Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 467E - Social Workers

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Continuing education courses: means courses approved by the National Association of Social Workers, the National Association of Social Workers Chapters, or the Association of Social Work Boards. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 467E-1
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342J-2
• Department: means the department of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 467E-1
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Director: means the director of health or the director's authorized agent. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342J-2
• Director: means the director of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 467E-1
• Disposal: means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any hazardous or solid waste into or on any land or water so that hazardous or solid waste or any constituent thereof may enter the environment, be emitted into the air, or discharged into any waters, including ground waters. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342J-2
• Ethic courses: include ethic theory, ethical reasoning, ethical principles, ethical dilemmas, and professional ethics. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 467E-1
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Exempt government employee: means an employee in a social worker position with any federal, state, or county government agency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 467E-1
• facility: means all contiguous land and structures, other appurtenances, and improvements on the land used for treating, storing, or disposing of hazardous waste. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342J-2
• Financial responsibility: means a trust fund, surety bond, insurance, corporate guarantee, or letter of credit provided by owners or operators of hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities to assure proper closure, post closure, corrective action, and compensation for injuries to people or damage to property. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342J-2
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. ^{Source: OCC}
• Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Hazardous waste: means a solid waste, or combination of solid wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may:

       (1)  Cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in a serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness; or

       (2)  Pose a substantial existing or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed of, or otherwise managed. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342J-2

• Hazardous waste management: means the systematic control over the generation, collection, source separation, storage, transportation, processing, treatment, recovery, and disposal of hazardous waste. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342J-2
• 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.
• Manifest: means the form used for identifying the quantity, composition, origin, routing, and destination of hazardous waste during its transportation from the point of generation to the point of treatment, storage, or disposal. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342J-2
• 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.
• Operator: means the person responsible for the overall operation of a facility. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342J-2
• Owner: means the person who owns the facility or part of the facility. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342J-2
• Party: means each person or agency named as party or properly entitled to be a party in any court or agency proceeding. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342J-2
• Permit: means written authorization from the director for the owner or operator of a proposed or existing hazardous waste management facility to engage in the treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous waste. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342J-2
• Person: means any individual, partnership, firm, joint stock company, association, public or private corporation, federal agency, the State or any of its political subdivisions, any state and any of its political subdivisions, trust, estate, interstate body, or any other legal entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342J-2
• Practice of social work: means applying the formal knowledge base, theoretical concepts, specific functional skills, and essential social values that are used to effect change in human behavior, emotional responses, and social conditions, and helping individuals, couples, families, groups, and community organizations enhance or restore their capacities for personal and social functioning while preventing and controlling social problems. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 467E-1
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• RCRA: means the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, as amended, 42 United States Code §§6901 to 6991i. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342J-2
• 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.
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Storage: means the containment of hazardous waste, temporarily or for a period of years, in a manner which does not constitute disposal. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342J-2
• Treatment: means any method, technique, or process, including neutralization, designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological character or composition of any hazardous waste so as to neutralize the waste or render it nonhazardous, less hazardous, safer for transport, amenable for recovery, amenable for storage, or reduced in volume. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342J-2