137-1 Definitions
137-2 Reimbursement
137-3 Action

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 137 - Search and Rescue Reimbursement Act

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Department: means any department, board, commission, or agency of a jurisdiction. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 76-11
  • 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
  • Government entity: means any department, unit, or agency, of the federal, state, or county governments. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 137-1
  • 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
  • Merit appeals board: means a jurisdiction's appellate body for purposes of § 76-14 regardless of whether it is named merit appeals board, civil service commission, or appeals board. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 76-11
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. Source: OCC
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • Position: means a specific job requiring the full or part-time employment of one person. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 76-11
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Search and rescue expenses: include the following expenses incident to, and incurred by, a government entity or any person or private entity in a search or rescue operation:

         (1)  Any and all actual hourly wages, salaries, and employment-related benefits, of persons participating in a search or rescue operation;

         (2)  Any and all equipment costs, including rental, lease, use, repair, and/or replacement costs of equipment used in a search or rescue operation;

         (3)  Any and all fuel expenses incident to a search or rescue operation;

         (4)  Any and all other expenses relating to a search and rescue operation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 137-1

  • Warning or notice: means any warning or notice issued by a government entity posted on any type of sign. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 137-1