Horry County Council passed ordinances aimed at tightening and better defining it's animal control ordinance Tuesday night.
The law now makes it illegal to keep an animal in a car without proper ventilation or air conditioning if the temperature is above 70 degrees.
Animals also must be protected from excessive temperatures, for example 100 degrees and below 30.
It also addresses animal hoarding, now stating that someone cannot "intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly" possess a large number of companion animals.
County spokesperson Lisa Bourcier says the new rules will help enforcement, ""It's been difficult for our environmental officers to actually go on the scene and try to make calls because a lot of our terminology was pretty broad in the past. So we've tightened it up a bit."
The law also makes it illegal to have or sell turtles or viable eggs for commercial or public distribution with a shell of less than four inches.
