§ 48-1-10 Short title; definitions
§ 48-1-20 Declaration of public policy
§ 48-1-30 Promulgation of regulations; approval of alternatives
§ 48-1-40 Adoption of standards for water and air
§ 48-1-50 Powers of department
§ 48-1-55 Use of local personnel to monitor water quality in county where oyster factory located
§ 48-1-60 Classification and standards of quality and purity of the environment authorized after notice and hearing
§ 48-1-70 Matters which standards for water may prescribe
§ 48-1-80 Considerations in formulating classification and standards for water
§ 48-1-83 Dissolved oxygen concentration depression; procedures to obtain site-specific effluent limit
§ 48-1-85 Requirements for houseboats with marine toilets
§ 48-1-87 Aquatic Life Protection Act
§ 48-1-90 Causing or permitting pollution of environment prohibited; remedies
§ 48-1-95 Wastewater utilities; procedures for significant spills
§ 48-1-100 Permits for discharge of wastes or air contaminants; jurisdiction of department
§ 48-1-110 Permits required for construction or alteration of disposal systems; classification; unlawful operations or discharges
§ 48-1-115 Public notice of sludge storage facility construction permit
§ 48-1-120 Determination and correction of undesirable level
§ 48-1-130 Order for discontinuance of discharge of wastes or air contaminants
§ 48-1-140 Revision or modification of national pollutant discharge elimination system or final compliance date for stationary source or class or sources of air pollution
§ 48-1-150 Situations in which public hearing is required or authorized
§ 48-1-160 Conduct of hearing; decision of department
§ 48-1-170 Records of hearings and decisions
§ 48-1-180 Oaths; examination of witnesses; subpoenas
§ 48-1-190 Refusal to obey notice of hearing or subpoena
§ 48-1-200 Appeals
§ 48-1-210 Duties of Attorney General and solicitors
§ 48-1-220 Institution of prosecutions
§ 48-1-230 Disposition of funds
§ 48-1-240 Chapter remedies are cumulative; estoppel
§ 48-1-250 No private cause of action created
§ 48-1-260 Conditions within industrial plants and employer-employee relations not affected
§ 48-1-270 Availability of records, reports, and information to the public; confidentiality of trade secrets
§ 48-1-280 Health laws not affected
§ 48-1-290 Emergency orders
§ 48-1-300 Certain violations excused
§ 48-1-310 Local air pollution control programs
§ 48-1-320 Penalties for violation of Pollution Control Act
§ 48-1-330 Civil penalties
§ 48-1-340 False statements, representations or certifications; falsifying, tampering with, or rendering inaccurate monitoring devices or methods
§ 48-1-350 Penalties constitute debts to State; liens; disposition of moneys collected

Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 48 > Chapter 1 - Pollution Control Act

  • 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.
  • Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
  • Certificate of public advantage: means the formal approval, including any conditions or modifications, by the department of a contract, business or financial arrangement, or other activities or practices between two or more health providers, health provider networks, or health care purchasers that might be construed to be violations of state or federal antitrust laws. See South Carolina Code 44-7-510
  • Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
  • 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.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Cooperative agreement: means an agreement between two health providers, health provider networks, or purchasers or among more than two health care providers, health provider networks, or purchasers for the sharing, allocation, or referral of patients or the sharing or allocation of personnel, instructional programs, support services and facilities, medical, diagnostic or laboratory facilities, procedures, equipment, or other health care services traditionally offered by health care facilities or other health care providers or the acquisition or merger of assets among or by two or more health providers, health provider networks, or health care purchasers, provided the agreement does not involve price-fixing or predatory pricing or illegal tying arrangements. See South Carolina Code 44-7-510
  • 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.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Department: means the Department of Health and Environmental Control. See South Carolina Code 44-7-510
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • 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.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • Health care provider: means a health care professional licensed, certified, or registered under the laws of this State, an organization licensed pursuant to § 44-69-30 or § 44-71-30, or a facility licensed pursuant to § 44-7-260 or § 44-89-40 to provide health care services or any other person as defined in § 44-7-130(15) who provides health services in a freestanding or mobile facility. See South Carolina Code 44-7-510
  • Health provider networks: means an organization of health care providers which offers health services to residents of this State. See South Carolina Code 44-7-510
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • 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.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.