Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 111-12

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Code: means the housing, building, and zoning codes of the counties. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 111-2
• Displaced person: means any person who is lawfully residing on or lawfully occupying real property and is required to move from any real property on or after June 25, 1970, as a result of the acquisition or imminence of acquisition of such real property, in whole or in part, by a state agency or who moves from such real property as a result of the acquisition or imminence of acquisition by such state agency of other real property on which such person is lawfully conducting a business or farm operation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 111-2
• Person: means

  (1) any individual, partnership, or corporation or association which is the owner of a business;

  (2) any owner, part-owner, tenant, or sharecropper operating a farm;

  (3) the head of a family;

  (4) an individual not a member of a family;

  (5) a nonprofit organization exempted from taxation under section 235-9. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 111-2

• State agency: means an agency or instrumentality created by the State and includes, for purposes of this chapter, county governmental agencies. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 111-2