Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 206R - Broadband Infrastructure Grant Program

• Board: means the board of education. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
• Broadband infrastructure: means the medium used to provide broadband service, including fiber optic cable, copper cable, coaxial cable, and wireless media, such as satellite communications, wireless networks, and worldwide interoperability for microwave access. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206R-1
• Broadband service: means an always-on service that includes but is not limited to computer processing capabilities, information provision, and computing interactivity with data transport, which enables end users to access the Internet and use a variety of applications at minimum speeds established by the Federal Communications Commission. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206R-1
• Change order: means a written order signed by the procurement officer, directing the contractor to make changes which the changes clause of the contract authorizes the procurement officer to order without the consent of the contractor. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
• Construction: means the process of building, altering, repairing, improving, or demolishing any public structure or building, or other public improvements of any kind to any public real property. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contract: means all types of agreements, regardless of what they may be called, for the procurement or disposal of goods or services, or for construction. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
• Contractor: means any person having a contract with a governmental body. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
• county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
• Curricular materials: means any systematically organized material designed to provide a specific level of instruction in a subject-matter category, including textbooks, instructional materials, library books, equipment, computer software, digital content accessed through a computer or other electronic medium, digital content available through an internet-based provider of course content, or supplies used in a particular course of study. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Data: means recorded information, regardless of form or characteristic. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
• Department: means the department of business, economic development, and tourism. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206R-1
• Department: means the department of education. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
• Department school: means any school that falls within the definition of "public schools" as that term is defined in section 302A-101, and is not a charter school. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
• 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}
• 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.
• Governmental body: means any department, commission, council, board, bureau, authority, committee, institution, legislative body, agency, government corporation, or other establishment or office of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the State, including the office of Hawaiian affairs, and the several counties of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
• Invitation for bids: means all documents, whether attached or incorporated by reference, utilized for soliciting bids. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Policy board: means the procurement policy board created in § 103D-201. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
• Procurement: means buying, purchasing, renting, leasing, or otherwise acquiring any good, service, or construction. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
• Procurement officer: means any person authorized to enter into and administer contracts and make written determinations with respect thereto. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
• Program: means the broadband infrastructure grant program established by this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206R-1
• Project: means a proposed deployment of wireline broadband infrastructure set forth in an application for grant funding authorized under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206R-1
• Project area: means an area identified by a shapefile that is proposed to be covered in an application for grant funding authorized under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206R-1
• Public schools: means all academic and noncollege type schools established and maintained by the department and charter schools governed by chapter 302D. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
• Purchasing agency: means any governmental body which is authorized by this chapter or its implementing rules and procedures, or by way of delegation, to enter into contracts for the procurement of goods, services, or construction. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
• Request for proposals: means all documents, whether attached or incorporated by reference, utilized for soliciting proposals. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
• Shapefile: includes several component files, including a main file (. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206R-1
• Specifications: means any description of the physical or functional characteristics, or of the nature of a good, service, or construction item. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
• Underserved area: means a project area with access to broadband service but at speeds of less than fifty megabits per second for downloads and five megabits per second for uploads. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206R-1
• Using agency: means any governmental body which utilizes any goods, services, or construction procured under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104