South Carolina Code 16-3-2010. Definitions
(1) "Business" means a corporation, partnership, proprietorship, firm, enterprise, franchise, organization, or self-employed individual.
Terms Used In South Carolina Code 16-3-2010
- Charitable organization: means a charitable organization pursuant to § 33-56-20. See South Carolina Code 16-3-2010
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- 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 an individual, corporation, partnership, charitable organization, or another legal entity. See South Carolina Code 16-3-2010
- Services: means an act committed at the behest of, under the supervision of, or for the benefit of another person. See South Carolina Code 16-3-2010
(2) "Charitable organization" means a charitable organization pursuant to § 33-56-20.
(3) "Debt bondage" means the status or condition of a debtor arising from a pledge by the debtor of his personal services or those of a person under his control as a security for debt, if the value of those services as reasonably assessed is not applied toward the liquidation of the debt or the length and nature of those services are not respectively limited and defined or if the principal amount of the debt does not reasonably reflect the value of the items or services for which the debt was incurred.
(4) "Forced labor" means any type of labor or services performed or provided by a person rendered through another person’s coercion of the person providing the labor or services.
This definition does not include labor or services performed or provided by a person in the custody of the Department of Corrections or a local jail, detention center, or correctional facility.
(5) "Involuntary servitude" means a condition of servitude induced through coercion.
(6) "Person" means an individual, corporation, partnership, charitable organization, or another legal entity.
(7) "Sex trafficking" means the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for one of the following when it is induced by force, fraud, or coercion or the person performing the act is under the age of eighteen years and anything of value is given, promised to, or received, directly or indirectly, by any person:
(a) criminal sexual conduct pursuant to § 16-3-651;
(b) criminal sexual conduct in the first degree pursuant to § 16-3-652;
(c) criminal sexual conduct in the second degree pursuant to § 16-3-653;
(d) criminal sexual conduct in the third degree pursuant to § 16-3-654;
(e) criminal sexual conduct with a minor pursuant to § 16-3-655;
(f) engaging a child for sexual performance pursuant to § 16-3-810;
(g) producing, directing, or promoting sexual performance by a child pursuant to § 16-3-820;
(h) sexual battery pursuant to § 16-3-651;
(i) sexual conduct pursuant to § 16-3-800; or
(j) sexual performance pursuant to § 16-3-800.
(8) "Services" means an act committed at the behest of, under the supervision of, or for the benefit of another person.
(9) "Victim of trafficking in persons" or "victim" means a person who has been subjected to the crime of trafficking in persons.