Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 210D - Community-Based Development

• 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.
• attendance: means a student is physically present in school after enrollment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
• Board: means the board of education. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
• 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
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• Community of identity: means a group of people who may not live in the same geographic area but who are bound together through a common ethnicity or other personal characteristic such as age or social status. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 210D-2
• Community of interest: means a group of people who may not live in the same geographic area but who are bound together through a common economic interest such as coffee growers or an aquaculture cooperative. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 210D-2
• Community-based economic development: means a community institution-building process that results in community-based enterprises and other economic development activities which are designed and implemented by a community; consistent with a community's values, culture, and vision; and intended to increase community control over local resources and decision-making processes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 210D-2
• Community-based organization: means a nonprofit corporation incorporated in the State of Hawaii that is organized and controlled by either a geographic community, a community of identity, or a community of interest and that is directly involved in community-based economic development activities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 210D-2
• Complex: means the high school and those elementary, middle, and intermediate schools that feed into the high school as designated by the department. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
• Complex area: means the administrative unit that includes one or more complexes as designated by the department. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
• 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: 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.
• Council: means the community-based economic development advisory council. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 210D-2
• county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the department of education. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
• Department: means the department of business, economic development, and tourism. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 210D-2
• enrollment: means a student has met all of the department's requirements for entrance and is formally placed on a school's roll. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
• 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}
• 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.
• Fair market price: means the price of a product or service paid by a willing buyer to a willing seller, that is reasonably comparable to prices on the open market. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1001
• 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
• 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.
• 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}
• 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
• Personal property: means all tangible goods, including equipment, materials and supplies, except land, buildings, and improvement to the land. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1101
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Policy board: means the procurement policy board created in § 103D-201. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
• 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
• Procurement: means buying, purchasing, renting, leasing, or otherwise acquiring any good, service, or construction. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
• Products: include materials, manufactures, supplies, merchandise, goods, wares, products, and foodstuffs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1001
• Public agency: means any agency of the State or county. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1001
• 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 community rehabilitation program: means a nonprofit community rehabilitation program for individuals with disabilities that:
  (1) Is organized and incorporated under the laws of the United States or this State, and located in this State;
  (2) Is operated in the interest of and employs individuals with disabilities;
  (3) Does not inure any part of its net income to any shareholder or other individual;
  (4) Complies with all applicable occupational health and safety standards required by the federal, state, and county governments; and
  (5) Maintains a disabled to non-disabled employee ratio equal to or greater than one to three at all times. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1001
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• 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
• 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
• Superintendent: means the superintendent of education. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
• Surplus personal property: includes obsolete, scrap, and excess personal property that has completed its useful life cycle. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1101
• Vandalism: includes , but is not limited to, mischievous or malicious destruction of property, such as breakage of windows, lockers, and doors. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101