Haw. Code R. § 4-161-1

Current through September, 2024
Section 4-161-1 - Definitions

As used in this chapter: "Program" means the industrial hemp pilot program.

"Applicant" means a person that is an individual residing in Hawaii or an institution of higher education, a sole proprietorship, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability corporation, limited liability partnership, or any other business entity having any:

(1) Place of business permanently located within the State;
(2) Employees permanently assigned to work stations or areas located within the State; or
(3) Tangible assets permanently located within the State.

"Board" means the board of agriculture or the board's designee.

"Chairperson means the chairperson of the board of agriculture or the chairperson's designee.

"Department" means the department of agriculture.

"Industrial hemp" means the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of that plant, whether growing or not, with a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than 0.3 per cent on a dry matter basis or a tetrahydrocannabinol concentration allowed by federal law, whichever is greater, that is cultivated.

"Law enforcement" means the federal, state, and local agencies responsible for maintaining public order and enforcing the law.

"Licensed land area" means a contiguous land area registered with the department on which a licensee plans to cultivate industrial hemp. A licensed land area may include land and buildings that are not used for cultivation.

"Licensure" means authorization by the department for any individual or legal entity to grow industrial hemp on a licensed land area.

"Movement" means the shifting of industrial hemp from a licensed land area to another location, or into a licensed land area from another location.

"Seed cultivar" means a variety of industrial hemp.

"Variety" means a group of individual plants that exhibit the same observable physical characteristics of have the same genetic composition.

Haw. Code R. § 4-161-1

[Eff 9/22/2017] (Auth: HRS § 141-40) (Imp: HRS § 141-31)