Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 340E > Part I - Drinking Water Regulations

• Administrator: means the administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-1
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Aviation fuel: means and includes all liquid substances of whatever chemical composition usable for the propulsion of airplanes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-1
• Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
• Biofuels: means liquid or gaseous fuels produced from organic sources such as biomass crops, agricultural residues, and oil crops, such as palm oil, canola oil, soybean oil, waste cooking oil, grease, and food wastes, animal residues and wastes, and sewage and landfill wastes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-1
• Classes of retail trade: means the separate subdivisions, or "classes" of outlets or methods of retail sales of liquid fuels, typically but not always limited to gasoline and diesel for motor vehicles, and includes any:

  (1) Company-operated station that is a retail service station owned and operated by a refiner or wholesale distributor and where retail prices are set by that refiner or wholesale distributor;

  (2) Lessee dealer-operated station that is a retail service station owned by a refiner or wholesale distributor and operated by a qualified gasoline dealer other than a refiner or wholesale distributor under a franchise; or

  (3) Owner-operated station that is a retail service station not owned by a refiner or wholesale distributor and operated by a qualified gasoline dealer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-1

• Commission: means the public utilities commission. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-1
• Commission: means the public utilities commission. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486H-1
• Contaminant: means any physical, chemical, biological, or radiological substance or matter in water. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-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
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-1
• Department: means the department of business, economic development, and tourism. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-1
• Director: means the director of business, economic development, and tourism. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-1
• Director: means the director of health or the director's authorized agent. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-1
• Distributor: means :

  (1) Every person who refines, manufactures, produces, or compounds fuel in the State and sells it at wholesale or at retail;

  (2) Every person who imports or causes to be imported into the State, or exports or causes to be exported from the State, any fuel;

  (3) Every person who acquires fuel through exchanges with another distributor; or

  (4) Every person who purchases fuel for resale at wholesale or retail from any person described in paragraph (1), (2), or (3); provided that "distributor" shall not include a marina, lessee dealer-operated station, owner-operated station, or other retailer that retails fuel only to end users or the public. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-1

• Energy: means work or heat that is, or may be, produced from any fuel or source whatsoever. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-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}
• 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.
• Federal Act: means the Safe Drinking Water Act, Public Law 93-523, as amended by the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1986, Public Law 99-339, and the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996, Public Law 104-182. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-1
• Federal agency: means any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-1
• Fuel: means fuels, whether liquid, solid, or gaseous, commercially usable for energy needs, power generation, and fuels manufacture, that may be manufactured, grown, produced, or imported into the State or that may be exported therefrom, including petroleum and petroleum products and gases, coal, coal tar, vegetable ferments, and all fuel alcohols. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-1
• Gasoline: includes gasoline, benzol, benzine, naphtha, and any other liquid prepared, advertised, offered for sale, sold for use as, or used for, the generation of power for the propulsion of motor vehicles, including any product obtained by blending together any one or more petroleum products with or without other products, if the resultant product is capable of the same use. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486H-1
• Guest: means a person who is registered at the hotel and to whom a bedroom is assigned. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486K-1
• Injection: means the subsurface emplacement of any material, liquid, semi-solid, or solid, or any admixture thereof, which may add a contaminant to underground waters. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-1
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Inventory: means the volume, in barrels, of reserve that is normally maintained by the reporting entity on a monthly basis. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-1
• Jobber: means every wholesaler of petroleum products. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486H-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.
• keeper: includes any individual, firm, or corporation actually operating a hotel. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486K-1
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Liquid fuel: means fuels in liquid form, commercially usable for energy needs, power generation, and fuels that may be manufactured, produced, or imported into the State or that may be exported therefrom, including petroleum and petroleum products and all fuel alcohols. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-1
• Manufacturer: means every producer or refiner of petroleum products on January 1, 1992, or any subsidiary of that producer or refiner. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486H-1
• month: means a calendar month; and the word "year" a calendar year. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-20
• National primary drinking water regulations: means primary drinking water regulations promulgated by the administrator pursuant to the Federal Act. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-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.
• Person: means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, or company. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-1
• Person: means an individual, corporation, company, association, partnership, county, city and county, state, or federal agency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-1
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Petroleum products: includes motor vehicle fuel, residual oils number 4, 5, and 6, and all grades of jet (turbo) fuel. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486H-1
• Pre-tax: when used in reference to a price means such price net of the fuel-related or other taxes assessed when the gasoline is sold. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486H-1
• Primary drinking water regulation: means a regulation or rule which:

  (1) Applies to public water systems;

  (2) Specifies contaminants which, in the judgment of the director, may have any adverse effect on the health of persons;

  (3) Specifies for each contaminant either:

  (A) A maximum contaminant level if, in the judgment of the director, it is economically and technologically feasible to ascertain the level of such contaminant in public water systems; or

  (B) If, in the judgment of the director, it is not economically or technologically feasible to ascertain the contaminant level[,] each treatment technique known to the director which leads to a reduction in the level of such contaminant sufficient to satisfy the requirements of § 340E-2; and

  (4) Contains criteria and procedures to assure a supply of drinking water which dependably complies with such maximum contaminant levels, including accepted methods for quality control and testing procedures to insure compliance with such levels and proper operation and maintenance of the system, and requirements as to:

  (A) The minimum quality of water which may be taken into the system; and

  (B) Siting for new facilities for public water systems. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-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 water system: means a system which provides water for human consumption through pipes or other constructed conveyances if the system has at least fifteen service connections or regularly serves at least twenty-five individuals. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-1
• Refiner: means any person who owns, operates, or controls the operations of one or more refineries in Hawaii. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-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.
• Sale: means any exchange, gift, or other disposition. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486H-1
• Security box: means any metal or alloy box, used in a hotel for the safekeeping of any valuables, which may be securely locked with a locking mechanism that meets or exceeds Underwriters Laboratories standards and which shall be secured in a manner which precludes its removal from the room. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486K-1
• Storage capacity: means the maximum volume, in barrels, of used and useful facility capacity for storage. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-1
• Supplier of water: means any person who owns or operates a public water system. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-1
• Valuables: includes money, bank notes, bonds, precious stones, jewelry, ornaments, watches, securities, transportation tickets, photographic cameras, checks, drafts, and other negotiable instruments, business papers, documents, and other papers, and other articles of value. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486K-1