Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 44 > Chapter 7 > Article 9 - Hospital Commissions in Municipalities of 5,000 to 10,000

• Authority: shall mean the State Fiscal Accountability Authority of South Carolina. See South Carolina Code 48-3-10
• Bonds: shall include notes, bonds, refunding notes or bonds, and other obligations authorized to be issued by this chapter. See South Carolina Code 48-3-10
• 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.
• Department: shall mean the Department of Health and Environmental Control of South Carolina. See South Carolina Code 48-3-10
• Governing board: shall mean the governing bodies of the several counties and incorporated municipalities of the State as now or hereafter constituted; and in the event that any pollution control facilities shall be located in more than one county, the term "governing board" shall also relate to the governing bodies of the several counties wherein such pollution control facilities shall be located. See South Carolina Code 48-3-10
• Industry: shall mean any person, firm or corporation operating any enterprise or facility for the manufacturing, processing, assembling, distributing or shipping of any type of product, from which operation, conditions result which would, unless eliminated, mitigated or prevented, bring about the pollution of the atmosphere or which would create water pollution problems. See South Carolina Code 48-3-10
• Loan agreement: shall mean any agreement including without limitation an agreement, whereby a county or incorporated municipality shall lease pollution control facilities to the industry, made by and between the governing board and the industry by which the industry agrees to pay to (and to secure if so required) the county or the incorporated municipality, as the case may be, or to any assignee thereof, the sums required to meet the payment of the principal, interest and redemption premium, if any, on any bonds. See South Carolina Code 48-3-10
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Pollution control facilities: shall mean any facilities which are designed for the elimination, mitigation or prevention of air or water pollution, and shall include all things which are required to collect, treat and thereafter dispose of all waste of any sort originating in or about any industrial enterprise. See South Carolina Code 48-3-10