Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 333F - Services for Persons With Developmental or Intellectual Disabilities

• Active treatment: means provision of services as specified in an individualized service plan. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 333F-1
• 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.
• 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.
• Applicant: means every person applying for a license to become a provider of an adult foster home or developmental disabilities domiciliary home. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 333F-1
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of 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 board of trustees of the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund described in § 87A-5. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 87A-1
• Brand name: means any word, name, symbol, or device or any combination thereof identifying the commercial feed of a distributor and distinguishing it from that of others. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 144-2
• Carrier: means a voluntary association, corporation, partnership, or organization engaged in providing, paying for, arranging for, or reimbursing the cost of, health benefits or long-term care benefits under group insurance contracts. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 87A-1
• Case management services: means services to persons with developmental or intellectual disabilities that assist them in gaining access to needed social, medical, legal, educational, and other services, and includes:

  (1) Follow-along services which assure, through a continuing relationship between an agency or provider and a person with a developmental or intellectual disability and the person's parent, if the person is a minor, or guardian, if a guardian has been appointed for the purpose, that the changing needs of the person and the family are recognized and appropriately met. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 333F-1

• Commercial feed: means all feed except:
  (1) Whole seeds unmixed or physically altered entire unmixed seeds, when not adulterated within the meaning of section 144-6, that are distributed for use as feed or for mixing in feed;
  (2) Hay, straw, stover, silage, cobs, husks, and hulls when:

  (A) Unground; or

  (B) Unmixed with other materials;
  (3) Wet garbage;
  (4) Individual chemical compounds when not mixed with other materials; and
  (5) Unmixed feeding cane molasses, unmixed pineapple pulp, unmixed pineapple hay, and unmixed sugarcane hay. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 144-2
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contribution: means money payments made to the fund by the State, the counties, an employee-beneficiary, or a qualified-beneficiary. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 87A-1
• 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
• County: means the counties of Hawaii, Honolulu, Kauai, and Maui, including their respective boards of water supply and other quasi-independent boards, commissions, and agencies. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 87A-1
• Credited service: means service as an officer or employee paid by the State or county, service during the period of leave of absence or exchange if the individual is paid by the State or county during the leave of absence or exchange, and service during the period of unpaid leave of absence or exchange if the individual is engaged in the performance of a governmental function or if the unpaid leave of absence is an approved leave of absence for professional improvement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 87A-1
• Custom-mixed feed: means a special commercial mixture that is formulated by the manufacturer or processor in accordance with the specific instructions of the final purchaser and contains feed material or materials wholly or partly supplied by the manufacturer or processor. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 144-2
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Department: means the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 333F-1
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Dependent-beneficiary: means an employee-beneficiary's:

  (1) Spouse;

  (2) Child deemed eligible by the board, including a legally adopted child, stepchild, foster child, or recognized natural child, but excluding a child born or legally adopted more than ten months after the date of the death of:

  (A) An active employee killed in the performance of duty;

  (B) An active employee who was eligible to retire on the date of death; or

  (C) A retired employee-beneficiary; and

  (3) Unmarried child regardless of age who is incapable of self-support because of a mental or physical incapacity, which existed prior to the unmarried child's reaching the age of nineteen years. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 87A-1

• Developmental disabilities: means a severe, chronic disability of a person which:

  (1) Is attributable to a mental or physical impairment or combination of mental and physical impairments;

  (2) Is manifested before the person attains age twenty-two;

  (3) Is likely to continue indefinitely;

  (4) Results in substantial functional limitations in three or more of the following areas of major life activity: self-care, receptive and expressive language, learning, mobility, self-direction, capacity for independent living, and economic sufficiency; and

  (5) Reflects the person's need for a combination and sequence of special, interdisciplinary, or generic care, treatment, or other services that are of lifelong or extended duration and are individually planned and coordinated. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 333F-1

• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Director: means the director of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 333F-1
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Distribute: means to offer for sale, sell, barter, or otherwise supply feed, commercial feeds, or custom-mixed feeds. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 144-2
• Distributor: means any person who distributes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 144-2
• Donor: means any person, partnership, corporation, company, or association engaged in the farming, processing, distribution, wholesaling, or retailing of food products who donates such products, without remuneration, to a charitable, religious, or nonprofit organization. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 145D-1
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Drug: means any article intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in animals other than human and articles other than feed intended to affect the structure or any function of the animal body. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 144-2
• Employee: means an employee or officer of the State, county, or legislature,

  (1) Including:

  (A) An elective officer;

  (B) An officer or employee under an authorized leave of absence;

  (C) An employee of the Hawaii national guard although paid from federal funds;

  (D) A retired member of the employees' retirement system; the county pension system; or the police, firefighters, or bandsmen pension system of the State or county;

  (E) A salaried and full-time member of a board, commission, or agency appointed by the governor or the mayor of a county; and

  (F) A person employed by contract for a period not exceeding one year, where the director of human resources development, personnel services, or civil service has certified that the service is essential or needed in the public interest and that, because of circumstances surrounding its fulfillment, personnel to perform the service cannot be obtained through normal civil service recruitment procedures,

  (2) But excluding:

  (A) A designated beneficiary of a retired member of the employees' retirement system; the county pension system; or the police, firefighters, or bandsmen pension system of the State or county;

  (B) Except as allowed under paragraph (1)(F), a person employed temporarily on a fee or contract basis; and

  (C) A part-time, temporary, and seasonal or casual employee. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 87A-1

• Employee-beneficiary: means :

  (1) An employee;

  (2) The beneficiary of an employee who is killed in the performance of the employee's duty, including:

  (A) The surviving child, if there is no surviving parent who is eligible to be an employee-beneficiary and the child is unmarried and under the limiting age as defined by the board; and

  (B) The surviving spouse, if the surviving spouse does not subsequently remarry;

  (3) An employee who retired prior to 1961; and

  (4) The beneficiary of a retired member of the employees' retirement system; a county pension system; or a police, firefighters, or bandsmen pension system of the State or a county, upon the death of the retired member, including:

  (A) The surviving child, if there is no surviving parent who is eligible to be an employee-beneficiary and the child is unmarried and under the limiting age as defined by the board; and

  (B) The surviving spouse, if the surviving spouse does not subsequently remarry;

  provided that the employee, the employee's beneficiary, or the beneficiary of the deceased retired employee is deemed eligible by the board to participate in a health benefits plan or long-term care benefits plan under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 87A-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}
• Escheat: Reversion of real or personal property to the state when 1) a person dies without leaving a will and has no heirs, or 2) when the property (such as a bank account) has been inactive for a certain period of time. ^{Source: OCC}
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Feed: means all edible materials consumed by animals, other than dogs, cats, or other domestic pets, that contribute energy or nutrients to the animal's diet and are distributed or imported. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 144-2
• Feed ingredient: means each of the constituent materials making up a feed. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 144-2
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Food product: means any fowl, seafood, animal, vegetable, or other stuff, product, or article which is customary food fit for human consumption, including prepared, canned, milk, dairy, and farm products, before or after the expiration date stamped on the products, if any. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 145D-1
• 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.
• Fund: means the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund established in section 87A-30. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 87A-1
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• 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.
• Habilitation: means the process by which the staff of an agency assists an individual to cope more effectively with the demands of his or her own person and environment and to raise the level of his or her physical, mental, and social functioning. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 333F-1
• Health benefits plan: means :

  (1) A group insurance contract or service agreement that may include medical, hospital, surgical, prescribed drugs, vision, and dental services, in which a carrier agrees to provide, pay for, arrange for, or reimburse the cost of the services as determined by the board; or

  (2) A similar schedule of benefits established by the board and provided through the fund on a self-insured basis. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 87A-1

• Impeachment: (1) The process of calling something into question, as in "impeaching the testimony of a witness." (2) The constitutional process whereby the House of Representatives may "impeach" (accuse of misconduct) high officers of the federal government for trial in the Senate.
• Individualized service plan: means the written plan required by section 333F-6 that is developed by the individual, with the input of family, friends, and other persons identified by the individual as being important to the planning process. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 333F-1
• Individually appropriate: means responsive to the needs of the person as determined through interdisciplinary assessment and provided pursuant to an individualized service plan that is person-centered and community-based. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 333F-1
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Intellectual disability: means significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning resulting in or associated with concurrent moderate, severe, or profound impairments in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 333F-1
• Interdisciplinary team: means a group of persons that is drawn from or represents those professions, disciplines, or service areas that are relevant to identifying an individual's needs and designing a program to meet them, and is responsible for evaluating the individual's needs, developing an individual program plan to meet them, periodically reviewing the individual's response to the plan, and revising the plan accordingly. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 333F-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.
• Label: means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter:
  (1) Upon or affixed to the container in which a commercial feed is distributed or imported; or
  (2) On the invoice or delivery slip with which a commercial feed or custom-mixed feed is distributed or imported. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 144-2
• 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}
• Least restrictive: means the least intrusive and least disruptive intervention into the life of a person with developmental or intellectual disability that represents the least departure from normal patterns of living that can be effective in meeting the person's developmental needs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 333F-1
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Long-term care benefits plan: means :

  (1) A group insurance contract or service agreement in which a carrier agrees to provide, pay for, arrange for, or reimburse the cost of long-term care benefits as determined by the board; or

  (2) A similar schedule of benefits established by the board and provided through the fund on a self-insured basis. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 87A-1

• Manufacture: means to grind, mix, or blend or further process a commercial feed for distribution. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 144-2
• Monitor: means to conduct a systematic, coordinated, objective, qualitative review of services provided by any person, agency, or organization. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 333F-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.
• Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. ^{Source: OCC}
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
• 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.
• Officer: means any sheriff, deputy, any member of a police force in counties with a population of less than 100,000 and animal control officers of the several counties of the State;

  "Owner" includes every person owning, harboring, or keeping a dog; provided that if the owner is a minor under the age of eighteen years, the parent, guardian, or other person having the care, custody, or control of the minor shall be irrebuttably presumed to be the owner;

  "Unlicensed dog" means any dog for which the license for the current year has not been paid or to which the tag provided for in this chapter is not attached. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 143-1

• Owner: includes every person owning, harboring, or keeping a dog; provided that if the owner is a minor under the age of eighteen years, the parent, guardian, or other person having the care, custody, or control of the minor shall be irrebuttably presumed to be the owner;

  "Unlicensed dog" means any dog for which the license for the current year has not been paid or to which the tag provided for in this chapter is not attached. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 143-1

• 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: includes individual, partnership, corporation, and association. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 144-2
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• Product name: means the name of the commercial feed that identifies it as to kind, class, or specific use. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 144-2
• Provider: means the person who is issued the license or certificate of registration, as the case may be, by the department to provide care in an adult foster or developmental disabilities domiciliary home. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 333F-1
• 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-beneficiary: means , for purposes of the long-term care benefits plan, a former employee or an employee who is not eligible for benefits due to a reduction in work hours, including the spouse, divorced spouse, parents, grandparents, in-law parents, and in-law grandparents of an employee or retiree; provided that the beneficiary was enrolled in the plan before the employee or former employee became ineligible for benefits. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 87A-1
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}
• 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.
• Representative: means any individual who can advise and advocate for a person with developmental or intellectual disabilities and who shall serve at the request and pleasure of such person; provided that if the person with developmental or intellectual disabilities is a minor or is legally incapacitated and has not requested a representative, the parent or guardian may request a representative to assist on behalf of the person with developmental or intellectual disabilities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 333F-1
• residential: means the living space occupied by the person with a developmental or intellectual disability, including single-person homes, natural family homes, care homes, group homes, foster homes, institutional facilities, and all other types of living arrangements. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 333F-1
• Respite care: means a service provided in a least restrictive environment for short term care to meet the needs, ranging from simple to complex, of persons with developmental or intellectual disabilities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 333F-1
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• sale: includes exchange. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 144-2
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Services: means appropriate assistance provided to a person with a developmental or intellectual disability in the least restrictive, individually appropriate environment to provide for basic living requirements and continuing development of independence or interdependent living skills of the person. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 333F-1
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Surplus funds: means the excess of the insurer's assets over its liabilities, including its capital stock as a liability. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:4-101
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Toll-milled feed: means a special feed that is processed by the processor:
  (1) From materials entirely delivered by the owner thereof or the owner's authorized agent; and
  (2) In accordance with the specific instructions of the owner,

  and that is not distributed. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 144-2

• 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.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trustee: means a trustee of the board of trustees of the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund, as described in § 87A-5. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 87A-1
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.