Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-106

  • Board: means board of agriculture. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
  • Department: means department of agriculture. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
  • Measure: includes all measures of every kind, including but not limited to weight, mass, length, volume, time, and count; instruments and devices for weighing, measuring, or counting; and appliances and accessories associated with any such instruments and devices. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
  • Measurement standards: includes any standard or definition or model or reference or measurement relating to metrology including but not limited to weights and measures, artifacts, and reproducible definitions of a unit of measure and their applicable tolerances including those of the SI, and definitions of a lot size, sample and tolerances as related to statistical inspection. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1

The department, through the measurement standards branch, shall from time to time test all measures used in establishing or verifying any other measurement, including any measure or measurement standard used in checking the receipt or disbursement of supplies in every institution for the maintenance of which moneys are appropriated by the legislature, reporting its findings, in writing, to the supervisory board and to the executive officer of the institution concerned.