S.C. Code Ann. § 58-7-70
Any person who has a contract, agreement, license or permission, oral or written, with or from any person or corporation authorized to manufacture, sell or use gas for the purpose of light, heat or power or with or from any authorized agent of any such person or corporation for the use of the gas belonging to, or produced or furnished by, any such person or corporation for certain specified purposes who shall wilfully and intentionally withdraw, or cause to be withdrawn any such gas in any manner and appropriate it to his own use or to the use of any other person or corporation for purposes other than those specified shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as provided in Section 58-7-60. And any such person to whom such gas is furnished from or by means of a meter who shall wilfully and with intention to cheat and defraud any such person or corporation alter or interfere with such meter or by any contrivance whatsoever withdraw or take off gas in any manner except through such meter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished as provided in Section 58-7-60.