Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 44 > Chapter 7 > Article 27 - Hospital Patient Safety Act

• Affected land: means :
  
  (a) the area of land from which overburden or minerals have been removed or upon which overburden has been deposited, or both, including an area on which a plant is located which is an integral part of the process of the removal of ores or mineral solids from natural deposits; or
  
  (b) stockpiles and settling ponds located on or adjacent to lands from which overburden or minerals have been removed. See South Carolina Code 48-20-40
• 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.
• Closure: means the act of rendering a mine facility or portion of a mine facility to an inoperative state that prevents the gradual or sudden release of contaminants that are harmful to the environment. See South Carolina Code 48-20-40
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• conservation district: means a governmental subdivision of the State created pursuant to Chapter 9 of Title 48; and "conservation district board" means the governing body of a soil and water conservation district. See South Carolina Code 48-18-20
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Council: means the Mining Council created by §§ 48-21-10 and 48-21-20. See South Carolina Code 48-20-40
• Department: means the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. See South Carolina Code 48-18-20
• Department: means the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. See South Carolina Code 48-20-40
• Erosion: means the wearing away of the ground surface by the action of wind, water, gravity, or any combination thereof. See South Carolina Code 48-18-20
• 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.
• Exploration: means the act of breaking the surface soil to determine the location, quantity, or quality of a mineral deposit. See South Carolina Code 48-20-40
• Explorer: means a person engaged in exploration activities, as defined in this section, whether individually, jointly, or through subsidiaries, agents, employees, or contractors. See South Carolina Code 48-20-40
• Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• Land: includes submerged lands underlying a river, stream, lake, sound, or other body of water and specifically includes, among others, estuarine and tidal lands. See South Carolina Code 48-20-40
• Minerals: means soil, clay, coal, stone, gravel, sand, phosphate, rock, metallic ore, and any other solid material or substance found in natural deposits on or in the earth. See South Carolina Code 48-20-40
• Mining: means :
  
  (a) the breaking of the surface soil to facilitate or accomplish the extraction or removal of ores or mineral solids for sale or processing or consumption in the regular operation of a business;
  
  (b) removal of overburden lying above natural deposits of ore or mineral solids and removal of the mineral deposits exposed, or by removal of ores or mineral solids from deposits lying exposed in their natural state. See South Carolina Code 48-20-40
• Operating permit: means a permit for mining activity that is issued to an operator by the department. See South Carolina Code 48-20-40
• Operator: means a person engaged in mining operations, whether individually, jointly, or through subsidiaries, agents, employees, or contractors. See South Carolina Code 48-20-40
• Overburden: means the earth, rock, and other materials that lie above the natural deposit of minerals. See South Carolina Code 48-20-40
• Quasi-state agency: means any entity other than a state agency but having some attributes of a state agency by virtue of the fact that the State has some authority to make rules and regulations by which it is governed. See South Carolina Code 48-18-20
• Reclamation: means the reasonable rehabilitation of the affected land for useful purposes and the protection of the natural resources of the surrounding area. See South Carolina Code 48-20-40
• Refuse: means all waste soil, rock, mineral, scrap, tailings, slimes, and other material directly connected with the mining, cleaning, and preparation of substances mined and includes all waste materials deposited on or in the permit area from other sources. See South Carolina Code 48-20-40
• Sediment: means soil or other earth-like material that has been moved by the forces of water, wind, gravity, or any combination of them. See South Carolina Code 48-18-20
• Sedimentation: means the process or action of depositing sediment. See South Carolina Code 48-18-20
• Stormwater: means the direct runoff of water and associated material resulting from precipitation in any form. See South Carolina Code 48-18-20
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.