Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 31 > Chapter 18 - Shooting Range Protection Act

• Abuse: means :
  
  (1) physical harm, bodily injury, assault, or the threat of physical harm;
  
  (2) sexual criminal offenses, as otherwise defined by statute, committed against a family or household member by a family or household member. See South Carolina Code 20-4-20
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the 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.
• Court: means the Family Court. See South Carolina Code 20-4-20
• 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.
• 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.
• Order of protection: means an order of protection issued to protect the petitioner or minor household members from the abuse of another household member where the respondent has received notice of the proceedings and has had an opportunity to be heard. See South Carolina Code 20-4-20
• 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 an individual, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, club, association, governmental entity, or other legal entity. See South Carolina Code 31-18-20
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Petitioner: means the person alleging abuse in a petition for an order of protection. See South Carolina Code 20-4-20
• range: means an area that is:
  
  (a) designated, utilized, and operated by a person for the firing of firearms; where
  
  (b) the firing of firearms is the usual, regular, and primary activity occurring in the area; and where
  
  (c) the improvements, size, geography, and vegetation of the area are such that a projectile discharged from a firearm at a target would not reasonably be expected to escape its boundaries by virtue of the trajectory of the projectile, or by virtue of a backstop, berm, bullet trap, impact barrier, or similar device designed to prevent the escape of such projectiles. See South Carolina Code 31-18-20
• substantial change in the use: means that the current primary use of the range no longer represents the activity previously engaged in at the range. See South Carolina Code 31-18-20