Legal Definitions of Geocaching Although not law yet, geocaching
would be defined legally by the South Carolina general assembly
in H. 3777 as: (1) 'Geocache' means the container that serves
the purpose of providing a place to store small items or
logbooks which are intentionally placed by their owners. (2)
'Geocaching' means the activity of participants using a global
positioning system (GPS) device to locate the geocache or
another specific location that contains information on the
geocache. These definitions were produced in an effort by the
South Carolina legislature to criminalize geocaching in
cemeteries and other archeological and historical sites in that
state. The bill, if passed, would make it unlawful for a person
to engage in the activity of geocaching or letterboxing in a
cemetery or in an historic or archeological site or property
publicly identified by an historical marker without the express
written consent of the owner or entity which oversees that
cemetery site or property. --Sept1c tank 15: