Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 13 - DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Subtitle 13 - HISTORIC PRESERVATION DIVISION
Chapter 283 - RULES GOVERNING STANDARDS FOR OSTEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF HUMAN SKELETAL REMAINS
Section 13-283-2 - Definitions

As used in this chapter unless the context requires otherwise:

"Ahupua'a" means a traditional Hawaiian land division usually extending from the mountain to the sea.

"Burial site" means any specific unmarked location where prehistoric or historic human skeletal remains and their associated burial goods if any, are interred, and its immediate surrounding archaeological context, including any associated surface and subsurface features, deemed a unique class of historic property, and not otherwise included in section 6E-41, HRS.

"Ethnicity" means the ethnic group to which the deceased belonged by birth, such as Hawaiian, Japanese, and Chinese.

"Historic property" means any building, structure, object, district, area, or site, including heiau and underwater site, which is over fifty years old.

"Project" means any activity directly undertaken by the state or its political subdivisions or supported in whole or in part through appropriations, contracts, grants, subsidies, loans, or other forms of funding assistance from the state or its political subdivisions or involving any lease, permit, license, certificate, land use change, or other entitlement for use issued by the state or its political subdivisions.

"State historic preservation division" or "SHPD" means the state historic preservation division within the state department of land and natural resources.