South Carolina Code of Regulations
Chapter 61 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL
Subchapter 61-44 - Individual Residential Well and Irrigation Well Permitting
Section 61-44.B - DEFINITIONS
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 9, September 27, 2024
The definition of any word or phrase employed in this regulation shall be the same as given in the Well Standards, R.61-71, Pollution Control Act, 48-1-10 et seq., and the Safe Drinking Water Act, Section 44-55-10 et seq., 1976 S.C. Code of Laws. Words or phrases which are not defined in the Acts or Regulations are defined as follows:
1. Agent- a person acting on behalf of an owner, subject to the control of the owner, who acts in such a manner as to affect the legal relationships of the owner with third parties.
2. General Permit - a permit for the construction of individual residential wells or irrigation wells issued under this regulation authorizing a category of well construction activities within the state.
3. Human Consumption - water used for drinking, bathing, cooking, dishwashing and maintaining oral hygiene, or other similar uses.
4. Individual Residential Well - a potable water well intended to produce water for human consumption at a single residence or family.
5. Irrigation Well - a well intended to produce water for uses other than human consumption, to include, but not be limited to, lawn and landscape watering and agricultural uses.
6. Owner - a property owner where the well is to be constructed.
7. Replacement Well - a well being constructed to take the place of an existing individual residential well or irrigation well that is being taken out of service.
8. Residence - legal residence; the permanent, fixed place of abode which a person intends to be his residence and to which he intends to return.
9. Well driller - an individual, corporation, partnership, association, political subdivision, or public agency of this State who is licensed with the S.C. Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation for constructing wells and is in immediate supervision of, and responsible for, the construction, development, drilling, testing, maintenance, repair, or abandonment of any well as defined by this regulation. This term shall include owners constructing or abandoning wells on their own property for their own personal use only, except that such owners are not required to be licensed by the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation for constructing wells and are not subject to the bonding requirements of subsection (C)(4) of this regulation.
