143-1 Definitions
143-2 License or microchip required
143-2.2 Microchip identification
143-2.5 Regulation of other animals
143-2.6 Animal desertion
143-3 License fee controlled by ordinance
143-4 Issuance of license and tags
143-5 Removal and imitation of dog tags
143-6 Lost dog tags
143-7 Pounds and animal control officers
143-8 Seizure and redemption of unlicensed dogs
143-9 Redemption of dog after sale
143-10 Stray dogs
143-11 Redemption of stray licensed dogs
143-12 Seizure and disposal of diseased dogs; penalty
143-13 Destruction of diseased or unfit dogs
143-14 Female dogs
143-15 Contracts for seizing and impounding dogs
143-16 Repealed
143-17 Wrongful interference with officers
143-18 Unlawful disposition of impounded dogs
143-19 Penalty
143-20 Reporting of dog or cat captured or killed in snare or trap

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 143 - Animals: Licenses and Regulations

  • 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.
  • 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
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Board: means the board of directors of the development corporation established in § 206M-2, and any successor thereto. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
  • 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
  • Civil service employee: means an employee who has met all requirements for membership in the civil service under § 76-27. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 76-11
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Day: means a calendar day unless otherwise specified. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 76-11
  • Department: means any department, board, commission, or agency of a jurisdiction. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 76-11
  • Development corporation: means the Hawaii technology development corporation established by § 206M-2. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
  • Direct investment: means an investment by the corporation in qualified securities of an enterprise to provide capital to an enterprise. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
  • 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
  • Economic development project: means an endeavor related to industrial, commercial, or advanced technology-based agricultural enterprise. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • 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
  • microchip identification: means a device that is implanted under the skin of an animal and that contains contact information for the owner of the animal. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 143-1
  • Minority-owned businesses: means businesses at least fifty per cent owned, controlled, and managed by socially or economically disadvantaged persons. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
  • Officer: means any sheriff, deputy, any member of a police force in counties with a population of less than 100,000 and animal control officers of the several counties of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 143-1
  • Owner: includes every person owning, harboring, or keeping a dog; provided that if the owner is a minor under the age of eighteen years, the parent, guardian, or other person having the care, custody, or control of the minor shall be irrebuttably presumed to be the owner. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 143-1
  • 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
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Position: means a specific job requiring the full or part-time employment of one person. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 76-11
  • 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
  • Qualified security: means any note, stock, treasury stock bond, debenture, evidence of indebtedness, certificate of interest or participation in any profit-sharing agreement, preorganization certificate of subscription, transferable share, investment contract, certificate of deposit for a security, certificate of interest or participation in a patent or patent application, or in royalty or other payments under such a patent or application, or, in general, any interest or instrument commonly known as a "security" or any certificate for, receipt for, or option, warrant, or right to subscribe to or purchase any of the foregoing. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
  • Seed capital: means financing provided for the earliest stage of business development, including but not limited to developing a working prototype, preparing a business plan, performing an initial market analysis, or organizing a management team. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
  • Unlicensed dog: means any dog for which the license for the current year has not been paid or to which the tag provided for in this chapter is not attached. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 143-1