If the officer shall consider that the fire be due to criminal carelessness, the person responsible for it shall be indicted before a magistrate for a misdemeanor and, upon conviction of the same, may be fined in a sum not exceeding fifty dollars or imprisoned for not more than ten days.
Procedure and penalty in cases of criminal carelessness
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-190, under Title 5, Chapter 25.
S.C. Code Ann. § 5-25-190