Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes Chapter 190D > Part IV - Administration and Enforcement

• Agency: means the Hawaii emergency management agency established by section 127A-3. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
• Agency: means the Hawaii emergency management agency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127D-2
• Aquaculture: means the propagation, cultivation, or farming of aquatic plants and animals in controlled or selected environments for research purposes, commercial purposes, or stocking purposes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 187A-1
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Assistance: means emergency responders and resources provided by a responding member county in response to a request from a requesting member county. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127D-2
• Board: means the board of land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 190D-3
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• County: means the city and county of Honolulu, and the counties of Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui; provided that the county of Maui shall include the county of Kalawao for the purposes of this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
• County: means the city and county of Honolulu or the county of Hawaii, Kauai, or Maui; provided that the county of Maui shall include the county of Kalawao for the purposes of this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127D-2
• County: means the city and county of Honolulu, the county of Hawaii, the county of Kauai, and the county of Maui. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 48E-1
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Disaster: means any emergency, or imminent threat thereof, which results or may likely result in loss of life, property, or environment and requires, or may require, assistance from other counties, states, the federal government, or from private agencies. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
• Emergency: means any occurrence, or imminent threat thereof, which results or may likely result in substantial injury or harm to the population or substantial damage to or loss of property or substantial damage to or loss of the environment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
• Emergency: means an event or set of circumstances that:
  (1) Demands immediate action to preserve public health, protect life and public property, or provide relief to any stricken community overtaken by the event or circumstance; or
  (2) Reaches a dimension or degree of destructiveness as to warrant the declaration of a state of emergency or local state of emergency, pursuant to § 127A-14. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127D-2
• Emergency period: means the dates covered by a proclamation issued by the governor declaring a state of emergency or by a mayor declaring a local state of emergency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Governing body: means the body, council, or board charged with exercising the legislative authority of a county. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 48E-1
• Laws: includes ordinances, rules, regulations, and orders prescribed under federal, state, or county laws or ordinances and having the force and effect of law. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Local state of emergency: means the occurrence in any part of a county that requires efforts by the county government to save lives, and to protect property, environment, public health, welfare, or safety in the event of an emergency or disaster, or to reduce the threat of an emergency or disaster. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
• Mariculture: means the aquaculture, cultivation, and production for research, development, demonstration, and commercial purposes of aquatic plants and animals within state marine waters, but excludes floating structures that are not anchored. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 190D-3
• Materials: includes medicines, supplies, products, commodities, articles, equipment, machinery, and component parts. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
• Necessary: means and refers to such means, measures, or other actions or determinations as are required to be taken in the opinion of the governor or governor's authorized representative or a mayor or the mayor's authorized representative. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• OTEC: means ocean thermal energy conversion. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 190D-3
• Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, cooperative, or other legal entity, governmental body, or agency, board, bureau, or other instrumentality thereof, or any combination of two or more of the foregoing. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 48E-1
• Pollution control project: means any processing enterprise consisting of property, or improvements or alterations to property, designed, acquired, constructed, installed, or modified, and certified as necessary or desirable by the state department of health, to abate, control, reduce, treat, eliminate, or dispose of solid waste, and specifically includes facilities which incidentally provide for the recovery of energy or material resources, or both. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 48E-1
• Project agreement: means any lease, sublease, loan agreement, conditional sale agreement, or other similar financing contract or agreement, or combination thereof entered into under this chapter by the county, including the financing of a pollution control project from the proceeds of the special purpose revenue bonds. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 48E-1
• Project party: means the person with whom the county enters into a project agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 48E-1
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Requesting member county: means a member county that requests assistance from another member county under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127D-2
• Resources: includes supplies, materials, equipment, facilities, energy, services, information, systems, and other assets that may be necessary, pursuant to a request for assistance under this chapter, for:
  (1) Response, mitigation, or recovery activities related to an emergency; or
  (2) Participation in drills or exercises in preparation for an emergency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127D-2
• Responding member county: means a member county providing or intending to provide assistance to a requesting member county under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127D-2
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Special purpose revenue bonds: means bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness of a county issued pursuant to this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 48E-1
• State marine waters: means all waters of the State, including the water column, water surface, and state submerged lands, extending from the upper reaches of the wash of the waves on shore seaward to the limit of the State's police power and management authority, including the United States territorial sea, notwithstanding any law to the contrary. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 190D-3
• States: include the several states, the District of Columbia, and the possessions of the United States, and also includes the State of Hawaii, and to the extent authorized by or under federal law, foreign countries and their provinces and states. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.