Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 342P > Part III - Asbestos Emission and Lead Hazard Control

• Abatement: means any measure or set of measures designed to permanently eliminate asbestos or lead-based paint hazards, including but not limited to removal, enclosure, encapsulation, or disposal. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342P-1
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• Asbestos: means the asbestiform varieties of serpentine (chrysotile), riebeckite (crocidolite), cummingtonite-grunerite (amosite), anthophyllite, actinolite, and tremolite. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342P-1
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Department: means the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342P-1
• Director: means the director of health or a duly authorized agent, officer, or inspector. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342P-1
• Emission: means the act of releasing or discharging asbestos into the ambient air from any source. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342P-1
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• 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.
• Person: means any individual, partnership, firm, association, public or private corporation, federal agency, the State or any of its political subdivisions, trust, estate, or any other legal entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342P-1
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Renovation: means altering in any way one or more facilities or structural components of a facility. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342P-1
• Revocable trust: A trust agreement that can be canceled, rescinded, revoked, or repealed by the grantor (person who establishes the trust).
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.