Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 6K - Kaho'Olawe Island Reserve

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• appraisal: means a written statement, independently and impartially prepared by a qualified appraiser who meets qualification criteria established by the State, setting forth an opinion of the fair market value of adequately described property as of a specific date, supported by the presentation and analysis of relevant market information. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 113-5
• 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
• Aquaculture: means the propagation, cultivation, or farming of aquatic plants and animals in controlled or selected environments for research purposes, commercial purposes, or stocking purposes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 183D-1
• Aquatic life: means any type of species of mammal, fish, amphibian, reptile, mollusk, crustacean, arthropod, invertebrate, coral, or other animal that inhabits the freshwater or marine environment, and includes any part, product, egg, or offspring thereof; or freshwater or marine plants, including seeds, roots, and other parts thereof. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 183D-1
• 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.
• 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.
• 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}
• Board: means the board of land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 183-1
• Board: means the board of land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 183D-1
• bonds: means bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness of the State issued pursuant to this part. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-221
• bonds: means bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness of the State issued pursuant to this part. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-251
• bonds: means bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness of the State issued pursuant to this part. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-281
• bonds: means bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness of the State issued pursuant to this part. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-311
• Building lease: means a contract between the department and private investor in which the private investor conveys an improved facility to the department for a specified period of time. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 107D-1
• Business: means any lawful activity conducted (1) primarily for the purchase and resale, manufacture, processing or marketing of products, commodities, or any other personal property; (2) primarily for the sale of services to the public; or (3) by a nonprofit organization. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 111-2
• Code: means the housing, building, and zoning codes of the counties. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 111-2
• Commission: means the Kaho'olawe island reserve commission. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 6K-2
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• concession: as used in this chapter means the grant to a person of the privilege to:
  (1) Conduct operations involving the sale of goods, wares, merchandise, or services to the general public including but not limited to food and beverage establishments, retail stores, motor vehicle rental operations under chapter 437D, advertising, and communications and telecommunication services, in or on buildings or land under the jurisdiction of any government agency;
  (2) Operate a parking lot on property owned or controlled by the State with the exception of buildings, facilities, and grounds operated by or otherwise under the jurisdiction of the department of education; and
  (3) Use, for compensation, space on public property to display advertising, or to conduct operations for communications or telecommunications purposes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 102-1
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contract: means contracts for construction under chapter 103D. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103B-1
• contractor: includes a subcontractor where applicable. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103B-1
• 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
• Credit bureau: An agency that collects individual credit information and sells it for a fee to creditors so they can make a decision on granting loans. Typical clients include banks, mortgage lenders, credit card companies, and other financing companies. (Also commonly referred to as consumer-reporting agency or credit-reporting agency.) ^{Source: OCC}
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• 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 land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 6K-2
• Department: means the department of land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 183-1
• Department: means the department of land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 183D-1
• Department: means the department of land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 184-1
• Department: means the department of accounting and general services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 107D-1
• Department: means the department of budget and finance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-191
• Department: means the department of budget and finance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-221
• Department: means the department of budget and finance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-251
• Department: means the department of budget and finance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-281
• Department: means the department of budget and finance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-311
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Development agreement: means an agreement between the State and a private investor which, at a minimum, includes:

  (1) A description of the work to be done;

  (2) The sale price for the facility;

  (3) The duration of the agreement;

  (4) The roles and responsibilities of the department and the private investor; and

  (5) The terms and conditions for the ground lease and building lease. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 107D-1

• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Displaced person: means any person who is lawfully residing on or lawfully occupying real property and is required to move from any real property on or after June 25, 1970, as a result of the acquisition or imminence of acquisition of such real property, in whole or in part, by a state agency or who moves from such real property as a result of the acquisition or imminence of acquisition by such state agency of other real property on which such person is lawfully conducting a business or farm operation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 111-2
• Early childhood education and care facility: means any property used primarily for the care and instruction of children from birth to age five; provided that it shall not include any property to be used primarily for sectarian instruction or study, or as a place for devotional activities or religious worship, or any property used primarily in connection with any part of a program of a school or department of divinity of any religious denomination. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-221
• Energy project: means any facilities for each single project or multiproject program of a project party, including a publicly owned energy cooperative, which is certified by the public utilities commission as being for the local furnishing of electric energy or gas; provided that any new generating unit for the production or generation of electric energy from fossil fuels shall not be considered an energy project for purposes of this part unless specifically authorized in any act providing for the authorization of the issuance of bonds pursuant to this part. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-191
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• 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.
• 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.
• Facility: means property under the management and control of the department that may contain land, buildings, or both. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 107D-1
• 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.
• Family: means two or more individuals living together in the same dwelling unit who are related to each other by blood, marriage, adoption, or legal guardianship. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 111-2
• Farm operation: means any lawful activity conducted solely or primarily for the production of one or more agricultural products or commodities for sale and home use, and customarily producing such products or commodities in sufficient quantity to be capable of contributing materially to the operator's support. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 111-2
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Feral deer: means a deer that has escaped or been released from domestication and is living in a wild and unconfined state. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 183D-1
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• 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.
• forest reserve easement: as used in this part means and includes the right to the possession and control of land for the purposes of protecting and promoting forest growth thereon and of protecting the surface and underground waters from pollution or contamination, including, without limitation to the generality of the foregoing, the right to exclude the owner in fee (except as hereinafter provided) and all others from the land; provided that the term shall not include any water right, nor shall it authorize the department to deprive the fee simple owner or the owner's lessee of the right to enter upon the owner's land for the purpose of taking, developing, or storing water, or for any other purpose incidental to the full use and enjoyment of the owner's water rights, or of any other rights in the land, provided reasonable means be taken to prevent undue destruction of forest cover and pollution or contamination of water by such activity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 183-32
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Game: means birds and mammals designated by law or by rule for hunting. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 183D-1
• Game birds: means birds designated by law or by rule for hunting. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 183D-1
• Game mammals: means mammals designated by law or by rule for hunting. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 183D-1
• Germane: On the subject of the pending bill or other business; a strict standard of relevance.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Ground lease: means a lease of land executed between the State and private investor pursuant to which the private investor will renovate the existing facility, provide improvements, or construct a new building or buildings on a specified property. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 107D-1
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Injury: means accidental harm not resulting in death. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:10C-103
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Island reserve: means the area designated as the island of Kaho'olawe and the submerged lands and waters extending seaward two miles from its shoreline. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 6K-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.
• 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}
• Legal tender: coins, dollar bills, or other currency issued by a government as official money. ^{Source: U.S. Mint}
• 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.
• Loan program: means the activities and policies undertaken by the office to provide assistance to any department of the State or to any county or board, agency, or instrumentality thereof, or to private individuals or organizations, by making loans or causing loans to be made available to them or by buying, refinancing, or guaranteeing loans made to or other obligations incurred by them for the betterment of native Hawaiians. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 10-21
• Local furnishing of electric energy or gas: means providing property or land that is or will be:

  (1) Depreciable property or land;

  (2) Used to produce, collect, generate, transmit, store, distribute, or convey electric energy or gas, including without limitation, air or water pollution control facilities;

  (3) Used in the trade or business of furnishing electric energy or gas; and

  (4) Part of a system providing service to the general public of not more than two contiguous counties in the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-191

• Low- and moderate-income housing project: means any housing project where:

  (1) All project units are offered for rent, of which at least:

  (A) Twenty per cent of the units are rented to households with an income of up to fifty per cent of the area median income as determined by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development;

  (B) Forty per cent of the housing units in the project are rented to households with an income of up to eighty per cent of the area median income as determined by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development; or

  (C) Sixty per cent of the housing units in the project are rented to households with an income of up to one hundred forty per cent of the area median income as determined by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development;

  (2) All project units are offered for sale through the conveyance of individual units by deed or share, of which at least fifty per cent of the units are sold to households with an income of up to one hundred forty per cent of the area median income as determined by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development; or

  (3) The project qualifies for federal tax exempt status pursuant to 26 U. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-281

• 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.
• Motor vehicle: means any vehicle of a type required to be registered under chapter 286, including a trailer attached to such a vehicle, but not including motorcycles and motor scooters. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:10C-103
• National Credit Union Administration: The federal regulatory agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. (NCUA also administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which insures the deposits of federal credit unions.) ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Park: means an area which, by reason of location, natural features, scenic beauty or legendary, historical, or scientific interest, possesses distinctive physical, aesthetic, intellectual, creative, or social values. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 184-1
• Parkway: means an elongated park transversed by a pleasure vehicle road, but does not include the road. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 184-1
• 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.
• Person: means

  (1) any individual, partnership, or corporation or association which is the owner of a business;

  (2) any owner, part-owner, tenant, or sharecropper operating a farm;

  (3) the head of a family;

  (4) an individual not a member of a family;

  (5) a nonprofit organization exempted from taxation under section 235-9. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 111-2

• Person: means , when appropriate to the context, not only individuals, but corporations, firms, associations, and societies. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:10C-103
• Person: means an individual, group, partnership, firm, association, corporation, trust, governmental agency, governmental official, administrative body, or tribunal or any form of business or legal entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 46-122
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Possess: means to place under direct physical control, restraint, or confinement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 183D-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.
• Predators: means animals destructive of wildlife by nature of their predatory habits, including mongooses, cats, dogs, and rats. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 183D-1
• Private investor: means a non-governmental entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 107D-1
• project: means :

  (1) The lawful acquisition of any property, real, personal, or mixed, tangible or intangible, or any interests therein, pursuant to section 10-4(2);

  (2) Any capital improvement projects on lands held by the office pursuant to section 10-4(2) or in the public land trust, including but not limited to the construction of buildings and other improvements; infrastructure development, and other enterprises which are acquired, constructed, reconstructed, rehabilitated, improved, altered, or repaired by or on behalf of the office;

  (3) Pilot projects, demonstrations, or both, where those projects or demonstrations fulfill criteria established by the board, pursuant to section 10-5(7); and

  (4) Any other projects determined by rules adopted by the board pursuant to chapter 91 or otherwise authorized by the board in accordance with applicable law to be for the betterment of native Hawaiians and are consistent with the purposes of this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 10-21

• Project: means any energy project or telecommunications project. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-191
• Project: means the acquisition, purchase, design, development, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, improvement, betterment, extension, financing, or refinancing of low- and moderate-income housing. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-281
• Project: means any combination of land, buildings, and other improvements thereon, including without limitation irrigation systems and infrastructure, for use of, or for, or to assist an agricultural enterprise, including without limiting the generality of the foregoing, machinery, equipment, furnishings, and apparatus that are deemed necessary, suitable, or useful to the enterprise. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-311
• Project agreement: means any agreement entered into under this part by the department with the project party for the financing from the proceeds of special purpose revenue bonds of a telecommunications project or an energy project, including without limitation any loan agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-191
• Project agreement: means any agreement entered into under this part by the department with a project party providing for the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to finance facilities of a project party or for a project party or to loan the proceeds of such bonds to assist not-for-profit corporations that provide early childhood education and care facilities that serve the general public, including without limitation any loan agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-221
• Project agreement: means any agreement entered into under this part by the department with a project party providing for the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to finance facilities of the project party or for the project party or to loan the proceeds of such bonds to assist not-for-profit private nonsectarian and sectarian elementary schools, secondary schools, colleges, and universities that serve the general public, including, without limitation, on any loan agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-251
• Project agreement: means any agreement entered into under this part by the department with a project party providing for the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to finance the development of low- and moderate-income housing, or to loan the proceeds of the special purpose revenue bonds to assist a project party in the development of low- and moderate-income housing, including without limitation any loan agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-281
• Project agreement: means any agreement entered into under this part by the department with a project party to finance, construct, operate, or maintain a project from the proceeds of special purpose revenue bonds, or to lend the proceeds of special purpose revenue bonds to assist an agricultural enterprise, including without limitation any loan agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-311
• Project party: means an electric or gas utility, including a publicly owned energy cooperative, serving the general public and that is regulated by the public utilities commission under chapter 269, or a telecommunications carrier or telecommunications common carrier, whether or not subject to regulation by the public utilities commission under chapter 269. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-191
• Project party: means a not-for-profit corporation that provides an early childhood education and care facility that serves the general public. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-221
• Project party: means a not-for-profit private nonsectarian and sectarian elementary school, secondary school, college, and university that serves the general public. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-251
• Project party: means an entity engaged in the development of a low- and moderate-income housing project, including a not-for-profit private organization, for-profit private organization, or public instrumentalities and their qualified affiliates. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-281
• Project party: means a person, firm, or corporation qualified to do business in this State and conducting or proposing to conduct an agricultural enterprise. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-311
• 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.
• 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.
• refinancing: means the liquidation, retirement, or provision for retirement with the proceeds of bonds issued by the State, of any indebtedness of a project party incurred to finance or aid in financing a lawful purpose of such project party not financed pursuant to this part which constitutes an early childhood education and care facility or consolidation of such indebtedness with indebtedness of the State incurred for an early childhood education and care facility related to the purpose for which the indebtedness of the project party was initially incurred. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-221
• refinancing: means the liquidation; the retirement; the provision for retirement through the proceeds of bonds issued by the State of any indebtedness of a project party incurred to finance or help finance a lawful purpose of the project party not financed pursuant to this part; or the consolidation of such indebtedness with indebtedness of the State incurred by the project party related to the purpose for which the indebtedness of the project party was initially incurred. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-251
• refinancing: means the liquidation, the retirement, or the provision for retirement through the proceeds of bonds issued by the State of any indebtedness of a project party incurred to finance, in whole or in part, a low- and moderate-income housing project of the project party not financed pursuant to this part; or the consolidation of such indebtedness with indebtedness of the State related to the purpose for which the indebtedness of the project party was initially incurred. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-281
• Regulation: means any rule and regulation promulgated by the commissioner pursuant to chapter 91. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:10C-103
• Release: means to free an animal from effective confinement or restraint. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 183D-1
• 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.
• Reserves: means reserves required or permitted in the covenants in the resolution or resolutions of the board authorizing the obtaining of loans or issuance of revenue bonds under this part. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 10-21
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Revenue bonds: means revenue bonds, interim certificates, notes, debentures, or other evidence of indebtedness of the board authorized by or issued under this part. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 10-21
• 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.
• State: as used in this chapter , means the State of Hawaii and any department, agency, or instrumentality of the State, or a political subdivision of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 113-5
• State agency: means an agency or instrumentality created by the State and includes, for purposes of this chapter, county governmental agencies. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 111-2
• State park system: means the parks and parkways designated by the department, control of which is acquired by the department as provided in this part. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 184-1
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Take: means to injure, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, net, capture, or possess. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 183D-1
• telecommunications common carrier: has the meaning defined by § 269-1. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-191
• Telecommunications project: means any facilities for each single project or multiproject program for the provision of telecommunications service of a project party that is a telecommunications carrier or a telecommunications common carrier. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-191
• Telecommunications service: has the meaning defined by section269-1. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-191
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• uneconomic remnant: is a parcel of real property in which the owner is left with an interest after the partial acquisition of the owner's property and which the State has determined to have little or no value or utility to the owner. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 113-5
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.
• Variable Rate: Having a "variable" rate means that the APR changes from time to time based on fluctuations in an external rate, normally the Prime Rate. This external rate is known as the "index." If the index changes, the variable rate normally changes. Also see Fixed Rate.
• Waters: means the area extending seaward two miles from the shoreline. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 6K-2
• watershed: as used in this part means (1) an area from which the domestic water supply of any city, town or community is or may be obtained, or (2) an area where water infiltrates into artesian or other ground-water areas from which the domestic water supply of any city, town or community is or may be obtained. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 183-31
• Wild birds: means birds, other than game birds, living in a wild and undomesticated state, and the young and eggs of those birds. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 183D-1
• Wildlife: means any nondomesticated member of the animal kingdom, including game, whether reared in captivity or not, and includes any part, product, egg, or offspring thereof, except aquatic life as defined in this section. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 183D-1