Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 577A - Legal Capacity of Minor Regarding Medical Care

• Committed person: means a person committed to the custody of the director of corrections and rehabilitation for imprisonment pursuant to chapter 706, including a probationer serving a term of imprisonment pursuant to section 706-624(2)(a) and a misdemeanant or petty misdemeanant sentenced pursuant to section 706-663. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 353-1
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Department: means the department of corrections and rehabilitation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 353-1
• Director: means the director of corrections and rehabilitation; provided that the signing or approval of vouchers and other routine matters may be delegated by the director to any authorized subordinate. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 353-1
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• 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.
• Labor: means the period of time before a birth during which contractions are of sufficient frequency, intensity, and duration to bring about effacement and progressive dilation of the cervix. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 353-121
• 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.
• Postpartum recovery: means :

  (1) The entire period a female is in a hospital, birthing center, or clinic after giving birth; and

  (2) An additional time period, if any, a treating physician determines is necessary for healing after the female leaves the hospital, birthing center, or clinic. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 353-121

• Restraints: means anything used to control the movement of a person's body or limbs and includes:

  (1) Physical restraint; or

  (2) A mechanical device, including metal handcuffs, plastic ties, ankle restraints, leather cuffs, other hospital-type restraints, tasers, or batons. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 353-121

• Transport: means the conveyance, by any means, of a committed person from the correctional facility to another location, including travel to and from a transport vehicle. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 353-121