Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 44 > Chapter 53 > Article 15 - Prescription Monitoring Program

• Authorized delegate: means an individual who is approved as having access to the prescription monitoring program and who is directly supervised by an authorized practitioner or pharmacist. See South Carolina Code 44-53-1630
• 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.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Controlled substances: means those substances listed in Schedules II, III, and IV of the schedules provided for in Sections 44-53-210, 44-53-230, 44-53-250, and 44-53-270. See South Carolina Code 44-53-1630
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Dispenser: means a person who delivers a Schedule II-IV controlled substance to the ultimate user, but does not include:
  
  (a) a licensed hospital pharmacy that distributes controlled substances for the purpose of inpatient hospital care or dispenses prescriptions for controlled substances at the time of discharge from the hospital;
  
  (b) a practitioner or other authorized person who administers these controlled substances; or
  
  (c) a wholesale distributor of a Schedule II-IV controlled substance. See South Carolina Code 44-53-1630
• Drug control: means the Department of Health and Environmental Control, Bureau of Drug Control. See South Carolina Code 44-53-1630
• 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.
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• 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}
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• 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.
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Patient: means the person or animal who is the ultimate user of a drug for whom a prescription is issued or for whom a drug is dispensed, or both. See South Carolina Code 44-53-1630
• Practitioner: means an individual authorized pursuant to state and federal law to prescribe controlled substances. See South Carolina Code 44-53-1630
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.