Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 4 > Chapter 33 - County Fairs

• 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.
• Capital improvements: means improvements with a useful life of five years or more, by new construction or other action, which increase or increased the service capacity of a public facility. See South Carolina Code 6-1-920
• Capital improvements plan: means a plan that identifies capital improvements for which development impact fees may be used as a funding source. See South Carolina Code 6-1-920
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Developer: means an individual or corporation, partnership, or other entity undertaking development. See South Carolina Code 6-1-920
• Development: means construction or installation of a new building or structure, or a change in use of a building or structure, any of which creates additional demand and need for public facilities. See South Carolina Code 6-1-920
• Development approval: means a document from a governmental entity which authorizes the commencement of a development. See South Carolina Code 6-1-920
• Director: means the Director of the Department of Health and Environmental Control;
  
  (b) "Marijuana" means marijuana, all tetrahydrocannabinols or a chemical derivative of any tetrahydrocannabinol;
  
  (c) "Practitioner" means a physician licensed to practice medicine in this State and licensed to prescribe and administer drugs which are subject to regulation under the provisions of Article 3, Chapter 53 of Title 44 of the 1976 Code. See South Carolina Code 44-53-620
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Governmental entity: means a county, as provided in Chapter 9 of Title 4, and a municipality, as defined in § 5-1-20. See South Carolina Code 6-1-920
• impact fee: means a payment of money imposed as a condition of development approval to pay a proportionate share of the cost of system improvements needed to serve the people utilizing the improvements. See South Carolina Code 6-1-920
• 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.
• 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.
• Project: means a particular development on an identified parcel of land. See South Carolina Code 6-1-920
• Proportionate share: means that portion of the cost of system improvements determined pursuant to § 6-1-990 which reasonably relates to the service demands and needs of the project. See South Carolina Code 6-1-920
• Public facilities: means :
  
  (a) water supply production, treatment, laboratory, engineering, administration, storage, and transmission facilities;
  
  (b) wastewater collection, treatment, laboratory, engineering, administration, and disposal facilities;
  
  (c) solid waste and recycling collection, treatment, and disposal facilities;
  
  (d) roads, streets, and bridges including, but not limited to, rights-of-way and traffic signals;
  
  (e) storm water transmission, retention, detention, treatment, and disposal facilities and flood control facilities;
  
  (f) public safety facilities, including law enforcement, fire, emergency medical and rescue, and street lighting facilities;
  
  (g) capital equipment and vehicles, with an individual unit purchase price of not less than one hundred thousand dollars including, but not limited to, equipment and vehicles used in the delivery of public safety services, emergency preparedness services, collection and disposal of solid waste, and storm water management and control;
  
  (h) parks, libraries, and recreational facilities;
  
  (i) public education facilities for grades K-12 including, but not limited to, schools, offices, classrooms, parking areas, playgrounds, libraries, cafeterias, gymnasiums, health and music rooms, computer and science laboratories, and other facilities considered necessary for the proper public education of the state's children. See South Carolina Code 6-1-920
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Service area: means , based on sound planning or engineering principles, or both, a defined geographic area in which specific public facilities provide service to development within the area defined. See South Carolina Code 6-1-920
• System improvement costs: means costs incurred for construction or reconstruction of system improvements, including design, acquisition, engineering, and other costs attributable to the improvements, and also including the costs of providing additional public facilities needed to serve new growth and development. See South Carolina Code 6-1-920
• System improvements: means capital improvements to public facilities which are designed to provide service to a service area. See South Carolina Code 6-1-920