Part I General Provisions 329-1 – 329-4
Part II Standards and Schedules 329-11 – 329-23
Part III Regulation of Manufacture, Distribution, Prescription, and Dispensing of Controlled Substances 329-31 – 329-40
Part IV Offenses and Penalties 329-41 – 329-50
Part V Enforcement and Administrative Provisions 329-51 – 329-59
Part VI Regulated Chemicals for the Manufacture of Controlled Substances 329-61 – 329-75
Part VIII Electronic Prescription Accountability System 329-101 – 329-104
Part IX Medical Use of Cannabis 329-121 – 329-131

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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 329 - Uniform Controlled Substances Act

  • Abuse: means the misuse of a substance or the use of a substance to an extent deemed deleterious or detrimental to the user, to others, or to society. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Acquittal:
    1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
    2. A verdict of "not guilty."
     
  • Address: means , with respect to prescriptions, the physical location where an individual resides such as:

    (1) Street address, city, and state;
    (2) Tax map key number; or
    (3) The description of a physical location. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Adequate supply: means an amount of medical cannabis jointly possessed between the qualifying patient and the primary caregiver that is not more than is reasonably necessary to ensure the uninterrupted availability of cannabis for the purpose of alleviating the symptoms or effects of a qualifying patient's debilitating medical condition; provided that an "adequate supply" shall not exceed: ten cannabis plants, whether immature or mature, and four ounces of usable cannabis at any given time. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-121
  • Adjusted capitalized cost: means the gross capitalized cost, less the capitalized cost reduction, and is the amount used by the retail lessor in calculating the base periodic payment in the lease agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481L-1
  • Administer: means the direct application of a controlled substance, whether by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or any other means, to the body of a patient or research subject by:

    (1) A practitioner (or, in the practitioner's presence or at the practitioner's direction, by a licensed or registered health care professional acting as the practitioner's authorized agent), or
    (2) The patient or research subject at the direction or in the presence of the practitioner. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Administrator: means the administrator of the narcotics enforcement division of the department of law enforcement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Advanced practice registered nurse: means an advanced practice registered nurse with prescriptive authority as described in section 457-8. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-121
  • Advanced practice registered nurse with prescriptive authority: means a person licensed under section 457-8. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Agent: means an authorized person who acts on behalf of or at the direction of a manufacturer, distributor, or dispenser. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Annual percentage rate: means an annual percentage rate as determined pursuant to section 107 of the Truth in Lending Act, title 15 United States Code § 1606. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480J-1
  • Annual percentage rate: The cost of credit at a yearly rate. It is calculated in a standard way, taking the average compound interest rate over the term of the loan so borrowers can compare loans. Lenders are required by law to disclose a card account's APR. Source: FDIC
  • 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.
  • Arranger: means a provider of funds in the syndication of a debt. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480J-1
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Article: means a product as distinguished from its trademark, label, or distinctive dress in packaging. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481A-2
  • Artist: means the person who created the image upon the master or created the image which served as a model for the image which appears on the master. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481F-1
  • Assistive device: means any device, including a demonstrator, that a consumer purchases or accepts transfer of in this State which is used to assist a person with a disability (as defined in 42 U. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481K-1
  • Assistive device dealer: means a person who is in the business of selling new assistive devices. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481K-1
  • Assistive device lessor: means a person who leases new assistive devices to consumers, or who holds the lessor's residual interest under a written lease, to new assistive devices leased to consumers. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481K-1
  • Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
  • Branch office: means any location in the State that is identified by any means to the public or consumers as a location at which the licensee holds itself out as an installment lender. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480J-1
  • Business day: means any day during which the service departments of authorized dealers of the manufacturer of the motor vehicle are normally open for business. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481I-2
  • Capitalized cost reduction: means the total amount of any rebate, cash payment, net trade-in allowance, check, credit card debit, and noncash credit or downpayment that reduces the gross capitalized cost, but does not include any periodic lease payments due at the inception of the lease or all of the periodic lease payments if they are paid at the inception of the lease. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481L-1
  • Caregiver of a qualifying out-of-state patient: means a parent, guardian, or person having legal custody of a qualifying out-of-state patient who is under the age of eighteen years. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-121
  • Cash price: means the price at which retail sellers are selling and retail buyers are buying the same or similar property for cash in the same trade area in which the lessor's place of business is located. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481M-1
  • Central fill pharmacy: means a pharmacy located in the State that is registered pursuant to § 329-32 to prepare controlled substance orders for dispensing to the ultimate user pursuant to a valid prescription transmitted to it by a registered pharmacy. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Central repository: means a central repository established under § 329-102. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Certification mark: means a mark used in connection with the goods or services of a person other than the certifier to indicate geographic origin, material, mode of manufacture, quality, accuracy, or other characteristics of the goods or services or to indicate that the work or labor on the goods or services was performed by members of a union or other organization. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481A-2
  • 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.
  • Check: means any check, draft, money order, or other instrument for the transmission or payment of money. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480F-1
  • Check casher: means a person or entity that engages in the business of cashing checks for a fee. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480F-1
  • Circumstantial evidence: All evidence except eyewitness testimony.
  • Civil forfeiture: The loss of ownership of property used to conduct illegal activity.
  • Claimant: means the person alleging a violation of this part. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481B-21
  • Clear and conspicuous: means that written disclosures shall be made in a manner that is readable and understandable to the retail lessee and oral disclosures shall be made in a manner that is audible and understandable to the retail lessee. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481L-1
  • Collateral charges: means those additional charges to a consumer wholly incurred as a result of the acquisition of the motor vehicle. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481I-2
  • Collateral charges: means those additional charges to a consumer [wholly] incurred as a result of the acquisition of the assistive device. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481K-1
  • Collective mark: means a mark used by members of a cooperative, association, or other collective group or organization to identify goods or services and distinguish them from those of others, or to indicate membership in the collective group or organization. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481A-2
  • Commissioner: means the insurance commissioner of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:3B-101
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of financial institutions. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480J-1
  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Consumer: means an individual, including but not limited to applicants, policyholders, insureds, beneficiaries, claimants, and certificate holders, who is a resident of this State and whose nonpublic information is in a licensee's possession, custody, or control. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:3B-101
  • Consumer: means the purchaser, other than for purposes of resale, or the lessee of a motor vehicle, any person to whom the motor vehicle is transferred during the duration of the express warranty applicable to the motor vehicle, and any other person entitled to enforce the obligations of the express warranty. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481I-2
  • Consumer: means the purchaser, other than for purposes of resale, of a used motor vehicle primarily used for personal, family, or household purposes and subject to a warranty, and the spouse or child of the purchaser if the motor vehicle is transferred to the spouse or child during the duration of any warranty applicable to such motor vehicle, and any other person entitled by the terms of such warranty to enforce the obligations of the warranty. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481J-1
  • Consumer: means any of the following:

    (1) The purchaser of an assistive device, if the assistive device was purchased from an assistive device dealer or manufacturer for purposes other than resale;

    (2) A person to whom the assistive device is transferred for purposes other than resale, if the transfer occurs before the expiration of an express warranty applicable to the assistive device;

    (3) A person who may enforce any warranty applicable to the assistive device; or

    (4) A person who leases an assistive device from an assistive device lessor under a written lease. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481K-1

  • Consumer: means a natural person who is the buyer, lessee, or debtor to whom credit is granted in a transaction that is primarily for that natural person's personal, family, or household purposes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480J-1
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Control: means the power, either directly or indirectly, to direct management or policies of a company, whether through ownership of securities, by contract, or otherwise. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480J-1
  • Controlled substance: means a drug, substance, or immediate precursor in schedules I through V of part II. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • 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.
  • Counterfeit substance: means a controlled substance which, or the container or labeling of which, without authorization, bears the trademark, trade name, or other identifying mark, imprint, number or device, or any likeness thereof, of a manufacturer, distributor, or dispenser other than the person who in fact manufactured, distributed, or dispensed the substance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
  • Credit report: A detailed report of an individual's credit history prepared by a credit bureau and used by a lender in determining a loan applicant's creditworthiness. Source: OCC
  • Cybersecurity event: means an event resulting in unauthorized access to, or disruption or misuse of, an information system or nonpublic information stored on that information system. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:3B-101
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Dealer: means any person, corporation, partnership, association, association of dealers, or other form of business enterprise engaged in the business of selling products. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481G-1
  • Dealership: means any agreement, written or verbal, between a distributor and a dealer under which the dealer is granted the right, for a definite or indefinite period of time, to sell products on behalf of a distributor to consumers and other end-users. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481G-1
  • Debilitating medical condition: means :

    (1) Cancer, glaucoma, lupus, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, positive status for human immunodeficiency virus, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or the treatment of these conditions;

    (2) A chronic or debilitating disease or medical condition or its treatment that produces one or more of the following:

    (A) Cachexia or wasting syndrome;

    (B) Severe pain;

    (C) Severe nausea;

    (D) Seizures, including those characteristic of epilepsy;

    (E) Severe and persistent muscle spasms, including those characteristic of multiple sclerosis or Crohn's disease; or

    (F) Post-traumatic stress disorder; or

    (3) Any other medical condition approved by the department of health pursuant to administrative rules in response to a request from a physician or advanced practice registered nurse or potentially qualifying patient. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-121

  • Default: means a consumer's failure to repay an installment loan in compliance with the terms contained in an installment loan agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480J-1
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • delivery: means the actual, constructive, or attempted transfer or sale from one person to another of a controlled substance or drug paraphernalia, whether or not there is an agency relationship. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Demonstrator: means an assistive device used primarily for the purpose of demonstration to the public. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481K-1
  • Department: means the department of law enforcement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Department: means the department of business, economic development, and tourism. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 201-1
  • Department: means the department of business, economic development, and tourism. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 201-61
  • Department: means the department of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480J-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.
  • Designated member of the health care team: includes physician assistants, advanced practice registered nurses, and covering physicians who are authorized under state law to prescribe drugs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Designated state agency: means the narcotics enforcement division, department of law enforcement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Detoxification treatment: means the dispensing, for a specific period of time, of a narcotic drug or narcotic drugs in decreasing doses to an individual to alleviate adverse physiological or psychological effects incident to withdrawal from the continuous or sustained use of a narcotic drug and as a method of bringing the individual to a narcotic drug-free state within a specified period of time. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • 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:
  • Dispense: means to deliver a controlled substance to an ultimate user or research subject by or pursuant to the lawful order of a practitioner, including the administering of a practitioner's controlled substances, and packaging, labeling, or compounding necessary to prepare the substance for that delivery. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Dispenser: means a practitioner who dispenses. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Distribute: means to deliver other than by administering or dispensing a controlled substance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Distributor: means a person who distributes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Distributor: means any person, corporation, partnership, or other form of business enterprise engaged in the sale, consignment, exchange, or any other form of transfer of a product which it manufactures, assembles, constructs, creates, or obtains in any manner from a manufacturer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481G-1
  • Division: means the division of financial institutions of the department of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480J-1
  • Domain name: means any alphanumeric designation that is registered with or assigned by any domain name registrar, domain name registry, or other domain name registration authority as part of an electronic address on the Internet. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481B-21
  • Drug: means :

    (1) Substances recognized as drugs in the official United States Pharmacopoeia, official Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, or official National Formulary, or any supplement to any of them;
    (2) Substances intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or animals;
    (3) Substances (other than food) intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or animals; and
    (4) Substances intended for use as a component of any article specified in clause (1), (2), or (3) of this subsection. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Drug Enforcement Administration registration number: means the practitioner's Drug Enforcement Administration controlled substance registration number. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Drug paraphernalia: means all equipment, products, and materials of any kind that are used, primarily intended for use, or primarily designed for use, in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, containing, concealing, injecting, ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing into the human body a controlled substance in violation of this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Early termination savings: means an expense or obligation that an assistive device lessor avoids as a result of both the termination of a written lease before the termination date set forth in that lease and the return of an assistive device to a manufacturer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481K-1
  • Edition: means the aggregate of prints produced from a single master. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481F-1
  • Elder: means an individual who is sixty-two years of age or older. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480J-1
  • Electronic prescription: means a prescription that is generated on an electronic prescription application and transmitted as an electronic data file that complies with all applicable requirements of Title Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 1311 and any additional rules adopted by the department

    "Electronic prescription application" means electronic prescription software either as a stand-alone application or as a module in an electronic health record application. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1

  • Electronic signature: means a method of signing an electronic message that identifies a particular person as the source of the message and indicates the person's approval of the information contained in the message. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. Source: OCC
  • 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.
  • Ephedrine: includes any synthetic compound, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation extracted from the plant (genus) Ephedra that contains the substance ephedrine. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • 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.
  • Express warranty: means any written warranty issued by the manufacturer, or any affirmation of fact or promise made by the manufacturer, excluding statements made by the dealer, in connection with the sale or lease of a motor vehicle to a consumer, which relates to the nature of the material or workmanship and affirms or promises that the motor vehicle shall conform to the affirmation, promise, or description or that the material or workmanship is free of defects or will meet a specified level of performance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481I-2
  • Fair Credit Reporting Act: A federal law, established in 1971 and revised in 1997, that gives consumers the right to see their credit records and correct any mistakes. Source: OCC
  • Fair Debt Collection Practices Act: The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act is a set of United States statutes added as Title VIII of the Consumer Credit Protection Act. Its purpose is to ensure ethical practices in the collection of consumer debts and to provide consumers with an avenue for disputing and obtaining validation of debt information in order to ensure the information's accuracy. It is often used in conjunction with the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Source: OCC
  • 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: includes any payment of cash or other consideration paid or given by a customer to a check casher in exchange for the cashing of a check, including an exchange of value for the purchase of catalog items, which is in excess of regular retail value, or for coupons, which may be redeemed for goods or services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480F-1
  • Finance charge: The total cost of credit a customer must pay on a consumer loan, including interest. The Truth in Lending Act requires disclosure of the finance charge. Source: OCC
  • Finance charges: means the cost of credit or cost of borrowing, including the interest and other fees authorized by this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480J-1
  • Financial institution: means any bank, savings bank, savings and loan association, financial services loan company, or credit union doing business in the State whose accounts are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, or other similar or successor program of federal insurance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480J-1
  • 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.
  • Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. Source: OCC
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Goods: includes all goods, wares, merchandise, and other personal property, excepting choses in action and money. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481D-1
  • Government: means the State, or any of its political subdivisions, agencies, and instrumentalities, corporate or otherwise. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 201-1
  • Gross capitalized cost: means the amount agreed upon by the retail lessor and the retail lessee as the value of the motor vehicle and any items that are capitalized or amortized during the lease term, including but not limited to taxes, insurance, service agreements, registration fees, license fees, lease acquisition and administration fees, warranty charges, fees and charges for accessories and for installing accessories, charges for delivery, service and repair, charges for improving the motor vehicle and providing other services incidental to the agreement, the outstanding balance of a prior loan agreement, lease or motor vehicle retail installment contract, and the unpaid portion of the early termination obligation under an outstanding lease agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481L-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.
  • Hemp: means all parts of the plant cannabis sativa L. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Identification number: means , with respect to a patient:

    (1) The patient's unique valid driver's license number or state identification card number, followed by the abbreviation of the state issuing the driver's license or state identification card, or the patient's military identification number;
    (2) If the patient is a foreign patient, the patient's passport number;
    (3) If the patient does not have a valid driver's license, state identification card, or military identification, the patient's social security number;
    (4) If the patient is less than eighteen years of age and has none of the identification referred to in paragraph (1), (2), or (3), the unique number on the valid driver's license, state identification card, military identification, or passport of the patient's parent or guardian; or
    (5) If the controlled substance is obtained for an animal, the unique number of the animal's owner as described in paragraph (1), (2), or (3). See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Immediate precursor: means a substance which the department of law enforcement has found to be and by rule designates as being the principal compound commonly used or produced primarily for use, and which is an immediate chemical intermediary used or likely to be used in the manufacture of a controlled substance, the control of which is necessary to prevent, curtail, or limit manufacture. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Incidental charges: means those reasonable costs incurred by the consumer, including, but not limited to, towing charges and the costs of obtaining alternative transportation which are directly caused by the nonconformity or nonconformities which are the subject of the claim, but shall not include loss of use, loss of income, or personal injury claims. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481I-2
  • Incidental charges: means those reasonable costs incurred by the consumer, including but not limited to the costs of repair, the costs of return, and the costs of obtaining alternative assistance or alternative assistive devices, which are directly caused by the nonconformity or nonconformities which are the subject of the complaint, but shall not include loss of use, loss of income, or personal injury claims. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481K-1
  • 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.
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Installment loan: means a loan made pursuant to this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480J-1
  • Instrument: means a method of payment that may include a debit card payment, Automated Clearing House transfer, electronic check or other forms of electronic transfers, money order, cash, personal check signed by the consumer, or any other method of loan payment authorized by this part or by rule adopted by the commissioner pursuant to chapter 91 and made payable to a person subject to this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480J-1
  • Interest: means all charges payable directly or indirectly by a borrower to a licensee as a condition to a loan or an application for a loan, however denominated. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480J-1
  • 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
  • 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
  • Lease agreement: means a written agreement for the transfer from a retail lessor to a retail lessee of the right to possess and use a motor vehicle in exchange for consideration for a scheduled term exceeding four months, whether or not the retail lessee has the option to purchase or otherwise become the owner of the motor vehicle upon expiration of the agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481L-1
  • Lease transaction: means a presentation made to the retail lessee concerning the motor vehicle, including a sales presentation or a document presented to the retail lessee, resulting in the execution of a lease agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481L-1
  • Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
  • Lemon law rights period: means the term of the manufacturer's express warranty, the period ending two years after the date of the original delivery of a motor vehicle to a consumer, or the first 24,000 miles of operation, whichever occurs first. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481I-2
  • lender: means any person who is in the business of offering or making a consumer loan, who arranges a consumer loan for a third party, or who acts as an agent for a third party, regardless of whether the third party is exempt from licensure under this chapter or whether approval, acceptance, or ratification by the third party is necessary to create a legal obligation for the third party, through any method including mail, telephone, the Internet, or any electronic means. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480J-1
  • Lessee: means any consumer who leases a motor vehicle:

    (1) For one year or more pursuant to a written lease agreement which provides that the lessee is responsible for repairs to such motor vehicle; or

    (2) Pursuant to a lease-purchase agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481I-2

  • Lessee: means a natural person who rents personal property under a lease-purchase agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481M-1
  • Lessor: means a person who regularly provides the use of property through lease-purchase agreements and to whom lease payments are initially payable on the face of the lease-purchase agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481M-1
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Licensee: means a person who is licensed or required to be licensed under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480J-1
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Limited edition: means print multiples produced from a master, all of which include the same image and bear numbers or other markings to denote the limited production thereof to a stated maximum number of prints, or are otherwise held out as limited to a maximum number of prints. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481F-1
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Loan amount: means the amount financed, as that term is defined in Truth in Lending (Regulation Z), title 12 Code of Federal Regulations, chapter X, part 1026, as amended, or supplemented by this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480J-1
  • Loan charges: means the total of all charges made in connection with a loan except for insufficient funds charges authorized by § 480J-11 and default charges authorized by section 480J-4(i). See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480J-1
  • Maintenance fee: means a monthly fee paid to a licensee to maintain an installment loan. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480J-1
  • Manufacture: means the production, preparation, propagation, compounding, conversion, or processing of a controlled substance, either directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of natural origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis, and includes any packaging or repackaging of the substance or labeling or relabeling of its container, except that this term does not include the preparation or compounding of a controlled substance by an individual for the individual's own use or the preparation, compounding, packaging, or labeling of a controlled substance:

    (1) By a practitioner as an incident to the practitioner's administering or dispensing of a controlled substance in the course of the practitioner's professional practice, or
    (2) By a practitioner, or by the practitioner's authorized agent under the practitioner's supervision, for the purpose of, or as an incident to, research, teaching, or chemical analysis and not for sale. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Manufacturer: means a person who manufactures or assembles assistive devices and agents of that person, including an importer, a distributor, a factory branch, distributor branch, and a warrantor of the manufacturer's assistive device, but does not include an assistive device dealer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481K-1
  • Marijuana: means all parts of the plant (genus) Cannabis whether growing or not; the seeds thereof, the resin extracted from any part of the plant; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant, its seeds, or resin. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Mark: includes "trademarks" "trade names" and "service marks" as defined in [section] 481A-2. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481B-21
  • Mark: means a word, name, symbol, device, or any combination of the foregoing in any form or arrangement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481A-2
  • Markup: The process by which congressional committees and subcommittees debate, amend, and rewrite proposed legislation.
  • Medical use: means the acquisition, possession, cultivation, use, distribution, or transportation of cannabis or paraphernalia relating to the administration of cannabis to alleviate the symptoms or effects of a qualifying patient's debilitating medical condition; provided that "medical use" does not include the cultivation or distribution of cannabis or paraphernalia by a qualifying out-of-state patient or the caregiver of a qualifying out-of-state patient. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-121
  • 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.
  • Motor vehicle: means a motor vehicle as defined in § 286-2. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481L-1
  • Narcotic drug: means any of the following, whether produced directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of vegetable origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis:

    (1) Opium and opiate, and any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of opium or opiate. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • NMLS: means the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System and Registry, which is a licensing system developed and maintained by the Conference of State Bank Supervisors for the state licensing and registration of state-licensed loan originators and other financial services providers, or any system provided by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480J-1
  • 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.
  • Nonconformity: means a defect, malfunction, or condition that fails to conform to the motor vehicle's applicable express warranty and that substantially impairs the use, market value, or safety of a motor vehicle, but does not include a defect, malfunction, or condition that results from an accident, abuse, neglect, modification, or alteration of the motor vehicle by persons other than the manufacturer, its agent, distributor, or authorized dealer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481I-2
  • Nonconformity: means a defect, malfunction, or condition that fails to conform to any warranty applicable to an assistive device, but does not include a defect, malfunction, or condition that results from accident, abuse, neglect, modification, or alteration of the assistive device by persons other than the manufacturer, its agent, distributor, or authorized assistive device dealer, or assistive device lessor. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481K-1
  • Nonprofit organization: means an organization that:

    (1) Has the status of a tax-exempt organization under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended;

    (2) Conducts its activities in a manner that serves public or charitable purposes, rather than commercial purposes;

    (3) Receives funding, revenue, and charge fees in a manner that does not incentivize its organization or its employees to act other than in the best interests of its clients; and

    (4) Compensates its employees in a manner that does not incentivize employees to act other than in the best interests of its clients. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480J-1

  • 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.
  • Opiate: means any substance having an addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine or being capable of conversion into a drug having addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Opium poppy: means the plant of the species Papaver somniferum, except its seeds. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Original bill: A bill which is drafted by a committee. It is introduced by the committee or subcommittee chairman after the committee votes to report it.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • 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.
  • Permit: means any license, permit, certificate, certification, approval, compliance schedule, or other similar document or decision pertaining to any regulatory or management program which is related to the protection, conservation, use of, or interference with the natural resources of land, air, or water in the State, and which is required prior to constructing or operating a project. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 201-61
  • Person: means individual, corporation, government, or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, government, governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, unincorporated association, two or more of any of the foregoing having a joint or common interest, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481B-21
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, government, or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, unincorporated association, two or more of any of the foregoing having a joint or common interest, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481A-2
  • Person: includes a person, firm, corporation, partnership, association, or two or more persons having a joint or common interest. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481D-1
  • Person: means an individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or other association of individuals, however organized. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480J-1
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Pharmacist: means a person who is licensed or holds a permit under chapter 461 to practice pharmacy, including a pharmacy intern who is under the immediate and direct supervision of a licensed pharmacist. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Physician: means a person who is licensed to practice under chapter 453 and is licensed with authority to prescribe drugs and is registered under § 329-32. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-121
  • Physician assistant: means a person licensed under section 453-5. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Physician-patient relationship: means the collaborative relationship between physicians and their patients. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Place of business: means a location where installment loans are offered or made and includes each website through which a consumer may apply for an installment loan from an installment lender. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480J-1
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • 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.
  • Poppy straw: means all parts, except the seeds, of the opium poppy, after mowing. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Practitioner: means :

    (1) A physician, dentist, veterinarian, scientific investigator, or other person licensed and registered under § 329-32 to distribute, dispense, or conduct research with respect to a controlled substance in the course of professional practice or research in this State;
    (2) An advanced practice registered nurse with prescriptive authority licensed and registered under § 329-32 to prescribe and administer controlled substances in the course of professional practice in this State; and
    (3) A pharmacy, hospital, or other institution licensed, registered, or otherwise permitted to distribute, dispense, conduct research with respect to or to administer a controlled substance in the course of professional practice or research in this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Precomputed interest: means an interest method that uses the original payment schedule to calculate interest. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480J-1
  • Prescribe: means to direct, designate, or order the use of a formula for the preparation of a medicine for a disease or illness and the manner of using them. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Prescriber: means one who is authorized to issue a prescription. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Prescription: means an order for medication, which is dispensed to or for an ultimate user. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Primary caregiver: means a person eighteen years of age or older, other than the qualifying patient and the qualifying patient's physician or advanced practice registered nurse, who has agreed to undertake responsibility for managing the well-being of the qualifying patient with respect to the medical use of cannabis. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-121
  • print: means any print produced in more than one copy by means of engraving, etching, woodcutting, lithography, serigraphy, or other similar processes or any combination thereof. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481F-1
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Products: includes , but is not limited to: typewriters, copiers, electronic cash registers, dictating equipment, calculators, offset printers, letter openers, computers, or word processing equipment, but does not include such items as pencils, erasers, stationery, paper clips, or other such miscellaneous material normally used in an office. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481G-1
  • Project: means any land or water use activity or any construction or operation which requires permits from one or more state agencies or permits from a state agency and a county or federal agency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 201-61
  • Proof: means a print in an edition which contains substantially the same image and which is produced from the same master as the prints in the related limited edition, but is set aside from and is in addition to the limited edition, whether or not it is designated as a proof. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481F-1
  • 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.
  • Purchase price: means the cash price appearing in the sales agreement or contract and paid for the motor vehicle, including any net allowance for a trade-in vehicle. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481I-2
  • Qualifying patient: means a person who has been diagnosed by a physician or advanced practice registered nurse as having a debilitating medical condition. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-121
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Renewal: means the refinancing of an installment loan that occurs during the period between the original maturity date and the immediately preceding installment payment due date. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480J-1
  • Replacement motor vehicle: means a motor vehicle which is identical or reasonably equivalent to the motor vehicle to be replaced, as the motor vehicle to be replaced existed at the time of original acquisition, including any service contract, undercoating, rustproofing, and factory-installed or dealer-installed options. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481I-2
  • 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).
  • Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
  • Retail lessee: means an individual who executes a lease agreement for a motor vehicle from a retail lessor primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481L-1
  • Retail lessor: means a person who regularly engages in the business of selling or leasing motor vehicles and who offers or arranges a lease agreement for a motor vehicle. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481L-1
  • Risk assessment: means the risk assessment that each licensee is required to conduct under section 431:3B-202. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:3B-101
  • seller: means a person who is in the business of selling, exclusively or nonexclusively, print multiples, or a person offering prints for sale who by the person's occupation holds the person's self out as having knowledge or skill peculiar to these works, or to whom that knowledge or skill may be attributed by the employment of an agent or other intermediary who by occupation represents as having that knowledge or skill. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481F-1
  • seller of print multiples: includes an auctioneer who sells such works at public auction. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481F-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.
  • Signed: means the artist signed the print multiple by hand to signify the artist's examination and approval of the print. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481F-1
  • State: means the State of Hawaii. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:3B-101
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes any state, district, commonwealth, territory, insular possession thereof, and any area subject to the legal authority of the United States of America. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Substantially impairs: means to render the motor vehicle unfit, unreliable, or unsafe for warranted or normal use, or to significantly diminish the value of the motor vehicle. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481I-2
  • Supervising physician: means a physician licensed to practice medicine in the State and registered under § 329-33, who supervises a physician assistant and retains full professional and legal responsibility for the performance of the supervised physician assistant and the care and treatment of the patient. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • System: means an electronic prescription accountability system as described in part VIII. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Third-party service provider: means a person, not otherwise defined as a licensee, that contracts with a licensee to maintain, process, store, or otherwise is permitted access to nonpublic information through its provision of services to the licensee. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:3B-101
  • Trade name: means a word, name, symbol, device, or any combination of the foregoing in any form or arrangement used by a person to identify the person's business, vocation, or occupation and distinguish it from the business, vocation, or occupation of others. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481A-2
  • Trademark: means a mark used by a person to identify goods and to distinguish them from the goods of others. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481A-2
  • Traffics in: refers to transactions that include, but are not limited to, sales, purchases, loans, pledges, licenses, exchanges of currency, or any other transfer for consideration or receipt in exchange for consideration. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481B-21
  • 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.
  • Truth in Lending Act: The Truth in Lending Act is a federal law that requires lenders to provide standardized information so that borrowers can compare loan terms. In general, lenders must provide information on Source: OCC
  • Truth in Lending Act: means the federal Truth in Lending Act, title 15 United States Code § 1601 et seq. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480J-1
  • Ultimate user: means a person who lawfully possesses a controlled substance for the person's own use or for the use of a member of the person's household or for administering to an animal owned by the person or by a member of the person's household. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Usable cannabis: means the dried leaves and flowers of the plant Cannabis family Moraceae, and any mixture or preparation thereof, that are appropriate for the medical use of cannabis. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-121
  • Used motor vehicle: means a motor vehicle as that term is defined in § 481I-2, which has been purchased or transferred either after one year from the date of original delivery, or after twelve thousand miles of operation, whichever occurs first. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481J-1
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
  • Warranty: means any undertaking in connection with the sale by a dealer of a used motor vehicle to refund, repair, replace, maintain, or take other action with respect to that used motor vehicle and provided at no extra charge beyond the price of the used motor vehicle. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481J-1
  • Water treatment unit: means a product, device, or system designed for personal, family, or household use and for which a claim or claims are made stating that it will improve the quality of water by reducing one or more contaminants through mechanical, physical, chemical, or biological processes or combinations thereof. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481H-2
  • Worksheet: means the primary document or documents used by the retail lessor to derive the monthly lease payment for a specific lease transaction. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481L-1
  • Written certification: means the qualifying patient's medical records or a statement signed by a qualifying patient's physician or advanced practice registered nurse, stating that in the physician's or advanced practice registered nurse's professional opinion, the qualifying patient has a debilitating medical condition and the potential benefits of the medical use of cannabis would likely outweigh the health risks for the qualifying patient. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-121
  • Written instrument: means a written agreement, certificate of authenticity, catalogue, prospectus, advertisement, circular or any other written memorandum describing a print offered for sale by the seller. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481F-1