Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 347 - Blind, Visually Handicapped, and Other Disabled Persons

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• 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.
• 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}
• blind: as used in this chapter , whether used as an adjective or noun, means blind or visually handicapped. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 347-2
• Board: means the board of directors of the development corporation established in section 206M-2, and any successor thereto. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
• Class: means the general categories of insurance, as set forth in §§ 431:1-204 to 431:1-210, in which insurers may be authorized to transact the business of insurance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:9A-102
• Commissioner: means the insurance commissioner. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:9A-102
• Contract: means any policy of life, accident and health or sickness, credit life, credit disability, homeowners, and motor vehicle insurance covering personally owned or personally leased private passenger motor vehicles prepared for delivery by an insurer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:10-102
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Cost: means the total cost in carrying out all undertakings that the development corporation deems reasonable and necessary for the development of a project or econimic zone, including but not limited to the cost of studies, surveys, plans, and specifications, architectural, design, engineering, or any other special related services; the cost of site preparation and development, demolition, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, and improvement; the cost of financing such project or econimic zone, including interest on bonds issued to finance such project or econimic zone from the date thereof to the estimated date of completion of such project or econimic zone as determined by the board; the cost of an allocable portion of the administrative and operating expenses of the development corporation related to the development of such project or econimic zone; and the cost of indemnity and surety bonds, premiums on policies of insurance, legal fees, and fees and expenses of trustees, depositories, and paying agents for the bonds, and for the issuance of letters of credit or other banking arrangements whether for the development corporation or a qualified person; all as the development corporation shall deem necessary. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
• 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 agriculture. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 155D-1
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Development corporation: means the Hawaii technology development corporation established by section 206M-2. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
• Direct investment: means an investment by the corporation in qualified securities of an enterprise to provide capital to an enterprise. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Economic development project: means an endeavor related to industrial, commercial, or advanced technology-based agricultural enterprise "Economic development project" shall not include that portion of an endeavor devoted to the construction of housing

  "Economic zone" means a tract of real property determined by the board as being suitable for use as building sites for projects by one or more industrial, processing, production, or manufacturing enterprises engaged in technology, including but not limited to high technology support facilities, such as greenhouses and manufacturing, value-added, processing, and packaging facilities; research; training; technical analyses; software development; pilot plant; energy development; or prototype product development. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1

• Enterprise: means a person with a place of business in Hawaii which is, or proposes to be, engaged in business in Hawaii; provided that the endeavor shall not be devoted to the sale of goods at retail, construction of housing, or tourism- related services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-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.
• Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Flesch reading ease test: means the test set forth in section 431:10-106. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:10-102
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• 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.
• Insurer: means any company, corporation, exchange, society, or association organized on the stock, mutual, assessment, or fraternal plan of insurance and authorized under the insurance laws of this State to issue life, disability, credit life, credit disability, homeowners, and motor vehicle insurance, including but not limited to fraternal benefit societies, nonprofit health service corporations, nonprofit hospital service corporations, health maintenance organizations, and mutual benefit societies. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:10-102
• 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}
• License: means a document issued by the commissioner authorizing a person to act as an insurance producer for the lines of authority specified in the document. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:9A-102
• Milk: means the lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrums, obtained by the milking of healthy cows or goats normally produced or marketed through the channels of the fluid milk trade or for further processing into milk products. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 155D-1
• Minority-owned businesses: means businesses at least fifty per cent owned, controlled, and managed by socially or economically disadvantaged persons. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
• month: means a calendar month; and the word "year" a calendar year. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-20
• oath: includes a solemn affirmation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-21
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• 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 a sole proprietorship, partnership, joint venture, corporation, or other association of persons organized for commercial or industrial purposes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
• police force: includes among others, jailors, turnkeys, guards, matrons, lunas, and cooks employed in any county jail. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 88-152
• Poultry products: means chicken eggs, uncooked in shell, egg-laying chicks, meat bird chicks, pullets, broilers, fryers, and laying chicken hens. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 155D-1
• producer: means a person required to be licensed under the laws of this State to sell, solicit, or negotiate insurance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:9A-102
• Project: means the acquisition, construction, improvement, installation, equipping, and development of any combination of land, buildings, and other improvements thereon, including, without limitation, parking facilities for use of, or to assist a technology industrial, manufacturing, or processing enterprise located within or without an econimic zone, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, machinery, equipment, furnishings, and apparatus that shall be deemed necessary, suitable, or useful to the enterprise. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
• Project agreement: means any agreement entered into under this chapter by the development corporation with a qualified person to finance, construct, operate, or maintain a project or an econimic zone from the proceeds of special purpose revenue bonds, or to lend the proceeds of special purpose revenue bonds to assist a technology industrial, manufacturing, or processing enterprise, including, without limitation, any lease, sublease, loan agreement, conditional sale agreement, or other similar financing contract or agreement, or any combination thereof. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
• Qualified person: means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, cooperative, or other legal entity, governmental body or public agency, or any combination of the foregoing, possessing the competence, expertise, experience, and resources, including financial, personnel, and tangible resources, required for the purposes of a project and other qualifications as may be deemed desirable by the development corporation in administering this chapter and which enters into a project agreement with the development corporation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
• Qualified producer: means any person that at the time of application for and disbursement of funds under this chapter is in the business of producing:

  (1) Milk from a herd, located in Hawaii, of not less than ten cows or twenty-five lactating milking goats;

  (2) Poultry products from a flock, raised and located in Hawaii, of not less than thirty birds;

  (3) Pork from a herd, raised and located in Hawaii, of not less than ten sows;

  (4) Beef that is grown, slaughtered, processed, and marketed in Hawaii. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 155D-1

• Seed capital: means financing provided for the earliest stage of business development, including but not limited to developing a working prototype, preparing a business plan, performing an initial market analysis, or organizing a management team. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
• Sell: means to exchange a contract of insurance by any means, for money or its equivalent, on behalf of an insurance company. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:9A-102
• service animal: means any dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disability. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 347-2.5
• Solicit: means attempting to sell insurance or asking or urging a person to apply for a particular kind of insurance from a particular company. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:9A-102
• Special facility: means one or more buildings, structures, or facilities and the land thereof located in an econimic zone for the technology industry, including, without limitation, facilities for technology research, development, support, processing, and manufacturing, which are the subject of a special facility lease. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-41
• Special facility lease: includes a contract, lease, or other agreement, or any combination thereof, the subject matter of which is the same special facility. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-41
• Special facility revenue bonds: means all bonds, notes, and other instruments of indebtedness of the State issued pursuant to this part and part III of chapter 39. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-41
• Technology: means industries that are technology-intensive, including but not limited to electronics, biotechnology, software, computers, telecommunications, and other computer-related technologies. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
• Text: includes all printed material in the contract except:

  (1) The insurer's name and address;

  (2) The name, number, or title of the contract;

  (3) The table of contents or index;

  (4) Any captions or subcaptions;

  (5) Any specification pages, schedules, or tables;

  (6) Any language required by federal law, regulation, or agency interpretation or any written certification to exclude such language;

  (7) Any language required by any collective bargaining agreement;

  (8) Any medical terminology; and

  (9) Any definitions. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:10-102

• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}