mail by the State Ethics Commission that a required statement has not been filed, a fine of ten dollars a day for each additional calendar day in which the required statement is not filed, not to exceed a total fine of five hundred dollars.
(B) Filing of the required report and payment of the fine within twenty days of notice by the State Ethics Commission that a required statement has not been filed constitutes compliance with this chapter.
(C) Payment of the fine without filing the required report does not in any way excuse or exempt any person required to file from the filing requirements of this chapter.