Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 48 > Chapter 43 > Article 3 - Pollution Control

• Academic and administrative buildings: means the real and personal property and equipment to be utilized by the College of Engineering, Science and Mathematics, the College of Education, Humanities and Social Science, and the College of Business and Applied Professional Sciences, whether or not the acquisition or construction of these facilities are financed from the proceeds of bonds, notes, or other indebtedness issued pursuant to the provisions of this article. See South Carolina Code 59-127-490
• Academic and administrative buildings: means the real and personal property and equipment to be utilized by the School of the Arts, the School of Education, the School of Science and Mathematics, the Physical Education/Arena Complex, and the Student Center, whether or not the acquisition or construction of these facilities are financed from the proceeds of bonds issued pursuant to the provisions of this article. See South Carolina Code 59-130-420
• Administratrix: The female counterpart of an administrator. See also
• Admission fee: means the special fee or charge, in addition to other charges, imposed upon each person admitted to a "home" football game, except a freshman or intramural game, in Dawson Football Stadium at South Carolina State University or at any other location where a "home" game is played by the South Carolina State University varsity football team, excluding students admitted as a result of student fees paid to the institution for a regular session. See South Carolina Code 59-127-310
• Admissions fee: means the specially designated admissions fee or charge which may, in addition to other charges, be imposed by the trustees upon persons admitted to any event held at an athletic facility, for the purpose of providing funds to assist in the repayment of bonds. See South Carolina Code 59-125-520
• Admissions fee: means the specially designated admissions fee or charge which may, in addition to other charges, be imposed by the trustees upon any person admitted to any event held at an athletic facility. See South Carolina Code 59-133-220
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Athletic department: means the athletic department of Winthrop. See South Carolina Code 59-125-520
• Athletic department: means the athletic department of Francis Marion University. See South Carolina Code 59-133-220
• Athletic facilities: means all facilities designated by the trustees as intercollegiate athletic facilities now owned or hereafter acquired by Winthrop. See South Carolina Code 59-125-520
• Athletic facilities: means all facilities designated by the trustees as intercollegiate athletic facilities now owned or which may be acquired by Francis Marion University. See South Carolina Code 59-133-220
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Authority: means the State Fiscal Accountability Authority. See South Carolina Code 59-125-520
• Authority: means the State Fiscal Accountability Authority. See South Carolina Code 59-127-310
• Authority: means the State Fiscal Accountability Authority. See South Carolina Code 59-133-220
• Authority: means the State Fiscal Accountability Authority. See South Carolina Code 59-125-320
• Barrel: means 42 U. See South Carolina Code 48-43-510
• Board: means the Board of Trustees of South Carolina State University. See South Carolina Code 59-127-490
• Board: means the board of trustees of the College of Charleston. See South Carolina Code 59-130-420
• Bond reserve fund: means the special fund which may be established by the trustees pursuant to this article, which must be in the custody of the State Treasurer or its corporate trust designee and which is primarily established for the purpose of providing a reserve with which to meet the payment of the principal of and interest on bonds in the event that payments otherwise required from the debt service fund are insufficient to meet the payment of the principal and interest as and when they become due and payable. See South Carolina Code 59-125-520
• Bond reserve fund: means the special fund which may be established by the trustees pursuant to this article, which must be in the custody of the State Treasurer or its corporate trust designee, and which is primarily established for the purpose of providing a reserve with which to meet the payment of the principal of and interest on bonds in the event that payments otherwise required from the debt service fund are insufficient to meet the payment of the principal and interest as and when they become due and payable. See South Carolina Code 59-133-220
• bonds: means any note, bond, installment contract, or other evidence of indebtedness issued pursuant to this article. See South Carolina Code 59-125-520
• Bonds: means the Stadium Improvement Revenue Bonds of South Carolina State University authorized by this article. See South Carolina Code 59-127-310
• bonds: means any note, bond, installment contract, or other evidence of indebtedness issued pursuant to this article. See South Carolina Code 59-133-220
• bonds: means any note, bond, installment contract, or other evidence of indebtedness issued pursuant to this chapter. See South Carolina Code 59-125-320
• Caucus: From the Algonquian Indian language, a caucus meant "to meet together." An informal organization of members of the legislature that exists to discuss issues of mutual concern and possibly to perform legislative research and policy planning for its members. There are regional, political or ideological, ethnic, and economic-based caucuses.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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.
• Dawson Football Stadium: means the football stadium of South Carolina State University located at Orangeburg, South Carolina. See South Carolina Code 59-127-310
• Debt service fund: means the fund established by this article for the payment of principal of and interest on bonds, which must be in the custody of the State Treasurer or its corporate trust designee. See South Carolina Code 59-125-520
• Debt Service Fund: means the fund established by this article for the payment of the principal and interest on the bonds. See South Carolina Code 59-127-310
• Debt service fund: means the fund established by this article for the payment of principal of and interest on bonds, which must be in the custody of the State Treasurer or its corporate trust designee. See South Carolina Code 59-133-220
• Department: means the Department of Health and Environmental Control. See South Carolina Code 48-43-510
• Director: means the director of the department. See South Carolina Code 48-43-510
• Discharge: shall include , but not be limited to, any spilling, leaking, seeping, pouring, emitting, emptying, or dumping which occurs within the territorial limits of the State or outside of the territorial limits of the State and affects lands and waters within the territorial limits of the State. See South Carolina Code 48-43-510
• Discharge cleanup organization: means any group, incorporated or unincorporated, of owners or operators of waterfront terminal facilities in any port or harbor of the State, and any other person who may elect to join, organized for the purpose of containing and cleaning up discharges of pollutants through cooperative efforts and shared equipment and facilities. See South Carolina Code 48-43-510
• Equipment: means items with a useful life of at least fifteen years. See South Carolina Code 59-127-490
• Equipment: means items with a useful life of at least fifteen years. See South Carolina Code 59-130-420
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• 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.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Facilities: means any or all of the following facilities operated to provide for the students, faculty, or staff at Winthrop: dining or food service facilities; laundry facilities; canteen facilities; vending machines; convenience stores; any other facilities for the sale of sundry items; health services; book stores, parking lots and vehicle registration; and all furniture, furnishings, and equipment in them, which are now owned by Winthrop, or which may be acquired by Winthrop for any of these purposes. See South Carolina Code 59-125-320
• Fees and revenues: means the special student fees, auxiliary fees, and revenues derived or to be derived from the operation, sale, lease, or other disposition of the facilities. See South Carolina Code 59-127-490
• Fees and revenues: means the special student fees and revenues derived or to be derived from the operation, sale, lease, or other disposition of the facilities. See South Carolina Code 59-130-420
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• 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.
• Francis Marion: means Francis Marion University. See South Carolina Code 59-133-220
• Improvements: means the enlargement and improvements to Dawson Football Stadium, including necessary equipment. See South Carolina Code 59-127-310
• 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.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• Net athletic revenues: means the entire revenues derived by the athletic department of the University for any fiscal year after payment of the operating and maintenance expenses of the department but before provision is made for depreciation, amortization, nonmandatory transfers, and interest expenses of the department for the fiscal year. See South Carolina Code 59-127-310
• Net revenues: means all revenues remaining after payment of the operating and maintenance expenses of the athletic department but before provision is made for depreciation, amortization, nonmandatory transfers, and interest expenses of the athletic department for a given fiscal year. See South Carolina Code 59-125-520
• Net revenues: means all revenues remaining after payment of the operating and maintenance expenses of the athletic department but before provision is made for depreciation, amortization, nonmandatory transfers, and interest expenses of the athletic department for a given fiscal year. See South Carolina Code 59-133-220
• Net revenues: means these receipts reduced by the necessary expenses for operation and maintenance of the facilities. See South Carolina Code 59-125-320
• 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.
• Oil: means crude petroleum oil and all other hydrocarbons, regardless of gravity, that are produced in liquid form by ordinary production methods, but does not include liquid hydrocarbons that were originally in a gaseous phase in the reservoir. See South Carolina Code 48-43-10
• Owner: means any person owning a terminal facility; "operator" means any person operating a terminal facility, whether by lease, contract, or other form of agreement. See South Carolina Code 48-43-510
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means any individual, partnership, joint venture, corporation; any group of the foregoing, organized or united for a business purpose; or any governmental entity. See South Carolina Code 48-43-510
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Pollutant: means any emission that significantly derogates the quality of the air, water or land. See South Carolina Code 48-43-10
• Pollutants: shall include oil of any kind and in any form, gasoline, pesticides, ammonia, chlorine, and derivatives thereof. See South Carolina Code 48-43-510
• Pollution: means the presence in the outdoor atmosphere or waters of the States of any one or more substances or pollutants, in quantities which are or may be potentially harmful or injurious to human health or welfare, animal or plant life, or property or which may unreasonably interfere with the enjoyment of life or property, including outdoor recreation. See South Carolina Code 48-43-510
• 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.
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Registrant: is a terminal facility required to possess a valid registration certificate to operate as a terminal facility. See South Carolina Code 48-43-510
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Revenues: means all revenues or other income, including investment income, received by the athletic department from the operation of the athletic department and the athletic facilities, and all gifts, bequests, contributions, and donations received by the trustees or Winthrop from any persons, including from any athletic booster organization, for use in connection with the operations of the athletic department, plus any other unrestricted revenues of the athletic department not otherwise pledged that may be made applicable by the trustees to the payment of the principal and interest of the bonds, including such revenues which may fall into the category of nonmandatory transfers as such term is used in generally accepted accounting principles, but excluding:
  
  (i) gifts, bequests, contributions, and donations restricted to a particular purpose inconsistent with their use for the payment of the principal, premium, or interest on any obligations of the trustees or Winthrop;
  
  (ii) the proceeds of any borrowings;
  
  (iii) state appropriations of any sort; and
  
  (iv) revenues, income, receipts, and money received by the trustees or Winthrop for purposes other than those related to the athletic department. See South Carolina Code 59-125-520
• Revenues: means all revenues or other income, including investment income, received by the athletic department from the operation of the athletic department and the athletic facilities, and all gifts, bequests, contributions, and donations received by the trustees or Francis Marion from any persons, including from any athletic booster organization, for use in connection with the operations of the athletic department, plus any other unrestricted revenues of the athletic department not otherwise pledged that may be made applicable by the trustees to the payment of the principal and interest of the bonds, including such revenues which may fall into the category of nonmandatory transfers as such term is used in generally accepted accounting principles, but excluding:
  
  (i) gifts, bequests, contributions, and donations restricted to a particular purpose inconsistent with their use for the payment of the principal, premium, or interest on any obligations of the trustees or Francis Marion;
  
  (ii) the proceeds of any borrowings;
  
  (iii) state appropriations of any sort; and
  
  (iv) revenues, income, receipts, and money received by the trustees or Francis Marion University for purposes other than those related to the athletic department. See South Carolina Code 59-133-220
• Special student fee: means the fee authorized by this article to be established by the trustees and which may be imposed upon persons in attendance at any academic session of Winthrop in order to provide funds to assist in the repayment of bonds. See South Carolina Code 59-125-520
• Special student fee: means the fee authorized by this article to be established by the university to provide funds to assist in the repayment of bonds authorized under this article and imposed upon each person in attendance at any regular session, excluding summer sessions, of the university, who is enrolled in a sufficient number of classes or courses for which credit is given toward any degree offered by the university to be classified as a regular full-time student for the purpose of assessing other student fees. See South Carolina Code 59-127-310
• Special student fee: means the fee authorized by this article to be established by the trustees and which may be imposed upon persons in attendance at any academic session of Francis Marion University in order to provide funds to assist in the repayment of bonds. See South Carolina Code 59-133-220
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Terminal facility: means any waterfront or offshore facility of any kind, other than vessels not owned or operated by such facility, and directly associated waterfront or offshore appurtenances including pipelines located on land, including submerged lands, or on or under the surface of any kind of water, which facility and related appurtenances are used or capable of being used for the purpose of drilling for, pumping, storing, handling, transferring, processing, or refining pollutants, including, but not limited to, any such facility and related appurtenances owned or operated by a public utility or a governmental or quasi-governmental body. See South Carolina Code 48-43-510
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• transferred: includes onloading or offloading between terminal facility and vessel, vessel and vessel, or terminal facility and terminal facility. See South Carolina Code 48-43-510
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Trustees: means the Board of Trustees of Winthrop or any successor body. See South Carolina Code 59-125-520
• Trustees: means the Board of Trustees of South Carolina State University. See South Carolina Code 59-127-310
• Trustees: means the Board of Trustees of Francis Marion University or any successor body. See South Carolina Code 59-133-220
• Trustees: means the Board of Trustees of Winthrop or any successor body. See South Carolina Code 59-125-320
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• University: means South Carolina State University, located at Orangeburg, South Carolina. See South Carolina Code 59-127-310
• University: means South Carolina State University. See South Carolina Code 59-127-490
• University: means the College of Charleston. See South Carolina Code 59-130-420
• Variable Rate: Having a "variable" rate means that the APR changes from time to time based on fluctuations in an external rate, normally the Prime Rate. This external rate is known as the "index." If the index changes, the variable rate normally changes. Also see Fixed Rate.
• Vessel: includes every description of watercraft or other contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water, whether self-propelled or otherwise, and includes barges and tugs. See South Carolina Code 48-43-510
• Winthrop: means Winthrop University. See South Carolina Code 59-125-520
• Winthrop: means Winthrop University. See South Carolina Code 59-125-320