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Amendment No. 6 ' '
DATE: June 27, 2024 =`�"
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TO: Members of the Hawai`i County Council
FROM: WHeather L. Kimball, Council Chair
Council District 1
SUBJECT: Proposed Amendments to Bill No. 121; An Ordinance Amending Chapter
25, Articles 1, 4, and 5, of the Hawaii County Code 1983 (2016 Edition,
as Amended), Relating to Transient Accommodation Rentals and Hosting
Platforms.
Transmitted herewith are proposed amendments to Bill No. 121. The proposed amendments are
shown below in Ramseyer format with respect to the contents of Bill No. 121, material to be
deleted is bracketed and stricken, and material to be inserted is underscored.
SECTION 2 of Bill No. 121, which amends chapter 25, article 1, section 25-1-5, of the Hawai`i
County Code 1983 (2016 Edition, as amended)by adding definitions, is amended by amending
the new definitions of"transient" and"transient accommodation"to read as follows:
"Transient" or"transients"means any visitor or person who rents or uses a lodging or
dwelling unit, or portion thereof, for [less tha„ ne hundred eight y s] thirty consecutive days
or less and whose permanent address for legal purposes is not the [lodging or dwelling unit
occupied by the visitor.] transient accommodation rental. This definition shall not apply to:
(1) Nonpaying guests of the family occupying the unit;
(2) Clients in health care facilities;
(3) Full-time students enrolled in an educational institution in the County of Hawai`i;
(4) Employees who receive room and/or board as part of their salary or compensation
including agricultural workers;
(5) Occupants of group living facilities, authorized by the department of health;
(6) Military personnel;
(7) Health care workers temporarily employed at a medical facility in the County of
Hawai`i;
Comm. No. 5
Ref. To:
Hawai`i County is an Equal Opportunity Provider and Employer Ref. Date
(8) Low-income renters receiving rental subsistence from the state or federal
governments whose rental periods are for durations shorter than [sixty] thirty days;
or
(9) Occupants of lodging provided by nonprofit corporations or associations for
religious, charitable, or education purposes; provided that no income is produced,
even if the income is used for or in furtherance of the exempt activities of such
religious, charitable, or educational corporation or association."
'Transient accommodation"means the furnishing of a room, apartment, suite, single
family dwelling, or the like to a transient for [less than one hundred eighty] thirty consecutive
days [for each letting in a hotel, apartment hotel, motel, condominium or unit as defined in
chapter 514B, cooperative apartment, dwelling unit, or rooming house that provides living
,ulariy furnished to transient (Ref tio„ 23 7D i Hawai'i_T?evised Stat„tes.)] or
less."
Due to the limited scope of these proposed amendments, a copy of the new draft of this
bill that will result if these amendments are adopted is not attached.
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