Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 321 > Part XXV - Maternal and Child Health Program

• Board: means the pest control board. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 460J-1
• county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
• 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.
• Pest control: means , with respect to wood-destroying pests, or other pests which may invade households or other structures, including railroad cars, ships, docks, trucks, airplanes, or the contents thereof, the engaging in, offering to engage in, advertising for, soliciting, or performing the following for hire:

  (1) Identifying pests or infestations;

  (2) Making an inspection for the purpose of identifying or attempting to identify infestations of household or other structures by pests;

  (3) Making inspection reports, recommendations, estimates, and bids, whether oral or written, with respect to infestations; or

  (4) Making contracts, or submitting bids for, or the use of avicides, insecticides, pesticides, rodenticides, fumigants, or allied chemicals or substances, or mechanical devices, for the purpose of eliminating, exterminating, controlling, or preventing infestations of pests or organisms. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 460J-1

• Pest control operator: means any person who personally or through others offers to undertake or practice, or holds oneself out as being able to undertake or practice, or does undertake or practice pest control. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 460J-1