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HomeMy WebLinkAboutBIL 132 Draft 01 2006-2008 MtV or N Viii COUNTY OF HAWAII STATE OF HAWAII h>~ ar•M~'~~ BILL NO. isz ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 2, ARTICLE 15, SECTION 2-82, HAWAII COUNTY CODE 1983 (2005 EDITION), AS AMENDED, RELATING TO THE CODE OF ETHICS. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII: SECTION 1. Chapter 2, article 15, section 2-82, Hawaii County Code 1983 (2005 Edition, as amended), is amended to read as follows: "Section 2-82. Definitions. {{aj} As used in this article: "Agency" means any office, department, board, commission, or other governmental unit of the executive or legislative branches of the County, but does not include subdivisions of department. "Board" means the board of ethics. {{3}} "Business" includes a corporation, a partnership, a sole proprietorship, atrust or foundation, or other individual organization carrying on a business, whether or not operated for profit. {{4}} "Compensation" means any money, thing of value, or economic benefit conferred on or received by any person in return for services rendered or to be rendered by oneself or another. {(~j} "Controlling interest" means an interest in a business or other _ undertaking which is sufficient in fact to control, whether the interest be greater or less than fifty percent. {(~i}} "Employee" means any person, except an officer, employed by the County or any agency thereof but the term shall not include an independent contractor. "Financial interest" means an interest held by an individual, the individual's spouse, or dependent children which is: {{~4)} ~ An ownership interest in a business. ~ A creditor interest in an insolvent business. ~ An employment, or prospective employment for which negotiations have begun. {EB}} ~ An ownership interest in real or personal property. {FE}} ~ A loan or other debtor interest. {EF}} ~ A directorship or officership in a business. {{8)} "Officer" includes the following: {(A)} ~ The mayor, members of the council, and all other elected officials of the County; ~ Any person appointed as the administrative head of any agency of the County; ~ The first deputy or first assistant to the administrative head of any agency of the County; {fl3}} ~ Any person appointed as a member of a board or commission specifically provided for in the Charter but not including boards and commissions having only advisor powers and functions; {(E`}} ~ Any person appointed as a member of any board or commission not specifically provided for in the Charter, but not including boards and commissions having only advisory powers and functions; ~ The managing director and deputy managing director. {{9~} "Official act" or "official action" means a decision, recommendation, approval, disapproval, or other action, including inaction, which involves the use of discretionary authority. r% "Official authority" includes administrative or legislative powers of decision, recommendation, approval, disapproval, or other discretionary action." 2 SECTION 2. Severability. If any provision of this ordinance, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the ordinance which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end, the provisions of this ordinance are declared to be severable. SECTION 3. Material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New material is underscored. In printing this ordinance, the brackets, bracketed material, and underscoring need not be included. SECTION 4. This ordinance shall take effect on its approval. INTRODUCED BY: COUNCIL M MBER, CO Y OF WAI`I Hawaii Date of Introduction: Date of ls` Reading: Date of 2"d Reading: Effective Date: REPEREMC~: Comm. 537 3