Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 48 > Chapter 52 > Article 8 - Energy Independence and Sustainable Construction Act of 2007

• 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.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Board: means the State Fiscal Accountability Authority's governing board. See South Carolina Code 48-52-810
• Building project: means the design, construction, renovation, operation, and maintenance of any inhabited physical structure and its associated project building site. See South Carolina Code 48-52-810
• 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.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• 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.
• GBI: means the Green Building Initiative. See South Carolina Code 48-52-810
• Globes: means the level of a building's sustainability and energy efficiency performance as determined by GBI's Green Globes Rating System. See South Carolina Code 48-52-810
• Green Globes Rating System: means the environmental building rating system established by the Green Building Initiative. See South Carolina Code 48-52-810
• 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.
• High-performance building: means a building designed to achieve integrated systems design and construction so as to significantly reduce or eliminate the negative impact of the built environment. See South Carolina Code 48-52-810
• 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.
• LEED: means the U. See South Carolina Code 48-52-810
• LEED Silver standard: means the Silver standard as set forth by USGBC's LEED Green Building Rating System. See South Carolina Code 48-52-810
• Major facility project: means :
  
  (i) a state-funded new construction building project in which the building to be constructed is larger than ten thousand gross square feet;
  
  (ii) a state-funded renovation project in which the project involves more than fifty percent of the replacement value of the facility or a change in occupancy; or
  
  (iii) a state-funded commercial interior tenant fit-out project that is larger than seven thousand five hundred square feet of leasable area. See South Carolina Code 48-52-810
• 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.
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Person: includes an individual, a trust, estate, partnership, limited liability company, receiver, association, company, corporation, or any other group. See South Carolina Code 61-2-100
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• 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.
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Renovation project: means a building project involving the modification or adaptive reuse of an existing facility. See South Carolina Code 48-52-810
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Third-party commissioning agent: means a person accredited by the USGBC or GBI, with expertise in building system performance, who will analyze, evaluate, and confirm the proper function and performance of a high performance building, its systems, equipment, and indoor air quality, and who did not participate in the original certification of the major facility project or renovation project. See South Carolina Code 48-52-810
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• USGBC: means the United States Green Building Council. See South Carolina Code 48-52-810