Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 33 > Chapter 42 > Article 7 - Assignment of Partnership Interests

• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• Applicant: means :
  
  (a) in the case of an individual long term care insurance policy the person who seeks to contract for benefits; and
  
  (b) in the case of a group long term care insurance policy, the proposed certificate holder. See South Carolina Code 38-72-40
• Certificate: means any certificate issued under a group long term care insurance policy, which policy has been delivered or issued for delivery in this State. See South Carolina Code 38-72-40
• Certificate of insurance: means a memorandum copy, complete or abbreviated, of an insurance contract. See South Carolina Code 38-1-20
• Coinsurance: means a stipulation or requirement that the insured undertakes to be his own insurer to the extent that he fails to maintain insurance of a given percentage of the value of the property against loss or damage. See South Carolina Code 38-1-20
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Department: means the Department of Insurance of South Carolina. See South Carolina Code 38-1-20
• Designee or deputy director: means the person or persons appointed by the director, serving at the will and pleasure of the director as his designee, to supervise and carry out the functions and duties of the department as provided by law. See South Carolina Code 38-1-20
• Director: means the person who is appointed by the Governor upon the advice and consent of the Senate and who is responsible for the operation and management of the Department of Insurance, including all of its divisions. See South Carolina Code 38-72-40
• 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.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• federally tax-qualified long term care insurance contract: means an individual or a group insurance contract that meets the requirements of Section 7702B(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, as follows:
  
  (i) the only insurance protection provided under the contract is coverage of qualified long term care services. See South Carolina Code 38-72-40
• General partner: means a person who has been admitted to a limited partnership as a general partner in accordance with the partnership agreement and named in the certificate of limited partnership as a general partner. See South Carolina Code 33-42-20
• Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. ^{Source: Federal Reserve}
• Group long term care insurance: means a long term care insurance policy which is delivered or issued for delivery in this State and issued to:
  
  (a) one or more employers or labor organizations, or to a trust or to the trustees of a fund established by one or more employers or labor organizations or a combination thereof, for employees or former employees or a combination thereof, or for members or former members or a combination thereof of the labor organizations; or
  
  (b) any professional, trade, or occupational association for its members or former or retired members or combination thereof if such association:
  
  (i) is composed of individuals all of whom are or were actively engaged in the same profession, trade, or occupation; and
  
  (ii) has been maintained in good faith for purposes other than obtaining insurance; or
  
  (c) an association or to a trust or to the trustee of a fund established, created, or maintained for the benefit of members of one or more associations. See South Carolina Code 38-72-40
• 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.
• insurance: includes annuities. See South Carolina Code 38-1-20
• Insurer: includes a corporation, fraternal organization, burial association, other association, partnership, society, order, individual, or aggregation of individuals engaging or proposing or attempting to engage as principals in any kind of insurance or surety business, including the exchanging of reciprocal or interinsurance contracts between individuals, partnerships, and corporations. See South Carolina Code 38-1-20
• 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.
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Life insurance: means a contract of insurance upon the lives of human beings. See South Carolina Code 38-1-20
• Limited partner: means a person who has been admitted to a limited partnership as a limited partner in accordance with the partnership agreement. See South Carolina Code 33-42-20
• Long term care insurance: means an insurance policy or a rider advertised, marketed, offered, or designed to provide coverage for not less than twelve consecutive months for each covered person on an expense incurred, indemnity, prepaid, or other basis, for one or more necessary or medically necessary diagnostic, preventive, therapeutic, rehabilitative, maintenance, or personal care services, provided in a setting other than an acute care unit of a hospital. See South Carolina Code 38-72-40
• Partner: means a limited or general partner. See South Carolina Code 33-42-20
• 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.
• Partnership agreement: means any valid agreement, written or oral, of the partners as to the affairs of a limited partnership and the conduct of its business. See South Carolina Code 33-42-20
• Partnership interest: means a partner's share of the profits and losses of a limited partnership and the right to receive distributions of partnership assets. See South Carolina Code 33-42-20
• Person: means a corporation, agency, partnership, association, voluntary organization, individual, or another entity, organization, or aggregation of individuals. See South Carolina Code 38-1-20
• Person: means a natural person, partnership, limited partnership (domestic or foreign), trust, estate, association, or corporation. See South Carolina Code 33-42-20
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Policy: means any policy, contract, subscriber agreement, rider, or endorsement delivered or issued for delivery in this State by an insurer, fraternal benefit society, nonprofit health, hospital, or medical service corporation, prepaid health plan, health maintenance organization, or any similar organization. See South Carolina Code 38-72-40
• Premium: means payment given in consideration of a contract of insurance. See South Carolina Code 38-1-20
• producer: means a person who represents an insurance company and is required to be licensed pursuant to § 38-43-10. See South Carolina Code 38-1-20
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.