Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 20 - UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII › Subtitle 1 - UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII BOARD OF REGENTS › Chapter 4 - DETERMINATION OF RESIDENCY AS APPLIED TO TUITION PAYMENTS AND ADMISSION › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 20-4-2 - Definitions

Current through June, 2024
As used in this chapter; "Adult" means a person who has
					 reached majority. "Board" means the board of regents of the University of
					 Hawaii.
"Chancellor" refers to the chief executive officer of the
					 respective campus, and shall include their authorized designee.
"Dependent" means those persons who are defined as
					 dependents by law, e.g., spouse, minor child, those who are defined as
					 dependents under Internal Revenue Service rules, and those who are defined as
					 authorized dependents by the Armed Forces of the United States provided that
					 the dependents other than the spouse are no more than twenty-three years of
					 age.
"Guardian" means a person invested by a court of law with
					 the power, and charged with the duty, of taking care of the person and managing
					 the property and other rights of a minor.
"Hanai" means a child taken permanently to be reared,
					 educated and loved by someone other than natural parents - traditionally a
					 grandparent or other relative. The child is given outright; natural parents
					 renounce all claims to the child. Usually the child is given at infancy.
"Majority" means the age specified under section
					 577-1, HRS. That
					 age is presently eighteen years.
"Minor" means a person who has not reached majority.
"Parents" includes legal guardian and legal adoptive
					 parent, except where the guardianship or adoption was acquired primarily to
					 obtain resident status for the ward or adopted child. It shall also include a
					 person who can legally claim an unmarried minor as a dependent for federal
					 income tax purposes, but only when such person has been in loco parentis to the
					 minor for the twelve-month period immediately preceding the residency
					 determination date, "President" means the president of the University of Hawaii
					 and shall include authorized subordinates.
"Residence" as used in this chapter for tuition purposes,
					 shall have the meaning set forth in section
					 304A-402,
					 HRS, as amended from time to time, and as more particularly described in this
					 chapter, "Residency determination date" means the first day of officially
					 scheduled instruction for any semester or term in which the student is
					 enrolling at the particular college or campus as established by the approved
					 university academic calendar.
"Residency officer" means the registrar, director of
					 admissions or other staff member designated for each campus to determine the
					 residency status of students. Only the residency officer's determination
					 represents the university's official determination of residency.
"Student" means every full-time and part-time graduate and
					 undergraduate student enrolled at the university.
"University" means the University of Hawaii. Any of the
					 provisions in this chapter which affect the standing of a person at any one
					 campus also affect the standing or potential standing at all other
					 campuses.