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



"Attack" means any attack or series
of attacks by an enemy of the United States causing, or which may cause, damage
or injury to civilian property or persons in the United States in any manner by
the 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 not
limited to, the effective screening or extinguishing of lights and lighting
devices and appliances;



"Civil defense" means the preparation
for and the carrying out of all functions, other than functions for which
military forces are primarily responsible, to prevent, minimize, and repair
injury and damage resulting, or which would result, from disasters caused by an
attack.  The disasters include without limitation those that result from or
arise out of action in resisting or combating an attack or apparent attack. 
Civil defense functions include all those provided for by this chapter which
are for the purposes stated in this paragraph and, without limitation, fire
fighting services, police services, medical and health services, rescue
engineering, air raid warning services, communications, radiological, chemical,
and other special weapons defense, evacuation of persons from stricken or
danger areas, or from security areas established by or under authority of the
United States, emergency housing and other emergency welfare services,
emergency transportation, protection of important installations, and other
functions related to civilian protection, together with all other activities
necessary or incidental to the preparation for and carrying out of the
foregoing functions.  "Civil defense" is deemed to encompass, but is
not limited to, all those activities and measures which, by the Federal Civil
Defense Act of 1950, are defined to be within the term "civil
defense", insofar as the activities and measures relate to preparation for,
or relate to functioning in respect of, an attack upon the State, but for the
purposes of section 128-10(1) and (3) shall not be deemed to be restricted
geographically;



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



"Emergency functions" means civil
defense powers and functions and all other powers and functions provided for by
this chapter;



"Facilities", except as otherwise
provided 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 may
be amended or supplemented from time to time;



"Federal program" means a program of
the federal government, its departments, and agencies, for rationing or
conservation of materials, supplies, commodities, equipment, or facilities, for
assigning priorities with respect thereto, for price control thereof, for wage
controls, for the mobilization of personnel, for alien property control or
control of trading with the enemy, for the welfare of veterans, for defense
production, construction, or transportation, or any program or function of the
department of defense or the federal civil defense administration;



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



"Laws" includes ordinances, and
rules, regulations, and orders prescribed under laws or ordinances and having
the force and effect of law;



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



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



"Mobile support unit" means an
organization for civil defense created in accordance with this chapter to be
dispatched to supplement local organizations for civil defense in stricken
areas;



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



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



"Protective device", without
prejudice to any other meaning associated with the word, includes any article
or substance used or useful in the protection of persons or property;



"Shelter" without prejudice to any
other meaning associated with the word, includes any structure, excavation, or
other 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 also
includes, 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 and
their provinces and states;



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