Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 12 > Chapter 62 - South Carolina Motion Picture Incentive Act

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Ball: means a ball, disk, square, or other object upon which is printed a letter and number which corresponds to the letter and number of a square on a bingo card. See South Carolina Code 12-21-3920
• Cage: means a device, whether operated manually or by air blower, in which bingo balls are placed before the bingo game begins. See South Carolina Code 12-21-3920
• Caller: means the house representative who is responsible for drawing bingo balls and announcing the configuration and the result of each drawing to the players. See South Carolina Code 12-21-3920
• Card: means a printed or nonprinted design on which there are arranged five horizontal rows and five vertical columns forming twenty-five squares. See South Carolina Code 12-21-3920
• Department: means the South Carolina Department of Revenue. See South Carolina Code 12-21-3920
• Distributor: means a person who brings or sells bingo cards in this State and who is approved by the department. See South Carolina Code 12-21-3920
• Drawing: means the indiscriminate selection of a single ball from the cage. See South Carolina Code 12-21-3920
• Electronic dabber: means a hand-held electronic device that allows a player to store, display, and mark bingo card faces that have been downloaded or activated as authorized by the bingo ticket. See South Carolina Code 12-21-3920
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Fair: means a recognized annual state or county fair. See South Carolina Code 12-21-3920
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fund: means the Parks and Recreation Development Fund. See South Carolina Code 12-21-3920
• game: means a specific game of chance, commonly known as bingo, in which prizes are awarded on the basis of designated numbers or symbols on a card conforming to numbers and symbols selected at random. See South Carolina Code 12-21-3920
• House: means the nonprofit organization and promoter licensed with the department. See South Carolina Code 12-21-3920
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Manufacturer: means a person who manufactures bingo cards for use in this State and who is approved by the department. See South Carolina Code 12-21-3920
• Marker: means a device which indicates the number called. See South Carolina Code 12-21-3920
• Master-board: means the receptacle used by the house to display balls which are drawn during the bingo game. See South Carolina Code 12-21-3920
• Nonprofit organization: means an entity which is organized and operated exclusively for charitable, religious, or fraternal purposes and which is exempt from federal income taxes pursuant to Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), 501(c)(7), 501(c)(8), 501(c)(10), or 501(c)(19). See South Carolina Code 12-21-3920
• person: includes any individual, trust, estate, partnership, receiver, association, company, limited liability company, corporation, or other entity or group; and
  
  (2) "individual" means a human being. See South Carolina Code 12-2-20
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Player: means one who participates in a game of bingo other than as an agent, promoter, or representative of the house. See South Carolina Code 12-21-3920
• Promoter: means an individual, corporation, partnership, or organization licensed as a professional solicitor by the Secretary of State who is hired by a nonprofit organization to manage, operate, or conduct the licensee's bingo game. See South Carolina Code 12-21-3920
• 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.
• Session: means a consecutive series of games which must occur only between the hours of 12:00 p. See South Carolina Code 12-21-3920
• Site system: means a computer accounting system commonly referred to as a point of sale system used in conjunction with electronic dabbers. See South Carolina Code 12-21-3920