Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes Chapter 174C > Part VIII - Stream Diversion Works

• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• bonds: means bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness of the State issued pursuant to this part. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-151
• Commission: means the commission on water resource management. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 174C-3
• county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
• Department: means the department of budget and finance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-151
• Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 98-2
• 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.
• 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.
• Legal material: means , whether or not in effect:

  (1) The Constitution of the State of Hawaii;

  (2) The Session Laws of Hawaii;

  (3) The Hawaii Revised Statutes;

  (4) A state agency rule that has or had the effect of law;

  (5) Reported decisions of the following state courts: the supreme court of the State of Hawaii and the intermediate appellate court of the State of Hawaii; or

  (6) State court rules. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 98-2

• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• 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.
• Official publisher: means :

  (1) For the Constitution of the State of Hawaii, the revisor of statutes;

  (2) For the Session Laws of Hawaii, the revisor of statutes;

  (3) For the Hawaii Revised Statutes, the revisor of statutes;

  (4) For any administrative agency rules, the office of the governor;

  (5) For a state court decision included under paragraph (5) of the definition of "legal material" the supreme court; or

  (6) For state court rules, the supreme court. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 98-2

• Person: means any and all persons, natural or artificial, including an individual, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, company, the United States of America, the State of Hawaii, and all political subdivisions, municipalities, and public agencies thereof. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 174C-3
• Project: means any combination of land, buildings, and other improvements thereon, including without limitation parking facilities, for use of, or for, or to assist an industrial enterprise, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, machinery, equipment, furnishings, and apparatus which shall be deemed necessary, suitable, or useful to such enterprise. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-151
• Project agreement: means any agreement entered into under this part by the department with a project party to finance, construct, operate, or maintain a project from the proceeds of special purpose revenue bonds, or to lend the proceeds of special purpose revenue bonds to assist an industrial enterprise, including without limitation any loan agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-151
• Project party: means a person, firm, or corporation qualified to do business in this State and conducting or proposing to conduct an industrial enterprise in this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-151
• 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 98-2
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, 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 98-2
• Stream: means any river, creek, slough, or natural watercourse in which water usually flows in a defined bed or channel. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 174C-3
• Stream diversion: means the act of removing water from a stream into a channel, pipeline, or other conduit. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 174C-3
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Water management area: means a geographic area which has been designated pursuant to § 174C-41 as requiring management of the ground or surface water resource, or both. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 174C-3