Chapter 10 — Office Of

§10-12 Assistant; staff. The administrator may employ and retain such officers and employees as may be necessary to carry out the functions of the office. Such officers and employees may be hired without regard to chapter 76, and shall serve at the pleasure of the administrator. …

§10-13 Appropriations; accounts; reports. Moneys appropriated by the legislature for the office shall be payable by the director of finance, upon vouchers approved by the board, or by any officer elected or appointed by the board and authorized by the board to approve such vouche…

§10-13.5 Use of public land trust proceeds. Twenty per cent of all funds derived from the public land trust, described in section 10-3, shall be expended by the office, as defined in section 10-2, for the purposes of this chapter. [L 1980, c 273, §1; am L 1990, c 304, §§7, 16]

§10-14 REPEALED. L 1990, c 221, §4.

§10-15 Annual report. The board shall prepare and make public their annual report which shall include an enumeration of their activities, income, and expenditures during the year. The annual report for the previous fiscal year shall be submitted to the governor and the legislatur…

§10-15.5 REPEALED. L 1990, c 304, §§14, 16.

§10-17 Grants; conditions and qualifications. (a) Applications for grants shall be made to the office and contain such information as the office shall require. At a minimum, the applicant shall show: (b) Grants shall only be awarded if: (c) To receive a grant, an applicant shall:…

§10-2 Definitions. In this chapter, if not inconsistent with the context: "Administrator" means the administrator of the office of Hawaiian affairs. "Beneficiary of the public trust entrusted upon the office" means native Hawaiians and Hawaiians. "Board" means the board of truste…

PART II. REVENUE BONDS §10-21 Definitions. Whenever used in this part: "Loan program" means the activities and policies undertaken by the office to provide assistance to any department of the State or to any county or board, agency, or instrumentality thereof, or to private indiv…

§10-22 Powers of the board. In addition to the powers which it now possesses, the board shall have power to:

§10-23 Authorization of office projects and loan programs; issuance of revenue bonds. Authorization of acquisition, purchase, construction, reconstruction, improvement, betterment, extension, or maintenance of an office project or projects or the establishment, funding, and admin…

§10-25 Revenue bonds. (a) Revenue bonds shall be issued in the name of the board, may be in one or more series, may be in the denomination or denominations, may bear the date or dates, may mature at the time or times not exceeding fifty years from their respective dates, may bear…

§10-27 Covenants in resolution authorizing revenue bonds. Any resolution or resolutions authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds under this part may contain covenants as to: This part and any such resolution or resolutions shall be a contract with the holders of bonds issued und…

§10-28 Validity of bonds. Revenue bonds issued under this part shall bear the manual signatures of the chairperson of the board and the administrator, and shall be sealed with the seal of the board or in lieu thereof shall bear a lithographed or engraved facsimile of the seal. If…

§10-29 Bonds. The resolution or resolutions authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds may pledge to the payment thereof all or any part of the revenue of an office project or projects, of a loan program or programs, or of the office, and the pledge shall constitute a lien on the …

§10-3 Purpose of the office. The purposes of the office of Hawaiian affairs include:

§10-30 Payment and security of revenue bonds; revenue bonds not a debt of the State. Revenue bonds issued under this part shall be payable from and secured solely by the revenues of the office project or projects, the revenues of the loan program or programs, or revenues of the o…

§10-31 Office of Hawaiian affairs projects and loan programs to be self-supporting. The board shall impose and collect rates, rents, fees, and charges for the use or enjoyment and services of the facilities of each office project or for each loan program, as applicable, and shall…

§10-4 Office of Hawaiian affairs; established; general powers. There shall be an office of Hawaiian affairs constituted as a body corporate which shall be a separate entity independent of the executive branch. The office, under the direction of the board of trustees, shall have t…

[PART III.] TRAINING; CERTAIN BOARDS, COMMISSIONS, AND COUNCILS; NATIVE HAWAIIAN AND HAWAIIAN TRADITIONAL AND CUSTOMARY RIGHTS, NATURAL RESOURCE PROTECTION AND ACCESS RIGHTS, AND THE PUBLIC TRUST §10-41 Training; applicability. (a) The training required by this part shall apply t…

§10-5 Board of trustees; powers and duties. The board shall have the power in accordance with law to:

§10-6 General duties of the board. (a) The general duties of the board shall be: (b) The board shall have any powers which may be necessary for the full and effective performance and discharge of the duties imposed by this chapter, and which may be necessary to fully and complete…

§10-8 Organization; quorum; meeting. The board, at its first meeting after an election, shall elect from its own membership a chairperson and a vice-chairperson who shall serve at the pleasure of the board. Their election shall be immediately certified by the board to the lieuten…

§10-9 Salaries; benefit; expenses. Members of the board:

§10-9.5 Salary commission; established. (a) There is established a salary commission for the members of the board of trustees for the office of Hawaiian affairs. The salary commission shall consist of seven members appointed by the governor on or before August 31, 1999, and every…