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• Business: a trade, calling occupation, profession, or
  activity engaged in with the object of gain, benefit or
  advantage, either directly or indirectly.
  
  
• Classification: that division of businesses by major groups
  subject to the same license rate as determined by a
  calculated index of ability to pay based on national
  averages, benefits, equalizations of tax burden,
  relationships of services, or other basis deemed
  appropriate by Dorchester County
  
  
• Gross Income: the total revenue of a business,
  received or accrued, for one calendar year collected
  or to be collected from business done within the
  unincorporated area of the County, except from income
  from business done wholly outside of the unincorporated
  area of the County on which a license tax is paid to
  some municipality or a county and fully reported to
  the County.
  
  
• Unincorporated Area: area located outside the city
  limits in Dorchester County.
  
  
• Deductible Income: Income that is generated
  in any municipality or county where a license
  fee is required.
  
  
• License Inspector: the person designated by the
  County Administrator to administer this ordinance.
  
  
• SIC: Standard Classification Manual
  
  
• County:  Means the County of Dorchester, South Carolina
  
  
• Contractor:  Means a person, licensee, subcontractor or
  business entity that enters into an agreement to perform any
  service or work or to provide a certain product in exchange
  for valuable consideration.  This definition shall include but not
  be limited to a subcontractor, contract employee, or a recruiting
  or staffing entity.
  
  
• Basic Pilot Program:  Means an electronic verification of work
  authorization program provided under the auspices of the illegal
  Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act of 1996,
  P.L. 104-208, Division C, Section 403 (a); United States Code
  Title 8, subsection 1324a, and operated by the United Stated
  Department of Homeland Security (or a successor program
  established by the federal government).
  
  
• Employment Eligibility Verification:  Means the verification by
  an authorized representative of the County of Dorchester that
  a person providing work or services on behalf of a business
  entity licensed by the County is lawfully present in the United
  States in an immigration status for which such work has been
  authorized.  Verification is made by the submission of such persona
  l data of such a person as may be required by the appropriate
  federal government agency, which has been duly collected by
  the business and provided to the County pursuant to an
  enforcement action under this Section 23.