Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 425E > Article 8 - Dissolution

• Actual address: means a residential, work, or school address as specified on an applicant's application and includes the applicant's county of residence and voting precinct. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 801G-1
• Agency: means an agency or instrumentality of the State or any of its political subdivisions. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 801G-1
• 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.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Applicant: includes a primary applicant and a secondary applicant. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 801G-1
• Application assistant: means a current employee or volunteer serving a victim services organization who is certified by the program pursuant to this chapter to assist individuals with applications to participate in the program; provided that an application assistant shall not be an employee of the program. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 801G-1
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Certificate of limited partnership: means the certificate required by § 425E-201. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 425E-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.
• county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
• Department: means the department of law enforcement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 801G-1
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Director: means the director of the department of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 425E-102
• Distribution: means a transfer of money or other property from a limited partnership to a partner in the partner's capacity as a partner or to a transferee on account of a transferable interest owned by the transferee. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 425E-102
• 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.
• General partner: means :

  (1) With respect to a limited partnership, a person that:

  (A) Becomes a general partner under § 425E-401; or

  (B) Was a general partner in a limited partnership when the limited partnership became subject to this chapter under section 425E-1204(a) or (b); and

  (2) With respect to a foreign limited partnership, a person that has rights, powers, and obligations similar to those of a general partner in a limited partnership. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 425E-102

• 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.
• Individual: means a natural person. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 425E-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.
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Limited partner: means :

  (1) With respect to a limited partnership, a person that:

  (A) Becomes a limited partner under § 425E-301; or

  (B) Was a limited partner in a limited partnership when the limited partnership became subject to this chapter under section 425E-1204(a) or (b); and

  (2) With respect to a foreign limited partnership, a person that has rights, powers, and obligations similar to those of a limited partner in a limited partnership. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 425E-102

• 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.
• participant: means an individual accepted into the address confidentiality program, and includes a primary participant and a secondary participant. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 801G-1
• Partner: means a limited partner or general partner. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 425E-102
• 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.
• Partnership agreement: means the partners' agreement, whether oral, implied, in a record, or in any combination, concerning the limited partnership. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 425E-102
• Person: includes any individual or entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 425E-102
• Person dissociated as a general partner: means a person dissociated as a general partner of a limited partnership. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 425E-102
• Primary applicant: means an individual who is applying to participate in the address confidentiality program as a victim of domestic abuse, a sexual offense, or stalking; provided that a parent or guardian applying on behalf of a minor or an incapacitated person shall not be considered a primary applicant; provided further that a parent or guardian may apply as a secondary applicant under section 801G-4. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 801G-1
• Principal office: means the office where the principal executive office of a limited partnership or foreign limited partnership is located, whether or not the office is located in this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 425E-102
• program: means the program established by section 801G-2. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 801G-1
• Program director: means the director of the address confidentiality program. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 801G-1
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Public record: means all documents, papers, letters, maps, books, photographs, films, sound recordings, magnetic or other tapes, digital data, artifacts, or other documentary material, regardless of physical form or characteristics, made or received pursuant to law or ordinance in connection with the transaction of public business by a state or local government agency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 801G-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 425E-102
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Sexual offense: means an act described in § 707-730, 707-731, 707-732, 707-733, 707-733. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 801G-1
• Stalking: means any act described in sections 711-1106. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 801G-1
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, 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 425E-102
• Substitute address: means an address that is used instead of an actual address and assigned to a participant under the address confidentiality program. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 801G-1
• Transfer: includes an assignment, conveyance, deed, bill of sale, lease, mortgage, security interest, encumbrance, gift, and transfer by operation of law. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 425E-102
• Transferee: means a person to which all or part of a transferable interest has been transferred, whether or not the transferor is a partner. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 425E-102
• Victim services organization: means a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization that provides assistance to, or advocates for, victims of domestic abuse or sexual violence, including rape crisis centers; an organization operating a shelter or providing professional counseling services; or an organization that provides assistance with the legal process including but not limited to the victim-witness assistance program and victim-witness assistance units established in section 28-111. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 801G-1