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a bona fide educational or charitable organization without the donation being claimed as a charitable contribution for tax purposes. (g) Exchanges of approximately equal value on holidays, birthdays or special occasions.]" SECTION 5. Chapter 2, Article IS of the Hawaii County Code 1983 (1995 Edition), relating to code of ethics, is amended by adding new sections as follows: "Section 2-91.4. Gifts. No officer or employee shall solicit, accept, or receive, directly or indirectly, any gift, whether in the form of money, service, loan, travel, entertainment, hospitality, thing, or promise or in any other form, under circumstances in which it can reasonably be inferred that the gifr is intended to influence the officer or employee in the performance of the officer's or employee's official duties or is intended as a reward for any official action on the officer's or employee's part. Section 2-91.5. Reporting of gifts. (a) Every officer and employee shall file a gifts disclosure statement with the County Boazd of Ethics on June 30 of each year if all the following conditions are met: (1) The officer or employee, or spouse or dependent child of an officer or employee, received directly or indirectly from one source any gift or gifts valued singly or in the aggregate in excess of $100.00, whether the gift is in the form of money, service, goods, or in any other form; (2) The source of the gift or gifts have interests that may be affected by official action or lack of action by the officer or employee; and (3) The gift is not exempted by subsection (d) from reporting requirements under this subsection. (b) The report shall cover the period from June l of the preceding calendaz year through May 3l of the yeaz of the report. (c) The gifts disclosure statement shall contain the following information: (I) A description of the gift; (2) A good faith estimate of the value of the gift; (3) The date the gift was received; and (4) The name of the person, business entity, or organization from whom, or on behalf of whom, the gift was received. 6