Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 302A > Part IV – Provisions Affecting System Structure
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- Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
- Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
- 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.
- Antenna: means communications equipment that transmits or receives electromagnetic radio frequency signals used in the provision of services using small wireless facilities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206N-2
- 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.
- Applicable codes: means uniform building, fire, electrical, plumbing, or mechanical codes adopted by a recognized national code organization or local amendments to those codes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206N-2
- Applicant: means any person who submits an application and is a communications service provider. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206N-2
- Application: means a request submitted by an applicant to the State or county for a permit to collocate small wireless facilities or to approve the replacement or modification of a utility pole. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206N-2
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
- attendance: means a student is physically present in school after enrollment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
- Board: means the board of directors of the development corporation established in section 206J-4, and any successor thereto. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206J-2
- Board: means the board of education. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
- Bonds: means revenue bonds, special facilities revenue bonds, notes, or other instruments of indebtedness of the development corporation issued under this chapter and shall include refunding bonds. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206J-2
- Broadband: means high-speed internet access that is always on, including mobile and fixed technologies. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206S-1
- Broadband infrastructure: means the medium used to provide broadband service, including fiber optic cable, copper cable, coaxial cable, and wireless media, such as satellite communications, wireless networks, and worldwide interoperability for microwave access. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206R-1
- Broadband service: means an always-on service that includes but is not limited to computer processing capabilities, information provision, and computing interactivity with data transport, which enables end users to access the Internet and use a variety of applications at minimum speeds established by the Federal Communications Commission. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206R-1
- 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
- Career and technical education program: means a program operated by a school that primarily focuses on learning and skill development in students through the practical application of academic and technical skills and knowledge. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
- Chambers: A judge's office.
- Change order: means a written order signed by the procurement officer, directing the contractor to make changes which the changes clause of the contract authorizes the procurement officer to order without the consent of the contractor. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
- Collocate: means to install, mount, maintain, modify, operate, or replace small wireless facilities on or immediately adjacent to a wireless support structure or utility pole. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206N-2
- Communications service: means cable service, as defined in § 440G-3 or title 47 United States Code § 522(6), as amended; information service, as defined in title 47 United States Code § 153(24), as amended; telecommunications service, as defined in § 269-1 or title 47 United States Code § 153(53), as amended; mobile service, as defined in title 47 United States Code § 153(33), as amended; or wireless service other than mobile service. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206N-2
- Communications service provider: means a cable operator, as defined in § 440G-3 or title 47 United States Code § 522(5); a provider of information service, as defined in title 47 United States Code § 153(24); a telecommunications carrier, as defined in § 269-1 or title 47 United States Code § 153(51); or a wireless provider. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206N-2
- Community of identity: means a group of people who may not live in the same geographic area but who are bound together through a common ethnicity or other personal characteristic such as age or social status. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 210D-2
- Community of interest: means a group of people who may not live in the same geographic area but who are bound together through a common economic interest such as coffee growers or an aquaculture cooperative. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 210D-2
- Community-based economic development: means a community institution-building process that results in community-based enterprises and other economic development activities which are designed and implemented by a community; consistent with a community's values, culture, and vision; and intended to increase community control over local resources and decision-making processes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 210D-2
- Community-based organization: means a nonprofit corporation incorporated in the State of Hawaii that is organized and controlled by either a geographic community, a community of identity, or a community of interest and that is directly involved in community-based economic development activities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 210D-2
- Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
- Complex: means the high school and those elementary, middle, and intermediate schools that feed into the high school as designated by the department. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
- Complex area: means the administrative unit that includes one or more complexes as designated by the department. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
- Complex area superintendent: means the chief administrative officer of a complex area and the complexes therein. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
- Construction: means the process of building, altering, repairing, improving, or demolishing any public structure or building, or other public improvements of any kind to any public real property. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
- Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Contract: means all types of agreements, regardless of what they may be called, for the procurement or disposal of goods or services, or for construction. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
- Contract modification: means any written alteration in specifications, delivery point, rate of delivery, period of performance, price, quantity, or other provisions of any contract accomplished by mutual action of the parties to the contract. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
- Contractor: means any person having a contract with a governmental body. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Cooperative purchasing: means procurement conducted by a public or external procurement unit with one or more public procurement units, external procurement units, or nonprofit private procurement units, pursuant to this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-801
- 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 community-based economic development advisory council. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 210D-2
- county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
- Curricular materials: means any systematically organized material designed to provide a specific level of instruction in a subject-matter category, including textbooks, instructional materials, library books, equipment, computer software, digital content accessed through a computer or other electronic medium, digital content available through an internet-based provider of course content, or supplies used in a particular course of study. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Data: means recorded information, regardless of form or characteristic. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
- Decedent: A deceased person.
- Department: means the department of business, economic development, and tourism. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206R-1
- Department: means the department of business, economic development, and tourism. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206S-1
- Department: means the department of business, economic development, and tourism. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 209E-2
- Department: means the department of business, economic development, and tourism. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 210-1
- Department: means the department of business, economic development, and tourism. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 210D-2
- Department: means the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 451K-1
- Department: means the department of education. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
- Department school: means any school that falls within the definition of "public schools" as that term is defined in section 302A-101, and is not a charter school. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
- Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
- Development corporation: means the Aloha Tower development corporation established by section 206J-4. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206J-2
- Digital equity: means a condition in which all individuals and communities have the information technology capacity needed for full participation in society, democracy, and the economy. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206S-1
- Director: means the director of business, economic development, and tourism. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 209E-2
- Director: means the director of business, economic development, and tourism. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 210-1
- Director: means the director of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 451K-1
- Disease management services: means patient self-management education services, which may include primary prevention, behavioral modification, compliance/surveillance, and routine reporting and feedback including communication with patients, physicians, health plans, or ancillary providers. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 209E-2
- Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
- District: means the state public education system as a whole, except as used by the department for federal compliance and reporting requirements. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
- Education and training services: means courses and programs for international business executives in business management, marketing, financial services, human resources, risk management, and for technicians in environmental sciences and remediation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 209E-2
- Educational officers: includes principals, vice-principals, and professional employees of the state and district offices of the department, except those employees in the classified service. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
- Eligible business activity: means the:
(1) Manufacture of tangible personal property, the wholesale sale of tangible personal property as described in section 237-4, or a service business as defined in this section;
(2) Production of agricultural products where the business is a producer as defined in section 237-5, or the processing of agricultural products, all or some of which were grown within an enterprise zone;
(3) Research, development, sale, or production of all types of genetically-engineered medical, agricultural, or maritime biotechnology products; or
(4) Production of electric power from wind energy for sale primarily to a public utility company for resale to the public;
provided that medical cannabis dispensary activities pursuant to chapter 329D shall not be considered an eligible business activity for the purposes of this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 209E-2
- Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. Source: OCC
- 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
- enrollment: means a student has met all of the department's requirements for entrance and is formally placed on a school's roll. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
- Enterprise zone: means an area nominated by, and within the jurisdiction of, a county government, and subsequently declared by the governor to be eligible for the benefits of this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 209E-2
- 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
- Establishment: means a single physical location where business is conducted. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 209E-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.
- External procurement unit: means any buying organization not located in this State which, if located in this State, would qualify as a public procurement unit. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-801
- 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. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1001
- Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
- 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.
- Forbearance: A means of handling a delinquent loan. A
- Force majeure event: means an event, including damaging weather or natural disasters such as epidemic disease, pest outbreak, high wind, thunderstorm, hailstorm, tornado, fire, flood, earthquake, lava flow or other volcanic activity, drought, tidal wave, hurricane, or without limiting or restricting the foregoing in any way, any event reasonably beyond the control of, and not attributable to neglect by, an agricultural business. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 209E-2
- 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
- Genetic counseling practice: includes :
(1) Obtaining and interpreting individual, family, medical, developmental, and reproductive histories;
(2) Determining the mode of inheritance and risk of transmission of genetic conditions and birth defects;
(3) Discussing the inheritance, features, natural history, means of diagnosis, and management of these conditions;
(4) Identifying, coordinating, interpreting, and explaining genetic laboratory tests and other diagnostic studies;
(5) Assessing psychological factors and recognizing social, educational, and cultural issues related to having or being at risk for genetic conditions;
(6) Evaluating the client's or family's responses to the genetic condition or risk of having the genetic condition, and providing client-centered counseling and anticipatory guidance;
(7) Communicating information to their clients in an understandable manner;
(8) Facilitating informed decision-making about testing, treatment, and management;
(9) Identifying and effectively using community resources that provide medical, educational, financial, and psychosocial support and advocacy; and
(10) Providing accurate written documentation of medical, genetic, and counseling information for families and health care professionals. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 451K-1
- Geographic bidding: includes the use of a competitive solicitation which provides for one or more contracts to be awarded on a regional or geographic basis with the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-901
- Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
- 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
- Governmental body: means any department, commission, council, board, bureau, authority, committee, institution, legislative body, agency, government corporation, or other establishment or office of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the State, including the office of Hawaiian affairs, and the several counties of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
- Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. Source: OCC
- 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.
- 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 - Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
- Information technology design and production services: means computer software development, imagery creation, and data compilation, but not consumer sales or service businesses. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 209E-2
- Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. Source: OCC
- Invitation for bids: means all documents, whether attached or incorporated by reference, utilized for soliciting bids. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
- Joint employment: means an employment arrangement:
(1) Between two or more employers to share an employee's services, as for example, to interchange employees;
(2) In which one employer acts directly or indirectly in the interest of the other employer or employers in relation to the employee; or
(3) In which two or more employers are not completely disassociated with respect to the employment of a particular employee and may be deemed to share control of the employee, directly or indirectly, by reason of the fact that one employer controls, is controlled by, or is under common control of the other employer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 209E-2
- 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.
- 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
- Leased employee: means an employee under a professional employer organization arrangement who is assigned to a particular client company on a substantially full-time basis for at least one year. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 209E-2
- Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
- licensed marriage and family therapist: means a person who uses the title of marriage and family therapist or licensed marriage and family therapist, who has been issued a license under this chapter, and whose license is in effect and not revoked or suspended at the time in question. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 451J-1
- Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
- Local public procurement unit: means any county of the State or public agency of any county, public authority, educational, health, or other institution, and to the extent provided by law, any other entity which expends public funds for the procurement of goods, services, and construction. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-801
- Maritime: means the administration of chapter 266 by the department of transportation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206J-2
- Medical and health care services: means medical research and clinical trials, but not routine medical treatment or services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 209E-2
- Micro wireless facilities: means a small wireless facility having a dimension no larger than twenty-four inches in height, fifteen inches in width, and twelve inches in depth; provided that the exterior antenna, if any, does not exceed eleven inches in length. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206N-2
- month: means a calendar month; and the word "year" a calendar year. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-20
- 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.
- Office: means the Hawaii broadband and digital equity office. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206S-1
- 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. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1001
- Oral argument: An opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions.
- Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
- 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.
- Past performance: means available recent and relevant performance of a contractor, including positive, negative, or lack of previous experience, on contracts that shall be considered in a responsibility determination within the relevance of the current solicitation, including the considerations of section 103D-702(b). See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
- 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
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- Personal property: means all tangible goods, including equipment, materials and supplies, except land, buildings, and improvement to the land. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1101
- 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.
- Policy board: means the procurement policy board created in § 103D-201. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
- 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.
- 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. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1001
- Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
- Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
- Procurement: means buying, purchasing, renting, leasing, or otherwise acquiring any good, service, or construction. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
- Procurement officer: means any person authorized to enter into and administer contracts and make written determinations with respect thereto. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
- 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
- Program: means the broadband infrastructure grant program established by this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206R-1
- Project: means an undertaking of work or improvement of public or private real or personal property or any interest therein, developed, acquired, constructed, reconstructed, rehabilitated, improved, altered, or repaired by the development corporation, by itself or in conjunction with qualified persons, and including public facilities and, any law to the contrary notwithstanding, facilities for and functionally related and subordinate to maritime purposes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206J-2
- Project: means a proposed deployment of wireline broadband infrastructure set forth in an application for grant funding authorized under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206R-1
- Project area: means an area identified by a shapefile that is proposed to be covered in an application for grant funding authorized under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206R-1
- Public agency: means any office, department, board, commission, bureau, division, public corporation, agency, or instrumentality of the federal, state, or county government. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206J-2
- Public agency: means any agency of the State or county. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1001
- Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
- Public procurement unit: means either a local public procurement unit or a state public procurement unit. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-801
- Public schools: means all academic and noncollege type schools established and maintained by the department and charter schools governed by chapter 302D. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
- Purchasing agency: means any governmental body which is authorized by this chapter or its implementing rules and procedures, or by way of delegation, to enter into contracts for the procurement of goods, services, or construction. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
- Qualified business: means any corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or sole proprietorship authorized to do business in the State that is qualified under section 209E-9, subject to the state corporate or individual income tax under chapter 235, and is engaged in an eligible business activity as defined in this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 209E-2
- Qualified community rehabilitation program: means a nonprofit community rehabilitation program for individuals with disabilities that:
(1) Is organized and incorporated under the laws of the United States or this State, and located in this State; (2) Is operated in the interest of and employs individuals with disabilities; (3) Does not inure any part of its net income to any shareholder or other individual; (4) Complies with all applicable occupational health and safety standards required by the federal, state, and county governments; and (5) Maintains a disabled to non-disabled employee ratio equal to or greater than one to three at all times. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1001 - Qualified person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, or any public agency, possessing the competence, expertise, experience, and resources, including financial, personnel, and tangible resources, required for the purposes of the project and such other qualifications as may be deemed desirable by the development corporation in administering this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206J-2
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- Recovered material: means waste material and by-products that have been recovered or diverted from solid waste. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1001
- 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.
- Request for proposals: means all documents, whether attached or incorporated by reference, utilized for soliciting proposals. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
- Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
- Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
- Right of way: means the area on, below, or above a public roadway, highway, street, sidewalk, alley, utility easement, or similar property. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206N-2
- SBA: means the Small Business Administration of the United States Government. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 210-1
- SBIA: means the Federal Small Business Investment Act of 1958, as amended. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 210-1
- Service business: means any corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or sole proprietorship that repairs ships, aircraft, or assisted technology equipment, provides telecommunication services, information technology design and production services, medical and health care services, or education and training services as defined in this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 209E-2
- 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
- Shapefile: includes several component files, including a main file (. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206R-1
- Small business: means a business that is independently owned and defined by detailed criteria pursuant to rules adopted by the policy board. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-901
- Small business concern: means the business concerns that are defined in the Small Business Act, as amended (P. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 210-1
- Small wireless facilities: means a wireless facility or other facility providing communications service that meets one or both of the following qualifications:
(1) Each communications service provider's antenna can fit within an enclosure of no more than six cubic feet in volume; or
(2) All other equipment associated with the communications service facility, whether ground- or pole-mounted, that is cumulatively no more than twenty-eight cubic feet in volume; provided that the following types of associated ancillary equipment shall not be included in the calculation of equipment volume: electric meter, concealment elements, telecommunications demarcation box, grounding equipment, power transfer switch, cut-off switch, and vertical cable runs for the connection of power and other services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206N-2
- 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
- State or county pole: means a utility pole, which may be managed or operated by, or on behalf of, the State or a county in the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206N-2
- State public procurement unit: means the office of the chief procurement officer and any other purchasing agency of this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-801
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
- Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
- Superintendent: means the superintendent of education. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
- Surplus personal property: includes obsolete, scrap, and excess personal property that has completed its useful life cycle. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1101
- Teacher: means a person whose duties in the public educational system are primarily teaching or instruction of students or related activities centered primarily on students and who is in close and continuous contact with students, and shall include but not be limited to classroom teachers, school librarians, counselors, registrars, and special education teachers. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
- Telecommunication services: means terrestrial (copper and optical fiber cable) and satellite information delivery systems, switching systems, ground stations, and call centers, but not consumer services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 209E-2
- Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
- Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. Source: OCC
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
- Underserved area: means a project area with access to broadband service but at speeds of less than fifty megabits per second for downloads and five megabits per second for uploads. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206R-1
- Using agency: means any governmental body which utilizes any goods, services, or construction procured under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
- Utility pole: means a pole or similar structure that is or may be used in whole or in part by or for wireline communications, electric distribution, lighting, traffic control, signage, or a similar function, or for the collocation of small wireless facilities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206N-2
- Vandalism: includes , but is not limited to, mischievous or malicious destruction of property, such as breakage of windows, lockers, and doors. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
- Wireless facility: includes small wireless facilities but shall not include:
(1) Wireline backhaul facilities; and
(2) Coaxial or fiber-optic cable between utility poles or communications facilities that are otherwise not immediately adjacent to and directly associated with a particular antenna. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206N-2
- Wireless provider: means an individual, corporation, company, association, trust, or other entity or organization who:
(1) Provides services, including wireless broadband services, whether at a fixed location or mobile, to the public using wireless facilities; or
(2) Builds or installs wireless communication transmission equipment or wireless facilities, including an individual authorized to provide telecommunications service in the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206N-2
- Wireless support structure: means a structure, such as a monopole; tower, either guyed or self-supporting building; or other existing or proposed structure designed to support or capable of supporting broadband or small wireless facilities, other than a structure designed solely for the collocation of wireless facilities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206N-2
- Wireline backhaul: means the transport of communications data or other electronic information by wire from wireless facilities to a communications network. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206N-2