Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 23 > Chapter 37 - Safety Glazing Materials

• Claim: means any cause of action in state courts, federal court, or arbitration related to a Year 2000 problem. See South Carolina Code 15-3-230
• Commercial buildings: means buildings such as wholesale and retail stores and storerooms, and office buildings. See South Carolina Code 23-37-10
• Commercial entrance and exit door: means a hinged, pivoting, revolving, or sliding door which is glazed or to be glazed and used alone or in combination with other doors (other than doors covered by item (j) of this section), on interior or exterior walls of a commercial, public or industrial building as a means of passage, ingress or egress. See South Carolina Code 23-37-10
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contract: means any agreement for the delivery of goods or services in South Carolina, any agreement entered into in South Carolina for the delivery of goods or services, or any other agreement governed by the South Carolina Uniform Commercial Code. See South Carolina Code 15-3-230
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Economic loss: means any damage for breach of contract or breach of warranty recognized under South Carolina law. See South Carolina Code 15-3-230
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Glazed: means the accomplished act of glazing. See South Carolina Code 23-37-10
• Glazing: means the act of installing and securing glass or other glazing material into prepared openings in structural elements such as doors, enclosures, and panels. See South Carolina Code 23-37-10
• Hazardous locations: means those structural elements, glazed or to be glazed, in residential buildings and other structures used as dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial buildings, and public buildings, known as interior and exterior commercial entrance and exit doors and the immediately adjacent flat fixed glazed panels, sliding glass door units including the fixed glazed panels which are part of such units, storm or combination doors, shower and bathtub enclosures, primary residential entrance and exit doors and the fixed or operable adjacent sidelites, whether or not the glazing in such doors, panels and enclosures is transparent. See South Carolina Code 23-37-10
• Industrial buildings: means buildings such as factories. See South Carolina Code 23-37-10
• Other structures used as dwellings: means buildings such as mobile homes, manufactured or industrialized housing and lodging homes. See South Carolina Code 23-37-10
• 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 any individual, corporation, partnership, or other private entity capable under South Carolina law of entering into a contract as defined in item (2) of this section. See South Carolina Code 15-3-230
• Public buildings: means buildings such as hotels, hospitals, motels, dormitories, sanitariums, nursing homes, theatres, stadiums, gymnasiums, amusement park buildings, schools and other buildings used for educational purposes, museums, restaurants, bars, correctional institutions, places of worship, and other buildings of public assembly. See South Carolina Code 23-37-10
• Residential buildings: means buildings such as homes and apartments used as dwellings for one or more families or persons. See South Carolina Code 23-37-10
• Safety glazing material: means any glazing material, such as tempered glass, laminated glass, wire glass or rigid plastic, which meets the test requirements of the American National Standards Institute Standard (ANSI Standard) Z-97. See South Carolina Code 23-37-10
• Sliding glass door units: means an assembly of glazed or to be glazed panels contained in an overall frame, installed in residential buildings and other structures used as dwellings, commercial, industrial or public buildings, and so designed that one or more of the panels is movable in a horizontal direction to produce or close off an opening for use as a means of passage, ingress or egress. See South Carolina Code 23-37-10
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}