South Carolina Code 63-11-1910. Definitions
(1) "Child" means a person under eighteen years of age.
Terms Used In South Carolina Code 63-11-1910
- Child: means a person under the age of eighteen. See South Carolina Code 63-1-40
- 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.
(2) "Committee" means the State Child Fatality Advisory Committee.
(3) "Department" means the State Law Enforcement Division’s Department of Child Fatalities.
(4) "Local child protective services agency" means the county department of social services for the jurisdiction where a deceased child resided.
(5) "Meeting" means both in-person meetings and meetings through telephone conferencing.
(6) "Preventable death" means a death which reasonable medical, social, legal, psychological, or educational intervention may have prevented.
(7) "Provider of medical care" means a licensed health care practitioner who provides, or a licensed health care facility through which is provided, medical evaluation or treatment, including dental and mental health evaluation or treatment.
(8) "Working day" means Monday through Friday, excluding official state holidays.
(9) "Unexpected death" includes all child deaths which, before investigation, appear possibly to have been caused by trauma, suspicious or obscure circumstances, or child abuse or neglect.