Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 481Z - Revised Uniform Athlete Agents Act

• Acquittal:
  1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
  2. A verdict of "not guilty."
   
• Administrator: means the person in charge of a public or private hospital. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1
• Agency contract: means an agreement in which a student athlete authorizes a person to negotiate or solicit on behalf of the athlete a professional-sports-services contract or endorsement contract. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481Z-2
• Athletic director: means the individual responsible for administering the overall athletic program of an educational institution or, if an educational institution has separately administered athletic programs for female students and male students, the athletic program for females or the athletic program for males, as appropriate. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481Z-2
• Authorized absence: means absence of a patient from a psychiatric facility for any period of time with permission. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1
• 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}
• Certified athlete agent: means an athlete agent registered under this chapter who is certified to be an athlete agent in a particular sport by a bona fide national association that promotes or regulates intercollegiate athletics and establishes eligibility standards for participation by a student athlete in that sport. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481Z-2
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
• Court: means any duly constituted court and includes proceedings, hearings of per diem judges as authorized by law. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Dangerous to self: means the person recently has:

  (1) Threatened or attempted suicide or serious bodily harm; or

  (2) Behaved in such a manner as to indicate that the person is unable, without supervision and the assistance of others, to satisfy the need for nourishment, essential medical care, including treatment for a mental illness, shelter or self-protection, so that it is probable that death, substantial bodily injury, or serious physical debilitation or disease will result unless adequate treatment is afforded. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1

• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1
• Director: means the director of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481Z-2
• Director: means the director of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1
• Discharge: means the formal termination on the records of a psychiatric facility of a patient's period of treatment at the facility. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1
• Educational institution: includes a public or private elementary school, secondary school, technical or vocational school, community college, college, and university. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481Z-2
• Endorsement contract: means an agreement under which a student athlete is employed or receives consideration to use on behalf of the other party of any value that the student athlete may have because of publicity, reputation, following, or fame obtained because of athletic ability or performance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481Z-2
• enrolls: means registered for courses and attending athletic practice or class. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481Z-2
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• 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.
• Imminently dangerous to self or others: means that, without intervention, the person will likely become dangerous to self or dangerous to others within the next forty-five days. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1
• Intercollegiate sport: means a sport played at the collegiate level for which eligibility requirements for participation by a student athlete are established by a national association that promotes or regulates collegiate athletics. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481Z-2
• Interscholastic sport: means a sport played between educational institutions that are not community colleges, colleges, or universities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481Z-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.
• Mental health: means a state of social, psychological, and physical well-being, with capacity to function effectively in a variety of social roles. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1
• Patient: means a person under observation, care, or treatment at a psychiatric facility. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1
• Person: means an individual, estate, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or other legal entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481Z-2
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Psychiatric facility: means a public or private hospital or part thereof which provides inpatient or outpatient care, custody, diagnosis, treatment or rehabilitation services for mentally ill persons or for persons habituated to the excessive use of drugs or alcohol or for intoxicated persons. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481Z-2
• Recruit or solicit: means to attempt to influence the choosing of an athlete agent by a student athlete or, if the athlete is a minor, a parent or guardian of the athlete. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481Z-2
• Registration: means registration as an athlete agent under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481Z-2
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Sign: means , with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record:

  (1) To execute or adopt a tangible symbol; or

  (2) To attach to or logically associate with the record an electronic symbol, sound, or process. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481Z-2

• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Guam, 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 481Z-2
• Student athlete: means an individual who is eligible to attend an educational institution and engages in, is eligible to engage in, or may be eligible in the future to engage in, any interscholastic sport or intercollegiate sport. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481Z-2
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Treatment: means the broad range of emergency, out-patient, intermediate, domiciliary, and inpatient services and care, including diagnostic evaluation, medical, psychiatric, psychological, and social service care, vocational rehabilitation, career counseling, and other special services which may be extended to handicapped persons. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1