Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 59 > Chapter 141 - National Education Goals

• Captivity: means the condition in which an animal is contained in an enclosed cage, carrier, aquarium, or similar device, yard, or enclosure that prohibits the natural movement of the animal. See South Carolina Code 50-15-10
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• Department: means the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources unless otherwise stated. See South Carolina Code 50-5-15
• Endangered species: means any species or subspecies of wildlife whose prospects of survival or recruitment within the State are in jeopardy or are likely within the foreseeable future to become so due to any of the following factors:
  
  (a) the destruction, drastic modification, or severe curtailment of its habitat, or
  
  (b) its over-utilization for scientific, commercial, or sporting purposes, or
  
  (c) the effect on it of disease, pollution, or predation, or
  
  (d) other natural or manmade factors affecting its prospects of survival or recruitment within the State, or
  
  (e) any combination of the foregoing factors. See South Carolina Code 50-15-10
• Fish: means finfish, shellfish including mollusks, crustaceans, horseshoe crabs, whelks (conchs), turtles, and terrapin or products thereof. See South Carolina Code 50-5-15
• Management: means the collection and application of biological information for the purposes of increasing the number of individuals within species and populations of wildlife up to the optimum carrying capacity of their habitat and maintaining such levels. See South Carolina Code 50-15-10
• Native: means any species or subspecies considered to be indigenous and naturally occurring in this State. See South Carolina Code 50-15-10
• nongame wildlife: means any wild mammal, bird, amphibian, reptile, fish, mollusk, crustacean, or other wild animal not otherwise legally classified by statute or regulation of this State as a game species. See South Carolina Code 50-15-10
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• 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.
• Person: means any individual, firm, corporation, association, or partnership. See South Carolina Code 50-15-10
• Wildlife: means any wild mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, mollusk, crustacean, or other wild animal or any part, product, egg or offspring, or the dead body or parts thereof. See South Carolina Code 50-15-10