Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 46 > Chapter 25 > Article 3 - Registration; Brand Name or Trademark

• Brand: means a term, design, or trademark used in connection with one or several grades of commercial fertilizer. See South Carolina Code 46-25-20
• Commercial fertilizer: means a substance containing one or more recognized plant nutrients used for plant nutrient content and designed for use or claimed to have value in promoting plant growth, except unmanipulated animal and vegetable manures, marl, lime, limestone, wood ashes, and other products exempted by regulation of the commission. See South Carolina Code 46-25-20
• Commission: means the State Crop Pest Commission or an officer or employee of the commission to whom it delegates its authority. See South Carolina Code 46-25-20
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Director: means the Director of Regulatory and Public Service Programs, Clemson University. See South Carolina Code 46-25-20
• Distributor: means a person who imports, consigns, manufactures, produces compounds of, mixes, or blends commercial fertilizer or who offers for sale, sells, barters, or otherwise supplies commercial fertilizer in this State. See South Carolina Code 46-25-20
• 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}
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Person: includes individual, partnership, association, firm, and corporation. See South Carolina Code 46-25-20
• Registrant: means the person who registers commercial fertilizer under this chapter. See South Carolina Code 46-25-20
• Restricted fertilizer: means a commercial fertilizer having a potential explosive capacity that is determined by the commission to present an unreasonable threat to public safety. See South Carolina Code 46-25-20
• Specialty fertilizer: is a commercial fertilizer distributed primarily for nonfarm use such as home gardens, lawns, shrubbery, flowers, foliage plants, golf courses, municipal parks, cemeteries, greenhouses, and nurseries. See South Carolina Code 46-25-20