Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 323D > Part II - State Health Planning and Development Program

• Board: means the board of psychology. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 465-1
• Certificate of need: means an authorization, when required pursuant to § 323D-43, to construct, expand, alter, or convert a health care facility or to initiate, expand, develop, or modify a health care service. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• Continuing education: means courses approved by the American Psychological Association, the Hawaii Psychological Association, or other state or provincial psychological associations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 465-1
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Director: means the director of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 465-1
• 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.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• 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.
• Health: includes physical and mental health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• health care services: means the provision of services in an assisted living facility that assists the resident in achieving and maintaining the highest state of positive well-being (i. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• Licensed: means the authority to engage in the autonomous practice of psychology. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 465-1
• Person: means an individual or a natural person, a trust or estate, a society, a firm, an assembly, a partnership, a corporation, a professional corporation, an association, the State, any political subdivision of the State, a county, a state agency or any instrumentality of the State, a county agency or any instrumentality of a county. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• Practice of psychology: means the observation, description, evaluation, interpretation, or modification of human behavior by the application of psychological principles, methods, or procedures, for the purpose of preventing or eliminating symptomatic, maladaptive, or undesired behavior and of enhancing interpersonal relationships, work and life adjustment, personal effectiveness, behavioral health, and mental health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 465-1
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Psychologist: means a person who offers to the public or renders to individuals or to groups of individuals services defined as the practice of psychology. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 465-1
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Review panel: means the panel established pursuant to § 323D-42. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• State agency: means the state health planning and development agency established in § 323D-11. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• State health services and facilities plan: means the comprehensive plan for the economical delivery of health services in the State prepared by the statewide council. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• Statewide council: means the statewide health coordinating council established in § 323D-13. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• Subarea: means one of the geographic subareas designated by the state agency pursuant to section 323D-21. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2