§ 132D-1 Title
§ 132D-2 Definitions
§ 132D-3 Permissible uses of consumer fireworks
§ 132D-4 Permissible uses of display fireworks, articles pyrotechnic, and aerial devices
§ 132D-5 General prohibitions
§ 132D-6 Exceptions
§ 132D-7 License or permit required
§ 132D-8 Application for license
§ 132D-8.5 Importation of aerial devices, display fireworks, or articles pyrotechnic for display
§ 132D-8.6 Requirements of licensee
§ 132D-9 Application for permit
§ 132D-10 Permits
§ 132D-11 Fee
§ 132D-12 Sale to minors; sale by minors; prohibited
§ 132D-13 Liability of parents or guardians
§ 132D-14 Penalty
§ 132D-14.5 Liability of homeowner, renter, or person otherwise responsible for real property
§ 132D-15 Notice requirements
§ 132D-16 Permit for display
§ 132D-16.5 Labeling of display fireworks
§ 132D-16.6 Display site inspection
§ 132D-16.7 Display stop order
§ 132D-17.5 County ordinances
§ 132D-18 Effect on other laws
§ 132D-20 Enforcement; probable cause for arrest
§ 132D-21 Health care facilities; report of fireworks and articles pyrotechnic incidents

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 132D - Fireworks

  • Adjournment sine die: The end of a legislative session "without day." These adjournments are used to indicate the final adjournment of an annual or the two-year session of legislature.
  • Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
  • Aerial device: means any fireworks containing one hundred thirty milligrams or less of explosive materials that produces an audible or visible effect and is designed to rise into the air and explode or detonate in the air or to fly about above the ground, and that is prohibited for use by any person who does not have a permit for display issued by a county under § 132D-16. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 132D-2
  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Agency: means the judiciary, any executive department, independent commission, board, authority, bureau, office, other establishment of the State (except the legislature and its agencies), or public corporation that is supported in whole or in part by state funds, or any agent thereof, authorized by law to expend available moneys; provided that the Hawaii health systems corporation and its regional system boards shall not be governed by this chapter for any financing agreement unless it elects to be. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 37D-1
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • 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.
  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • Appointing authority: means a department head or designee having the power to make appointments or changes in the status of employees. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 76-11
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Articles pyrotechnic: means pyrotechnic devices for professional use similar to consumer fireworks in chemical composition and construction but not intended for consumer use that meet the weight limits for consumer fireworks but are not labeled as such, and that are classified as UN0431 or UN0432 by the United States Department of Transportation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 132D-2
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Attorney general: means the attorney general of the State or any duly designated deputy attorney general. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 37D-1
  • Authority: means the Hawaii green infrastructure authority as established under section 196-63. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
  • Available: means that the vehicle is physically present and not rented for the requested rental period. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-2
  • Available moneys: means moneys appropriated or otherwise made available, from time to time, by the legislature to pay amounts due under a financing agreement for the fiscal period in which the payments are due, together with any unexpended proceeds of the financing agreement, and any reserves or other amounts that have been deposited in trust to pay amounts due under the financing agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 37D-1
  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • 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

  • Bond: means any bond, note, and other evidence of indebtedness that is issued by the State pursuant to part of chapter 269. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
  • Case law: The law as laid down in cases that have been decided in the decisions of the courts.
  • Chambers: A judge's office.
  • Chief energy officer: means the chief energy officer of the Hawaii state energy office. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-81
  • Chief executive: means the governor, the respective mayors, the chief justice of the supreme court, and the chief executive officer of the Hawaii health systems corporation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 76-11
  • Child: means a person under eighteen years of age. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 28-181
  • Civil service: includes all positions within a jurisdiction that are not exempted by § 46-33, 76-16, or 76-77, or by other law and must be filled through civil service recruitment procedures based on merit. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 76-11
  • Clean energy investments: means the purchase, installation, or both, of clean energy technology, including energy-efficiency measures, green transportation infrastructure, recycling, and renewable energy technology. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
  • Clean energy technology: means any technology as defined in section 269-121(b). See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
  • Commercial property: means any existing or new real property not defined as a residential property, and shall include any property where there is a leasehold or possessory interest in the property and any multi-family dwelling or townhouse consisting of five or more units as well as agricultural property. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
  • Commercial property assessed financing assessment: means the non-ad valorem special tax assessment that secures the repayment of financing obtained by an owner of commercial property for a qualifying improvement and that appears on a property tax bill. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
  • Commercial property assessed financing assessment contract: means the financing contract, under the commercial property assessed financing program, by and among one or more commercial property assessed financing lenders, one or more commercial property owners, and the authority as the administrator of the commercial property assessed financing program for the acquisition or installation of qualifying improvements. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
  • Commercial property assessed financing lender: means a financial institution as defined pursuant to § 412:1-109, or a private or public lender approved by the authority, as the administrator of the commercial property assessed financing program, to originate commercial property assessed financing assessment contracts, and which may include any successor or assignee of the lender as provided in the commercial property assessed financing assessment contract. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
  • Commercial property assessed financing program: means a program to finance qualifying improvements on commercial properties that are repaid through a non-ad valorem special tax assessment on the commercial property owner's property tax bill. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
  • Commercial sexual exploitation of children: means any sexual activity involving a child for the exchange or promise of anything of value by any person. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 28-181
  • Committee: means the access Hawaii committee. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 27G-1
  • committee: means the legislative advisory committee. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 23-62
  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • Compact fluorescent lamp: means a compact low-pressure, mercury-containing, electric-discharge light source in which a fluorescent coating transforms some of the ultraviolet energy generated by the mercury discharge into visible light, and includes the following characteristics:

    (1) One base (end cap) of any type, including but not limited to screw, bayonet, two pins, and four pins;
    (2) Integrally ballasted or non-integrally ballasted;
    (3) Light emission between a correlated color temperature of one thousand seven hundred Kelvin and twenty-four thousand Kelvin and a Duv of +0. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-101
  • Compensation: means money or any other valuable thing, regardless of form, received or to be received by a person for services rendered. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-81
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
  • Consumer fireworks: include firework items commonly known as firecrackers that are single paper cylinders not exceeding one and one-half inches in length excluding the fuse and one-quarter of an inch in diameter and contain a charge of not more than fifty milligrams of pyrotechnic composition, snakes, sparklers, fountains, and cylindrical or cone fountains that emit effects up to a height not greater than twelve feet above the ground, illuminating torches, bamboo cannons, whistles, toy smoke devices, wheels, and ground spinners that when ignited remain within a circle with a radius of twelve feet as measured from the point where the item was placed and ignited, novelty or trick items, combination items, and other fireworks of like construction that are designed to produce the same or similar effects. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 132D-2
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Cost-effective: means that utility bill savings are achieved by the installation of an energy-efficiency measure; provided that the utility bill savings exceed the energy-efficiency measure's installation and carrying costs in an amount sufficient to repay a loan issued pursuant to section 196- and in the manner required by that section. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
  • county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
  • county director of budget and fiscal services: means the officer or officers of the county charged with the responsibility of administering the real property taxation function of the county. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
  • Cultural: means relating to the arts, customs, traditions, mores, and history of all of the various ethnic groups of Hawaii. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 132D-2
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Department: means the department of budget and finance of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 37D-1
  • Department: means the department of business, economic development, and tourism, or any successor by law. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
  • Department: means the department of land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 200-1
  • Department: means any department, board, commission, or agency of a jurisdiction. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 76-11
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Director: means the director of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 26H-3
  • Director: means the director of finance of the State or any duly designated deputy director of finance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 37D-1
  • Director: means the director of business, economic development, and tourism, or the director's designee. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
  • Director: means the head of the central personnel agency for a jurisdiction regardless of title, whether it is the director of human resources development, director of personnel, director of personnel services, or personnel director. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 76-11
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Display: means the use of aerial devices, display fireworks, or articles pyrotechnic for any activity, including such activities as movie or television production. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 132D-2
  • Display fireworks: means any fireworks designed primarily for exhibition display by producing visible or audible effects and classified as display fireworks or contained in the regulations of the United States Department of Transportation and designated as UN0333, UN0334, or UN0335, and includes salutes containing more than two grains (one hundred and thirty milligrams) of explosive materials, aerial shells containing more than forty grams of pyrotechnic compositions, and other display pieces which exceed the limits of explosive materials for classification as "consumer fireworks". See Hawaii Revised Statutes 132D-2
  • Distributed energy resources: includes but is not limited to solar photovoltaic and thermal, wind, combined heat and power, electrical and thermal energy storage, demand response technologies, alternative energy vehicles and related infrastructure, microgrids, energy efficiency, and advanced inverters. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-2
  • Electric vehicle: means a vehicle powered by an electric motor via electricity:

    (1) Stored in a high capacity battery; or

    (2) Generated from an onboard fuel cell. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-2

  • Energy: means work or heat that is, or may be, produced from any fuel or source whatsoever. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-2
  • Energy resources: means fuel, and also includes all electrical or thermal energy produced by combustion of any fuel, or generated, produced, or stored using wind, the sun, geothermal heat, ocean water, falling water, currents, waves, or any other source. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-2
  • Energy-efficiency measure: means any type of project conducted, or technology implemented, to reduce the consumption of energy in a public building. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Faucet: means a lavatory faucet, kitchen faucet, metering faucet, or replacement aerator for a lavatory or kitchen faucet. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-81
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Financial institution: means any organization authorized to do business under state or federal laws relating to financial institutions, including without limitation banks, savings banks, savings and loan companies or associations, financial services loan companies, and credit unions. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 37D-1
  • Financing agreement: means any lease purchase agreement, installment sale agreement, loan agreement, line of credit, or other agreement of the department or, with the approval of the director, and any agency, to finance the improvement, use, or acquisition of real or personal property that is or will be owned or operated by one or more agencies of the State, the department, or any agency, or to refinance previously executed financing agreements including certificates of participation relating thereto. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 37D-1
  • Financing order: means the same as defined in section 269A-161. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
  • Financing party: means the same as defined in section 269A-161. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
  • Fireworks: means any combustible or explosive composition, or any substance or combination of substances, or article prepared for the purpose of producing a visible or audible effect by combustion, explosion, deflagration, or detonation and that meets the definition of aerial device or consumer or display fireworks as defined by this section and contained in the regulations of the United States Department of Transportation as set forth in Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 132D-2
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Fuel: means fuels, whether liquid, solid, or gaseous, commercially usable for energy needs, power generation, and fuels manufacture, that may be manufactured, grown, produced, or imported into the State or that may be exported therefrom, including petroleum and petroleum products and gases to include all fossil fuel-based gases, coal tar, vegetable ferments, biomass, municipal solid waste, biofuels, hydrogen, agricultural products used as fuels and as feedstock to produce fuels, and all fuel alcohols. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-2
  • Government agency: means any government agency that stores, gathers, or generates public information, including all branches of government, all executive departments, boards, and commissions of the State or counties, and all public corporations created by the legislature. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 27G-1
  • Green energy money saver on-bill program: means the tariff-based on-bill repayment mechanism approved for the exclusive use of the authority by the commission. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
  • Green infrastructure bond fund: means the special fund created pursuant to section 196-67. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
  • Green infrastructure charge: means the on-bill charges for the use and services of the loan program, including the repayment of loans made under the loan program, as authorized by the public utilities commission to be imposed on electric utility customers. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
  • Green infrastructure costs: means costs incurred or to be incurred by the electric utility customers to pay for clean energy technology, demand response technology, and energy use reduction and demand side management infrastructure including, without limitation, the purchase or installation of green infrastructure equipment, programs, and services authorized by the loan program. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
  • Green infrastructure equipment: means infrastructure improvements, equipment, and personal property to be installed to deploy clean energy technology, demand response technology, and energy use reduction and demand side management infrastructure. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
  • Green infrastructure fee: means the same as defined in section 269-161. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
  • Green infrastructure loan program order: means the same as defined in section 269-161. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
  • green infrastructure loans: means the program established by this part under § 196-62 and capitalized by the issuance of green energy market securitization bonds to finance the purchase or installation of green infrastructure equipment for clean energy technology, demand response technology, and energy use reduction and demand side management infrastructure, programs, and services as authorized by the public utilities commission using the proceeds of bonds . See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
  • Green infrastructure property: means the same as defined in section 269-161. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
  • Green infrastructure special fund: means the special fund created pursuant to section 196-67. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • High color rendering index fluorescent lamp: means a fluorescent lamp with a color rendering index of eighty-seven or greater that is not a compact fluorescent lamp. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-81
  • Human trafficking: includes "severe forms of trafficking in persons" as defined in title 22 United States Code § 7102(11), and "sex trafficking" as defined in title 22 United States Code § 7102(12) and as described in section 712-1202. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 28-181
  • Impeachment: (1) The process of calling something into question, as in "impeaching the testimony of a witness." (2) The constitutional process whereby the House of Representatives may "impeach" (accuse of misconduct) high officers of the federal government for trial in the Senate.
  • Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. Source: OCC
  • Internet: means the global information system that is logically linked together by a globally unique address space based on the internet protocol (IP), or its subsequent extension; and that is able to support communications using the transmission control protocol/internet protocol (TCP/IP) suite, or its subsequent extension, or other IP-compatible protocols; and that provides, uses, or makes accessible, either publicly or privately, information to users. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 27G-1
  • Internet portal: means the centralized electronic information system by which public information is provided via dial-in modem or continuous link to the public through subscriptions. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 27G-1
  • Joint session: When both chambers of a legislature adopt a concurrent resolution to meet together.
  • Jurisdiction: means the State, the city and county of Honolulu, the county of Hawaii, the county of Maui, the county of Kauai, the judiciary, the department of education, the University of Hawaii, and the Hawaii health systems corporation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 76-11
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Legislative body: means the legislature in the case of the State, including the judiciary, the department of education, the University of Hawaii, and the Hawaii health systems corporation; the city council in the case of the city and county of Honolulu; and the respective county councils in the case of the counties of Hawaii, Maui, and Kauai. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 76-11
  • Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • License: means a nontransferable, formal authorization, valid for a period not to exceed one calendar year from the date of issuance and which the department is hereby authorized to issue under this chapter, to engage in the act or acts specifically designated herein. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 132D-2
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Line of credit: means an account at a financial institution under which the financial institution agrees to lend money to the department or to an agency, with the approval of the director and the agency, from time to time to finance one or more projects that are authorized by this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 37D-1
  • Linear fluorescent lamp: means a low-pressure, mercury-containing, electric-discharge light source in which a fluorescent coating transforms some of the ultraviolet energy generated by the mercury discharge into visible light, and includes all of the following characteristics:

    (1) Two bases (end caps) of any type, including but not limited to single-pin, two-pin, and recessed double contact;
    (2) Light emission between a correlated color temperature of one thousand seven hundred Kelvin and twenty-four thousand Kelvin and a Duv of +0. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-101
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Loan fund program: means the clean energy and energy efficiency revolving loan fund program. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
  • Merit appeals board: means a jurisdiction's appellate body for purposes of section 76-14 regardless of whether it is named merit appeals board, civil service commission, or appeals board. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 76-11
  • month: means a calendar month; and the word "year" a calendar year. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-20
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • Non-ad valorem special tax assessment: means a special tax assessment or governmental charge levied by the county as provided in section 196- on a benefitted commercial property that appears on a property tax bill. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Option to purchase: means a legally binding agreement between a buyer and a seller, which gives the buyer the option, but not the obligation, to purchase the solar energy system or other installed equipment at an agreed upon price, prior to the maturity date of the power purchase agreement or energy performance contract. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
  • Outlays: Outlays are payments made (generally through the issuance of checks or disbursement of cash) to liquidate obligations. Outlays during a fiscal year may be for payment of obligations incurred in prior years or in the same year.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Permanent: means the state of one object being affixed to another object by glue or other means in a manner that the affixed object is intended to not be easily removable. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 132D-2
  • Permit: means a nontransferable, formal authorization, valid for a period not to exceed one calendar year from the date of issuance and which a county is hereby authorized to issue under this chapter, to engage in the act or acts specifically designated herein. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 132D-2
  • Personal property: means tangible personal property, software, and fixtures. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 37D-1
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Plumbing fixture: means an exchangeable device that connects to a plumbing system to deliver and drain away water and waste. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-81
  • Political subdivision: means and includes all counties and municipalities of the State insofar as they are supported by or handle state or public funds. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 23-1
  • Portable electric spa: means a factory-built electric spa or hot tub, which may include any combination of integral controls, water heating, or water circulating equipment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-81
  • Portal manager: means the entity or person engaged to manage and operate the internet portal on behalf of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 27G-1
  • Position: means a specific job requiring the full or part-time employment of one person. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 76-11
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Project: means the real and personal property to be acquired or improved by the department or an agency with the proceeds of a financing agreement of the department or the agency, respectively, or provided to the agency by the department. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 37D-1
  • Property rights: means , with respect to personal property, the rights of a secured party under chapter 490, and, with respect to real property, the rights of a trustee or lender under a lease authorized by section 37D-3(4). See Hawaii Revised Statutes 37D-1
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • pyrotechnic contents: means the combustible or explosive component of fireworks. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 132D-2
  • Qualifying improvement: means a septic system or aerobic treatment unit system or connection to sewer systems, clean energy technology, efficiency technology, resiliency measure, or other improvement approved by the authority. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Repeal date: means the effective date of repeal established for various chapters by § 26H-4. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 26H-3
  • Residential ventilating fan: means a ceiling or wall-mounted fan, or remotely mounted in-line fan, designed to be used in a bathroom or utility room for the purpose of moving air from inside the building to the outdoors. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-81
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
  • Revolving line of credit: means a type of credit in which loan advances are made for eligible purposes and where repaid principal deposited back into the sub-fund may be re-borrowed. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Showerhead: includes handheld showerheads and any other showerhead, except a safety showerhead. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-81
  • Software: includes software, training, and maintenance contracts related to the operation of computer equipment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 37D-1
  • Spray sprinkler body: means the exterior case or shell of a sprinkler incorporating a means of connection to the piping system designed to convey water to a nozzle or orifice. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-81
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Sub-fund: means a separate fund established within the Hawaii green infrastructure special fund for a specific purpose. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
  • television production: means a series of activities that are directly related to the creation of visual and cinematic imagery to be delivered via film, videotape, or digital media and are to be sold, distributed, or displayed as entertainment or the advertisement of products for mass public consumption, including scripting, casting, set design and construction, transportation, videography, photography, sound recording, interactive game design, and post production. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 132D-2
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Trough-type urinal: means a urinal designed for simultaneous use by two or more persons. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-81
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • 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
  • Urinal: includes a trough-type urinal. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-81
  • Water cooler: includes a storage-type water cooler and an on-demand water cooler. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-81
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.