Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 44 > Chapter 41 > Article 6 - Fetal Heartbeat and Protection From Abortion

• Abortion: means the act of using or prescribing any instrument, medicine, drug, or any other substance, device, or means with the intent to terminate the clinically diagnosable pregnancy of a woman with knowledge that the termination by those means will, with reasonable likelihood, cause the death of the unborn child. See South Carolina Code 44-41-610
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Allowable costs: means costs to a disposal site operator of operating a regional disposal facility. See South Carolina Code 48-46-30
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• Atlantic Compact: means the Northeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact as defined in the "Omnibus Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact Consent Act of 1985" Public Law 99-240, Title II. See South Carolina Code 48-46-30
• Clinically diagnosable pregnancy: means the point in time when it is possible to determine that a woman is pregnant due to the detectible presence of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). See South Carolina Code 44-41-610
• compact commission: means the governing body of the Atlantic Compact, consisting of voting members appointed by the governors of Connecticut, New Jersey, and South Carolina. See South Carolina Code 48-46-30
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Conception: means fertilization of an ovum by sperm. See South Carolina Code 44-41-610
• Consent: means a signed and witnessed voluntary agreement to the performance of an abortion. See South Carolina Code 44-41-10
• Contraceptive: means a drug, device, or chemical that prevents ovulation, conception, or the implantation of a fertilized ovum in a woman's uterine wall after conception. See South Carolina Code 44-41-610
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Decommissioning trust fund: means the trust fund established pursuant to a Trust Agreement dated March 4, 1981, among Chem-Nuclear Systems, Inc. See South Carolina Code 48-46-30
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Disposal rates: means the price paid by customers of a regional disposal facility for disposal of waste, including any price schedule or breakdown of the price into discrete elements or cost components. See South Carolina Code 48-46-30
• Extended care maintenance fund: means the "escrow fund for perpetual care" that is used for custodial, surveillance, and maintenance costs during the period of institutional control and any post-closure observation period specified by the Department of Health and Environmental Control and for activities associated with closure of the site as provided for in § 13-7-30(4). See South Carolina Code 48-46-30
• Facility operator: means a public or private organization, corporation, or agency that operates a regional disposal facility in South Carolina. See South Carolina Code 48-46-30
• Fatal fetal anomaly: means that, in reasonable medical judgment, the unborn child has a profound and irremediable congenital or chromosomal anomaly that, with or without the provision of life-preserving treatment, would be incompatible with sustaining life after birth. See South Carolina Code 44-41-610
• Fetal heartbeat: means cardiac activity, or the steady and repetitive rhythmic contraction of the fetal heart, within the gestational sac. See South Carolina Code 44-41-610
• 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.
• Generator: means a person, organization, institution, private corporation, and government agency that produces Class A, B, or C radioactive waste. See South Carolina Code 48-46-30
• Gestational age: means the age of an unborn child as calculated from the first day of the last menstrual period of a pregnant woman. See South Carolina Code 44-41-610
• Gestational sac: means the structure that comprises the extraembryonic membranes that envelop the unborn child and that is typically visible by ultrasound after the fourth week of pregnancy. See South Carolina Code 44-41-610
• 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.
• 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.
• 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}
• Maintenance: means active maintenance activities as specified by the Department of Health and Environmental Control, including pumping and treatment of groundwater and the repair and replacement of disposal unit covers. See South Carolina Code 48-46-30
• Medical emergency: means in reasonable medical judgment, a condition exists that has complicated the pregnant woman's medical condition and necessitates an abortion to prevent death or serious risk of a substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function, not including psychological or emotional conditions. See South Carolina Code 44-41-610
• Nonregional generator: means a waste generator who produces waste within a state that is not a member of the Atlantic Compact, whether or not this waste is sent to facilities located within the Atlantic Compact region for purposes of consolidation, treatment, or processing for disposal. See South Carolina Code 48-46-30
• Nonregional waste: means waste produced by a nonregional generator. See South Carolina Code 48-46-30
• Office: means the Office of Regulatory Staff. See South Carolina Code 48-46-30
• Person: means an individual, corporation, business enterprise, or other legal entity, either public or private, and expressly includes states. See South Carolina Code 48-46-30
• Physician: means a person licensed to practice medicine in this State. See South Carolina Code 44-41-610
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Pregnant: means the human biological female reproductive condition of having a living unborn child within her body, whether or not she has reached the age of majority. See South Carolina Code 44-41-610
• Price schedule: means disposal rates. See South Carolina Code 48-46-30
• PSC: means the South Carolina Public Service Commission. See South Carolina Code 48-46-30
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Reasonable medical judgment: means a medical judgment that would be made by a reasonably prudent physician who is knowledgeable about the case and the treatment possibilities with respect to the medical conditions involved. See South Carolina Code 44-41-610
• Receipts: means the total amount of money collected by the site operator for waste disposal over a given period of time. See South Carolina Code 48-46-30
• Regional disposal facility: means a disposal facility that has been designated or accepted by the Atlantic Compact Commission as a regional disposal facility. See South Carolina Code 48-46-30
• Regional generator: means a waste generator who produces waste within the Atlantic Compact, whether or not this waste is sent to facilities outside the Atlantic Compact region for purposes of consolidation, treatment, or processing for disposal. See South Carolina Code 48-46-30
• Regional waste: means waste generated within a member state of the Atlantic Compact. See South Carolina Code 48-46-30
• 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.
• Site operator: means a facility operator. See South Carolina Code 48-46-30
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Unborn child: means an individual organism of the species homo sapiens from conception until live birth. See South Carolina Code 44-41-610
• Waste: means Class A, B, or C low-level radioactive waste, as defined in Title I of Public Law 99-240 and Department of Health and Environmental Control Regulation 61-63, 7. See South Carolina Code 48-46-30