Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 5 > Chapter 3 - Change of Corporate Limits

• 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
• Advanced recycling: means manufacturing processes that convert post-use polymers and recovered feedstocks into basic hydrocarbon raw materials, feedstocks, chemicals, waxes, lubricants, and other products through processes that include pyrolysis, gasification, depolymerization, solvolysis, catalytic cracking, reforming, hydrogenation, and other similar technologies. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Advanced recycling facility: means a manufacturing facility that receives, separates, stores, and converts the post-use polymers and recovered feedstocks it receives using advanced recycling. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Advertisement: means all representations, other than those on the label, relating to seed within the scope of this chapter. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• 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.
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Agricultural seed: means grass, forage, cereal, oil, fiber, and other kinds of crop seeds commonly recognized within this State as agriculture seeds, lawn seeds, and combinations of these seeds and may include noxious weed seeds when the Commissioner determines that the seed is being used as agricultural seed. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Ambulance: means a vehicle maintained or operated by a licensed provider who has obtained the necessary permits and licenses for the transportation of persons who are sick, injured, wounded, or otherwise incapacitated. See South Carolina Code 44-61-20
• 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.
• Anesthesiologist: means a physician who has successfully completed an approved anesthesiology training program including, but not limited to, a program approved by the Accreditation Committee on Graduate Medical Education, American Osteopathic Association, or its equivalent or successor. See South Carolina Code 40-47-1210
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• 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
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Attendant: means a trained and qualified individual responsible for the operation of an ambulance and the care of the patients, regardless of whether the attendant also serves as driver. See South Carolina Code 44-61-20
• Authorized agent: means any individual designated to represent the department. See South Carolina Code 44-61-20
• Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
• 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
• 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}
• Beverage: means beer or malt beverages, mineral water, soda water, and similar carbonated soft drinks in liquid form, and all other liquids intended for human consumption, except for liquids marketed for and intended for consumption for medicinal purposes. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Beverage container: means the individual, separate, and sealed glass, aluminum or other metal, or plastic bottle, can, jar, or carton containing beverage intended for human consumption. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Board: means the governing body of the Department of Health and Environmental Control or its designated representative. See South Carolina Code 44-61-310
• Board: means the State Board of Pharmacy. See South Carolina Code 44-117-310
• Board: means the State Board of Medical Examiners for South Carolina. See South Carolina Code 40-47-20
• Board: means the Board of Medical Examiners of South Carolina. See South Carolina Code 40-47-1210
• Board: means the governing body of the Department of Health and Environmental Control or its designated representative. See South Carolina Code 44-61-20
• Brand: means a term, design, or trademark used in connection with one or several grades of commercial fertilizer. See South Carolina Code 46-25-20
• Bulk: means a volume of seed in a container larger than a typical individual packing unit for that kind, such as bulk bags and boxes, bins, trucks, railcars, or barges. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Captain of the Port: means the United States Coast Guard officer designated by the Commandant of the Coast Guard to perform that function pursuant to Section 1. See South Carolina Code 54-17-20
• Cardiologist: means a physician who has successfully completed an approved cardiology training program including, but not limited to, a program approved by the Accreditation Committee on Graduate Medical Education, or its equivalent or successor. See South Carolina Code 40-47-1520
• Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist: means a cardiovascular invasive specialist who is currently registered by Cardiovascular Credentialing International, has graduated from an accredited program of Cardiovascular Invasive Technology and who working under the direct supervision of a cardiologist performs procedures on patients resulting in accurate diagnosis and/or optimal treatment of congenital or acquired heart disease. See South Carolina Code 40-47-1520
• CERCLA: means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act and its amendments, 42 U. See South Carolina Code 44-56-720
• Certificate: means official acknowledgment by the department that an individual has completed successfully one of the appropriate emergency medical technician training courses referred to in this article in addition to completing successfully the requisite examinations, which entitles that individual to perform the functions and duties as delineated by the classification for which the certificate was issued. See South Carolina Code 44-61-20
• Certification: means approval by an established body, other than the board, but recognized by the board, that recognizes the unique, minimal requirements of specialized areas of practice. See South Carolina Code 40-47-20
• Certifying agency: means :
  
  (a) an agency authorized under the laws of a state, territory or possession to officially certify seed and which has standards and procedures approved by the U. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
• Clerk of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.
• Collection: means the act of picking up solid waste materials from homes, businesses, governmental agencies, institutions, or industrial sites. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Commercial fertilizer: means a substance containing one or more recognized plant nutrients used for plant nutrient content and designed for use or claimed to have value in promoting plant growth, except unmanipulated animal and vegetable manures, marl, lime, limestone, wood ashes, and other products exempted by regulation of the commission. See South Carolina Code 46-25-20
• Commission: means the group of individuals comprising the Maritime Security Commission. See South Carolina Code 54-17-20
• Commission: means the State Crop Pest Commission or an officer or employee of the commission to whom it delegates its authority. See South Carolina Code 46-25-20
• Committee: means the Anesthesiologist's Assistant Committee as established by this article as an advisory committee responsible to the board. See South Carolina Code 40-47-1210
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Compost: means the humus-like product of the process of composting waste. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Composting facility: means any facility used to provide aerobic, thermophilic decomposition of the solid organic constituents of solid waste to produce a stable, humus-like material. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Conditioning: means drying, cleaning, scarifying, and other operations which could change the purity or germination of the seed and require the seed lot to be retested to determine the label information. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Construction and demolition debris: means discarded solid wastes resulting from construction, remodeling, repair and demolition of structures, road building, and land clearing. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Contaminant: includes , but is not limited to, any element, substance, compound, or mixture, including disease-causing agents, which after release into the environment and upon exposure, ingestion, inhalation, or assimilation into any organism, either directly from the environment or indirectly by ingestion through food chains, will or may reasonably be anticipated to cause death, disease, behavioral abnormalities, cancer, genetic mutation, physiological malfunctions, including malfunctions in reproduction, or physical deformations, in organisms or their offspring; "contaminant" does not include petroleum, including crude oil or any fraction of crude oil, which is not otherwise specifically listed or designated as a hazardous substance under subparagraphs (A) through (F) of paragraph (14) of CERCLA, Section 101, 42 U. See South Carolina Code 44-56-720
• Contamination: means impact by a contaminant, petroleum, or petroleum product. See South Carolina Code 44-56-720
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• 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.
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• County solid waste management plan: means a solid waste management plan prepared, approved, and submitted by a single county pursuant to § 44-96-80. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Cross examine: Questioning of a witness by the attorney for the other side.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Date of test: means the month and year the percentage of germination appearing on the label was obtained by laboratory test. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• 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 South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. See South Carolina Code 44-61-510
• Department: means the Department of Health and Environmental Control, including personnel thereof authorized by the board to act on behalf of the department or board. See South Carolina Code 44-56-20
• Department: means the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation;
  
  (5) "Director" means the Director of the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation or the director's official designee;
  
  (6) "Licensee" means a person granted an authorization to practice pursuant to this article and refers to a person holding a license, permit, certification, or registration granted pursuant to this article;
  
  (7) "Licensing act" means the individual statute or regulations, or both, of each regulated profession or occupation which include, but are not limited to, board governance, the qualifications and requirements for authorization to practice, prohibitions, and disciplinary procedures;
  
  (8) "Person" means an individual, partnership, or corporation;
  
  (9) "Profession" or "occupation" means a profession or occupation regulated or administered, or both, by the department pursuant to this article. See South Carolina Code 40-1-20
• Department: means the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Department: means the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. See South Carolina Code 44-56-720
• Department: means the administrative agency known as the Department of Health and Environmental Control. See South Carolina Code 44-61-20
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Depolymerization: means a manufacturing process at an advanced recycling facility where post-use polymers are broken into smaller molecules such as monomers and oligomers or raw, intermediate, or final products, plastics and chemical feedstocks, basic and unfinished chemicals, crude oil, naphtha, liquid transportation fuels, waxes, lubricants, coatings, and other basic hydrocarbons. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Designation: means a formal determination by the department that a hospital or health care facility is capable of providing a specified level of trauma care services. See South Carolina Code 44-61-510
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Digital signature: means an electronic signature based upon cryptographic methods of originator authentication and computed by using a set of rules and set of parameters so that the identity of the signer and the integrity of the data can be verified. See South Carolina Code 44-117-310
• Director: means the Director of Regulatory and Public Service Programs, Clemson University. See South Carolina Code 46-25-20
• Director: means the Director of the Department of Health and Environmental Control. See South Carolina Code 44-61-310
• Director: means the director of the department or his authorized agent. See South Carolina Code 44-56-20
• Discharge: means the accidental or intentional spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, or dumping of solid waste, including leachate, into or on any land or water. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Disposal: means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any hazardous waste into or on any land or water so that such substance or any constituent thereof may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters, including groundwater. See South Carolina Code 44-56-20
• Disposal: means the discharge, deposition, injection, dumping, spilling or placing of any solid waste into or on any land or water, so that the substance or any constituent thereof may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters, including groundwater. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Distinct: means the variety can be differentiated by one or more identifiable morphological, physiological, or other characteristics from all other varieties of public knowledge. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Distributor: means a person who imports, consigns, manufactures, produces compounds of, mixes, or blends commercial fertilizer or who offers for sale, sells, barters, or otherwise supplies commercial fertilizer in this State. See South Carolina Code 46-25-20
• District Commander: means the Coast Guard officer designated by the Commandant of the Coast Guard to command a Coast Guard district. See South Carolina Code 54-17-20
• Division: means the Division of Regulatory and Public Service Programs, Clemson University, and its employees, agents, and officials. See South Carolina Code 46-25-20
• Dormant: means viable seed, excluding hard seed, which fail to germinate when provided the specified germination conditions for the kind of seed in question. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Dower: A widow
• Driver: means an individual who drives or otherwise operates an ambulance. See South Carolina Code 44-61-20
• Electronic signature: means an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with a record and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the record. See South Carolina Code 44-117-310
• Electronic transmission: means transmission of information by electronic means, including computer to computer, computer to facsimile machine, electronic device to computer, e-mail, or the transmission of the exact visual image of a document by way of electronic equipment. See South Carolina Code 44-117-310
• Emergency medical service system: means the arrangement of personnel, facilities, and equipment for the delivery of health care services under emergency conditions. See South Carolina Code 44-61-20
• Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council: means the emergency medical services council created in § 44-61-30(c). See South Carolina Code 44-61-510
• 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
• Emergency transport: means services and transportation provided after the sudden onset of a medical condition manifesting itself by acute symptoms of such severity including severe pain that the absence of medical attention could reasonably be expected to result in the following:
  
  (a) placing the patient's health in serious jeopardy;
  
  (b) causing serious impairment to bodily functions;
  
  (c) causing serious dysfunction of bodily organ or part; or
  
  (d) a situation that resulted from an accident, injury, acute illness, unconsciousness, or shock, for example, required oxygen or other emergency treatment, required the patient to remain immobile because of a fracture, stroke, heart attack, or severe hemorrhage. See South Carolina Code 44-61-20
• 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
• EMT: means , when used in general terms for emergency medical personnel, an individual possessing a valid, emergency medical technician (EMT), advanced emergency medical technician (AEMT), or paramedic certificate issued by the State pursuant to the provisions of this article. See South Carolina Code 44-61-310
• encrusted seed: means seed that has been covered, by at least one layer of material that obscures the original shape and size of the seed resulting in a substantial weight increase. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Energy recovery: means the beneficial use, reuse, recycling, or reclamation of solid waste through the use of the waste to recover energy therefrom. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• 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}
• 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.
• Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
• Facility: means all contiguous land, structures, other appurtenances and improvements on the land used for treating, storing, or disposing of solid waste. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• 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.
• Flower seeds: includes seeds of herbaceous plants grown for their blooms, ornamental foliage, or other ornamental parts, and commonly known and sold under the name of flower or wildflower seeds in this State. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• foundation seed: means seed that has been produced and labeled in accordance with the procedures and in compliance with the regulations of an agency authorized by the laws of this State or the laws of another state. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• 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}
• Gasification: means a manufacturing process at an advanced recycling facility through which recovered feedstocks are heated and converted into a fuel-gas mixture in an oxygen-deficient atmosphere and the mixture is converted to crude oil, diesel, gasoline, home heating oil or other fuels, chemicals, waxes, lubricants, chemical feedstocks, diesel and gasoline blendstocks, or other raw materials or intermediate or final products that are returned to the economic mainstream in the form of raw materials, products, or fuels. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Generation: means the act or process of producing solid waste. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Germination: means the emergence and development from the seed embryo of those essential structures which, for the kind of seed in question, or indicative of the ability to produce a normal plant under favorable conditions. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Grade: means the percentage of nitrogen, available phosphorus or phosphoric acid, and soluble potassium or soluble potash stated in whole numbers in the same terms, order, and percentages as in the guaranteed analysis. See South Carolina Code 46-25-20
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Groundwater: means water beneath the land surface in the saturated zone. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Guaranteed analysis: means the minimum percentage of plant nutrients claimed in accordance with § 46-25-30. See South Carolina Code 46-25-20
• Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. ^{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.
• Hard seeds: means seeds which remain hard at the end of the prescribed test period because they have not absorbed water due to an impermeable seed coat. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Hazardous waste: means any waste, or combination of wastes, of a solid, liquid, contained gaseous, or semisolid form which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may in the judgment of the department:
  
  a. See South Carolina Code 44-56-20
• Hazardous waste: has the meaning provided in § 44-56-20 of the South Carolina Hazardous Waste Management Act. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Hazardous waste management: means the systematic control of the collection, source separation, storage, transportation, processing, treatment, recovery, and disposal of hazardous wastes. See South Carolina Code 44-56-20
• Hybrid: means the first generation seed of a cross produced by controlling the pollination and by combining:
  
  (a) two or more inbred lines;
  
  (b) one inbred or a single cross with an open pollinated variety; or
  
  (c) two varieties or species, except open-pollinated varieties of corn (Zea mays). See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Immediate family: means a person's spouse. See South Carolina Code 44-61-20
• Incineration: means the use of controlled flame combustion to thermally break down solid, liquid, or gaseous combustible wastes, producing residue that contains little or no combustible materials. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• 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.
• Industrial waste: means solid waste that results from industrial processes including, but not limited to, factories and treatment plants. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Inert matter: means all matter not seed, which includes broken seed, sterile florets, chaff, fungus bodies, and stones as determined by methods defined by regulation. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Infectious waste: has the meaning given in § 44-93-20 of the South Carolina Infectious Waste Management Act. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Inherent risk of skating: means those dangers or risks which are an integral part of ice or roller skating including, but not limited to, injuries which result from contact with other skaters or spectators, injuries which result from falls caused by loss of balance, and injuries which involve objects or artificial structures properly within the intended path of travel of the skater. See South Carolina Code 52-21-10
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• 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
• Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers.
• 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.
• Kind: means one or more related species or subspecies which singly or collectively is known by one common name, for example, corn, oats, alfalfa, and timothy. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Label: means the display of all written, printed, or graphic matter upon the immediate container or statement accompanying a commercial fertilizer. See South Carolina Code 46-25-20
• Labeling: means all written, printed, or graphic matter upon or accompanying commercial fertilizer or advertisements, brochures, posters, television, and radio announcements used in promoting the sale of commercial fertilizers. See South Carolina Code 46-25-20
• Labeling: means a tag or other device attached to or written, stamped, or printed on a container or accompanying a lot of bulk seed purporting to set forth the information required on the seed label by this act, and it may include other information relating to the labeled seed. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Land-clearing debris: means solid waste which is generated solely from land-clearing activities, but does not include solid waste from agricultural or silvicultural operations. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Landfill: means a disposal facility or part of a facility where solid waste is placed in or on land, and which is not a land treatment facility, a surface impoundment, or an injection well. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Lawn and turf: means seeds of the grass family (Poaceae) that are used within the industry for lawn and turf applications. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Lead-acid battery: means any battery that consists of lead and sulfuric acid, is used as a power source, and has a capacity of six volts or more, except that this term shall not include a small sealed lead-acid battery which means a lead-acid battery weighing twenty-five pounds or less, used in non-vehicular, non-SLI (start lighting ignition) applications. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• 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}
• Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
• 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
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• License: means a current document authorizing a person to practice. See South Carolina Code 40-47-20
• 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
• Licensee: means any person, firm, corporation, or governmental division or agency possessing authorization, permit, license, or certification to provide emergency medical service in this State. See South Carolina Code 44-61-20
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Life estate: A property interest limited in duration to the life of the individual holding the interest (life tenant).
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Local government: means a county, any municipality located wholly or partly within the county, and any other political subdivision located wholly or partly within the county when such political subdivision provides solid waste management services. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Lot: means a definite quantity of seed identified by a unique lot number or other mark, every portion or bag of which is uniform within recognized tolerances for the factors which appear in the labeling. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Manager: means the person coordinating the EMSC Program within the Department of Health and Environmental Control. See South Carolina Code 44-61-310
• Materials Recovery Facility: means a solid waste management facility that provides for the extraction from solid waste of recoverable materials, materials suitable for use as a fuel or soil amendment, or any combination of such materials. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Memorandum of Agreement: means a document that must be executed by the Chairman of the Maritime Security Commission and the Attorney General of South Carolina on behalf of the State and the United States Navy, detailing fiduciary duties, potential liability, and federal support issues for a South Carolina Naval Militia and must be renewed every five years. See South Carolina Code 54-17-20
• mixture: means seed consisting of more than one kind, each in excess of five percent by weight of the whole. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Moral turpitude: means behavior that is not in conformity with and is considered deviant by societal standards. See South Carolina Code 44-61-20
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
• Municipal solid waste landfill: means any sanitary landfill or landfill unit, publicly or privately owned, that receives household waste. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• municipality: as used in this chapter shall be construed to mean any incorporated city or town located within this State. See South Carolina Code 5-3-290
• Nonresponsible party: means any party which is neither:
  
  (i) a responsible party at the time the voluntary cleanup contract is signed, including lenders, economic development agencies, fiduciaries, trustees, executors, administrators, custodians, subsequent holders of a security interest; nor
  
  (ii) a parent, subsidiary of, or successor to a responsible party. See South Carolina Code 44-56-720
• 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.
• Office: means the Office of Solid Waste Reduction and Recycling established within the Department of Health and Environmental Control pursuant to § 44-96-110. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Official sample: means a sample of commercial fertilizer taken by the board or its agent and designated "official" by the board. See South Carolina Code 46-25-20
• Operator: means a person or entity who owns, manages, controls or directs, or who has operational responsibility for an ice or roller skating rink. See South Carolina Code 52-21-10
• Origin: means the state, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, possession of the United States or the foreign country where the seed was grown. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Other crop seed: means seeds of plants grown as crops, other than the kind or variety included in the pure seed, as determined by methods defined by regulation. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Oversight costs: means those costs, both direct and indirect, incurred by the department in implementing the voluntary cleanup program. See South Carolina Code 44-56-720
• Participating providers: means those providers that have been approved by the department for participation in the trauma system and include, but are not limited to, designated trauma centers, designated rehabilitation facilities, and designated fee for service physicians who provide trauma care within a designated facility. See South Carolina Code 44-61-510
• 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.
• Patient: means an individual who is sick, injured, wounded, or otherwise incapacitated or helpless. See South Carolina Code 44-61-20
• Patient prescription drug information: means data that is conveyed by or on behalf of a practitioner in ordering a prescription drug or device before being dispensed and that identifies the patient as the recipient of the prescription drug or device. See South Carolina Code 44-117-20
• Percent: means the percentage by weight. See South Carolina Code 46-25-20
• Permit: means an authorization issued for an ambulance vehicle which meets the standards adopted pursuant to this article. See South Carolina Code 44-61-20
• Permit: means the process by which the department can ensure cognizance of, as well as control over the management of hazardous wastes. See South Carolina Code 44-56-20
• Person: means an individual, corporation, company, association, partnership, unit of local government, state agency, federal agency, or other legal entity. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Person: means a natural person, male or female. See South Carolina Code 40-47-20
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, company, association, receiver, trustee, or agent. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Person: includes individual, partnership, association, firm, and corporation. See South Carolina Code 46-25-20
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• petroleum product: means crude oil or any fraction of crude oil which is liquid at standard conditions of temperature and pressure (60 degrees Fahrenheit and 14. See South Carolina Code 44-56-720
• Physician: means a doctor of medicine or doctor of osteopathic medicine licensed by the South Carolina Board of Medical Examiners. See South Carolina Code 40-47-20
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• plant: includes seedlings, nursery stock, roots, tubers, bulbs, cuttings, and other plant parts used in the propagation of field crops, vegetables, fruits, flowers, or other plants. See South Carolina Code 46-21-665
• Plastic bottle: means a plastic container intended for single use, which has a neck that is smaller than the body of the container, accepts a screw-type, snap cap, or other closure, and has a capacity of sixteen fluid ounces or more, but less than five gallons. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Plastic container: means any container having a wall thickness of not less than one one-hundredth of an inch used to contain beverages, foods, or nonfood products and composed of synthetic polymeric materials. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Port: means a developed area of maritime commerce. See South Carolina Code 54-17-20
• Post-use polymer: means a plastic polymer that is not solid waste when the following apply:
  
  (a) it is derived from any industrial, commercial, agricultural, or domestic activities;
  
  (b) its use or intended use is to manufacture crude oil, fuels, feedstocks, blendstocks, raw materials, or other intermediate products or final products using advanced recycling;
  
  (c) it may contain incidental contaminants or impurities, such as paper labels or metal rings; and
  
  (d) it is processed at an advanced recycling facility or held at an advanced recycling facility prior to processing. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Practice of Medicine: means :
  
  (a) advertising, holding out to the public or representing in any manner that one is authorized to practice medicine in this State;
  
  (b) offering or undertaking to prescribe, order, give, or administer any drug or medicine for the use of any other person;
  
  (c) offering or undertaking to prevent or to diagnose, correct or treat in any manner, or by any means, methods, or devices, disease, illness, pain, wound, fracture, infirmity, defect, or abnormal physical or mental condition of a person, including the management of pregnancy and parturition;
  
  (d) offering or undertaking to perform any surgical operation upon a person;
  
  (e) rendering a written or otherwise documented medical opinion concerning the diagnosis or treatment of a patient or the actual rendering of treatment to a patient within this State by a physician located outside the State as a result of transmission of individual patient data by electronic or other means from within a state to such physician or his or her agent;
  
  (f) rendering a determination of medical necessity or a decision affecting the diagnosis and/or treatment of a patient is the practice of medicine subject to all of the powers provided to the Board of Medical Examiners, except as provided in § 38-59-25;
  
  (g) using the designation Doctor, Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, Physician, Surgeon, Physician and Surgeon, Dr. See South Carolina Code 40-47-20
• Practitioner: means a health care professional licensed in this State who is authorized by law to issue prescription drug orders. See South Carolina Code 44-117-310
• Practitioner: means a licensed health care professional authorized under state law to order a prescription drug or device. See South Carolina Code 44-117-20
• 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
• Prescription drug or device: means a drug or device that is dispensed pursuant to the order of a practitioner. See South Carolina Code 44-117-20
• prescription drug order: means a lawful order of a practitioner for a drug or device for a specific patient that is communicated to a pharmacist. See South Carolina Code 44-117-310
• Private hearing: means a discussion of facts between the person charged and the enforcement officer. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Privileges: means that based upon title or membership, an individual is entitled to accommodations of the naval service and such recognition by other services of this State. See South Carolina Code 54-17-20
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Prohibited noxious weed seeds: means those seeds that are prohibited from being present in agricultural, vegetable, or flower seed and are the seeds of weeds that are highly destructive and difficult to control by good cultural practices and the use of herbicides. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Property: means that portion of the site which is subject to the ownership, prospective ownership, or possessory or contractual interest of a responsible party or a nonresponsible party. See South Carolina Code 44-56-720
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Pure seed: means seed exclusive of inert matter and all other seeds not of the seed being considered as determined by methods defined by regulation. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Pyrolysis: means a manufacturing process at an advanced recycling facility through which post-use polymers or recovered feedstock are heated in the absence of oxygen until melted and thermally decomposed and are then cooled, condensed, and converted to crude oil, diesel, gasoline, home heating oil or other fuels, chemicals, waxes, lubricants, chemical feedstocks, diesel and gasoline blendstocks, or other raw materials or intermediate or final products that are returned to the economic mainstream in the form of raw materials, products, or fuels. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Reactivation: means the restoration to active status of an authorization from inactive status. See South Carolina Code 40-47-20
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• Recovered feedstock: means one or more of the following materials that has been processed so that it may be used as feedstock in an advanced recycling facility:
  
  (i) post-use polymers;
  
  (ii) materials for which the United States Environmental Protection Agency has made a nonwaste determination under 40 C. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Recovered materials: means those materials which have known use, reuse, or recycling potential; can be feasibly used, reused, or recycled; and have been diverted or removed from the solid waste stream for sale, use, reuse, or recycling, whether or not requiring subsequent separation and processing. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Recovered Materials Processing Facility: means a facility engaged solely in the recycling, storage, processing, and resale or reuse of recovered materials. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Recyclable material: means those materials which are capable of being recycled and which would otherwise be processed or disposed of as solid waste. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Recycling: means any process by which materials which would otherwise become solid waste are collected, separated, or processed and reused or returned to use in the form of raw materials or products (including composting). See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Region: means a group of counties in South Carolina which is planning to or has prepared, approved, and submitted a regional solid waste management plan to the department pursuant to § 44-96-80. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Regional solid waste management plan: means a solid waste management plan prepared, approved, and submitted by a group of counties in South Carolina pursuant to § 44-96-80. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Registrant: means the person who registers commercial fertilizer under this chapter. See South Carolina Code 46-25-20
• 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).
• Resource recovery: means the process of obtaining material or energy resources from solid waste which no longer has any useful life in its present form and preparing the waste for recycling. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Resource recovery facility: means a combination of structures, machinery, or devices utilized to separate, process, modify, convert, treat, or prepare collected solid waste so that component materials or substances or recoverable resources may be used as a raw material or energy source. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Respondent: means a person charged with responding in a disciplinary or other administrative action. See South Carolina Code 40-47-20
• Response action: means any assessment, cleanup, inspection, or closure of a site as necessary to remedy actual or potential damage to public health, public welfare, or the environment. See South Carolina Code 44-56-720
• Responsible party: means :
  
  (a) the owner and operator of a vessel or a facility, as these terms are defined in CERCLA;
  
  (b) any person who at the time of disposal of any hazardous substance owned or operated any facility at which such hazardous substances were disposed of, as these terms are defined in CERCLA;
  
  (c) any person who by contract, settlement, or otherwise arranged for disposal or treatment or arranged with a transporter for transport for disposal or treatment of hazardous substances owned or possessed by such person, by any other party or entity, at any facility or incineration vessel owned or operated by another party or entity and containing such hazardous substances, as these terms are defined in CERCLA; and
  
  (d) any person who accepts or accepted any hazardous substances for transport to disposal or treatment facilities, incineration vessels, or sites selected by such person, from which there is a release or a threatened release which causes the incurrence of response costs of a hazardous substance, as such terms are defined in CERCLA; and
  
  (e) any person who owns or operates or who owned or operated an above ground or underground storage tank from which petroleum or petroleum products have been released or who owns and operates or who owned or operated a property on which a petroleum release has occurred; however, the exemptions of § 44-2-80(B) and (C) apply. See South Carolina Code 44-56-720
• Restricted fertilizer: means a commercial fertilizer having a potential explosive capacity that is determined by the commission to present an unreasonable threat to public safety. See South Carolina Code 46-25-20
• Restricted noxious weed seeds: means those weed seeds that are objectionable in agricultural crops, lawns, and gardens of this State and may be controlled by good cultural practices or the use of herbicides. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Reuse: means the return of a commodity into the economic stream for use in the same kind of application as before without change in its identity. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Revocation: means that the department has permanently voided a license or certificate and the holder no longer may perform the function associated with the license, or certificate. See South Carolina Code 44-61-20
• Revocation: means the permanent cancellation or withdrawal of an authorization issued by the board. See South Carolina Code 40-47-20
• Routing company: means a business that electronically receives a prescription or any other confidential information from a prescriber and transmits the prescription or confidential information to or from the pharmacy specified by the patient in accordance with a contract between the routing company and the prescriber or a company that provides computer software for the management of the prescriber's practice. See South Carolina Code 44-117-310
• Secondary lead smelter: means a facility which produces metallic lead from various forms of lead scrap, including used lead-acid batteries. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Security zone: means an area of land, water, or land and water which is so designated by the Captain of the Port or District Commander for such time as may be necessary to prevent damage or injury to any vessel or waterfront facility, to safeguard ports, harbors, territories, or waters of the United States, or to secure the observance of the rights and obligations of the United States. See South Carolina Code 54-17-20
• seed: as used in this article refers to the true seeds of all field crops, vegetables, flowers, or other plants. See South Carolina Code 46-21-665
• Seizure: means a legal process carried out by court order against a definite amount of seed. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Site: means all areas where a contaminant, petroleum, or petroleum product has been released, deposited, stored, disposed of, or placed or otherwise comes to be located; "site" does not include any consumer product in consumer use or any vessel. See South Carolina Code 44-56-720
• Skater: means a person wearing ice skates while in an ice skating rink or roller skates in a roller skating rink for the purpose of recreational or competitive skating without regard to whether the person paid consideration. See South Carolina Code 52-21-10
• Skating rink: means a building, facility, or premises which provides an area specifically designed to be used by the public for recreational or competitive ice or roller skating. See South Carolina Code 52-21-10
• Solid waste: means any garbage, refuse, or sludge from a waste treatment facility, water supply plant, or air pollution control facility and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations and from community activities. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Solid waste disposal facility: means any solid waste management facility or part of a facility at which solid waste is intentionally placed into or on any land or water and at which waste will remain after closure. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Solid waste management: means the systematic control of the generation, collection, source separation, storage, transportation, treatment, recovery, and disposal of solid waste. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Solid waste management facility: means any solid waste disposal area, volume reduction plant, transfer station, or other facility, the purpose of which is the storage, collection, transportation, treatment, utilization, processing, recycling, or disposal, or any combination thereof, of solid waste. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Solid Waste Management Grant Program: means the grant program established and administered by the Office of Solid Waste Reduction and Recycling pursuant to § 44-96-130. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Solid Waste Management Trust Fund: means the trust fund established within the Department of Health and Environmental Control pursuant to § 44-96-120. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Solvolysis: means a manufacturing process at an advanced recycling facility through which post-use plastics are reacted with the aid of solvents while heated at low temperatures or pressurized to make useful products, while allowing additives and contaminants to be separated. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Source reduction: means the reduction of solid waste before it enters the solid waste stream by methods such as product redesign or reduced packaging. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Source separation: means the act or process of removing a particular type of recyclable material from other waste at the point of generation or under control of the generator for the purposes of collection, disposition, and recycling. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Specialty fertilizer: is a commercial fertilizer distributed primarily for nonfarm use such as home gardens, lawns, shrubbery, flowers, foliage plants, golf courses, municipal parks, cemeteries, greenhouses, and nurseries. See South Carolina Code 46-25-20
• Specific wastes: means solid waste which requires separate management provisions, including plastics, used oil, waste tires, lead-acid batteries, yard trash, compost, and white goods. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Spectator: means an invitee who is present in a skating rink but is not wearing ice or roller skates. See South Carolina Code 52-21-10
• Sponsoring anesthesiologist: means the physician specialist in anesthesiology who signs the anesthesiologist's assistant's application for licensure. See South Carolina Code 40-47-1210
• Stable: means the variety will remain unchanged in its essential and distinctive characteristics and its uniformity when reproduced or reconstituted as required by the different categories of varieties. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Standards: means the required measurable components of an emergency medical service system having permanent and recognized value that provide adequate emergency health care delivery. See South Carolina Code 44-61-20
• State Medical Control Physician: means a physician who shall be contracted with the department to oversee all medical aspects of the EMS Program. See South Carolina Code 44-61-20
• State solid waste management plan: means the plan which the Department of Health and Environmental Control is required to submit to the General Assembly and to the Governor pursuant to § 44-96-60. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• Stop sale: means an administrative order provided by law restraining the sale, use, disposition, and movement of a definite amount of seed. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Storage: means the actual or intended containment of wastes, either on a temporary basis or for a period of years, in such manner as not to constitute disposal of such hazardous wastes. See South Carolina Code 44-56-20
• Storage: means the containment of solid waste, either on a temporary basis or for a period of years, in such manner as not to constitute disposal of such solid waste; provided, however, that storage in containers by persons of solid waste resulting from their own activities on their property, leased or rented property, if the solid waste in such containers is collected at least once a week, shall not constitute "storage" for purposes of this chapter. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Supervising cardiologist: means a South Carolina licensed physician currently possessing an active, unrestricted license to practice medicine in South Carolina who practices in the medical specialty of cardiology and has successfully completed a residency in cardiology, approved by the Accreditation Committee on Graduate Medical Education, or its equivalent or successor. See South Carolina Code 40-47-1520
• Supervision: means medically directing and accepting responsibility for the cardiac services rendered by a registered cardiovascular invasive specialist in a manner provided for in law and the adopted protocol of the licensed facility. See South Carolina Code 40-47-1520
• Surface water: means lakes, bays, sounds, ponds, impounding reservoirs, springs, rivers, streams, creeks, estuaries, marshes, inlets, canals, the Atlantic Ocean within territorial limits, and all other bodies of surface water, natural or artificial, inland or coastal, fresh or salt, public or private. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• 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
• Suspension: means the temporary withdrawal of authorization to practice for either a definite or indefinite period of time ordered by the board. See South Carolina Code 40-47-20
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Tire: means the continuous solid or pneumatic rubber covering encircling the wheel of a motor vehicle, trailer, or motorcycle as defined in § 56-3-20(2), (4), and (13). See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Tire retailing business: means the retail sale of tires in any quantity for any use or purpose by the purchaser other than for resale. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Ton: means a net weight of two thousand pounds avoirdupois. See South Carolina Code 46-25-20
• 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.
• Transport: means the movement of hazardous wastes from the point of generation to any intermediate points and finally to the point of ultimate treatment, storage or disposal. See South Carolina Code 44-56-20
• Transport: means the movement of solid waste from the point of generation to any intermediate point and finally to the point of ultimate processing, treatment, storage, or disposal. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Transporter: means a person engaged in the off-site transportation of solid waste by air, rail, highway, or water. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Trauma: means a major injury or wound to a living person caused by the application of an external force or by violence and the requiring immediate medical or surgical intervention to prevent death or permanent disability. See South Carolina Code 44-61-510
• trauma center: means a hospital that has been designated by the department according to the rules and regulations set forth by the department to provide trauma care services at a particular level. See South Carolina Code 44-61-510
• Trauma system: means an organized statewide and regional system of care for the trauma patient, including the department, emergency medical service providers, hospitals, in-patient rehabilitation providers, and other providers who have agreed to participate in and coordinate with and who have been accepted by the department in an organized statewide system. See South Carolina Code 44-61-510
• Treated: means that the seed has received an application of a substance or that it has been subjected to a process for which a claim is made. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Treatment: means any method, technique, or process, including neutralization, designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological character or composition of any hazardous waste, so as to neutralize such waste or so as to render such waste nonhazardous, safer for transport, amenable for recovery, amenable for storage, reduced in volume, or suitable for final disposal. See South Carolina Code 44-56-20
• Treatment: means any technique designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological character or composition of any solid waste so as to render it safe for transport, amenable to storage, recovery, or recycling, safe for disposal, or reduced in volume or concentration. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• 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.
• Type: means a group of varieties so nearly similar that the individual varieties cannot be clearly differentiated except under special conditions. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Uniform: means that the variations in essential and distinctive characteristics are describable. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Used oil: means oil that has been refined from crude oil or synthetic oil and that has been used and, as a result of that use, is contaminated by physical or chemical impurities. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Used oil collection center: means a facility which, in the course of business, accepts used oil for subsequent disposal or recycling. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Used oil energy recovery facility: means a facility that burns more than six thousand gallons of used oil annually for energy recovery. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Used oil recycling facility: means a facility that recycles more than six thousand gallons of used oil annually. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• variety: means its original meaning and includes strains of varieties which are sufficiently different from the parent variety to justify special designation. See South Carolina Code 46-21-665
• Variety: means a subdivision of a kind which is distinct, uniform, and stable. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Vegetable seeds: means the seeds of those crops which are grown in gardens and on truck farms and are generally known and sold under the name of vegetable or herb seeds in this State. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Verification: means the department's inspection of a participating facility in order to determine whether the facility is capable of providing a designated level of trauma care. See South Carolina Code 44-61-510
• Voluntary cleanup: means a response action taken under and in compliance with this article. See South Carolina Code 44-56-720
• Voluntary cleanup contract: means a contract entered into between the department and a responsible or nonresponsible party to conduct a voluntary cleanup. See South Carolina Code 44-56-720
• Waste tire: means a tire that is no longer suitable for its original intended purpose because of wear, damage, or defect. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Waste tire collection facility: means a permitted facility used for the storage of waste tires or processed tires before recycling, processing, or disposal. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Waste tire disposal facility: means a permitted facility where processed waste tires are placed on the land in a manner which constitutes disposal. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Waste tire hauler: means a person engaged in the picking up or transporting of waste tires for the purpose of storage, processing, or disposal. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Waste tire processing facility: means a permitted facility where equipment is used to cut, shred, burn for volume reduction, or to otherwise alter whole waste tires. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Waste tire recycling facility: means a permitted facility where waste tires are used as a fuel source or returned to use in the form of products or raw materials. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Waste tire site: means an establishment, site, or place of business, without a collector or processor permit, that is maintained, operated, used, or allowed to be used for the disposal, storing, or depositing of unprocessed used tires, but does not include a truck service facility which meets the following requirements:
  
  (a) all vehicles serviced are owned or leased by the owner or operator of the service facility;
  
  (b) no more than two hundred waste tires are accumulated for a period of not more than thirty days at a time;
  
  (c) the facility does not accept any tires from sources other than its own; and
  
  (d) all waste tires are stored under a covered structure. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Waste tire treatment site: means a permitted site used to produce or manufacture usable materials, including fuel, from waste tires. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Waters of the State: means lakes, bays, sounds, ponds, impounding reservoirs, springs, wells, rivers, streams, creeks, estuaries, marshes, inlets, canals, the Atlantic Ocean within the territorial limits, and all other bodies of surface or underground water, natural or artificial, public or private, inland or coastal, fresh or salt, which are wholly or partially within or bordering the State or within its jurisdiction. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Weed seed: means the seeds of all plants generally recognized as weeds within this State, as determined by methods defined by regulation, and includes the prohibited and restricted noxious weed seeds. See South Carolina Code 46-21-15
• White goods: include refrigerators, ranges, water heaters, freezers, dishwashers, trash compactors, washers, dryers, air conditioners, and commercial large appliances. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
• Yard trash: means solid waste consisting solely of vegetative matter resulting from landscaping maintenance. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40