Hawaii County Code - Article 15. Code of Ethics

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§ 2-91.4 HAWAII COUNTY CODE 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 gift 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 (1995, ord 95-21, sec 2; am 2002, ord 02-109, secs 6 and 7.) Section 2-91.5. Reporting of gifts. (a) Every officer and employee shall file a gifts disclosure statement with the County board 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, 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 1 of the preceding calendar year through May 31 of the year of the report. (c) The gifts disclosure statement shall contain the following information: (1) 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. (d) Excluded from the reporting requirements of this section are the following: (1) Gifts received by will or intestate succession; (2) Gifts received by way of distribution of any inter vivos or testamentary trust established by a spouse or ancestor; (3) Gifts from a spouse, fiancé, fiancée, any relative within four degrees of consanguinity or the spouse, fiancé, or fiancée of such a relative. A gift from any such person is a reportable gift if the person is acting as an agent or intermediary for any person not covered by this paragraph; (4) Political campaign contributions that comply with state law; (5) Anything available to or distributed to the public generally without regard to the official status of the recipient; (6) Gifts that, within thirty days after receipt, are returned to the giver or delivered to a public body or to a bona fide educational or charitable organization without the donation being claimed as a charitable contribution for tax purposes; and 2-44