Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 245 > Part II - Stamping of Cigarettes

• Administrator: means the captive insurance administrator established in section 431:19-101. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:19-101
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• Arbitration agreement: means an agreement that subjects a family law dispute to arbitration. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 658J-2
• Arbitration organization: means an association, agency, board, commission, or other entity that is neutral and initiates, sponsors, or administers an arbitration or is involved in the selection of an arbitrator. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 658J-2
• Arbitrator: means an individual selected, alone or with others, to make an award in a family law dispute that is subject to an arbitration agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 658J-2
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Articles of incorporation: include amended and restated articles of incorporation and articles of merger. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Association: means the Hawaii life and disability insurance guaranty association created under § 431:16-206. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:16-205
• Association: means two or more members who are engaged in business or activities similar or related to the liability to which these members are exposed by virtue of any related, similar, or common business trade, product, services, premises, or operations; provided that the members of the association shall be individuals, corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, associations, or other entities, except labor organizations, the member organizations of which or which does itself, whether or not in conjunction with some or all of the member organizations:

  (1) Own, control, or hold with power to vote all of the outstanding voting securities of an association captive insurance company incorporated as a stock insurer;

  (2) Have complete voting control over an association captive insurance company incorporated as a mutual insurer;

  (3) Constitute all of the subscribers of an association captive insurance company formed as a reciprocal insurer; or

  (4) Have complete voting control over an association captive insurance company formed as a limited liability company. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:19-101

• Association captive insurance company: means a captive insurance company that insures risks of the member organizations of the association, and that may insure the risks of affiliated entities of the member organizations and the risks of the association itself. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:19-101
• Attorney general: means the state attorney general or deputy attorneys general. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 245-1
• Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
• Authorized shares: means the shares of all classes a domestic corporation is authorized to issue. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
• 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.
• Branch captive insurance company: means an outside captive insurance company licensed under this article by the commissioner to transact the business of insurance in this State through a business unit that has its principal place of business in this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:19-101
• Child-related dispute: means a family law dispute regarding child custody, visitation, or financial support regarding a child, under section 571-46, § 576D-7, or chapter 583A. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 658J-2
• Cigarette: means any roll for smoking made wholly or in part of tobacco, irrespective of size and shape and whether or not the tobacco is flavored, adulterated, or mixed with any other ingredient, the wrapper or cover of which is made of paper or any other substance or material except tobacco. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 245-1
• Collaborative law communication: means a statement, whether oral or in a record, or verbal or nonverbal, that:

  (1) Is made to conduct, participate in, continue, or reconvene a collaborative law process; and

  (2) Occurs after the parties sign a collaborative law participation agreement and before the collaborative law process is concluded. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 658G-2

• Collaborative law participation agreement: means an agreement by persons to participate in a collaborative law process. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 658G-2
• Collaborative law process: means a procedure intended to resolve a collaborative matter without intervention by a tribunal in which persons:

  (1) Sign a collaborative law participation agreement; and

  (2) Are represented by collaborative lawyers. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 658G-2

• Collaborative lawyer: means a lawyer who represents a party in a collaborative law process. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 658G-2
• Collaborative matter: means a dispute, transaction, claim, problem, or issue for resolution including a dispute, claim, or issue in a proceeding which is described in a collaborative law participation agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 658G-2
• 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.
• Company: means any corporation, partnership, trust (business or otherwise), association, joint venture, pool syndicate, unincorporated organization, or any form of business entity not specifically listed herein and, unless specifically excluded, a financial institution; provided that "company" does not mean any trust existing on July 1, 1993, which under its terms must terminate within twenty-five years, or not later than twenty-one years and ten months after the death of individuals living on the effective date of the trust. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Conservator: means a person appointed by the commissioner to take possession and control of a Hawaii financial institution for a temporary period in order to preserve and protect the assets of the institution for the benefit of its depositors, beneficiaries, creditors, and shareholders or members. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Conspicuous: means so written that a reasonable person against whom the writing is to operate should have noticed it. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Control: means , unless the context clearly requires otherwise, directly or indirectly, solely or through another person or transaction, or in concert with another:

  (1) Owning or having the power to vote twenty-five per cent or more of any class of voting securities;

  (2) Owning or having the power to exercise twenty-five per cent or more of the votes of a mutual association, credit union, or other entity whose voting rights are not determined by voting securities;

  (3) Owning or having the power to vote ten per cent or more of any class of voting securities if:

  (A) the issuer of that class of securities has issued any class of securities under section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; or

  (B) immediately after the acquisition, no other person will own a greater percentage of that class of voting securities;

  (4) Having the power to elect by any means a majority of the directors; or

  (5) Having the power to exercise a dominant influence over management, if so determined by the commissioner after notice and a hearing. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109

• Controlled unaffiliated business: means , in the case of a pure captive insurance company, any person:

  (1) That is not in the corporate system of a parent and its affiliated entities;

  (2) That has an existing contractual relationship with a parent or one of its affiliated entities; and

  (3) Whose risks are managed by the pure captive insurance company. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:19-101

• 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
• Court: means the family court of this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 658J-2
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Deliver: includes mail. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
• Department: means the department of taxation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 245-1
• Department director: means the director of commerce and consumer affairs, unless the context otherwise requires. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
• Depository institution: means a financial institution that is authorized to accept deposits under its chartering or licensing authority and includes a bank, savings bank, savings and loan association, depository financial services loan company, credit union, or intra-Pacific bank. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• deposits: means money or its equivalent received or held by a person in the usual course of business and for which it has given or is obligated to give credit, either conditionally or unconditionally, to a demand, checking, savings, time, passbook, negotiable order of withdrawal, thrift, or share account, or which is evidenced by its passbook, certificate of deposit, thrift certificate, investment certificate, certificate of indebtedness, or other similar instrument, or a check, draft, or share draft drawn against a deposit account and certified by a person, on which the person is primarily liable. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Director: means any member of the board of directors of a financial institution, whether or not receiving compensation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• distribution: means to sell, ship, transfer, give, or deliver to another, or to leave, barter, or exchange with another, or to offer or agree to do the same. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 245-1
• Distribution: means a direct or indirect transfer of money or other property (except its own shares) or incurrence of indebtedness by a corporation to or for the benefit of its shareholders in respect of any of its shares. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
• domestic corporation: means a corporation for profit, which is not a foreign corporation, incorporated under or subject to this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
• Electronic transmission: means any form of communication, not directly involving the physical transmission of paper, that creates a record that may be retained, retrieved, and reviewed by a recipient thereof, and that may be directly reproduced in paper form by such a recipient through an automated process. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
• Employee: includes an officer but not a director. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
• Entity: means one or more individuals, a company, corporation, a partnership, an association, or any other type of legal entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 245-1
• Entity: includes domestic and foreign corporations, domestic professional corporations, domestic and foreign limited liability companies, domestic and foreign nonprofit corporations, domestic and foreign business trusts, estates, domestic and foreign partnerships, domestic and foreign limited partnerships, domestic and foreign limited liability partnerships, trusts, two or more persons having a joint or common economic interest, associations and cooperative associations, and state, federal, and foreign governments. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
• 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.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Family law dispute: means a contested issue arising under the family and domestic relations laws of this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 658J-2
• Federal: means belonging to, part of, or related to the government of the United States of America. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Financial institution: means a Hawaii financial institution, and unless the context indicates otherwise, a federal financial institution or foreign financial institution. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• 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.
• Foreign corporation: means a corporation for profit incorporated under a law other than the law of this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Germane: On the subject of the pending bill or other business; a strict standard of relevance.
• Governing body: means the board of directors, subscriber's advisory committee, membership, or other entity responsible for the governance of a captive insurance company. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:19-101
• 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.
• Habeas corpus: A writ that is usually used to bring a prisoner before the court to determine the legality of his imprisonment. It may also be used to bring a person in custody before the court to give testimony, or to be prosecuted.
• Hawaii financial institution: means :

  (1) A corporation or credit union that holds a charter or license under this chapter or under prior Hawaii law, authorizing it to accept deposits, to make loans in excess of the rates permitted in chapter 478, or to engage in the business of a trust company; or

  (2) A resulting bank as defined in article 12,

  and includes a corporation or credit union existing and chartered as a Hawaii financial institution or licensed to transact business in this State on July 1, 1993. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109

• 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}
• Individual: means a natural person. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Insolvent insurer: means a member insurer that after July 1, 1988, is placed under an order of liquidation by a court of competent jurisdiction with a finding of insolvency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:16-205
• 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}
• 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.
• Law firm: means :

  (1) Lawyers who practice law together in a partnership, professional corporation, sole proprietorship, limited liability company, or association;

  (2) Lawyers employed in a legal services organization;

  (3) Lawyers employed in the legal department of a corporation or other organization; or

  (4) Lawyers employed in the legal department of a government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 658G-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}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Licensee: means the holder of a license as a wholesaler or dealer granted under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 245-1
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Member insurer: means any insurer licensed or who holds a certificate of authority to transact in this State any kind of insurance for which coverage is provided under § 431:16-203, and includes any insurer whose license or certificate of authority in this State may have been suspended, revoked, not renewed, or voluntarily withdrawn, but does not include:

  (1) A nonprofit hospital or medical service organization;

  (2) A health maintenance organization;

  (3) A fraternal benefit society;

  (4) A mandatory state pooling plan;

  (5) A mutual assessment company or any entity that operates on an assessment basis;

  (6) An insurance exchange;

  (7) An organization that has a certificate or license limited to the issuance of charitable gift annuities; or

  (8) Any entity similar to any of the above. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:16-205

• Member organization: means any individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, or other entity that belongs to an association. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:19-101
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• National Credit Union Administration: The federal regulatory agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. (NCUA also administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which insures the deposits of federal credit unions.) ^{Source: OCC}
• Nonparty participant: means a person, other than a party and the party's collaborative lawyer, that participates in a collaborative law process. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 658G-2
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• oath: includes a solemn affirmation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-21
• 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.
• Organizational document: means a captive insurance company's articles of association, articles of incorporation, articles of organization, subscribers' agreement, bylaws, operating agreement, or any other document that establishes the captive insurance company as a legal entity or prescribes its existence. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:19-101
• Outside captive insurance company: means an insurance company licensed under the laws of a jurisdiction other than this State and not otherwise admitted to do business as an insurance company in this State, that insures the risks of its parent or any affiliated entities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:19-101
• Parent: means a corporation, limited liability company, partnership, other entity, or individual, that directly or indirectly owns, controls, or holds with power to vote more than fifty per cent of the outstanding voting interests of a pure captive insurance company organized as a stock corporation, nonprofit corporation, or limited liability company. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:19-101
• Participant: means an entity that meets the requirements of § 431:19-305, and any affiliated entities thereof that are insured by a sponsored captive insurance company where the losses of the participant may be limited through a participant contract to the participant's pro rata share of the assets of one or more protected cells identified in the participant contract. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:19-101
• Participant contract: means a contract by which a sponsored captive insurance company insures the risks of a participant and may also limit the losses of each participant to its pro rata share of the assets of one or more protected cells identified in such participant contract. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:19-101
• 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.
• Party: means a person that signs a collaborative law participation agreement and whose consent is necessary to resolve a collaborative matter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 658G-2
• Party: means an individual who signs an arbitration agreement and whose rights will be determined by an award. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 658J-2
• Passbook: means any book, statement of account, or other record used by a financial institution to record deposits, withdrawals, interest, dividends and changes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 658G-2
• Person: means a natural person, entity or organization, including without limitation an individual, corporation, joint venture, partnership, sole proprietorship, association, cooperative, estate, trust, or governmental unit. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Person: includes individual and entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
• Person: means any individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, governmental body or entity, or voluntary organization. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:16-205
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Possession: means knowingly having direct physical control at a given time or knowingly having the power and the intention, at a given time, to exercise dominion or control, either directly or through another entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 245-1
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Principal office: means the office (in or out of this State) so designated in the annual report where the principal executive offices of a domestic or foreign corporation are located. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
• Probate: Proving a will
• Proceeding: means :

  (1) A judicial, administrative, arbitral, or other adjudicative process before a tribunal, including related prehearing and post-hearing motions, conferences, and discovery; or

  (2) A legislative hearing or similar process. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 658G-2

• Proceeding: includes civil suit and criminal, administrative, and investigatory action. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Prosecuting attorney: means the prosecuting attorney or the deputy prosecuting attorneys of each of the respective counties. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 245-1
• Prospective party: means a person that discusses with a prospective collaborative lawyer the possibility of signing a collaborative law participation agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 658G-2
• Protected cell: means a separate account established by a sponsored captive insurance company formed or licensed under this article in which assets are maintained for one or more participants in accordance with the terms of one or more participant contracts to fund the liability of the sponsored captive insurance company assumed on behalf of the participants as set forth in the participant contracts. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:19-101
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Pure captive insurance company: means a captive insurance company that only insures or reinsures risks of its parent and affiliated entities or of a controlled unaffiliated business. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:19-101
• 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.
• Receivership court: means the court in the insolvent or impaired insurer's state having jurisdiction over the conservation, rehabilitation, or liquidation of the insurer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:16-205
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 658G-2
• Record date: means the date established under part [VII or VIII] of this chapter on which a corporation determines the identity of its shareholders and their shareholdings for purposes of this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
• Related to a collaborative matter: means involving the same parties, transaction or occurrence, nucleus of operative fact, dispute, claim, or issue as the collaborative matter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 658G-2
• Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
• 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.
• Risk retention captive insurance company: means a captive insurance company that is formed as a "risk retention group" as defined in chapter 431K. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:19-101
• Sale: includes every act of selling and includes any sale or act of selling that originates from any order that is placed or submitted by means of a telephonic or other method of voice transmission, the mail, or any other delivery service, or the Internet or other online service. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 245-1
• Secretary: means the corporate officer to whom the board of directors has delegated responsibility under section 414-231(c) for preparation and custody of the minutes of the meetings of the board of directors and of the shareholders and for authenticating records of the corporation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
• Sell: means to:

  (1) Solicit and receive an order for;

  (2) Have, keep, offer, or expose for sale;

  (3) Deliver for value or deliver in any other way than purely gratuitously;

  (4) Peddle;

  (5) Keep with intent to sell; and

  (6) Traffic in. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 245-1

• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• 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.
• Shareholder: means the person in whose name shares are registered in the records of a corporation or the beneficial owner of shares to the extent of the rights granted by a nominee certificate on file with a corporation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
• Shares: means the units into which the proprietary interests in a corporation are divided. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
• Sign: means , with present intent, to authenticate or adopt a record:

  (1) To execute or adopt a tangible symbol; or

  (2) To attach to or logically associate with the record an electronic symbol, sound, or process. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 658G-2

• sold: includes any delivery of cigarettes or tobacco products, whether cash is actually paid therefor or not. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 245-1
• Sponsored captive insurance company: means a captive insurance company:

  (1) In which the minimum required capital and surplus is provided by one or more sponsors;

  (2) That is formed or licensed under this article;

  (3) That insures the risks only of its participants through separate participant contracts; and

  (4) That may fund its liability to each participant through one or more protected cells. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:19-101

• Stamp: means a stamp printed, manufactured, or made by authority of the department, as provided in this chapter, that is issued, sold, or circulated by the department, and by the use of which the tax levied under this chapter is paid. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 245-1
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 658J-2
• State: means a state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, or a United States possession, territory, or protectorate. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:16-205
• State agency: includes the executive departments, boards, and commissions of the State but does not include any contractor with the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 662-1
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• this State: means the State of Hawaii, its political subdivisions, agencies, and departments. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Tobacco products: means :
  (1) Tobacco in any form, other than cigarettes or little cigars, that is prepared or intended for consumption or for personal use by humans, including large cigars and any substitutes thereof other than cigarettes that bear the semblance thereof, snuff, chewing or smokeless tobacco, and smoking or pipe tobacco; or
  (2) Electronic smoking devices; or
  (3) E-liquid. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 245-1
• Tobacco tax: means the tax imposed by this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 245-1
• 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.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Tribunal: means :

  (1) A court, arbitrator, administrative agency, or other body acting in an adjudicative capacity which, after presentation of evidence or legal argument, has jurisdiction to render a decision affecting a party's interests in a matter; or

  (2) A legislative body conducting a hearing or similar process. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 658G-2

• 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}
• United States: includes district, authority, bureau, commission, department, and any other agency of the United States. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
• Use: means the exercise of any right or power incident to ownership or possession, other than the sale, or the keeping or retention for the purpose of sale. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 245-1
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• Voting group: means all shares of one or more classes or series that under the articles of incorporation or this chapter are entitled to vote and be counted together collectively on a matter at a meeting of shareholders. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.