Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 51 > Chapter 23 - Grants for Parks and Recreation

• Advanced life support: means an advanced level of prehospital, interhospital, and emergency service care which includes basic life support functions, cardiac monitoring, cardiac defibrillation, telemetered electrocardiography, administration of antiarrhythmic agents, intravenous therapy, administration of specific medications, drugs and solutions, use of adjunctive ventilation devices, trauma care, and other techniques and procedures authorized by the department pursuant to regulations. See South Carolina Code 44-61-310
• Basic life support: means a basic level of prehospital care which includes patient stabilization, airway clearance, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, hemorrhage control, initial wound care and fracture stabilization, and other techniques and procedures authorized by the department pursuant to regulations. See South Carolina Code 44-61-310
• Department: means the Division of Emergency Medical Services and Trauma within the Department of Health and Environmental Control. See South Carolina Code 44-61-310
• Department: means the administrative agency known as the Department of Health and Environmental Control. See South Carolina Code 44-61-20
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Director: means the Director of the Department of Health and Environmental Control. See South Carolina Code 44-61-310
• Emergency medical services personnel: means persons trained and certified or licensed to provide emergency medical care, whether on a paid or volunteer basis, as part of a basic life support or advanced life support prehospital emergency care service or in an emergency department or pediatric critical care or specialty unit in a licensed hospital. See South Carolina Code 44-61-310
• EMSC Program: means the Emergency Medical Services for Children Program established pursuant to this article and other relevant programmatic activities conducted by the department in support of appropriate treatment, transport, and triage of ill or injured children. See South Carolina Code 44-61-310
• 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.
• 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}
• 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.
• Immediate family: means a person's spouse. See South Carolina Code 44-61-20
• Investigative Review Committee: means a professional peer review committee that may be convened by the department in its discretion when the findings of an official investigation against an entity or an individual regulated by the department may warrant suspension or revocation of a license or certification. See South Carolina Code 44-61-20
• Legal guardian: means a person who is lawfully invested with the power, and charged with the obligation of, taking care of and managing the property and rights of a person who, because of age, understanding, or self-control, is considered incapable of administering his or her own affairs. See South Carolina Code 44-61-20
• License: means an authorization to a person, firm, corporation, or governmental division or agency to provide emergency medical services in the State. See South Carolina Code 44-61-20
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Patient: means an individual who is sick, injured, wounded, or otherwise incapacitated or helpless. See South Carolina Code 44-61-20
• Prehospital care: means the provision of emergency medical care or transportation by trained and certified or licensed emergency medical services personnel at the scene of an emergency and while transporting sick or injured persons to a medical care facility or provider. See South Carolina Code 44-61-310
• 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.
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Suspension: means that the department has temporarily voided a license, permit, or certificate and the holder may not perform the function associated with the license, permit, or certificate until the holder has complied with the statutory requirements and other conditions imposed by the department. See South Carolina Code 44-61-20
• Testify: Answer questions in court.