Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 4 > Chapter 20 - Community Recreation Special Tax District

• Acquittal:
  1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
  2. A verdict of "not guilty."
   
• 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.
• 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.
• Applicant: means a person who is believed to have intellectual disability, one or more related disabilities, one or more head injuries, one or more spinal cord injuries, or an infant at high risk of a developmental disability who has applied for services of the South Carolina Department of Disabilities and Special Needs. See South Carolina Code 44-20-30
• Approved forest management plan: shall mean a forest management plan approved by the State Forester for an eligible landowner. See South Carolina Code 48-28-30
• Approved practices: shall mean those silvicultural practices approved by the State Forester for the purpose of commercially growing timber through the establishment of forest stands or of ensuring the proper regeneration of forest stands to commercial production levels following the harvest of timber. See South Carolina Code 48-28-30
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Business license: means a license issued to a taxpayer by a county or municipality for the privilege of doing business in that county or municipality. See South Carolina Code 6-1-400
• CDC: means the Centers for Disease Control of the Public Health Service. See South Carolina Code 44-30-20
• CDC recommendations: means the July 12, 1991, CDC document (MMWR, Volume 40, No. See South Carolina Code 44-30-20
• Charitable organization: means an organization that is determined by the Internal Revenue Service to be exempt from federal income taxes under 26 U. See South Carolina Code 6-1-400
• Charitable purpose: means a benevolent, philanthropic, patriotic, or eleemosynary purpose that does not result in personal gain to a sponsor, organizer, officer, director, trustee, or person with ultimate control of a charitable organization. See South Carolina Code 6-1-400
• Commission: means the South Carolina Commission on Disabilities and Special Needs, the policy-making and governing body of the Department of Disabilities and Special Needs. See South Carolina Code 44-20-30
• Commission: shall mean the State Commission of Forestry. See South Carolina Code 48-28-30
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• 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.
• Cost-sharing payment: shall mean financial assistance to partially cover the cost of implementing approved practices in such amounts as the State Forester shall determine, subject to the limitations of this chapter. See South Carolina Code 48-28-30
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. See South Carolina Code 44-30-20
• Department: means the South Carolina Department of Disabilities and Special Needs. See South Carolina Code 44-20-30
• Department: means the South Carolina Department of Mental Health. See South Carolina Code 44-23-10
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Designated examiner: means a physician licensed by the Board of Medical Examiners of this State or a person registered by the department as specially qualified, under standards established by the department, in the diagnosis of mental or related illnesses. See South Carolina Code 44-23-10
• Director: means the South Carolina Director of the Department of Disabilities and Special Needs, the chief executive director appointed by the commission. See South Carolina Code 44-20-30
• Director: means the Director of the South Carolina Department of Mental Health. See South Carolina Code 44-23-10
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Eligible landowner: shall mean a private individual, group, partnership, association, corporation or other legal entity which owns nonindustrial private forest lands capable of producing industrial wood crops. See South Carolina Code 48-28-30
• Eligible lands: shall mean land owned by an eligible landowner. See South Carolina Code 48-28-30
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Expert review panel: means a panel of experts in composition and function as defined in the CDC recommendations and appointed or approved by the department. See South Carolina Code 44-30-20
• facility: means any hospital, clinic, or other institution maintained by the department. See South Carolina Code 44-23-10
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• 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.
• forest fire: as used in this chapter , means any fire burning uncontrolled on any land covered wholly or in part by timber, brush, grass or other inflammable vegetation. See South Carolina Code 48-33-30
• Forest renewal assessment: shall mean an assessment on primary forest products from timber severed in South Carolina for the funding of the provisions of this chapter. See South Carolina Code 48-28-30
• Forest renewal fund: shall mean the special nonlapsing fund provided by § 48-28-100 established in the Commission designated as the forest renewal fund. See South Carolina Code 48-28-30
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Gravely disabled: means a person who, due to mental illness, lacks sufficient insight or capacity to make responsible decisions with respect to his treatment and because of this condition is likely to cause harm to himself through neglect, inability to care for himself, personal injury, or otherwise. See South Carolina Code 44-23-10
• Gross income: means the gross receipts or gross revenue of a business, received or accrued, for one calendar or fiscal year collected or to be collected from business done within a taxing jurisdiction. See South Carolina Code 6-1-400
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Health care professional: means a physician, physician's assistant, dentist, dental hygienist, registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, or podiatrist practicing or licensed to practice in South Carolina. See South Carolina Code 44-30-20
• Hospital: means a public or private hospital. See South Carolina Code 44-23-10
• Improvements: means the construction, reconstruction of buildings, and other permanent improvements for regional centers and other programs provided by the department directly or through contract with county boards of disabilities and special needs, including equipment and the cost of acquiring and improving lands for equipment. See South Carolina Code 44-20-30
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Intellectual disability: means significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period. See South Carolina Code 44-20-30
• its revenues: means revenue derived from paying clients at regional residential centers and community residences but does not include Medicaid, Medicare, or other federal funds received with the stipulation that they be used to provide services to clients. See South Carolina Code 44-20-30
• 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.
• legal guardian: means a person who legally has the care and management of the person of one who is not sui juris. See South Carolina Code 44-23-10
• Licensed physician: means an individual licensed under the laws of this State to practice medicine or a medical officer of the government of the United States while in this State in the performance of official duties. See South Carolina Code 44-23-10
• Licensing board: means these health professional licensing boards which are state agencies and which license and regulate specific health care professions: the State Board of Medical Examiners, the State Board of Nursing for South Carolina, the South Carolina State Board of Dentistry, and the State Board of Podiatry Examiners. See South Carolina Code 44-30-20
• Nearest friend: means any responsible person who, in the absence of a parent, guardian, or spouse, undertakes to act for and on behalf of another individual who is incapable of acting for himself for that individual's benefit, whether or not the individual for whose benefit he acts is under legal disability. See South Carolina Code 44-23-10
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Obligations: means the obligations in the form of notes or bonds or contractual agreements issued or entered into by the commission pursuant to the authorization of this chapter and of Act 1377 of 1968 to provide funds with which to repay the proceeds of capital improvement bonds allocated by the State Fiscal Accountability Authority. See South Carolina Code 44-20-30
• Observation: means diagnostic evaluation, medical, psychiatric and psychological examination, and care of a person for the purpose of determining his mental condition. See South Carolina Code 44-23-10
• Parent: means natural parent, adoptive parent, stepparent, or person with legal custody. See South Carolina Code 44-23-10
• 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.
• Patient: means a person who seeks hospitalization or treatment under the provisions of this chapter, Chapter 9, Chapter 11, Chapter 13, Article 1 of Chapter 15, Chapter 17, Chapter 27, Chapter 48, and Chapter 52 or any person for whom such hospitalization or treatment is sought. See South Carolina Code 44-23-10
• Person with a mental illness: means a person with a mental disease to such an extent that, for the person's own welfare or the welfare of others or of the community, the person requires care, treatment, or hospitalization. See South Carolina Code 44-23-10
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Related disability: is a severe, chronic condition found to be closely related to intellectual disability or to require treatment similar to that required for persons with intellectual disability and must meet the following conditions:
  
  (a) It is attributable to cerebral palsy, epilepsy, autism, or any other condition other than mental illness found to be closely related to intellectual disability because this condition results in impairment of general intellectual functioning or adaptive behavior similar to that of persons with intellectual disability and requires treatment or services similar to those required for these persons. See South Carolina Code 44-20-30
• 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.
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Restoration treatment: means treatment provided to a person who has been determined unfit to stand trial but likely to become fit in the foreseeable future, and which has as part of its goals assisting the person to gain the capacity to understand the proceedings against him and to assist in his own defense. See South Carolina Code 44-23-10
• Slippage: shall mean the difference in funds earmarked in the management plan for an approved practice and funds actually earned when the practice is completed. See South Carolina Code 48-28-30
• State capital improvement bonds: means bonds issued pursuant to Act 1377 of 1968. See South Carolina Code 44-20-30
• State Forester: shall mean the director of the State Commission of Forestry. See South Carolina Code 48-28-30
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Taxing jurisdiction: means a county or municipality levying a business license tax. See South Carolina Code 6-1-400
• Taxpayer: means an individual, firm, partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability corporation, corporation, trust, estate, association, or company. See South Carolina Code 6-1-400
• 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.
• Treatment: means the broad range of emergency, outpatient, intermediate, and inpatient services and care that may be extended to a patient, including diagnostic evaluation and medical, psychiatric, psychological, and social service care and vocational rehabilitation and counseling. See South Carolina Code 44-23-10
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.