Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1001 – Definitions
As used in this part, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:
“Direct labor” means all work required for preparation, processing, or packing of goods or performance of services, but not work relating to supervision, administration, inspection, or shipping.
“Fair market price” means the price of a product or service paid by a willing buyer to a willing seller, that is reasonably comparable to prices on the open market.
“Hawaii input” means the part of the cost of a product that is attributable to production, manufacturing, or other expenses arising within the State. “Hawaii input” includes but is not limited to:
Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1001
- Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
- Business: means any corporation, partnership, individual, sole proprietorship, joint stock company, joint venture, or any other private legal entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
- 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
- Data: means recorded information, regardless of form or characteristic. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
- Decedent: A deceased person.
- Employee: means an individual drawing a salary from a governmental body, whether elected or not, and any noncompensated individual performing services for any governmental body. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
- Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
- Goods: means all property, including but not limited to equipment, equipment leases, materials, supplies, printing, insurance, and processes, including computer systems and software, excluding land or a permanent interest in land, leases of real property, and office rentals. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
- Hawaii input: includes but is not limited to:
(1) The cost to mine, excavate, produce, manufacture, raise, grow, assemble, or fabricate the materials in Hawaii; (2) The added value of that portion of the cost of imported materials that is incurred after landing in Hawaii, including but not limited to other articles, materials, and supplies, added to the imported materials; (3) The cost of labor, variable overhead, utilities, and services, incurred in the production and manufacturing of materials or products in Hawaii; and (4) Fixed overhead cost and amortization or depreciation cost, if any, for buildings, tools, and equipment, situated and located in Hawaii and used in the production or manufacturing of a product. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1001 - Hawaii products: means products that are mined, excavated, produced, manufactured, raised, or grown in the State and where the cost of the Hawaii input towards the product exceeds fifty per cent of the total cost of the product; provided that:
(1) Where the value of the input exceeds fifty per cent of the total cost, the product shall be classified as class I; and (2) Where any agricultural, aquacultural, horticultural, silvicultural, floricultural, or livestock product is raised, grown, or harvested in the State, the product shall be classified as class II. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1001 - 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.
- Person: means every 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 entities, whether the persons are doing business for themselves or in any agency or fiduciary capacity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1001
- Products: include materials, manufactures, supplies, merchandise, goods, wares, products, and foodstuffs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1001
- Professional services: means those services within the scope of the practice of architecture, landscape architecture, professional engineering, land surveying, real property appraisal, law, medicine, accounting, dentistry, public finance bond underwriting, public finance bond investment banking, or any other practice defined as professional by the laws of this State or the professional and scientific occupation series contained in the United States Office of Personnel Management's Qualifications Standards Handbook. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
- Recovered material: means waste material and by-products that have been recovered or diverted from solid waste. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1001
- Services: means the furnishing of labor, time, or effort by a contractor, not involving the delivery of a specific end product other than reports which are merely incidental to the required performance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
- Software development: means any work related to feasibility studies, system requirements analysis, system design alternatives analysis, system external specifications, system internal specifications, programming, testing, debugging, or implementation for an electronic data processing system. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1001
- 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
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
“Hawaii products” means products that are mined, excavated, produced, manufactured, raised, or grown in the State and where the cost of the Hawaii input towards the product exceeds fifty per cent of the total cost of the product; provided that:
“Hawaii software development business” means any person, agency, corporation, or other business entity with its principal place of business or ancillary headquarters located in the State and that proposes to obtain eighty per cent of the labor for software development from persons domiciled in Hawaii.
“Office paper” includes computer paper, bond paper, ledger paper, xerographic copier paper, envelopes, and other related types of paper on which printing, writing, or drawing is intended.
“Person” means every 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 entities, whether the persons are doing business for themselves or in any agency or fiduciary capacity.
“Person with disabilities” means any person who is so severely incapacitated by any physical or mental disability that the person cannot engage in normal competitive employment because of the disability.
“Post-consumer material” means a material or finished product that has served its intended use and has been discarded for disposal or recovery, having completed its life as a consumer item, and is a part of the broader category of recovered material.
“Printed material” includes business forms, stationery, business cards, brochures, reports, publications, advertising and promotional collateral, and other related materials, including reports, publications, and related materials commissioned as part of any professional services contract.
“Produced or manufactured” includes the processing, developing, and making of a thing into a new article with a distinct character and use through the application of input within the State including Hawaii products, labor, skill, or other services. “Produced or manufactured” does not include the mere assembling or putting together of non-Hawaii products or material.
“Products” include materials, manufactures, supplies, merchandise, goods, wares, products, and foodstuffs.
“Public agency” means any agency of the State or county.
“Qualified community rehabilitation program” means a nonprofit community rehabilitation program for individuals with disabilities that:
“Recovered material” means waste material and by-products that have been recovered or diverted from solid waste. “Recovered material” does not include those materials and by-products generated from, and commonly reused within, an original manufacturing process.
“Software development” means any work related to feasibility studies, system requirements analysis, system design alternatives analysis, system external specifications, system internal specifications, programming, testing, debugging, or implementation for an electronic data processing system.