Title 13, Planning And Economic Development

[§201B-14] Declaration of public function, purpose, and necessity. The powers and functions granted to and exercised by the Hawaii tourism authority under this chapter are declared to be public and governmental functions, exercised for a public purpose, and matters of public nece…

§201B-15 Court proceedings; preferences; venue. (a) Any action or proceeding to which the authority, the State, or the county may be a party, in which any question arises as to the validity of this chapter, shall be preferred over all other civil cases, except election cases, in …

§201B-16 Annual report. The authority shall submit a complete and detailed report of its activities, expenditures, and results, including the progress of the strategic tourism management plan developed pursuant to section 201B-6, toward achieving the authority's strategic plan go…

§201B-2 Hawaii tourism authority; establishment; board; president and chief executive officer. (a) There is established the Hawaii tourism authority, which shall be a body corporate and a public instrumentality of the State, for the purpose of implementing this chapter. The autho…

[§201B-2.5] Authority, private attorneys. (a) The board may appoint or retain by contract one or more attorneys who are independent of the attorney general to provide legal services for the board solely in cases of contract negotiations in which the attorney general lacks suffici…

§201B-3 Powers, generally. (a) Except as otherwise provided by law, the authority may: (1) Sue and be sued; (2) Have a seal and alter the same at its pleasure; (3) Through its president and chief executive officer, make and execute contracts and all other instruments necessary or…

§201B-4 Meetings of the board. (a) The meetings of the board shall be open to the public as provided in section 92-3, except that when it is necessary for the board to receive: (1) Information that is proprietary to a particular enterprise or the disclosure of which might be harm…

§201B-6 Strategic tourism management plan; measures of effectiveness. (a) The authority shall be responsible for developing a strategic tourism management plan that advances tourism marketing, complies with destination management best practices, and promotes regenerative tourism.…

[§201B-6.2] Tourism functional plan. Pursuant to section 226-55, the authority, in coordination with the office of planning and sustainable development, shall prepare and periodically update the tourism functional plan to include tourism economic goals set out in chapter 226, the…

[§201B-6.4] Destination management action plans; counties; objectives; execution. To meet the destination management objectives for each county, the authority shall perform the actions specified in each of the following plans: (1) Oahu destination management action plan; (2) Maui…

§201B-7 Tourism-related activities. (a) The authority may enter into contracts and agreements that include the following: (1) Tourism promotion, marketing, development, and destination management; (2) Market development-related research; (3) Product development and diversificatio…

[§201B-7.5] Applicability of Hawaii public procurement code; convention center contractor; construction contracts. The construction contracts for the maintenance of the convention center facility by the private contractor that operates the convention center, by its direct or indi…

§201B-8 Convention center enterprise special fund. (a) There is established the convention center enterprise special fund, into which shall be deposited: (1) A portion of the revenues from the transient accommodations tax, as provided by section 237D-6.5; (2) All revenues or mone…

§201B-9 Tourism emergency. (a) If the board determines that the occurrence of a world conflict, terrorist threat, national or global economic crisis, natural disaster, outbreak of disease, or other catastrophic event adversely affects Hawaii's tourism industry by resulting in a s…