Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 6 > Chapter 1 > Article 8 - Fairness in Lodging Act

• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Bonds: shall include notes, bonds, refunding bonds, and other obligations authorized to be issued by this chapter. See South Carolina Code 4-29-10
• Financing Agreement: shall mean any agreement, including without limitation an agreement whereby a county or incorporated municipality shall lease or sell a project to an industry, made by and between the governing board and any one or more industries by which the industry or industries agree to pay to (and to secure if so required) the county or the incorporated municipality, as the case may be, or to any assignee thereof, the sums required to meet the payment of the principal, interest and redemption premium, if any, on any bonds. See South Carolina Code 4-29-10
• Governing Board: shall mean any one of the governing bodies of the several counties and incorporated municipalities of the State as now or hereafter constituted; and in the event that any project shall be located in more than one county, the term "governing board" shall also relate to the governing bodies of the several counties wherein such project shall be located. See South Carolina Code 4-29-10
• 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.
• Project: means any land and any buildings and other improvements on the land including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, water, sewage treatment and disposal facilities, air pollution control facilities, and all other machinery, apparatus, equipment, office facilities, and furnishings which are considered necessary, suitable, or useful by the following investors or any combination of them:
  
  (a) any enterprise for the manufacturing, processing, or assembling of any agricultural or manufactured products;
  
  (b) any commercial enterprise engaged in storing, warehousing, distributing, transporting, or selling products of agriculture, mining, or industry, or engaged in providing laundry services to hospitals, to convalescent homes, or to medical treatment facilities of any type, public or private, within or outside of the issuing county or incorporated municipality and within or outside of the State;
  
  (c) any enterprise for research in connection with any of the foregoing or for the purpose of developing new products or new processes or improving existing products or processes;
  
  (d) any enterprise engaged in commercial business including, but not limited to, wholesale, retail, or other mercantile establishments; residential and mixed use developments of two thousand five hundred acres or more; office buildings; computer centers; tourism, sports, and recreational facilities; convention and trade show facilities; and public lodging and restaurant facilities if the primary purpose is to provide service in connection with another facility qualifying under this subitem; and
  
  (e) any enlargement, improvement, or expansion of any existing facility in subitems (a), (b), (c), and (d) of this item. See South Carolina Code 4-29-10
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Security Agreement: shall mean any trust agreement, mortgage, security agreement or assignment by which any bond or bonds issued pursuant to this chapter may be secured. See South Carolina Code 4-29-10
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.