Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 560 > Article III > Part 5 - Supervised Administration

• Administrative revocation: means termination of the respondent's license, and the privilege to operate a vessel underway on or in the waters of the State pursuant to part III, but does not include any revocation imposed under § 291E-61 or 291E-61. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
• Alcohol: means ethanol or any substance containing ethanol. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
• Alcohol concentration: means either grams of alcohol per one hundred milliliters or cubic centimeters of blood or grams of alcohol per two hundred ten liters of breath. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Branch office: means any location, separate from the principal place of business of the escrow depository, that is identified by any means to the public or customers as a location at which the licensee holds itself out as an escrow depository. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 449-1
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of financial institutions of this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 449-1
• county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Director: means the administrative director of the courts or any other person within the judiciary appointed by the director to conduct administrative reviews or hearings or carry out other functions relating to administrative revocation under part III. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
• Division: means the division of financial institutions of the department of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 449-1
• Drug: means any controlled substance, as defined and enumerated in schedules I through IV of chapter 329, or its metabolites, or any substance that, when taken into the human body, can impair the ability of a person to operate a vehicle safely. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Escrow: means any transaction affecting the title to real property, including leaseholds, proprietary leaseholds, and condominiums, in which a person not a party to the transaction and neither having nor acquiring any interest in the title receives from one party to the transaction, holds until the happening of an event or performance of a condition and then delivers to another party to the transaction, any money or other consideration or any instrument affecting the title to that real property, all in accordance with the terms of the agreement between the parties to the transaction. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 449-1
• Escrow depository: means the corporation which, in an escrow, and for compensation, receives, holds, and delivers the money, other consideration, or instrument affecting title to real property. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 449-1
• 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.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Ignition interlock device: means a breath alcohol ignition interlock device that is certified pursuant to section 291E-6 and rules adopted thereunder that, when affixed to the ignition system of a motor vehicle, prevents the vehicle from being started without first testing, and thereafter from being operated without periodically retesting, a deep-lung breath sample of the person required to use the device that indicates the person's alcohol concentration is less than . See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• Intoxicant: means alcohol or any drug, as defined in this section. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
• Law enforcement officer: means any public servant, whether employed by the State, a county, or by the United States, vested by law with a duty to maintain public order or to make arrests for offenses or to enforce the criminal laws, and includes a conservation and resources enforcement officer as specified in section 199-3. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• License: means any driver's license or any other license or permit to operate a motor vehicle issued under, or granted by, the laws of this State and includes:
  (1) Any learner's permit or instruction permit;
  (2) The privilege of any person to operate a motor vehicle, regardless of whether the person holds a valid license;
  (3) Any nonresident's operating privilege; and
  (4) The eligibility, including future eligibility, of any person to apply for a license or privilege to operate a motor vehicle. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
• Measurable amount of alcohol: means a test result equal to or greater than . See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
• notice: means the written notice issued to the respondent pursuant to section 291E-33. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
• Operate: means to drive or assume actual physical control of a vehicle upon a public way, street, road, or highway or to navigate or otherwise use or assume physical control of a vessel underway on or in the waters of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
• Operator: means a person who drives or assumes actual physical control of a vehicle or a person who operates, navigates, or who has an essential role in the operation of a vessel underway. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
• Privilege: refers to the authority to operate a vessel underway on or in the waters of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Respondent: means a person to whom a notice of administrative revocation has been issued following an arrest for a violation of § 291E-61 or 291E-61. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• State: means : any state or possession of the United States; the District of Columbia; the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; the United States Virgin Islands; American Samoa; Guam; any province or territory of the Dominion of Canada; and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, except when the word, in context, clearly refers to the State of Hawaii. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
• Temporary permit: means that portion of the notice of administrative revocation that, when completed by a law enforcement officer, permits the respondent to operate a vehicle for thirty days in the case of an alcohol related offense and forty-four days in the case of a drug related offense or until such time as the director may establish under part III. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
• Testate: To die leaving a will.
• Under the influence: means that a person:
  (1) Is under the influence of alcohol in an amount sufficient to impair the person's normal mental faculties or ability to care for the person and guard against casualty;
  (2) Is under the influence of any drug that impairs the person's ability to operate the vehicle in a careful and prudent manner;
  (3) Has . See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
• Valid license: means a license that:
  (1) Is issued by an authorized licensing official in any state;
  (2) Authorizes an individual to operate a motor vehicle on public streets, roads, or highways; and
  (3) Has not expired or been revoked, suspended, or canceled. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
• Vehicle: includes a:
  (1) Motor vehicle;
  (2) Moped; and
  (3) Vessel. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1