Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 334 > Part V - Transfer, Leave, and Discharge

• 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
• Agency contract: means an agreement in which a student athlete authorizes a person to negotiate or solicit on behalf of the athlete a professional-sports-services contract or endorsement contract. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481Z-2
• Authorized absence: means absence of a patient from a psychiatric facility for any period of time with permission. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1
• Commissioner: means the insurance commissioner. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481X-2
• Court: means any duly constituted court and includes proceedings, hearings of per diem judges as authorized by law. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1
• Department: means the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1
• Director: means the director of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481Z-2
• 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
• Educational institution: includes a public or private elementary school, secondary school, technical or vocational school, community college, college, and university. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481Z-2
• Endorsement contract: means an agreement under which a student athlete is employed or receives consideration to use on behalf of the other party of any value that the student athlete may have because of publicity, reputation, following, or fame obtained because of athletic ability or performance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481Z-2
• 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.
• Intercollegiate sport: means a sport played at the collegiate level for which eligibility requirements for participation by a student athlete are established by a national association that promotes or regulates collegiate athletics. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481Z-2
• Interscholastic sport: means a sport played between educational institutions that are not community colleges, colleges, or universities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481Z-2
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Patient: means a person under observation, care, or treatment at a psychiatric facility. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1
• Person: means an individual, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, incorporated or unincorporated association, joint stock company, reciprocal, syndicate, or any similar entity or combination of entities acting in concert. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481X-2
• Person: means an individual, estate, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or other legal entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481Z-2
• Premium: means the consideration paid to an insurer for a contractual liability insurance policy. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481X-2
• Provider: means a person who is contractually obligated to the service contract holder under the terms of the service contract. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481X-2
• 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
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481Z-2
• Registration: means registration as an athlete agent under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481Z-2
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481Z-2
• Student athlete: means an individual who is eligible to attend an educational institution and engages in, is eligible to engage in, or may be eligible in the future to engage in, any interscholastic sport or intercollegiate sport. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481Z-2
• 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