Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 46 > Chapter 55 - Industrial Hemp Cultivation

• 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.
• 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.
• Department: means the State Department of Health and Human Services. See South Carolina Code 44-6-5
• General hospital: means any hospital licensed as a general hospital by the Department of Health and Environmental Control. See South Carolina Code 44-6-5
• Market basket index: means the index used by the federal government on January 1, 1986, to measure the inflation in hospital input prices for Medicare reimbursement. See South Carolina Code 44-6-5
• Medically indigent: means :
  
  (a) all persons whose gross family income and size falls at or below the federal Community Service Administration guidelines and who meet certain qualifying criteria regarding real property allowance, qualifying services, residency requirements, and other sponsorship, and migrant or seasonal farm workers who have no established domicile in any state; and
  
  (b) all persons whose gross family income and size falls between one hundred percent and two hundred percent of the Community Service Administration guidelines who meet certain other qualifying criteria regarding real property allowance, qualifying services, residency requirements, and other sponsorship and whose medical bill is sufficiently large in relation to their income and resources to preclude full payment. See South Carolina Code 44-6-5
• 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.
• Office: means the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office. See South Carolina Code 44-6-5
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• South Carolina growth index: means the percentage points added to the market basket index to adjust for the South Carolina specific experience. See South Carolina Code 44-6-5