§128-2  Definitions.  When used in thischapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

"Attack" means any attack or seriesof attacks by an enemy of the United States causing, or which may cause, damageor injury to civilian property or persons in the United States in any manner bythe use of bombs, shellfire, or atomic, radiological, chemical,bacteriological, or biological means or other weapons or processes; sabotage;and any form of hostile action;

"Blackout" includes, but is notlimited to, the effective screening or extinguishing of lights and lightingdevices and appliances;

"Civil defense" means the preparationfor and the carrying out of all functions, other than functions for whichmilitary forces are primarily responsible, to prevent, minimize, and repairinjury and damage resulting, or which would result, from disasters caused by anattack.  The disasters include without limitation those that result from orarise out of action in resisting or combating an attack or apparent attack. Civil defense functions include all those provided for by this chapter whichare for the purposes stated in this paragraph and, without limitation, firefighting services, police services, medical and health services, rescueengineering, air raid warning services, communications, radiological, chemical,and other special weapons defense, evacuation of persons from stricken ordanger areas, or from security areas established by or under authority of theUnited States, emergency housing and other emergency welfare services,emergency transportation, protection of important installations, and otherfunctions related to civilian protection, together with all other activitiesnecessary or incidental to the preparation for and carrying out of theforegoing functions.  "Civil defense" is deemed to encompass, but isnot limited to, all those activities and measures which, by the Federal CivilDefense Act of 1950, are defined to be within the term "civildefense", insofar as the activities and measures relate to preparation for,or relate to functioning in respect of, an attack upon the State, but for thepurposes of section 128-10(1) and (3) shall not be deemed to be restrictedgeographically;

"Civil defense emergency period"means the period of existence of a state of civil defense emergency proclaimedin accordance with the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950 by the President orthe Congress, if so proclaimed on a national basis or for any geographic areathat includes the State, and also means any period so proclaimed by the governor,as provided by section 128-7;

"Emergency functions" means civildefense powers and functions and all other powers and functions provided for bythis chapter;

"Facilities", except as otherwiseprovided in this chapter, includes buildings and other structures, shelters,land, and appurtenant materials;

"Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950"means Public Law 920, 81st Congress, 2d Session, chapter 1228, as the same maybe amended or supplemented from time to time;

"Federal program" means a program ofthe federal government, its departments, and agencies, for rationing orconservation of materials, supplies, commodities, equipment, or facilities, forassigning priorities with respect thereto, for price control thereof, for wagecontrols, for the mobilization of personnel, for alien property control orcontrol of trading with the enemy, for the welfare of veterans, for defenseproduction, construction, or transportation, or any program or function of thedepartment of defense or the federal civil defense administration;

"Highways" have the meaning asdefined by section 264-1, and further include all public rights of way, whetheror not included in the definition;

"Laws" includes ordinances, andrules, regulations, and orders prescribed under laws or ordinances and havingthe force and effect of law;

"Local organization for civildefense" means an organization created in accordance with this chapter toperform civil defense functions in a political subdivision of the State;

"Materials" includes medicines,supplies, products, commodities, articles, equipment, machinery, and componentparts;

"Mobile support unit" means anorganization for civil defense created in accordance with this chapter to bedispatched to supplement local organizations for civil defense in strickenareas;

"Necessary" means and refers to suchmeans, measures, or other actions or determinations as are necessary in theopinion of the governor, or the governor's authorized representative;

"Political subdivisions" means thecounties of Hawaii, Maui, and Kauai, and the city and county of Honolulu;

"Protective device", withoutprejudice to any other meaning associated with the word, includes any articleor substance used or useful in the protection of persons or property;

"Shelter" without prejudice to anyother meaning associated with the word, includes any structure, excavation, orother shelter used or useful in the protection of persons or property;

"States" includes the several states,the District of Columbia, and the possessions of the United States, and alsoincludes, for the purposes of section 128-10(1) and (3), the State of Hawaii,and to the extent authorized by or under federal law, foreign countries andtheir provinces and states;

"Traffic control" includes plans andregulations for the control of traffic to provide for the rapid and safemovements or evacuation over highways of people, troops, or vehicles andmaterials for civil defense or national defense or for use in any defenseindustry, and for the movement and cessation of movement of pedestrians andvehicular traffic during, before and after blackouts, drills, alerts, orattacks. [L 1951, c 268, pt of §2; RL 1955, §359-2; HRS §128-2; gen ch 1985,1993]