Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 425 > Part IV > WINDING UP PARTNERSHIP BUSINESS

• Administrator: means the administrator of the Hawaii emergency management agency established by section 127A-3. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
• Agency: means the Hawaii emergency management agency established by section 127A-3. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
• 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.
• Business: includes every trade, occupation, and profession. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 425-101
• Caregiver: means any individual duly designated by a patient to provide after-care to the patient in the patient's residence. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323G-1
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• 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
• County: means the city and county of Honolulu, and the counties of Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui; provided that the county of Maui shall include the county of Kalawao for the purposes of this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
• County emergency management agency: means a county-level entity responsible for emergency management within the respective counties as established in section 127A-5. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
• Critical infrastructure: means those systems, facilities, and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to a county, the State, or the nation that the incapacity or destruction of such systems, facilities, or assets would have a debilitating impact on national, state, or county security; economic security; public health or safety; or any combination of those matters. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the department of business, economic development, and tourism. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 189-21
• Department: means the department of business, economic development, and tourism. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 189-42
• Department: means the department of land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 187A-1
• Director: means the director of business, economic development, and tourism. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 189-21
• Director: means the director of business, economic development, and tourism. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 189-42
• Director: means the director of the Hawaii emergency management agency established by section 127A-3, and who is the same as the adjutant general as provided in section 26-21. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
• Disaster: means any emergency, or imminent threat thereof, which results or may likely result in loss of life, property, or environment and requires, or may require, assistance from other counties, states, the federal government, or from private agencies. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
• Distribution: means a transfer of money or other property from a partnership to a partner in the partner's capacity as a partner or to the partner's transferee. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 425-101
• Emergency: means any occurrence, or imminent threat thereof, which results or may likely result in substantial injury or harm to the population or substantial damage to or loss of property or substantial damage to or loss of the environment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
• Emergency management: means a comprehensive integrated system at all levels of government, and also in the private sector, which develops and maintains an effective capability to prevent, prepare for, respond to, mitigate, and recover from emergencies or disasters. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
• Emergency period: means the dates covered by a proclamation issued by the governor declaring a state of emergency or by a mayor declaring a local state of emergency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-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}
• Evacuation: means the immediate and rapid movement of individuals and animals away from the threat or actual occurrence of any hazard, emergency, or disaster, and includes vertical evacuation, which is moving to a higher floor or higher ground in order to gain safety above the height of expected inundation by water as recommended by the county emergency management agency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
• 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.
• Facilities: except as otherwise provided in this chapter, includes any infrastructure, buildings and other structures, shelters, land, roads, highways, thoroughfares, walks, roadways, bridges, public rights of way, and any appurtenant facilities, structures, and materials. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• 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.
• 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.
• Hazard: means an event or condition of the physical environment that results or may likely result in damage to property, injuries or death to individuals, or damage to the environment that may result in an emergency or disaster. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
• Hospital: means a facility licensed under section 321-14. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323G-1
• 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.
• Large fishing vessel: means any vessel five net tons and over designed to be used in the Hawaii commercial fisheries for catching fish, processing, or transporting fish loaded on the high seas that derives at least fifty-one per cent of that vessel's gross annual income from commercial (as opposed to recreational) operations, or any vessel outfitted for such activity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 189-21
• Laws: includes ordinances, rules, regulations, and orders prescribed under federal, state, or county laws or ordinances and having the force and effect of law. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Local state of emergency: means the occurrence in any part of a county that requires efforts by the county government to save lives, and to protect property, environment, public health, welfare, or safety in the event of an emergency or disaster, or to reduce the threat of an emergency or disaster. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
• Marine life: means any type or species of saltwater fish, shellfish, mollusks, crustaceans, coral, or other marine animals, including any part, product, egg, or offspring thereof; or seaweeds or other marine plants, including any part, product, seed, or root thereof. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 187A-1
• Materials: includes medicines, supplies, products, commodities, articles, equipment, machinery, and component parts. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
• Mutual assistance agreement: means an agreement to which two or more business entities are parties and under which a public utility, municipally owned utility, electric cooperative, natural gas special district, natural gas transmission pipeline, or joint agency owning, operating, or owning and operating infrastructure used for electric generation, electric or natural gas transmission, or electric or natural gas distribution in this State may request that an out-of-state utility perform work in this State in anticipation of a disaster or an emergency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
• National Marine Fisheries Service: means the Financial Assistance Division, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Department of Commerce. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 189-21
• National Marine Fisheries Service: means Financial Assistance Division, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Department of Commerce. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 189-42
• Necessary: means and refers to such means, measures, or other actions or determinations as are required to be taken in the opinion of the governor or governor's authorized representative or a mayor or the mayor's authorized representative. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-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.
• 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.
• Partnership: means an association of two or more persons to carry on as co-owners a business for profit formed under § 425-109, a predecessor law, or comparable law of another jurisdiction. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 425-101
• Partnership agreement: means the agreement, whether written, oral, or implied, among the partners concerning the partnership, including amendments to the partnership agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 425-101
• Partnership at will: means a partnership in which the partners have not agreed to remain partners until the expiration of a definite term or the completion of a particular undertaking. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 425-101
• Patient: means an individual admitted to a hospital for inpatient treatment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323G-1
• Person: includes an individual, partnership, joint venture, corporation, association, business, trust, or any organized group of persons or legal entity, or any combination thereof. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323J-1
• Person: includes any individual or entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 425-101
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Probate: Proving a will
• Property: means all property, real, personal, or mixed, tangible or intangible, or any interest therein. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 425-101
• 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.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Reproductive health care services: includes all medical, surgical, pharmaceutical, counseling, or referral services relating to the human reproductive system, including but not limited to services relating to pregnancy, contraception, or the termination of a pregnancy. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323J-1
• Residence: means a dwelling that the patient considers to be the patient's home and shall not include any residential facility, treatment facility, or home licensed or certified by the department of health under chapter 321, or a private residence used for commercial purposes to care for dependent individuals. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323G-1
• SBA: means the Federal Small Business Administration. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 189-21
• 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 of emergency: means an occurrence in any part of the State that requires efforts by state government to save lives and protect property, environment, public health, welfare, or safety in the event of an emergency or disaster, or to reduce the threat of an emergency or disaster, or to supplement the local efforts of the county. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
• State utility: means and refers to any public utility within the State under a franchise or charter granted by the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
• Statement: means a registration or annual statement filed under § 425-1, a statement of correction filed under section 425-1. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 425-101
• States: include the several states, the District of Columbia, and the possessions of the United States, and also includes the State of Hawaii, and to the extent authorized by or under federal law, foreign countries and their provinces and states. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Transfer: includes an assignment, conveyance, lease, mortgage, deed, and encumbrance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 425-101
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.