Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 302A > Part V - Provisions Affecting Financial Structure

• Act of Congress: means the act of Congress approved June 18, 1934, entitled, "An act to provide for the establishment, operation, and maintenance of foreign-trade zones in ports of entry of the United States, to expedite and encourage foreign commerce, and for other purposes" and the amendments thereto. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 212-1
• Administrator: means the administrator of the state procurement office. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103F-102
• Administrator of the state procurement office: means the chief procurement officer for the governmental bodies of the executive branch of the State, other than the University of Hawaii, department of education, the several counties, and those governmental bodies administratively attached thereto. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1201
• Agency: means any department, authority, commission, council, board, committee, institution, legislative body, agency, or other establishment or office of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the State, and includes the office of Hawaiian affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103F-102
• 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.
• 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}
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Board: means the board of education. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
• Capital access loan: means a loan that is entitled to be secured by the fund. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 211D-1
• Chief procurement officer: means those officials designated by § 103D-203. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103F-102
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contract: means all types of agreements, regardless of what they may be called. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103F-102
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
• 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
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Department: means the department of education. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
• Department: means the department of business, economic development, and tourism. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 211D-1
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Director: means the director of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 451K-1
• 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
• 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.
• Excess property: means any property which has a remaining useful life but which is no longer required by the using agency in possession of the property. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1201
• Financial institution: includes a bank, trust company, banking association, savings and loan association, mortgage company, investment bank, credit union, or nontraditional financial institution. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 211D-1
• Financing: means furnishing risk capital to persons for use in the development or exploitation of specific inventions or products. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 211E-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.
• Fund: means the Hawaii capital loan revolving fund established in section 210-3. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 211D-1
• 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

• Genetic counselor: means a person licensed under this chapter who engages in genetic counseling practice. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 451K-1
• Health and human services: means services to communities, families, or individuals which are intended to maintain or improve health or social well-being. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103F-102
• Industrial oil: means any compressor, turbine, or bearing oil, hydraulic oil, metal working oil or refrigeration oil. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1302
• Innovation: means any new product or invention. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 211E-1
• 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}
• Loan: includes a line of credit. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 211D-1
• Lubricating oil: means any oil intended for use in an internal combustion crankcase, transmission, gearbox or differential or an automobile, bus, truck, vessel, plane, train, heavy equipment, or machinery powered by an internal combustion engine. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1302
• Medium-sized business: means a corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, or other legal entity that:

  (1) Is domiciled in this State;

  (2) Is formed to make a profit; and

  (3) Employs one hundred or more but fewer than five hundred full-time employees. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 211D-1

• Nonprofit organization: means a private, nonprofit, tax-exempt corporation, association, or organization listed in section 501(c)(3), Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, that is domiciled in this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 211D-1
• Participating financial institution: means a financial institution participating in the program. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 211D-1
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Policy board: means the procurement policy board created in § 103D-201. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
• Procurement: means buying, purchasing, renting, leasing, or otherwise acquiring any good, service, or construction. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-104
• Program: means the capital access program. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 211D-1
• Property: means all goods, including equipment, materials, supplies, land, buildings, and other improvements to the land, also non-tangible items such as patents, inventions, and copyrights. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1201
• 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
• Recycled oil: means used oil that has been prepared for reuse as a petroleum product by refining, reclaiming, reprocessing or other means provided that the preparation or use is operationally safe, environmentally sound and complies with all laws, rules, and regulations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1302
• Reserve account: means an account established in a participating financial institution on approval of the department in which money is deposited to serve as a source of additional revenue to reimburse the financial institution for losses on loans enrolled in the program. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 211D-1
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Superintendent: means the superintendent of education. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
• Surplus property: includes obsolete, scrap, and nonexpendable property that has completed its useful life cycle. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1201
• Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
• Treatment: means services to individuals and families by health or social work professionals which attempt to alleviate physical or mental illness or behavioral problems, including but not limited to, medical treatment, counseling, physical, occupational and other therapeutic services, and referral and case management services for medical treatment, counseling, and other therapeutic services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103F-102
• Venture: means , without limitation, any contractual arrangement with any person whereby the investor with risk capital obtain rights from or in an invention or product or proceeds therefrom in exchange for financing such persons. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 211E-1
• Virgin oil: means oil which has been refined from crude oil and which has not been used or contaminated with impurities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-1302
• Weighted student formula: means a formula for allocating operating moneys to individual public schools that includes a system of weighted characteristics affecting the relative cost of educating each student attending a public school. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101