Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 531B - Disposition of Remains

• Acquittal:
  1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
  2. A verdict of "not guilty."
   
• Applicant: means the person for whose use and benefit application for services or public assistance is made. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-1
• 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}
• 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 531B-2
• Child caring institution: means any institution other than an institution of the State, maintained for the purpose of receiving six or more minor children for care and maintenance, not of common parents, apart from their parents or guardians on a twenty-four hour basis for monetary payment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-16
• Child placing organization: means any person, agency, or organization, except family courts and the department of human services, engaged in the investigation, placement, and supervision of children in foster care. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-16
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conventional cremation: means the irreversible process of reducing human remains to bone fragments or skeletal remains through heat and evaporation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 531B-2
• county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
• Cremated remains: means all human remains recovered after the completion of the cremation, which may include the residue of any foreign matter, including casket material, bridgework, or eyeglasses that were cremated with the human remains. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 531B-2
• Cremation: means conventional cremation or water cremation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 531B-2
• Crematory: means a structure containing a furnace used or intended to be used for the conventional cremation of human remains. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 531B-2
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Department: means the department of human services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-1
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Estranged: means a physical and emotional separation from the decedent at the time of death which has existed for a period of time that clearly demonstrates an absence of due affection, trust, and regard for the decedent. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 531B-2
• 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.
• Former foster youth: means a person formerly placed under the jurisdiction of the department as a foster child by the family court pursuant to chapter 587A who has attained the age of eighteen while under the placement responsibility of the department or who was under the placement responsibility of the department when a legally responsible caregiver was granted custody. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-16
• Funeral establishment: means a place of business used in the care and preparation for interment or transportation of human remains, embalming, placing the same on display, or otherwise providing for final disposition of human remains. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 531B-2
• 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.
• Hydrolysis equipment: includes prebuilt and prepackaged hydrolysis units or equipment that is erected on site of a hydrolysis facility. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 531B-2
• Hydrolysis facility: means a structure, room, or other space in a building or structure containing hydrolysis equipment, to be used for water cremation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 531B-2
• Institution of higher education: means any institution normally requiring a high school diploma or equivalency certificate for enrollment, including but not limited to colleges, universities, and vocational or technical schools. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-16
• 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.
• Mortuary: means a place of business devoted exclusively to furnishing funeral services and related commodities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 531B-2
• Person: means an individual eighteen years of age or older. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 531B-2
• Probate: Proving a will
• Prospective adoptive parents: means a person, or persons who are married to each other, applying with the department to adopt a child or children. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-16
• Provider: means any person or public or private institution, agency or business concern authorized by the department to provide health care, service or supplies to beneficiaries of medical assistance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-1
• Resource family home: means any boarding home in which:
  (1) One or more, but fewer than six, minor children are received; or
  (2) Six or more minor siblings are placed together in the best interests of the children,

  for care and maintenance apart from their parents or guardians on a twenty-four hour basis for fee or charge. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-16

• Water cremation: means alkaline hydrolysis, which is the reduction of human remains to bone fragments and essential elements using heat, pressure, water, and base chemical agents. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 531B-2