Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 502 - Bureau of Conveyances; Recording

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• 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.
• Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
• Backyard composting: means the small-scale composting of organic materials, primarily yard wastes, at the site where these materials are generated. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
• Bioconversion: means the processing of the organic fraction of the waste stream through biological or chemical means to perform composting or generate products including, but not limited to, fertilizers, feeds, methane, alcohols, tars, and other products. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• Clerk of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.
• Composting: means a process in which organic solid wastes, such as biosolids (sewage sludge), green or yard waste materials, manures, and non-treated wood chips and shavings, are biologically decomposed and stabilized under controlled conditions to produce a stable humus-like mulch or soil amendment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Coordinator: means the state solid waste management coordinator established within the office of solid waste management in the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-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.
• Corrugated paper: means a paper product fabricated from two layers of kraft linerboard sandwiched around a corrugating medium. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Department: means the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• Director: means the director of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• Disposal: means the management of solid waste through incineration or landfilling at permitted solid waste facilities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• Document: means information affecting title to real property that is eligible to be entered into the public records, including any plan of land prepared pursuant to section 502-17. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 502-121
• Electronic: means relating to technology having electric, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar properties. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 502-121
• Electronic document: means a document that is stored in an electronic medium. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 502-121
• Electronic signature: means an electronic sound, symbol, or process, attached to or logically associated with a document and executed or adopted by a person with the intent of affixing a signature on the document. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 502-121
• Enterprise zone: means an area selected by a county and approved by the governor to be eligible for the enterprise zone program established under chapter 209E. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• Environmental management special fund: means the fund created by § 342G-63. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-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.
• 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.
• Grantee: means a party that acquires interest by way of transfer of real property. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 502-7
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Green waste: means leaves, garden residues, shrubbery and tree trimmings, grass clippings, and similar material. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• HDPE: means high density polyethylene plastic and containers manufactured from this material. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• Household hazardous waste: means those wastes resulting from products purchased by the general public for household use which, because of their quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics, may pose a substantial known or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, disposed of, or otherwise managed. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• Incineration: means volume reduction by controlled burning of combustible solid waste. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• Integrated solid waste management: means the use of a variety of waste management practices and processing methods to safely and effectively manage solid waste with the least adverse impact on human health and the environment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• 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.
• Landfill: means a land site on which engineering principles are utilized to bury deposits of solid waste without creating a nuisance or hazard to public health or safety. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• Landfilling: means the permitted disposal of solid waste on land in a series of compacted layers and covering the solid waste with soil or other materials. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Manure: means excrement generated by animals, such as cows, horses, and chickens, held in captivity or used for agricultural production. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• Mixed paper: means discarded paper products that are composed of two or more types of paper, including newspaper, corrugated paper, office paper, computer paper, white paper, and coated paper stock. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Office: means the office of solid waste management in the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-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 an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government, or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 502-121
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• PET: means polyethylene terephthalate plastic and containers manufactured from this material. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• Petroleum-contaminated soil: means soil that has been contaminated by a release of petroleum to a degree that exceeds levels determined to be acceptable by the director. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Processing: means any technology used for the purpose of reducing the volume or weight, or both, of solid wastes, or any technology used to convert part or all of solid wastes for reuse. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• Program: means the particular combination of waste management methods selected by each county and designed to achieve the objectives of the state and county integrated solid waste management plans. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• recording: means the act of entering into the public records the written instruments affecting title to real property. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 502-7
• Recycling: means the collection, separation, recovery, and sale or reuse of secondary resources that would otherwise be disposed of as municipal solid waste, and is an integral part of a manufacturing process aimed at producing a marketable product made of postconsumer material. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• 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.
• Sewage sludge: means residual solids and semisolids resulting from the treatment of wastewater. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• Signature: means the name of a person as written by the individual, the affixing of a mark or finger or toe print, or electronic signature as that term is defined in chapter 489E. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 502-7
• Solid waste management: means the entire process, or any part thereof, of storage, collection, transportation, transfer, processing, and disposal of solid wastes by any person engaging in these processes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• Solid waste stream: means the total flow of solid waste from all waste generators or any segment thereof, that must be processed or disposed of. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• Source reduction: means the design, manufacture, and use of materials to:

  (1) Minimize the quantity or toxicity, or both, of the waste produced; and

  (2) Reduce the creation of waste either by redesigning products or by otherwise changing societal patterns of consumption, use, or waste generation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1

• Special waste: means any solid waste which, because of its source or physical, chemical, or biological characteristics, requires special consideration for its proper processing or disposal, or both. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 502-121
• State plan: means the integrated solid waste management plan developed by the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• Waste evaluation: means a review of an establishment's disposal practices to assess how those practices can be improved to reduce waste or recover postconsumer materials. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• Waste reduction: means the reduction of solid waste by weight or volume, or both, through a variety of methods prior to disposal. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• White goods: means discarded, enamel-coated major appliances, such as washing machines, clothes dryers, hot water heaters, stoves, and refrigerators. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1
• Wood waste: means solid waste consisting of wood pieces or particles that are generated from: the manufacturing or production of wood products; the harvesting, processing, or storage of raw wood materials; and construction and demolition activities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342G-1