Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 17 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES › Hawaii Public Housing Authority › Chapter 2030 - EVICTION AND BAR TO PARTICIPATION PROCEDURE FOR HOMELESS FACILITIES › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 17-2030-2 - Definitions

Current through June, 2024
As used in this chapter:
"Corporation" means the housing and Community development
					 corporation of Hawaii.
"Dependent" means a member of a household, other than the
					 head or spouse, who is related by blood or adoption and including foster
					 children and hanai children, who is under nineteen years of age; disabled; or
					 physically-challenged.
"Facility Operator" means an Organization managing or
					 operating a homeless facility pursuant to the stipend program and may include
					 the corporation or a provider agency.
"Family" means:
(1) Two or more persons who live or intent to live together
					 as a unit, one of whom is a dependent, under nineteen years of age, related by
					 blood, marriage, or Operation of law, including foster children and hanai
					 children; or
(2) A person who is pregnant or in the process of securing
					 legal custody of a minor child or children, and who has reached the age of
					 majority or is otherwise emancipated.
"Government record" means Information maintained by an
					 agency in written, auditory, Visual, electronic, or other physical form as
					 defined in section
					 92F-3,
					 HRS.
"Hanai child" means a person, under nineteen years of age,
					 for whom an applicant provides food, nourishment,' and support and who is known
					 among friends, relatives, and the Community as the applicant's child.
"Hearings officer" means any person, or panel of persons,
					 duly appointed and authorized by the facility Operator to hold a hearing for
					 the purpose of taking evidence or oral argument and making a decision in any
					 matter concerning participants before the facility Operator.
"House rules" means rules which provide for the internal
					 management of a homeless facility and which participants are required to
					 follow.
"HRS" means the Hawaii Revised Statutes.
"Notice of cause" means a notice by the facility Operator
					 to evict a participant, or to bar a homeless family or individual from further
					 participation in a homeless facility.
"Participant" means a family or individual that is
					 determined eligible for and receives shelter or Services in any program for the
					 homeless pursuant to chapter 17-2026.
"Party" means the facility Operator, if named, permitted,
					 or entitled as of right to participate in a proceeding; a provider agency; a
					 participant; each person named in a proceeding; or any person, permitted or
					 entitled as of right to participate in a proceeding before the hearings
					 officer, in the capacity of a petitioner, claimant, respondent, intervenor, or
					 in a capacity other than that of a witness.
"Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation,
					 association through a representative, or public or private Organization of any
					 character.
"Proceeding" refers to any matter brought before the
					 hearings officer to evict a participant or to bar a participant from further
					 participation in a homeless facility.
"Respondent" means the party who contests or controverts a
					 proceeding.
"Social Services agreement" means the agreement signed
					 between a facility Operator and a participant which outlines specific terms and
					 conditions the participant must satisfy in order to continue participation in
					 the program.