Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 486K - Hotels

• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Contaminant: means any physical, chemical, biological, or radiological substance or matter in water. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-1
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-1
• Director: means the director of health or the director's authorized agent. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-1
• EPA risk assessment guidelines: means guidelines developed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency for the assessment of health risks from environmental pollutants and includes, but is not limited to, Guidelines for Estimating Exposures, Guidelines for Mutagenicity Risk Assessment, Guidelines for the Health Assessment of Suspect Developmental Toxicants, and Guidelines for the Health Risk Assessment of Chemical Mixtures. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-21
• Federal Act: means the Safe Drinking Water Act, Public Law 93-523, as amended by the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1986, Public Law 99-339, and the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996, Public Law 104-182. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-1
• Federal drinking water guidelines: means a proposed maximum contamination level, health advisory, or other guidance developed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to assist a state agency in responding to a contaminant in drinking water for which no maximum contamination level (MCL) is established. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-21
• Guest: means a person who is registered at the hotel and to whom a bedroom is assigned. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486K-1
• Injection: means the subsurface emplacement of any material, liquid, semi-solid, or solid, or any admixture thereof, which may add a contaminant to underground waters. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-1
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Interim action level: means a level established by the director of health for a contaminant in a public drinking water supply for which a maximum contamination level is not established by the EPA. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-21
• 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.
• keeper: includes any individual, firm, or corporation actually operating a hotel. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486K-1
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Person: means an individual, corporation, company, association, partnership, county, city and county, state, or federal agency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-1
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Primary drinking water regulation: means a regulation or rule which:

  (1) Applies to public water systems;

  (2) Specifies contaminants which, in the judgment of the director, may have any adverse effect on the health of persons;

  (3) Specifies for each contaminant either:

  (A) A maximum contaminant level if, in the judgment of the director, it is economically and technologically feasible to ascertain the level of such contaminant in public water systems; or

  (B) If, in the judgment of the director, it is not economically or technologically feasible to ascertain the contaminant level[,] each treatment technique known to the director which leads to a reduction in the level of such contaminant sufficient to satisfy the requirements of § 340E-2; and

  (4) Contains criteria and procedures to assure a supply of drinking water which dependably complies with such maximum contaminant levels, including accepted methods for quality control and testing procedures to insure compliance with such levels and proper operation and maintenance of the system, and requirements as to:

  (A) The minimum quality of water which may be taken into the system; and

  (B) Siting for new facilities for public water systems. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-1

• Public water system: means a system which provides water for human consumption through pipes or other constructed conveyances if the system has at least fifteen service connections or regularly serves at least twenty-five individuals. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-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.
• Security box: means any metal or alloy box, used in a hotel for the safekeeping of any valuables, which may be securely locked with a locking mechanism that meets or exceeds Underwriters Laboratories standards and which shall be secured in a manner which precludes its removal from the room. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486K-1
• Supplier of water: means any person who owns or operates a public water system. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-1
• Valuables: includes money, bank notes, bonds, precious stones, jewelry, ornaments, watches, securities, transportation tickets, photographic cameras, checks, drafts, and other negotiable instruments, business papers, documents, and other papers, and other articles of value. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486K-1