Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 248 - County Budgets; Tax Funds

• Acquire: means gain ownership of. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 134-1
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Assault pistol: means a semiautomatic pistol that accepts a detachable magazine and has two or more of the following characteristics:
  (1) An ammunition magazine that attaches to the pistol outside of the pistol grip;
  (2) A threaded barrel capable of accepting a barrel extender, flash suppressor, forward hand grip, or silencer;
  (3) A shroud that is attached to or partially or completely encircles the barrel and permits the shooter to hold the firearm with the second hand without being burned;
  (4) A manufactured weight of fifty ounces or more when the pistol is unloaded;
  (5) A centerfire pistol with an overall length of twelve inches or more; or
  (6) It is a semiautomatic version of an automatic firearm;

  but does not include a firearm with a barrel sixteen or more inches in length, an antique pistol as defined in this section, or a curio or relic as those terms are used in 18 United States Code § 921(a)(13) or 27 C. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 134-1

• Automatic firearm: means any firearm that shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily modified to shoot automatically more than one shot, without a manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 134-1
• 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}
• Benefit director: means the director designated as the benefit director of a sustainable business corporation under § 420D-7. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 420D-2
• Benefit officer: means the individual designated as the benefit officer of a sustainable business corporation under § 420D-9. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 420D-2
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Chief of police: means the chief of police of the counties of Hawaii, Maui, Kauai, or the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 134-1
• Concealed: means , in relation to a firearm, that the firearm is entirely hidden from view of the public and not discernible by ordinary observation, in a manner that a reasonable person without law enforcement training would be unable to detect the presence of the firearm. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 134-1
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Council: means the county council of each county concerned. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 248-1
• county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
• Crime of violence: means :
  (1) Any offense under federal or state law or the law of another state, a United States territory, or the District of Columbia that has as an element of the offense the:

  (A) Injury or threat of injury to the person of another; or

  (B) Use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of another or the creation of a substantial risk of causing bodily injury;
  (2) Reckless endangering in the second degree under section 707-714;
  (3) Terroristic threatening in the second degree under section 707-717;
  (4) Sexual assault in the fourth degree under section 707-733 ;
  (5) Endangering the welfare of a minor in the second degree under section 709-904;
  (6) Endangering the welfare of an incompetent person under section 709-905;
  (7) Harassment under section 711-1106(1)(a);
  (8) Harassment by stalking under section 711-1106. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 134-1
• Criminal offense relating to firearms: means :
  (1) Any criminal offense under this chapter punishable as a misdemeanor;
  (2) Criminally negligent storage of a firearm under section 707-714. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 134-1
• Department: means the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128D-1
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Director: means the state director of finance unless otherwise stated or indicated in context. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 248-1
• Director: means the director of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128D-1
• Environment: means any waters, including surface water, ground water, or drinking water supply, any land surface or any subsurface strata, or any ambient air within the State of Hawaii or under the jurisdiction of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128D-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.
• Extradition: The formal process of delivering an accused or convicted person from authorities in one state to authorities in another state.
• Firearm: means any weapon, for which the operating force is an explosive, including but not limited to pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns, automatic firearms, noxious gas projectors, mortars, bombs, and cannon. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 134-1
• 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.
• fuel: has the meaning defined by § 243-1. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 248-1
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
• loaded firearm: means a firearm with ammunition present within the firing chamber, revolving cylinder, or within a magazine which is inserted in a firearm. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 134-1
• Material relationship: means a relationship between a person and a sustainable business corporation where:

  (1) The person is, or has been within the last three years, an employee other than a benefit officer of the sustainable business corporation or any of its subsidiaries;

  (2) The person is related by blood, marriage, or adoption to; is a party to a civil union with; is a reciprocal beneficiary or household member of; or resides with an officer other than a benefit officer or director of the sustainable business corporation or any of its subsidiaries; or

  (3) The person or an association of which the person is a director, officer, or manager or in which the person owns beneficially or of record five per cent or more of the outstanding equity interests or the outstanding shares of the sustainable business corporation; provided that percentage ownership in an association shall be calculated as if all outstanding rights to acquire equity interests in the association had been exercised. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 420D-2

• Member: means an individual who is covered by a mutual benefit society. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 432:1-406
• Minimum status vote: means that in addition to any other approval or vote required by this chapter or the bylaws adopted by the shareholders:

  (1) The holders of shares of every class or series shall be entitled to vote on the corporate action regardless of any limitation stated in the articles of incorporation or bylaws on the voting rights of any class or series; and

  (2) The corporate action shall be approved by vote of the shareholders of each class or series entitled to cast at least two-thirds of the votes that all shareholders of the class or series are entitled to cast thereon. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 420D-2

• Natural resources: means land, fish, wildlife, biota, air, water, ground water, drinking water supplies, and other such resources belonging to, managed by, held in trust by, appertaining to, or otherwise controlled by the State of Hawaii, any county, or by the United States to the extent that the latter are subject to state law. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128D-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.
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• remedial action: means those actions consistent with permanent correction taken instead of or in addition to removal actions in the event of a release or threatened release of a hazardous substance or pollutant or contaminant into the environment, to prevent or minimize the release of hazardous substances so that they do not migrate to cause substantial danger to present or future public health or welfare or the environment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128D-1
• Requesting party: means the person or persons submitting an application to conduct a voluntary response action. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128D-32
• response: means remove, removal, remedy, or remedial action; and all such terms include government enforcement activities related thereto. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128D-1
• revolver: means any firearm of any shape with a barrel less than sixteen inches in length and capable of discharging loaded ammunition or any noxious gas. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 134-1
• Semiautomatic: means the mode of operation by which a firearm uses the energy of the explosive in a fixed cartridge to extract a fired cartridge and chamber a fresh cartridge with each single pull of a trigger. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 134-1
• Society: means mutual benefit society. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 432:1-406
• Sustainable business corporation: means a domestic corporation, incorporated under chapter 414, that has elected to also become subject to this chapter and whose status as a sustainable business corporation has not been terminated as provided in this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 420D-2
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Third-party standard: means a standard for defining, reporting, and assessing overall corporate social and environmental performance that conforms to the requirements of this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 420D-2
• Unconcealed: means not concealed. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 134-1
• university: refers to the University of Hawaii, unless otherwise required by the context. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 304A-101