Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 304A > Part IV - Divisions, Departments, and Programs

• Accuser: means a person who signs and swears to charges, any person who directs that charges nominally be signed and sworn to by another, and any person who has an interest other than an official interest in the prosecution of the accused. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Adjusted gross estate: The gross estate, less funeral expenses, expenses of estate administration during probate, debts of the estate, and casualty losses suffered during estate administration.
• Adjutant general: means the adjutant general of the State as defined in section 121-7. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• 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
• 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.
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• 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.
• Applicable generation-skipping transfer tax rate: means 2. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Apprehension: means the taking of a person into custody. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Arraignment: A proceeding in which an individual who is accused of committing a crime is brought into court, told of the charges, and asked to plead guilty or not guilty.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• 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 Hawaii medical board. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 453-5
• Board: means the board of land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 6D-1
• Cadet: means any person who is enrolled in or attending a state military academy, a regional training institute, or any other formal education program for the purpose of becoming a commissioned officer in the state military forces. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• 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
• Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
• Clerk of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.
• Commanding officer: includes :
  (1) Only commissioned officers of the state military forces; and
  (2) Officers in charge only when administering nonjudicial punishment under section 124B-21. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• 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
• Commissioned officer: includes a commissioned warrant officer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• 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.
• Confinement: means the physical restraint of a person. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-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
• Convening authority: includes , in addition to the person who convened the court, a commissioned officer commanding for the time being or a successor in command to the convening authority. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• 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.
• 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.
• Day: means calendar day and is not synonymous with the term "unit training assembly". See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Decedent: means a deceased individual. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236D-2
• Decedent: means a deceased individual owning property in the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the department of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 453D-1
• Department: means the department of taxation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236D-2
• Department: means the department of taxation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Department: means the department of taxation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 237D-1
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Director: means the director of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 453D-1
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Enlisted member: means a person in an enlisted grade. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• 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.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Expedited partner therapy: means the indirect treatment of partners of a patient who has been diagnosed as having a sexually transmitted disease through the dispensing or prescribing of antibiotic therapy for the treatment of the partners to the patient without the physical examination of the partners by a health professional. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 453-51
• Fair market rental value: means an amount equal to one-half of the gross daily maintenance fees that are paid by the owner and are attributable to the time share unit located in Hawaii. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 237D-1
• Federal credit: means :

  (1) For a transfer, the maximum amount of the credit for state death taxes allowed by section 2011 of the Internal Revenue Code, as it existed on December 31, 2000, for the decedent's adjusted taxable estate;

  (2) For a generation-skipping transfer, the maximum amount of the credit for state taxes allowed by section 2604 of the Internal Revenue Code as it existed on December 31, 2000; and

  (3) For a noncitizen transfer, the maximum amount of the credit for state death taxes allowed by section 2102 of the Internal Revenue Code, as it existed on December 31, 2000, for the decedent's adjusted taxable estate. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236D-2

• Federal estate tax: means the tax due to the United States with respect to a taxable transfer under chapter 11 of the Internal Revenue Code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Federal generation-skipping transfer tax: means the tax due to the United States with respect to a taxable transfer under chapter 13 of the Internal Revenue Code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Federal return: means the federal estate tax return with respect to the federal estate tax and means the federal generation-skipping transfer tax return with respect to the federal generation-skipping transfer tax. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Federal taxable estate: means the gross estate less allowable deductions, as determined under chapter 11 of the Internal Revenue Code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Federal transfer tax: means the federal estate tax or the federal generation-skipping transfer tax. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• 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
• 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}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Generation-skipping transfer: means a generation-skipping transfer as defined and used in section 2611 of the Internal Revenue Code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236D-2
• Generation-skipping transfer: means a generation-skipping transfer as defined and used in section 2611 of the Internal Revenue Code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Governor: means the governor of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Grade: means a step or degree, in a graduated scale of office or military rank, that is established and designated as a grade by law or regulation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Gross estate: The total fair market value of all property and property interests, real and personal, tangible and intangible, of which a decedent had beneficial ownership at the time of death before subtractions for deductions, debts, administrative expenses, and casualty losses suffered during estate administration.
• Gross estate: means gross estate as defined and used in sections 2031 to 2046 of the Internal Revenue Code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236D-2
• Gross estate: means gross estate as defined and used in sections 2031 to 2046 of the Internal Revenue Code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• gross rental proceeds: means the gross receipts, cash or accrued, of the taxpayer received as compensation for the furnishing of transient accommodations or entering into arrangements to furnish transient accommodations and the value proceeding or accruing from the furnishing of transient accommodations or entering into arrangements to furnish transient accommodations, including resort fees, without any deductions on account of the cost of property or services sold, the cost of materials used, labor cost, taxes, royalties, interest, discounts, or any other expenses whatsoever. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 237D-1
• 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.
• Hawaii estate tax: means the tax due to the State with respect to a taxable transfer, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Hawaii generation-skipping transfer tax: means the tax due to the State with respect to a taxable transfer that gives rise to a federal generation-skipping transfer tax. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Hawaii net taxable estate: means Hawaii taxable estate less the applicable exclusion amount as set forth in § 236E-6. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Hawaii transfer tax: means the Hawaii estate tax or the Hawaii generation-skipping transfer tax. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Health professional: means any of the following:

  (1) A person licensed or otherwise authorized by law to practice medicine or surgery under this chapter and whose scope of practice includes the diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases;

  (2) An advanced practice registered nurse with prescriptive authority under chapter 457 and duly licensed in the State; or

  (3) For the purpose of dispensing antibiotic therapy under this section, a pharmacist who is licensed or otherwise authorized to engage in the practice of pharmacy under chapter 461. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 453-51

• 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}
• Internal Revenue Code: includes the federal tax principles of alter ego, nominee, sham transaction, substance over form, economic substance, or business purpose, as those principles are developed by statute or common law. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236D-2
• Internal Revenue Code: means subtitle B of the federal Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended as of December 31, 2022, as it applies to the determination of gross estate, adjusted gross estate, federal taxable estate, and generation-skipping transfers, except those provisions of the Internal Revenue Code and federal public laws that, pursuant to this chapter, do not apply or are otherwise limited in application. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-3
• Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers.
• Judge advocate: means a commissioned officer of the organized state military forces who is a member in good standing of the bar of the highest court of a state, and is:
  (1) Certified or designated as a judge advocate in the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the United States Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard, or a reserve component of one of the above;
  (2) Certified as a non-federally recognized judge advocate by the senior force judge advocate as competent to perform the military justice duties required by this chapter; or
  (3) Certified by a senior judge advocate of the commander of another force in the state military forces, as the convening authority directs; provided that there is no judge advocate available as described under paragraph (1) or (2). See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• 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}
• Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Licensed mental health counselor: means a person:

  (1) Who engages in the practice of mental health counseling and uses the title of licensed mental health counselor;

  (2) Who has been issued a license under this chapter; and

  (3) Whose license is in effect and not revoked or suspended. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 453D-1

• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Local contact: means an individual residing on the same island as the transient accommodation or resort time share vacation unit or an entity with a place of business and at least one employee, officer, partner, member, or other person working on behalf of the company who is residing on the same island as the transient accommodation or resort time share vacation unit. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 237D-1
• Military: refers to any or all of the armed forces. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Military court: means a court-martial or court of inquiry. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Military judge: means an official of a general or special court-martial detailed in accordance with part V of this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• 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.
• 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
• Noncitizen transfer: means a transfer within the meaning of section 2101 of the Internal Revenue Code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236D-2
• Nonresident: means a decedent who was not domiciled in Hawaii at time of death. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236D-2
• Nonresident: means a decedent who was not domiciled in the State at time of death. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Nonresident not a citizen: means a nonresident who is not a citizen of the United States. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236D-2
• oath: includes a solemn affirmation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-21
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• 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.
• Occupant: means an owner of a resort time share vacation plan or other person occupying the resort time share vacation unit. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 237D-1
• Office: means any Hawaii elective public or constitutional office, excluding county neighborhood board and federal elective offices. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
• Officer: means a commissioned officer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Operator: means any person operating a transient accommodation, whether as owner or proprietor or as lessee, sublessee, mortgagee in possession, licensee, or otherwise, or engaging or continuing in any service business which involves the actual furnishing of transient accommodation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 237D-1
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Owner: means any person who owns a resort time share vacation interest; provided that to the extent and for those purposes provided in an agreement of sale, the vendee under the agreement of sale shall be considered the owner of the resort time share vacation interest. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 237D-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.
• 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 any individual, estate, trust, receiver, cooperative association, club, corporation, company, firm, partnership, joint venture, syndicate, or other entity and, to the extent permitted by law, any federal, state, or other governmental unit or subdivision or agency, department, or instrumentality thereof. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236D-2
• Person: means any individual, estate, trust, receiver, cooperative association, club, corporation, company, firm, partnership, joint venture, syndicate, or other entity and, to the extent permitted by law, any federal, state, or other governmental unit or subdivision or agency, department, or instrumentality thereof. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personal representative: means the personal representative of a decedent appointed under chapter 560, and includes an executor (as defined under section 2203 of the Internal Revenue Code), administrator, successor personal representative, special administrator, and persons who perform substantially the same function under the law governing their status. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236D-2
• Personal representative: means the personal representative of a decedent appointed under chapter 560, and includes an executor as defined under section 2203 of the Internal Revenue Code, administrator, successor personal representative, special administrator, and persons who perform substantially the same function under the law governing their status. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Plan manager: means a person who undertakes the duties, responsibilities, and obligations of managing a resort time share vacation plan or is required to act for a resort time share vacation plan under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 237D-1
• 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.
• Plea agreement: An arrangement between the prosecutor, the defense attorney, and the defendant in which the defendant agrees to plead guilty in exchange for special considerations. ^Source:
• Practice of mental health counseling: includes but is not limited to:

  (1) The assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of, and counseling for, mental and emotional disorders;

  (2) The assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of, and counseling for, substance abuse and conduct disorders defined in the approved diagnostic and statistical manual for mental disorders;

  (3) The application of educational techniques aimed at the prevention of these disorders; and

  (4) The provision of consultative services to individuals, couples, families, groups, organizations, and communities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 453D-1

• 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.
• Preliminary hearing: A hearing where the judge decides whether there is enough evidence to make the defendant have a trial.
• President: means the detailed member senior in rank of a court-martial then serving. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probate: Proving a will
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Property: means :

  (1) For a transfer, property included in the gross estate; and

  (2) For a generation-skipping transfer, all real and personal property subject to the federal generation-skipping transfer tax. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236D-2

• Property: means property included in the gross estate. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• 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.
• Qualified heir: means a qualified heir as defined in section 2032A(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Rank: means the order of precedence among members of the state military forces. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• Record: when used in connection with the proceedings of a court-martial or court of inquiry, means:
  (1) An official written transcript, written summary, or other writing relating to the proceedings; or
  (2) An official audiotape, videotape, digital image or file, or similar material from which sound, or sound and visual images, depicting the proceedings may be reproduced. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Release: means a document issued by the department which certifies that all taxes have either been paid or which releases the estate from all taxes due under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236D-2
• Release: means a document issued by the department that certifies that all taxes have been paid or the estate is released from all taxes due under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• 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.
• rental: means the leasing or renting of living quarters or sleeping or housekeeping accommodations in hotels, apartment hotels, motels, condominium property regimes or apartments defined in chapter 514A or units defined in chapter 514B, cooperative apartments, rooming houses, or other places in which lodgings are regularly furnished to transients for a consideration, without transfer of the title of such property. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 237D-1
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• Resident: means a decedent who was domiciled in Hawaii at time of death. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236D-2
• Resident: means a decedent who was domiciled in the State at the time of death. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Resident trust: means a resident trust as defined under § 235-1; or if the administration is partly carried on in the State and partly outside the State, a trust where one-half or more of the fiduciaries reside in the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Resort time share vacation interest: means any interest in a resort time share vacation unit or plan which entitles the owner thereof to the use, occupancy, or possession of a resort time share vacation unit on a periodically recurring basis. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 237D-1
• Resort time share vacation plan: means any plan or program subject to chapter 514E in which the use, occupancy, or possession of one or more resort time share vacation units circulates among various persons for less than a sixty-day period in any year, for any occupant. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 237D-1
• Resort time share vacation unit: means the actual and promised accommodations, and related facilities, which are the subject of a resort time share vacation plan. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 237D-1
• Revocable trust: A trust agreement that can be canceled, rescinded, revoked, or repealed by the grantor (person who establishes the trust).
• Senior force judge advocate: means the senior judge advocate of the commander of the same force of the state military forces as the accused and who is that commander's chief legal advisor. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• 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.
• Sexual activity: means sexual intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, anal intercourse, or any other intrusion, however slight, of any part of a person's body or of any object into the genital or anal openings of another person's body, but emission of semen is not required. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 453-51
• Sexually transmitted disease: means chlamydia, gonorrhea, or other sexually transmitted diseases that are or may be recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for expedited partner therapy. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 453-51
• Situs: means , with respect to a decedent not a resident or citizen of the United States, the location of the decedent's property within the meaning of section 2104 of the Internal Revenue Code, including regulations and other guidance issued thereunder, substituting "Hawaii" for "the United States". See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• State: means any state or territory of the United States and the District of Columbia. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• State judge advocate: means the commissioned officer responsible for supervising the administration of military justice in the state military forces. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• State military forces: means the National Guard of the State, as defined in title 32 United States Code § 101(3), the organized naval militia of the State, and any other military force organized under the laws of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Taxable estate: means taxable estate as defined in sections 2051 to 2056 of the Internal Revenue Code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236D-2
• taxable transfer: means :

  (1) A transfer as used in section 2001(a) of the Internal Revenue Code and shall include the disposition of or failure to use property for a qualified use under section 2032A(c) of the Internal Revenue Code; or

  (2) A generation-skipping transfer as defined and used in section 2611 of the Internal Revenue Code; provided that a direct skip that is a transfer subject to the tax imposed by chapter 12 of the Internal Revenue Code shall not be treated as a taxable transfer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2

• Taxpayer: means any person liable for any tax in this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 237D-1
• Tenancy in common: A type of property ownership in which two or more individuals have an undivided interest in property. At the death of one tenant in common, his (her) fractional percentage of ownership in the property passes to the decedent
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Transfer: means transfer as defined and used in section 2001 of the Internal Revenue Code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236D-2
• Transferee: means a transferee within the meaning of sections 2603(a)(1) and 6901(h) of the Internal Revenue Code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Transferred property: means :

  (1) With respect to a taxable transfer subject to the federal estate tax, the deceased individual's gross estate as defined in section 2031 of the Internal Revenue Code;

  (2) With respect to a taxable transfer occurring as a result of a taxable termination as defined in section 2612(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, the taxable amount determined under section 2622(a) of the Internal Revenue Code;

  (3) With respect to a taxable transfer occurring as a result of a taxable distribution as defined in section 2612(b) of the Internal Revenue Code, the taxable amount determined under section 2621(a) of the Internal Revenue Code;

  (4) With respect to a taxable transfer occurring as a result of a direct skip, as defined in section 2612(c) of the Internal Revenue Code, the taxable amount determined under section 2623 of the Internal Revenue Code; and

  (5) With respect to an event which causes the imposition of an additional federal estate tax under section 2032A(c) of the Internal Revenue Code, the qualified real property that was disposed of or which ceased to be used for the qualified use, within the meaning of section 2032A(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2

• Transient accommodations: means the furnishing of a room, apartment, suite, single family dwelling, or the like to a transient for less than one hundred eighty consecutive days for each letting in a hotel, apartment hotel, motel, condominium property regime or apartment as defined in chapter 514A or unit as defined in chapter 514B, cooperative apartment, dwelling unit, or rooming house that provides living quarters, sleeping, or housekeeping accommodations, or other place in which lodgings are regularly furnished to transients. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 237D-1
• Transient accommodations broker: means any person or entity, including but not limited to persons who operate online websites, online travel agencies, or online booking agencies, that offers, lists, advertises, or accepts reservations or collects whole or partial payment for transient accommodations or resort time share vacation interests, units, or plans. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 237D-1
• 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