Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 304A - University of Hawaii System

• Accredited educational institution: means a university or college accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges or a comparable regional body. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 453D-1
• Accuser: means a person who signs and swears to charges, any person who directs that charges nominally be signed and sworn to by another, and any person who has an interest other than an official interest in the prosecution of the accused. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Acquire: means gain ownership of. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 134-1
• Adjournment sine die: The end of a legislative session "without day." These adjournments are used to indicate the final adjournment of an annual or the two-year session of legislature.
• Adjusted gross estate: The gross estate, less funeral expenses, expenses of estate administration during probate, debts of the estate, and casualty losses suffered during estate administration.
• Adjutant general: means the adjutant general of the State as defined in section 121-7. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Advertisement: means any communication, excluding sundry items such as bumper stickers, that:
  (1) Identifies a candidate directly or by implication, or identifies an issue or question that will appear on the ballot at the next applicable election; and
  (2) Advocates or supports the nomination, opposition, or election of the candidate, or advocates the passage or defeat of the issue or question on the ballot. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
• 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.
• 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 ethyl alcohol, hydrated oxide of ethyl, or spirits of wine, from whatever source or by whatever process produced. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 244D-1
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Alternative fuel: means methanol, denatured ethanol, and other alcohols; mixtures containing eighty-five per cent or more by volume of methanol, denatured ethanol, and other alcohols with gasoline or other fuels; natural gas; liquefied petroleum gas; hydrogen; coal-derived liquid fuels; biodiesel; mixtures containing twenty per cent or more by volume of biodiesel with diesel or other fuels; fuels (other than alcohol) derived from biological materials; and any other fuel that is substantially not a petroleum product and that the governor determines would yield substantial energy security benefits or substantial environmental benefits. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 243-1
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Applicable generation-skipping transfer tax rate: means 2. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Apprehension: means the taking of a person into custody. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• 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
• 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.
• Arrest: means the restraint of a person by an order, not imposed as a punishment for an offense, directing the person to remain within certain specified limits. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Arrest in quarters: means the restraint involved is enforced by a moral obligation rather than by physical means. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Articles of incorporation: include amended and restated articles of incorporation and articles of merger. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
• 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

• Assembly: means the fabrication of a firearm or the fitting together of component parts to construct a firearm. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 134-1
• 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.
• Attack: means any attack or series of attacks by anyone causing, or which may cause, damage or injury to persons or property in the United States in any manner by the use of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, explosives, firearms, cyber, or other weapons or processes; and any form of hostile action. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128A-2
• 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.
• Authority: means the natural energy laboratory of Hawaii authority established by section 227D-2. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 227D-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
• Aviation fuel: means all liquid substances of whatever chemical composition usable for the propulsion of airplanes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 243-1
• Bank: means and includes any national banking association and any bank chartered or licensed pursuant to chapter 412. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 241-1
• 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.
• Barrel: means forty-two United States gallons of crude oil or petroleum product. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 243-1
• Beer: means any alcoholic beverage obtained by the fermentation or any infusion or decoction of barley, malt, hops, or any other similar product, or any combination thereof in water, and includes ale, porter, brown, stout, lager beer, small beer, and strong beer but does not include sake, known as Japanese rice wine, or cooler beverage. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 244D-1
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Board: means the board of land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 6D-1
• Board: means the board of directors of the authority established by section 227D-2 and any successor thereto. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 227D-1
• Board: means the board of land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 173A-2
• board: means the Hawaii medical board. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 453-5
• Bona fide prospective purchaser: means a person (or a tenant of a person) who acquires ownership of a facility after October 1, 2009, and establishes each of the following by a preponderance of the evidence:

  (1) All disposal of hazardous substances at the facility occurred before the person acquired the facility;

  (2) The person carried out all appropriate inquiries when, on or before the date on which the person acquired the facility:

  (A) The person made all appropriate inquiries into the previous ownership and uses of the facility in accordance with generally accepted good commercial and customary standards and practices in accordance with subparagraphs (B) and (C);

  (B) The standards and practices referred to in 42 United States Code § 9601(35)(B)(ii) and (iv) and Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 312 are used unless the director requires otherwise by rules adopted pursuant to chapter 91; and

  (C) In the case of property in residential use or other similar use at the time of purchase by a nongovernmental or noncommercial entity, a facility inspection and title search that reveal no basis for further investigation shall be considered to satisfy the requirements of this paragraph;

  (3) The person provides all legally required notices with respect to the discovery or release of any hazardous substances at the facility;

  (4) The person exercises appropriate care with respect to hazardous substances found at the facility by taking reasonable steps to:

  (A) Stop any continuing release;

  (B) Prevent any threatened future release; and

  (C) Prevent or limit human, environmental, or natural resource exposure to any previously released hazardous substance;

  (5) The person provides full cooperation, assistance, and access to persons who are authorized to conduct response actions or natural resource restoration at a vessel or facility (including the cooperation and access necessary for the installation, integrity, operation, and maintenance of any complete or partial response actions or natural resource restoration at the vessel or facility);

  (6) The person:

  (A) Is in compliance with any land use restrictions established or relied on in connection with the response action at a vessel or facility; and

  (B) Does not impede the effectiveness or integrity of any institutional control employed at the vessel or facility in connection with a response action;

  (7) The person complies with any request for information or administrative subpoena issued by the President of the United States under 42 United States Code Chapter 103, by the director under chapter 128D, or issued by any state or federal court; and

  (8) The person is not:

  (A) Potentially liable, or affiliated with any other person who is potentially liable, for response costs at a facility through:

  (i) Any direct or indirect familial relationship; or

  (ii) Any contractual, corporate, or financial relationship (other than a contractual, corporate, or financial relationship that is created by the instruments by which title to the facility is conveyed or financed or by a contract for the sale of goods or services); or

  (B) The result of a reorganization of a business entity that was potentially liable. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128D-1

• Bonds: means special purpose bonds issued under this chapter and shall include notes, other instruments of indebtedness, and refunding bonds. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 227D-1
• Building and loan association: means any corporation that has been authorized to operate as a savings bank or savings and loan association pursuant to chapter 412, and any federal savings and loan association. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 241-1
• Cadet: means any person who is enrolled in or attending a state military academy, a regional training institute, or any other formal education program for the purpose of becoming a commissioned officer in the state military forces. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• calendar month: means each full month of the calendar year; provided that whenever the books of any distributor in any county are kept on such a basis that its monthly records are made up on a basis other than a calendar month so that each business month of the distributor ends on some other day than the last day of the calendar month, and the distributor presents a sworn application to the department of taxation setting forth such facts and requesting that it be granted the privilege of making returns and paying the taxes and performing other duties required of it under this chapter upon the basis of such business month rather than a calendar month, the department shall in writing grant such privilege and thereupon, as to such distributor, the terms "month" or "calendar month" shall be deemed to mean and refer to such business month, and all returns and payments under this chapter shall be made upon the basis of such business month and all delinquencies and penalties shall attach and be calculated as of the last day of such business month. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 243-1
• Cave: means any naturally occurring void, cavity, recess, or system of interconnected passages large enough for human entry, occurring beneath the surface of the earth or within a cliff or ledge, including the cave resources therein, whether or not an entrance exists or is natural or artificial, and that is of archaeological, geological, biological, or cultural significance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 6D-1
• CERCLA: means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, P. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128D-1
• Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
• 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
• Clean Water Act: means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, P. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128D-1
• 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.
• Clinical supervision: includes but is not limited to:

  (1) Case consultation on the assessment and presenting problem;

  (2) Development and implementation of treatment plans;

  (3) Enhancement of the supervisee's counseling techniques and treatment evaluation skills; and

  (4) Evaluation of the course of treatment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 453D-1

• Code: means the Hawaii Code of Military Justice. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Codes and standards: means nationally recognized minimum requirements that shall be met for design and construction to safeguard life, property, and the general welfare. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 107-21
• Commanding officer: includes :
  (1) Only commissioned officers of the state military forces; and
  (2) Officers in charge only when administering nonjudicial punishment under section 124B-21. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Commercial entry: means an activity undertaken to exhibit a cave for which compensation is received by any person for goods, services, or both, rendered to customers or participants in that use or activity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 6D-1
• Commission: means the Hawaii climate change mitigation and adaptation commission. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 225P-2
• commission: means the liquor commission of each county. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 244D-1
• Commission: means the campaign spending commission. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
• Commissioned officer: includes a commissioned warrant officer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• 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
• Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
• Confinement: means the physical restraint of a person. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Contemptuous words: means words or speech manifesting or expressing deep hatred or disapproval. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contractor: means any person furnishing construction for a public work under a contract with a governmental contracting agency, subcontractor, or any other person under a subcontract arrangement with any person who has a construction contract subject to this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 104-1
• Contractual relationship: means relationships involving land contracts, deeds or other instruments transferring title or possession. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128D-1
• Contribution: means :
  (1) A gift, subscription, deposit of money or anything of value, or cancellation of a debt or legal obligation and includes the purchase of tickets to fundraisers, for the purpose of:

  (A) Influencing the nomination for election, or the election, of any person to office;

  (B) Influencing the outcome of any question or issue that has been certified to appear on the ballot at the next applicable election; or

  (C) Use by any candidate committee or noncandidate committee for the purpose of subparagraph (A) or (B);
  (2) The payment, by any person or party other than a candidate, candidate committee, or noncandidate committee, of compensation for the services of another person that are rendered to the candidate, candidate committee, or noncandidate committee without charge or at an unreasonably low charge for a purpose listed in paragraph (1);
  (3) A contract, promise, or agreement to make a contribution; or
  (4) Any loans or advances that are not documented or disclosed to the commission as provided in section 11-372;

  "Contribution" does not include:

  (1) Services voluntarily provided without compensation by individuals to or on behalf of a candidate, candidate committee, or noncandidate committee;
  (2) A candidate's expenditure of the candidate's own funds; provided that this expenditure shall be reportable as other receipts and expenditures;
  (3) Any loans or advances to the candidate committee; provided that these loans or advances shall be reported as loans; or
  (4) An individual, candidate committee, or noncandidate committee engaging in internet activities for the purpose of influencing an election if:

  (A) The individual, candidate committee, or noncandidate committee is uncompensated for the internet activities; or

  (B) The individual, candidate committee, or noncandidate committee uses equipment or services for uncompensated internet activities, regardless of who owns the equipment and services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
• Convening authority: includes , in addition to the person who convened the court, a commissioned officer commanding for the time being or a successor in command to the convening authority. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Cost: means the total cost in carrying out all undertakings that the authority deems reasonable and necessary for the development of a project or research and technology park, including but not limited to the cost of studies, surveys, plans, and specifications, architectural, design, engineering, or any other special related services; the cost of site preparation and development, demolition, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, and improvement; the cost of financing the project or research and technology park from the date thereof to the estimated date of completion of the project or research and technology park as determined by the board; the cost of an allocable portion of the administrative and operating expenses of the authority related to the development of the project or research and technology park; and the cost of indemnity and surety bonds, premiums on policies of insurance, legal fees, and fees and expenses of trustees, depositories, and paying agents for the bonds, and for the issuance of letters of credit or other banking arrangements whether for the authority credit or a qualified person; all as the authority shall deem necessary. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 227D-1
• Council: means the county council of each county concerned. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 248-1
• Council: means the state building code council. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 107-21
• County: means any of the political subdivisions of the State, including the counties of Hawaii, Maui, and Kauai and the city and county of Honolulu, but does not include the county of Kalawao. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128A-2
• Credit report: A detailed report of an individual's credit history prepared by a credit bureau and used by a lender in determining a loan applicant's creditworthiness. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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
• Cross examine: Questioning of a witness by the attorney for the other side.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Day: means calendar day and is not synonymous with the term "unit training assembly". See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Dealer: means the holder of a manufacturer's license, wholesaler's license, brewpub's license, winery's license, or small craft producer's license under the liquor law. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 244D-1
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Decedent: means a deceased individual. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236D-2
• Decedent: means a deceased individual owning property in the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• 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.
• Department: means the department of taxation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236D-2
• Department: means the department of taxation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Department: means the department of taxation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 237D-1
• Department: means the department of taxation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 251-1
• Department: means the department of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 453D-1
• Department: means the department of labor and industrial relations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 104-1
• Department: means the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128D-1
• Department: means the department of land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 173A-2
• Department: means the department of accounting and general services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 107-21
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Development company: means a company approved by the federal Small Business Administration to operate under the provisions of Title V of the federal Small Business Investment Act of 1958, Public Law 699, as amended. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 241-1
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• 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 commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 453D-1
• Director: means the director of labor and industrial relations of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 104-1
• Director: means the director of law enforcement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128A-2
• Director: means the director of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128D-1
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Disrespect: means behavior that detracts from the respect due the authority and person of a superior commissioned officer or fellow soldier. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Distilled spirits: means an alcoholic beverage obtained by the distillation of fermented agricultural products, and includes alcohol for beverage use, spirits of wine, whiskey, rum, brandy, and gin, including all dilutions and mixtures thereof, but does not include beer, draft beer, cooler beverage, or wine. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 244D-1
• Distributor: means :

  (1) Every person who refines, manufactures, produces, or compounds liquid fuel or fossil fuel in the State and sells or uses the same therein;

  (2) Every person who imports or causes to be imported into the State any liquid fuel or fossil fuel and sells it therein, whether in the original packages or containers in which it is imported or otherwise than in the original packages or containers, or who imports any liquid fuel or fossil fuel for the person's own use in the State;

  (3) Every person who acquires liquid fuel or fossil fuel from a person not a licensed distributor and sells or uses it, whether in the original package or container in which it was imported (if imported) or otherwise than in the original package or container; and

  (4) Every person who acquires liquid fuel or fossil fuel from a licensed distributor as a wholesaler thereof and sells or uses it. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 243-1

• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Draft beer: means beer in an individual container of seven gallons or more. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 244D-1
• Electronic transmission: means any form of communication, not directly involving the physical transmission of paper, that creates a record that may be retained, retrieved, and reviewed by a recipient thereof, and that may be directly reproduced in paper form by such a recipient through an automated process. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
• 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: includes an officer but not a director. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
• End user: means any person or government entity who acquires petroleum products for their own use and not for resale. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 243-1
• Enlisted member: means a person in an enlisted grade. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Entity: includes domestic and foreign corporations, domestic professional corporations, domestic and foreign limited liability companies, domestic and foreign nonprofit corporations, domestic and foreign business trusts, estates, domestic and foreign partnerships, domestic and foreign limited partnerships, domestic and foreign limited liability partnerships, trusts, two or more persons having a joint or common economic interest, associations and cooperative associations, and state, federal, and foreign governments. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Expedited partner therapy: means the indirect treatment of partners of a patient who has been diagnosed as having a sexually transmitted disease through the dispensing or prescribing of antibiotic therapy for the treatment of the partners to the patient without the physical examination of the partners by a health professional. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 453-51
• Extradition: The formal process of delivering an accused or convicted person from authorities in one state to authorities in another state.
• Facility: means any building, structure, installation, equipment, pipe or pipeline (including any pipe into a sewer or publicly owned treatment works), well, pit, pond, lagoon, impoundment, ditch, landfill, storage container, motor vehicle, rolling stock, or aircraft, or any site or area where a hazardous substance or pollutant or contaminant has been deposited, stored, disposed of, or placed, or otherwise comes to be located; but does not include any consumer product in consumer use. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128D-1
• Fair Credit Reporting Act: A federal law, established in 1971 and revised in 1997, that gives consumers the right to see their credit records and correct any mistakes. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fair market rental value: means an amount equal to one-half of the gross daily maintenance fees that are paid by the owner and are attributable to the time share unit located in Hawaii. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 237D-1
• Federal credit: means :

  (1) For a transfer, the maximum amount of the credit for state death taxes allowed by section 2011 of the Internal Revenue Code, as it existed on December 31, 2000, for the decedent's adjusted taxable estate;

  (2) For a generation-skipping transfer, the maximum amount of the credit for state taxes allowed by section 2604 of the Internal Revenue Code as it existed on December 31, 2000; and

  (3) For a noncitizen transfer, the maximum amount of the credit for state death taxes allowed by section 2102 of the Internal Revenue Code, as it existed on December 31, 2000, for the decedent's adjusted taxable estate. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236D-2

• Federal estate tax: means the tax due to the United States with respect to a taxable transfer under chapter 11 of the Internal Revenue Code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Federal generation-skipping transfer tax: means the tax due to the United States with respect to a taxable transfer under chapter 13 of the Internal Revenue Code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Federal return: means the federal estate tax return with respect to the federal estate tax and means the federal generation-skipping transfer tax return with respect to the federal generation-skipping transfer tax. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Federal taxable estate: means the gross estate less allowable deductions, as determined under chapter 11 of the Internal Revenue Code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Federal transfer tax: means the federal estate tax or the federal generation-skipping transfer tax. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Financial corporation: means :

  (1) Any corporation, domestic or foreign, other than a bank or building and loan association, that is a financial corporation within the meaning of section 5219 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended (12 U. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 241-1

• Financial holding company: means any corporation registered under the Federal Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended, or registered as a savings and loan holding company under the Home Owners' Loan Act of 1933, as amended. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 241-1
• Financial services loan company: means any company which has been authorized to engage in the business of a financial services loan company pursuant to chapter 412. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 241-1
• 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
• Firearm receiver: includes any object or part that is not a firearm frame or receiver in finished form but that is designed or intended to be used for that purpose and may readily be made into a firearm frame or receiver through milling or other means. 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.
• Fixed Rate: Having a "fixed" rate means that the APR doesn't change based on fluctuations of some external rate (such as the "Prime Rate"). In other words, a fixed rate is a rate that is not a variable rate. A fixed APR can change over time, in several circumstances:
  • You are late making a payment or commit some other default, triggering an increase to a penalty rate
  • The bank changes the terms of your account and you do not reject the change.
  • The rate expires (if the rate was fixed for only a certain period of time).
• Flag: means any flag, standard, color, ensign, or any picture or representation of either made of any substance or represented on any substance, and of any size, evidently purporting to be, either of, the flag, standard, color, or ensign of the State of Hawaii or a picture or representation, of either upon which shall be shown the jack, the colors and stripes in any number of either, or by which the person seeing the same without deliberation may believe the same to represent the flag, colors, standard, or ensign of the State of Hawaii. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 5-18
• Forbearance: A means of handling a delinquent loan. A
• 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.
• fuel: means all liquids ordinarily, practically, and commercially usable in internal combustion engines for the generation of power and includes liquefied petroleum gases, all distillates of and condensates from petroleum, natural gas, coal, coal tar, and vegetable ferments, such distillates and condensates being ordinarily designated as a gasoline, naphtha, benzol, benzine, and alcohols so usable but not restricted to such designation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 243-1
• Fugitive from justice: means any person (1) who has fled from any state, territory, the District of Columbia, or possession of the United States, to avoid prosecution for a felony or to avoid giving testimony in any criminal proceeding or (2) who has fled from any country other than the United States and is avoiding lawful extradition back to that country. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 134-1
• Fund: means the environmental response revolving fund. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128D-1
• General excise tax law: means chapter 237, as amended from time to time. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 238-1
• Generation-skipping transfer: means a generation-skipping transfer as defined and used in section 2611 of the Internal Revenue Code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236D-2
• Generation-skipping transfer: means a generation-skipping transfer as defined and used in section 2611 of the Internal Revenue Code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Governmental contracting agency: means the State, any county and any officer, bureau, board, commission, or other agency or instrumentality thereof. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 104-1
• Governor: means the governor of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Grade: means a step or degree, in a graduated scale of office or military rank, that is established and designated as a grade by law or regulation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Gross estate: The total fair market value of all property and property interests, real and personal, tangible and intangible, of which a decedent had beneficial ownership at the time of death before subtractions for deductions, debts, administrative expenses, and casualty losses suffered during estate administration.
• Gross estate: means gross estate as defined and used in sections 2031 to 2046 of the Internal Revenue Code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236D-2
• Gross estate: means gross estate as defined and used in sections 2031 to 2046 of the Internal Revenue Code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• gross rental proceeds: means the gross receipts, cash or accrued, of the taxpayer received as compensation for the furnishing of transient accommodations or entering into arrangements to furnish transient accommodations and the value proceeding or accruing from the furnishing of transient accommodations or entering into arrangements to furnish transient accommodations, including resort fees, without any deductions on account of the cost of property or services sold, the cost of materials used, labor cost, taxes, royalties, interest, discounts, or any other expenses whatsoever. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 237D-1
• 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 estate tax: means the tax due to the State with respect to a taxable transfer, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Hawaii generation-skipping transfer tax: means the tax due to the State with respect to a taxable transfer that gives rise to a federal generation-skipping transfer tax. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Hawaii net taxable estate: means Hawaii taxable estate less the applicable exclusion amount as set forth in § 236E-6. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Hawaii state building codes: means the building codes and standards that the state building code council adopts under § 107-24. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 107-21
• Hawaii transfer tax: means the Hawaii estate tax or the Hawaii generation-skipping transfer tax. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Hazardous substance: includes any substance designated pursuant to section 311(b)(2)(A) of the Clean Water Act; any element, compound, mixture, solution, or substance designated pursuant to section 102 of CERCLA; any hazardous waste having the characteristics identified under or listed pursuant to section 3001 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act; any toxic pollutant listed under section 307(a) of the Clean Water Act; any hazardous air pollutant listed under section 112 of the Clean Air Act, as amended (42 U. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128D-1
• Health professional: means any of the following:

  (1) A person licensed or otherwise authorized by law to practice medicine or surgery under this chapter and whose scope of practice includes the diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases;

  (2) An advanced practice registered nurse with prescriptive authority under chapter 457 and duly licensed in the State; or

  (3) For the purpose of dispensing antibiotic therapy under this section, a pharmacist who is licensed or otherwise authorized to engage in the practice of pharmacy under chapter 461. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 453-51

• Homeland security: means a concerted effort to:
  (1) Prevent terrorist attacks within the United States;
  (2) Reduce the State's vulnerability to attacks and terrorist activities; and
  (3) Minimize the damage and recover from attacks that occur. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128A-2
• Hurricane resistant criteria: means the design criteria for enhanced hurricane protection areas that are capable of withstanding a five hundred-year hurricane event, as developed by the state department of defense for public shelter and residential safe room design criteria. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 107-21
• 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}
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.
• Interbank broker: means a person, who for a fee, brokerage, or other compensation, either directly or indirectly, provides brokerage services as an intermediary or agent in transactions between financial institutions where one financial institution:

  (1) Supplies funds to another financial institution by making a loan, placing funds in a deposit account, or otherwise extending credit to the other institution;

  (2) Buys, sells, trades, or swaps currency, commercial paper, banker's acceptances, negotiable certificates of deposit, treasury bills, notes, or bonds with another financial institution; or

  (3) Enters into interest rate swaps, forward rate agreements, or interest rate futures contracts with another financial institution. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 241-1

• 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}
• Internal Revenue Code: includes the federal tax principles of alter ego, nominee, sham transaction, substance over form, economic substance, or business purpose, as those principles are developed by statute or common law. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236D-2
• Internal Revenue Code: means subtitle B of the federal Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended as of December 31, 2022, as it applies to the determination of gross estate, adjusted gross estate, federal taxable estate, and generation-skipping transfers, except those provisions of the Internal Revenue Code and federal public laws that, pursuant to this chapter, do not apply or are otherwise limited in application. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-3
• interoperable communications: means the ability of first responder and emergency management agencies to communicate with one another via communication systems, including exchanging voice and data with one another on demand, in real time, when needed, and as authorized. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128A-11
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers.
• Judge advocate: means a commissioned officer of the organized state military forces who is a member in good standing of the bar of the highest court of a state, and is:
  (1) Certified or designated as a judge advocate in the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the United States Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard, or a reserve component of one of the above;
  (2) Certified as a non-federally recognized judge advocate by the senior force judge advocate as competent to perform the military justice duties required by this chapter; or
  (3) Certified by a senior judge advocate of the commander of another force in the state military forces, as the convening authority directs; provided that there is no judge advocate available as described under paragraph (1) or (2). See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Land: means the earth, water, and air, above, below, or on the surface, and includes easements and rights in land, and any improvement on land. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 173A-2
• leasing: includes all forms of lease, regardless of whether the lease is an operating lease or financing lease. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 238-1
• Legal officer: means any commissioned officer of the organized militia of the State designated to perform legal duties for a command. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• Lessor: means any person in the business of providing rental motor vehicles to the public. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 251-1
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Licensed mental health counselor: means a person:

  (1) Who engages in the practice of mental health counseling and uses the title of licensed mental health counselor;

  (2) Who has been issued a license under this chapter; and

  (3) Whose license is in effect and not revoked or suspended. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 453D-1

• Liquor law: means chapter 281. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 244D-1
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Local contact: means an individual residing on the same island as the transient accommodation or resort time share vacation unit or an entity with a place of business and at least one employee, officer, partner, member, or other person working on behalf of the company who is residing on the same island as the transient accommodation or resort time share vacation unit. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 237D-1
• Military: refers to any or all of the armed forces. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Military court: means a court-martial or court of inquiry. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Military judge: means an official of a general or special court-martial detailed in accordance with part V of this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Military offenses: means those offenses that are enumerated in part X of this chapter that do not have a corresponding offense in the civilian penal code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. ^{Source: OCC}
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
• National contingency plan: means the national contingency plan published under section 311(d) of the Clean Water Act or revised pursuant to section 105 of CERCLA. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128D-1
• 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
• Necessary: means any methods, measures, or other actions or determinations as are needed in the opinion of the governor, or the governor's authorized representative, or a mayor, or a mayor's authorized representative. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128A-2
• 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.
• Noncandidate committee: means an organization, association, party, or individual that has the purpose of making or receiving contributions, making expenditures, or incurring financial obligations to influence the nomination for election, or the election, of any candidate to office, or for or against any question or issue on the ballot; provided that a noncandidate committee does not include:
  (1) A candidate committee;
  (2) Any individual making a contribution or making an expenditure of the individual's own funds or anything of value that the individual originally acquired for the individual's own use and not for the purpose of evading any provision of this part; or
  (3) Any organization that raises or expends funds for the sole purpose of producing and disseminating informational or educational communications that are not made to influence the outcome of an election, question, or issue on a ballot. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
• Noncitizen transfer: means a transfer within the meaning of section 2101 of the Internal Revenue Code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236D-2
• Nonresident: means a decedent who was not domiciled in Hawaii at time of death. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236D-2
• Nonresident: means a decedent who was not domiciled in the State at time of death. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Nonresident not a citizen: means a nonresident who is not a citizen of the United States. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236D-2
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• oath: includes a solemn affirmation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-21
• Occupant: means an owner of a resort time share vacation plan or other person occupying the resort time share vacation unit. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 237D-1
• Office: means any Hawaii elective public or constitutional office, excluding county neighborhood board and federal elective offices. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
• Officer: means a commissioned officer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Officer in charge: means a member of the state military forces designated by the appropriate authority. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Oil: means oil of any kind or in any form, including, but not limited to, petroleum, fuel oil, sludge, oil refuse, oil mixed with wastes, crude oil or any fraction or residue. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128D-1
• Operator: means any person operating a transient accommodation, whether as owner or proprietor or as lessee, sublessee, mortgagee in possession, licensee, or otherwise, or engaging or continuing in any service business which involves the actual furnishing of transient accommodation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 237D-1
• operator: means :

  (1) In the case of a vessel, any person owning, operating, or chartering by demise the vessel;

  (2) In the case of an onshore facility or an offshore facility, any person owning or operating the facility; and

  (3) In the case of any facility, title or control of which was conveyed due to bankruptcy, foreclosure, tax delinquency, abandonment, or similar means to a unit of a state or local government, any person who owned, operated, or otherwise controlled activities at the facility immediately beforehand. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128D-1

• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Overtime compensation: means compensation based on not less than one and one-half times the laborers or mechanics basic hourly rate of pay plus the cost to an employer of furnishing a laborer or mechanic with fringe benefits as described in the definition of "wages"; provided that if the department determines that a prevailing wage is defined by a collective bargaining agreement, the overtime compensation shall be at the rates set by the applicable collective bargaining agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 104-1
• Owner: means any person who owns a resort time share vacation interest; provided that to the extent and for those purposes provided in an agreement of sale, the vendee under the agreement of sale shall be considered the owner of the resort time share vacation interest. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 237D-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.
• Permittee: means the holder of a permit provided for in § 244D-2. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 244D-1
• Person: means any individual, estate, trust, receiver, cooperative association, club, corporation, company, firm, partnership, joint venture, syndicate, or other entity and, to the extent permitted by law, any federal, state, or other governmental unit or subdivision or agency, department, or instrumentality thereof. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236D-2
• Person: means any individual, estate, trust, receiver, cooperative association, club, corporation, company, firm, partnership, joint venture, syndicate, or other entity and, to the extent permitted by law, any federal, state, or other governmental unit or subdivision or agency, department, or instrumentality thereof. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Person: means an individual, partnership, society, unincorporated association, joint adventure, group, hui, joint stock company, corporation, trustee, or other fiduciary, or other entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 244D-1
• Person: means any individual, firm, corporation, association, partnership, consortium, joint venture, commercial entity, state, county, commission, political subdivision of the State, or, to the extent they are subject to this chapter, the United States or any interstate body. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128D-1
• Person: includes individual and entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
• Person: means an individual, a partnership, a candidate committee or noncandidate committee, a party, an association, a corporation, a business entity, an organization, or a labor union and its auxiliary committees. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personal representative: means the personal representative of a decedent appointed under chapter 560, and includes an executor (as defined under section 2203 of the Internal Revenue Code), administrator, successor personal representative, special administrator, and persons who perform substantially the same function under the law governing their status. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236D-2
• Personal representative: means the personal representative of a decedent appointed under chapter 560, and includes an executor as defined under section 2203 of the Internal Revenue Code, administrator, successor personal representative, special administrator, and persons who perform substantially the same function under the law governing their status. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Petroleum product: means any liquid hydrocarbon at standard temperature and pressure that is the product of the fractionalization, distillation, or other refining or processing of crude oil. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 243-1
• physical disability: means a physical impairment that substantially limits one or more of a person's major life activities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 304A-101
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Plan manager: means a person who undertakes the duties, responsibilities, and obligations of managing a resort time share vacation plan or is required to act for a resort time share vacation plan under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 237D-1
• 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.
• Plea agreement: An arrangement between the prosecutor, the defense attorney, and the defendant in which the defendant agrees to plead guilty in exchange for special considerations. ^Source:
• 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.
• Pollutant or contaminant: means any element, substance, compound, or mixture, which after release into the environment and upon exposure, ingestion, inhalation, or assimilation into any organism either directly from the environment or indirectly by ingestion through food chains, will or may reasonably be anticipated to cause death, disease, behavioral abnormalities, cancer, genetic mutation, physiological malfunctions (including malfunctions in reproduction) or physical deformations, in such organisms or their offspring. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128D-1
• Power-generating facility: means any electricity-generating facility that requires a permit issued under the federal Clean Air Act (42 U. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 243-1
• Practice of mental health counseling: includes but is not limited to:

  (1) The assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of, and counseling for, mental and emotional disorders;

  (2) The assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of, and counseling for, substance abuse and conduct disorders defined in the approved diagnostic and statistical manual for mental disorders;

  (3) The application of educational techniques aimed at the prevention of these disorders; and

  (4) The provision of consultative services to individuals, couples, families, groups, organizations, and communities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 453D-1

• 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 hearing: A hearing where the judge decides whether there is enough evidence to make the defendant have a trial.
• President: means the detailed member senior in rank of a court-martial then serving. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Price: means the total amount for which property, services, or contracting are purchased, valued in money, whether paid in money or otherwise, and wheresoever paid; provided that cash discounts allowed and taken on sales shall not be included. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 238-1
• 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.
• Project: means any combination of land and buildings and other improvements thereon for use in, but not limited to research, development, demonstration, processing, or manufacturing activities or enterprises utilizing or in support of the utilization of natural resources and geothermal energy which are located in a research and technology park and acquired, constructed, reconstructed, rehabilitated, improved, altered, or repaired by or on behalf of the authority. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 227D-1
• Project agreement: means any lease, sublease, loan agreement, conditional sale agreement, or other similar financing contract or agreement, or any combination thereof entered into under this chapter by the authority, including the financing from the proceeds of bonds of a project or a research and technology park. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 227D-1
• Property: means :

  (1) For a transfer, property included in the gross estate; and

  (2) For a generation-skipping transfer, all real and personal property subject to the federal generation-skipping transfer tax. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236D-2

• Property: means property included in the gross estate. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Property: means tangible personal property, intangible property, and prepaid telephone calling services but does not include:

  (1) Newspapers or other periodical publications purchased on the subscription plan, issued at stated intervals as frequently as four times a year, and of the class admitted to the United States mails as second class matter under the laws and regulations governing the postal service on January 1, 1965;

  (2) Securities as defined in title 15 United States Code § 78c or similar laws of jurisdictions outside the United States;

  (3) Commodities for future delivery and other agreements, options, and rights as defined in title 7 United States Code § 2 that are permitted to be traded on a board of trade designated by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission under the Commodity Exchange Act;

  (4) Evidence of indebtedness;

  (5) Interest in land; or

  (6) Dividends as defined by chapter 235. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 238-1

• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Prospective purchaser: means a prospective owner, operator, tenant, developer, lender, or any other party who would not otherwise be liable under § 128D-6, prior to a voluntary response action being conducted. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128D-32
• 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 227D-1
• 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 work: means any project, including development of any housing pursuant to § 46-15 or chapter 201H and development, construction, renovation, and maintenance related to refurbishment of any real or personal property, where the funds or resources required or used to undertake the project are to any extent derived, either directly or indirectly, from public revenues of the State or any county, or from the sale of securities or bonds whose interest or dividends are exempt from state or federal taxes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 104-1
• Purchaser: means any person purchasing property, services, or contracting and "importer" means any person importing property, services, or contracting, regardless if at the time of importation, the property, services, or contracting is owned by the importer, purchased from an unlicensed seller, or however acquired; provided that the terms "purchaser" and "importer" shall not include the State, its political subdivisions, or wholly owned agencies or instrumentalities of the State or a political subdivision; or the United States, its wholly owned agencies or instrumentalities, or any person immune from the tax imposed by this chapter under the Constitution and laws of the United States but the terms shall include national banks. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 238-1
• Qualified heir: means a qualified heir as defined in section 2032A(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Qualified person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, public agency, or any combination or association of the foregoing, possessing the competence, expertise, experience, and resources, including financial, personnel, and tangible resources, required for the purposes of a project and other qualifications as may be deemed desirable by the authority in administering this chapter and that enters into a project agreement with the authority. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 227D-1
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Rank: means the order of precedence among members of the state military forces. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Real property: means lands, structures, and interests therein, and natural resources including water, minerals, and all things connected with land, including lands under water and riparian rights, space rights, air rights, and any and all other things and rights usually included within the term. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 227D-1
• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• Record: when used in connection with the proceedings of a court-martial or court of inquiry, means:
  (1) An official written transcript, written summary, or other writing relating to the proceedings; or
  (2) An official audiotape, videotape, digital image or file, or similar material from which sound, or sound and visual images, depicting the proceedings may be reproduced. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Record date: means the date established under part [VII or VIII] of this chapter on which a corporation determines the identity of its shareholders and their shareholdings for purposes of this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
• Release: means a document issued by the department which certifies that all taxes have either been paid or which releases the estate from all taxes due under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236D-2
• Release: means a document issued by the department that certifies that all taxes have been paid or the estate is released from all taxes due under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Release: means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing of any hazardous substance or pollutant or contaminant into the environment, (including the abandonment or discarding of barrels, containers, and other closed receptacles containing any hazardous substance or pollutant or contaminant); but excludes:

  (1) Any release which results in exposure of persons solely within a workplace, with respect to a claim which such exposed persons may assert against their employer;

  (2) Emissions from the engine exhaust of a motor vehicle, rolling stock, aircraft, vessel, or pipeline pumping station engine;

  (3) Release of source, byproduct, or special nuclear material from a nuclear incident, as those terms are defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128D-1

• 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.
• 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
• removal action: means the cleanup of released hazardous substances or pollutants or contaminants from the environment, such actions as may be necessary to take in the event of the threat of release of hazardous substances or pollutants or contaminants into the environment, such actions as may be necessary to monitor, assess, and evaluate the release or threat of release of hazardous substances or pollutants or contaminants, the disposal of removed material, or the taking of such other actions as may be necessary to prevent, minimize, or mitigate damage to the public health or welfare or to the environment, which may otherwise result from a release or threat of release. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128D-1
• rental: means the leasing or renting of living quarters or sleeping or housekeeping accommodations in hotels, apartment hotels, motels, condominium property regimes or apartments defined in chapter 514A or units defined in chapter 514B, cooperative apartments, rooming houses, or other places in which lodgings are regularly furnished to transients for a consideration, without transfer of the title of such property. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 237D-1
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• Representation: refers to any or all of the following:

  (1) A seller being present in the State;

  (2) A seller having in the State a salesperson, commission agent, manufacturer's representative, broker, or other person who is authorized or employed by the seller to assist the seller in selling property, services, or contracting for use or consumption in the State, by procuring orders for the sales, making collections or deliveries, or otherwise; and

  (3) A seller having in the State a person upon whom process directed to the seller from the courts of the State may be served, including the director of commerce and consumer affairs and the deputy director in the cases provided in § 414-64. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 238-1

• Requesting party: means the person or persons submitting an application to conduct a voluntary response action. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128D-32
• Research advisory committee: means the research committee that is advisory to the board and is established by § 227D-4 and any successor thereto. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 227D-1
• Research and technology park: means a tract of real property determined by the board as being suitable for use as building sites for projects engaged in research, development, demonstration, processing, or manufacturing activities or retail or commercial enterprises utilizing or in support of the utilization of natural resources or geothermal energy. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 227D-1
• Resident: means a decedent who was domiciled in Hawaii at time of death. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236D-2
• Resident: means a decedent who was domiciled in the State at the time of death. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Resident trust: means a resident trust as defined under § 235-1; or if the administration is partly carried on in the State and partly outside the State, a trust where one-half or more of the fiduciaries reside in the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Resort time share vacation interest: means any interest in a resort time share vacation unit or plan which entitles the owner thereof to the use, occupancy, or possession of a resort time share vacation unit on a periodically recurring basis. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 237D-1
• Resort time share vacation plan: means any plan or program subject to chapter 514E in which the use, occupancy, or possession of one or more resort time share vacation units circulates among various persons for less than a sixty-day period in any year, for any occupant. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 237D-1
• Resort time share vacation unit: means the actual and promised accommodations, and related facilities, which are the subject of a resort time share vacation plan. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 237D-1
• response: means remove, removal, remedy, or remedial action; and all such terms include government enforcement activities related thereto. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128D-1
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Restriction: means the least severe form of deprivation of liberty. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Retail dealer: means a person who purchases liquid fuel from a licensed distributor and sells the liquid fuel at retail. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 243-1
• Revocable trust: A trust agreement that can be canceled, rescinded, revoked, or repealed by the grantor (person who establishes the trust).
• 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
• sale: means any transfer, exchange, or barter, conditional or otherwise, in any manner or by any means, wheresoever consummated, of property, services, or contracting for a consideration. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 238-1
• Sale: means any transfer of title or possession, or both, exchange or barter, in any manner or by any means whatsoever, for a consideration. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 244D-1
• Secretary: means the corporate officer to whom the board of directors has delegated responsibility under section 414-231(c) for preparation and custody of the minutes of the meetings of the board of directors and of the shareholders and for authenticating records of the corporation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
• Seller: means any person engaged in the business of selling property, services, or contracting, wheresoever engaged, but does not include the United States or its wholly owned agencies or instrumentalities other than national banks, the State or a political subdivision thereof, or wholly owned agencies or instrumentalities of the State or a political subdivision. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 238-1
• 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
• Senior force judge advocate: means the senior judge advocate of the commander of the same force of the state military forces as the accused and who is that commander's chief legal advisor. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Sequester: To separate. Sometimes juries are sequestered from outside influences during their deliberations.
• Service business or calling: includes all activities engaged in for other persons for a consideration that involve the rendering of a service as distinguished from the sale of property or the production and sale of property. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 238-1
• 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.
• Sexual activity: means sexual intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, anal intercourse, or any other intrusion, however slight, of any part of a person's body or of any object into the genital or anal openings of another person's body, but emission of semen is not required. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 453-51
• Sexually transmitted disease: means chlamydia, gonorrhea, or other sexually transmitted diseases that are or may be recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for expedited partner therapy. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 453-51
• Shareholder: means the person in whose name shares are registered in the records of a corporation or the beneficial owner of shares to the extent of the rights granted by a nominee certificate on file with a corporation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
• Shares: means the units into which the proprietary interests in a corporation are divided. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
• sister-state or province relationship: means a relationship between the State of Hawaii and the state or province or similar governmental or political subdivision of a foreign nation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 229-1
• Situs: means , with respect to a decedent not a resident or citizen of the United States, the location of the decedent's property within the meaning of section 2104 of the Internal Revenue Code, including regulations and other guidance issued thereunder, substituting "Hawaii" for "the United States". See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Small business investment company: means a company approved by the federal Small Business Administration to operate under the provisions of the federal Small Business Investment Act of 1958 (72 U. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 241-1
• Sparkling wine: means champagne and any other effervescent wine charged with more than 0. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 244D-1
• State: means any state or territory of the United States and the District of Columbia. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• State building construction: means any building construction project or program initiated by a state agency or requiring the use of state funds. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 107-21
• State judge advocate: means the commissioned officer responsible for supervising the administration of military justice in the state military forces. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• State military forces: means the National Guard of the State, as defined in title 32 United States Code § 101(3), the organized naval militia of the State, and any other military force organized under the laws of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• State on-scene coordinator: means the state official designated by the department of health to coordinate and direct responses under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128D-1
• States: includes the several states of the United States, the District of Columbia, and the possessions and territories of the United States. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128A-2
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• Still wine: means any nonsparkling wine and shall include those wines containing not more than 0. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 244D-1
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Subsidiary: means any corporation doing business in Hawaii engaged in activities set forth in Title 12 of the Code of Federal Regulations, sections 225. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 241-1
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Superior commissioned officer: means a commissioned officer superior in rank or command. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Surcharge tax: means the rental motor vehicle and tour vehicle surcharge tax established under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 251-1
• Taxable estate: means taxable estate as defined in sections 2051 to 2056 of the Internal Revenue Code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236D-2
• taxable transfer: means :

  (1) A transfer as used in section 2001(a) of the Internal Revenue Code and shall include the disposition of or failure to use property for a qualified use under section 2032A(c) of the Internal Revenue Code; or

  (2) A generation-skipping transfer as defined and used in section 2611 of the Internal Revenue Code; provided that a direct skip that is a transfer subject to the tax imposed by chapter 12 of the Internal Revenue Code shall not be treated as a taxable transfer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2

• Taxpayer: means any person liable for any tax in this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 237D-1
• Tenancy in common: A type of property ownership in which two or more individuals have an undivided interest in property. At the death of one tenant in common, his (her) fractional percentage of ownership in the property passes to the decedent
• Testate: To die leaving a will.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• 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.
• Tour vehicle: means any vehicle, including vans, minibuses, and buses used for the purpose of transporting persons for pleasure or sightseeing trips, or transporting persons to pleasure or sightseeing cruises or destinations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 251-1
• Tour vehicle operator: means a person who owns, manages, or dispatches tour vehicles. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 251-1
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Transfer: means transfer as defined and used in section 2001 of the Internal Revenue Code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236D-2
• Transferee: means a transferee within the meaning of sections 2603(a)(1) and 6901(h) of the Internal Revenue Code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
• Transferred property: means :

  (1) With respect to a taxable transfer subject to the federal estate tax, the deceased individual's gross estate as defined in section 2031 of the Internal Revenue Code;

  (2) With respect to a taxable transfer occurring as a result of a taxable termination as defined in section 2612(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, the taxable amount determined under section 2622(a) of the Internal Revenue Code;

  (3) With respect to a taxable transfer occurring as a result of a taxable distribution as defined in section 2612(b) of the Internal Revenue Code, the taxable amount determined under section 2621(a) of the Internal Revenue Code;

  (4) With respect to a taxable transfer occurring as a result of a direct skip, as defined in section 2612(c) of the Internal Revenue Code, the taxable amount determined under section 2623 of the Internal Revenue Code; and

  (5) With respect to an event which causes the imposition of an additional federal estate tax under section 2032A(c) of the Internal Revenue Code, the qualified real property that was disposed of or which ceased to be used for the qualified use, within the meaning of section 2032A(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2

• Transient accommodations: means the furnishing of a room, apartment, suite, single family dwelling, or the like to a transient for less than one hundred eighty consecutive days for each letting in a hotel, apartment hotel, motel, condominium property regime or apartment as defined in chapter 514A or unit as defined in chapter 514B, cooperative apartment, dwelling unit, or rooming house that provides living quarters, sleeping, or housekeeping accommodations, or other place in which lodgings are regularly furnished to transients. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 237D-1
• Transient accommodations broker: means any person or entity, including but not limited to persons who operate online websites, online travel agencies, or online booking agencies, that offers, lists, advertises, or accepts reservations or collects whole or partial payment for transient accommodations or resort time share vacation interests, units, or plans. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 237D-1
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trust company: means a corporation or joint stock company authorized to conduct business as a trust company under article 8 of chapter 412. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 241-1
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• university: refers to the University of Hawaii, unless otherwise required by the context. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 304A-101
• Unlicensed seller: means any seller who, with respect to the particular sale, is not subject to the tax imposed by chapter 237, whether or not the seller holds a license under that chapter, but does not include any seller with respect to any sale which is expressly exempted from the tax imposed by chapter 237. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 238-1
• Uphold: The decision of an appellate court not to reverse a lower court decision.
• Use: means any use, whether such use is of such nature as to cause the property to be appreciably consumed or not, or the keeping of such property for such use or for sale, and shall include the exercise of any right or power over tangible personal property incident to the ownership of that property. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 244D-1
• Usury: Charging an illegally high interest rate on a loan. ^{Source: OCC}
• Value: means fair and reasonable cash value at the time of accrual of the tax. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 238-1
• vehicle: means every vehicle which is:

  (1) Self-propelled and every vehicle which is propelled by electric power but which is not operated upon rails which is rented or leased or offered for rent or lease in this State, whether for personal or commercial use, for a period of six months or less; and

  (2) Designed to carry seventeen passengers or fewer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 251-1

• Vessel: means every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128D-1
• Voluntary response action: means a response conducted voluntarily by a requesting party. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 128D-32
• Voting group: means all shares of one or more classes or series that under the articles of incorporation or this chapter are entitled to vote and be counted together collectively on a matter at a meeting of shareholders. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
• Wine: means the product obtained from normal alcoholic fermentation of the juice of sound ripe grapes or other agricultural products containing natural or added sugar or any such alcoholic beverage to which is added grape brandy, fruit brandy, or spirits of wine, which is distilled from the particular agricultural product or products of which the wine is made and other rectified wine products and by whatever name and which contains not more than twenty-four per cent of alcohol by volume, and includes vermouth and sake, known as Japanese rice wine, but does not include cooler beverage. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 244D-1
• wine gallon: means that liquid measure containing one hundred twenty-eight fluid ounces (3. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 244D-1
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.