Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 49 > Chapter 29 - South Carolina Scenic Rivers Act

• Academic medical center: means a research hospital that operates a medical residency program for physicians and conducts research that involves human subjects, and other hospital research programs conducting research as a subrecipient with the academic medical center as the prime awardee. See South Carolina Code 44-53-1810
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Approved source: means a provider approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration which produces cannabidiol that:
  
  (a) has been manufactured and tested in a facility approved or certified by the United States Food and Drug Administration or similar national regulatory agency in another country which has been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration; and
  
  (b) has been tested in animals to demonstrate preliminary effectiveness and to ensure that it is safe to administer to humans. See South Carolina Code 44-53-1810
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• 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
• Board: means the South Carolina Board of Health and Environmental Control which is charged with responsibility for implementation of the Safe Drinking Water Act. See South Carolina Code 44-55-20
• Cannabidiol: means a finished preparation containing, of its total cannabinoid content, at least 98 percent cannabidiol and not more than 0. See South Carolina Code 44-53-1810
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of the department or his authorized agent. See South Carolina Code 44-55-20
• 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.
• 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.
• Cross-connection: means any actual or potential connection or structural arrangement between a public water system and any other source or system through which it is possible to introduce into any part of the potable system any used water, industrial fluid, gas or substance other than the intended potable water with which the system is supplied. See South Carolina Code 44-55-20
• 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.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, including personnel authorized and empowered to act on behalf of the department or board. See South Carolina Code 44-55-20
• 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
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• 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.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• 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.
• Human consumption: means water used for drinking, bathing, cooking, dish washing, and maintaining oral hygiene or other similar uses. See South Carolina Code 44-55-20
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• 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.
• Noncommunity water system: means a public water system which serves at least fifteen service connections or regularly serves an average of at least twenty-five individuals daily at least sixty days out of the year and does not meet the definition of a community water system. See South Carolina Code 44-55-20
• Operating permit: means a permit issued by the department that outlines the requirements and conditions under which a person must operate a public water system. See South Carolina Code 44-55-20
• 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.
• 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
• Person: means an individual, partnership, copartnership, cooperative, firm, company, public or private corporation, political subdivision, government agency, trust, estate, joint structure company, or any other legal entity or its legal representative, agent, or assigns. See South Carolina Code 44-55-20
• Physician: means a doctor of medicine or doctor of osteopathic medicine licensed by the South Carolina Board of Medical Examiners. See South Carolina Code 44-53-1810
• 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.
• Public water system: means :
  
  (a) any publicly or privately owned waterworks system which provides water, whether bottled, piped, or delivered through some other constructed conveyance for human consumption, including the source of supply whether the source of supply is of surface or subsurface origin;
  
  (b) all structures and appurtenances used for the collection, treatment, storage, or distribution of water delivered to point of meter of consumer or owner connection;
  
  (c) any part or portion of the system, including any water treatment facility, which in any way alters the physical, chemical, radiological, or bacteriological characteristics of the water; however, a public water system does not include a water system serving a single private residence or dwelling. See South Carolina Code 44-55-20
• Qualifying patient: means anyone who suffers from Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome, Dravet Syndrome, also known as severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy, or any other form of refractory epilepsy that is not adequately treated by traditional medical therapies. See South Carolina Code 44-53-1810
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Well: means a bored, drilled or driven shaft, or a dug hole, whose depth is greater than the largest surface dimension, from which water is extracted or injected. See South Carolina Code 44-55-20
• Well driller: means an individual, corporation, partnership, association, political subdivision, or public agency of this State who is licensed with the South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation for constructing wells and is in immediate supervision of and responsible for the construction, development, drilling, testing, maintenance, repair, or abandonment of any well as defined by this chapter. See South Carolina Code 44-55-20