Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 40 > Chapter 33 > Article 1 - Nurse Practice Act

• Acquittal:
  1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
  2. A verdict of "not guilty."
   
• Administer: means the direct application of a controlled substance, whether by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or any other means, to the body of a patient or research subject by:
  
  (a) a practitioner (or, in his presence, by his authorized agent); or
  
  (b) the patient or research subject at the direction and in the presence of the practitioner. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Administrator: means the individual to whom the director has delegated authority to administer the programs of a specific board or of a professional or occupational group for which the department has regulatory authority or has delegated authority to administer the programs of a specific board;
  
  (2) "Authorization to practice" or "Practice authorization" means the approval to practice the specified profession, engage in the specified occupation, or use a title protected under this article, which has been granted by the applicable board. See South Carolina Code 40-1-20
• 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.
• Affected area: means that portion of a county or counties within a river basin that, under the circumstances, are determined by the department to likely be affected by a proposed surface water withdrawal. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Agent: means an authorized person who acts on behalf of or at the direction of a manufacturer, distributor, or dispenser, except that this term does not include a common or contract carrier, public warehouseman, or employee of the carrier or warehouseman, when acting in the usual or lawful course of the carrier's or warehouseman's business. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Agent Orange: means the herbicide composed primarily of trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2, 4, 5 T) and dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2, 4 D) and its contaminant tetrachlorodibenzo-para-dioxin (2, 3, 7, 8 dioxin, TCDD). See South Carolina Code 44-40-20
• Agricultural use: means :
  
  (a) plowing, tilling, or preparing the soil at an agricultural facility;
  
  (b) planting, growing, fertilizing, or harvesting crops, ornamental horticulture, floriculture, and turf grasses;
  
  (c) application of pesticides, herbicides, or other chemicals, compounds, or substances to crops, weeds, or soil in connection with the production of crops, livestock, animals, or poultry;
  
  (d) breeding, hatching, raising, producing, feeding, keeping, slaughtering, or processing livestock, hogs, aquatic animals, equines, chickens, turkeys, poultry, or other fowl normally raised for food, mules, cattle, sheep, goats, rabbits, or similar farm animals for commercial purposes;
  
  (e) producing and keeping honeybees, producing honeybee products, and honeybee processing facilities;
  
  (f) producing, processing, or packaging eggs or egg products;
  
  (g) manufacturing feed for poultry or livestock;
  
  (h) rotation of crops;
  
  (i) commercial aquaculture;
  
  (j) application of existing, changed, or new technology, practices, processes, or procedures to an agricultural use;
  
  (k) the operation of a roadside market; and
  
  (l) silviculture. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• 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.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Aquifer: means a geologic formation, group of these formations, or part of a formation that is water bearing. See South Carolina Code 49-5-30
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
• Bank: means the South Carolina Conservation Bank. See South Carolina Code 48-59-30
• Board: means the governing board of the bank. See South Carolina Code 48-59-30
• Board: means the governing body of the Department of Natural Resources. See South Carolina Code 49-3-20
• Board: means the Board of the Department of Health and Environmental Control. See South Carolina Code 49-5-30
• Bureau: means the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, United States Department of Justice, or its successor agency. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
• Chemical agent: means dioxin or other toxic substances found in certain defoliants, herbicides, pesticides, and similar chemical substances or causative agents. See South Carolina Code 44-40-20
• Circumstantial evidence: All evidence except eyewitness testimony.
• Clerk of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.
• Coastal Plain: means :
  
  (a) all of Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berkeley, Calhoun, Charleston, Clarendon, Colleton, Darlington, Dillon, Dorchester, Florence, Georgetown, Hampton, Horry, Jasper, Lee, Marion, Marlboro, Orangeburg, Sumter, and Williamsburg counties; and
  
  (b) those portions of Chesterfield, Edgefield, Kershaw, Lexington, Richland, and Saluda counties east or southeast of the fall line as identified on the best available geologic map. See South Carolina Code 49-5-30
• Cocaine base: means an alkaloidal cocaine or freebase form of cocaine, which is the end product of a chemical alteration whereby the cocaine in salt form is converted to a form suitable for smoking. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• collection: means to facilitate the delivery of a covered television device or covered computer monitor device to a collection site included in the manufacturer's program, and to transport the covered television device or covered computer monitor device for recovery. See South Carolina Code 48-60-20
• Collector: means a person who collects a covered television device or covered computer monitor device at any program collection site or one-day collection event and prepares them for transport. See South Carolina Code 48-60-20
• Commission: means the South Carolina Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Computer manufacturer: means a person who:
  
  (a) manufactures a covered computer device under its own brand for sale or without affixing a brand;
  
  (b) sells in this State a covered computer device produced by another supplier under its own brand or label;
  
  (c) imports covered computer devices; provided, that if a company from which an importer purchases a covered computer device has a presence or assets in the United States, that company must be considered the manufacturer; or
  
  (d) manufactures a covered computer device, supplies a covered computer device to a person within a distribution network that includes wholesalers or retailers in this State, and benefits from the sale of a covered device through that distribution network. See South Carolina Code 48-60-20
• Computer monitor manufacturer: means a person who:
  
  (a) manufactures a covered computer monitor device under its own brand for sale or without affixing a brand;
  
  (b) sells in this State a covered computer monitor device produced by another supplier under its own brand or label;
  
  (c) imports covered computer monitor devices; provided, that if a company from which an importer purchases a covered computer monitor device has a presence or assets in the United States, that company must be considered the manufacturer; or
  
  (d) manufactures a covered computer monitor device, supplies a covered computer monitor device to a person within a distribution network that includes wholesalers or retailers in this State, and benefits from the sale of a covered device through that distribution network. See South Carolina Code 48-60-20
• Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
• Confidant: means a medical practitioner, a pharmacist, a pharmacologist, a psychologist, a psychiatrist, a full-time staff member of a college or university counseling bureau, a guidance counselor or a teacher in an elementary school or in a junior or senior high school, a full-time staff member of a hospital, a duly ordained and licensed member of the clergy, accredited Christian Science practitioner, or any professional or paraprofessional staff member of a drug treatment, education, rehabilitation, or referral center who has received a communication from a holder of the privilege. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Conservation easement: means an interest in real property as defined in Chapter 8 of Title 27, the South Carolina Conservation Easement Act of 1991. See South Carolina Code 48-59-30
• Consumer: means an occupant of a single-detached dwelling unit or a single unit of a multiple dwelling unit who has used a covered device primarily for personal or home business use. See South Carolina Code 48-60-20
• Consumptive use: means any use of water which is not a nonconsumptive use. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Controlled substance: means a drug, substance, or immediate precursor in Schedules I through V in Sections 44-53-190, 44-53-210, 44-53-230, 44-53-250, and 44-53-270. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Controlled substance analogue: means a substance that is intended for human consumption and that either has a chemical structure substantially similar to that of a controlled substance in Schedules I, II, or III or has a stimulant, depressant, analgesic, or hallucinogenic effect on the central nervous system that is substantially similar to that of a controlled substance in Schedules I, II, or III. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• 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.
• Council: means the South Carolina Agent Orange Advisory Council. See South Carolina Code 44-40-20
• Counterfeit substance: means a controlled substance which, or the container or labeling of which, without authorization, bears the trademark, trade name, or other identifying mark, imprint, number, or device, or any likeness thereof, of a manufacturer, distributor, or dispenser other than the person who, in fact, manufactured, distributed, or dispensed such substance and which, thereby, falsely purports or is represented to be the product of, or to have been distributed by, such other manufacturer, distributor, or dispenser. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Covered computer device: means a desktop, laptop or notebook computer, or a printing device marketed and intended for use by a consumer, but does not include a covered television device or covered computer monitor device. See South Carolina Code 48-60-20
• Covered computer monitor device: means an electronic device that is a cathode-ray tube or flat panel display primarily intended to display information from a computer and is used by a consumer. See South Carolina Code 48-60-20
• Covered devices: means a covered computer device, covered computer monitor device, and a covered television device marketed and intended for use by a consumer. See South Carolina Code 48-60-20
• Covered television device: means an electronic device that contains a cathode-ray tube or flat panel screen the size of which is greater than four inches when measured diagonally and is intended to receive video programming via broadcast, cable, satellite, Internet, or other mode of video transmission or to receive video from surveillance or other similar cameras marketed and intended for use by a consumer primarily for personal purposes. See South Carolina Code 48-60-20
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• delivery: means the actual, constructive, or attempted transfer of a controlled drug or paraphernalia whether or not there exists an agency relationship. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Department: means the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. See South Carolina Code 48-57-20
• Department: means the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. See South Carolina Code 48-60-20
• Department: means the Department of Natural Resources. See South Carolina Code 49-3-20
• Department: means the Department of Health and Environmental Control. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Department: means the Department of Health and Environmental Control. See South Carolina Code 49-5-30
• Department: means the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation;
  
  (5) "Director" means the Director of the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation or the director's official designee;
  
  (6) "Licensee" means a person granted an authorization to practice pursuant to this article and refers to a person holding a license, permit, certification, or registration granted pursuant to this article;
  
  (7) "Licensing act" means the individual statute or regulations, or both, of each regulated profession or occupation which include, but are not limited to, board governance, the qualifications and requirements for authorization to practice, prohibitions, and disciplinary procedures;
  
  (8) "Person" means an individual, partnership, or corporation;
  
  (9) "Profession" or "occupation" means a profession or occupation regulated or administered, or both, by the department pursuant to this article. See South Carolina Code 40-1-20
• Department: means the State Department of Health and Environmental Control. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Desktop computer: means an electronic, magnetic, optical, electrochemical, or other high-speed data processing device performing logical, arithmetic, or storage functions for general purpose needs that are met through interaction with a number of software programs contained therein, and that is not designed to exclusively perform a specific type of logical, arithmetic, or storage function or other limited or specialized application. See South Carolina Code 48-60-20
• Detoxification treatment: means the dispensing, for a period not in excess of twenty-one days, of a narcotic drug in decreasing doses to an individual in order to alleviate adverse physiological or psychological effects incident to withdrawal from the continuous or sustained use of a narcotic drug and as a method of bringing the individual to a narcotic drug-free state within this period. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Diffuse surface water: means water on the surface of the earth not located in defined courses, streams, or water bodies. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Director: means the Director of the Department of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs under the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Dispense: means to deliver a controlled substance to an ultimate user or research subject by or pursuant to the lawful order of a practitioner, including the prescribing, administering, packaging, labeling, or compounding necessary to prepare the substance for the delivery. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Dispenser: means a practitioner who delivers a controlled substance to the ultimate user or research subject. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Distribute: means to deliver (other than by administering or dispensing) a controlled substance. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Distributor: means a person who so delivers a controlled substance. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Drought contingency pond: means a pond or lake designated solely as a supplemental water source in a surface water withdrawer's operational and contingency plan. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Drug: means a substance:
  
  (a) recognized in the official United States Pharmacopoeia, official Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, or official National Formulary, or any supplement to any of them;
  
  (b) intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man and animals;
  
  (c) other than food intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man and animals; and
  
  (d) intended for use as a component of any substance specified in subitem (a), (b), or (c) of this paragraph but does not include devices or their components, parts, or accessories. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Drug problem: means a mental or physical problem caused by the use or abuse of a controlled substance. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Eligible trust fund recipient: means :
  
  (a) the following state agencies, which own and manage land for the land's natural resource, historical, and outdoor recreation values:
  
  (i) South Carolina Department of Natural Resources,
  
  (ii) South Carolina Forestry Commission, and
  
  (iii) South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism. See South Carolina Code 48-59-30
• Emergency withdrawal: means the withdrawal of water, for a period not exceeding thirty days, for the purpose of firefighting, hazardous substance waste spill response, or both, or other emergency withdrawal of water as determined by the department. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Emergency withdrawal: means the withdrawal of groundwater, for a period not exceeding thirty calendar days, for the purpose of fire fighting, hazardous substance or waste spill response, or both, or other emergency withdrawal of groundwater as determined by the department. See South Carolina Code 49-5-30
• Environmental audit: means a voluntary, internal evaluation or review of one or more facilities or an activity at one or more facilities regulated under federal, state, regional, or local environmental law, or of compliance programs, or management systems related to the facility or activity if designed to identify and prevent noncompliance and to improve compliance with these laws. See South Carolina Code 48-57-20
• Environmental audit report: means a document marked or identified as such with a completion date existing either individually or as a compilation prepared in connection with an environmental audit. See South Carolina Code 48-57-20
• Environmental laws: means all provisions of federal, state, regional, and local laws, regulations, and ordinances pertaining to environmental matters. See South Carolina Code 48-57-20
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• 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.
• Existing groundwater withdrawer: means a groundwater withdrawer withdrawing groundwater or a proposed groundwater user with its wells under construction before January 1, 2000. See South Carolina Code 49-5-30
• Existing surface water withdrawer: means a surface water withdrawer withdrawing surface water as of the effective date of this chapter or a proposed surface water withdrawer with its intakes under construction before the effective date of this chapter or with all necessary applications for its intake permits deemed administratively complete before January first of the year of the effective date of this act. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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}
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Groundwater: means water in the void spaces of geologic materials within the zone of saturation. See South Carolina Code 49-5-30
• Groundwater withdrawal permit: means a permit issued by the department to groundwater withdrawers in a designated capacity use area for the withdrawal of groundwater. See South Carolina Code 49-5-30
• Groundwater withdrawer: means a person withdrawing groundwater in excess of three million gallons during any one month from a single well or from multiple wells under common ownership within a one-mile radius from any one existing or proposed well. See South Carolina Code 49-5-30
• 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.
• Holder of the privilege: means a person with an existing or a potential drug problem who seeks counseling, treatment, or therapy regarding such drug problem. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Hospital: means a hospital licensed, accredited, or approved under the laws of this State and includes a hospital operated by the United States or the State or its subdivisions, although not required to be licensed under state law. See South Carolina Code 44-43-910
• Imitation controlled substance: means a noncontrolled substance which is represented to be a controlled substance and is packaged in a manner normally used for the distribution or delivery of an illegal controlled substance. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Immediate precursor: means a substance which the appropriate federal agency or the department has found to be and by regulation has designated as being, or can be proven by expert testimony as being, the principal compound commonly used or produced primarily for use, and which is an immediate chemical intermediary used or likely to be used in the manufacture of a controlled substance, or is a reagent, solvent, or catalyst used in the manufacture of controlled substances, the control of which is necessary to prevent, curtail, or limit such manufacture. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Impoundment: means a dam, dike, natural structure, or any combination thereof that is designed to hold an accumulation of surface water or impede the flow of surface water. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• 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}
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Interbasin transfer: means the withdrawal of surface water from a river basin and the movement of that water to a river basin different from the source of the withdrawal. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Interests in lands: means fee simple titles to lands or conservation easements. See South Carolina Code 48-59-30
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers.
• 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.
• Land: means real property, including highlands and wetlands of any description. See South Carolina Code 48-59-30
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Maintenance treatment: means the dispensing, for a period in excess of twenty-one days, of a narcotic drug in the treatment of an individual for dependence upon heroin or other morphine-like drugs. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Manufacture: means the production, preparation, propagation, compounding, conversion, or processing of a controlled substance, either directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of natural origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis, and includes any packaging or repackaging of the substance or labeling or relabeling of its container, except that this term does not include the preparation or compounding of a controlled substance by an individual for his own use or the preparation, compounding, packaging, or labeling of a controlled substance:
  
  (a) by a practitioner as an incident to his administering or dispensing of a controlled substance in the course of his professional practice; or
  
  (b) by a practitioner, or by his authorized agent under his supervision, for the purpose of, or as an incident to, research, teaching, or chemical analysis and not for sale. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Manufacturer: means any person who packages, repackages, or labels any container of any controlled substance, except practitioners who dispense or compound prescription orders for delivery to the ultimate consumer. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Manufacturer clearinghouse: means an entity that prepares and submits a manufacturer electronic waste program plan to the department, and oversees the manufacturer electronic waste program, on behalf of a group of two or more manufacturers cooperating with one another to collectively establish and operate an electronic waste program for the purpose of complying with this chapter and that collectively represent at least fifty-one percent of the manufacturers' total obligations pursuant to this chapter for a program year. See South Carolina Code 48-60-20
• Manufacturer electronic waste program: means any program established, financed, and operated by a manufacturer, individually or collectively as part of a manufacturer clearinghouse, to transport and subsequently recycle, in accordance with the requirements of this act, covered televisions and computer monitor devices collected at program collection sites and one-day collection events. See South Carolina Code 48-60-20
• Marijuana: means :
  
  (i) all species or variety of the marijuana plant and all parts thereof whether growing or not;
  
  (ii) the seeds of the marijuana plant;
  
  (iii) the resin extracted from any part of the marijuana plant; or
  
  (iv) every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the marijuana plant, marijuana seeds, or marijuana resin. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Minimal changes in water quantity: means that greater than ninety percent of the water withdrawn by a surface water withdrawer, based upon the previous twenty-four months of historical data, is returned to the waters of origin; provided, that either the amount of water not returned to the water source does not:
  
  (a) exceed three million gallons during any one month; or
  
  (b) significantly reduce the safe yield at the withdrawal point. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Minimum instream flow: means the flow that provides an adequate supply of water at the surface water withdrawal point to maintain the biological, chemical, and physical integrity of the stream taking into account the needs of downstream users, recreation, and navigation and that flow is set at forty percent of the mean annual daily flow for the months of January, February, March, and April; thirty percent of the mean annual daily flow for the months of May, June, and December; and twenty percent of the mean annual daily flow for the months of July through November for surface water withdrawers as described in § 49-4-150(A)(1). See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Minimum water level: means the water level in an impoundment necessary to maintain the biological, chemical, and physical integrity of the surface water in the impoundment taking into account downstream uses, withdrawals from the impoundment, and recreational and navigational needs as established by an existing federal regulatory process or established through consultation between the department and the operator of the impoundment. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Narcotic drug: means any of the following, whether produced directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of vegetable origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis:
  
  (a) opium, coca leaves, and opiates;
  
  (b) a compound, manufacture, salt, derivative or preparation of opium, coca leaves, or opiates;
  
  (c) a substance (and any compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, or preparation thereof) which is chemically identical with any of the substances referred to in subitem (a) or (b). See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• Nonconsumptive use: means a use of surface water withdrawn in such a manner that it is returned to its waters of origin within the boundaries of contiguous property owned by the surface water withdrawer with no or minimal changes in water quantity. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Noncontrolled substance: means any substance of chemical or natural origin which is not included in the schedules of controlled substances set forth in this article or included in the federal schedules of controlled substances set forth in Title 21, Section 812 of the United States Code or in Title 21, Part 1308 of the Code of Federal Regulations. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Notebook computer: means an electronic, magnetic, optical, electrochemical, or other high-speed data processing device performing logical, arithmetic, or storage functions for general purpose needs that are met through interaction with a number of software programs contained therein, and that is not designed to exclusively perform a specific type of logical, arithmetic, or storage function or other limited or specialized application. See South Carolina Code 48-60-20
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• One-day collection event: means a one-day event used as a substitute for a program collection site pursuant to § 48-60-56. See South Carolina Code 48-60-20
• Opiate: means any substance having an addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine or being capable of conversion into a drug having addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Opium poppy: means the plant of the species Papaver somniferum L. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Organ and Tissue Procurement Organization: means the organ procurement organization designated to perform organ recovery services in South Carolina by the United States Department of Health and Human Services which also has the capability to procure tissue. See South Carolina Code 44-43-910
• Paraphernalia: means any instrument, device, article, or contrivance used, designed for use, or intended for use in ingesting, smoking, administering, manufacturing, or preparing a controlled substance and does not include cigarette papers and tobacco pipes but includes, but is not limited to:
  
  (a) metal, wooden, acrylic, glass, stone, plastic, or ceramic marijuana or hashish pipes with or without screens, permanent screens, hashish heads, or punctured metal bowls;
  
  (b) water pipes designed for use or intended for use with marijuana, hashish, hashish oil, or cocaine;
  
  (c) carburetion tubes and devices;
  
  (d) smoking and carburetion masks;
  
  (e) roach clips;
  
  (f) separation gins designed for use or intended for use in cleaning marijuana;
  
  (g) cocaine spoons and vials;
  
  (h) chamber pipes;
  
  (i) carburetor pipes;
  
  (j) electric pipes;
  
  (k) air-driven pipes;
  
  (l) chilams;
  
  (m) bongs;
  
  (n) ice pipes or chillers. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• 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.
• Permit to construct: means a permit issued by the department after consideration of proposed well location, depth, rated capacity, and withdrawal rate. See South Carolina Code 49-5-30
• Permitted surface water withdrawer: means a person withdrawing surface water pursuant to a surface water withdrawal permit. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Permittee: means a person authorized to make withdrawals of surface water pursuant to a surface water withdrawal permit issued by the department. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Permittee: means a person having obtained a permit to construct or a groundwater withdrawal permit issued in accordance with §§ 49-5-60 and 49-5-110. See South Carolina Code 49-5-30
• Person: means an individual, business entity, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, not-for-profit corporation, association, government entity, public benefit corporation, or public authority. See South Carolina Code 48-60-20
• Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, trust, estate, association, public or private institution, municipality, or political subdivision, governmental agency, public water system, or a private or public corporation or other legal entity organized under the laws of this State or any other state or county. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, association, public or private institution, municipality or political subdivision, governmental agency, public water system, or a private or public corporation organized under the laws of this State or any other state or county. See South Carolina Code 49-5-30
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• 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.
• Poppy straw: means all parts, except the seeds, of the opium poppy, after mowing. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Practitioner: means :
  
  (a) a physician, dentist, veterinarian, podiatrist, scientific investigator, or other person licensed, registered, or otherwise permitted to distribute, dispense, conduct research with respect to, or to administer a controlled substance in the course of professional practice or research in this State;
  
  (b) a pharmacy, hospital, or other institution licensed, registered, or otherwise permitted to distribute, dispense, conduct research with respect to, or to administer a controlled substance in the course of professional practice or research in this State. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• President pro tempore: A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time") is elected by the Senate and is, by custom, the Senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service.
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Printing device: means desktop printers, multifunction printer copiers, and printer/fax combinations taken out of service from a residence that are designed to reside on a work surface, and include various print technologies including, without limitation, laser and LED (electrographic), ink jet, dot matrix, thermal, and digital sublimation, and "multifunction" or "all-in-one" devices that perform different tasks including, without limitation, copying, scanning, faxing, and printing. See South Carolina Code 48-60-20
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Production: includes the manufacture, planting, cultivation, growing, or harvesting of a controlled substance. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Program: means the Agent Orange Information and Assistance Program. See South Carolina Code 44-40-20
• Program collection site: means a physical location that is included in a manufacturer electronic waste program and at which covered television devices or covered computer monitor devices are collected and prepared for transport by a collector during a program year in accordance with the requirements of this chapter. See South Carolina Code 48-60-20
• Program year: means the calendar year. See South Carolina Code 48-60-20
• Proposed registered surface water withdrawer: means a proposed surface water withdrawer whose planned operations would result in his withdrawals being subject to the reporting but not the permitting requirements of this chapter. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Public water system: means a water system as defined in § 44-55-20 of the State Safe Drinking Water Act. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Public water system: means a water system as defined in § 44-55-20 of the State Safe Drinking Water Act. See South Carolina Code 49-5-30
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Rated capacity: means the amount, in gallons per minute (gpm), of groundwater that is capable of being withdrawn from the completed well with the pump installed. See South Carolina Code 49-5-30
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Recover: means to reuse or recycle. See South Carolina Code 48-60-20
• Recoverer: means a person that reuses or recycles a covered device. See South Carolina Code 48-60-20
• Registered surface water withdrawer: means a person who makes surface water withdrawals for agricultural uses at an agricultural facility that is filing a report pursuant to § 49-4-50. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• 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.
• Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Retail collection site: means a private sector collection site operated by a retailer collecting on behalf of a manufacturer. See South Carolina Code 48-60-20
• Retail sale: means the sale of a new product through a sales outlet, the Internet, mail order, or otherwise, whether or not the seller has a physical presence in this State. See South Carolina Code 48-60-20
• Retailer: means a person engaged in retail sales. See South Carolina Code 48-60-20
• River basin: means the area drained by a river and its tributaries or through a specified point on a river, as determined in § 49-4-80(K)(2). See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Safe yield: means the amount of water available for withdrawal from a particular surface water source in excess of the minimum instream flow or minimum water level for that surface water source. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• sell: means a transfer for consideration of title including, but not limited to, transactions conducted through sales outlets, catalogs, or the Internet or any other similar electronic means, but does not mean leases. See South Carolina Code 48-60-20
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Supplemental water source: means a source of water different from the source of permitted withdrawal that will be used when an adequate amount of water is unavailable for withdrawal from the permitted source, including, but not limited to, ground water wells, aquifer storage and recovery projects, water storage facilities, drought contingency ponds, and connections to other water providers. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Surface water: means all water that is wholly or partially within the State, including the Savannah River, or within its jurisdiction, which is open to the atmosphere and subject to surface runoff, including, but not limited to, lakes, streams, ponds, rivers, creeks, runs, springs, and reservoirs, but not including water and wastewater treatment impoundments, off-stream supplemental operations related impoundments, or water storage structures constructed by the surface water withdrawer to provide adequate supplies of surface water during low flow conditions. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Surface water: means all water which is open to the atmosphere and subject to surface runoff which includes lakes, streams, ponds, and reservoirs. See South Carolina Code 49-5-30
• surface water withdrawal permit: means a written authorization issued to a person by the department that allows the person to hold and exercise a water right to withdraw surface water pursuant to the terms of the permit and this chapter. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Surface water withdrawer: means a person withdrawing surface water in excess of three million gallons during any one month from a single intake or multiple intakes under common ownership within a one mile radius from any one existing or proposed intake. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Tablet computer: means an electronic, magnetic, optical, electrochemical, or other high-speed data processing device performing logical, arithmetic, or storage functions for general purpose needs that are met through interaction with a number of software programs contained therein, and that is not designed to exclusively perform a specific type of logical, arithmetic, or storage function or other limited or specialized application. See South Carolina Code 48-60-20
• Television: means an electronic device that contains a cathode-ray tube or flat panel screen the size of which is greater than four inches when measured diagonally and is intended to receive video programming via broadcast, cable, satellite, Internet, or other mode of video transmission or to receive video from surveillance or other similar cameras. See South Carolina Code 48-60-20
• Television manufacturer: means a person who:
  
  (a) manufactures covered television devices under a brand that it licenses or owns for sale in this State;
  
  (b) manufactures covered television devices without affixing a brand for sale in this State;
  
  (c) resells into this State a covered television device under a brand it owns or licenses produced by other suppliers, including retail establishments that sell covered television devices under a brand the retailer owns or licenses;
  
  (d) imports covered television devices; provided, that if a company from which an importer purchases a covered device has a presence or assets in the United States, that company must be considered the manufacturer;
  
  (e) manufactures covered television devices, supplies them to a person or persons within a distribution network that includes wholesalers or retailers in this State and benefits from the sale in this State of those covered television devices through the distribution network; or
  
  (f) assumes the responsibilities and obligations of a television manufacturer pursuant to this chapter. See South Carolina Code 48-60-20
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• 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.
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trust fund: means the South Carolina Conservation Bank Trust Fund established pursuant to § 48-59-60. See South Carolina Code 48-59-30
• Ultimate user: means a person who lawfully possesses a controlled substance for his own use or for the use of a member of his household or for administration to an animal owned by him or a member of his household. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Veteran: means a person who is a resident of this State and who served in the armed forces of the United States of America from the year 1959 through the year 1975. See South Carolina Code 44-40-20
• Well: means an excavation that is cored, bored, drilled, jetted, dug, or otherwise constructed for the purpose of locating, testing, or withdrawing groundwater or for evaluating, testing, developing, draining, or recharging a groundwater reservoir or aquifer or that may control, divert, or otherwise cause the movement of groundwater from or into an aquifer. See South Carolina Code 49-5-30
• Withdrawal: means to remove surface water from its natural course or location, or exercising physical control over surface water in its natural course or location, regardless of whether the water is returned to its waters of origin, consumed, transferred to another river basin, or discharged elsewhere. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20