As used in this chapter:
- (1) "Asbestos abatement entity" means any individual, partnership, firm, association, corporation, sole proprietorship, or other business concern, as well as an employee or member of a governmental, religious, or social organization, that is involved in asbestos abatement.
- (2) "Asbestos project" means an activity associated with abatement, including inspection, design, air monitoring, in-place management, encapsulation, enclosure, renovation, repair, removal, any other disturbance of regulated asbestos-containing materials, and demolition of a regulated facility.
- (3) "Contractor" means an individual partnership, corporation, or other business concern that performs asbestos abatement for a facility owner which is not a permanent employee of the facility owner.
- (4) "Department" means the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control.
HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 431; 2005 Act No. 167, Section 1, eff June 7, 2005.
Effect of Amendment
The 2005 amendment, in item (1), substituted "an employee or member of a" for "any" and at the end ", that is involved in asbestos abatement" for "or union with one or more employees or members which performs asbestos removal or encapsulation"; rewrote item (2); and, in item (3), substituted "facility owner" for "building owner" in two places and made nonsubstantive changes.