Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 480F - Check Cashing

• 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 329-1
• Address: means , with respect to prescriptions, the physical location where an individual resides such as:
  (1) Street address, city, and state;
  (2) Tax map key number; or
  (3) The description of a physical location. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• Administer: means the direct application of a controlled substance, whether by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or any other means, to the body of a patient or research subject by:
  (1) A practitioner (or, in the practitioner's presence or at the practitioner's direction, by a licensed or registered health care professional acting as the practitioner's authorized agent), or
  (2) The patient or research subject at the direction or in the presence of the practitioner. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• Administrator: means the administrator of the narcotics enforcement division of the department of law enforcement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• Advanced practice registered nurse with prescriptive authority: means a person licensed under section 457-8. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• Agent: means an authorized person who acts on behalf of or at the direction of a manufacturer, distributor, or dispenser. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• Central repository: means a central repository established under § 329-102. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• Check: means any check, draft, money order, or other instrument for the transmission or payment of money. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480F-1
• Check casher: means a person or entity that engages in the business of cashing checks for a fee. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480F-1
• Circumstantial evidence: All evidence except eyewitness testimony.
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Controlled substance: means a drug, substance, or immediate precursor in schedules I through V of part II. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• delivery: means the actual, constructive, or attempted transfer or sale from one person to another of a controlled substance or drug paraphernalia, whether or not there is an agency relationship. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• Department: means the department of law enforcement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• Designated member of the health care team: includes physician assistants, advanced practice registered nurses, and covering physicians who are authorized under state law to prescribe drugs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• Detoxification treatment: means the dispensing, for a specific period of time, of a narcotic drug or narcotic drugs in decreasing doses to an individual to alleviate adverse physiological or psychological effects incident to withdrawal from the continuous or sustained use of a narcotic drug and as a method of bringing the individual to a narcotic drug-free state within a specified period of time. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• Dispense: means to deliver a controlled substance to an ultimate user or research subject by or pursuant to the lawful order of a practitioner, including the administering of a practitioner's controlled substances, and packaging, labeling, or compounding necessary to prepare the substance for that delivery. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• Dispenser: means a practitioner who dispenses. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• Distribute: means to deliver other than by administering or dispensing a controlled substance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• Distributor: means a person who distributes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• Drug: means :
  (1) Substances recognized as drugs in the official United States Pharmacopoeia, official Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, or official National Formulary, or any supplement to any of them;
  (2) Substances intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or animals;
  (3) Substances (other than food) intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or animals; and
  (4) Substances intended for use as a component of any article specified in clause (1), (2), or (3) of this subsection. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• Drug paraphernalia: means all equipment, products, and materials of any kind that are used, primarily intended for use, or primarily designed for use, in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, containing, concealing, injecting, ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing into the human body a controlled substance in violation of this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• Electronic prescription: means a prescription that is generated on an electronic prescription application and transmitted as an electronic data file that complies with all applicable requirements of Title Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 1311 and any additional rules adopted by the department

  "Electronic prescription application" means electronic prescription software either as a stand-alone application or as a module in an electronic health record application. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1

• Ephedrine: includes any synthetic compound, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation extracted from the plant (genus) Ephedra that contains the substance ephedrine. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• 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.
• Fee: includes any payment of cash or other consideration paid or given by a customer to a check casher in exchange for the cashing of a check, including an exchange of value for the purchase of catalog items, which is in excess of regular retail value, or for coupons, which may be redeemed for goods or services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480F-1
• 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.
• 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.
• Identification number: means , with respect to a patient:
  (1) The patient's unique valid driver's license number or state identification card number, followed by the abbreviation of the state issuing the driver's license or state identification card, or the patient's military identification number;
  (2) If the patient is a foreign patient, the patient's passport number;
  (3) If the patient does not have a valid driver's license, state identification card, or military identification, the patient's social security number;
  (4) If the patient is less than eighteen years of age and has none of the identification referred to in paragraph (1), (2), or (3), the unique number on the valid driver's license, state identification card, military identification, or passport of the patient's parent or guardian; or
  (5) If the controlled substance is obtained for an animal, the unique number of the animal's owner as described in paragraph (1), (2), or (3). See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• Immediate precursor: means a substance which the department of law enforcement has found to be and by rule designates as being the principal compound commonly used or produced primarily for use, and which is an immediate chemical intermediary used or likely to be used in the manufacture of a controlled substance, the control of which is necessary to prevent, curtail, or limit manufacture. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• Manufacture: means the production, preparation, propagation, compounding, conversion, or processing of a controlled substance, either directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of natural origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis, and includes any packaging or repackaging of the substance or labeling or relabeling of its container, except that this term does not include the preparation or compounding of a controlled substance by an individual for the individual's own use or the preparation, compounding, packaging, or labeling of a controlled substance:
  (1) By a practitioner as an incident to the practitioner's administering or dispensing of a controlled substance in the course of the practitioner's professional practice, or
  (2) By a practitioner, or by the practitioner's authorized agent under the practitioner's supervision, for the purpose of, or as an incident to, research, teaching, or chemical analysis and not for sale. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• Marijuana: means all parts of the plant (genus) Cannabis whether growing or not; the seeds thereof, the resin extracted from any part of the plant; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant, its seeds, or resin. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• month: means a calendar month; and the word "year" a calendar year. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-20
• Narcotic drug: means any of the following, whether produced directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of vegetable origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis:
  (1) Opium and opiate, and any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of opium or opiate. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• Opiate: means any substance having an addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine or being capable of conversion into a drug having addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• Opium poppy: means the plant of the species Papaver somniferum, except its seeds. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• 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 individual, corporation, government, or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• Pharmacist: means a person who is licensed or holds a permit under chapter 461 to practice pharmacy, including a pharmacy intern who is under the immediate and direct supervision of a licensed pharmacist. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• Physician assistant: means a person licensed under section 453-5. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Poppy straw: means all parts, except the seeds, of the opium poppy, after mowing. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• Practitioner: means :
  (1) A physician, dentist, veterinarian, scientific investigator, or other person licensed and registered under § 329-32 to distribute, dispense, or conduct research with respect to a controlled substance in the course of professional practice or research in this State;
  (2) An advanced practice registered nurse with prescriptive authority licensed and registered under § 329-32 to prescribe and administer controlled substances in the course of professional practice in this State; and
  (3) A pharmacy, hospital, or other institution licensed, registered, or otherwise permitted to distribute, dispense, conduct research with respect to or to administer a controlled substance in the course of professional practice or research in this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• Prescribe: means to direct, designate, or order the use of a formula for the preparation of a medicine for a disease or illness and the manner of using them. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• Prescription: means an order for medication, which is dispensed to or for an ultimate user. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes any state, district, commonwealth, territory, insular possession thereof, and any area subject to the legal authority of the United States of America. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• System: means an electronic prescription accountability system as described in part VIII. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Ultimate user: means a person who lawfully possesses a controlled substance for the person's own use or for the use of a member of the person's household or for administering to an animal owned by the person or by a member of the person's household. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1