Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 465D - Behavior Analysts

• Certificate of need: means an authorization, when required pursuant to § 323D-43, to construct, expand, alter, or convert a health care facility or to initiate, expand, develop, or modify a health care service. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
• 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.
• 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.
• Health: includes physical and mental health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• health care services: means the provision of services in an assisted living facility that assists the resident in achieving and maintaining the highest state of positive well-being (i. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• 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.
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• Person: means an individual or a natural person, a trust or estate, a society, a firm, an assembly, a partnership, a corporation, a professional corporation, an association, the State, any political subdivision of the State, a county, a state agency or any instrumentality of the State, a county agency or any instrumentality of a county. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Review panel: means the panel established pursuant to § 323D-42. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• State agency: means the state health planning and development agency established in § 323D-11. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• State health services and facilities plan: means the comprehensive plan for the economical delivery of health services in the State prepared by the statewide council. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• Statewide council: means the statewide health coordinating council established in § 323D-13. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• Subarea: means one of the geographic subareas designated by the state agency pursuant to section 323D-21. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2