South Carolina § 16-3-1610 - Definitions.
Full text of South Carolina South Carolina Code of Laws § 16-3-1610 — Definitions., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 16-3-1610. Definitions.
As used in this article:
(1) "Criminal and juvenile justice system" means circuit solicitors and members of their staffs; the Attorney General and his staff; law enforcement agencies and officers; adult and juvenile probation, parole, and correctional agencies and officers; officials responsible for victims' compensation and other services which benefit victims of crime, and state, county, and municipal victim advocacy and victim assistance personnel.
(2) "Victim assistance program" means an entity, whether governmental, corporate, nonprofit, partnership, or individual, which provides, is required by law to provide, or claims to provide services or assistance, or both to victims on an ongoing basis.
(3) "Victim" means a person who suffers direct or threatened physical, emotional, or financial harm as the result of an act by someone else, which is a crime. The term includes immediate family members of a homicide victim or of any other victim who is either incompetent or a minor and includes an intervenor.
HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 433, SECTION 1; 2017 Act No. 96 (S.289), SECTION 7, eff July 1, 2017.
Effect of Amendment
2017 Act No. 96, Pt. II, SECTION 7, reenacted the section with no apparent change.
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