Part I General Provisions 159-1 – 159-3
Part II Administration, Powers and Duties 159-6 – 159-8
Part III Licensing 159-11 – 159-17
Part IV Inspection Requirements 159-21 – 159-30
Part IVA Exotic Animals; Reimbursable Inspection 159-31 – 159-34
Part V Meat Processors and Related Industries 159-36 – 159-39
Part VI Inspection Service, Withdrawal and Compensation 159-46 – 159-48
Part VII Violations, Penalties, Prosecution, Compacts, Construction 159-51 – 159-57
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  • Accounting period: means a calendar year unless another twelve-month period is selected by a fiduciary. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 557A-102
  • Acquittal:
    1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
    2. A verdict of "not guilty."
     
  • Act: means the "Hawaii Meat Inspection Act". See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
  • Administrative revocation: means termination of the respondent's license, and the privilege to operate a vessel underway on or in the waters of the State pursuant to part III, but does not include any revocation imposed under § 291E-61 or 291E-61. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • 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.
  • Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
  • Alcohol: means ethanol or any substance containing ethanol. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • Alcohol concentration: means either grams of alcohol per one hundred milliliters or cubic centimeters of blood or grams of alcohol per two hundred ten liters of breath. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • Alcohol enforcement contact: means :

    (1) Any administrative revocation ordered pursuant to part III;
    (2) Any administrative revocation ordered pursuant to part XIV of chapter 286, as that part was in effect on or before December 31, 2001;
    (3) Any suspension or revocation of any license or any suspension or revocation of a privilege to operate a vessel underway imposed by this or any other state or federal jurisdiction for refusing to submit to a test for alcohol concentration;
    (4) Any conviction in this State for operating or being in physical control of a vehicle while having an unlawful alcohol concentration or while under the influence of alcohol; or
    (5) Any conviction in any other state or federal jurisdiction for an offense that is comparable to operating or being in physical control of a vehicle while having an unlawful alcohol concentration or while under the influence of alcohol. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • Alley: means a street or highway intended to provide access to the rear or side of lots or buildings and not intended for the purpose of through vehicular traffic. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • 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.
  • Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • 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.
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Apprentice elevator mechanic: means any person who is in training to acquire the skill to become an elevator mechanic and who is required to work for at least four years under the supervision of an elevator mechanic duly licensed under § 448H-6. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 448H-1
  • Arraignment: A proceeding in which an individual who is accused of committing a crime is brought into court, told of the charges, and asked to plead guilty or not guilty.
  • 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.
  • Association: means the American Dietetic Association. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 448B-1
  • Association: means the unit owners' association organized under section 514B-102 or under prior condominium property regime statutes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 514B-3
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • 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 emergency vehicle: includes fire department vehicles, police vehicles, ambulances, ocean safety vehicles, law enforcement vehicles, and conservation and resources enforcement vehicles authorized and approved pursuant to section 291-31. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • 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.
  • Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
  • 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.
  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Beneficiary: includes , in the case of a decedent's estate, an heir and devisee and, in the case of a trust, an income beneficiary and a remainder beneficiary. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 557A-102
  • Bicycle: means :

    (1) A vehicle propelled solely by human power upon which any person may ride, having two tandem wheels, and including any vehicle generally recognized as a bicycle though equipped with two front or two rear wheels except a toy bicycle; or
    (2) A low-speed electric bicycle, as defined under title 15 United States Code § 2085. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Bicycle lane: means that portion of any highway which has been set aside for the preferential or exclusive use of bicycles. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Bicycle path: means any facility set aside for the preferential or exclusive use of bicycles and physically separated from a highway. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Bikeway: means a bicycle lane, bicycle path, or bicycle route, or any traffic control device, shelter, parking facility, or other support facility to serve bicycles and persons using bicycles. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Board: means the contractors license board. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 444-1
  • board: means the board of dentistry. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 448-5
  • Board: means the board of electricians and plumbers. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 448E-1
  • Board: means the elevator mechanics licensing board created by this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 448H-1
  • Board: means the board of agriculture of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
  • board of directors: means the body, regardless of name, designated in the declaration or bylaws to act on behalf of the association. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 514B-3
  • Bodily injury: means physical pain, illness, or any impairment of physical condition. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Branch office: means any location, separate from the principal place of business of the escrow depository, that is identified by any means to the public or customers as a location at which the licensee holds itself out as an escrow depository. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 449-1
  • Bus: means every motor vehicle designed for carrying more than ten passengers and used for the transportation of persons; and every motor vehicle, other than a school bus or a taxicab, designed and used for the transportation of persons for compensation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Business district: means the territory contiguous to and including a highway when within any six hundred feet along such highway there are buildings in use for business or industrial purposes, including but not limited to hotels, banks, or office buildings, and public buildings which occupy at least three hundred feet of frontage on one side or three hundred feet collectively on both sides of the highway. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Capital: means :

    (1) The aggregate par value or other amount received and allocated to the issued and outstanding capital stock of a financial institution; or

    (2) The total amount of a credit union's outstanding and unimpaired membership shares or share accounts. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109

  • Certification: means the act of applying the official certificate or official mark by persons performing official functions under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
  • Certified substance abuse counselor: means any person certified by the department of health pursuant to section 321-193(10), or any other substance abuse specialist or medical practitioner the director of health may appoint to carry out the functions of a certified substance abuse counselor under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • Circuit court: means the court established in each of the judicial circuits of this State pursuant to chapter 603 and which has jurisdiction under § 412:1-108 over a matter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
  • Circumstantial evidence: All evidence except eyewitness testimony.
  • Clerk of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.
  • Codicil: An addition, change, or supplement to a will executed with the same formalities required for the will itself.
  • Commercial carrier: means any person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any vehicle, directly or indirectly, for public use in the transportation of goods or passengers for compensation over land or water, or by air. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
  • Commission: means the real estate commission of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 514B-3
  • Commission on accreditation: means the Commission on Accreditation/Approval for Dietetics Education. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 448B-1
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of financial institutions of this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 449-1
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of financial institutions of this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
  • Common disaster: A sudden and extraordinary misfortune that brings about the simultaneous or near-simultaneous deaths of two or more associated persons, such as husband and wife.
  • Common elements: means :

    (1) All portions of a condominium other than the units; and

    (2) Any other interests in real estate for the benefit of unit owners that are subject to the declaration. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 514B-3

  • Common expenses: means expenditures made by, or financial liabilities of, the association for operation of the property, and shall include any allocations to reserves. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 514B-3
  • Common interest: means the percentage of undivided interest in the common elements appurtenant to each unit, as expressed in the declaration, and any specified percentage of the common interest means such percentage of the undivided interests in the aggregate. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 514B-3
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Concurrent trial: means a trial proceeding held in the district or family court in which the defendant is tried simultaneously in a civil case for any charged traffic infraction or emergency period infraction and in a criminal case for any related criminal offense, with trials to be held in one court on the same date and at the same time. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291D-2
  • Condominium: means real estate, portions of which are designated for separate ownership and the remainder of which is designated for common ownership solely by the owners of those portions. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 514B-3
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Continuous alcohol monitoring device: means any device or instrument that:

    (1) Is attached to the person;
    (2) Is designed to automatically test the alcohol content in a person by contact with the person's skin at least once per one-half hour regardless of the person's location;
    (3) Detects the presence of alcohol; and
    (4) Detects attempts to tamper with, obstruct, or remove the device. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Contractor: means any person who by oneself or through others offers to undertake, or holds oneself out as being able to undertake, or does undertake to alter, add to, subtract from, improve, enhance, or beautify any realty or construct, alter, repair, add to, subtract from, improve, move, wreck, or demolish any building, highway, road, railroad, excavation, or other structure, project, development, or improvement, or do any part thereof, including the erection of scaffolding or other structures or works in connection therewith. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 444-1
  • 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-access highway: means every highway, street, or roadway in respect to which owners or occupants of abutting lands and other persons have no legal right of access to or from the same except at such points only and in such manner as may be determined by the public authority having jurisdiction over such highway, street, or roadway. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Controlling person: means any person in control of a licensee or applicant. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 449-1
  • 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: means the counties of Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui, and the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291J-1
  • county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
  • Crosswalk: means :

    (1) That part of a roadway at an intersection included within the connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on opposite sides of the highway measured from the curbs or, in the absence of curbs, from the edges of the traversable roadway; or
    (2) Any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Dangerous wheels: means any wheel, wheel cover, hubcap, lug nut cover or cap, prong, or any ornamentation affixed to any of the aforementioned items that extends at least four inches beyond the portion of the wheel rim that extends furthest away from the vehicle and that may cause injury or property damage by minimal contact with a person or object. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Debt adjuster: means a person who for a profit engages in the business of acting as an intermediary between a debtor and the debtor's creditors for the purpose of settling, compromising, or in any way altering the terms of payment of any debts of the debtor and who:

    Receives money, property, or other thing of value from the debtor, or on behalf of the debtor, for distribution among the creditors of the debtor; or

    Otherwise arranges for payment to, or distribution among, the creditors of the debtor. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 446-1

  • Debtor: means an individual and includes two or more individuals who are jointly and severally or jointly or severally indebted. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 446-1
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Declaration: means any instrument, however denominated, that creates a condominium, including any amendments to the instrument. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 514B-3
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Degree: means a post-secondary credential, earned or honorary, conferring on the recipient the title or designation of "associate" "bachelor" "baccalaureate" "master" "doctor" or "doctorate" or any designation, mark, appellation, series of letters or words, or other symbol which signifies, purports, or is generally taken to signify satisfactory completion of the requirements of an academic or professional program of study beyond the secondary school level. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 446E-1
  • Degree granting institution: means a school, academy, institute, junior college, college, university, agency, individual, partnership, company, firm, society, trust, association, corporation, or any combination thereof that meets the following criteria:

    (1) Provides a post-secondary instructional program or course leading to a degree;

    (2) Uses in its name the term "college" "academy" "institute" "institution" or "university" or a similar term which implies that the organization or person is primarily engaged in the education of students at the post-secondary level; and

    (3) Charges a fee for its services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 446E-1

  • Dental service organization: means any person who undertakes to provide or to arrange for or administer one or more prepaid dental insurance plans. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 448D-1
  • Department: means the department of transportation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291J-1
  • Department: means the department of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 444-1
  • Department: means the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 448B-1
  • Department: means the department of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 448F-2
  • Department: means the department of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 451A-1
  • Department: means the department of agriculture of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • 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
  • Descendent: One who is directly descended from another such as a child, grandchild, or great grandchild.
  • Developer: means a person who undertakes to develop a real estate condominium project, including a person who succeeds to the interest of the developer by acquiring a controlling interest in the developer or in the project. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 514B-3
  • Development corporation: means the Hawaii technology development corporation established by section 206M-2. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Dietetic practice: means the integration and application of scientific principles of nutrition, biochemistry, physiology, food, behavioral, and social sciences, in managing disease, and achieving and maintaining human health throughout the life cycle. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 448B-1
  • Director: means the director of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 444-1
  • Director: means the director of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 446E-1
  • Director: means the director of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 448B-1
  • Director: means the director of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 448F-2
  • Director: means the director of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 451A-1
  • Director: means the administrative director of the courts or any other person within the judiciary appointed by the director to conduct administrative reviews or hearings or carry out other functions relating to administrative revocation under part III. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • 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.
  • Division: means the division of financial institutions of the department of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 449-1
  • Division: means the division of financial institutions of the department of commerce and consumer affairs of this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
  • Donee: The recipient of a gift.
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Driver: means every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Drug: means any controlled substance, as defined and enumerated in schedules I through IV of chapter 329, or its metabolites, or any substance that, when taken into the human body, can impair the ability of a person to operate a vehicle safely. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • Drug enforcement contact: means :

    (1) Any administrative revocation ordered pursuant to part III;
    (2) Any administrative revocation ordered pursuant to part XIV of chapter 286, as that part was in effect on or before December 31, 2001;
    (3) Any suspension or revocation of license or any suspension or revocation of a privilege to operate a vessel underway imposed by this or any other state or federal jurisdiction for refusing to submit to a test for drug content in the person's blood or urine;
    (4) Any conviction in this State for operating or being in physical control of a vehicle while having an unlawful drug content in the blood or urine or while under the influence of drugs; or
    (5) Any conviction in any other state or federal jurisdiction for an offense that is comparable to operating or being in physical control of a vehicle while having an unlawful drug content in the blood or urine or while under the influence of drugs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • Electric foot scooter: means a device:

    (1) Weighing less than seventy-five pounds;
    (2) With two or three wheels;
    (3) With handlebars;
    (4) With either:
    (A) A floorboard that can be stood upon while riding; or
    (B) A seat or saddle for the use of the rider and stationary footrests;
    (5) That is powered by an electric motor or human power; and
    (6) Whose maximum speed, with or without human propulsion on a paved level surface, does not exceed fifteen miles per hour. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Electric personal assistive mobility device: means a self-balancing, two-wheeled, non-tandem-wheeled device, designed to transport only one person, using an electric propulsion system that limits the maximum speed of the device to twelve and a half miles per hour or less. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Electrologist: means any person who removes hair from the human body using a needle inserted in the hair follicle and uses direct electric current or shortwave alternating current to destroy the follicle but does not include any hair removal system that does not penetrate the skin. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 448F-2
  • Elevator mechanic: means any person who engages in the construction, reconstruction, alteration, maintenance, mechanical, or electrical work or adjustments of any elevator, dumbwaiter, stage lift, mechanized parking garage elevator, escalator, moving walk or ramp, lift including any construction, reconstruction, alteration, or adjustment of the structure or facility of which the same may be a part or to which the same may be attached, necessary for proper completion of the work on the elevator, dumbwaiter, stage lift, mechanized parking garage elevator, escalator, moving walk or ramp, or lift. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 448H-1
  • Emergency period infraction: means all occurrences of noncompliance with rules adopted by the governor or a mayor pursuant to chapter 127A, which are stated and designated in the rule as being an emergency period infraction. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291D-2
  • Employee: means a person who is hired on an hourly or salaried basis for twenty or more hours per week. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 446E-1
  • Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
  • 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
  • Escheat: Reversion of real or personal property to the state when 1) a person dies without leaving a will and has no heirs, or 2) when the property (such as a bank account) has been inactive for a certain period of time. Source: OCC
  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • Escrow: means any transaction affecting the title to real property, including leaseholds, proprietary leaseholds, and condominiums, in which a person not a party to the transaction and neither having nor acquiring any interest in the title receives from one party to the transaction, holds until the happening of an event or performance of a condition and then delivers to another party to the transaction, any money or other consideration or any instrument affecting the title to that real property, all in accordance with the terms of the agreement between the parties to the transaction. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 449-1
  • Escrow account: means any escrow depository account with a financial institution to which cash or items are deposited with respect to any escrow. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 449-1
  • Escrow depository: means the corporation which, in an escrow, and for compensation, receives, holds, and delivers the money, other consideration, or instrument affecting title to real property. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 449-1
  • 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.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Exotic animal: means any cloven-hoofed ruminant animal considered feral in nature, other than domestic cattle, sheep, goats, or equines. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
  • 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.
  • 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 Meat Inspection Act: means the Act so entitled, approved March 4, 1907 (34 Stat. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Financial institution: means any bank, savings and loan association, financial services loan company, or credit union doing business in the State whose accounts are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund or other similar or successor program of federal insurance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 449-1
  • 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.
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. Source: OCC
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. Source: Federal Reserve
  • 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.
  • Hearing: means a proceeding conducted by the district court pursuant to § 291D-8 at which the person to whom a notice of traffic infraction or notice of emergency period infraction was issued either admits to the infraction, contests the notice of traffic infraction or notice of emergency period infraction, or admits to the traffic infraction or emergency period infraction but offers an explanation to mitigate the monetary assessment imposed. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291D-2
  • High occupancy vehicle: means a vehicle carrying at least the minimum number of persons designated by the director of transportation as indicated on official signs and other official traffic-control devices, and other vehicles as provided by rules adopted in accordance with chapter 91 or by county ordinance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-221
  • High occupancy vehicle lane: means a designated lane of a laned roadway where the use of the designated lane is restricted to school buses, vehicles carrying at least the minimum number of persons designated by the director of transportation on official signs and other official traffic-control devices, and to other vehicles as provided by rules adopted in accordance with chapter 91, or by county ordinance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-221
  • Highly intoxicated driver: means a person whose measurable amount of alcohol is:

    (1) . See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • Highway: means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained and those private streets, as defined in § 46-16, over which the application of this chapter has been extended by ordinance, when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • House trailer: means :

    (1) A trailer or semitrailer which is designed, constructed, and equipped as a dwelling place, living abode, or sleeping place (either permanently or temporarily) and is equipped for use as a conveyance on streets and highways; or
    (2) A trailer or a semitrailer whose chassis and exterior shell is designed and constructed for use as a house trailer, as defined in paragraph (1), but which is used instead permanently or temporarily for the advertising, sales, display, or promotion of merchandise or services, or for any other commercial purpose except the transportation of property for hire or the transportation of property for distribution by a private carrier. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Household member: means :

    (1) Persons who reside in the same dwelling unit as the respondent; or
    (2) Persons under twenty-one years of age who are related to the respondent by marriage, blood, or adoption, regardless of whether they reside in the same dwelling unit with the respondent. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • Ignition interlock device: means a breath alcohol ignition interlock device that is certified pursuant to section 291E-6 and rules adopted thereunder that, when affixed to the ignition system of a motor vehicle, prevents the vehicle from being started without first testing, and thereafter from being operated without periodically retesting, a deep-lung breath sample of the person required to use the device that indicates the person's alcohol concentration is less than . See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • Impair: means to weaken, to lessen in power, to diminish, to damage, or to make worse by diminishing in some material respect or otherwise affecting in an injurious manner. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • Income: means money or property a fiduciary receives as the current return from a principal asset. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 557A-102
  • Income interest: means an income beneficiary's right to receive all or part of the net income, whether the terms of the trust require it to be distributed or authorize it to be distributed in the trustee's discretion. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 557A-102
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Inspector: means any meat inspector of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
  • Internal Revenue Code: means subtitle A, chapter 1, of the federal Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended as of December 31, 2022, as it applies to the determination of gross income, adjusted gross income, ordinary income and loss, and taxable income, except those provisions of the Internal Revenue Code which, pursuant to this chapter, do not apply or are otherwise limited in application. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 235-2.3
  • Intersection: means the area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curb lines, or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of the roadways of two highways which join one another at, or approximately at, right angles, or the area within which vehicles traveling upon different highways joining at any other angle may come in conflict. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
  • Intoxicant: means alcohol or any drug, as defined in this section. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • Intrastate commerce: means commerce within the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
  • Investigator: means any person employed by the department of commerce and consumer affairs to investigate matters relating to any person who furnishes commodities or services for which a license is required from the department or any board or commission thereunder. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 444-1
  • Item: means any check (including a cashier's or certified check), negotiable order of withdrawal, draft, traveler's check, or money order. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 449-1
  • Joint tenancy: A form of property ownership in which two or more parties hold an undivided interest in the same property that was conveyed under the same instrument at the same time. A joint tenant can sell his (her) interest but not dispose of it by will. Upon the death of a joint tenant, his (her) undivided interest is distributed among the surviving joint tenants.
  • Journey worker electrician: means any person who has been licensed by the board as a journey worker electrician to perform electrical work. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 448E-1
  • Journey worker industrial electrician: means any person who has been licensed by the board as a journey worker industrial electrician to perform and maintain electrical work related to substation, switchgear, automatic controls, and all other industrial electrical work in existing industrial buildings and work places. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 448E-1
  • Journey worker plumber: means any person who has been licensed by the board as a journey worker plumber to direct and supervise the performance of plumbing work and to perform plumbing work. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 448E-1
  • Journey worker specialty electrician: means any person who has been licensed by the board as a journey worker specialty electrician to perform electrical work related to installing, repairing, altering, and maintaining but not the attachment of lighting and power circuits to, the following: electronic equipment, sound public address systems, and communication systems, other than equipment and systems for a single-family or two-family dwelling; master or community radio and television receiving antenna systems; sound recording systems, other than systems for a single-family or two-family dwelling; burglar and fire alarm systems; low voltage remote control, other than a control for a single-family or two-family dwelling; and low voltage communication signal systems. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 448E-1
  • 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.
  • Label: means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon the immediate container (not including package liners) of any meat or meat products, or other products. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
  • Labeling: means all labels and other written, printed, or graphic matter upon any meat or meat products or any of its containers or wrappers, or accompanying the meat or meat products. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
  • Laned roadway: means roadway which is divided into two or more clearly marked lanes for vehicular traffic. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Law enforcement officer: means any public servant, whether employed by the State, a county, or by the United States, vested by law with a duty to maintain public order or to make arrests for offenses or to enforce the criminal laws, and includes a conservation and resources enforcement officer as specified in section 199-3. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
  • 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.
  • License: means any driver's license or any other license or permit to operate a motor vehicle issued under, or granted by, the laws of this State and includes:

    (1) Any learner's permit or instruction permit;
    (2) The privilege of any person to operate a motor vehicle, regardless of whether the person holds a valid license;
    (3) Any nonresident's operating privilege; and
    (4) The eligibility, including future eligibility, of any person to apply for a license or privilege to operate a motor vehicle. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • Licensed dietitian: means a person who uses the title of licensed dietitian or dietitian and has been licensed to practice dietetics under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 448B-1
  • Licensee: means a person issued a license under part III of this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Loans and extensions of credit: includes a contractual commitment to advance funds. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
  • Maintenance electrician: means any person who has been licensed by the board as a maintenance electrician to maintain electrical work. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 448E-1
  • majority of the unit owners: means the owners of units to which are appurtenant more than fifty per cent of the common interests. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 514B-3
  • Managing agent: means any person retained, as an independent contractor, for the purpose of managing the operation of the property. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 514B-3
  • Mandatory income interest: means an income beneficiary's right to receive net income that the terms of the trust require the fiduciary to distribute. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 557A-102
  • Marital deduction: The deduction(s) that can be taken in the determination of gift and estate tax liabilities because of the existence of a marriage or marital relationship.
  • master lease: means any deed or lease showing the extent of the interest of the person submitting the property to the condominium property regime. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 514B-3
  • Master plumber: means any person who has been licensed by the board as a master plumber to direct and supervise the performance of plumbing work and to perform plumbing work and who provides overall supervision and general direction and is responsible for proper installation of plumbing work. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 448E-1
  • Measurable amount of alcohol: means a test result equal to or greater than . See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • Meat broker: means any person who sells or offers to sell, or buys or offers to buy, carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat or meat products of cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, other equines, or exotic animals on commission or who otherwise negotiates the purchase, sale, or exchange of the meat or meat products other than for the person's own account or as an employee of another person. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
  • Meat or meat products: means any product capable of use as human food which is made wholly or in part from any meat or other portions of the carcass of any cattle, sheep, swine, or goats, excepting products which contain meat or other portions of the carcasses only in a relatively small proportion or historically have not been considered by consumers as products of the meat food industry, and which are exempted from the definition as meat products by the board under the conditions as it may prescribe to assure that the meat or other portions of the carcasses contained in the products are not adulterated and that the products are not represented as meat products. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
  • month: means a calendar month; and the word "year" a calendar year. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-20
  • Moped: means a device upon which a person may ride that has :

    (1) Two or three wheels in contact with the ground;
    (2) A motor having a maximum power output capability measured at the motor output shaft, in accordance with SAE International standards, of two horsepower (one thousand four hundred ninety-two watts) or less and, if it is a combustion engine, a maximum piston or rotor displacement of 3. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • Motor scooter: means :

    (1) Every motor vehicle that has a handlebar and seating that requires the operator to straddle or sit astride on it and is designed to travel on no more than three wheels in contact with the ground, but excludes a farm tractor; or
    (2) Every motor vehicle that has a steering wheel and seating that does not require the operator to straddle or sit astride on it, and is designed to travel on three wheels in contact with the ground, called an autocycle, which is certified by the manufacturer to comply with all applicable Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards as of the date of manufacture, with a motor that produces no more than five horsepower, but excludes a moped. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Motor vehicle: means every vehicle which is self-propelled and every vehicle which is propelled by electric power but not operated upon rails but excludes a moped. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Motorcycle: means every motor vehicle having a seat or saddle for the use of the rider and designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground but excludes a farm tractor and a moped. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • 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
  • Neighborhood electric vehicle: means a self-propelled electrically powered motor vehicle to which all of the following apply:

    (1) The vehicle is emission free;

    (2) The vehicle is designed to be and is operated at speeds of twenty-five miles per hour or less;
    (3) The vehicle has four wheels in contact with the ground;
    (4) The vehicle has a gross vehicle weight rating of less than three thousand pounds; and
    (5) The vehicle conforms to the minimum safety equipment requirements as adopted in the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Net income: means the total receipts allocated to income during an accounting period minus the disbursements made from income during the period. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 557A-102
  • NMLS: means a licensing system developed and maintained by the Conference of State Bank Supervisors and the American Association of Residential Mortgage Regulators for the state licensing and registration of state-licensed loan originators and other financial services providers, or any system provided by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 449-1
  • 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.
  • notice: means the written notice issued to the respondent pursuant to section 291E-33. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • Notice of traffic infraction: includes a notice of parking infraction. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291D-2
  • Number plates: refer to the number plates or special number plates, which are commonly known as license plates, that are issued under sections 249-9, 249-9. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • 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.
  • Office: means space within a structure that is leased, subleased, rented, or owned by the unaccredited institution or one or more of its officers or directors for the exclusive use by the unaccredited institution, as evidenced by a written lease agreement, sublease agreement, rental agreement, or conveyance document, and shall not include an arrangement for mail forwarding services or mailbox rental. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 446E-1
  • Official certificate: means any certificate prescribed by the board for issuance by veterinarians, inspectors, or other persons performing official functions under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
  • Official device: means any device described or authorized by the board for use in applying any official mark. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
  • Official inspection legend: means any symbol prescribed by the board showing that meat or meat products were inspected and passed in accordance with this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
  • Official mark: means the official inspection legend or any other symbol prescribed by the board to identify the status of any meat or meat products or animal under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
  • Operate: means to drive or assume actual physical control of a vehicle upon a public way, street, road, or highway or to navigate or otherwise use or assume physical control of a vessel underway on or in the waters of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • Operation of the property: means the administration, fiscal management, and physical operation of the property, and includes the maintenance, repair, and replacement of, and the making of any additions and improvements to, the common elements. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 514B-3
  • Operator: means a person who drives or assumes actual physical control of a vehicle or a person who operates, navigates, or who has an essential role in the operation of a vessel underway. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Owner: means a person, other than a lien holder, having the property in or title to a vehicle. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • parking: means the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading merchandise or passengers. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • 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.
  • Pedestrian: means any person afoot, in an invalid chair, or in a vehicle propelled by a person afoot. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Per stirpes: The legal means by which the children of a decedent, upon the death of an ancestor at a level above that of the decedent, receive by right of representation the share of the ancestor
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, firm, association, or any other legal entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 446-1
  • Person: means , in addition to the singular, persons, group of persons, cooperative association, company, firm, partnership, corporation, or other legal entity, and includes the agents and employees of any person. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 449-1
  • Person: means any individual, firm, corporation, association, or partnership, or any organized group of persons whether incorporated or not. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
  • 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: means an individual, firm, corporation, partnership, association, trust, or other legal entity, or any combination thereof. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 514B-3
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 557A-102
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • photo red light imaging detector system: means a device, or combination of devices, used for traffic enforcement pursuant to section 291C-32(c), that includes a vehicle sensor working in conjunction and synchronization with a traffic-control signal and a camera , to automatically produce and record one or more sequenced photographs, microphotographs, video, or other recorded images of the rear of the motor vehicle and motor vehicle license plate, at the time the motor vehicle fails to stop when facing a steady red traffic-control signal. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291J-1
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
  • 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.
  • Police officer: means every officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violations of traffic regulations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC
  • 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.
  • Preliminary alcohol screening device: means a device designed to detect and verify the presence of alcohol or provide an estimated value of alcohol concentration. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • Prepaid dental insurance: means any contractual arrangement for dental services provided directly or arranged for or administered directly on a prepaid individual, group, or capitation basis. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 448D-1
  • Presence: means offering courses, programs, or degrees or maintaining a campus, or an administrative, corporate, or other address in this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 446E-1
  • Principal: means a manager and anyone else who supervises or is in charge of the applicant or licensee. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 449-1
  • Principal: means property held in trust for distribution to a remainder beneficiary when the trust terminates. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 557A-102
  • Private road or driveway: means every way or place in private ownership and used for vehicular travel by the owner and those having express or implied permission from the owner, but not by other persons. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Privilege: refers to the authority to operate a vessel underway on or in the waters of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • processed: means slaughtered, canned, salted, rendered, boned, cut up, or otherwise manufactured or processed. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
  • Project: means a real estate condominium project; a plan or project whereby a condominium of two or more units located within the condominium property regime are created. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 514B-3
  • Property: includes parcels with or without upper or lower boundaries, and spaces that may be filled with air or water. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 514B-3
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Railroad: means a carrier of persons or property upon cars operated upon stationary rails. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Railroad sign or signal: means any sign, signal, or device erected by authority of a public body or official or by a railroad and intended to give notice of the presence of railroad tracks or the approach of a railroad train. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Railroad train: means a steam engine, electric or other motor, with or without cars coupled thereto, operated upon rails. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Reinspection: means the re-examination of meat and meat products previously inspected and the inspection of meat and meat products during processing. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
  • Related criminal offense: means any criminal violation or crime, committed in the same course of conduct as a traffic infraction or emergency period infraction, for which the defendant is arrested or charged. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291D-2
  • 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.
  • Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
  • Renderer: means any person engaged in the business of rendering carcasses, or parts or products of the carcasses, of cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, other equines, or exotic animals, except rendering conducted under inspection under part IV. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
  • Repeat intoxicated driver: means a person who previously:

    (1) Has been convicted, during the five years preceding the date of arrest, of one or more violations under:
    (A) Section 291E-61 or 291E-61. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • Residence district: means the territory contiguous to and including a highway not comprising a business district when the property on the highway for a distance of three hundred feet or more is in the main improved with residences or residences and buildings in use for business. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Resident manager: means any person retained as an employee by the association to manage, on-site, the operation of the property. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 514B-3
  • Respondent: means a person to whom a notice of administrative revocation has been issued following an arrest for a violation of § 291E-61 or 291E-61. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
  • Right of survivorship: The ownership rights that result in the acquisition of title to property by reason of having survived other co-owners.
  • Right-of-way: means the right of one vehicle or pedestrian to proceed in a lawful manner in preference to another vehicle or pedestrian approaching under such circumstances of direction, speed, and proximity as to give rise to danger of collision unless one grants precedence to the other. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Roadway: means that portion of a highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Safety zone: means the area or space officially set apart within a roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians and which is protected or is so marked or indicated by adequate signs as to be plainly visible at all times while set apart as a safety zone. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Sale: means any arrangement between two or more persons as a result of which there is, or is to be, a transfer of property for a consideration. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 444-1
  • Sale: means any transfer of title, interest, or possession except transactions with distributors or dealers. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 451A-1
  • School bus: means every motor vehicle as defined in § 286-181 and any regulations promulgated pursuant thereto by the department of education. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Secretary of Agriculture: means the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
  • 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.
  • Sidewalk: means that portion of a street between the curb lines, or the lateral lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines, intended for use of pedestrians. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • standing: means the halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • State: means the State of Hawaii. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
  • State: means : any state or possession of the United States; the District of Columbia; the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; the United States Virgin Islands; American Samoa; Guam; any province or territory of the Dominion of Canada; and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, except when the word, in context, clearly refers to the State of Hawaii. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
  • Street: means the entire width between boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Student: means a person who enrolls in or seeks to enroll in a course of instruction offered or conducted by an unaccredited institution. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 446E-1
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Subscriber: means a member of the public or group who has contracted with a dental service organization for the provision of dental services including dependents who are entitled to dental services under the plan solely because of their status as dependents of the subscriber. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 448D-1
  • Substance: means any plant, medication, poison, natural or synthetic chemical, or any compound or combination of these, and includes but is not limited to central nervous system depressants, central nervous systems stimulants, hallucinogens, dissociative anesthetics, narcotic analgesics, inhalants, and cannabis. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • Substance abuse: means the use or misuse of alcohol, any drug on schedules I through IV of chapter 329, or any substance as defined in this section, to any extent deemed deleterious or detrimental to the user, to others, or to society. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Supervising electrician: means any person who has been licensed by the board as a supervising electrician to direct and supervise the performance of electrical work and to perform electrical work. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 448E-1
  • Supervising industrial electrician: means any person who has been licensed by the board as a supervising industrial electrician to direct and supervise electrical work related to substation, switchgear, automatic controls, and all other industrial electrical work in existing industrial buildings and work places. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 448E-1
  • Supervising specialty electrician: means any person who has been licensed by the board as a supervising specialty electrician to direct and supervise the performance of electrical work related to installing, repairing, altering, and maintaining, but not the attachment of lighting and power circuits, to the following: electronic equipment, sound public address systems, other than equipment and systems for a single-family or two-family dwelling; master or community radio and television receiving antenna system; sound recording systems other than systems for a single-family or a two-family dwelling; burglar and fire alarm systems; low voltage remote control, other than control for a single-family or two-family dwelling; and low voltage communication signal systems. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 448E-1
  • Temporary permit: means that portion of the notice of administrative revocation that, when completed by a law enforcement officer, permits the respondent to operate a vehicle for thirty days in the case of an alcohol related offense and forty-four days in the case of a drug related offense or until such time as the director may establish under part III. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
  • Testate: To die leaving a will.
  • Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • this State: means the State of Hawaii, its political subdivisions, agencies, and departments. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
  • Through highway: means every highway or portion thereof on which vehicular traffic is given preferential right-of-way, and at the entrances to which vehicular traffic from intersecting highways is required by law to yield the right-of-way to vehicles on such through highway in obedience to a stop sign, yield sign, or other official traffic-control device, when such signs or devices are erected as provided by law. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-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.
  • Traffic: means pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, and other conveyances either singly or together while using any highway for purposes of travel. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Traffic infraction: means all violations of statutes, ordinances, or rules relating to traffic movement and control, including parking, standing, equipment, and pedestrian offenses, for which the prescribed penalties do not include imprisonment and that are not otherwise specifically excluded from coverage of this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291D-2
  • Traffic-control signal: means any device, whether manually, electrically, or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and permitted to proceed. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Trial: means a trial conducted by the district court pursuant to the rules of the district court and the Hawaii rules of evidence. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291D-2
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Trustee: includes an original, additional, or successor trustee, whether or not appointed or confirmed by a court. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 557A-102
  • Unaccredited institution: means a degree granting institution that is not accredited or a candidate for accreditation by at least one nationally recognized accrediting agency that is listed by the United States Secretary of Education. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 446E-1
  • Under the influence: means that a person:

    (1) Is under the influence of alcohol in an amount sufficient to impair the person's normal mental faculties or ability to care for the person and guard against casualty;
    (2) Is under the influence of any drug that impairs the person's ability to operate the vehicle in a careful and prudent manner;
    (3) Has . See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • Underway: means that a vessel is not at anchor, made fast to the shore, or aground. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • Unit: means a physical or spatial portion of the condominium designated for separate ownership or occupancy, the boundaries of which are described in the declaration or pursuant to § 514B-35, with an exit to a public road or to a common element leading to a public road. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 514B-3
  • Unit owner: means the person owning, or the persons owning jointly or in common, a unit and its appurtenant common interest; provided that to such extent and for such purposes as provided by recorded lease, including the exercise of voting rights, a lessee of a unit shall be deemed to be the unit owner. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 514B-3
  • Valid license: means a license that:

    (1) Is issued by an authorized licensing official in any state;
    (2) Authorizes an individual to operate a motor vehicle on public streets, roads, or highways; and
    (3) Has not expired or been revoked, suspended, or canceled. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • Vehicle: means every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a roadway or highway, including mopeds and bicycles, but excluding toy bicycles, devices other than bicycles moved by human power, and devices used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Vehicle: includes a:

    (1) Motor vehicle;
    (2) Moped; and
    (3) Vessel. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
  • Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
  • Vessel: means all description of watercraft that are used or are capable of being used as a means of transportation on or in the water. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291E-1
  • Veterinarian: means the state veterinarian or any of the veterinarian's duly authorized representatives. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
  • Wholesaler: means any person who buys or sells carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat or meat products of cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, other equines, or exotic animals in trade channels other than retail. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3