Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 1 > Chapter 21 - Uniformity of Legislation

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Approved inspection agency: means an agency approved by the council to provide plan review and approval, evaluation, and inspection in addition to adequate follow-up services at the point of manufacture to insure that production units are in full compliance with the provisions of this chapter. See South Carolina Code 23-43-20
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Automatic location identification: means an enhanced 911 service capability that enables the automatic display of information. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• Automatic number identification: means an enhanced 911 service capability that enables the automatic display of the seven-digit number used to place a 911 call. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• Board: means the board of the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• Call: means any information, written communication, video, data, or voice that is delivered to the PSAP initiating an emergency response. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• Certification: means conforming to the regulations of the Council. See South Carolina Code 23-43-20
• Certification label: means the approved form of certification by the council issued to the manufacturer that is permanently affixed to each transportable section of each factory-built modular structure for sale within the State. See South Carolina Code 23-43-20
• clerk: as used in this title , signifies the clerk of the court where the action is pending and, in the Supreme Court or the court of appeals, the clerk of the county mentioned in the title of the complaint or in another county to which the court may have changed the place of trial, unless otherwise specified. See South Carolina Code 15-1-60
• Committee: means the South Carolina 911 Advisory Committee. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• Communications service: means a service capable of accessing, connecting with, or interfacing with a 911 system by dialing, initializing, or otherwise activating the system exclusively through the digits 911 by means of a local telephone device or wireless communications device. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Council: means the South Carolina Building Codes Council as established by § 6-9-60. See South Carolina Code 23-43-20
• Customer: means the local government subscribing to 911 service from a service supplier. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the Department of Revenue. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• ESInet: means an Emergency Services IP Network. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• 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.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Exchange access facility: means the access from a particular telephone subscriber's premises to the telephone system of a service supplier. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Fees: means monies to be paid to the council from any person engaged in the manufacture, inspection, or installation of modular building units. See South Carolina Code 23-43-20
• 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}
• Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Installation: means the assembly of modular building structures on-site and the process of affixing modular buildings related components to land, a foundation, footings, utilities, or an existing building. See South Carolina Code 23-43-20
• 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}
• Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Local government: means any political subdivision of the State with authority to establish standards and requirements applicable to the construction, installation, alteration, and repair of buildings. See South Carolina Code 23-43-20
• Local government: means any city, county, or political subdivision of the State. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• manufactured home: means any residential dwelling unit constructed to standards and codes as promulgated by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. See South Carolina Code 23-43-20
• Mapping: means the development of a computerized geographical display system of roads and structures where emergency response may be required. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• Modular building unit: means any building of closed construction, regardless of type of construction or occupancy classification, other than a mobile or manufactured home, constructed off-site in accordance with the applicable codes, and transported to the point of use for installation or erection. See South Carolina Code 23-43-20
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Office: means the South Carolina Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means :
  
  (a) an individual, labor union and organization, joint apprenticeship committee, partnership, association, corporation, legal representative, mutual company, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization, trustee, trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, or other legal or commercial entity located in part or in whole in the State or doing business in the State;
  
  (b) the State and any agency or local subdivision of an agency; or
  
  (c) a political subdivision. See South Carolina Code 1-6-10
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Point of manufacture: means the place of business at which machinery, equipment, and other capital goods are assembled and operated for the purpose of fabricating, constructing, or assembling modular building units. See South Carolina Code 23-43-20
• Prepaid wireless consumer: means a person or entity that purchases prepaid wireless telecommunications service in a prepaid wireless retail transaction. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• Prepaid wireless provider: means a person or entity that provides prepaid wireless telecommunications service pursuant to a license issued by the Federal Communications Commission. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• Prepaid wireless retail transaction: means the purchase of prepaid wireless telecommunications service from a prepaid wireless seller for any purpose other than resale. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• Prepaid wireless seller: means a person or entity that sells prepaid wireless telecommunications service to another person or entity for any purpose other than resale. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• Prepaid wireless telecommunications service: means any commercial mobile radio service that allows a caller to dial 911 to access the 911 system, which service must be paid for in advance and is sold in units or dollars which decline with use in a known amount. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• property: as used in this Title , includes both real and personal property. See South Carolina Code 15-1-50
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Rate: means the recurring or nonrecurring rates billed by the service supplier, which represents the service supplier's recurring charges for exchange access facilities, exclusive of all taxes, fees, licenses, or similar charges. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• real estate: as used in this Title are coextensive with lands, tenements and hereditaments. See South Carolina Code 15-1-30
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• 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.
• Selective routing: means the method employed to direct 911 calls to the appropriate public safety answering point based on the geographical location from which the call originated. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Service subscriber: means any person, company, corporation, business, association, or party not exempt from county or municipal taxes or utility franchise assessments who is provided telephone (local exchange access facility) service in the political subdivision or CMRS service or VoIP service. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• Service supplier: means any person, company, or corporation, public or private, providing exchange telephone service, CMRS service, or VoIP service to end users. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Strategic plan: means the defined strategy of South Carolina's 911 goals and objectives and the steps necessary to achieve those goals and objectives. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• subscriber: means a person or entity to whom exchange telephone service, either residential or commercial, is provided and in return for which the person or entity is billed on a monthly basis. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Wireless communications service: includes any wireless two-way communications used in cellular telephone service, a personal communications service, or a network access line. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10