Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 8 > Chapter 11 > Article 3 - Personnel Administration

• Academic personnel: shall mean presidents, provosts, vice-presidents, deans, teaching and research staffs, and others of academic rank employed by the State educational institutions of higher learning, or medical institutions of education and research. See South Carolina Code 8-11-220
• Accumulated contributions: means the member's aggregate contributions, together with regular interest thereon. See South Carolina Code 9-8-10
• Agency: shall mean any department, institution, commission, board or any other unit of government of the State. See South Carolina Code 8-11-220
• Agency head: shall mean the chief executive of a State agency in whom is vested final appointing authority for the agency. See South Carolina Code 8-11-220
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• Appointing authority: shall mean any person having power by law, or by lawfully delegated authority, to make an appointment of a person for employment to any position in the State service. See South Carolina Code 8-11-220
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Beneficiary: means any person in receipt of a retirement allowance or other benefit as provided by the System. See South Carolina Code 9-8-10
• Board: means the Board of Directors of the South Carolina Public Employee Benefit Authority. See South Carolina Code 9-8-10
• Circuit public defender: means a person holding the office defined in § 17-3-5(4). See South Carolina Code 9-8-10
• Classified service: shall mean all of those positions in the State service which are subject to the classification policies and regulations as authorized by the provisions of this article. See South Carolina Code 8-11-220
• Compensation: means the total salary paid to a judge, solicitor, or circuit public defender for service rendered to the State. See South Carolina Code 9-8-10
• Contingent beneficiary: Receiver of property or benefits if the first named beneficiary fails to receive any or all of the property or benefits in question before his (her) death.
• Credited service: means service for which credit is allowable as provided in § 9-8-50. See South Carolina Code 9-8-10
• Earned service: means paid employment as a judge, solicitor, or circuit public defender where the judge, solicitor, or circuit public defender makes regular contributions to the system. See South Carolina Code 9-8-10
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Judge: means a justice of the Supreme Court or a judge of the court of appeals, circuit or family court of the State of South Carolina. See South Carolina Code 9-8-10
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Member of the System: means any person included in the membership of the System, as set forth in § 9-8-40. See South Carolina Code 9-8-10
• Position: shall mean any employment requiring the paid services of one person, or any office or employment in any agency requiring specific duties to be performed by one person. See South Carolina Code 8-11-220
• Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
• Regular interest: means interest compounded annually at such rates as shall be determined by the Board for a particular purpose in accordance with § 9-8-30. See South Carolina Code 9-8-10
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Retirement allowance: means monthly payments for life under the System payable as provided in § 9-8-80. See South Carolina Code 9-8-10
• Solicitor: means the person holding office as described under § 1-7-310 of the 1976 Code. See South Carolina Code 9-8-10
• State: means the State of South Carolina. See South Carolina Code 9-8-10
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• System: means the Retirement System for Judges and Solicitors of the State of South Carolina. See South Carolina Code 9-8-10
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.