Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 334 > Part VI - Appeal and Review

• 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
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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.
• Court: means any duly constituted court and includes proceedings, hearings of per diem judges as authorized by law. 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.
• Director: means the director of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481Z-2
• 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
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• 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.
• Patient: means a person under observation, care, or treatment at a psychiatric facility. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1
• 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
• 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
• Registration: means registration as an athlete agent under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481Z-2
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Sign: means , with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record:

  (1) To execute or adopt a tangible symbol; or

  (2) To attach to or logically associate with the record an electronic symbol, sound, or process. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481Z-2

• 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
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.