Terms Used In South Carolina Code 1-6-60

• Agency: means an authority, board, branch, commission, committee, department, division, or other instrumentality of the executive department of state government, including administrative bodies and bodies corporate and politic established as an instrumentality of the State. See South Carolina Code 1-6-10
• Business relationship: means dealings of a person with an agency seeking, obtaining, establishing, maintaining, or implementing:
  
  (a) a pecuniary interest in a contract or purchase with the agency; or
  
  (b) a license or permit requiring the exercise of judgment or discretion by the agency. See South Carolina Code 1-6-10
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Employee: includes an individual who contracts with an agency for personal services. See South Carolina Code 1-6-10
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Person: means :
  
  (a) an individual, labor union and organization, joint apprenticeship committee, partnership, association, corporation, legal representative, mutual company, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization, trustee, trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, or other legal or commercial entity located in part or in whole in the State or doing business in the State;
  
  (b) the State and any agency or local subdivision of an agency; or
  
  (c) a political subdivision. See South Carolina Code 1-6-10
• State officer: means any of the following:
  
  (a) the Governor;
  
  (b) the Lieutenant Governor;
  
  (c) the Secretary of State;
  
  (d) the State Comptroller General;
  
  (e) the State Treasurer;
  
  (f) the Attorney General;
  
  (g) the Superintendent of Education;
  
  (h) the Commissioner of Agriculture; or
  
  (i) the Adjutant General. See South Carolina Code 1-6-10