Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 431 > Article 3A > Part IV - Exceptions to Limits On Disclosures of Financial Information

• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Consumer: means an individual, or that individual's legal representative, who seeks to obtain, obtains, or has obtained an insurance product or service from a licensee that is to be used primarily for personal, family, or household purposes, and about whom the licensee has nonpublic personal information. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:3A-102
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Control: means :

  (1) Ownership, control, or power to vote twenty-five per cent or more of the outstanding shares of any class of voting security of the company, directly or indirectly, or acting through one or more other persons;

  (2) Control in any manner over the election of a majority of the directors, trustees, or general partners or individuals exercising similar functions of the company; or

  (3) The power to exercise, directly or indirectly, a controlling influence over the management or policies of the company, as the commissioner determines. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:3A-102

• 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 health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 328J-1
• Department: means the department of business, economic development, and tourism. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 201-1
• Fair Credit Reporting Act: A federal law, established in 1971 and revised in 1997, that gives consumers the right to see their credit records and correct any mistakes. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Financial product or service: includes a financial institution's evaluation or brokerage of information that the financial institution collects in connection with a request or an application from a consumer for a financial product or service. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:3A-102
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• 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.
• National Credit Union Administration: The federal regulatory agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. (NCUA also administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which insures the deposits of federal credit unions.) ^{Source: OCC}
• Nonaffiliated third party: means any person except:

  (1) A licensee's affiliate; or

  (2) A person employed jointly by a licensee and any company that is not the licensee's affiliate; provided that for purposes of this paragraph, a nonaffiliated third party includes the other company that jointly employs the person. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:3A-102

• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Smoking: includes the use of an electronic smoking device. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 328J-1
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.