Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-364

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Department: means the department of human services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-1
  • Homeless: means :

    (1) An individual or family who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate night-time residence; or

    (2) An individual or family who has a primary night-time residence that is:

    (A) A supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations;

    (B) An institution that provides temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized; or

    (C) A public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as sleeping accommodations for human beings. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-361

  • Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. Source: FDIC

Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the board of land and natural resources or other state agency holding lands and improvements may contract or otherwise convey at a nominal consideration, by direct negotiation and without recourse to public auction, the land and improvements, or the management, operation, and administrative responsibility over the land and improvements, to the department or its designee. The land and improvements shall be used by the department or its designee for homeless facilities or for any other program for the homeless authorized by this part.