Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 49 > Chapter 4 - South Carolina Surface Water Withdrawal, Permitting Use, and Reporting Act

• Acquittal:
  1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
  2. A verdict of "not guilty."
   
• Administer: means the direct application of a controlled substance, whether by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or any other means, to the body of a patient or research subject by:
  
  (a) a practitioner (or, in his presence, by his authorized agent); or
  
  (b) the patient or research subject at the direction and in the presence of the practitioner. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Affected area: means that portion of a county or counties within a river basin that, under the circumstances, are determined by the department to likely be affected by a proposed surface water withdrawal. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Agent: means an authorized person who acts on behalf of or at the direction of a manufacturer, distributor, or dispenser, except that this term does not include a common or contract carrier, public warehouseman, or employee of the carrier or warehouseman, when acting in the usual or lawful course of the carrier's or warehouseman's business. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Agricultural use: means :
  
  (a) plowing, tilling, or preparing the soil at an agricultural facility;
  
  (b) planting, growing, fertilizing, or harvesting crops, ornamental horticulture, floriculture, and turf grasses;
  
  (c) application of pesticides, herbicides, or other chemicals, compounds, or substances to crops, weeds, or soil in connection with the production of crops, livestock, animals, or poultry;
  
  (d) breeding, hatching, raising, producing, feeding, keeping, slaughtering, or processing livestock, hogs, aquatic animals, equines, chickens, turkeys, poultry, or other fowl normally raised for food, mules, cattle, sheep, goats, rabbits, or similar farm animals for commercial purposes;
  
  (e) producing and keeping honeybees, producing honeybee products, and honeybee processing facilities;
  
  (f) producing, processing, or packaging eggs or egg products;
  
  (g) manufacturing feed for poultry or livestock;
  
  (h) rotation of crops;
  
  (i) commercial aquaculture;
  
  (j) application of existing, changed, or new technology, practices, processes, or procedures to an agricultural use;
  
  (k) the operation of a roadside market; and
  
  (l) silviculture. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
• Circumstantial evidence: All evidence except eyewitness testimony.
• Cocaine base: means an alkaloidal cocaine or freebase form of cocaine, which is the end product of a chemical alteration whereby the cocaine in salt form is converted to a form suitable for smoking. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Commission: means the South Carolina Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
• Consumptive use: means any use of water which is not a nonconsumptive use. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Controlled substance: means a drug, substance, or immediate precursor in Schedules I through V in Sections 44-53-190, 44-53-210, 44-53-230, 44-53-250, and 44-53-270. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Controlled substance analogue: means a substance that is intended for human consumption and that either has a chemical structure substantially similar to that of a controlled substance in Schedules I, II, or III or has a stimulant, depressant, analgesic, or hallucinogenic effect on the central nervous system that is substantially similar to that of a controlled substance in Schedules I, II, or III. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• 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.
• Counterfeit substance: means a controlled substance which, or the container or labeling of which, without authorization, bears the trademark, trade name, or other identifying mark, imprint, number, or device, or any likeness thereof, of a manufacturer, distributor, or dispenser other than the person who, in fact, manufactured, distributed, or dispensed such substance and which, thereby, falsely purports or is represented to be the product of, or to have been distributed by, such other manufacturer, distributor, or dispenser. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• delivery: means the actual, constructive, or attempted transfer of a controlled drug or paraphernalia whether or not there exists an agency relationship. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Department: means the Department of Health and Environmental Control. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Department: means the State Department of Health and Environmental Control. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Diffuse surface water: means water on the surface of the earth not located in defined courses, streams, or water bodies. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Dispense: means to deliver a controlled substance to an ultimate user or research subject by or pursuant to the lawful order of a practitioner, including the prescribing, administering, packaging, labeling, or compounding necessary to prepare the substance for the delivery. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Dispenser: means a practitioner who delivers a controlled substance to the ultimate user or research subject. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Distribute: means to deliver (other than by administering or dispensing) a controlled substance. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Distributor: means a person who so delivers a controlled substance. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Drought contingency pond: means a pond or lake designated solely as a supplemental water source in a surface water withdrawer's operational and contingency plan. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Drug: means a substance:
  
  (a) recognized in the official United States Pharmacopoeia, official Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, or official National Formulary, or any supplement to any of them;
  
  (b) intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man and animals;
  
  (c) other than food intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man and animals; and
  
  (d) intended for use as a component of any substance specified in subitem (a), (b), or (c) of this paragraph but does not include devices or their components, parts, or accessories. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Emergency withdrawal: means the withdrawal of water, for a period not exceeding thirty days, for the purpose of firefighting, hazardous substance waste spill response, or both, or other emergency withdrawal of water as determined by the department. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• 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.
• Existing surface water withdrawer: means a surface water withdrawer withdrawing surface water as of the effective date of this chapter or a proposed surface water withdrawer with its intakes under construction before the effective date of this chapter or with all necessary applications for its intake permits deemed administratively complete before January first of the year of the effective date of this act. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• 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}
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Imitation controlled substance: means a noncontrolled substance which is represented to be a controlled substance and is packaged in a manner normally used for the distribution or delivery of an illegal controlled substance. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Immediate precursor: means a substance which the appropriate federal agency or the department has found to be and by regulation has designated as being, or can be proven by expert testimony as being, the principal compound commonly used or produced primarily for use, and which is an immediate chemical intermediary used or likely to be used in the manufacture of a controlled substance, or is a reagent, solvent, or catalyst used in the manufacture of controlled substances, the control of which is necessary to prevent, curtail, or limit such manufacture. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Impoundment: means a dam, dike, natural structure, or any combination thereof that is designed to hold an accumulation of surface water or impede the flow of surface water. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Interbasin transfer: means the withdrawal of surface water from a river basin and the movement of that water to a river basin different from the source of the withdrawal. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• 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.
• Manufacture: means the production, preparation, propagation, compounding, conversion, or processing of a controlled substance, either directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of natural origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis, and includes any packaging or repackaging of the substance or labeling or relabeling of its container, except that this term does not include the preparation or compounding of a controlled substance by an individual for his own use or the preparation, compounding, packaging, or labeling of a controlled substance:
  
  (a) by a practitioner as an incident to his administering or dispensing of a controlled substance in the course of his professional practice; or
  
  (b) by a practitioner, or by his authorized agent under his supervision, for the purpose of, or as an incident to, research, teaching, or chemical analysis and not for sale. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Manufacturer: means any person who packages, repackages, or labels any container of any controlled substance, except practitioners who dispense or compound prescription orders for delivery to the ultimate consumer. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Marijuana: means :
  
  (i) all species or variety of the marijuana plant and all parts thereof whether growing or not;
  
  (ii) the seeds of the marijuana plant;
  
  (iii) the resin extracted from any part of the marijuana plant; or
  
  (iv) every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the marijuana plant, marijuana seeds, or marijuana resin. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Minimal changes in water quantity: means that greater than ninety percent of the water withdrawn by a surface water withdrawer, based upon the previous twenty-four months of historical data, is returned to the waters of origin; provided, that either the amount of water not returned to the water source does not:
  
  (a) exceed three million gallons during any one month; or
  
  (b) significantly reduce the safe yield at the withdrawal point. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Minimum instream flow: means the flow that provides an adequate supply of water at the surface water withdrawal point to maintain the biological, chemical, and physical integrity of the stream taking into account the needs of downstream users, recreation, and navigation and that flow is set at forty percent of the mean annual daily flow for the months of January, February, March, and April; thirty percent of the mean annual daily flow for the months of May, June, and December; and twenty percent of the mean annual daily flow for the months of July through November for surface water withdrawers as described in § 49-4-150(A)(1). See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Minimum water level: means the water level in an impoundment necessary to maintain the biological, chemical, and physical integrity of the surface water in the impoundment taking into account downstream uses, withdrawals from the impoundment, and recreational and navigational needs as established by an existing federal regulatory process or established through consultation between the department and the operator of the impoundment. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Narcotic drug: means any of the following, whether produced directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of vegetable origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis:
  
  (a) opium, coca leaves, and opiates;
  
  (b) a compound, manufacture, salt, derivative or preparation of opium, coca leaves, or opiates;
  
  (c) a substance (and any compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, or preparation thereof) which is chemically identical with any of the substances referred to in subitem (a) or (b). See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Nonconsumptive use: means a use of surface water withdrawn in such a manner that it is returned to its waters of origin within the boundaries of contiguous property owned by the surface water withdrawer with no or minimal changes in water quantity. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Noncontrolled substance: means any substance of chemical or natural origin which is not included in the schedules of controlled substances set forth in this article or included in the federal schedules of controlled substances set forth in Title 21, Section 812 of the United States Code or in Title 21, Part 1308 of the Code of Federal Regulations. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Paraphernalia: means any instrument, device, article, or contrivance used, designed for use, or intended for use in ingesting, smoking, administering, manufacturing, or preparing a controlled substance and does not include cigarette papers and tobacco pipes but includes, but is not limited to:
  
  (a) metal, wooden, acrylic, glass, stone, plastic, or ceramic marijuana or hashish pipes with or without screens, permanent screens, hashish heads, or punctured metal bowls;
  
  (b) water pipes designed for use or intended for use with marijuana, hashish, hashish oil, or cocaine;
  
  (c) carburetion tubes and devices;
  
  (d) smoking and carburetion masks;
  
  (e) roach clips;
  
  (f) separation gins designed for use or intended for use in cleaning marijuana;
  
  (g) cocaine spoons and vials;
  
  (h) chamber pipes;
  
  (i) carburetor pipes;
  
  (j) electric pipes;
  
  (k) air-driven pipes;
  
  (l) chilams;
  
  (m) bongs;
  
  (n) ice pipes or chillers. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• 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.
• Permitted surface water withdrawer: means a person withdrawing surface water pursuant to a surface water withdrawal permit. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Permittee: means a person authorized to make withdrawals of surface water pursuant to a surface water withdrawal permit issued by the department. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, trust, estate, association, public or private institution, municipality, or political subdivision, governmental agency, public water system, or a private or public corporation or other legal entity organized under the laws of this State or any other state or county. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• 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.
• Practitioner: means :
  
  (a) a physician, dentist, veterinarian, podiatrist, scientific investigator, or other person licensed, registered, or otherwise permitted to distribute, dispense, conduct research with respect to, or to administer a controlled substance in the course of professional practice or research in this State;
  
  (b) a pharmacy, hospital, or other institution licensed, registered, or otherwise permitted to distribute, dispense, conduct research with respect to, or to administer a controlled substance in the course of professional practice or research in this State. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Production: includes the manufacture, planting, cultivation, growing, or harvesting of a controlled substance. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Proposed registered surface water withdrawer: means a proposed surface water withdrawer whose planned operations would result in his withdrawals being subject to the reporting but not the permitting requirements of this chapter. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Public water system: means a water system as defined in § 44-55-20 of the State Safe Drinking Water Act. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Registered surface water withdrawer: means a person who makes surface water withdrawals for agricultural uses at an agricultural facility that is filing a report pursuant to § 49-4-50. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• River basin: means the area drained by a river and its tributaries or through a specified point on a river, as determined in § 49-4-80(K)(2). See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Safe yield: means the amount of water available for withdrawal from a particular surface water source in excess of the minimum instream flow or minimum water level for that surface water source. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Supplemental water source: means a source of water different from the source of permitted withdrawal that will be used when an adequate amount of water is unavailable for withdrawal from the permitted source, including, but not limited to, ground water wells, aquifer storage and recovery projects, water storage facilities, drought contingency ponds, and connections to other water providers. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Surface water: means all water that is wholly or partially within the State, including the Savannah River, or within its jurisdiction, which is open to the atmosphere and subject to surface runoff, including, but not limited to, lakes, streams, ponds, rivers, creeks, runs, springs, and reservoirs, but not including water and wastewater treatment impoundments, off-stream supplemental operations related impoundments, or water storage structures constructed by the surface water withdrawer to provide adequate supplies of surface water during low flow conditions. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• surface water withdrawal permit: means a written authorization issued to a person by the department that allows the person to hold and exercise a water right to withdraw surface water pursuant to the terms of the permit and this chapter. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Surface water withdrawer: means a person withdrawing surface water in excess of three million gallons during any one month from a single intake or multiple intakes under common ownership within a one mile radius from any one existing or proposed intake. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Withdrawal: means to remove surface water from its natural course or location, or exercising physical control over surface water in its natural course or location, regardless of whether the water is returned to its waters of origin, consumed, transferred to another river basin, or discharged elsewhere. See South Carolina Code 49-4-20