Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 658J - Uniform Family Law Arbitration Act

• Acquittal:
  1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
  2. A verdict of "not guilty."
   
• Act: means the "Hawaii Meat Inspection Act". See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
• Administrator: means the chief of police of each county or the director of finance of each county and their authorized subordinates charged with the responsibility of administering this chapter;

  "Driver" means every person who is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle;

  "Judgment" means any judgment, order, or decree which has become final by expiration without appeal of the time within which an appeal might have been perfected, or by final affirmation on appeal, rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction of the United States or any territory or state thereof upon a cause of action arising out of the ownership, maintenance, or use of any motor vehicle for damages, including damages for care and loss of services, because of bodily injury to or death of any person, or for damages because of injury to or destruction of property, including the loss of use thereof, or upon a cause of action on an agreement of settlement for such damages;

  "Legal owner" has the same meaning prescribed by § 286-2;

  "License" means any license or permit issued or recognized under chapter 286 to operate motor vehicles;

  "Motor vehicle" has the meaning prescribed by § 286-2 and includes trailers and semitrailers designed for use by such vehicles, but does not include road rollers, farm tractors, tractor cranes, power shovels, and well drillers;

  "Nonresident" means every person who is not a resident of the State;

  "Nonresident's operating privilege" means the privilege conferred upon a nonresident by laws of the State pertaining to the operation by the nonresident of a motor vehicle, or the use of a motor vehicle owned by the nonresident in this State;

  "Owner" or "registered owner" has the meaning prescribed by § 286-2 to the term "owner";

  "Proof of financial responsibility" means proof of ability to respond in damages for liability, on account of accidents occurring subsequent to the effective date of such proof, arising out of the ownership, maintenance, or use of a motor vehicle, in the amounts prescribed by section 294-10(a);

  "Registration" means the certificate of registration issued pursuant to chapter 286;

  "State" except in reference to the State of Hawaii means any state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or any province of the Dominion of Canada. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 287-1

• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• 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.
• Animal: means any invertebrate or vertebrate species of the animal kingdom including but not limited to mammal, bird, fish, reptile, mollusk, crustacean, insect, mite, and nematode, other than common domestic animal such as dog and cat. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 150A-2
• 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.
• Applicant governing board: means the initial governing board that is:

  (1) Established by an eligible group or entity to submit a charter application pursuant to section 302D-13; and

  (2) Not subject to section 302D-12. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302D-1

• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Arbitration agreement: means an agreement that subjects a family law dispute to arbitration. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 658J-2
• Arbitration organization: means an association, agency, board, commission, or other entity that is neutral and initiates, sponsors, or administers an arbitration or is involved in the selection of an arbitrator. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 658J-2
• Arbitrator: means an individual selected, alone or with others, to make an award in a family law dispute that is subject to an arbitration agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 658J-2
• Arraignment: A proceeding in which an individual who is accused of committing a crime is brought into court, told of the charges, and asked to plead guilty or not guilty.
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Authorizer: means an entity established under this chapter with chartering authority to review charter applications, decide whether to approve or deny charter applications, enter into charter contracts with applicants, oversee public charter schools, and decide whether to authorize, renew, deny renewal of, or revoke charter contracts. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302D-1
• Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
• 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.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Biosecurity: means a system that serves to protect the health of livestock, poultry, and humans from diseases, pests, and pathogens and measures that prevent disease causing agents from entering, spreading, or leaving the farm premises. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 155-1
• Board: means the board of education. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302D-1
• Board: means the board of agriculture. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 150A-2
• Board: means the board of agriculture of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
• Business: includes any activities engaged in by any person or organization or caused to be engaged in by the person or it for the object of gain, benefit, or advantage, either direct or indirect. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 289-1
• Capital: means :

  (1) The aggregate par value or other amount received and allocated to the issued and outstanding capital stock of a financial institution; or

  (2) The total amount of a credit union's outstanding and unimpaired membership shares or share accounts. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109

• Capital stock: means the units of interest, whether or not having a par value, common or preferred, legally issued by a financial institution or other corporation, which represents a fractional ownership interest in the institution or corporation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Case law: The law as laid down in cases that have been decided in the decisions of the courts.
• Catalytic converter: means a device that is incorporated in a motor vehicle's exhaust system and contains a catalyst for converting pollutant gas emissions into less harmful emissions, regardless of whether the device has been removed from a motor vehicle's exhaust system. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 289-1
• Certification: means the act of applying the official certificate or official mark by persons performing official functions under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
• charter: means a fixed-term, bilateral, renewable contract between a public charter school and an authorizer that outlines the roles, powers, responsibilities, and performance expectations for each party to the contract. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302D-1
• Charter application: means a proposal from an applicant to an authorizer to enter into a charter contract whereby the proposed school obtains public charter school status. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302D-1
• Child-related dispute: means a family law dispute regarding child custody, visitation, or financial support regarding a child, under section 571-46, § 576D-7, or chapter 583A. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 658J-2
• Circuit court: means the court established in each of the judicial circuits of this State pursuant to chapter 603 and which has jurisdiction under § 412:1-108 over a matter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Commercial carrier: means any person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any vehicle, directly or indirectly, for public use in the transportation of goods or passengers for compensation over land or water, or by air. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
• Commission: means the state public charter school commission established pursuant to [section] 302D-3 as a statewide authorizer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302D-1
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of financial institutions of this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Company: means any corporation, partnership, trust (business or otherwise), association, joint venture, pool syndicate, unincorporated organization, or any form of business entity not specifically listed herein and, unless specifically excluded, a financial institution; provided that "company" does not mean any trust existing on July 1, 1993, which under its terms must terminate within twenty-five years, or not later than twenty-one years and ten months after the death of individuals living on the effective date of the trust. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Concurrent trial: means a trial proceeding held in the district or family court in which the defendant is tried simultaneously in a civil case for any charged traffic infraction or emergency period infraction and in a criminal case for any related criminal offense, with trials to be held in one court on the same date and at the same time. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291D-2
• Conservator: means a person appointed by the commissioner to take possession and control of a Hawaii financial institution for a temporary period in order to preserve and protect the assets of the institution for the benefit of its depositors, beneficiaries, creditors, and shareholders or members. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Control: means , unless the context clearly requires otherwise, directly or indirectly, solely or through another person or transaction, or in concert with another:

  (1) Owning or having the power to vote twenty-five per cent or more of any class of voting securities;

  (2) Owning or having the power to exercise twenty-five per cent or more of the votes of a mutual association, credit union, or other entity whose voting rights are not determined by voting securities;

  (3) Owning or having the power to vote ten per cent or more of any class of voting securities if:

  (A) the issuer of that class of securities has issued any class of securities under section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; or

  (B) immediately after the acquisition, no other person will own a greater percentage of that class of voting securities;

  (4) Having the power to elect by any means a majority of the directors; or

  (5) Having the power to exercise a dominant influence over management, if so determined by the commissioner after notice and a hearing. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109

• Conversion charter school: means :

  (1) Any existing department school that converts to a charter school and is managed and operated in accordance with section 302D-13; or

  (2) Any existing department school that converts to a charter school and is managed and operated by a nonprofit organization in accordance with section 302D-13. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302D-1

• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Cooperative: means a nonprofit association of farmers organized under chapter 421. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 155-1
• County: means the counties of Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui, and the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291J-1
• county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
• Court: means the family court of this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 658J-2
• 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.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the department of transportation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291J-1
• Department: means the department of education. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302D-1
• Department: means the department of agriculture. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 150A-2
• Department: means the department of agriculture of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
• Department: means the department of agriculture. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 155-31
• Department school: means any school that falls within the definition of "public schools" as defined in § 302A-101 and that is not a charter school. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302D-1
• Depository institution: means a financial institution that is authorized to accept deposits under its chartering or licensing authority and includes a bank, savings bank, savings and loan association, depository financial services loan company, credit union, or intra-Pacific bank. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• deposits: means money or its equivalent received or held by a person in the usual course of business and for which it has given or is obligated to give credit, either conditionally or unconditionally, to a demand, checking, savings, time, passbook, negotiable order of withdrawal, thrift, or share account, or which is evidenced by its passbook, certificate of deposit, thrift certificate, investment certificate, certificate of indebtedness, or other similar instrument, or a check, draft, or share draft drawn against a deposit account and certified by a person, on which the person is primarily liable. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Director: means any member of the board of directors of a financial institution, whether or not receiving compensation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Director of finance: means the director of finance of each county. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 289-1
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Division: means the division of financial institutions of the department of commerce and consumer affairs of this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Emergency period infraction: means all occurrences of noncompliance with rules adopted by the governor or a mayor pursuant to chapter 127A, which are stated and designated in the rule as being an emergency period infraction. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291D-2
• Executive director: means the executive director of the state public charter school commission. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302D-1
• Exotic animal: means any cloven-hoofed ruminant animal considered feral in nature, other than domestic cattle, sheep, goats, or equines. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
• 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.
• Family law dispute: means a contested issue arising under the family and domestic relations laws of this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 658J-2
• Farm land: means land used for agricultural purposes, including general farming, cane growing, fruit growing, flower growing, grazing, dairying, the production of any form of livestock or poultry, and any other form of agricultural activity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 155-1
• Federal: means belonging to, part of, or related to the government of the United States of America. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: A government corporation that insures the deposits of all national and state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System. ^{Source: OCC}
• Federal financial institution: means a national banking association, federal savings bank, federal savings and loan association or federal credit union. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Federal Home Loan Bank: means a federal home loan bank created and organized under the authority of the Federal Home Loan Bank Act. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Federal Meat Inspection Act: means the Act so entitled, approved March 4, 1907 (34 Stat. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
• Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Finance charge: The total cost of credit a customer must pay on a consumer loan, including interest. The Truth in Lending Act requires disclosure of the finance charge. ^{Source: OCC}
• Financial institution: means a Hawaii financial institution, and unless the context indicates otherwise, a federal financial institution or foreign financial institution. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Financial institution holding company: means a holding company which controls a Hawaii financial institution or which controls another financial institution holding company. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Financial institution subsidiary: means :

  (1) a financial institution that is controlled by a financial institution holding company, or

  (2) a financial institution holding company that is controlled by another holding company. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109

• 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.
• Fixed Rate: Having a "fixed" rate means that the APR doesn't change based on fluctuations of some external rate (such as the "Prime Rate"). In other words, a fixed rate is a rate that is not a variable rate. A fixed APR can change over time, in several circumstances:
  • You are late making a payment or commit some other default, triggering an increase to a penalty rate
  • The bank changes the terms of your account and you do not reject the change.
  • The rate expires (if the rate was fixed for only a certain period of time).
• Food manufacturers: means entities that process Hawaii-grown agricultural products or that utilize Hawaii-grown agricultural products as an ingredient in the manufacturing process. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 155-1
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Governing board: means the independent board of a public charter school that is party to the charter contract with the authorizer that:

  (1) Is responsible for the financial, organizational, and academic viability of the charter school and implementation of the charter;

  (2) Possesses the independent authority to determine the organization and management of the school, the curriculum, and virtual education;

  (3) Has the power to negotiate supplemental collective bargaining agreements with exclusive representatives of their employees and is considered the employer of charter school employees for purposes of chapters 76, 78, and 89; and

  (4) Ensures compliance with applicable state and federal laws. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302D-1

• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• Hawaii financial institution: means :

  (1) A corporation or credit union that holds a charter or license under this chapter or under prior Hawaii law, authorizing it to accept deposits, to make loans in excess of the rates permitted in chapter 478, or to engage in the business of a trust company; or

  (2) A resulting bank as defined in article 12,

  and includes a corporation or credit union existing and chartered as a Hawaii financial institution or licensed to transact business in this State on July 1, 1993. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109

• Hearing: means a proceeding conducted by the district court pursuant to § 291D-8 at which the person to whom a notice of traffic infraction or notice of emergency period infraction was issued either admits to the infraction, contests the notice of traffic infraction or notice of emergency period infraction, or admits to the traffic infraction or emergency period infraction but offers an explanation to mitigate the monetary assessment imposed. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291D-2
• Holding company: means any company which controls another company. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• immediate family: means the spouse of an individual, the individual's minor children, and any of the individual's children (including adults) residing in the individual's home. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Import: means shipment to the State from any point outside of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 150A-2
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Inspect: means to examine material to ascertain the presence or absence of quarantine pests and to otherwise determine compliance with the provisions of this chapter or any rule adopted under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 150A-2
• Inspector: means any meat inspector of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
• 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}
• Intrastate commerce: means commerce within the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
• Joint tenancy: A form of property ownership in which two or more parties hold an undivided interest in the same property that was conveyed under the same instrument at the same time. A joint tenant can sell his (her) interest but not dispose of it by will. Upon the death of a joint tenant, his (her) undivided interest is distributed among the surviving joint tenants.
• Label: means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon the immediate container (not including package liners) of any meat or meat products, or other products. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
• Labeling: means all labels and other written, printed, or graphic matter upon any meat or meat products or any of its containers or wrappers, or accompanying the meat or meat products. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
• 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}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Licensee: means a person issued a license under part III of this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
• 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.
• loan program: means the program established by this part and loans made to finance the purchase or installation of water infrastructure equipment for dams, reservoirs, hydroelectric pumping, storm water reclamation, ditch maintenance, spillways, wells, water ducts, water distribution systems, and water tanks. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 155-31
• Loans and extensions of credit: includes a contractual commitment to advance funds. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Meat broker: means any person who sells or offers to sell, or buys or offers to buy, carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat or meat products of cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, other equines, or exotic animals on commission or who otherwise negotiates the purchase, sale, or exchange of the meat or meat products other than for the person's own account or as an employee of another person. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
• Meat or meat products: means any product capable of use as human food which is made wholly or in part from any meat or other portions of the carcass of any cattle, sheep, swine, or goats, excepting products which contain meat or other portions of the carcasses only in a relatively small proportion or historically have not been considered by consumers as products of the meat food industry, and which are exempted from the definition as meat products by the board under the conditions as it may prescribe to assure that the meat or other portions of the carcasses contained in the products are not adulterated and that the products are not represented as meat products. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
• Microorganism: means any unicellular microscopic organism including but not limited to algae, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and viruses. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 150A-2
• month: means a calendar month; and the word "year" a calendar year. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-20
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgage: includes classes of liens on farm land and other authorized security as are approved by the department of agriculture and the credit instruments secured thereby. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 155-1
• Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. ^{Source: OCC}
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Motor vehicle: has the meaning prescribed by § 286-2 and includes trailers and semitrailers designed for use by such vehicles, but does not include road rollers, farm tractors, tractor cranes, power shovels, and well drillers;

  "Nonresident" means every person who is not a resident of the State;

  "Nonresident's operating privilege" means the privilege conferred upon a nonresident by laws of the State pertaining to the operation by the nonresident of a motor vehicle, or the use of a motor vehicle owned by the nonresident in this State;

  "Owner" or "registered owner" has the meaning prescribed by § 286-2 to the term "owner";

  "Proof of financial responsibility" means proof of ability to respond in damages for liability, on account of accidents occurring subsequent to the effective date of such proof, arising out of the ownership, maintenance, or use of a motor vehicle, in the amounts prescribed by section 294-10(a);

  "Registration" means the certificate of registration issued pursuant to chapter 286;

  "State" except in reference to the State of Hawaii means any state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or any province of the Dominion of Canada. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 287-1

• Motor vehicle: means every vehicle which is self-propelled. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 289-1
• motor vehicle liability policy: as used in this chapter means an owner's or a driver's policy of liability insurance, certified as provided in § 287-22 or § 287-23 as proof of financial responsibility, and issued, except as otherwise provided in § 287-23, by an insurance carrier duly authorized to transact business in the State, to or for the benefit of the person named therein as insured. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 287-24
• National Credit Union Administration: The federal regulatory agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. (NCUA also administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which insures the deposits of federal credit unions.) ^{Source: OCC}
• New farmer: means a new farm enterprise or a person, who by reason of ability, experience, and training, is likely to successfully operate a farm and who otherwise meets the eligibility requirements of § 155-10 and includes any of the following:

  (1) Persons displaced from employment in an agricultural production enterprise;

  (2) College graduates in agriculture;

  (3) Community college graduates in agriculture;

  (4) Members of the Hawaii Young Farmer Association and National FFA Organization graduates with farming projects;

  (5) Persons who have not less than two years' experience as part-time farmers;

  (6) Graduates from farm trainee programs designed to provide interns with the necessary hands-on skills and management training to successfully operate their own farm;

  (7) Persons who have been farm tenants or farm laborers; or

  (8) Other individuals who have for the two years last preceding their application obtained the major portion of their income from farming operations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 155-1

• 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.
• Nonprofit organization: means a private, nonprofit, tax-exempt entity that:

  (1) Is recognized as a tax-exempt organization under the Internal Revenue Code; and

  (2) Is registered to do business in this State in accordance with chapter 414D. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302D-1

• Notice of traffic infraction: includes a notice of parking infraction. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291D-2
• 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.
• Official certificate: means any certificate prescribed by the board for issuance by veterinarians, inspectors, or other persons performing official functions under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
• Official device: means any device described or authorized by the board for use in applying any official mark. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
• Official inspection legend: means any symbol prescribed by the board showing that meat or meat products were inspected and passed in accordance with this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
• Official mark: means the official inspection legend or any other symbol prescribed by the board to identify the status of any meat or meat products or animal under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Paid-in capital: means the amount of capital actually received by the financial institution for its capital stock, membership shares or share accounts, as the case may be. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Part-time farmer: means a person of proven farming ability who:

  (1) Has been operating the person's farm for at least two years on land owned by the person in fee or on land rented or leased from others;

  (2) Is presently devoting a portion of the person's time to farming; and

  (3) Derives between twenty-five to fifty per cent of the person's net cash income from direct participation in farming in its broadest sense. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 155-1

• Party: means an individual who signs an arbitration agreement and whose rights will be determined by an award. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 658J-2
• Person: means an individual; estate; business or nonprofit entity; public corporation; government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality; or any other legal entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 658J-2
• Person: means any individual, firm, corporation, association, or partnership, or any organized group of persons whether incorporated or not. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
• Person: means a natural person, entity or organization, including without limitation an individual, corporation, joint venture, partnership, sole proprietorship, association, cooperative, estate, trust, or governmental unit. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Pest: means any animal, insect, disease agent or other organism in any stage of development that is detrimental or potentially harmful to agriculture, or horticulture, or animal or public health, or natural resources including native biota or has an adverse effect on the environment as determined by the board. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 150A-2
• photo red light imaging detector system: means a device, or combination of devices, used for traffic enforcement pursuant to section 291C-32(c), that includes a vehicle sensor working in conjunction and synchronization with a traffic-control signal and a camera , to automatically produce and record one or more sequenced photographs, microphotographs, video, or other recorded images of the rear of the motor vehicle and motor vehicle license plate, at the time the motor vehicle fails to stop when facing a steady red traffic-control signal. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291J-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.
• Private lender: includes banks, savings and loan associations, credit unions, mortgage companies, and other qualified companies whose business includes the making of loans in the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 155-1
• Probate: Proving a will
• processed: means slaughtered, canned, salted, rendered, boned, cut up, or otherwise manufactured or processed. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• public charter school: refers to those public schools and their respective governing boards, as defined in this section, that are holding current charter contracts to operate as charter schools under this chapter, including start-up and conversion charter schools, and that have the flexibility and independent authority to implement alternative frameworks with regard to curriculum, facilities management, instructional approach, virtual education, length of the school day, week, or year, and personnel management. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302D-1
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Qualified farmer: means a person of proven farming ability who operates the person's own farm on land owned by the person in fee or on land rented or leased from others and who is presently devoting, has recently devoted, or intends to devote most of the person's time or who derives a major portion of the person's net cash income from direct participation in farming in its broadest sense. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 155-1
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Receiver: means a person appointed by the commissioner to take possession and control of a Hawaii financial institution for the purpose of liquidating and winding up the affairs of the institution. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Reinspection: means the re-examination of meat and meat products previously inspected and the inspection of meat and meat products during processing. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
• Related criminal offense: means any criminal violation or crime, committed in the same course of conduct as a traffic infraction or emergency period infraction, for which the defendant is arrested or charged. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291D-2
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Renderer: means any person engaged in the business of rendering carcasses, or parts or products of the carcasses, of cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, other equines, or exotic animals, except rendering conducted under inspection under part IV. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
• Retained earnings: means the net income of a financial institution earned since its inception which has not been distributed to its shareholders or transferred or allocated to capital stock or surplus or, as the case may be, the accumulated deficits of the financial institution. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Right of survivorship: The ownership rights that result in the acquisition of title to property by reason of having survived other co-owners.
• Secretary of Agriculture: means the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• 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.
• Start-up charter school: means a new charter school established under section 302D-13 that is not a conversion charter school. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302D-1
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Guam, 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 658J-2
• State: means the State of Hawaii. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Subsidiary: means a corporation, joint venture, partnership, or other company that is controlled by another corporation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• surplus: includes retained earnings, whether or not transferred or allocated to surplus. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• this State: means the State of Hawaii, its political subdivisions, agencies, and departments. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 412:1-109
• Traffic infraction: means all violations of statutes, ordinances, or rules relating to traffic movement and control, including parking, standing, equipment, and pedestrian offenses, for which the prescribed penalties do not include imprisonment and that are not otherwise specifically excluded from coverage of this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291D-2
• 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.
• Trial: means a trial conducted by the district court pursuant to the rules of the district court and the Hawaii rules of evidence. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291D-2
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Truth in Lending Act: The Truth in Lending Act is a federal law that requires lenders to provide standardized information so that borrowers can compare loan terms. In general, lenders must provide information on ^{Source: OCC}
• Used motor vehicle part or accessory: means a motor vehicle part or motor vehicle accessory which has been the subject of prior sale at retail, either individually or attached to a motor vehicle as a component part or accessory thereof. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 289-1
• Usury: Charging an illegally high interest rate on a loan. ^{Source: OCC}
• Variable Rate: Having a "variable" rate means that the APR changes from time to time based on fluctuations in an external rate, normally the Prime Rate. This external rate is known as the "index." If the index changes, the variable rate normally changes. Also see Fixed Rate.
• Veterinarian: means the state veterinarian or any of the veterinarian's duly authorized representatives. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
• Water infrastructure equipment: means infrastructure improvements, equipment, and personal property to be installed for dams, reservoirs, hydroelectric pumping, storm water reclamation, ditch maintenance, spillways, wells, water ducts, water distribution systems, and water tanks. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 155-31
• Wholesaler: means any person who buys or sells carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat or meat products of cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, other equines, or exotic animals in trade channels other than retail. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3