Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 501 > Part I - General Provisions

• Access organization: means any nonprofit organization designated by the director to oversee the development, operation, supervision, management, production, or broadcasting of programs for any channels obtained under section 440G-8, and any officers, agents, and employees of such an organization with respect to matters within the course and scope of their employment by the access organization. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 440G-3
• Acreage assessments: means any levy imposed pursuant to this chapter on the agricultural and pasture land within an irrigation project and any amount charged to the State or to the Hawaiian homes commission for the purpose of acquiring, establishing, or maintaining irrigation facilities for an irrigation project. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 167-2
• action: includes an administrative enforcement action by any state or county agency, board, or commission against a landowner for a land use violation or a currently unauthorized structure encroaching on public lands, including but not limited to submerged lands or lands within the shoreline, that falls, slides, or comes onto public land, or arises from or benefits an adjoining or abutting private land. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 501-151
• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• 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.
• Agricultural land: means that portion of the land of a land occupier lying within an existing or proposed irrigation project and of such location and character as may be profitably employed in the growing of irrigated crops; and "pasture land" means that portion of the land of a land occupier lying within an existing or proposed irrigation project and of such location and character as may be suitable with the use of water for irrigated pasture and may be profitably employed in the production of livestock or poultry. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 167-2
• Amateur mixed martial arts contest: means a mixed martial arts contest in which no money, purse, or other form of monetary compensation is offered or given to contestants and the contestants are at least eighteen years of age. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 440E-1
• Amateur mixed martial arts contestant: means a person who is trained in mixed martial arts, competes in an amateur mixed martial arts contest, and is at least eighteen years of age. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 440E-1
• 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.
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Apartment lease: means a unit lease, a condominium conveyance document, a unit deed and ground lease, or other instrument which has been registered pursuant to section 501-121 and which leases or subleases a condominium unit or its appurtenant undivided interest in the land of a condominium project established or existing under chapter 514B or at common law. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 501-20
• 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.
• Applicant: means a person who initiates an application or proposal. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 440G-3
• Application: means an unsolicited filing. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 440G-3
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• 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.
• 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.
• Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
• 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.
• Basic cable service: means any service tier which includes the retransmission of local television broadcast signals. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 440G-3
• 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}
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• board: means the Hawaii board of chiropractic. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 442-3
• Board: means the board of agriculture. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 167-2
• Board: means any agency, board, commission, authority, or committee of the State or its political subdivisions which is created by constitution, statute, rule, or executive order, to have supervision, control, jurisdiction, or advisory power over specific matters and which is required to conduct meetings and to take official actions. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 92-2
• Board business: means specific matters over which a board has supervision, control, jurisdiction, or advisory power, that are actually pending before the board, or that can be reasonably anticipated to arise before the board in the foreseeable future. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 92-2
• Boxing: means a contest in which the act of attack and defense is practiced with gloved fists by two contestants. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 440-1
• Cable franchise: means a nonexclusive initial authorization or renewal thereof issued pursuant to this chapter, whether the authorization is designated as a franchise, permit, order, contract, agreement, or otherwise, which authorizes the construction or operation of a cable system. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 440G-3
• Cable operator: means any person or group of persons who:

  (1) Provides cable service over a cable system and directly or through one or more affiliates owns a significant interest in the cable system; or

  (2) Otherwise controls or is responsible for, through any arrangement, the management and operation of a cable system. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 440G-3

• Cemetery: means any property, or part interest therein, dedicated to and used or intended to be used for the permanent interment of human remains. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-1
• Cemetery authority: means any person who undertakes to establish, maintain, manage, operate, improve, or conduct a cemetery to inter human remains; or offers perpetual care of the cemetery; or sells or holds money in trust for pre-need interment services, whether or not the person undertakes such activity for profit; provided that this shall not apply to the designated trustee of the funds. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-1
• Cemetery property: means any property, or part or interest therein, dedicated to, used or intended to be used for, the permanent interment of human remains. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-1
• Club: means a promoter, corporation, joint venture, partnership, limited liability corporation, limited liability partnership, or any other type of business entity that promotes, conducts, holds, or gives a boxing contest. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 440-1
• Commission: means the state boxing commission. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 440-1
• 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.
• Contest: means match or exhibition. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 440-1
• contest: means a contest or exhibition in a mixed martial arts event in which a mixed martial arts contestant competes with another mixed martial arts contestant, using mixed martial arts, and includes an amateur mixed martial arts contest. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 440E-1
• contestant: means a person who is trained in mixed martial arts and competes in a mixed martial arts contest. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 440E-1
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• 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
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Date and time of deregistration: means :

  (1) The date and time that a certificate of title for land, other than a fee time share interest, is recorded in the bureau of conveyances pursuant to chapter 502 and part II of this chapter;

  (2) The date and time, if prior to July 1, 2012, when a certificate of title for a fee time share interest was recorded in the bureau of conveyances pursuant to chapter 502 and part II of this chapter, whether such certificate of title was or is certified by the assistant registrar prior to, subsequent to, or on July 1, 2012;

  (3) July 1, 2012, at 12:01 a. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 501-20

• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the department of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-1
• Department: means the department of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 440E-1
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Deregistered land: means :

  (1) Land, other than a fee time share interest, that is the subject of a certificate of title recorded in the bureau of conveyances pursuant to chapter 502 and part II of this chapter;

  (2) A fee time share interest that is the subject of a certificate of title recorded in the bureau of conveyances pursuant to chapter 502 and part II of this chapter prior to July 1, 2012, whether the certificate of title is certified by the assistant registrar on, before, or after July 1, 2012; and

  (3) All other fee time share interests. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 501-20

• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Director: means the director of the department of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-1
• Director: means the director of transportation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 286-201
• Director: means the director of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 440E-1
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Disqualification: means any of the following three actions:

  (1) The suspension, revocation, or cancellation of a commercial driver's license by the state or jurisdiction of issuance;

  (2) Any withdrawal of a person's privileges to drive a commercial motor vehicle by a state or other jurisdiction as the result of a violation of state or local law relating to motor vehicle traffic control (other than parking, vehicle weight, or vehicle defect violations); or

  (3) A determination by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that a person is not qualified to operate a commercial motor vehicle under Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations Part 391. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 286-231

• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Employer: means any person, including the United States, a state or a political subdivision of a state, who owns or leases a commercial motor vehicle or assigns a person to drive a commercial motor vehicle. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 286-231
• Endorsement: means an authorization on an individual's commercial driver's license or commercial learner's permit required to permit the individual to operate certain types of commercial motor vehicles. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 286-231
• entering: means to note the purpose of a filed or recorded document on the certificate of title. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 501-20
• 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.
• event: means one or more mixed martial arts contests held at the same location on the same date. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 440E-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.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Farming: means agricultural pursuits, including the care and production of livestock and poultry, engaged in by a land occupier owning or leasing land, within any existing or proposed irrigation project. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 167-2
• Farming operation: includes but shall not be limited to:

  (1) Agricultural-based commercial operations as described in section [205-2(d)(15)];

  (2) Noises, odors, dust, and fumes emanating from a commercial agricultural or an aquacultural facility or pursuit;

  (3) Operation of machinery and irrigation pumps;

  (4) Ground and aerial seeding and spraying;

  (5) The application of chemical fertilizers, conditioners, insecticides, pesticides, and herbicides; and

  (6) The employment and use of labor. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 165-2

• Fatality: means the death of a person as a result of a motor vehicle accident. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 286-231
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Fee time share interest: means a time share interest, other than a leasehold time share interest, that, at any time on or after July 1, 2011, consists or consisted of, or includes or included an undivided interest in registered land, including but not limited to an undivided interest in one or more fee simple condominium apartments or units established in whole or in part on registered land. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 501-20
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• filing: means to accept, maintain, and preserve all instruments required to be filed. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 501-20
• 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}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Funeral services: means arranging for or providing for pick up of human remains, embalming, placing the same on display, or otherwise providing for final disposition of human remains. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-1
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Government: includes the State and the United States and any political subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of either of them. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 167-2
• Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. ^{Source: Federal Reserve}
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Gross vehicle weight rating: means the value specified by the manufacturer as the loaded weight of a single vehicle. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 286-201
• 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.
• Hazardous material: means a substance or material which has been determined by the United States Secretary of Transportation to be capable of posing an unreasonable risk to health, safety, and property when transported in commerce, and which has been so designated. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 286-221
• Hazardous materials incident: means an occurrence or likely occurrence or potential of a spill, release, leakage, dumping, or loss of control of a hazardous material during the course of transportation in commerce including loading, unloading, or temporary storage. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 286-221
• Hazardous waste: means any material designated in Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 261 and which are subject to the hazardous waste manifest requirements of Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 262. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 286-221
• Imminent hazard: means the existence of a condition that presents a substantial likelihood that death, serious illness, severe personal injury, or a substantial endangerment to health, property, or the environment may occur before the reasonably foreseeable completion date of a formal proceeding begun to lessen the risk of such death, illness, injury, or endangerment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 286-231
• Infectious substance: means a viable microorganism, or its toxin, which causes or may cause disease in humans and animals, or which is further described as an infectious substance in Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 173. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 286-221
• Informal gathering: means a social or informal assemblage of two or more board members at which matters relating to board business are not discussed. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 92-2
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Interactive conference technology: means any form of audio and visual conference technology, or audio conference technology where permitted under this part, including teleconference, videoconference, and voice over internet protocol, that facilitates interaction between the public and board members. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 92-2
• Interment: means the disposition of human remains by cremation and inurnment, entombment, or burial in a place used, or intended to be used, and dedicated for cemetery purposes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-1
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• Intoxicating liquor: means the same as the term is defined in section 281-1. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291-1
• irrigation project: means an area, contiguous or noncontiguous, established under this chapter within which water is supplied to the State or the Hawaiian homes commission for the development and opening of lands for farming or to land occupiers engaged in farming. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 167-2
• judgment: includes an order or decree having the effect of a judgment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 501-151
• 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.
• Land occupier: means the owner or in the case of leased land, the lessee of lands lying within an irrigation project organized or to be organized under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 167-2
• Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
• 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}
• Leasehold time share interest: means a time share interest consisting of an undivided interest in an apartment lease. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 501-20
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Manager: means any person who:

  (1) Undertakes or has undertaken to represent in any way the interest of any professional boxer in procuring, arranging, or conducting any professional contest in which the boxer is to participate as a contestant; provided that "manager" shall not include an attorney licensed to practice in this State while the attorney is representing the legal interest of a professional boxer as a client; or

  (2) Directs or controls the boxing activities of the professional boxer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 440-1

• Manager: means any person who:

  (1) Undertakes or has undertaken to represent in any way the interests of any mixed martial arts contestant in procuring, arranging, or conducting any contest in which the mixed martial arts contestant is to participate; provided that "manager" shall not include an attorney licensed to practice in this State in the attorney's legal representation of a mixed martial arts contestant; or

  (2) Directs or controls the mixed martial arts activities of the mixed martial arts contestant. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 440E-1

• Mausoleum crypt: means a chamber or space in a structure or building of sufficient size, used or intended to be used, to entomb human remains. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-1
• Medical waste: means for transportation purposes, shipments of medical waste material generated in the diagnosis, treatment, or immunization of human beings and animals, in research pertaining thereto, in the production or testing of biologicals, or which are further described as regulated medical waste in Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 173. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 286-221
• Meeting: means the convening of a board for which a quorum is required in order to make a decision or to deliberate toward a decision upon a matter over which the board has supervision, control, jurisdiction, or advisory power. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 92-2
• Mixed martial arts: means unarmed combat involving the use, subject to any applicable limits set forth in this chapter and any rules adopted to implement these limits, of a combination of techniques, including grappling, kicking, and striking, from different disciplines of martial arts. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 440E-1
• 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.
• 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.
• Motor carrier: as used in this part means any person who owns a motor vehicle used in, or engages in the transportation of persons or property by motor vehicle on the public highways in the furtherance of any commercial, industrial, or educational enterprise. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 286-201
• Motor carrier vehicle: means any motor vehicle or vehicle, including integrally mounted equipment and specially constructed motorized equipment, used by a motor carrier to transport passengers or property on the public highways. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 286-201
• Niche: means a recess of space in a structure or plot of earth used or intended to be used for the permanent inurnment therein of the cremated remains of one or more deceased persons. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-1
• Noncommercial motor vehicle: means a motor vehicle or combination of motor vehicles not defined by the term "commercial motor vehicle (CMV)" under § 286-2. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 286-231
• Notice of time share plan: means a notice of time share plan as that term is defined in chapter 514E. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 501-20
• Nuisance: as used in this chapter , includes all claims that meet the requirements of this definition regardless of whether a complainant designates such claims as brought in nuisance, negligence, trespass, or any other area of law or equity; provided that nuisance as used in this chapter does not include an alleged nuisance that involves water pollution or flooding. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 165-2
• 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.
• Out-of-service order: means a declaration by an authorized enforcement officer of a federal, state, Canadian, Mexican, or local jurisdiction that a driver, a commercial motor vehicle, or a motor carrier operation is out-of-service pursuant to Section 386. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 286-231
• 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.
• Perpetual care cemetery: means any cemetery or section of a cemetery, the plots, crypts, or niches of which are sold or disposed of, or are offered for sale or disposition, upon the representation that the plots, crypts, or niches will receive perpetual care. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-1
• Perpetual care fund: means a fund separately maintained to provide for the perpetual care of a cemetery in conformity with this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-1
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, county, association, or any other group however organized. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-1
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Plot: means a grave or space in a cemetery sold or otherwise disposed of to one or more persons, used or intended to be used, for the permanent interment therein of the remains of one or more deceased persons. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-1
• 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}
• Pre-need funeral authority: means any person who is engaged in the business of selling pre-need funeral services, or holds money in trust to provide for future funeral services; provided that this shall not apply to the designated trustee of the funds. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-1
• Pre-need funeral service: means arranging for the pick up of human remains, embalming, placing the same on display, furnishing of funeral services and related commodities, including but not limited to caskets and urns, or otherwise providing for the final disposition of human remains, which services are to be rendered at some future date. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-1
• Pre-need interment services: means the furnishing of opening and closing services and related commodities, including but not limited to vaults, markers, and vases, which services are to be rendered at some future date. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-1
• Pre-need trust: means a fund separately maintained to provide for the future services agreed to or contracted for by the pre-need funeral service plan participant or the pre-need interment service plan participant. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-1
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probate: Proving a will
• Professional mixed martial arts contestant: means a person who is trained in mixed martial arts and competes in a mixed martial arts contest in which money, a prize, or purse, or other form of monetary compensation is offered or given to contestants. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 440E-1
• Promoter: means an individual, corporation, joint venture, partnership, limited liability corporation, limited liability partnership, or any other type of business entity that promotes, conducts, holds, or gives a mixed martial arts contest. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 440E-1
• 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.
• Public place: includes any property, building, structure, or water to which the public has a right of access and use. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 440G-3
• Public utilities commission: means the public utilities commission of this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 440G-3
• 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.
• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• recording: means to make an entire literal copy of all instruments required to be recorded. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 501-20
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
• School: means an academic and noncollege type regular or special education institution of learning established and maintained by the department of education or licensed and supervised by that department. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 440G-3
• School bus: means a commercial motor vehicle used to transport pre-primary, primary, or secondary school students from home to school, from school to home, or to and from school-sponsored events, but does not include a bus, as defined under § 286-2, used as a common carrier as defined under § 271-4. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 286-231
• Serious traffic violation: means conviction of any of the following offenses when operating a commercial motor vehicle, except for weight, defect, and parking violations:

  (1) Excessive speeding involving any single offense for any speed of fifteen miles per hour or more above the posted speed limit;

  (2) Reckless driving or driving a commercial motor vehicle in disregard of the safety of persons or property, including but not limited to offenses of driving a commercial motor vehicle in wilful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property;

  (3) Improper or erratic traffic lane changes;

  (4) Following a vehicle ahead too closely;

  (5) A violation of any state or local law relating to motor vehicle traffic control, other than a parking violation, arising in connection with a fatal traffic accident;

  (6) Driving a commercial motor vehicle without obtaining a commercial learner's permit or a commercial driver's license;

  (7) Driving a commercial motor vehicle without a commercial learner's permit or a commercial driver's license in the driver's possession; provided that this paragraph shall not apply to a citation issued under, or an offense disposed of pursuant to section 286-116(a) or a substantially similar provision of law in another state;

  (8) Driving a commercial motor vehicle without the proper class or endorsements of commercial driver's license or commercial learner's permit for the specific vehicle group being operated or for the passengers or type of cargo being transported;

  (9) Texting while driving in violation of a state or county law or ordinance; or

  (10) Using a mobile electronic device in violation of a state or a county law or ordinance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 286-231

• Service area: means the geographic area for which a cable operator has been issued a cable franchise. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 440G-3
• 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.
• Signature: means the name of a person as written by the individual, the affixing of a mark or finger or toe print, or electronic signature as that term is defined in chapter 489E. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 501-20
• State: means the State of Hawaii. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 501-20
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Tank vehicle: means any commercial vehicle that is designed to transport any liquid or gaseous materials within a tank or tanks having an individual rated capacity of more than one hundred nineteen gallons and an aggregate rated capacity of one thousand gallons or more that is either permanently or temporarily attached to the vehicle or the chassis. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 286-231
• Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Texting: means manually entering alphanumeric text into, or reading text from, an electronic device, and includes short message service; e-mailing; instant messaging; a command or request to access a world wide web page; pressing more than a single button to initiate or terminate a voice communication using a mobile telephone; and engaging in any other form of electronic text retrieval or entry, for present or future communication. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 286-231
• Time share interest: means a time share interest as that term is defined in chapter 514E. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 501-20
• Time share plan: means a time share plan as that term is defined in chapter 514E. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 501-20
• 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.
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trustee: means a bank or a trust company, authorized to transact such business in the State, or a board of trustees appointed by the governing body of the cemetery and pre-need funeral authority, designated as trustee pursuant to a written trust agreement under the terms of this chapter for the funds deposited by an authority. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-1
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Uphold: The decision of an appellate court not to reverse a lower court decision.
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• Water facility: includes all real and personal property, together with all improvements to the same, acquired or constructed pursuant to a plan or undertaking to provide water within a project for irrigation under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 167-2
• Water tolls: means any charges established by the board for irrigation water supplied by it to the State, the Hawaiian homes commission, and land occupiers. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 167-2
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.