Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 342G > Part VIII - Deposit Beverage Container Program

• Activity or use limitations: means restrictions or obligations created under this chapter with respect to real property. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 508C-2
• 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.
• Agency: means the department of health or any other state or federal agency that determines or approves the environmental response project pursuant to which the environmental covenant is created. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 508C-2
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Auditor: means the office of the auditor. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-101
• Commercial passenger vessel: means any domestic or foreign-flagged marine vessel or air carrier used primarily for transporting persons to, from, or within the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-101
• Common interest community: means a condominium property regime, cooperative, planned community association, or other community with respect to which a person, by virtue of the person's ownership of a parcel of real property within the community is obligated to pay property taxes or insurance premiums, or fees for maintenance or improvement of other real property described in a recorded covenant that creates the common interest community. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 508C-2
• 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 a person who buys a beverage in a deposit beverage container for use or consumption and pays the deposit. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-101
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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
• Court: means any court described in the laws of the United States or any state. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 507D-2
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Dealer: means a person who engages in the sale of beverages in deposit beverage containers to a consumer for off-premises consumption in the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-101
• Debtor: means a person named as the debtor in a financing statement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 507D-2
• 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 508C-2
• Department: means the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-101
• Deposit beverage: means beer, ale, or other drink produced by fermenting malt, mixed spirits, mixed wine, tea and coffee drinks regardless of dairy-derived product content, soda, or noncarbonated water, and all nonalcoholic drinks in liquid form and intended for internal human consumption that is contained in a deposit beverage container. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-101
• Deposit beverage container: means the individual, separate, sealed glass, polyethylene terephthalate, high density polyethylene, or metal container less than or equal to sixty-eight fluid ounces, used for containing, at the time of sale to the consumer, a deposit beverage intended for use or consumption in this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-101
• Deposit beverage distributor: means a person who is a manufacturer of beverages in deposit beverage containers in this State, or who imports and engages in the sale of filled deposit beverage containers to a dealer or consumer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-101
• 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 health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• Electronic mail: means the transmission of information or a communication by the use of a computer or other electronic means sent to a person identified by a unique address and that is received by that person. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 507-61
• Environmental covenant: means a servitude arising under an environmental response project that imposes activity and use limitations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 508C-2
• Environmental response project: means a plan or work performed for environmental remediation of real property and conducted:

  (1) Under a federal or state program governing environmental remediation of real property, including chapter 128D;

  (2) Incident to closure of a solid or hazardous waste management unit; provided that the closure is conducted with approval of an agency; or

  (3) Under the state voluntary response program authorized in part II of chapter 128D. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 508C-2

• 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}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• 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.
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Financing statement: means a record filed under chapter 490:9. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 507D-2
• 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.
• 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}
• Frivolous: means without any basis in law or fact. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 507D-2
• Furnishing of materials: includes supplying of: materials incorporated in the improvement or substantially consumed in construction operations or specially fabricated for incorporation in the improvement; building materials used during construction but not remaining in the improvement, diminished by the salvage value of the materials; transportation to bring the materials to the site of the improvement; tools, appliances, or machinery (but not including hand tools), used during the construction but not in excess of the reasonable rental value for the period of actual use. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 507-41
• General contractor: means a person who enters into a contract with the owner for the improvement of real property. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 507-41
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Holder: means a grantee of an environmental covenant as specified in section 508C-3(a) who, by virtue of the covenant, holds an interest in the real property subject to the covenant, and who accepts certain rights and obligations as stated in the covenant. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 508C-2
• Improvement: includes the construction, repair, alteration of or addition to any building, structure, road, utility, railroad, or other undertaking or appurtenances thereto, and includes any building, construction, erection, demolition, excavation, grading, paving, filling in, landscaping, seeding, sodding, and planting, or any part thereof existing, built, erected, placed, made, or done on real property, or removed therefrom, for its benefit. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 507-41
• 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.
• Labor: includes professional services rendered in furnishing the plans for or in the supervision of the improvement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 507-41
• last known electronic mail address: means the postal or electronic mail address provided by the occupant in the latest rental agreement, or the postal or electronic mail address provided by the occupant in a subsequent written notice of a change of address. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 507-61
• 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}
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Lien: means the lien provided in section 507-42. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 507-41
• Lien: means a recorded instrument that creates an encumbrance on or affects title or ownership of property. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 507D-2
• Lien claimant: means the person who executes or records or causes or materially assists in causing the lien to be prepared, executed, or recorded. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 507D-2
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• 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.
• Nonconsensual common law lien: means a lien that:

  (1) Is not provided for by a specific statute;

  (2) Does not depend upon, require by its terms, or call for the consent of the owner of the property affected for its existence; and

  (3) Is not a court-imposed equitable or constructive lien. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 507D-2

• 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 a person, or the person's sublessee, successor, or assign, who is entitled to the use of designated or individual storage space at a self-service storage facility under a rental agreement, to the exclusion of others. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 507-61
• Office: means the office of solid waste management in the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• On-premises consumption: means the consuming of deposit beverages by a patron immediately and within the area under control of the establishment, including bars, restaurants, passenger ships, and airplanes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-101
• Owner: means the owner of the real property or of any interest therein who enters into a contract for the improvement thereof and who may be the owner in fee of the real property or of a lesser estate therein, the lessee for a term of years therein, the person having any right, title, or interest in the real property which may be sold under legal process, or a vendee in possession under a contract for the purchase of the real property or of any such right, title or interest therein. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 507-41
• Owner: means the owner, operator, lessor, or sublessor of a self-service storage facility, an agent thereof, or any other person authorized to manage the facility, or to receive rent from an occupant under a rental agreement, and no real estate license is required. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 507-61
• 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.
• Party in interest: means any owner, title holder, mortgagee, or other person holding a recorded or perfected security interest in real or personal property. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 507D-2
• Patron: means a person who buys a beverage in a deposit beverage container for use or consumption and does not pay the deposit. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-101
• Person: means individual, partnership, firm, association, public or private corporation, federal agency, the State or any of its political subdivisions, trust, estate, or any other legal entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-101
• Person: includes natural persons, partnerships, corporations, firms, unincorporated associations, joint ventures, and any other party recognized at law as a person. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 507-41
• Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government, governmental subdivision, agency, instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 508C-2
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personal property: means movable property not affixed to land, and includes, but is not limited to, goods, merchandise, furniture, household items, motor vehicles, and boats. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 507-61
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Postconsumer material: means a material that has fulfilled the intent of its original manufacture. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• 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.
• Program: means the particular combination of waste management methods selected by each county and designed to achieve the objectives of the state and county integrated solid waste management plans. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-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.
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in any medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 508C-2
• Recycling: means the collection, separation, recovery, and sale or reuse of secondary resources that would otherwise be disposed of as municipal solid waste, and is an integral part of a manufacturing process aimed at producing a marketable product made of postconsumer material. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• Recycling facility: means all contiguous land and structures and other appurtenances, and improvements on the land used for the collection, separation, recovery, and sale [or] reuse of secondary resources that would otherwise be disposed of as municipal solid waste, and is an integral part of a manufacturing process aimed at producing a marketable product made of postconsumer material. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-101
• Redeemer: means a person, other than a dealer or distributor, who demands the refund value in exchange for the empty deposit beverage container. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-101
• Redemption center: means an operation which accepts from consumers and provides the refund value for empty deposit beverage containers intended to be recycled and ensures that the empty deposit beverage containers are properly recycled. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-101
• Redemption rate: means the percentage of deposit beverage containers redeemed over a reporting period. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-101
• Registrar: means the registrar of the land court or the bureau of conveyances. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 507D-2
• Remainderman: One entitled to the remainder of an estate after a particular reserved right or interest, such as a life tenancy, has expired.
• Rental agreement: means any written agreement or lease which establishes or modifies the terms, conditions, rules, or any other provision concerning the use and occupancy of a self-service storage facility. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 507-61
• 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).
• Reverse vending machine: means a mechanical device, which accepts one or more types of empty deposit beverage containers and issues a redeemable credit slip with a value not less than the container's refund value. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-101
• Secondary resources: means postconsumer material collected and processed for feedstock in a manufacturing process. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• Self-service storage facility: means any real property designed and used for the purpose of renting or leasing designated or individual storage space to occupants who are to have access to the space for the purpose of storing and removing personal property, but does not include a garage or other storage area in a private residence. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 507-61
• 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.
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 508C-2
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• 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.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Visible commencement of operations: means the first actual work of improvement as part of a continuous operation, or the first delivery to the site of materials to be used as part of a continuous operation in the improvement, of such manifest and substantial character as to notify interested persons that the real property is being improved or is about to be improved. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 507-41
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.