Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 44 > Chapter 7 > Article 2 - Medicaid Nursing Home Permits

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Carnivore: means a flesh-eating animal and includes those animals known to be reservoirs of rabies including, but not limited to, raccoons, foxes, skunks, and bobcats and related species including, but not limited to, coyotes, wolves, wolf dogs, weasels, civet cats, spotted skunks, and lynx or the offspring born to any combinations of crossbreeding between these wild animals and domestic dogs or cats. See South Carolina Code 47-5-20
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Department: means the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, including county health departments. See South Carolina Code 47-5-20
• 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.
• 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.
• Licensed veterinarian: means a person licensed by law to practice veterinary medicine in this State. See South Carolina Code 47-5-20
• Owner: means any person who:
  
  (a) has a right of property in a pet;
  
  (b) keeps or harbors a pet or who has it in his care or acts as its custodian; or
  
  (c) permits a pet to remain on or about any premises occupied by him. See South Carolina Code 47-5-20
• Pet: means only domesticated cats, dogs, and ferrets. See South Carolina Code 47-5-20