Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 304A > Part IV > COMMUNITY COLLEGES

• 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
• Board: means the board of land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 6D-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
• 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 campaign spending commission. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
• Commissioned officer: includes a commissioned warrant officer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• Governor: means the governor of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• 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
• 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}
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• 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