Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 60 > Chapter 12 - Protection of State-Owned or Leased Historic Properties

• Adverse effect: means an effect on a historic property, including alteration, destruction, or demolition, that diminishes the property's historic integrity. See South Carolina Code 60-12-10
• Agency: means the state agency, department, foundation, or institution that is responsible for or has jurisdiction over the project or that has ownership or jurisdiction over the historic property. See South Carolina Code 60-12-10
• Boat: means a vessel. See South Carolina Code 50-21-10
• Building: means a construction that was created to shelter any form of human activity, including a house, barn, church, or hotel. See South Carolina Code 60-12-10
• Certificate of number: means the registration. See South Carolina Code 50-21-10
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Department: means the Department of Archives and History. See South Carolina Code 60-12-10
• Department: means the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources unless otherwise stated. See South Carolina Code 50-5-15
• Historic properties: means those buildings, sites, objects, structures, and districts that are listed in the National Register of Historic Places. See South Carolina Code 60-12-10
• Hull identification number: means the letter and number combination required by the United States Coast Guard or its successor agency on all watercraft manufactured after November 1, 1972. See South Carolina Code 50-21-10
• 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.
• Minimize: means to lessen the adverse effect of a project on a historic property. See South Carolina Code 60-12-10
• Object: means a construction that is primarily artistic in nature or is relatively small in scale compared to a building or structure. See South Carolina Code 60-12-10
• Operate: means to navigate, steer, drive, or be in control. See South Carolina Code 50-21-10
• Outboard motor: means a combustion engine or electric propulsion system, which is used to propel a watercraft and which is detachable from the watercraft as a unit. 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
• Qualified preservation professionals: means staff with training, experience, and expertise in managing historic properties. See South Carolina Code 60-12-10
• Site: means a location of a significant event or a prehistoric or historic occupation or activity, including cemeteries, prehistoric village sites, and battlefields. See South Carolina Code 60-12-10
• State Board of Review: means the existing advisory group that reviews nominations to the National Register of Historic Places and which includes professionals representing the fields of archaeology, architecture, architectural history, and history. See South Carolina Code 60-12-10
• State Properties Committee: means a committee of the State Board of Review, which will include at least three members with at least one member representing the fields of architecture, architectural history, archaeology, or related fields as appropriate. See South Carolina Code 60-12-10
• Structure: means those functional constructions made usually for purposes other than creating shelter, including firetowers, canals, bridges, palisade fortifications, and prehistoric mounds. See South Carolina Code 60-12-10
• Temporary certificate of number: is a temporary registration assigned to a vessel to allow operation for a limited purpose. See South Carolina Code 50-21-10
• Vessel: means every description of watercraft, other than a seaplane regulated by the federal government, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water. See South Carolina Code 50-21-10
• Watercraft: means anything used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on the water but does not include: a seaplane regulated by the federal government, water skis, aquaplanes, surfboards, windsurfers, tubes, rafts, and similar devices or anything that does not meet construction or operational requirements of the state or federal government for watercraft. See South Carolina Code 50-21-10