§ 50-5-2700 Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Compact; members; term; vacancies
§ 50-5-2705 Powers of Compact Commission and commissioners
§ 50-5-2710 State officials to cooperate and furnish information
§ 50-5-2715 Records, reports, and recommendations
§ 50-5-2720 Audits
§ 50-5-2725 Shark catch limits; boat or vessel permit to take sharks for commercial purposes; equipment requirements and prohibitions
§ 50-5-2730 Federal fishing regulations declared to be law of State; exceptions
§ 50-5-2740 Penalty for violation of article

Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 50 > Chapter 5 > Article 27 - Interjurisdictional Fishery Management

  • Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
  • Boat: means a vessel. See South Carolina Code 50-21-10
  • charter school: means a public, nonreligious, nonhome-based, nonprofit corporation forming a school that operates by sponsorship of a public school district, the South Carolina Public Charter School District, or a public or independent institution of higher learning, but is accountable to the board of trustees, or in the case of technical colleges, the area commission, of the sponsor which grants its charter. See South Carolina Code 59-40-40
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Department: means the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources unless otherwise stated. See South Carolina Code 50-5-15
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Fish: means finfish, shellfish including mollusks, crustaceans, horseshoe crabs, whelks (conchs), turtles, and terrapin or products thereof. See South Carolina Code 50-5-15
  • Fishing: means all activity and effort involved in taking or attempting to take fish. See South Carolina Code 50-5-15
  • Gill net: means a net which is designed to hang vertically and capture fish by entanglement usually of the head, gill covers, or preopercles, and does not include gill net for taking shad unless specified. See South Carolina Code 50-5-15
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Marine resource: means any live, fresh, processed, or frozen whole, part, or portion of any marine organism, anadromous fish, or catadromous fish, to include shell deposits occurring upon or within state-owned bottoms and those lying above the mean high water mark if created by processes of natural accretion upon state-owned lands or bottoms. See South Carolina Code 50-5-15
  • Parent: shall mean the natural or adoptive parent or the guardian having legal custody of a child eligible and entitled to receive a scholarship grant under this chapter who is actually paying or who will pay the tuition cost of attendance of such child at a school which qualifies such child to receive a grant under the terms of this chapter. See South Carolina Code 59-41-10
  • Person: means an individual, a partnership, a firm, a corporation, an association, or other legal entity. See South Carolina Code 50-21-10
  • Private school: shall mean a private or independent elementary or high school which is not operated or controlled by any church, synagogue, sect or other religious organization or institution. See South Carolina Code 59-41-10
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
  • School child: shall mean any person between the ages of six and twenty whose domicile is with his or her parent within the State and who is otherwise qualified to attend the public schools of any school district in which he or she resides. See South Carolina Code 59-41-10
  • Total length: means the length of a fish laid flat and measured from the closed mouth (snout) to the tip of the tail fin when pinched together. See South Carolina Code 50-5-15
  • Use: means operate, navigate, or employ. See South Carolina Code 50-21-10
  • Vessel: means every description of watercraft, other than a seaplane regulated by the federal government, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water. See South Carolina Code 50-21-10