Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 334 > Part I - General and Administrative Provisions

• Acquittal:
  1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
  2. A verdict of "not guilty."
   
• Administrator: means the person in charge of a public or private hospital. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1
• Advertisement: means a commercial message in any medium that aids, promotes, or assists, directly or indirectly, a lease-purchase agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481M-1
• Authorized absence: means absence of a patient from a psychiatric facility for any period of time with permission. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• Community mental health center: means one or more facilities which alone or in conjunction with other facilities, public or private, are part of a coordinated program providing a variety of mental health services principally for persons residing in a community or communities in or near which the center is located. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1
• Consumer: means a person in this State who purchases or otherwise possesses a vehicle protection product. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481R-1
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
• Court: means any duly constituted court and includes proceedings, hearings of per diem judges as authorized by law. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1
• 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}
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Dangerous to others: means likely to do substantial physical or emotional injury on another, as evidenced by a recent act, attempt or threat. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1
• Dangerous to self: means the person recently has:

  (1) Threatened or attempted suicide or serious bodily harm; or

  (2) Behaved in such a manner as to indicate that the person is unable, without supervision and the assistance of others, to satisfy the need for nourishment, essential medical care, including treatment for a mental illness, shelter or self-protection, so that it is probable that death, substantial bodily injury, or serious physical debilitation or disease will result unless adequate treatment is afforded. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1

• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1
• Director: means the director of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1
• Discharge: means the formal termination on the records of a psychiatric facility of a patient's period of treatment at the facility. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Express verifiable authorization: means express written authorization by the consumer, including but not limited to the consumer's signature on a negotiable instrument, that specifically authorizes the seller or telephone solicitor to obtain payment from a consumer's checking, savings, or bank card account. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481P-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}
• Goods or services: means any real property or any tangible or intangible personal property or services of any kind provided or offered to a consumer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481P-1
• 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.
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Investment opportunity: means anything tangible or intangible, that is offered for sale, sold, or traded based wholly or in part on representations, either express or implied, about past, present, or future income, profit, or appreciation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481P-1
• Judge: means any judge of the family court or per diem judge appointed by the chief justice as provided in section 604-2. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Lessee: means a natural person who rents personal property under a lease-purchase agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481M-1
• Lessor: means a person who regularly provides the use of property through lease-purchase agreements and to whom lease payments are initially payable on the face of the lease-purchase agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481M-1
• Material: means any factor likely to affect a person's choice of, or conduct regarding, goods or services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481P-1
• Mental health: means a state of social, psychological, and physical well-being, with capacity to function effectively in a variety of social roles. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1
• National Credit Union Administration: The federal regulatory agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. (NCUA also administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which insures the deposits of federal credit unions.) ^{Source: OCC}
• Outbound telephone call: means a telephone call initiated by a seller or telephone solicitor to induce the purchase of goods or services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481P-1
• Patient: means a person under observation, care, or treatment at a psychiatric facility. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1
• Payment: means anything of value, including any interest, benefit, privilege, claim, or right with respect to anything of value, whether real or personal, tangible or intangible. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481P-1
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Prize: means anything offered or purportedly offered and given or purportedly given to a consumer by chance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481P-1
• Prize promotion: means a sweepstakes or other game of chance or an oral or written representation that a consumer has won, has been selected to receive, or is eligible to receive a prize or purported prize. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481P-1
• Psychiatric facility: means a public or private hospital or part thereof which provides inpatient or outpatient care, custody, diagnosis, treatment or rehabilitation services for mentally ill persons or for persons habituated to the excessive use of drugs or alcohol or for intoxicated persons. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Reimbursement insurance policy: means a policy of insurance issued to a warrantor to:

  (1) Provide reimbursement to the warrantor under the terms of the insured vehicle protection product issued or sold by the warrantor; and

  (2) Pay on behalf of the warrantor, in the event of the warrantor's nonperformance, all covered obligations incurred by the warrantor under the terms of the insured vehicle protection product issued or sold by the warrantor. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481R-1

• Seller: means a person engaged in the business of offering a vehicle protection product for sale to a consumer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481R-1
• Seller: means any person, who, in connection with a telemarketing transaction, solicits funds or contributions, or arranges for a telephone solicitor to solicit funds or contributions, or provides, offers to provide, or arranges for others to provide goods or services to the consumer in exchange for consideration. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481P-1
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Special treatment facility: means a public or private facility which provides a therapeutic residential program for care, diagnosis, treatment or rehabilitation services for emotionally distressed persons, mentally ill persons or persons suffering from substance abuse. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1
• Telemarketing: means a plan, program, or campaign, including a prize promotion or investment opportunity, that is conducted to induce the purchase of goods or services or to solicit funds or contributions by use of one or more telephones and that involves more than one telephone call. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481P-1
• Telephone solicitor: means any person who in connection with telemarketing, initiates or receives telephone calls to or from a consumer, where either or both parties to the telephone call are located in this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481P-1
• Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
• Treatment: means the broad range of emergency, out-patient, intermediate, domiciliary, and inpatient services and care, including diagnostic evaluation, medical, psychiatric, psychological, and social service care, vocational rehabilitation, career counseling, and other special services which may be extended to handicapped persons. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1
• Vehicle identification number: means a serial number or identification mark of any vehicle established by the manufacturer for the purpose of identifying the vehicle. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481R-1
• Vehicle protection product: means a product or system, which includes a written warranty, that is:

  (1) Installed or applied to a vehicle; and

  (2) Designed to prevent loss or damage to a vehicle from a specific cause. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481R-1

• Warrantor: means a person named under the terms of a vehicle protection product warranty as the contractual obligor to the consumer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481R-1