Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 59 > Chapter 16 - South Carolina Virtual School Program

• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Commercial purpose: means :
  
  (a) being engaged in buying or selling fish;
  
  (b) taking or attempting to take fish in order to derive income or other consideration;
  
  (c) using commercial equipment; and
  
  (d) otherwise being engaged in the fisheries industry with the intent to derive income. See South Carolina Code 50-5-15
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Credit recovery: means self-paced, semester-long courses that target learning in areas of greatest weakness, allowing nontraditional or at-risk students to rapidly complete courses, recover credits, and progress to graduation. See South Carolina Code 59-16-30
• Department: means the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources unless otherwise stated. See South Carolina Code 50-5-15
• Distance learning: means the acquisition of knowledge and skills through mediated information and instruction, encompassing all technologies and other forms of learning at a distance. See South Carolina Code 59-16-30
• Elver: means all American eels (Anguilla rostrata) less than or equal to six inches in total length. See South Carolina Code 50-5-15
• Fish: means finfish, shellfish including mollusks, crustaceans, horseshoe crabs, whelks (conchs), turtles, and terrapin or products thereof. See South Carolina Code 50-5-15
• Fishing: means all activity and effort involved in taking or attempting to take fish. See South Carolina Code 50-5-15
• Gill net: means a net which is designed to hang vertically and capture fish by entanglement usually of the head, gill covers, or preopercles, and does not include gill net for taking shad unless specified. See South Carolina Code 50-5-15
• Haul seine: means a net of twine no smaller than #9 with a stretched mesh size no smaller than two inches and no larger than two and seven-eighths inches, one end of which is anchored to the shore and the other end is moved through the water by a vessel to take fish by encircling the fish and then being mechanically drawn to the shore. See South Carolina Code 50-5-15
• Herring: means all life stages of the river herrings being blueback herring (Alosa aestivalis) and alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus). See South Carolina Code 50-5-15
• Inshore salt waters: means those salt waters of this State between the landward limit of the Atlantic Ocean connected by COLREG demarcation lines, and the freshwater/saltwater dividing line. See South Carolina Code 50-5-15
• 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.
• Mariculture: means controlled cultivation in confinement of marine and estuarine organisms in salt waters. See South Carolina Code 50-5-15
• Online learning: means learning delivered by web-based or internet-based technologies. See South Carolina Code 59-16-30
• Operator: means the person who operates or has charge or command of the navigation or use of a vessel or watercraft. See South Carolina Code 50-21-10
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Owner: means a person, other than a lienholder, who claims lawful possession of a vessel or outboard motor by virtue of legal title or equitable interest in it which entitled him to possession. See South Carolina Code 50-21-10
• Person: means an individual, a partnership, a firm, a corporation, an association, or other legal entity. See South Carolina Code 50-21-10
• Proctored: means directly monitored by an adult authorized by the South Carolina Virtual School Program. See South Carolina Code 59-16-30
• Shad: means American or white shad (Alosa sapidissima) and hickory or skip-jack shad (Alosa mediocris). See South Carolina Code 50-5-15
• Take: means to harass intentionally, hunt, capture, gather, harvest, remove, catch, wound, or kill or attempt to harass, hunt, capture, gather, harvest, remove, catch, wound, or kill. See South Carolina Code 50-5-15
• Territorial sea: means that portion of the Atlantic Ocean under the jurisdiction of the State of South Carolina. See South Carolina Code 50-5-15
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Trawl: means a net, other than a haul seine, towed behind a boat. See South Carolina Code 50-5-15
• Trotline: means a single line or wire having numerous hooks or baits and is also called long line. See South Carolina Code 50-5-15
• Use: means operate, navigate, or employ. See South Carolina Code 50-21-10