Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 44 > Chapter 7 > Article 19 - Agreements and Joint Programs Involving Health Services Districts

• Board of commissioners: means the governing body of the soil and water conservation district in which a watershed conservation district is situated or, if the watershed conservation district is situated in more than one soil and water conservation district, the joint governing bodies of the districts. See South Carolina Code 48-11-10
• Board of directors: means the governing body of a watershed conservation district. See South Carolina Code 48-11-10
• Department: means the Department of Health and Environmental Control. See South Carolina Code 44-7-2420
• Department: means the Department of Natural Resources. See South Carolina Code 48-11-10
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Hospital: means a facility organized and administered to provide overnight medical or surgical care or nursing care of illness, injury, or infirmity and may provide obstetrical care, and in which all diagnoses, treatment, or care is administered by or under the direction of persons currently licensed to practice medicine, surgery, or osteopathy and is licensed by the department as a hospital. See South Carolina Code 44-7-2420
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Sediment: means solid particulate matter, both mineral and organic, that has been or is being transported by water, air, ice, or gravity from its site of origin. See South Carolina Code 48-14-20
• Soil and water conservation district: means a governmental subdivision of this State and a public body corporate and politic organized in accordance with Chapter 9 of Title 48 for the purposes, with the powers, and subject to the restrictions in the chapter. See South Carolina Code 48-11-10
• Watershed: means the drainage area contributing stormwater runoff to a single point. See South Carolina Code 48-11-10
• Watershed conservation district: means a governmental subdivision of this State and a public body corporate and politic organized and functioning in accordance with this chapter for the purposes and with the powers and duties provided in this chapter and subject to its restrictions. See South Carolina Code 48-11-10