Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-32

  • county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
  • Public assistance: means financial assistance to or for the benefit of persons whom the department has determined to be without sufficient means of support to maintain a standard consistent with this chapter, payments to or on behalf of such persons for medical care, and social service payments as described under the Social Security Act. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-1

Chapter 386 shall apply to recipients of public assistance assigned to work on public projects pursuant to § 346-31, who shall be deemed employees for the purposes of chapter 386, and an award may be made against the State or a county or other public body according to the project upon which the person injured was engaged at the time of the injury.