South Carolina Code of Regulations › Chapter 123 - DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES › Article 5.5 - REGULATION OF REAL PROPERTY OWNED AND LEASED BY THE DEPARTMENT › Section 123-201 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 6, June 28, 2024
For purposes of this regulation:
"All terrain vehicle" means a motorized vehicle, regardless of
				the number of wheels, designed or constructed primarily for use off of paved or
				improved roads.
"Boats" mean any watercraft, including but not limited to
				motorboats, sailboats, personal watercraft, canoes, kayaks, sailboards, rafts,
				inflatable boats, shells, and rowboats.
"Camping" means the overnight occupancy of land owned or leased
				by the Department.
"Department" means the South Carolina Department of Natural
				Resources.
"Department land" means real property, including any buildings,
				structures, or improvements, owned by the Department in fee simple, including
				but not limited to game preserves or reserves, heritage preserves, boat
				landings, and Department land designated as wildlife management area
				land.
"Ecofacts" are carbonized plant remains, animal bones, and
				shells utilized as food by historic and prehistoric peoples. "Fireworks" means
				any device for producing any display, such as light, noise, or smoke, by the
				combustion of explosive or flammable compositions.
"Fishing" means all activity and effort involved in taking or
				attempting to take fish.
"Hiking" means traversing land by foot for the purpose of
				pleasure or exercise, except traversing in connection with any other activity
				regulated by this regulation.
"Horse riding" means any equestrian activity.
"Hunting" means the act of trying to find, seek, obtain,
				pursue, or diligently search for wildlife for sport, regardless of whether
				wildlife is taken or not. The act of seeking wildlife or the pursuit of
				wildlife as sport, such as but not limited to raccoon hunting and training
				hunting dogs shall be deemed hunting. Any person accompanying a hunter or
				hunters and participating in a hunt in any regard shall be deemed to be
				hunting.
"Motorized vehicle" means a device incorporating a motor or an
				engine. "Nonmotorized vehicle" means a device not incorporating a motor or an
				engine of any type for propulsion, and with wheels, tracks, skids, skis, air
				cushion, or other contrivance for traveling on or adjacent to land. It shall
				include such vehicles as bicycles, skates, and in-line skates.
"Off road vehicle" means a motorized vehicle that includes
				stock enhancements to improve its ability for use off of paved or improved
				roads or a vehicle that has been modified from its stock condition to enhance
				its ability for use off of paved or improved roads.
"Pack animal" means any beast, including but not limited to
				horses, mules, donkeys, and llamas, used for the purpose of transporting
				equipment, gear, or other articles.
"Pets" mean any domesticated animal which is kept for the
				pleasure of the owner; however, for purposes of this regulation, pets may not
				include dangerous or venomous animals or any animal classified as threatened,
				endangered, or in need of management by any state or the federal government. A
				raptor, permitted as provided under R.123-170,
				will be deemed a pet.
"Pollution" or "polluting" means the direct or indirect act of
				throwing, draining, depositing, or otherwise discharging organic or inorganic
				matter in or on land.
"Primitive Camping" means the overnight occupancy of land,
				utilizing nothing more than temporary shelter such as a tent or tarp
				transported to the camping site by backpacking or by watercraft.
"Rock climbing" means the sport of ascending or descending rock
				faces of such vertical angle that the climber must use technical climbing
				techniques to safely negotiate the climb. This includes all free, aided, and
				friction climbing where ropes, pitons, nuts, chocks, screws, carabiners, snap
				links, chalk, ropes, fixed or removable anchors, or other similar climbing
				equipment is used.
"Rocks, artifacts, or ecofacts" shall include but not be
				limited to arrowheads, spear points, scrapers, drills, soapstone and soapstone
				objects, pottery sherds and vessels, bottles, beads, brick, tabby, metal
				objects (such as buttons, buckles, ordnance, insignia), charcoal, shells, plant
				remains, animal remains, and bone tools.
"Shells" mean the hard rigid, usually calcareous, covering of
				an animal.
"Specialty animals" mean all animals other than domestic pets;
				those native and imported animals which have been removed from the wild and are
				being bred, raised or kept for research, food, fur or skins, or for the
				production of income. Reptiles and amphibians are included in this category.
				"Service animals" are not considered "Specialty animals".
"Taking" means to shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or
				collect, or attempt to shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect any
				wildlife.
"Weapon" means an instrument of offensive or defensive combat,
				including firearms, capable of injuring human beings or animals; provided,
				however, implements such as small pocket or kitchen knives normally will not be
				considered as weapons.
"Wildlife" means all wild birds, wild game, fish, and any wild
				mammal, bird, amphibian, reptile, fish, mollusk, crustacean, or other wild
				animal not otherwise legally classified by statute or regulation of this State
				as a game species.
"Wildlife management area land" means those lands leased or
				otherwise established by the Department for the protection, propagation, and
				promotion of fish and wildlife and for public hunting and
				fishing.