It shall be unlawful for any trustee of any public school or any superintendent or other official thereof to require any teacher to board or live at any teacherage or specified place. Each individual teacher shall have the right to choose his or her boarding place, and for so doing his right to teach shall not be voided by the trustees of any school board or superintendent or other official. Any school trustee or superintendent who shall violate the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars or be imprisoned for not less than ten days nor more than thirty days, in the discretion of the court.
S.C. Code § 59-25-30