Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 459 - Optometry

• Advanced life support: means initiating all basic life support care as well as invasive patient care designed to stabilize and support a patient's condition due to sudden illness or injury. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-222
• Advisory committee: means the emergency medical services advisory committee. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-222
• 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.
• Basic life support: means initiating noninvasive emergency patient care designed to optimize the patient's chances of surviving the emergency situation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-222
• Board: means the Hawaii board of optometry. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 459-1.5
• 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 321-222
• Director: means the director of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 459-1.5
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Electronic smoking device: means any electronic product that can be used to aerosolize and deliver nicotine or other substances to the person inhaling the device, an electronic cigarette, electronic cigar, electronic cigarillo, or electronic pipe, and any cartridge or other component of the device or related product. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-211
• Emergency aeromedical services: means a secondary response system that provides immediate critical care and transport by rotary-wing aircraft of a patient to a facility that provides specialized medical care. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-222
• Emergency medical services for children: means emergency medical services, including preventive, pre-hospital, hospital, rehabilitative, and other post-hospital care for children. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-222
• Emergency medical services personnel: means any mobile intensive care technician or emergency medical technician who is certified or licensed by the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-222
• 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.
• 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.
• Possession: means knowingly having direct physical control at a given time or knowingly having the power and the intention, at a given time, to exercise dominion or control, including the actual use of the tobacco product. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-211
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Service area: means the State, excluding any county having a population of five hundred thousand or more. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-222
• State system: means the state pre-hospital emergency medical services system. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-222
• Statewide: means all counties in the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-222
• Substance: means alcohol, any drug on schedules I through IV of chapter 329, or any substance which includes in its composition volatile organic solvents. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-191
• Substance abuse: means the misuse of a substance or the use of a substance to an extent deemed deleterious or detrimental to the user, to others, or to society. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-191
• Surgery: means any procedure in which human tissue is cut, altered, or otherwise infiltrated by mechanical or laser means. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 459-1.5
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Tobacco product: means tobacco in any form, including an electronic smoking device, cigarettes, cigars, snuff, and chewing tobacco, that is prepared or intended for consumption by, or the personal use of, humans. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-211
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.