{"data":{"id":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-27-30-320","jurisdiction":"us-sc","citation":"S.C. Code Ann. § 27-30-320","heading":"Definitions.","body":"For the purposes of 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) \"Bylaws\" means the document, and amendments to it, that contain the procedures for conducting the affairs of a homeowners association, regardless of the form of the association's legal entity or the name by which the document comprising the bylaws is identified.\n(3) \"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(4) \"Declaration\" means the recorded instruments, however denominated, that create a homeowners association, including amendments to those instruments.\n(5) \"Department\" means the Department of Consumer Affairs.\n(6) \"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(7) \"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 timesharing plan organized and subject only to the provisions of Chapter 32.\n(8) \"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(9) \"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 3 Department of Consumer Affairs Services for Homeowners and Homeowners Associations"],"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":"f42d5ed51aced0d3b644f6bf71a5ed25e22f4570160a0dfc6966f5d8decd3c96","source_id":"us-sc","stale":false,"prev":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-27-30-310","next":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-27-30-330"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}