351-2. Definitions
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
"Child" means an unmarried person who
is under eighteen years of age and includes a stepchild or an adopted child.
"Commission" means the crime victim compensation
commission established by this chapter.
"Crime" means those under section
351-32, and shall include an act of terrorism occurring outside the United
States as defined in title 18 United States Code section 2331, against a
resident of this State.
"Dependents" mean such relatives of a
deceased victim who were wholly or partially dependent upon the victim's income
at the time of the victim's death or would have been so dependent but for the
incapacity due to the injury from which the death resulted and includes the
child of the victim born after the victim's death.
"Designated person" means a person
who made payments for funeral, burial, and medical expenses on behalf of a
victim.
"Injury" means actual bodily harm
and, in respect of a victim, includes pregnancy and mental or nervous shock;
and "injured" has a corresponding meaning.
"Mass casualty incident" means an
incident with multiple victims killed during a continuous course of criminal
conduct.
"Private citizen" means any natural
person other than a police officer who is actively engaged in the performance
of the police officer's official duties.
"Relative" means a victim's spouse or
reciprocal beneficiary, parent, grandparent, stepparent, child, grandchild,
stepchild, brother, sister, half brother, half sister, stepbrother, stepsister,
spouse's or reciprocal beneficiary's parents, niece, nephew, or person residing
in the same dwelling unit as the victim.
"Resident" means every individual
who:
(1) Intends to permanently reside in this State;
(2) Has a permanent abode in this State;
(3) Is a student at any institution of learning and
claimed as a dependent of a Hawaii resident;
(4) Files a Hawaii income tax return; or
(5) Is registered to vote in this State.
"Victim" means:
(1) A person who is injured or killed by any act or
omission of any other person coming within the criminal jurisdiction of the
State;
(2) Any resident of the State who is injured or
killed in another state by an act or omission of another person, which act or
omission is within the description of any of the crimes specified in section
351-32; or
(3) A person who is a resident of this State who is
injured or killed by an act of terrorism occurring outside the United States,
as defined in title 18 United States Code section 2331.
[L 1967, c 226, pt of
§1; HRS §351-2; am L 1972, c 2, §13 and c 61, §1a; am L 1977, c 191, §2; am L
1983, c 124, §15; gen ch 1985; am L 1989, c 177, §§1 to 3; am L 1995, c 182,
§1; am L 1997, c 383, §49; am L 1998, c 239, §1 and c 240, §3; am L 2000, c 57,
§§2, 3]
