Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes Chapter 187A - Aquatic Resources

• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• 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
• Appurtenant works: means any structure, such as spillways in the dam or separate therefrom, the reservoir and its rim, low level outlet works, aboveground freshwater storage tanks, and water conduits, such as tunnels, pipelines, or penstocks, through the dam or its abutment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-341
• 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 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.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Assisted living facility: means a combination of housing, health care services, and personalized support services designed to respond to individual needs, and to promote choice, responsibility, independence, privacy, dignity, and individuality. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-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.
• 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.
• Board: means the board of land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 187A-1
• Board: means the board of psychology. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 465-1
• bonds: means bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness of the State issued pursuant to this part. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-341
• bonds: means bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness of the State issued pursuant to this part. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-311
• Business: includes every trade, occupation, and profession. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 425-101
• Capital expenditure: means any purchase or transfer of money or anything of value or enforceable promise or agreement to purchase or transfer money or anything of value incurred by or in behalf of any person for construction, expansion, alteration, conversion, development, initiation, or modification as defined in this section. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• Certificate of need: means an authorization, when required pursuant to § 323D-43, to construct, expand, alter, or convert a health care facility or to initiate, expand, develop, or modify a health care service. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• 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 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
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Continuing education: means courses approved by the American Psychological Association, the Hawaii Psychological Association, or other state or provincial psychological associations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 465-1
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
• Dam: means any artificial barrier, including appurtenant works, that impounds or diverts water and that:

  (1) Is twenty-five feet or more in height from the natural bed of the stream or watercourse measured at the downstream toe of the barrier, or from the lowest elevation of the outside limit of the barrier if it is not across a stream channel or watercourse to a maximum water storage elevation;

  (2) Has an impounding capacity at maximum water storage elevation of fifty acre-feet or more; provided that this definition shall not apply to any artificial barrier that is less than six feet in height regardless of storage capacity or that has a storage capacity at maximum water storage elevation less than fifteen acre-feet regardless of height; or

  (3) Meets additional criteria or is specifically exempt as determined pursuant to rules adopted by the board of land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-341

• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the department of land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 187A-1
• Department: means the department of budget and finance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-341
• Department: means the department of budget and finance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-311
• Director: means the director of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 465-1
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• 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.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Expenditure minimum: means $4,000,000 for capital expenditures, $1,000,000 for new or replacement medical equipment and $400,000 for used medical equipment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• Extended care adult residential care home: means an adult residential care home providing twenty-four-hour living accommodation for a fee, for adults unrelated to the licensee. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• 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.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• 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.
• Harvest: means the taking and retaining of marine life by any means whatsoever. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 187A-1
• Health: includes physical and mental health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• health care service: include any program, institution, place, building, or agency, or portion thereof, private or public, other than federal facilities or services, whether organized for profit or not, used, operated, or designed to provide medical diagnosis, treatment, nursing, rehabilitative, or preventive care to any person or persons. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• health care services: means the provision of services in an assisted living facility that assists the resident in achieving and maintaining the highest state of positive well-being (i. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Licensed: means the authority to engage in the autonomous practice of psychology. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 465-1
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• 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
• modify: includes the erection, building, reconstruction, modernization, improvement, purchase, acquisition, or establishment of a health care facility or health care service; the purchase or acquisition of equipment attendant to the delivery of health care service and the instruction or supervision therefor; the arrangement or commitment for financing the offering or development of a health care facility or health care service; any obligation for a capital expenditure by a health care facility; and studies, surveys, designs, plans, working drawings, specifications, procedures, and other actions necessary for any such undertaking, which will:

  (1) Result in a total capital expenditure in excess of the expenditure minimum,

  (2) Substantially modify, decrease, or increase the scope or type of health service rendered, or

  (3) Increase, decrease, or change the class of usage of the bed complement of a health care facility. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2

• 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.
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• 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.
• Owner: means any person subject to chapter 179D who has a right, title, or interest in or to the dam or reservoir or to the property upon which the dam, reservoir, or appurtenant works are located or proposed to be located. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-341
• 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.
• Partnership: means an association of two or more persons to carry on as co-owners a business for profit formed under § 425-109, a predecessor law, or comparable law of another jurisdiction. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 425-101
• Partnership agreement: means the agreement, whether written, oral, or implied, among the partners concerning the partnership, including amendments to the partnership agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 425-101
• Person: includes any individual or entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 425-101
• Person: means an individual or a natural person, a trust or estate, a society, a firm, an assembly, a partnership, a corporation, a professional corporation, an association, the State, any political subdivision of the State, a county, a state agency or any instrumentality of the State, a county agency or any instrumentality of a county. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• persons: means an individual, firm, enterprise, partnership, corporation, association, cooperative or other legal entity, governmental body or agency, board, bureau or other instrumentality thereof, or any combination of the foregoing. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-341
• Physician: means a doctor of medicine or osteopathy who is legally authorized to practice medicine and surgery by the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• Practice of psychology: means the observation, description, evaluation, interpretation, or modification of human behavior by the application of psychological principles, methods, or procedures, for the purpose of preventing or eliminating symptomatic, maladaptive, or undesired behavior and of enhancing interpersonal relationships, work and life adjustment, personal effectiveness, behavioral health, and mental health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 465-1
• Primary care clinic: means a clinic for outpatient services providing all preventive and routine health care services, management of chronic diseases, consultation with specialists when necessary, and coordination of care across health care settings or multiple providers or both. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• 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.
• Project: means any combination of land, buildings, and other improvements thereon, including without limitation irrigation systems and infrastructure, for use of, or for, or to assist an agricultural enterprise, including without limiting the generality of the foregoing, machinery, equipment, furnishings, and apparatus that are deemed necessary, suitable, or useful to the enterprise. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-311
• Project: means any work on a dam, reservoir, or appurtenant works necessary to maintain or improve the dam, reservoir, or appurtenant works. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-341
• Project agreement: means any agreement entered into under this part by the department with a project party to finance, construct, operate, or maintain a project from the proceeds of special purpose revenue bonds, or to lend the proceeds of special purpose revenue bonds to assist an agricultural enterprise, including without limitation any loan agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-311
• Project agreement: means any agreement entered into under this part by the department with a project party to finance, construct, operate, or maintain a project from the proceeds of special purpose revenue bonds, or to lend the proceeds of special purpose revenue bonds to assist dam and reservoir owners, including without limitation any loan agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-341
• Project party: means a person, firm, or corporation qualified to do business in this State and conducting or proposing to conduct an agricultural enterprise. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-311
• Project party: means a person or persons who are dam and reservoir owners. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-341
• Property: means all property, real, personal, or mixed, tangible or intangible, or any interest therein. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 425-101
• Psychologist: means a person who offers to the public or renders to individuals or to groups of individuals services defined as the practice of psychology. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 465-1
• Qualified aquaculturist: means a person, or association of persons, actively engaged in aquaculture farming, aquaculture produce processing, or aquaculture product development activities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 187A-1
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Reservoir: means any basin that contains or will contain water impounded by a dam, including appurtenant works. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-341
• Review panel: means the panel established pursuant to § 323D-42. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-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
• State agency: means the state health planning and development agency established in § 323D-11. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• State health services and facilities plan: means the comprehensive plan for the economical delivery of health services in the State prepared by the statewide council. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• Statewide council: means the statewide health coordinating council established in § 323D-13. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• Subarea: means one of the geographic subareas designated by the state agency pursuant to section 323D-21. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• to fish: means catching, taking, or harvesting, or attempting to catch, take, or harvest, aquatic life. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 187A-1
• Transfer: includes an assignment, conveyance, lease, mortgage, deed, and encumbrance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 425-101
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.