Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 16 - Voting Systems

• Able to resume work: means an industrially injured worker's injury has stabilized after a period of recovery and the worker is capable of performing work in an occupation for which the worker has received previous training or for which the worker has demonstrated aptitude. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 386-1
• 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.
• Advertisement: means any communication, excluding sundry items such as bumper stickers, that:
  (1) Identifies a candidate directly or by implication, or identifies an issue or question that will appear on the ballot at the next applicable election; and
  (2) Advocates or supports the nomination, opposition, or election of the candidate, or advocates the passage or defeat of the issue or question on the ballot. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
• 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.
• 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.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• 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.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Authority: means the natural energy laboratory of Hawaii authority established by section 227D-2. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 227D-1
• Ballot: includes :

  (1) A ballot summary reflecting a complete record of the ballot selections made by a voter utilizing an HTML ballot or similar accessible ballot that produces a ballot summary;

  (2) A voter verifiable paper audit trail in the event there is a discrepancy between a voting machine's electronic record of the voted ballot and the voter verifiable paper audit trail; and

  (3) A ballot used in an election by mail pursuant to part VIIA, including a ballot approved for electronic transmission. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-1

• 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}
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Board: means the board of directors of the authority established by section 227D-2 and any successor thereto. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 227D-1
• Board: means the board of water supply or water board of any county. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 46-141
• Board: means the board of land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 171-1
• Board: means the board of land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 6D-1
• Bonds: means special purpose bonds issued under this chapter and shall include notes, other instruments of indebtedness, and refunding bonds. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 227D-1
• Bonds: means bonds, notes, and other instruments of indebtedness. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 47-1
• Campaign funds: means contributions, interest, rebates, refunds, loans, or advances received by a candidate committee or noncandidate committee. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
• Candidate: means an individual who seeks nomination for election or seeks election to office. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
• Candidate committee: means an organization, association, or individual that receives campaign funds, makes expenditures, or incurs financial obligations on behalf of a candidate with the candidate's authorization. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
• Capital improvements: means the acquisition of real property, improvements to expand capacity and serviceability of existing public facilities, and the development of new public facilities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 46-141
• Cave: means any naturally occurring void, cavity, recess, or system of interconnected passages large enough for human entry, occurring beneath the surface of the earth or within a cliff or ledge, including the cave resources therein, whether or not an entrance exists or is natural or artificial, and that is of archaeological, geological, biological, or cultural significance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 6D-1
• Codes and standards: means nationally recognized minimum requirements that shall be met for design and construction to safeguard life, property, and the general welfare. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 107-21
• Commercial entry: means an activity undertaken to exhibit a cave for which compensation is received by any person for goods, services, or both, rendered to customers or participants in that use or activity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 6D-1
• Commission: means the campaign spending commission. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
• Committee: means the joint legislative management committee established under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 21E-1
• Committee: means the joint legislative budget committee. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 21F-2
• Committee membership: Legislators are assigned to specific committees by their party. Seniority, regional balance, and political philosophy are the most prominent factors in the committee assignment process.
• Compensation: means all benefits accorded by this chapter to an employee or the employee's dependents on account of a work injury as defined in this section; it includes medical and rehabilitation benefits, income and indemnity benefits in cases of disability or death, and the allowance for funeral and burial expenses. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 386-1
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Comprehensive plan: means a coordinated land use plan for the development of public facilities within the jurisdiction of a county based on existing and anticipated needs, showing existing and proposed developments, stating principles to which future development should conform, such as the county's general plans, development plans, or community plans, and the manner in which development should be controlled. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 46-141
• 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.
• Construction context: means all permitted land-altering activities necessary to construct any and all manner of improvements on the surface of a property including but not limited to foundations, basements, roads, and buildings. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 6D-1
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contribution: means :
  (1) A gift, subscription, deposit of money or anything of value, or cancellation of a debt or legal obligation and includes the purchase of tickets to fundraisers, for the purpose of:

  (A) Influencing the nomination for election, or the election, of any person to office;

  (B) Influencing the outcome of any question or issue that has been certified to appear on the ballot at the next applicable election; or

  (C) Use by any candidate committee or noncandidate committee for the purpose of subparagraph (A) or (B);
  (2) The payment, by any person or party other than a candidate, candidate committee, or noncandidate committee, of compensation for the services of another person that are rendered to the candidate, candidate committee, or noncandidate committee without charge or at an unreasonably low charge for a purpose listed in paragraph (1);
  (3) A contract, promise, or agreement to make a contribution; or
  (4) Any loans or advances that are not documented or disclosed to the commission as provided in section 11-372;

  "Contribution" does not include:

  (1) Services voluntarily provided without compensation by individuals to or on behalf of a candidate, candidate committee, or noncandidate committee;
  (2) A candidate's expenditure of the candidate's own funds; provided that this expenditure shall be reportable as other receipts and expenditures;
  (3) Any loans or advances to the candidate committee; provided that these loans or advances shall be reported as loans; or
  (4) An individual, candidate committee, or noncandidate committee engaging in internet activities for the purpose of influencing an election if:

  (A) The individual, candidate committee, or noncandidate committee is uncompensated for the internet activities; or

  (B) The individual, candidate committee, or noncandidate committee uses equipment or services for uncompensated internet activities, regardless of who owns the equipment and services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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: means the total cost in carrying out all undertakings that the authority deems reasonable and necessary for the development of a project or research and technology park, 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 the project or research and technology park from the date thereof to the estimated date of completion of the project or research and technology park as determined by the board; the cost of an allocable portion of the administrative and operating expenses of the authority related to the development of the project or research and technology park; 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 authority credit or a qualified person; all as the authority shall deem necessary. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 227D-1
• Council: means the state building code council. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 107-21
• county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
• County: means the counties of Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui and the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 47-1
• County: means any county having a population of five hundred thousand or more. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 46-191
• Credits: means the present value of past or future payments or contributions, including, but not limited to, the dedication of land or construction of a public facility made by a developer toward the cost of existing or future public facility capital improvements, except for contributions or payments made under a development agreement pursuant to § 46-123. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 46-141
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the department of labor and industrial relations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 386-1
• Department: means the department of accounting and general services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 107-21
• Department: means the department of land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 171-1
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Developer: means a person, corporation, organization, partnership, association, or other legal entity constructing, erecting, enlarging, altering, or engaging in any development activity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 46-141
• Development: means any artificial change to real property that requires a grading or building permit as appropriate, including, but not limited to, construction, expansion, enlargement, alteration, or erection of buildings or structures. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 46-141
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Director: means the director of labor and industrial relations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 386-1
• Director: means the director of labor and industrial relations of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 104-1
• Director of finance: means the director of finance of each county. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 47-1
• Disability: means loss or impairment of a physical or mental function. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 386-1
• Discount rate: means the interest rate, expressed in terms of an annual percentage, that is used to adjust past or future financial or monetary payments to present value. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 46-141
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• District: means , unless otherwise specified, the district of political representation associated with a state representative. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-1
• District: means the land district as constituted under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 171-1
• Donation: means all transfers of money, credit or debit card transactions, online payments, payments made through a third party, paid personal services, or transfers of any other thing of value to a nonprofit organization. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Election: means any election for office or for determining a question or issue provided by law or ordinance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
• Election officials: means persons designated as officials by the chief election officer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-1
• Election period: means :
  (1) The two-year time period between the day after the general election through the day of the next general election, if a candidate is seeking nomination or election to a two-year office;
  (2) The four-year time period between the day after the general election through the day of the next general election, if a candidate is seeking nomination or election to a four-year office; or
  (3) For a special election, the period between the day after the general election for that office through the day of the special election. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
• Employee: means any individual in the employment of another person. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 386-1
• Employer: means any person having one or more persons in the person's employment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 386-1
• Employment: means any service performed by an individual for another person under any contract of hire or apprenticeship, express or implied, oral or written, whether lawfully or unlawfully entered into. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 386-1
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Escheat: Reversion of real or personal property to the state when 1) a person dies without leaving a will and has no heirs, or 2) when the property (such as a bank account) has been inactive for a certain period of time. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• Expenditure: means :
  (1) Any purchase or transfer of money or anything of value, or promise or agreement to purchase or transfer money or anything of value, or payment incurred or made, or the use or consumption of a nonmonetary contribution for the purpose of:

  (A) Influencing the nomination for election, or the election, of any person seeking nomination for election or election to office, whether or not the person has filed the person's nomination papers;

  (B) Influencing the outcome of any question or issue that has been certified to appear on the ballot at the next applicable election; or

  (C) Use by any party for the purposes set out in subparagraph (A) or (B);
  (2) Any payment, by any person other than a candidate, candidate committee, or noncandidate committee, of compensation for the services of another person that are rendered to the candidate, candidate committee, or noncandidate committee for any of the purposes mentioned in paragraph (1)(A); provided that payment under this paragraph shall include provision of services without charge; or
  (3) The expenditure by a candidate of the candidate's own funds for the purposes set out in paragraph (1)(A). See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• 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.
• Flag: means any flag, standard, color, ensign, or any picture or representation of either made of any substance or represented on any substance, and of any size, evidently purporting to be, either of, the flag, standard, color, or ensign of the State of Hawaii or a picture or representation, of either upon which shall be shown the jack, the colors and stripes in any number of either, or by which the person seeing the same without deliberation may believe the same to represent the flag, colors, standard, or ensign of the State of Hawaii. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 5-18
• Gate: means any structure or device located to limit, control, or prohibit access to, or entry to, any portion of a cave. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 6D-1
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Good cause: means a substantial reason amounting in law to be a legal excuse for failing to perform an act required by law considered under the circumstances of the individual case. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 386-1
• Governing body: means the council of each county, or any other body exercising the legislative powers of the county. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 47-1
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• HAWIAN: means the Hawaii area-wide information network. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 21D-1
• Hearing: means any meeting in the course of an investigatory proceeding, other than a preliminary conference or interview at which no testimony is taken under oath, conducted by an investigating committee for the purpose of taking testimony or receiving other evidence. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 21-2
• House: means the state house of representatives. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 21F-2
• Immediate family: means a candidate's spouse or reciprocal beneficiary, as defined in § 572C-3, and any child, parent, grandparent, brother, or sister of the candidate, and the spouses or reciprocal beneficiaries of such persons. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
• Impact fees: means the charges imposed upon a developer by a county or board to fund all or a portion of the public facility capital improvement costs required by the development from which it is collected, or to recoup the cost of existing public facility capital improvements made in anticipation of the needs of a development. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 46-141
• 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}
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Individual: means a natural person. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
• 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}
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• Investigating committee: means any of the following which are authorized to compel the attendance and testimony of witnesses or the production of books, records, papers, and documents for the purpose of securing information on a specific subject for the use of the legislature:
  (1) A standing or special or select committee or committee of the whole of either house of the legislature;
  (2) A joint committee of both houses;
  (3) An authorized subcommittee of a legislative committee; and
  (4) Any body created by law, the members of which may include nonlegislators. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 21-2
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers.
• 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.
• Land: includes all interests therein and natural resources including water, minerals, and all such things connected with land, unless otherwise expressly provided. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 171-1
• lease: means a residential lease made by the board of land and natural resources under this part. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 171-71
• 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}
• Legal tender: coins, dollar bills, or other currency issued by a government as official money. ^{Source: U.S. Mint}
• Legislative service agency: means the office of the auditor, the office of the legislative reference bureau, and the office of the ombudsman. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 21E-1
• Legislative service agency director: means the director or administrative head of a legislative service agency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 21E-1
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• Lessee: means the lessee under a residential lease and the successors in interest of the lessee. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 171-71
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Loan: means an advance of money, goods, or services, with a promise to repay in full or in part within a specified period of time. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
• Member: means a member of the joint legislative management committee. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 21E-1
• Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
• Needs assessment study: means a study required under an impact fee ordinance that determines the need for a public facility, the cost of development, and the level of service standards, and that projects future public facility capital improvement needs; provided that the study shall take into consideration and incorporate any relevant county general plan, development plan, or community plan. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 46-141
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• Noncandidate committee: means an organization, association, party, or individual that has the purpose of making or receiving contributions, making expenditures, or incurring financial obligations to influence the nomination for election, or the election, of any candidate to office, or for or against any question or issue on the ballot; provided that a noncandidate committee does not include:
  (1) A candidate committee;
  (2) Any individual making a contribution or making an expenditure of the individual's own funds or anything of value that the individual originally acquired for the individual's own use and not for the purpose of evading any provision of this part; or
  (3) Any organization that raises or expends funds for the sole purpose of producing and disseminating informational or educational communications that are not made to influence the outcome of an election, question, or issue on a ballot. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
• 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.
• Office: means the office of the legislative analyst. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 21F-2
• Office: means any Hawaii elective public or constitutional office, excluding county neighborhood board and federal elective offices. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
• On-line: means accessed by the use of data communications hardware and software. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 21D-1
• Owner: means the persons who hold title to or are in possession of the land on or under which a cave is located, or the persons' lessee or agent. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 6D-1
• Paleontological deposit: means any remains or fossils of life forms or surface debris that are over fifty years of age and provide a record of past climates and biota. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 6D-1
• 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.
• Party: means any political party that satisfies the requirements of section 11-61. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
• Person: means an individual, a partnership, a candidate committee or noncandidate committee, a party, an association, a corporation, a business entity, an organization, or a labor union and its auxiliary committees. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
• Person: means an individual, group, partnership, firm, association, corporation, trust, governmental agency, governmental official, administrative body, or tribunal or any form of business or legal entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 46-122
• Personal injury: includes death resulting therefrom. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 386-1
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Present value: means the value of past or future payments adjusted to a base period by a discount rate. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 46-141
• 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 any combination of land and buildings and other improvements thereon for use in, but not limited to research, development, demonstration, processing, or manufacturing activities or enterprises utilizing or in support of the utilization of natural resources and geothermal energy which are located in a research and technology park and acquired, constructed, reconstructed, rehabilitated, improved, altered, or repaired by or on behalf of the authority. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 227D-1
• Project agreement: means any lease, sublease, loan agreement, conditional sale agreement, or other similar financing contract or agreement, or any combination thereof entered into under this chapter by the authority, including the financing from the proceeds of bonds of a project or a research and technology park. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 227D-1
• Proportionate share: means the portion of total public facility capital improvement costs that is reasonably attributable to a development, less:

  (1) Any credits for past or future payments, adjusted to present value, for public facility capital improvement costs made or reasonably anticipated to be contributed by a developer in the form of user fees, debt service payments, taxes, or other payments; or

  (2) Offsets for non-site related public facility capital improvements provided by a developer pursuant to county land use provisions. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 46-141

• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• 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 227D-1
• Public facility capital improvement costs: means costs of land acquisition, construction, planning and engineering, administration, and legal and financial consulting fees associated with construction, expansion, or improvement of a public facility. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 46-141
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Qualified person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, public agency, or any combination or association 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 authority in administering this chapter and that enters into a project agreement with the authority. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 227D-1
• 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.
• Real property: means lands, structures, and interests therein, and natural resources including water, minerals, and all 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 227D-1
• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Research advisory committee: means the research committee that is advisory to the board and is established by § 227D-4 and any successor thereto. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 227D-1
• Research and technology park: means a tract of real property determined by the board as being suitable for use as building sites for projects engaged in research, development, demonstration, processing, or manufacturing activities or retail or commercial enterprises utilizing or in support of the utilization of natural resources or geothermal energy. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 227D-1
• Scientific purposes: means research, or exploration, or both, conducted by persons affiliated with recognized scientific organizations with the intent to advance knowledge and to publish the results of exploration or research in an appropriate medium. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 6D-1
• Senate: means the state senate. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 21F-2
• sister-state or province relationship: means a relationship between the State of Hawaii and the state or province or similar governmental or political subdivision of a foreign nation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 229-1
• Site-related improvements: means land dedications or the provision of public facility capital improvements for the exclusive use or benefit of a development or for the provision of safe and adequate public facilities related to a particular development. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 46-141
• State average weekly wage: means the amount determined by the director under section 383-22 as the average weekly wage. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 386-1
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Total disability: means disability of such an extent that the disabled employee has no reasonable prospect of finding regular employment of any kind in the normal labor market. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 386-1
• Treasurer: means a person appointed under § 11-324 and unless expressly indicated otherwise, includes deputy treasurers. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• university: refers to the University of Hawaii, unless otherwise required by the context. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 304A-101
• User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.
• Voter service center: means a location within the county of the voter's registration address established pursuant to section 11-109 to serve all of the following purposes:

  (1) Receive return envelopes for absentee ballots pursuant to chapter 15;

  (2) Receive return identification envelopes in an election by mail conducted pursuant to part VIIA;

  (3) Provide voting machine services for persons with disabilities pursuant to the Help America Vote Act of 2002, P. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-1

• Voting system: means the use of paper ballots, electronic transmission, voting machines, elections by mail pursuant to part VIIA, absentee voting pursuant to chapter 15, or any system by which votes are cast and counted. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-1
• Wages: means all remuneration for services constituting employment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 386-1
• Work injury: means a personal injury suffered under the conditions specified in § 386-3. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 386-1