{"data":{"id":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-27-30-120","jurisdiction":"us-sc","citation":"S.C. Code Ann. § 27-30-120","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in this article:\n(1) \"Board\" means the representative body, regardless of name, designated in the governing documents to act on behalf of a homeowners association and govern the association.\n(2) \"Declarant\" means a person or group of persons acting in concert who:\n(a) as part of a common promotional plan, subdivide and offer to dispose of an interest the person or group has in a unit in real property; or\n(b) reserve or succeed to a special declarant right, which means a right created under the declaration or bylaws for the person or group to retain or exercise authority in addition to regular declarant rights in a unit of real property.\n(3) \"Declaration\" means the recorded instruments, however denominated, that create a homeowners association, including amendments to those instruments.\n(4) \"Governing documents\" means declaration, master deeds, or bylaws, or any amendments to the declaration, master deeds, or bylaws.\n(5) \"Homeowner\" means a declarant or other person who owns a unit in a homeowners association, but does not include a person having an interest in such a unit solely as security for an obligation.\n(6) \"Homeowners association\" or \"association\" means an entity developed to manage and maintain a planned community or horizontal property regime for which there is a declaration requiring a person, by virtue of his ownership of a separate property within the planned community or horizontal property regime, to pay assessments for a share of real estate taxes, insurance premiums, maintenance, or improvement of, or services or other expenses related to, common elements and other real estate described in that declaration. A \"homeowners association\" or \"association\" does not include a vacation time sharing plan organized and subject to the provisions of Chapter 32.\n(7) \"Homeowners association management company\" means a corporation, limited liability company, partnership, trust, association, sole proprietorship, or other similar organization engaging in the business of managing homeowners associations.\n(8) \"Unit\" means an apartment in a horizontal property regime, or a lot in a subdivision.","path":["Title 27 - PROPERTY AND CONVEYANCES","CHAPTER 30 Homeowners Associations","ARTICLE 1 South Carolina Homeowners Association Act"],"source_url":"https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t27c030.php","current_through":"2025 Session of the General Assembly","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T06:56:39Z","sha256":"c4984d3b8be9ef44ee2a88ce054aa1a61e6dba194108a5aa969acbb85b954b63","source_id":"us-sc","stale":false,"prev":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-27-30-110","next":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-27-30-130"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}