Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 264-67

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.

In connection with the development of any controlled-access facility, the director of transportation may plan, designate, establish, use, regulate, alter, realign, widen, improve, maintain, and vacate local service roads and streets or designate as local service roads and streets any existing public highway, and exercise jurisdiction over service roads and streets in the same manner as is authorized over controlled-access facilities under this part, if, in the director’s opinion, the local service roads or streets are necessary or desirable. The local service roads or streets shall be of appropriate design, and shall be separated from the controlled-access facility proper by means of all devices designated as necessary or desirable by the director.