South Carolina Code of Laws
Chapter 26 - Agricultural Liming Materials And Landplaster
Section 46-26-20. Definitions.

For purposes of this chapter:
(1) "Agricultural liming materials" means a product whose calcium and magnesium compounds are capable of neutralizing soil acidity.
(2) "Limestone" means a material consisting essentially of calcium carbonate or a combination of calcium carbonate with magnesium carbonate capable of neutralizing soil acidity.
(3) "Dolomitic limestone" means those materials of which sixteen percent or more of the total neutralizing value expressed as calcium carbonate equivalent is derived from magnesium compounds.
(4) "Calcitic limestone" means materials of which eighty-five percent, plus or minus five percent, or more of the total neutralizing value expressed as calcium carbonate equivalent is derived from calcium compounds.
(5) "Burnt lime" means a material whose calcium and magnesium compounds are capable of neutralizing soil acidity and which consists essentially of calcium oxide or a combination of calcium oxide with magnesium oxide.
(6) "Hydrated lime" means a material made from burnt lime which consists essentially of calcium hydroxide or a combination of calcium hydroxide with magnesium oxide or magnesium hydroxide.
(7) "Marl" means a granular or loosely consolidated earthy material composed largely of calcium carbonate.
(8) "Industrial by-product used as a liming material" means an industrial waste or by-product containing calcium or calcium and magnesium in forms that will neutralize soil acidity.
(9) "Calcium carbonate equivalent" means the acid neutralizing capacity of an agricultural liming material expressed as weight percentage of calcium carbonate.
(10) "Fineness" means the percentage of weight of the material which will pass United States Standard sieves of specified sizes.
(11) "Distributor" means a person who imports, consigns, manufactures, produces, compounds, mixes, or blends agricultural liming materials or who offers for sale, sells, barters, or otherwise supplies agricultural liming materials.
(12) "Registrant" means the person who applies for or requests registration of the agricultural liming material and is granted registration.
(13) "Brand" means the term, designation, trademark, product name, or other specific designation under which individual agricultural liming material is offered for sale.
(14) "Ton" means a net weight of two thousand pounds avoirdupois.
(15) "Percent" or "percentage" means by weight.
(16) "Bulk" means in nonpackaged form.
(17) "Label" means written or printed matter on or attached to the package or on the delivery ticket which accompanies bulk shipments.
(18) "Person" means individual, partnership, association, firm, or corporation.
(19) "Weight" means the net weight of material as offered for sale.
(20) "Director" means the Director of Regulatory and Public Service Programs, Clemson University.
(21) "Division" means the Division of Regulatory and Public Service Programs, Clemson University, and its employees, agents, and officials.
(22) "Landplaster" means a product consisting chiefly of calcium sulfate with two combined water molecules (CaSO4 2H2O) and is incapable of neutralizing soil acidity. It shall contain not less than seventy percent CaSO4 2H2O.
HISTORY: 1976 Act No. 495 Section 2; 1992 Act No. 378, Section 2, eff May 15, 1992; 2011 Act No. 64, Section 1, eff June 14, 2011.