Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 8 – Holidays and Periods of Recognition and Observance


§ 8-1	Holidays designated
§ 8-1.5	Discoverers’ Day
§ 8-2	Observance of holidays falling on Sundays and Saturdays
§ 8-3	Banking holidays
§ 8-3.4	Civil Liberties and the Constitution Day
§ 8-3.5	Patriot Day
§ 8-3.6	Gold Star Family Day
§ 8-4	Buddha Day
§ 8-4.5	Baha’i New Year’s Day
§ 8-4.6	Asian Lunar New Year Commemoration Week
§ 8-5	King Kamehameha celebration commission
§ 8-5.5	Queen Lili’uokalani Day
§ 8-7	Arbor Day
§ 8-8	Saint Damien de Veuster Day
§ 8-8.2	Saint Marianne Cope Day
§ 8-9	Respect for Our Elders Day
§ 8-10	Bodhi Day
§ 8-11	Children and Youth Day and Month
§ 8-12	World Ocean Day
§ 8-13	Lei Day
§ 8-14	Financial Literacy Month
§ 8-15	Kupuna Recognition Day
§ 8-16	Peace Day
§ 8-16.2	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Day
§ 8-17	Caregiver Recognition Day
§ 8-18	Filipino-American History Month
§ 8-18.5	Sakada Day
§ 8-19	Makahiki Commemoration Day
§ 8-20	Language Access Month
§ 8-21	Domestic Violence Awareness Month
§ 8-22	Kalo Appreciation Month
§ 8-23	Homelessness Awareness Month
§ 8-24	‘Olelo Hawai’i Month
§ 8-25	Human Trafficking Awareness Month
§ 8-28	Outdoor Heritage Month
§ 8-29	Farm to School Month in Hawaii
§ 8-30	Suicide Prevention and Awareness Month
§ 8-31	International Yoga Day
§ 8-32	Juneteenth
§ 8-33	Kalaupapa Month
§ 8-34	La Hoihoi Ea
§ 8-35	Volunteer Month
§ 8-36	La Kuokoa; Hawaiian Independence Day
§ 8-37	Indigenous Peoples’ Day
§ 8-38	Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Awareness Month
§ 8-39	Disability Awareness Month: Employment, Enrichment, and Inclusion

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 8 - Holidays and Periods of Recognition and Observance

Acquisition: means acquiring by contract supplies or services, including construction, by and for the use of the State through purchase or lease, whether the supplies or services are already in existence or must be created, developed, demonstrated, or evaluated. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-11
Administrator: means the administrator of the Hawaii emergency management agency established by section 127A-3. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
Administrator: means the administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128E-1
Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
Aerial device: means any fireworks containing one hundred thirty milligrams or less of explosive materials that produces an audible or visible effect and is designed to rise into the air and explode or detonate in the air or to fly about above the ground, and that is prohibited for use by any person who does not have a permit for display issued by a county under § 132D-16. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 132D-2
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.
Agency: means any executive department, independent commission, board, bureau, office, or other establishment of the State, or any quasi-public institution that is supported in whole or in part by state funds. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-11
Agency: means the Hawaii emergency management agency established by section 127A-3. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
Agency: means the Hawaii emergency management agency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127D-2
Agricultural activities: includes :
(1) The care and production of livestock, livestock products, poultry, and poultry products;
(2) The care and production of apiary, horticultural, and floricultural products;
(3) The planting, cultivating, and harvesting of crops or trees; and
(4) Any other activity that is directly associated with agriculture. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 141D-2
Agricultural enterprise: means an activity directly and primarily supporting the production and sale of agricultural products in the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 141D-2
Agricultural enterprise lands: means agricultural lands that are transferred to and managed by the department pursuant to this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 141D-2
Allegation: something that someone says happened.
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.
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.
Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
Application: means a conservation district use application. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 190D-3
Appointing authority: means a department head or designee having the power to make appointments or changes in the status of employees. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 76-11
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
Aquacultural activities: means the farming or ranching of any plant or animal species in a controlled salt, brackish, or freshwater environment; provided that the farm or ranch is on or directly adjacent to land. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 141D-2
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 187A-1
Aquatic life: means any type of species of mammal, fish, amphibian, reptile, mollusk, crustacean, arthropod, invertebrate, coral, or other animals that inhabit 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 195D-2
Aquatic life: means any type or 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, products, and other parts thereof. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 187A-1
Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
Articles pyrotechnic: means pyrotechnic devices for professional use similar to consumer fireworks in chemical composition and construction but not intended for consumer use that meet the weight limits for consumer fireworks but are not labeled as such, and that are classified as UN0431 or UN0432 by the United States Department of Transportation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 132D-2
Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
Assistance: means emergency responders and resources provided by a responding member county in response to a request from a requesting member county. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127D-2
Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
Authority: means the Hawaii green infrastructure authority as established under section 196-63. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Available: means that the vehicle is physically present and not rented for the requested rental period. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-2
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.
Bailiff: a court officer who enforces the rules of behavior in courtrooms.
Ballot: includes :
(1) A ballot summary reflecting a complete record of the ballot selections made by a voter utilizing an HTML ballot or similar accessible ballot that produces a ballot summary;
(2) A voter verifiable paper audit trail in the event there is a discrepancy between a voting machine's electronic record of the voted ballot and the voter verifiable paper audit trail; and
(3) A ballot used in an election by mail pursuant to part VIIA, including a ballot approved for electronic transmission. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-1
Ballot summary: means a complete record of ballot selections that is verified by the voter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-1
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.
Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
Beaches encumbered with easements in favor of the public: means any lands which lie along the shores of the State which are now, or may hereafter be, encumbered by easements granted in favor of the public for bathing, swimming, or other similar or related purposes and for foot passage. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 200-1
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}
Bequest: Property gifted by will.
Board: means the law enforcement standards board. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 139-1
Board: means the board of agriculture. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 141D-2
Board: means the board of land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 190D-3
Board: means the board of land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 195D-2
Board: means the board of land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 187A-1
Board: means any department or board of a county authorized to issue revenue bonds under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 49-1
Board: means the board of trustees of the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund described in § 87A-5. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 87A-1
Board: means the enhanced 911 board established under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 138-1
Boat dealer: means a person engaged wholly or partly, for gain or compensation, in the business of selling vessels or offering vessels for sale, buying or taking in vessels for the purpose of resale, or exchanging vessels. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 200-23
Boat manufacturer: means a person engaged in:
(1) The manufacture, construction, or assembly of boats or associated equipment;
(2) The manufacture or construction of components for boats and associated equipment to be sold for subsequent assembly; or
(3) The importation into the United States for sale of boats, associated equipment, or components thereof. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 200-23
Boating accident: means any occurrence involving a vessel or its equipment that results in:
(1) The death of a person;
(2) The loss of consciousness by any person, the receipt of medical treatment by any person, or the incapacity of any person for more than twenty-four hours;
(3) Damage to the vessel and other property totaling more than $200; or
(4) The disappearance of a person from the vessel under circumstances that indicate possible death or injury. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 200-23
Bond: means any bond, note, and other evidence of indebtedness that is issued by the State pursuant to part of chapter 269. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Brand name: means any word, name, symbol, or device or any combination thereof identifying the commercial feed of a distributor and distinguishing it from that of others. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 144-2
Call: means any communication, message, signal, or transmission. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 138-1
Candidate species: means any species being considered by the United States Secretary of the Interior for listing as an endangered or threatened species, but not yet the subject of a proposed rule. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 195D-2
Carrier: means a voluntary association, corporation, partnership, or organization engaged in providing, paying for, arranging for, or reimbursing the cost of, health benefits or long-term care benefits under group insurance contracts. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 87A-1
Certificate: means certificate of number for an undocumented vessel. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 200-23
Chairperson: means the chairperson of the board of land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 190D-3
Chairperson: means the chairperson of the board of land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 200-1
Chambers: A judge's office.
Chief energy officer: means the chief energy officer of the Hawaii state energy office. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-81
Chief executive: means the governor, the respective mayors, the chief justice of the supreme court, and the chief executive officer of the Hawaii health systems corporation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 76-11
Chief of police: means the chief of police of the respective counties and their authorized representatives. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 135-1
Cigarette: means :
(1) Any roll for smoking, whether made wholly or in part of tobacco or any other substance, irrespective of size or shape, and whether or not the tobacco or substance is flavored, adulterated, or mixed with any other ingredient, with a wrapper or cover that is made of paper or any other substance or material, other than tobacco; or
(2) Any roll for smoking wrapped in any substance containing tobacco, which, due to its appearance, the type of tobacco used in the filler, or its packaging and labeling, is likely to be offered to or purchased by consumers as a cigarette as described in paragraph (1). See Hawaii Revised Statutes 132C-2
Civil service: includes all positions within a jurisdiction that are not exempted by § 46-33, 76-16, or 76-77, or by other law and must be filled through civil service recruitment procedures based on merit. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 76-11
Civil service employee: means an employee who has met all requirements for membership in the civil service under § 76-27. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 76-11
Class: means a group of positions that reflect sufficiently similar duties and responsibilities such that the same title and the same pay range may apply to each position allocated to the class. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 76-11
Clean energy investments: means the purchase, installation, or both, of clean energy technology, including energy-efficiency measures, green transportation infrastructure, recycling, and renewable energy technology. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Clean energy technology: means any technology as defined in section 269-121(b). See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Coast Guard: means the Coast Guard of the United States, or its successor agency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 200-23
Codicil: An addition, change, or supplement to a will executed with the same formalities required for the will itself.
Commercial feed: means all feed except:
(1) Whole seeds unmixed or physically altered entire unmixed seeds, when not adulterated within the meaning of section 144-6, that are distributed for use as feed or for mixing in feed;
(2) Hay, straw, stover, silage, cobs, husks, and hulls when:
(A) Unground; or
(B) Unmixed with other materials;
(3) Wet garbage;
(4) Individual chemical compounds when not mixed with other materials; and
(5) Unmixed feeding cane molasses, unmixed pineapple pulp, unmixed pineapple hay, and unmixed sugarcane hay. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 144-2
Commercial high speed boating: means the use of an open power boat to provide high speed rides to passengers who pay compensation for the rides. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 200-23
Commercial lease: means a lease of state marine waters or submerged lands for marine activities designed for profit. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 190D-3
Commercial marine dealer: means any person who sells or exchanges, or who is an agent in the transfer of marine life obtained directly from a commercial marine licensee, or any commercial marine licensee who sells or exchanges marine life at retail. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 187A-1
Commercial marine license: means a license issued to take marine life within or outside the State for commercial purpose. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 187A-1
Commercial marine licensee: means a person who has been issued a commercial marine license pursuant to § 189-2. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 187A-1
Commercial mobile radio service: means commercial mobile radio service under sections 3(27) and 332(d) of the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, Title 47 United States Code § 151 et seq. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 138-1
Commercial property: means any existing or new real property not defined as a residential property, and shall include any property where there is a leasehold or possessory interest in the property and any multi-family dwelling or townhouse consisting of five or more units as well as agricultural property. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Commercial property assessed financing assessment: means the non-ad valorem special tax assessment that secures the repayment of financing obtained by an owner of commercial property for a qualifying improvement and that appears on a property tax bill. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Commercial property assessed financing assessment contract: means the financing contract, under the commercial property assessed financing program, by and among one or more commercial property assessed financing lenders, one or more commercial property owners, and the authority as the administrator of the commercial property assessed financing program for the acquisition or installation of qualifying improvements. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Commercial property assessed financing lender: means a financial institution as defined pursuant to § 412:1-109, or a private or public lender approved by the authority, as the administrator of the commercial property assessed financing program, to originate commercial property assessed financing assessment contracts, and which may include any successor or assignee of the lender as provided in the commercial property assessed financing assessment contract. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Commercial property assessed financing program: means a program to finance qualifying improvements on commercial properties that are repaid through a non-ad valorem special tax assessment on the commercial property owner's property tax bill. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Commercial purpose: means the taking of marine life for profit or gain or as a means of livelihood where the marine life is taken in or outside of the State, or where the marine life is sold, offered for sale, landed, or transported for sale anywhere in the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 187A-1
Commission: means the Hawaii state emergency response commission. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128E-1
Commissioning: means a quality-oriented process, which takes place during design and construction, for achieving, verifying, and documenting that the performance of facilities, systems, and assemblies meets defined objectives and criteria with regards to energy conservation design strategies and the energy performance of buildings. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-11
Committee: means the local emergency planning committee within each county responsible for preparing hazardous material plans and performing other functions under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 and [this chapter]. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128E-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.
Communications service: means a service capable of accessing, connecting with, or interfacing with a 911 system, by dialing, initializing, or otherwise activating the 911 system by means of a local telephone device, commercial mobile radio service device, Interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol device, indirect communication through a service bureau or call relay service, such as alarm companies, or any other means. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 138-1
Communications service connection: means each telephone number or a device's unique identifier assigned to a residential or commercial subscriber by a communications service provider, without regard to technology deployed. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 138-1
Communications service provider: means an entity that provides communications service to a subscriber. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 138-1
Compact fluorescent lamp: means a compact low-pressure, mercury-containing, electric-discharge light source in which a fluorescent coating transforms some of the ultraviolet energy generated by the mercury discharge into visible light, and includes the following characteristics:
(1) One base (end cap) of any type, including but not limited to screw, bayonet, two pins, and four pins;
(2) Integrally ballasted or non-integrally ballasted;
(3) Light emission between a correlated color temperature of one thousand seven hundred Kelvin and twenty-four thousand Kelvin and a Duv of +0. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-101
Compensation: means money or any other valuable thing, regardless of form, received or to be received by a person for services rendered. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-81
Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
Consumer fireworks: include firework items commonly known as firecrackers that are single paper cylinders not exceeding one and one-half inches in length excluding the fuse and one-quarter of an inch in diameter and contain a charge of not more than fifty milligrams of pyrotechnic composition, snakes, sparklers, fountains, and cylindrical or cone fountains that emit effects up to a height not greater than twelve feet above the ground, illuminating torches, bamboo cannons, whistles, toy smoke devices, wheels, and ground spinners that when ignited remain within a circle with a radius of twelve feet as measured from the point where the item was placed and ignited, novelty or trick items, combination items, and other fireworks of like construction that are designed to produce the same or similar effects. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 132D-2
Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
Contribution: means money payments made to the fund by the State, the counties, an employee-beneficiary, or a qualified-beneficiary. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 87A-1
Conventional vehicle: means a vehicle powered solely by an internal combustion engine. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-2
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.
Cost-effective: means that utility bill savings are achieved by the installation of an energy-efficiency measure; provided that the utility bill savings exceed the energy-efficiency measure's installation and carrying costs in an amount sufficient to repay a loan issued pursuant to section 196- and in the manner required by that section. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Council: means the Hawaii advisory council on emergency management as established by section 127A-4. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
counties: means the city and county of Honolulu and the counties of Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 50-2
county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
County: means the city and county of Honolulu, and the counties of Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui; provided that the county of Maui shall include the county of Kalawao for the purposes of this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
County: means the city and county of Honolulu or the county of Hawaii, Kauai, or Maui; provided that the county of Maui shall include the county of Kalawao for the purposes of this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127D-2
County: means the city and county of Honolulu, the county of Hawaii, the county of Kauai, and the county of Maui. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 48E-1
County: means the city and county of Honolulu and the counties of Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui, the board of water supply of the city and county of Honolulu and the boards of water supply of the counties of Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 49-1
County: means any county or political subdivision of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 135-1
County: means the counties of Hawaii, Honolulu, Kauai, and Maui, including their respective boards of water supply and other quasi-independent boards, commissions, and agencies. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 87A-1
County agency: means a county or any officer or agency thereof. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128E-1
county director of budget and fiscal services: means the officer or officers of the county charged with the responsibility of administering the real property taxation function of the county. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
County emergency management agency: means a county-level entity responsible for emergency management within the respective counties as established in section 127A-5. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
Credited service: means service as an officer or employee paid by the State or county, service during the period of leave of absence or exchange if the individual is paid by the State or county during the leave of absence or exchange, and service during the period of unpaid leave of absence or exchange if the individual is engaged in the performance of a governmental function or if the unpaid leave of absence is an approved leave of absence for professional improvement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 87A-1
Critical infrastructure: means those systems, facilities, and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to a county, the State, or the nation that the incapacity or destruction of such systems, facilities, or assets would have a debilitating impact on national, state, or county security; economic security; public health or safety; or any combination of those matters. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
Cultural: means relating to the arts, customs, traditions, mores, and history of all of the various ethnic groups of Hawaii. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 132D-2
Custom-mixed feed: means a special commercial mixture that is formulated by the manufacturer or processor in accordance with the specific instructions of the final purchaser and contains feed material or materials wholly or partly supplied by the manufacturer or processor. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 144-2
Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
Day: means a calendar day unless otherwise specified. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 76-11
Dealer: means the same as defined in § 245-1. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 132C-2
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.
Defense attorney: Represent defendants in criminal matters.
Department: means the department of agriculture. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 141D-2
Department: means the department of business, economic development, and tourism. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 189-21
Department: means the department of business, economic development, and tourism. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 189-42
Department: means the department of land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 190D-3
Department: means department of land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 195D-2
Department: means the department of business, economic development, and tourism, or any successor by law. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Department: means the department of land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 200-1
Department: means the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128E-1
Department: means the department of business, economic development, and tourism. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 48-1
Department: means the department of land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 187A-1
Department: means any department, board, commission, or agency of a jurisdiction. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 76-11
Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
Dependent-beneficiary: means an employee-beneficiary's:
(1) Spouse;
(2) Child deemed eligible by the board, including a legally adopted child, stepchild, foster child, or recognized natural child, but excluding a child born or legally adopted more than ten months after the date of the death of:
(A) An active employee killed in the performance of duty;
(B) An active employee who was eligible to retire on the date of death; or
(C) A retired employee-beneficiary; and
(3) Unmarried child regardless of age who is incapable of self-support because of a mental or physical incapacity, which existed prior to the unmarried child's reaching the age of nineteen years. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 87A-1
Development corporation: means the Hawaii technology development corporation established by section 206M-2. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
Devise: To gift property by will.
Direct payments: means governmental compensation of landowners for their discovery, care, maintenance, and recovery of endangered, threatened, proposed, or candidate species or their essential habitat. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 195D-2
Director: means the director of business, economic development, and tourism. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 189-21
Director: means the director of business, economic development, and tourism. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 189-42
Director: means the director of business, economic development, and tourism, or the director's designee. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Director: means the director of the Hawaii emergency management agency established by section 127A-3, and who is the same as the adjutant general as provided in section 26-21. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
Director: means the director of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128E-1
Director: means the head of the central personnel agency for a jurisdiction regardless of title, whether it is the director of human resources development, director of personnel, director of personnel services, or personnel director. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 76-11
Director of finance: means the director of finance of a county. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 48E-1
Director of finance: means the director of finance of the various counties. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 49-1
Disaster: means any emergency, or imminent threat thereof, which results or may likely result in loss of life, property, or environment and requires, or may require, assistance from other counties, states, the federal government, or from private agencies. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
Disaster relief: means any physical or financial assistance provided to individuals or areas in the aftermath of an emergency or disaster. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
Display: means the use of aerial devices, display fireworks, or articles pyrotechnic for any activity, including such activities as movie or television production. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 132D-2
Display fireworks: means any fireworks designed primarily for exhibition display by producing visible or audible effects and classified as display fireworks or contained in the regulations of the United States Department of Transportation and designated as UN0333, UN0334, or UN0335, and includes salutes containing more than two grains (one hundred and thirty milligrams) of explosive materials, aerial shells containing more than forty grams of pyrotechnic compositions, and other display pieces which exceed the limits of explosive materials for classification as "consumer fireworks". See Hawaii Revised Statutes 132D-2
Distribute: means to offer for sale, sell, barter, or otherwise supply feed, commercial feeds, or custom-mixed feeds. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 144-2
Distributed energy resources: includes but is not limited to solar photovoltaic and thermal, wind, combined heat and power, electrical and thermal energy storage, demand response technologies, alternative energy vehicles and related infrastructure, microgrids, energy efficiency, and advanced inverters. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-2
Distributor: means any person who distributes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 144-2
Distributor: means :
(1) Every person who refines, manufactures, produces, or compounds fuel in the State and sells it at wholesale or retail, or who uses it directly in the manufacture of products or for the generation of power;
(2) Every person who imports or causes to be imported into the State, or exports or causes to be exported from the State, any fuel;
(3) Every person who acquires fuel through exchanges with another distributor; and
(4) Every person who purchases fuel for resale at wholesale or retail rates from any person described in paragraph (1), (2), or (3). See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-2
District: means , unless otherwise specified, the district of political representation associated with a state representative. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-1
Donor: means any person, partnership, corporation, company, or association engaged in the farming, processing, distribution, wholesaling, or retailing of food products who donates such products, without remuneration, to a charitable, religious, or nonprofit organization. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 145D-1
Donor: The person who makes a gift.
Drug: means any article intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in animals other than human and articles other than feed intended to affect the structure or any function of the animal body. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 144-2
Economic development bond: means any general or revenue bond issued by any political subdivision of the State for the purpose of financing the purchase or lease of land; the purchase or construction, including reconstruction, improvement, expansion, extension, and enlargement, of buildings and appurtenances; and the purchase and installation of machinery, equipment, or fixtures, when the purchases or leases are made primarily for sale or continuing lease to a private individual, partnership, or corporation for use in connection with the development of an agricultural, industrial, commercial, or hotel enterprise. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 48-1
Economic unit: means the water column, state submerged lands beneath the water column, and water surface above the water column which shall be treated as one economic unit for the calculation of lease rents. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 190D-3
Ecosystem: means all natural elements, physical and biological, of the habitat or site in which any aquatic life, wildlife, or land plant species is found, and upon which it is dependent. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 195D-2
Election officials: means persons designated as officials by the chief election officer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-1
Electric vehicle: means a vehicle powered by an electric motor via electricity:
(1) Stored in a high capacity battery; or
(2) Generated from an onboard fuel cell. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-2
Electricity: means all electrical energy produced by combustion of any fuel, or generated or produced using wind, the sun, geothermal heat, ocean water, falling water, currents, and waves, or any other source. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-2
Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) ^{Source: OCC}
Electronic transmission: means the transmission of a blank or voted ballot by facsimile or electronic mail delivery, or the use of an online absentee ballot delivery and return system, which may include the ability to mark the ballot. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-1
emergency: means any state of affairs or circumstances which imperils the availability to the public of commodities necessary to public health, safety, or welfare or which results in any substantial interruption of commerce to or within the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 125-1
Emergency: means any occurrence, or imminent threat thereof, which results or may likely result in substantial injury or harm to the population or substantial damage to or loss of property or substantial damage to or loss of the environment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
Emergency: means an event or set of circumstances that:
(1) Demands immediate action to preserve public health, protect life and public property, or provide relief to any stricken community overtaken by the event or circumstance; or
(2) Reaches a dimension or degree of destructiveness as to warrant the declaration of a state of emergency or local state of emergency, pursuant to § 127A-14. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127D-2
Emergency: means the imminent or actual occurrence of an event, which has the likelihood of causing extensive injury, death, property damage, or impedes the safe and necessary movement of persons or vehicles over public highways, including but not limited to the spillage of hazardous material on a public highway or public place. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 135-1
Emergency management: means a comprehensive integrated system at all levels of government, and also in the private sector, which develops and maintains an effective capability to prevent, prepare for, respond to, mitigate, and recover from emergencies or disasters. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
Emergency period: means the dates covered by a proclamation issued by the governor declaring a state of emergency or by a mayor declaring a local state of emergency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
Emergency responder: includes but is not limited to law enforcement officers, fire fighters, emergency medical services personnel, physicians, nurses, other public health personnel, emergency management personnel, and public works personnel. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127D-2
Employee: means an employee or officer of the State, county, or legislature,
(1) Including:
(A) An elective officer;
(B) An officer or employee under an authorized leave of absence;
(C) An employee of the Hawaii national guard although paid from federal funds;
(D) A retired member of the employees' retirement system; the county pension system; or the police, firefighters, or bandsmen pension system of the State or county;
(E) A salaried and full-time member of a board, commission, or agency appointed by the governor or the mayor of a county; and
(F) A person employed by contract for a period not exceeding one year, where the director of human resources development, personnel services, or civil service has certified that the service is essential or needed in the public interest and that, because of circumstances surrounding its fulfillment, personnel to perform the service cannot be obtained through normal civil service recruitment procedures,
(2) But excluding:
(A) A designated beneficiary of a retired member of the employees' retirement system; the county pension system; or the police, firefighters, or bandsmen pension system of the State or county;
(B) Except as allowed under paragraph (1)(F), a person employed temporarily on a fee or contract basis; and
(C) A part-time, temporary, and seasonal or casual employee. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 87A-1
Employee-beneficiary: means :
(1) An employee;
(2) The beneficiary of an employee who is killed in the performance of the employee's duty, including:
(A) The surviving child, if there is no surviving parent who is eligible to be an employee-beneficiary and the child is unmarried and under the limiting age as defined by the board; and
(B) The surviving spouse, if the surviving spouse does not subsequently remarry;
(3) An employee who retired prior to 1961; and
(4) The beneficiary of a retired member of the employees' retirement system; a county pension system; or a police, firefighters, or bandsmen pension system of the State or a county, upon the death of the retired member, including:
(A) The surviving child, if there is no surviving parent who is eligible to be an employee-beneficiary and the child is unmarried and under the limiting age as defined by the board; and
(B) The surviving spouse, if the surviving spouse does not subsequently remarry;
provided that the employee, the employee's beneficiary, or the beneficiary of the deceased retired employee is deemed eligible by the board to participate in a health benefits plan or long-term care benefits plan under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 87A-1
Endangered species: means any species whose continued existence as a viable component of Hawaii's indigenous fauna or flora is determined to be in jeopardy and has been so designated pursuant to § 195D-4. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 195D-2
Endangered Species Act: means the Endangered Species Act of 1973, 87 Stat. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 195D-2
Energy: means work or heat that is, or may be, produced from any fuel or source whatsoever. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-2
Energy resources: means fuel, and also includes all electrical or thermal energy produced by combustion of any fuel, or generated, produced, or stored using wind, the sun, geothermal heat, ocean water, falling water, currents, waves, or any other source. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-2
ENERGY STAR: means a labeling program introduced by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in 1992 as a voluntary labeling program designed to identify and promote energy-efficient products, in order to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-11
Energy-efficiency measure: means any type of project conducted, or technology implemented, to reduce the consumption of energy in a public building. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Enforcement officer: means a police officer and any other state or county officer charged with the enforcement of state laws. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 200-61
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.
Environment: means any waters, including surface water, ground water, or drinking water; any land surface or any subsurface strata; or any ambient air, within the State or under the jurisdiction of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128E-1
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}
Escheat: Reversion of real or personal property to the state when 1) a person dies without leaving a will and has no heirs, or 2) when the property (such as a bank account) has been inactive for a certain period of time. ^{Source: OCC}
Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
Evacuation: means the immediate and rapid movement of individuals and animals away from the threat or actual occurrence of any hazard, emergency, or disaster, and includes vertical evacuation, which is moving to a higher floor or higher ground in order to gain safety above the height of expected inundation by water as recommended by the county emergency management agency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
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.
Extremely hazardous substance: means any substance listed in Appendix A of Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 355, as amended, or as defined by rules adopted by the commission. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128E-1
Facilities: except as otherwise provided in this chapter, includes any infrastructure, buildings and other structures, shelters, land, roads, highways, thoroughfares, walks, roadways, bridges, public rights of way, and any appurtenant facilities, structures, and materials. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
Facility: means a building or buildings or similar structure owned or leased by, or otherwise under the jurisdiction of, an agency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-11
Facility: means any building, structure, installation, equipment, pipe or pipeline (including any pipe into a sewer or publicly-owned treatment works), well, pit, pond, lagoon, impoundment, ditch, landfill, storage container, motor carrier, rolling stock, aircraft, site, or area where a hazardous substance or pollutant or contaminant has been deposited, stored, disposed of, or placed, or otherwise comes to be located. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128E-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.
Faucet: means a lavatory faucet, kitchen faucet, metering faucet, or replacement aerator for a lavatory or kitchen faucet. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-81
Federal laws and requirements: means all statutes, rules, and other laws of the United States, which may apply to any and all subject matter of this part, and of the rules adopted pursuant to this part. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 200-23
Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
Feed: means all edible materials consumed by animals, other than dogs, cats, or other domestic pets, that contribute energy or nutrients to the animal's diet and are distributed or imported. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 144-2
Feed ingredient: means each of the constituent materials making up a feed. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 144-2
Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
Financing order: means the same as defined in section 269A-161. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Financing party: means the same as defined in section 269A-161. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Fireworks: means any combustible or explosive composition, or any substance or combination of substances, or article prepared for the purpose of producing a visible or audible effect by combustion, explosion, deflagration, or detonation and that meets the definition of aerial device or consumer or display fireworks as defined by this section and contained in the regulations of the United States Department of Transportation as set forth in Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 132D-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.
Food product: means any fowl, seafood, animal, vegetable, or other stuff, product, or article which is customary food fit for human consumption, including prepared, canned, milk, dairy, and farm products, before or after the expiration date stamped on the products, if any. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 145D-1
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.
Fuel: means fuels, whether liquid, solid, or gaseous, commercially usable for energy needs, power generation, and fuels manufacture, that may be manufactured, grown, produced, or imported into the State or that may be exported therefrom, including petroleum and petroleum products and gases to include all fossil fuel-based gases, coal tar, vegetable ferments, biomass, municipal solid waste, biofuels, hydrogen, agricultural products used as fuels and as feedstock to produce fuels, and all fuel alcohols. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-2
Fund: means the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund established in section 87A-30. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 87A-1
fund: means the special fund established by section 138-3. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 138-1
Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
Governing body: means the body, council, or board charged with exercising the legislative authority of a political subdivision of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 48-1
Governing body: means the body, council, or board charged with exercising the legislative authority of a county. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 48E-1
Governing body: means council of each county, or any other body exercising the legislative powers of the county. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 49-1
Government entity: means any department, unit, or agency, of the federal, state, or county governments. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 137-1
Green energy money saver on-bill program: means the tariff-based on-bill repayment mechanism approved for the exclusive use of the authority by the commission. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Green infrastructure bond fund: means the special fund created pursuant to section 196-67. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Green infrastructure charge: means the on-bill charges for the use and services of the loan program, including the repayment of loans made under the loan program, as authorized by the public utilities commission to be imposed on electric utility customers. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Green infrastructure costs: means costs incurred or to be incurred by the electric utility customers to pay for clean energy technology, demand response technology, and energy use reduction and demand side management infrastructure including, without limitation, the purchase or installation of green infrastructure equipment, programs, and services authorized by the loan program. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Green infrastructure equipment: means infrastructure improvements, equipment, and personal property to be installed to deploy clean energy technology, demand response technology, and energy use reduction and demand side management infrastructure. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Green infrastructure fee: means the same as defined in section 269-161. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Green infrastructure loan program order: means the same as defined in section 269-161. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
green infrastructure loans: means the program established by this part under § 196-62 and capitalized by the issuance of green energy market securitization bonds to finance the purchase or installation of green infrastructure equipment for clean energy technology, demand response technology, and energy use reduction and demand side management infrastructure, programs, and services as authorized by the public utilities commission using the proceeds of bonds . See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Green infrastructure property: means the same as defined in section 269-161. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Green infrastructure special fund: means the special fund created pursuant to section 196-67. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
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.
Habitat banking: means a program that would allow a landowner, on whose property are found endangered, threatened, proposed, or candidate species or their essential habitat that would be impacted by a project being conducted on the property to purchase another property on which those affected species are found for the purposes of preserving those species as part of an approved habitat conservation plan. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 195D-2
Harvest: means the taking and retaining of marine life by any means whatsoever. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 187A-1
Hazard: means an event or condition of the physical environment that results or may likely result in damage to property, injuries or death to individuals, or damage to the environment that may result in an emergency or disaster. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
hazardous substance: means any hazardous substance as defined in chapter 128D. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128E-1
Health benefits plan: means :
(1) A group insurance contract or service agreement that may include medical, hospital, surgical, prescribed drugs, vision, and dental services, in which a carrier agrees to provide, pay for, arrange for, or reimburse the cost of the services as determined by the board; or
(2) A similar schedule of benefits established by the board and provided through the fund on a self-insured basis. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 87A-1
High color rendering index fluorescent lamp: means a fluorescent lamp with a color rendering index of eighty-seven or greater that is not a compact fluorescent lamp. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-81
hull: means the shell, frame, or body of a vessel, exclusive of masts, yards, sails, riggings, machinery, and equipment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 200-71
Hybrid vehicle: means a vehicle powered by a combination of an electric motor and a small internal combustion engine. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-2
Impeachment: (1) The process of calling something into question, as in "impeaching the testimony of a witness." (2) The constitutional process whereby the House of Representatives may "impeach" (accuse of misconduct) high officers of the federal government for trial in the Senate.
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}
Indigenous species: means any aquatic life, wildlife, or land plant species growing or living naturally in Hawaii without having been brought to Hawaii by humans. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 195D-2
Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
Interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol: means a service that:
(1) Enables real-time, two-way voice communications;
(2) Requires a broadband connection from the user's location;
(3) Requires internet protocol-compatible customer premises equipment; and
(4) Permits users generally to receive calls that originate on the public switched telephone network and to terminate calls to the public switched telephone network. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 138-1
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}
Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
Jurisdiction: means the State, the city and county of Honolulu, the county of Hawaii, the county of Maui, the county of Kauai, the judiciary, the department of education, the University of Hawaii, and the Hawaii health systems corporation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 76-11
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.
Label: means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter:
(1) Upon or affixed to the container in which a commercial feed is distributed or imported; or
(2) On the invoice or delivery slip with which a commercial feed or custom-mixed feed is distributed or imported. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 144-2
Land plant: means any member of the plant kingdom, including seeds, roots and other parts thereof, except freshwater or marine plants. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 195D-2
Landowner: means an owner of land or any estate or interest in that land when acting with the consent of the fee owner. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 195D-2
Large fishing vessel: means any vessel five net tons and over designed to be used in the Hawaii commercial fisheries for catching fish, processing, or transporting fish loaded on the high seas that derives at least fifty-one per cent of that vessel's gross annual income from commercial (as opposed to recreational) operations, or any vessel outfitted for such activity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 189-21
laser pointing device: means any hand-held laser device, which is not designed as a sighting device for a weapon nor for use in a medical procedure. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 136-1
Law clerk: Assist judges with research and drafting of opinions.
Law enforcement officer: means :
(1) A police officer employed by a county police department;
(2) A public safety officer employed by the department of public safety; or
(3) An employee of the department of transportation, department of land and natural resources, department of taxation, or department of the attorney general who is conferred by law with general police powers. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 139-1
Laws: includes ordinances, rules, regulations, and orders prescribed under federal, state, or county laws or ordinances and having the force and effect of law. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
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}
Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
Legislative body: means the legislature in the case of the State, including the judiciary, the department of education, the University of Hawaii, and the Hawaii health systems corporation; the city council in the case of the city and county of Honolulu; and the respective county councils in the case of the counties of Hawaii, Maui, and Kauai. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 76-11
Legislative body of the county: means the county council. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 50-2
Length: means the measurement of a vessel from end to end over the deck. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 200-23
Lessee: means a lessee under a lease issued by or transferred to the department or any tenant, licensee, grantee, permittee, assignee, or other person authorized to conduct an agricultural enterprise by the board or department. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 141D-2
Lessee: means the holder of a valid lease granted pursuant to this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 190D-3
Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
License: means written permission by the department of land and natural resources to do a particular act or series of acts which without such permission would be unauthorized or prohibited. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 195D-2
License: means a nontransferable, formal authorization, valid for a period not to exceed one calendar year from the date of issuance and which the department is hereby authorized to issue under this chapter, to engage in the act or acts specifically designated herein. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 132D-2
Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
Life-cycle cost-effective: means the life-cycle costs of a product, project, or measure that are estimated to be equal to or less than the base case, i. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-11
Life-cycle costs: means the sum of the present values of investment costs, capital costs, installation costs, energy costs, operating costs, maintenance costs, and disposal costs, over the lifetime of the project, product, or measure. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-11
Limited liability company: means a limited liability company formed under chapter 428. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Lineal descendant: Direct descendant of the same ancestors.
Linear fluorescent lamp: means a low-pressure, mercury-containing, electric-discharge light source in which a fluorescent coating transforms some of the ultraviolet energy generated by the mercury discharge into visible light, and includes all of the following characteristics:
(1) Two bases (end caps) of any type, including but not limited to single-pin, two-pin, and recessed double contact;
(2) Light emission between a correlated color temperature of one thousand seven hundred Kelvin and twenty-four thousand Kelvin and a Duv of +0. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-101
Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
Loan fund program: means the clean energy and energy efficiency revolving loan fund program. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Loan program: means the activities and policies undertaken by any county to provide:
(1) Assistance to members of the general public who are residents of the county by making loans or causing loans to be made available to them for purposes as may be authorized by law; or
(2) Loans to private nonprofit organizations or public instrumentalities, or to wholly owned affiliates thereof, for the development of low and moderate income housing pursuant to section 46-15. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 49-1
Local state of emergency: means the occurrence in any part of a county that requires efforts by the county government to save lives, and to protect property, environment, public health, welfare, or safety in the event of an emergency or disaster, or to reduce the threat of an emergency or disaster. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
Long-term care benefits plan: means :
(1) A group insurance contract or service agreement in which a carrier agrees to provide, pay for, arrange for, or reimburse the cost of long-term care benefits as determined by the board; or
(2) A similar schedule of benefits established by the board and provided through the fund on a self-insured basis. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 87A-1
Manufacture: means to grind, mix, or blend or further process a commercial feed for distribution. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 144-2
Manufacturer: means :
(1) Any entity that manufactures or otherwise produces cigarettes or causes cigarettes to be manufactured or produced anywhere, and intends to sell these cigarettes:
(A) In this State; or
(B) Anywhere in the United States through an importer;
(2) The first purchaser anywhere that intends to resell in the United States cigarettes manufactured anywhere that the original manufacturer or maker does not intend to be sold in the United States; or
(3) Any entity that becomes a successor of an entity described in paragraph (1) or (2). See Hawaii Revised Statutes 132C-2
Mariculture: means the aquaculture, cultivation, and production for research, development, demonstration, and commercial purposes of aquatic plants and animals within state marine waters, but excludes floating structures that are not anchored. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 190D-3
Marine activities: means ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC); mariculture; and other energy or water research, scientific, and educational activities in, on, or under state marine waters, which are exclusive, non-transient in nature, and which occupy a discrete area of state marine waters. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 190D-3
Marine life: means any type or species of saltwater fish, shellfish, mollusks, crustaceans, coral, or other marine animals, including any part, product, egg, or offspring thereof; or seaweeds or other marine plants, including any part, product, seed, or root thereof. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 187A-1
Materials: includes medicines, supplies, products, commodities, articles, equipment, machinery, and component parts. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
Merit appeals board: means a jurisdiction's appellate body for purposes of section 76-14 regardless of whether it is named merit appeals board, civil service commission, or appeals board. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 76-11
microchip identification: means a device that is implanted under the skin of an animal and that contains contact information for the owner of the animal. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 143-1
Mobile equipment: means any state-owned vessel, aircraft, or off-road vehicle. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-11
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.
Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. ^{Source: OCC}
Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
Mutual assistance agreement: means an agreement to which two or more business entities are parties and under which a public utility, municipally owned utility, electric cooperative, natural gas special district, natural gas transmission pipeline, or joint agency owning, operating, or owning and operating infrastructure used for electric generation, electric or natural gas transmission, or electric or natural gas distribution in this State may request that an out-of-state utility perform work in this State in anticipation of a disaster or an emergency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
National Marine Fisheries Service: means the Financial Assistance Division, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Department of Commerce. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 189-21
National Marine Fisheries Service: means Financial Assistance Division, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Department of Commerce. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 189-42
Natural communities: means a natural assemblage of plants or animals that occurs within certain elevation, moisture, and habitat conditions. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 195D-2
Necessary: means and refers to such means, measures, or other actions or determinations as are required to be taken in the opinion of the governor or governor's authorized representative or a mayor or the mayor's authorized representative. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
Non-ad valorem special tax assessment: means a special tax assessment or governmental charge levied by the county as provided in section 196- on a benefitted commercial property that appears on a property tax bill. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Noncommercial lease: means a lease of state marine waters for marine activities not designed for profit. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 190D-3
oath: includes a solemn affirmation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-21
Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
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.
Ocean waters: means all waters seaward of the shoreline within the jurisdiction of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 200-1
Officer: means any sheriff, deputy, any member of a police force in counties with a population of less than 100,000 and animal control officers of the several counties of the State;
"Owner" includes every person owning, harboring, or keeping a dog; provided that if the owner is a minor under the age of eighteen years, the parent, guardian, or other person having the care, custody, or control of the minor shall be irrebuttably presumed to be the owner;
"Unlicensed dog" means any dog for which the license for the current year has not been paid or to which the tag provided for in this chapter is not attached. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 143-1
Official sample: means any sample of feed taken by the department or its agent and designated as "official" by the department. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 144-2
Open ocean racing boat: means a motorized vessel which:
(1) Is designed, modified, or restored for the primary purpose of high speed boat racing; and
(2) Has the capacity to carry not more than the operator and five passengers. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 200-23
Operate: means to navigate or otherwise use a vessel on or in the waters of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 200-23
Operational control: means the limited authority to direct tasks, assignments, and use of assistance provided pursuant to a request for assistance issued under this chapter to address:
(1) Response, mitigation, or recovery activities related to an emergency; or
(2) Participation in drills or exercises in preparation for an emergency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127D-2
Operator: means a person who operates, or who has charge of the navigation or use of, a vessel. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 200-23
Option to purchase: means a legally binding agreement between a buyer and a seller, which gives the buyer the option, but not the obligation, to purchase the solar energy system or other installed equipment at an agreed upon price, prior to the maturity date of the power purchase agreement or energy performance contract. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Original bill: A bill which is drafted by a committee. It is introduced by the committee or subcommittee chairman after the committee votes to report it.
OTEC: means ocean thermal energy conversion. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 190D-3
Out-of-state utility: means a public utility, municipally owned utility, electric cooperative, or natural gas special district that owns, operates, or owns and operates infrastructure used for electric generation, electric or natural gas transmission, or electric or natural gas distribution outside of the State, and is regulated by the public utilities commission of the state where they operate. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
Owner: includes every person owning, harboring, or keeping a dog; provided that if the owner is a minor under the age of eighteen years, the parent, guardian, or other person having the care, custody, or control of the minor shall be irrebuttably presumed to be the owner;
"Unlicensed dog" means any dog for which the license for the current year has not been paid or to which the tag provided for in this chapter is not attached. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 143-1
Owner: means any individual, partnership, firm, society, unincorporated association, joint venture group, hui, joint stock company, corporation, trustee, personal representative, trust estate, decedent's estate, trust, or other legal entity whether doing business for itself or in a fiduciary capacity, that owns or controls the real property. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 135-1
Parasailing: means the activity in which an individual is transported or carried aloft by a parachute, sail, or other material attached to a towline which is towed by a vessel. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 200-23
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.
Permanent: means the state of one object being affixed to another object by glue or other means in a manner that the affixed object is intended to not be easily removable. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 132D-2
Permit: means a nontransferable, formal authorization, valid for a period not to exceed one calendar year from the date of issuance and which a county is hereby authorized to issue under this chapter, to engage in the act or acts specifically designated herein. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 132D-2
Person: includes individual, partnership, corporation, and association. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 144-2
Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, trust, association, or any other private entity, or any officer, employee, agent, department, or instrumentality of the federal government, of any state or political subdivision thereof, or of any foreign government. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 195D-2
Person: means an individual, partnership, firm, corporation, association, or other legal entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 200-23
Person: means an individual, firm, corporation, association, partnership, consortium, joint venture, commercial entity, state, county, commission, or, to the extent the United States or an interstate body is subject to this chapter, the United States or the interstate body. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128E-1
Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, cooperative, or other legal entity, governmental body, or agency, board, bureau, or other instrumentality thereof, or any combination of two or more of the foregoing. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 48E-1
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.
Place of deposit: means a site within the county of the voter's registration address designated pursuant to section 11-109 for the purpose of receiving return identification envelopes in an election conducted by mail pursuant to part VIIA. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-1
Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
Plumbing fixture: means an exchangeable device that connects to a plumbing system to deliver and drain away water and waste. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-81
police force: includes among others, jailors, turnkeys, guards, matrons, lunas, and cooks employed in any county jail. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 88-152
Political subdivision: means a county or other political subdivision created by the legislature pursuant to article VIII, section 1, of the constitution of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 48-1
Pollution control project: means any processing enterprise consisting of property, or improvements or alterations to property, designed, acquired, constructed, installed, or modified, and certified as necessary or desirable by the state department of health, to abate, control, reduce, treat, eliminate, or dispose of solid waste, and specifically includes facilities which incidentally provide for the recovery of energy or material resources, or both. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 48E-1
Portable electric spa: means a factory-built electric spa or hot tub, which may include any combination of integral controls, water heating, or water circulating equipment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-81
Position: means a specific job requiring the full or part-time employment of one person. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 76-11
Power purchase agreement: means a contract between two parties, one that generates electricity, or the seller, and one that seeks to purchase electricity, or the buyer, that defines all of the commercial terms for the sale of electricity between the two parties. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Precinct: means the smallest political subdivision established by law. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-1
Premises: shall include but not be limited to a lodging or tenement house, group residence, group living arrangement, hotel, boardinghouse, or restaurant as further defined in § 445-90, or any other like facility serving unsupervised or unrelated individuals. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 46-15.6
Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
Principal: means a person who has entered into a development agreement pursuant to the procedures specified in this chapter, including a successor in interest. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 46-122
Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
Product name: means the name of the commercial feed that identifies it as to kind, class, or specific use. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 144-2
Project agreement: means any lease, sublease, loan agreement, conditional sale agreement, or other similar financing contract or agreement, or combination thereof entered into under this chapter by the county, including the financing of a pollution control project from the proceeds of the special purpose revenue bonds. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 48E-1
Project party: means the person with whom the county enters into a project agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 48E-1
Proprietary information: means customer lists and other related information (including the number of customers), technology descriptions, technical information, or trade secrets, and the actual or developmental costs of enhanced 911 service that are developed, produced, or received internally by a communications service provider or by a provider's employees, directors, officers, or agents. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 138-1
Provisional ballot: means a ballot and any accompanying materials issued to a voter that are segregated for review and subsequent determination of validity, in accordance with eligibility criteria and other requirements of law. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-1
Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
Public highway: means all state and county roads, alleys, streets, ways, lanes, bikeways, and bridges. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 135-1
Public lands: means lands owned by the federal government, the State, or a county, or lands owned by any political subdivision of the federal government, the State, or a county. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 195D-2
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 safety agency: means a functional division of the State or a county that provides or has authority to provide, or a private entity contracted by a state or county agency that provides, firefighting, law enforcement, ambulance, medical, or other emergency services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 138-1
Public safety answering point: means the public safety agency that receives incoming 911 calls and dispatches appropriate public safety agencies to respond to those calls. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 138-1
pyrotechnic contents: means the combustible or explosive component of fireworks. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 132D-2
Qualified-beneficiary: means , for purposes of the long-term care benefits plan, a former employee or an employee who is not eligible for benefits due to a reduction in work hours, including the spouse, divorced spouse, parents, grandparents, in-law parents, and in-law grandparents of an employee or retiree; provided that the beneficiary was enrolled in the plan before the employee or former employee became ineligible for benefits. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 87A-1
Qualifying improvement: means a septic system or aerobic treatment unit system or connection to sewer systems, clean energy technology, efficiency technology, resiliency measure, or other improvement approved by the authority. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Quality control and quality assurance program: means laboratory procedures implemented to ensure that operator bias, systematic and nonsystematic methodological errors, and equipment-related problems do not affect the results of the testing and to ensure that the testing repeatability remains within the required repeatability value for any test trial used to certify cigarettes under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 132C-2
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.
Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}
recover: means that the number of individuals of the protected species has increased to the point that the measures provided under this chapter or the federal Endangered Species Act are no longer needed. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 195D-2
Release: means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing of any hazardous substance, or pollutant or contaminant into the environment, including the abandonment or discarding of barrels, containers, and other closed receptacles containing a hazardous substance, or pollutant or contaminant. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128E-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.
Renewable energy: means energy produced by solar, energy conserved by passive solar design/daylighting, ocean thermal, wind, wave, geothermal, waste-to-energy, or biomass power. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-11
Renewable energy technology: means the equipment and related accessories required to generate or produce renewable energy. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Rental contractor: means an entity that rents, leases, or proposes to rent or lease, vehicles to state employees for purposes of official government business under a contract pursuant to this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-2
Repeatability: means the range of values within which the repeat results of cigarette test trials from a single laboratory will fall ninety-five per cent of the time. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 132C-2
Requesting member county: means a member county that requests assistance from another member county under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127D-2
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.
Reseller: means a person or entity that purchases communications service from a communications service provider for the purpose of reselling communications service to end-users. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 138-1
Residential ventilating fan: means a ceiling or wall-mounted fan, or remotely mounted in-line fan, designed to be used in a bathroom or utility room for the purpose of moving air from inside the building to the outdoors. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-81
Resources: includes supplies, materials, equipment, facilities, energy, services, information, systems, and other assets that may be necessary, pursuant to a request for assistance under this chapter, for:
(1) Response, mitigation, or recovery activities related to an emergency; or
(2) Participation in drills or exercises in preparation for an emergency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127D-2
Responding member county: means a member county providing or intending to provide assistance to a requesting member county under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127D-2
Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
Retro-commissioning: means a quality-oriented process, which takes place after systems have been placed in operation, for achieving, verifying, and documenting that the performance of facilities, systems, and assemblies perform as closely as possible to defined performance criteria, with regards to energy conservation design strategies and the energy performance of buildings. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-11
Revenue: means the moneys collected, including any moneys collected from the county or any department thereof, from the rates, rentals, fees and charges prescribed for the use and services of, and the facilities and commodities furnished by, an undertaking or the use and services and benefits of a loan program. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 49-1
Revenue bonds: means all bonds payable solely from and secured by the revenue, or user taxes, or any combination of both, of an undertaking or loan program or any loan made thereunder for which such bonds are issued and as otherwise provided in this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 49-1
Revolving line of credit: means a type of credit in which loan advances are made for eligible purposes and where repaid principal deposited back into the sub-fund may be re-borrowed. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
sale: includes exchange. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 144-2
SBA: means the Federal Small Business Administration. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 189-21
Search and rescue expenses: include the following expenses incident to, and incurred by, a government entity or any person or private entity in a search or rescue operation:
(1) Any and all actual hourly wages, salaries, and employment-related benefits, of persons participating in a search or rescue operation;
(2) Any and all equipment costs, including rental, lease, use, repair, and/or replacement costs of equipment used in a search or rescue operation;
(3) Any and all fuel expenses incident to a search or rescue operation;
(4) Any and all other expenses relating to a search and rescue operation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 137-1
selling: means any transfer of title or possession, exchange, or barter, conditional or otherwise, and includes the giving of cigarettes as samples, prizes, or gifts, and the exchange of cigarettes for any consideration. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 132C-2
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.
Shark: means any member of the class Chondrichthyes, including but not limited to: inshore species of galapagos shark (Carcharhinus galapagensis), reef blacktip shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus), gray reef shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos), big-nosed shark (Carcharhinus altimus), tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier), blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus), smooth hammerhead shark (Sphyrna zygaena), reef whitetip shark (Triaenodon obesus), scalloped hammerhead shark (Sphyrna lewini), sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus), offshore species of white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), shortfin mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus), silky shark (Carcharhinus falciformis), blue shark (Prionace glauca), whale shark (Rhincodon typus), thresher shark (Alopias vulpinus), oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus), cookie cutter shark (Isistius brasiliensis), and megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios). See Hawaii Revised Statutes 187A-1
Shoreline: means the upper reaches of the wash of the waves, usually evidenced by the edge of vegetation growth or by the upper limit of debris left by the wash of the waves. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 200-1
Showerhead: includes handheld showerheads and any other showerhead, except a safety showerhead. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-81
Special purpose entity: means a legal entity created to fulfill narrow, specific, or temporary objectives and is typically used by companies to isolate the firm from financial risk. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Special purpose revenue bonds: means bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness of a county issued pursuant to this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 48E-1
Species: means and shall include any subspecies or lower taxa of aquatic life, wildlife, or land plants. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 195D-2
Spray sprinkler body: means the exterior case or shell of a sprinkler incorporating a means of connection to the piping system designed to convey water to a nozzle or orifice. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-81
State: means the State of Hawaii. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 200-23
State employee: means an employee of the State, including all permanent and temporary employees of the state judicial, executive, and legislative branches and their respective departments, offices, and agencies. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-2
State marine waters: means all waters of the State, including the water column, water surface, and state submerged lands, extending from the upper reaches of the wash of the waves on shore seaward to the limit of the State's police power and management authority, including the United States territorial sea, notwithstanding any law to the contrary. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 190D-3
State of emergency: means an occurrence in any part of the State that requires efforts by state government to save lives and protect property, environment, public health, welfare, or safety in the event of an emergency or disaster, or to reduce the threat of an emergency or disaster, or to supplement the local efforts of the county. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
State utility: means and refers to any public utility within the State under a franchise or charter granted by the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
States: include the several states, the District of Columbia, and the possessions of the United States, and also includes the State of Hawaii, and to the extent authorized by or under federal law, foreign countries and their provinces and states. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
Sub-fund: means a separate fund established within the Hawaii green infrastructure special fund for a specific purpose. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Subaccount: means a fund that is established within, but separate from, another fund and is reserved for a specific purpose. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-61
Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
Suitable: means the vehicle has the performance capabilities needed for the intended application, including payload and weight capacity for the job or is capable of holding a charge for the time and mileage needed. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-2
Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
Take: means to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect endangered or threatened species of aquatic life or wildlife, or to cut, collect, uproot, destroy, injure, or possess endangered or threatened species of aquatic life or land plants, or to attempt to engage in any such conduct. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 195D-2
Technical assistance program: means a program that includes department staff designated to assist landowners in developing, reviewing, or monitoring habitat conservation plans by providing technical assistance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 195D-2
television production: means a series of activities that are directly related to the creation of visual and cinematic imagery to be delivered via film, videotape, or digital media and are to be sold, distributed, or displayed as entertainment or the advertisement of products for mass public consumption, including scripting, casting, set design and construction, transportation, videography, photography, sound recording, interactive game design, and post production. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 132D-2
Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
Testify: Answer questions in court.
Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
Threatened species: means any species of aquatic life, wildlife, or land plant which appears likely, within the foreseeable future, to become endangered and has been so designated pursuant to § 195D-4. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 195D-2
Threshold planning quantity: means the threshold planning quantity for an "extremely hazardous substance" as defined in Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 355. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128E-1
Thrill craft: means any motorized vessel that falls into the category of personal watercraft, and which:
(1) Is generally less than thirteen feet in length as manufactured;
(2) Is generally capable of exceeding a speed of twenty miles per hour;
(3) Can be operated by a single operator, but may have the capacity to carry passengers while in operation; or
(4) Is designed to provide similar operating performance as a personal watercraft through a combination of small size, power plant, and hull design. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 200-23
to fish: means catching, taking, or harvesting, or attempting to catch, take, or harvest, aquatic life. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 187A-1
Toll-milled feed: means a special feed that is processed by the processor:
(1) From materials entirely delivered by the owner thereof or the owner's authorized agent; and
(2) In accordance with the specific instructions of the owner,
and that is not distributed. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 144-2
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.
Townhouse: means a series of individual houses, having architectural unity and a common wall between each unit. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-2
Toxic chemical: means a substance appearing on the list of chemicals described in section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986, as set forth in Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 372. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128E-1
Traffic accident: means an accident involving motorists, pedestrians, or bicyclists, or a combination, on [a] public highway which impedes the safe and necessary movement of persons or vehicles. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 135-1
Traffic control: includes plans, regulations, devices, and actions for the control of traffic to provide for the rapid and safe movement or evacuation of individuals, vehicles, and materials for emergency management, and for the movement and cessation of movement of any pedestrians and vehicular traffic during, before, and after emergencies and disasters, emergency management exercises and training, or other emergency management actions or activities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 127A-2
Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
Trough-type urinal: means a urinal designed for simultaneous use by two or more persons. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-81
Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
Trustee: means a trustee of the board of trustees of the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund, as described in § 87A-5. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 87A-1
Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
Trustor: The person who makes or creates a trust. Also known as the grantor or settlor.
Undertaking: means any public works and properties, improvement, or system owned or operated by the county, and from which the county may derive revenue, or with respect to which the county may derive user taxes, including but not limited to one or a combination of two or more of the following: water, sewerage, gas or electric, heat, light or power works, solid waste processing and disposal, public off-street parking facilities, plants, systems, and low and moderate income housing projects provided pursuant to section 46-15. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 49-1
Undocumented vessel: means any vessel which does not have and is not required to have a valid marine document as a vessel of the United States. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 200-23
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}
Urinal: includes a trough-type urinal. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-81
User taxes: means taxes on goods or services or on the consumption thereof, the receipts of which are substantially derived from the consumption, use or sale of goods and services in the utilization of the functions or services furnished by the undertaking. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 49-1
Utility: means a public utility as defined in § 269-1. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-11
Vessel: means all description of watercraft, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on or in the water, except a seaplane. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 200-23
Vessel: means every description of watercraft used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 200-61
Voter service center: means a location within the county of the voter's registration address established pursuant to section 11-109 to serve all of the following purposes:
(1) Receive return envelopes for absentee ballots pursuant to chapter 15;
(2) Receive return identification envelopes in an election by mail conducted pursuant to part VIIA;
(3) Provide voting machine services for persons with disabilities pursuant to the Help America Vote Act of 2002, P. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-1
Voting system: means the use of paper ballots, electronic transmission, voting machines, elections by mail pursuant to part VIIA, absentee voting pursuant to chapter 15, or any system by which votes are cast and counted. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-1
Warning or notice: means any warning or notice issued by a government entity posted on any type of sign. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 137-1
Water column: means the vertical extent of marine waters, including the surface, above submerged lands. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 190D-3
Water cooler: includes a storage-type water cooler and an on-demand water cooler. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196-81
Water sledding: means the activity in which an individual is transported or carried over the surface of the water on an apparatus that is more than twelve inches wide and is attached to a towline which is towed by a vessel. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 200-23
Wholesaler: means the same as defined in § 245-1. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 132C-2
Wildlife: means any nondomesticated member of the animal kingdom, whether reared in captivity or not, including any part, product, egg, or offspring thereof, except aquatic life as defined in this section. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 195D-2

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