Chapter 212 — Chapter 212

§212-1 "Act of Congress" defined. As used in this chapter, "Act of Congress" means the act of Congress approved June 18, 1934, entitled, "An act to provide for the establishment, operation, and maintenance of foreign-trade zones in ports of entry of the United States, to expedite…

§212-10 Personnel. Permanent employees currently not in civil service and who are employed by the State to operate and maintain the foreign trade zone in the department of business, economic development, and tourism shall be converted to permanent civil service status within the …

§212-2 "Public corporation" defined. As used in this chapter, "public corporation" means the State of Hawaii, any political subdivision thereof, and municipality therein, or any public agency of the State. [L 1963, c 7, §3; Supp, §98T-3; HRS §212-2]

§212-3 Designation and approval of governor for application. Any public corporation which is duly designated and approved by the governor may make application to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board of the United States for the purpose of establishing, operating, and maintaining a forei…

§212-4 Grant of authority to governor; rules and regulations. The governor may do all things necessary and proper to carry into effect the establishing, maintaining, and operating of foreign-trade zones, and make such rules and regulations concerning the operation, maintenance, a…

§212-5 Setting aside public lands; lease, license, and permits. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the governor may set aside public lands to a public corporation for the purpose of this chapter and the corporation may, by negotiation and without recourse to public auction,…

§212-6 Establishment, operation, and maintenance of zone. Any public corporation authorized pursuant to this chapter to make an application and whose application is granted pursuant to the terms of the Act of Congress may establish, operate, and maintain the foreign-trade zone:

§212-7 Powers; indemnity or assurance to the United States and deposits with United States. If authorized to establish, operate, and maintain a foreign-trade zone, a public corporation may, in addition to its other powers:

§212-8 Exemption from taxes. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, sales of all products which are categorized as privileged foreign merchandise, nonprivileged foreign merchandise, domestic merchandise, or zone-restricted merchandise, and which are admitted into a foreign-trad…

§212-9 Special fund. There is established in the state treasury a fund to be known as the foreign-trade zones special fund. All fees or other moneys collected under this chapter shall be deposited in this fund. All moneys in the fund are hereby appropriated for the purposes of an…