Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 44 > Chapter 7 > Article 20 - (2) Hospitals Also Shall Report Completeness of Certain Selected Infection Control Processes, as Recommended by the Advisory Committee and Defined by the Department, According to Accepted Standard Definitions.

• 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 South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. See South Carolina Code 48-14-20
• Designated Watershed: means a watershed designated by a local government and approved by the Department of Health and Environmental Control and identified as having an existing or potential stormwater, sediment control, or nonpoint source pollution problem. See South Carolina Code 48-14-20
• District: means any soil and water conservation district created pursuant to Chapter 9 of this title. See South Carolina Code 48-14-20
• Erosion: means the wearing away of land surface by the action of wind, water, gravity, ice, or any combination of those forces. See South Carolina Code 48-14-20
• Implementing agency: means the department, local government, or conservation district with the responsibility for receiving stormwater management and sediment control plans for review and approval, reviewing plans, issuing permits for land disturbing activities, and conducting inspections and enforcement actions in a specified jurisdiction. See South Carolina Code 48-14-20
• 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.
• Land disturbing activity: means any use of the land by any person that results in a change in the natural cover or topography that may cause erosion and contribute to sediment and alter the quality and quantity of stormwater runoff. See South Carolina Code 48-14-20
• Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
• Local government: means any county, municipality, or any combination of counties or municipalities, acting through a joint program pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. See South Carolina Code 48-14-20
• Nonpoint source pollution: means pollution contained in stormwater runoff from ill-defined diffuse sources. See South Carolina Code 48-14-20
• 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, firm, association, joint venture, public or private corporation, trust, estate, commission, board, public or private institution, utility, cooperative, electric supplier, municipality, interstate body, the federal government, or other legal entity. See South Carolina Code 48-14-20
• Person responsible for the land disturbing activity: means :
  
  (a) the person who has or represents having financial or operational control over the land disturbing activity; and/or
  
  (b) the landowner or person in possession or control of the land who directly or indirectly allowed the land disturbing activity or has benefited from it or who has failed to comply with any provision of the act, these regulations, or any order or local ordinance adopted pursuant to this chapter as imposes a duty upon him. See South Carolina Code 48-14-20
• Responsible personnel: means any foreman, superintendent, or similar individual who is the on-site person in charge of land disturbing activities. See South Carolina Code 48-14-20
• Sediment: means solid particulate matter, both mineral and organic, that has been or is being transported by water, air, ice, or gravity from its site of origin. See South Carolina Code 48-14-20
• Stormwater management: means , for:
  
  (a) quantitative control, a system of vegetative or structural measures, or both, that control the increased volume and rate of stormwater runoff caused by manmade changes to the land;
  
  (b) qualitative control, a system of vegetative, structural, or other measures that reduce or eliminate pollutants that might otherwise be carried by stormwater runoff. See South Carolina Code 48-14-20
• Stormwater Management and Sediment Control Plan: means a set of drawings, other documents, and supporting calculations submitted by a person as a prerequisite to obtaining a permit to undertake a land disturbing activity, which contains all of the information and specifications required by an implementing agency. See South Carolina Code 48-14-20
• Stormwater runoff: means direct response of a watershed to precipitation and includes the surface and subsurface runoff that enters a ditch, stream, storm sewer, or other concentrated flow during and following the precipitation. See South Carolina Code 48-14-20