Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 486N - Health Clubs

• Administrator: means the administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
• Air pollution: means the presence in the outdoor air of substances in quantities and for durations which may endanger human health or welfare, plant or animal life, or property or which may unreasonably interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life and property throughout the State and in such areas of the State as are affected thereby, but excludes all aspects of employer-employee relationships as to health and safety hazards. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
• Ambient air: means the general outdoor atmosphere. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
• Business day: means any calendar day on which the health club is open for inspection and use by the buyer, except Saturdays, Sundays, and state or federal holidays. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486N-1
• Buyer: means a natural person who enters into a health club contract. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486N-1
• Clean Air Act: means the federal Clean Air Act of 1963 as amended (42 United States Code § 7401 et seq. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contract price: means the price for the purchase of a membership in a health club or for services offered by a health club or for use of the facilities of a health club. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486N-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.
• Council: means the compliance advisory council. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
• Department: means the department of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486N-1
• Director: means the director of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
• Director: means the director of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486N-1
• Director: means the director of health or the director's authorized agent. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-1
• Drinking water fund: means the drinking water treatment revolving loan fund established by section 340E-35. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-31
• Emission: means the act of releasing or discharging air pollutants into the ambient air from any source. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• 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.
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Federal Act: means the Safe Drinking Water Act, Public Law 93-523, as amended by the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1986, Public Law 99-339, and the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996, Public Law 104-182. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-1
• Fugitive emissions: means those emissions which could not reasonably pass through a stack, chimney, vent, or other functionally equivalent opening. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
• Hazardous air pollutant: means those hazardous air pollutants listed in section 112 (b) of the Clean Air Act, as amended, 42 United States Code § 7412(b), and any other hazardous air pollutant designated by rules. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
• Health club: means any person operating a business organized for profit, offering facilities or services for the maintenance or development of physical fitness or well-being through physical exercise. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486N-1
• Health club contract: means a contract for membership in a health club, or for services offered by a health club, or for use of facilities of a health club, for a period longer than seven days. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486N-1
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Major source: means any stationary source, or any group of stationary sources that are located on one or more contiguous properties, and are under common control, belonging to a single major industrial grouping and that emits or has the potential to emit, considering controls:

  (1) Any hazardous air pollutant, except radionuclides, in the aggregate of ten tons per year or more, twenty-five tons per year or more of any combination, or such lesser quantity as the director may establish by rule;

  (2) One hundred tons per year or more of any regulated air pollutant, including fugitive emissions of any such regulated air pollutant as the director may establish by rule; and

  (3) For radionuclides, "major source" shall have the meaning specified by the director by rule. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1

• National primary drinking water regulations: means primary drinking water regulations promulgated by the administrator pursuant to the Federal Act. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-1
• 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.
• 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.
• Party: means each person named as party or properly entitled to be a party in any court or agency proceeding. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
• Permit: means written authorization from the director to construct, modify, relocate, or operate any regulated air pollutant source. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
• Person: means any individual, firm, corporation, association, partnership, consortium, joint venture, commercial entity, state, county, commission, political subdivision of the State, or, to the extent they are subject to this chapter, the United States or any interstate body. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
• Public water system: means a system which provides water for human consumption through pipes or other constructed conveyances if the system has at least fifteen service connections or regularly serves at least twenty-five individuals. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-1
• Regulated air pollutant: means :

  (1) Nitrogen oxides or any volatile organic compound;

  (2) Any air pollutant for which a national or state ambient air quality standard has been adopted; and

  (3) Any air pollutant that is established by rule pursuant to this chapter pertaining to standards of performance for new stationary sources and emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1

• Small business ombudsman: means the small business ombudsman for air pollution control established pursuant to section 342B-63. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
• Source: means any property, real or personal, which emits or may emit any air pollutant. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
• Stationary source: means any piece of equipment or any activity at a building, structure, facility, or installation that emits or may emit any air pollutant. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1