Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 490 > Article 4 > Part 4 - Relationship Between Payor Bank and Its Customer

• Account: means any deposit or credit account with a bank, including a demand, time, savings, passbook, share draft, or like account, other than an account evidenced by a certificate of deposit;
  (2) "Afternoon" means the period of a day between noon and midnight;
  (3) "Banking day" means the part of a day on which a bank is open to the public for carrying on substantially all of its banking functions;
  (4) "Clearing-house" means an association of banks or other payors regularly clearing items;
  (5) "Customer" means a person having an account with a bank or for whom a bank has agreed to collect items, including a bank that maintains an account at another bank;
  (6) "Documentary draft" means a draft to be presented for acceptance or payment if specified documents, certificated securities (§ 490:8-102 ) or instructions for uncertificated securities (§ 490:8-102 ), or other certificates, statements, or the like are to be received by the drawee or other payor before acceptance or payment of the draft;
  (7) "Draft" means a draft as defined in § 490:3-104 or an item, other than an instrument, that is an order;
  (8) "Drawee" means a person ordered in a draft to make payment;
  (9) "Item" means an instrument or a promise or order to pay money handled by a bank for collection or payment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 490:4-104
• Advanced grid modernization technology: means equipment, facilities, and associated processes that individually or collectively function to improve the reliability, resiliency, flexibility, and efficiency of the Hawaii electric system. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 269-141
• 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
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Board: means the board of acupuncture. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 436E-2
• Commission: means the public utilities commission. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 269-141
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the department of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 436E-2
• Electric element: means any plant, line, cable, facility, control system, equipment, or other technology used for the generation, transmission, distribution, storage, regulation, or physical control of electricity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 269-141
• 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.
• Hawaii electric system: means all electric elements located within the State together with all interconnections located within the State that collectively provide for the generation, transmission, distribution, storage, regulation, or physical control of electricity over a geographic area; provided that this term shall not include any electric element operating without any interconnection to any other electric element located within the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 269-141
• Interconnection: means the physical contact point connecting an electric element to another electric element or group of electric elements that allows for the flow and transfer of electricity between electric elements. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 269-141
• 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.
• 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.
• Practice of acupuncture: means stimulation of a certain acupuncture point or points on the human body for the purpose of controlling and regulating the flow and balance of energy in the body. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 436E-2
• Reliability standard: means an electric reliability requirement or requirements, adopted by the commission under this part, to ensure the reliable design and operation of any or all portions of the Hawaii electric system, including but not limited to ancillary service requirements. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 269-141