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COUNTY OF HAWAII STATE OF HAWAII
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BILL NO. 132
ORDINANCE NO. 132
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.
{(2}} "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.
{{3j} "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.
{(6)} "Employee" means any person, except an officer, employed by the
County or any agency thereof but the term shall not include an
independent contractor.
{(~j} "Financial interest" means an interest held by an individual, the
individual's spouse, or dependent children which is:
{{A}} ~ An ownership interest in a business.
~ A creditor interest in an insolvent business.
X3,2 An employment, or prospective employment for which
negotiations have begun.
{FBA} ~ An ownership interest in real or personal property.
{FED} ~ A loan or other debtor interest.
~ A directorship or officership in a business.
{F8j} "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 ofthe County;
~ The first deputy or first assistant to the administrative
head of any agency of the County;
{{B}} ~ Any person appointed as a member of a boazd or
commission specifically provided for in the Charter, but
not including boards and commissions havine only
advisory yowers and functions;
~ 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;
~6,~ The managing director and deputy managing director.
{F9~} "Official act" or "official action" means a decision,
recommendation, approval, disapproval, or other action, including
inaction, which involves the use of discretionazy authority.
{f}9~} "Official authority" includes administrative or legislative powers
of decision, recommendation, approval, disapproval, or other
discretionary action."
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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 MBER, CO Y OF H WAI`I
Kona, Hawaii
Date of Introduction: August 22, 2007
Date oflS~Reading: August 22, 2007
Date oft"d Reading: September 6, 2007
Effective Date: September 20, 2007
REFERENCE: Comm. 537 _
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OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK
County of Hawaii
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Introduced By: Pete Hoffmann ROLL CALL VOTE ` ~ ,
Da[elntroduced: August 22, 2007 AYES ~~NQES ABS EX
First Reading: August 22, 2007 Ford X
Published: N/A Higa X
Hoffmann
REMARKS: Ikeda X
Jacobson X
Naeole X
Pilago X
Yagong X
Yoshimoto X
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Second Reading: September 6, 2007
To Mayor: September 14, 2007 ROLL CALL VOTE
Returned: September 20, 2007 AYES NOES ABS EX
Effective: September 20, 2007 Ford X
Published: September 28, 2007 Higa X
Hoffmann X
REMARKS: Ikeda X
Jacobson X
Naeole X
Pilago X
Yagong X
Yoshimoto X
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I DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing BILL was adopted b the Count Co~cil published as
indicated above.
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Date
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