Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 58 > Chapter 9 > Article 21 - Telephone Service for Hearing and Speech Impaired Persons

• CMRS connection: means each mobile number assigned to a CMRS customer. See South Carolina Code 58-9-2510
• Commission: means the Public Service Commission. See South Carolina Code 58-9-2510
• 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.
• Department: means the Department of Revenue. See South Carolina Code 58-9-2510
• DPR: means a procedure in which a deaf, hearing, or speech impaired TDD user can communicate with an intermediary party, who then orally relays the first party's message or request to a third party, or a procedure in which a party who is not deaf or hearing or speech impaired can communicate with an intermediary party who then relays the message or request to a TDD user. See South Carolina Code 58-9-2510
• 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}
• Exchange access facility: means the access from a particular telephone subscriber's premises to the telephone system of a service supplier. See South Carolina Code 58-9-2510
• 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.
• Local exchange provider: means a local exchange telephone company operating in this State. See South Carolina Code 58-9-2510
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• 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.
• Operating fund: means the Dual Party Relay Service Operating Fund which is a specific fund to be created by the commission and established, invested, managed, and maintained for the exclusive purpose of implementing the provisions of this chapter according to commission regulations. See South Carolina Code 58-9-2510
• Prepaid wireless consumer: means a person or entity that purchases prepaid wireless telecommunications service in a prepaid wireless retail transaction. See South Carolina Code 58-9-2510
• Prepaid wireless provider: means a person or entity that provides prepaid wireless telecommunications service pursuant to a license issued by the Federal Communications Commission. See South Carolina Code 58-9-2510
• Prepaid wireless retail transaction: means the purchase of prepaid wireless telecommunications service from a prepaid wireless seller for any purpose other than resale. See South Carolina Code 58-9-2510
• Prepaid wireless seller: means a person or entity that sells prepaid wireless telecommunications service to another person or entity for any purpose other than resale. See South Carolina Code 58-9-2510
• Prepaid wireless telecommunications service: means any commercial mobile radio service that allows a caller to dial 911 to access the 911 system, which service must be paid for in advance and is sold in units or dollars which decline with use in a known amount. See South Carolina Code 58-9-2510
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• 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.
• Subscriber: means any person, company, corporation, business, association, or party who is provided telephone (local exchange access facility) service or CMRS service or VoIP service. See South Carolina Code 58-9-2510
• TTY: means a keyboard mechanism attached to or in place of a standard telephone by some coupling device used to transmit or receive signals through telephone lines. See South Carolina Code 58-9-2510