Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 508 - Uniform Vendor and Purchaser Risk Act

• Consumer: means a person who buys a beverage in a deposit beverage container for use or consumption and pays the deposit. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-101
• Dealer: means a person who engages in the sale of beverages in deposit beverage containers to a consumer for off-premises consumption in the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-101
• Deposit beverage: means beer, ale, or other drink produced by fermenting malt, mixed spirits, mixed wine, tea and coffee drinks regardless of dairy-derived product content, soda, or noncarbonated water, and all nonalcoholic drinks in liquid form and intended for internal human consumption that is contained in a deposit beverage container. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-101
• Deposit beverage container: means the individual, separate, sealed glass, polyethylene terephthalate, high density polyethylene, or metal container less than or equal to sixty-eight fluid ounces, used for containing, at the time of sale to the consumer, a deposit beverage intended for use or consumption in this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-101
• Director: means the director of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• On-premises consumption: means the consuming of deposit beverages by a patron immediately and within the area under control of the establishment, including bars, restaurants, passenger ships, and airplanes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-101
• Patron: means a person who buys a beverage in a deposit beverage container for use or consumption and does not pay the deposit. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-101
• Redeemer: means a person, other than a dealer or distributor, who demands the refund value in exchange for the empty deposit beverage container. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-101
• Redemption center: means an operation which accepts from consumers and provides the refund value for empty deposit beverage containers intended to be recycled and ensures that the empty deposit beverage containers are properly recycled. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-101