1-1 Common law of the State; exceptions
1-2 Certain laws not obligatory until published
1-3 Laws not retrospective
1-4 Persons and property subject to laws
1-4.5 Cession of concurrent jurisdiction
1-5 Contracts in contravention of law
1-6 Prohibitory law, effect
1-7 Repeal of laws
1-8 No revivor on repeal; exception
1-9 Express or implied repeals
1-10 Effect of repeal on accrued rights
1-11 Effect of repeal on pending suit or prosecution
1-12 Application of statutory construction provisions
1-13 Official languages
1-13.5 Hawaiian language; spelling
1-14 Words have usual meaning
1-15 Construction of ambiguous context
1-16 Laws in pari materia
1-17 Number and gender
1-18 “Or”, “and”
1-19 “Person”, “others”, “any”, etc.
1-20 “Month”, “year”
1-21 “Oath”
1-22 “County”
1-23 Severability
1-24 Interpretation of uniform acts
1-25 References apply to amendments
1-26 References inclusive
1-27 Citations of laws included in supplements and replacement volumes
1-28 Service of notice by mail
1-28.5 Publication of notice
1-29 Computation of time
1-30 Hawaiian standard time applicable
1-31 Hawaiian standard time; definition; observance
1-32 Acts to be done on holidays

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 1 - Common Law; Construction of Laws

  • Advance health-care directive: means an individual instruction or a power of attorney for health care. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327E-2
  • Advance mental health care directive: means a written document expressing preferences, instructions, or a power of attorney for mental health treatment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327G-2
  • Agent: means an individual designated in a power of attorney for health care to make a health-care decision for the individual granting the power. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327E-2
  • Agent: means a competent adult designated in a power of attorney contained in an advance mental health care directive to make a mental health care decision for the individual granting the power and includes all designated alternate agents. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327G-2
  • 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.
  • Approved continuing education course: means a course approved by the commissioner following receipt of recommendations from insurance professionals. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:8-102
  • Approved course provider: means an individual or entity that is approved to offer continuing education courses pursuant to article 9A. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:8-102
  • Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
  • Authority: means the Hawaii community development authority established by § 206E-3. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206E-2
  • Best interest: means that the benefits to the individual resulting from a treatment outweigh the burdens to the individual resulting from that treatment and shall include:

         (1)  The effect of the treatment on the physical, emotional, and cognitive functions of the patient;

         (2)  The degree of physical pain or discomfort caused to the individual by the treatment or the withholding or withdrawal of the treatment;

         (3)  The degree to which the individual's medical condition, the treatment, or the withholding or withdrawal of treatment, results in a severe and continuing impairment;

         (4)  The effect of the treatment on the life expectancy of the patient;

         (5)  The prognosis of the patient for recovery, with and without the treatment;

         (6)  The risks, side effects, and benefits of the treatment or the withholding of treatment; and

         (7)  The religious beliefs and basic values of the individual receiving treatment, to the extent that these may assist the surrogate decision-maker in determining benefits and burdens. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327E-2

  • Best interests: means that the benefits to the principal resulting from a mental health treatment outweigh the burdens to the principal resulting from that treatment and includes:

         (1)  The effect of the mental health treatment on the physical, mental, emotional, and cognitive functions of the principal;

         (2)  The degree of physical and mental pain or discomfort caused to the principal by the mental health treatment or the withholding or withdrawal of that treatment;

         (3)  The degree to which the principal's medical condition, the mental health treatment, or the withholding or withdrawal of mental health treatment, results in a severe and continuing impairment;

         (4)  The effect of the mental health treatment on the life expectancy of the principal;

         (5)  The prognosis of the principal for recovery or remission, with and without the mental health treatment;

         (6)  The risks, side effects, and benefits of the mental health treatment or the withholding of mental health treatment; and

         (7)  The religious beliefs and basic values of the principal receiving mental health treatment known to the agent, to the extent that these may assist the agent in determining benefits and burdens. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327G-2

  • Board: means the board of directors of the development corporation established in § 206M-2, and any successor thereto. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
  • Board: means the transit-oriented development infrastructure improvement district board. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206E-242
  • Board: means the board of education. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
  • Board: means the board of water supply of each county;

         "Council" means the council of each county;

         "County" means a county or city and county of the State;

         "County attorney" means the legal advisor of a county;

         "County auditor" means the auditor or finance officer of a county performing the audit function;

         "County treasurer" means the county official maintaining its treasury;

         "Mayor" means the executive officer of a county. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 54-11

  • Board: means the neurotrauma advisory board established under § 321H-3. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321H-1
  • Business: means any corporation, partnership, individual, sole proprietorship, joint stock company, joint venture, or any other private legal entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
  • Business day: means any day excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and state or federal holidays. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-1
  • Business entity: means an association, corporation, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, partnership, or other legal entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:8-102
  • Capacity: means an individual's ability to understand the significant benefits, risks, and alternatives to proposed health care and to make and communicate a health-care decision. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327E-2
  • Capacity: means a principal's ability to understand the significant benefits, risks, and alternatives to proposed mental health care or treatment and to make and communicate a mental health care decision. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327G-2
  • Change order: means a written order signed by the procurement officer, directing the contractor to make changes which the changes clause of the contract authorizes the procurement officer to order without the consent of the contractor. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
  • Competent adult: means an individual eighteen years of age or older who has the capacity to understand the significant benefits, risks, and alternatives to proposed mental health care or treatment and to make and communicate mental health care decisions. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327G-2
  • Construction: means the process of building, altering, repairing, improving, or demolishing any public structure or building, or other public improvements of any kind to any public real property. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
  • Contract: means all types of agreements, regardless of what they may be called, for the procurement or disposal of goods or services, or for construction. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
  • Contract modification: means any written alteration in specifications, delivery point, rate of delivery, period of performance, price, quantity, or other provisions of any contract accomplished by mutual action of the parties to the contract. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
  • Contractor: means any person having a contract with a governmental body. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
  • Cooperative purchasing: means procurement conducted by a public or external procurement unit with one or more public procurement units, external procurement units, or nonprofit private procurement units, pursuant to this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-801
  • Cost: means the total cost in carrying out all undertakings that the development corporation deems reasonable and necessary for the development of a project or economic zone, including but not limited to the cost of studies, surveys, plans, and specifications, architectural, design, engineering, or any other special related services; the cost of site preparation and development, demolition, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, and improvement; the cost of financing such project or economic zone, including interest on bonds issued to finance such project or economic zone from the date thereof to the estimated date of completion of such project or economic zone as determined by the board; the cost of an allocable portion of the administrative and operating expenses of the development corporation related to the development of such project or economic zone; and the cost of indemnity and surety bonds, premiums on policies of insurance, legal fees, and fees and expenses of trustees, depositories, and paying agents for the bonds, and for the issuance of letters of credit or other banking arrangements whether for the development corporation or a qualified person; all as the development corporation shall deem necessary. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
  • County: means any county of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206E-2
  • Covered entity: means a person or organization receiving state financial assistance, including grants, purchase-of-service contracts, or any other arrangement by which the State provides or otherwise makes available assistance in the form of funds to the person or organization for the purpose of rendering services to the public. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321C-2
  • Data: means recorded information, regardless of form or characteristic. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
  • Department: means the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327K-1
  • Department: means the department of education. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
  • Department: means the department of budget and finance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 319-1
  • Department: means department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321H-1
  • Design-build: means a project delivery method in which the procurement officer enters into a single contract for design and construction. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
  • Development corporation: means the Hawaii technology development corporation established by § 206M-2. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
  • Director: means the director of finance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 319-1
  • Director: means the director of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321H-1
  • District: means the Heeia community development district. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206E-201
  • District: means the stadium development district established by this part. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206E-222
  • District: means the transit-oriented development infrastructure improvement district within each county-designated transit-oriented development zone, or within a one-half mile radius of a proposed or existing transit station if the county has not designated transit-oriented development zones, as determined by the board. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206E-242
  • District: means the Pulehunui community development district. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206E-262
  • District: means the state public education system as a whole, except as used by the department for federal compliance and reporting requirements. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
  • Economic zone: includes the installation of improvements to the tract incidental to the use of real property as an economic zone, such as water, sewer, sewage and waste disposal, and drainage facilities, sufficient to adequately service projects in the economic zone, and the provision of incidental transportation facilities, power distribution facilities, and communication facilities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
  • Emancipated minor: means a person under eighteen years of age who is totally self-supporting. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327E-2
  • Emancipated minor: means an individual less than eighteen years of age who is deemed to be emancipated pursuant to § 577-25. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327G-2
  • Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. Source: OCC
  • Employee: means an individual drawing a salary from a governmental body, whether elected or not, and any noncompensated individual performing services for any governmental body. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
  • Enterprise: means a person with a place of business in Hawaii which is, or proposes to be, engaged in business in Hawaii; provided that the endeavor shall not be devoted to the sale of goods at retail, construction of housing, or tourism-related services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
  • Executive director: means the executive director of the office of language access. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321C-2
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • External procurement unit: means any buying organization not located in this State which, if located in this State, would qualify as a public procurement unit. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-801
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: A government corporation that insures the deposits of all national and state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System. Source: OCC
  • Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. Source: OCC
  • Forbearance: A means of handling a delinquent loan. A
  • Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. Source: OCC
  • Form: means a provider orders for life-sustaining treatment form adopted by the department. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327K-1
  • Fund: means the Heeia community development special fund. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206E-201
  • Fund: means the transit-oriented development infrastructure improvement district special fund established under § 206E-247. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206E-242
  • Fund: means the Pulehunui community development district special fund. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206E-262
  • Geographic bidding: includes the use of a competitive solicitation which provides for one or more contracts to be awarded on a regional or geographic basis with the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-901
  • Goods: means all property, including but not limited to equipment, equipment leases, materials, supplies, printing, insurance, and processes, including computer systems and software, excluding land or a permanent interest in land, leases of real property, and office rentals. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
  • Governmental body: means any department, commission, council, board, bureau, authority, committee, institution, legislative body, agency, government corporation, or other establishment or office of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the State, including the office of Hawaiian affairs, and the several counties of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
  • Grant: means the furnishing of assistance, whether financial or otherwise, to any person to support a program authorized by law. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
  • gross premiums: as used in this part shall not include consideration paid for annuities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:7-201
  • Guardian: means a judicially appointed guardian having authority to make a health-care decision for an individual. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327E-2
  • Guardian: means a judicially appointed guardian or conservator having authority to make a mental health care decision for a principal, appointed under part 3 of article V of chapter 560. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327G-2
  • Hawaii input: includes but is not limited to:

         (1)  The cost to mine, excavate, produce, manufacture, raise, grow, assemble, or fabricate the materials in Hawaii;

         (2)  The added value of that portion of the cost of imported materials that is incurred after landing in Hawaii, including but not limited to other articles, materials, and supplies, added to the imported materials;

         (3)  The cost of labor, variable overhead, utilities, and services, incurred in the production and manufacturing of materials or products in Hawaii; and

         (4)  Fixed overhead cost and amortization or depreciation cost, if any, for buildings, tools, and equipment, situated and located in Hawaii and used in the production or manufacturing of a product. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1001

  • Hawaii products: means products that are mined, excavated, produced, manufactured, raised, or grown in the State and where the cost of the Hawaii input towards the product exceeds fifty per cent of the total cost of the product; provided that:

         (1)  Where the value of the input exceeds fifty per cent of the total cost, the product shall be classified as class I; and

         (2)  Where any agricultural, aquacultural, horticultural, silvicultural, floricultural, or livestock product is raised, grown, or harvested in the State, the product shall be classified as class II. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1001

  • Health care: means any care, treatment, service, or procedure to maintain, diagnose, or otherwise affect an individual's physical or mental condition, including:

         (1)  Selection and discharge of health-care providers and institutions;

         (2)  Approval or disapproval of diagnostic tests, surgical procedures, programs of medication, and orders not to resuscitate; and

         (3)  Direction to provide, withhold, or withdraw artificial nutrition and hydration; provided that withholding or withdrawing artificial nutrition or hydration is in accord with generally accepted health care standards applicable to health-care providers or institutions. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327E-2

  • Health care institution: means an institution, facility, or agency licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized or permitted by law to provide health care in the ordinary course of business. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327G-2
  • Health care provider: means an individual licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized or permitted by law to provide health care in the ordinary course of business or practice of a profession. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327G-2
  • Health care provider: means an individual licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized or permitted by law to provide health care in the ordinary course of the individual's business or profession. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327K-1
  • Health-care decision: means a decision made by an individual or the individual's agent, guardian, or surrogate, regarding the individual's health care. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327E-2
  • Health-care institution: means an institution, facility, or agency licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized or permitted by law to provide health care in the ordinary course of business. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327E-2
  • Health-care provider: means an individual licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized or permitted by law to provide health care in the ordinary course of business or practice of a profession. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327E-2
  • Home state: means , with respect to an insured, the state in which an insured maintains the insured's principal place of business or, in the case of a surplus lines broker, the state in which the surplus lines broker maintains the surplus lines broker's principal residence or principal place of business and is licensed to act as a surplus lines broker; provided that if one hundred per cent of the insured risk is located out of the state where the insured maintains the insured's principal place of business or the state where the individual maintains the principal residence, the home state shall be the state where the greatest percentage of the insured's taxable premium for that insurance contract is allocated. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:8-102
  • Inactive: means that the authority of a license issued by the commissioner is not in effect. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:8-102
  • Independent adjuster: means an adjuster representing the interests of the insurer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:9-105
  • Individual: means a natural person. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:8-102
  • Individual instruction: means an individual's direction concerning a health-care decision for the individual. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327E-2
  • Institutional facility: means a:

         (1)  Hospital;

         (2)  Convalescent home;

         (3)  Nursing home;

         (4)  Extended care facility;

         (5)  Mental institution;

         (6)  Rehabilitation center;

         (7)  Health maintenance organization;

         (8)  Psychiatric center;

         (9)  Intellectual disability center;

        (10)  Penal institution; or

        (11)  Any other organization whose primary purpose is to provide a physical environment for patients to obtain health care services or at-home care services, except those places where physicians, dentists, veterinarians, osteopaths, podiatrists, or other prescribers who are duly licensed, engage in private practice. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 328C-1

  • Interested persons: means the patient's spouse, unless legally separated or estranged, a reciprocal beneficiary, any adult child, either parent of the patient, an adult sibling or adult grandchild of the patient, or any adult who has exhibited special care and concern for the patient and who is familiar with the patient's personal values. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327E-2
  • Invitation for bids: means all documents, whether attached or incorporated by reference, utilized for soliciting bids. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
  • Irrevocable trust: A trust arrangement that cannot be revoked, rescinded, or repealed by the grantor.
  • Joint tenancy: A form of property ownership in which two or more parties hold an undivided interest in the same property that was conveyed under the same instrument at the same time. A joint tenant can sell his (her) interest but not dispose of it by will. Upon the death of a joint tenant, his (her) undivided interest is distributed among the surviving joint tenants.
  • Language: means human speech or the expression of ideas by written characters and includes systems used by nations, people, or other distinct communities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321C-2
  • Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
  • Legally authorized representative: means an agent, guardian, or surrogate, as those terms are defined in § 327E-2, or agent designated through a power of attorney for health care, as defined in § 327E-2. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327K-1
  • License: means a document issued by the commissioner authorizing a person to act as a surplus lines broker as specified in the document. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:8-102
  • Licensee: means a surplus lines broker licensed under this article. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:8-102
  • Local public procurement unit: means any county of the State or public agency of any county, public authority, educational, health, or other institution, and to the extent provided by law, any other entity which expends public funds for the procurement of goods, services, and construction. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-801
  • Mental health care: means any care, treatment, service, or procedure to maintain, diagnose, or otherwise affect a principal's mental condition, including:

         (1)  Selection and discharge of health care providers and institutions;

         (2)  Approval or disapproval of diagnostic tests, surgical procedures, and programs of medication; and

         (3)  Approval or disapproval of electroconvulsive treatment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327G-2

  • Mental health care decision: means a decision made by a principal or the principal's agent or guardian regarding the principal's mental health care or mental health treatment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327G-2
  • Mental health treatment: means any form of treatment used for the treatment of mental illness, including but not limited to electroconvulsive treatment, the use of psychotropic medication, and admission to and retention in a health care facility for the care or treatment of mental illness. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327G-2
  • National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. Source: OCC
  • Neurotrauma: means a severe chronic disability of a person that is attributable to an injury to the central nervous system, such as traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury, and likely to continue indefinitely. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321H-1
  • Office paper: includes computer paper, bond paper, ledger paper, xerographic copier paper, envelopes, and other related types of paper on which printing, writing, or drawing is intended. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1001
  • Oral argument: An opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions.
  • Oral language services: means the free provision of oral information necessary to enable limited English proficient persons to access or participate in services, programs, or activities of a state agency or covered entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321C-2
  • participate: means to be informed of, participate in, and benefit from the services, programs, and activities offered by the State and covered entities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321C-2
  • Past performance: means available recent and relevant performance of a contractor, including positive, negative, or lack of previous experience, on contracts that shall be considered in a responsibility determination within the relevance of the current solicitation, including the considerations of § 103D-702(b). See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327E-2
  • Person: means a sole proprietorship, partnership, joint venture, corporation, or other association of persons organized for commercial or industrial purposes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
  • Person: means every individual, partnership, firm, society, unincorporated association, joint venture, group, hui, joint stock, company, corporation, trustee, personal representative, trust estate, decedent's estate, trust, or other entities, whether the persons are doing business for themselves or in any agency or fiduciary capacity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1001
  • Pharmaceuticals and health care supplies: means any medicine (prescription or nonprescription, excluding all controlled substances listed in chapter 329) or health care supplies such as soap, personal sanitary products, baby formula, dietary supplement, health care aids such as thermometers, surgical gloves, or bandages, or any other item which is customarily fit for human consumption or external use, before the expiration date stamped on the product, if any. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 328C-1
  • physical disability: means a physical impairment that substantially limits one or more of a person's major life activities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 304A-101
  • Physician: means an individual authorized to practice medicine or osteopathy under chapter 453. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327E-2
  • Physician: means an individual authorized to practice medicine or osteopathy under chapter 453. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327G-2
  • Plan: means the Hawaii dental education plan. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 319-1
  • Policy board: means the procurement policy board created in § 103D-201. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
  • Power of attorney: means the designation of an agent to make mental health care decisions for the principal granting the power. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327G-2
  • Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC
  • Power of attorney for health care: means the designation of an agent to make health-care decisions for the individual granting the power. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327E-2
  • Primary physician: means a physician designated by an individual or the individual's agent, guardian, or surrogate, to have primary responsibility for the individual's health care or, in the absence of a designation or if the designated physician is not reasonably available, a physician who undertakes the responsibility. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327E-2
  • Primary physician: means a physician designated by a principal or the principal's agent or guardian to have primary responsibility for the principal's health care, including mental health care or, in the absence of a designation or if the designated physician is not reasonably available, a physician who undertakes the responsibility. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327G-2
  • Principal: means a competent adult or emancipated minor who has executed a written advance mental health care directive or power of attorney for mental health care. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327G-2
  • Printed material: includes business forms, stationery, business cards, brochures, reports, publications, advertising and promotional collateral, and other related materials, including reports, publications, and related materials commissioned as part of any professional services contract. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1001
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Procurement: means buying, purchasing, renting, leasing, or otherwise acquiring any good, service, or construction. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
  • Procurement automation system: means an electronic procurement, accounting-oriented, multi-module, data-based system that integrates procurement activities from solicitation to contract management. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
  • Procurement officer: means any person authorized to enter into and administer contracts and make written determinations with respect thereto. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
  • Products: include materials, manufactures, supplies, merchandise, goods, wares, products, and foodstuffs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1001
  • Professional services: means those services within the scope of the practice of architecture, landscape architecture, professional engineering, land surveying, real property appraisal, law, medicine, accounting, dentistry, public finance bond underwriting, public finance bond investment banking, or any other practice defined as professional by the laws of this State or the professional and scientific occupation series contained in the United States Office of Personnel Management's Qualifications Standards Handbook. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
  • Program: means the transit-oriented development infrastructure improvement district program developed by the board pursuant to § 206E-246. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206E-242
  • Project: means a specific work or improvement, including real and personal properties, or any interest therein, acquired, owned, constructed, reconstructed, rehabilitated, or improved by the authority, including a commercial project, a redevelopment project, or a residential project, all as defined as follows, or any combination thereof, which combination shall hereinafter be called and known as a "multipurpose project". See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206E-2
  • Project: means the acquisition, construction, improvement, installation, equipping, and development of any combination of land, buildings, and other improvements thereon, including, without limitation, parking facilities for use of, or to assist a technology industrial, manufacturing, or processing enterprise located within or without an economic zone, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, machinery, equipment, furnishings, and apparatus that shall be deemed necessary, suitable, or useful to the enterprise. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
  • Project agreement: means any agreement entered into under this chapter by the development corporation with a qualified person to finance, construct, operate, or maintain a project or an economic zone from the proceeds of special purpose revenue bonds, or to lend the proceeds of special purpose revenue bonds to assist a technology industrial, manufacturing, or processing enterprise, including, without limitation, any lease, sublease, loan agreement, conditional sale agreement, or other similar financing contract or agreement, or any combination thereof. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
  • Provider orders for life-sustaining treatment form: means a form signed by a patient, or if incapacitated, by the patient's legally authorized representative and the patient's provider, that records the patient's wishes and that directs a health care provider regarding the provision of resuscitative and life-sustaining measures. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327K-1
  • Psychologist: means an individual authorized to practice psychology under chapter 465. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327G-2
  • Public adjuster: means an adjuster employed by and solely representing the financial interests of the insured named in the policy. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:9-105
  • Public agency: means any office, department, board, commission, bureau, division, public corporation agency, or instrumentality of the federal, state, or county government. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206E-2
  • Public agency: means any office, department, board, commission, bureau, division, public corporation, agency, or instrumentality of the federal, state, or county government. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
  • Public facilities: includes streets, utility and service corridors, and utility lines where applicable, sufficient to adequately service developable improvements in the district, sites for schools, parks, parking garage, sidewalks, pedestrian ways, and other community facilities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206E-2
  • Public procurement unit: means either a local public procurement unit or a state public procurement unit. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-801
  • Purchase description: means the words used in a solicitation to describe the goods, services, or construction to be purchased, and includes specifications attached to, or made a part of, the solicitation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
  • Purchasing agency: means any governmental body which is authorized by this chapter or its implementing rules and procedures, or by way of delegation, to enter into contracts for the procurement of goods, services, or construction. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
  • Qualified person: means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, cooperative, or other legal entity, governmental body or public agency, or any combination of the foregoing, possessing the competence, expertise, experience, and resources, including financial, personnel, and tangible resources, required for the purposes of a project and other qualifications as may be deemed desirable by the development corporation in administering this chapter and which enters into a project agreement with the development corporation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
  • Real property: means lands, structures, and interests in land, including lands under water and riparian rights, space rights, and air rights and any and all other things and rights usually included within the term. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206E-2
  • Real property: means lands, structures, and interests therein, and natural resources including water, minerals, and all such things connected with land, including lands under water and riparian rights, space rights, air rights, and any and all other things and rights usually included within the term. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
  • Reasonably available: means able to be contacted with a level of diligence appropriate to the seriousness and urgency of a patient's health care needs, and willing and able to act in a timely manner considering the urgency of the patient's health care needs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327E-2
  • Recovered material: means waste material and by-products that have been recovered or diverted from solid waste. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1001
  • Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
  • Request for proposals: means all documents, whether attached or incorporated by reference, utilized for soliciting proposals. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
  • Responsive bidder: means a person who has submitted a bid which conforms in all material respects to the invitation for bids. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
  • Runoff election: means any single election required by county charters preceded by an election that failed to elect a candidate. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-1
  • Services: means the furnishing of labor, time, or effort by a contractor, not involving the delivery of a specific end product other than reports which are merely incidental to the required performance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
  • Small business: means a business that is independently owned and defined by detailed criteria pursuant to rules adopted by the policy board. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-901
  • Software development: means any work related to feasibility studies, system requirements analysis, system design alternatives analysis, system external specifications, system internal specifications, programming, testing, debugging, or implementation for an electronic data processing system. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1001
  • Specifications: means any description of the physical or functional characteristics, or of the nature of a good, service, or construction item. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
  • stadium authority: means the stadium authority established pursuant to § 109-1. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206E-222
  • State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327E-2
  • State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327G-2
  • state agency: means the executive, legislative, or judicial branches of state government, including departments, offices, commissions, boards, or other agencies within the executive, legislative, or judicial branches. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321C-2
  • State public procurement unit: means the office of the chief procurement officer and any other purchasing agency of this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-801
  • Supervising health care provider: means the primary physician or the physician's designee, or the health care provider or the provider's designee who has undertaken primary responsibility for a principal's health care, that includes mental health care. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327G-2
  • Supervising health-care provider: means the primary physician or the physician's designee, or the health-care provider or the provider's designee who has undertaken primary responsibility for an individual's health care. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327E-2
  • Surplus lines broker: means any person licensed under § 431:8-310 to place insurance on risks resident, located, or to be performed in this State with unauthorized insurers. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:8-102
  • Surplus lines insurance: means any property and casualty insurance on risks procured from or placed with an unauthorized insurer under the laws of the insured's home state. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:8-102
  • Surrogate: means an individual, other than a patient's agent or guardian, authorized under this chapter to make a health-care decision or to act as a medicaid authorized representative for the patient. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327E-2
  • Technology: means industries that are technology-intensive, including but not limited to electronics, biotechnology, software, computers, telecommunications, and other computer-related technologies. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
  • Unauthorized insurer: means an insurer not holding a valid certificate of authority to transact an insurance business in the state in which the subject resident is located or in which the insurance contract will be performed. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:8-102
  • university: refers to the University of Hawaii, unless otherwise required by the context. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 304A-101
  • Uphold: The decision of an appellate court not to reverse a lower court decision.
  • urban renewal plan: means a plan, as it exists from time to time, for an urban renewal project, which plan (1) shall conform to the master plan for the county as a whole; or if there is no master plan for the county as a whole, then to the master plan for the urban area as a whole of which the urban renewal project area constitutes a part; and (2) shall be sufficiently complete to indicate such land acquisition, demolition, and removal of structures, redevelopment, improvements, and rehabilitation as may be proposed to be carried out in the area of the urban renewal project, zoning and planning changes, if any, land uses, maximum densities, building requirements, and the plan's relationship to definite local objectives respecting appropriate land uses; improved traffic, public transportation, public utilities, recreational and community facilities, and other public improvements. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 53-52
  • Using agency: means any governmental body which utilizes any goods, services, or construction procured under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
  • Vital documents: means printed documents that provide important information necessary to access or participate in services, programs, and activities of a state agency or covered entity, including but not limited to applications, outreach materials, and written notices of rights, denials, losses, or decreases in benefits or services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321C-2
  • WICHE: means the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education as described in chapter 304A, part VII, subpart D. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 319-1
  • Written language services: means the free provision of written information necessary to enable limited English proficient persons to access or participate in services, programs, or activities of a state agency or covered entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321C-2