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HI Rev Stat § 46-61 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 6. County Organization and Administration|46. General Provisions|46-61 Eminent domain; purposes for taking property.

  §46-61 Eminent domain; purposes for taking property. Each county shall have the following specific powers: To take private property for the purpose of establishing, laying out, extending and widening streets, avenues, boulevards, alleys, and other public highways and roads; for pumping stations, waterworks, reservoirs, wells, jails, police and fire stations, city halls, office and other public buildings, cemeteries, parks, playgrounds and public squares, public off-street parking facilities and accommodations, land from which to obtain earth, gravel, stones, and other material for the construction of roads and other public works and for rights-of-way for drains, sewers, pipe lines, aqueducts, and other conduits for distributing water to the public; for flood control; for reclamation of swamp lands; and other public uses within the purview of section 101-2 and also to take such excess over that needed for such public use or public improvement in cases where small remnants would otherwise be left or where other justifiable cause necessitates the taking to protect and preserve the contemplated improvement or public policy demands, the taking in connection with the improvement, and to sell or lease the excess property with such restrictions as may be dictated by considerations of public policy in order to protect and preserve the improvement; provided that when the excess property is disposed of by any county it shall be first offered to the abutting owners for a reasonable length of time and at a reasonable price and if such owners fail to take the same then it may be sold at public auction. [L 1907, c 67, §1; am L 1913, c 97, §1; am L 1919, c 170, §1; RL 1925, §1952; RL 1935, §2300; am L 1937, c 184, §6; am L 1941, c 53, §1; am L 1943, c 153, §1; RL 1945, §6101; am L 1951, c 12, §5 and c 96, §1; RL 1955, §141-1; am imp L 1965, c 97, §1; HRS §46-61] Law Journals and Reviews  Dolan v. City of Tigard: Individual Property Rights v. Land Management Systems. 17 UH L. Rev. 193. Case Notes  In condemnation of land, proper party plaintiff is the Territory and not the superintendent of public works of the Territory. 20 H. 365.  This section, §46-62, and §101-2 neither limit counties' general power of eminent domain as set out in §46-1.5(6), nor divest counties of authority to enact ordinances allowing for condemnation of land for any particular public purpose. 76 H. 46, 868 P.2d 1193.
HI Rev Stat § 46-62 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 6. County Organization and Administration|46. General Provisions|46-62 Eminent domain; proceedings according to chapter 101.

 §46-62 Eminent domain; proceedings according to chapter 101. The proceedings to be taken on behalf of the county for the condemnation of property as provided in section 46-61, shall be taken and had in accordance with chapter 101, as the same may be applicable. [L 1907, c 67, §4; RL 1925, §1953; RL 1935, §2301; RL 1945, §6102; am L 1951, c 12, §5(b); RL 1955, §141-2; HRS §46-62] Case Notes  Section 46-61, this section, and §101-2 neither limit counties' general power of eminent domain as set out in §46-1.5(6), nor divest counties of authority to enact ordinances allowing for condemnation of land for any particular public purpose. 76 H. 46, 868 P.2d 1193.
HI Rev Stat § 46-63 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 6. County Organization and Administration|46. General Provisions|46-63 Gift or sale of county property for care of aged persons.

 §46-63 Gift or sale of county property for care of aged persons. The several counties may give, sell, set aside, and transfer property, real or personal, to private eleemosynary organizations dedicated to the care of aged persons, so long as it is used for the care of aged persons. [L 1963, c 122, §1; Supp, §138-53; HRS §46-63]
HI Rev Stat § 46-64 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 6. County Organization and Administration|46. General Provisions|46-64 Disposition of surplus property.

 §46-64 Disposition of surplus property. Any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, any county may give, sell, or transfer any of its surplus personal property to the State or to any county within the State. [L 1965, c 251, §1; Supp, §138-54; HRS §46-64]
HI Rev Stat § 46-65 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 6. County Organization and Administration|46. General Provisions|46-65 Parks in the charge of council.

 §46-65 Parks in the charge of council. All public parks and public recreation grounds are transferred to and placed in the charge of the council of the county in which the same may be located, to be maintained, managed, and controlled by them. All lands set apart or acquired as public parks and public recreation grounds shall likewise be placed in the charge of and maintained by the several councils. This section shall not apply to parks and public recreational grounds in the city and county of Honolulu, or to the parks and parkways in the state park system. [L 1911, c 100, §1; am L 1913, c 132, §1; RL 1925, §1919; am L 1931, c 175, §1; RL 1935, §2368; RL 1945, §6138; am L 1949, c 185, §3; RL 1955, §142-24; HRS §46-65] Cross References  Parks and playgrounds for subdivisions, see §46-6.
HI Rev Stat § 46-65.5 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 6. County Organization and Administration|46. General Provisions|46-65.5 Exchange of park property.

  §46-65.5 Exchange of park property. The counties may accept from or transfer to the State, park lands, which may include related improvements, personnel, equipment, and functions. [L 1987, c 335, §3] Note  Transfer of parks between State and counties. L 1988, c 7 repealing L 1984, c 34; L 1991, c 312. Cross References  Aina Hoomalu, see §184-31.  State provisions, see §184-3.
HI Rev Stat § 46-65.6 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 6. County Organization and Administration|46. General Provisions|46-65.6 Thomas Square; to be maintained.

  §46-65.6 Thomas Square; to be maintained. Thomas Square shall be maintained as a public park. [L 1925, JR 1; RL 1935, §2369; RL 1945, §6139; RL 1955, §142-25; HRS §70-121; ren and am L 1988, c 263, pt of §8]
HI Rev Stat § 46-65.7 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 6. County Organization and Administration|46. General Provisions|46-65.7 Ala Wai golf course.

 §46-65.7 Ala Wai golf course. The fair commission of Hawaii is abolished and the functions and authority of the fair commission of Hawaii relating to the Ala Wai golf course are transferred to the city and county of Honolulu, together with the use and control of all lands, property, and facilities under its jurisdiction; provided that the lands, property, and facilities shall be used for the purposes of operating a municipal golf course; and provided further that the governor may by executive order transfer the use and control of the lands, property, and facilities or any part of the lands, property, and facilities to the appropriate department or agency of the State designated by the governor upon the giving of six months' written notice before the date of the transfer back to the State to the city and county of Honolulu. [L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §29; Supp, §14A-28; HRS §70-122; ren and am L 1988, c 263, pt of §8; am L Sp 1993, c 7, §9]
HI Rev Stat § 46-66 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 6. County Organization and Administration|46. General Provisions|46-66 Disposition of real property.

  §46-66 Disposition of real property. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, each county, subject to the approval of the council, may grant, sell, or otherwise dispose of any easement for particular purposes in perpetuity by direct negotiation or otherwise, subject to reverter to the county upon the termination or abandonment of the specific purpose for which the easement was granted, including easements over, under, through, and across land bordering the ocean and easements for any governmental or public utility purpose or for chilled water and seawater distribution systems for renewable energy seawater air conditioning district cooling systems. [L 1970, c 176, §1; am L 2007, c 205, §4; am L 2011, c 46, §2]
HI Rev Stat § 46-71 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 6. County Organization and Administration|46. General Provisions|46-71 Service of process upon county.

  §46-71 Service of process upon county. Service of any notice or process issued against any county by any court, judicial or administrative officer or board may be made by any officer authorized to make service of process, and may be made upon the corporation counsel or county attorney or any of the corporation counsel's or county attorney's deputies, or as provided by the county charter. Any such service shall be binding upon the county. [L 1911, c 11, §1; RL 1925, §2184; RL 1935, §2320; RL 1945, §6012; RL 1955, §138-20; HRS §46-71; am L 1973, c 134, §1; gen ch 1985] Rules of Court  Service upon county, see HRCP rule 4(d)(6).
HI Rev Stat § 46-72.5 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 6. County Organization and Administration|46. General Provisions|46-72.5 Counties' limited liability for skateboard activities at public skateboard parks.

  §46-72.5 Counties' limited liability for skateboard activities at public skateboard parks. (a) No public entity or public employee shall be liable to any person for injury or damage sustained when using a public skateboard park, except when injury or damage is caused by a condition resulting from the public entity's failure to maintain or repair the skateboard park.   (b) Counties shall maintain a record of all known or reported injuries incurred by skateboard users in a public skateboard park and all claims paid for such injuries and shall submit a report to the legislature on or before twenty days before the convening of the 2008 legislative session, along with any recommendations regarding the need for further immunity from liability. [L 2003, c 144, §2]
HI Rev Stat § 46-73 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 6. County Organization and Administration|46. General Provisions|46-73 Claims for legislative relief; conditions.

  §46-73 Claims for legislative relief; conditions. All claims for refunds, reimbursements, or other payments by any county, authorization for which is sought from the legislature, shall, as a condition to their being considered by the legislature, be filed in duplicate with the county council or city council of the county concerned at least thirty days prior to the convening of the legislature, together with duplicates of all data and documents in support thereof. In the absence of a showing of sufficient reason therefor, failure to comply with this paragraph shall be deemed sufficient cause for refusal of the legislature to consider the claims.  The county council or city council shall immediately upon receipt thereof refer the claim and data so received by it to the head of the department, bureau, board or commission concerned, and the person to whom the reference is made shall immediately investigate the claim, secure in duplicate all available data and documents bearing thereon, and prior to the convening of the legislature refer the same back to the county council or city council with the person's recommendations thereon. The county councils or city council shall, within five days after the opening of the session, transmit the claims which have not been paid by the county concerned in an appropriate legislative bill form, together with all accompanying data so presented, to the legislature. [L 1943, c 75, §1; RL 1945, §6015; RL 1955, §138-22; HRS §46-73; am L 1973, c 178, §3; gen ch 1985]
HI Rev Stat § 46-74 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 6. County Organization and Administration|46. General Provisions|46-74 Waiver of exemption from assessment for improvements.

 §46-74 Waiver of exemption from assessment for improvements. Notwithstanding sections 67-8 and 46-74.2 or any other law to the contrary, any society, association, or corporation engaged in religious, charitable, educational, scientific, literary, or other benevolent purposes whose land is exempt by law from assessment for improvements, may file or join others in filing a petition for an improvement district and shall, by such filing or joining to file, be deemed to have waived exemption from assessment for improvements and its lands within the improvement district shall be assessed for improvements without contribution from the county or the State. [L 1967, c 35, §1; HRS §46-74] Note  Section 67-8 referred to in text is repealed. Revision Note  Section "46-74.2" substituted for "70-111".
HI Rev Stat § 46-74.1 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 6. County Organization and Administration|46. General Provisions|46-74.1 Exemption from improvement assessments.

  §46-74.1 Exemption from improvement assessments. Subject to sections 67-8 and 46-74.2, any land exempted by law from payment of property taxes which land is owned by a society, association, or corporation engaged in religious, charitable, educational, scientific, literary, or other benevolent purposes, whose charter or other enabling act contains a provision that, in the event of dissolution, the land owned by such society, association, or corporation shall be distributed to another society, association, or corporation engaged in religious, charitable, educational, scientific, literary, or other benevolent purposes shall be exempt from assessments to pay for the cost of any improvements included in any improvement district. [L 1968, c 65, §2] Note  Section 67-8 referred to in text is repealed. Revision Note  Section "46-74.2" substituted for "70-111".
HI Rev Stat § 46-75 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 6. County Organization and Administration|46. General Provisions|46-75 Improvement bonds exempt from taxation.

 §46-75 Improvement bonds exempt from taxation. All bonds issued by any of the counties of the State for improvements by assessments, and the interest thereon, shall be exempt from all state, county, and municipal taxation, except inheritance, transfer, and estate taxes. [L 1963, c 128, §1; Supp, §138-71; HRS §46-75]
HI Rev Stat § 46-76 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 6. County Organization and Administration|46. General Provisions|46-76 Location of utility facilities in improvement districts.

 §46-76 Location of utility facilities in improvement districts. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, whenever any public improvement is established, constructed, improved, or altered pursuant to the improvement by assessment statutes or ordinances, and in conjunction therewith it is necessary to provide for the installation or require the removal, relocation, replacement, or reconstruction of public utility facilities that are privately owned, the respective legislative bodies of the counties shall determine whether the whole or a portion of such utility facilities shall be located overhead or underground. Where it is decided that the whole or a portion of the utility facilities shall be relocated, replaced or reconstructed, which installation shall constitute a public improvement, the respective legislative bodies of the counties shall determine what portion of the costs of the installation or the removal, relocation, replacement, or reconstruction of the utility facilities required shall be borne by the utility companies, counties and the properties specially benefited within the improvement district; provided that such costs borne by the counties and the utility companies shall be paid in a lump sum, that the portion of the costs to be borne by the utility companies shall be the same percentage of the total relocation cost for each utility company required to remove, relocate, replace or reconstruct its facilities within the improvement district and the costs that are allocated against the properties specially benefited in the improvement district shall be assessed and paid for in accordance with the provisions of the improvement by assessment statutes or ordinances; provided further that the counties may issue bonds under any applicable laws to pay their share of such costs and the costs allocated against the properties specially benefited may be financed under any applicable laws as are other special assessments against specially benefited property.  The foregoing provisions shall not be applicable to the subdivision of lands which require the installation of utility facilities in new streets established by the subdivision and which subdivision is initiated, created or made by a private developer. [L 1968, c 73, §3; am L 1985, c 201, §1]
HI Rev Stat § 46-77 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 6. County Organization and Administration|46. General Provisions|46-77 Underground utility facilities in improvement districts.

  §46-77 Underground utility facilities in improvement districts. Notwithstanding the provision of any statute or ordinance or any regulation made under authority thereof, whenever the legislative body of a county shall determine that the whole or a portion of public utility facilities that are privately owned shall be located underground within an improvement district established pursuant to improvement by assessment statutes or ordinances, the utility engineering, placing of cables and splicing work shall be performed by the public utility concerned notwithstanding that a portion of the cost of the installation of such utility facilities underground may be borne by the county within which such improvement district is situated or the properties specially benefited within such improvement district or both. [L 1969, c 256, §1]
HI Rev Stat § 46-79 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 6. County Organization and Administration|46. General Provisions|46-79 CUSIP numbers for district improvement bonds or improvement district bonds of counties.

  §46-79 CUSIP numbers for district improvement bonds or improvement district bonds of counties. Unless the governing body shall otherwise direct, the director of finance of any county issuing district improvement bonds or improvement district bonds of such county pursuant to either state statutes or charter or ordinances adopted under either thereof in the director's discretion may provide that CUSIP identification numbers shall be imprinted on such bonds. In the event such numbers are imprinted on any such bonds (i) no such number shall constitute a part of the contract evidenced by the particular bond upon which it is imprinted and (ii) no liability shall attach to the county, such district or any officer or agent of either thereof, including any fiscal agent, paying agent or registrar for such bonds, by reason of such numbers or any use made thereof, including any use thereof made by the county, such district, any such officer or any such agent, or by reason of inaccuracy, error or omission with respect thereto or in such use. Unless the governing body shall otherwise direct, the director of finance in the director's discretion may require that all cost of obtaining and imprinting such numbers shall be paid by the purchaser of such bonds. For the purposes of this section, the term "CUSIP identification numbers" means the numbering system adopted by the Committee for Uniform Security Identification Procedures formed by the Securities Industry Association. [L 1974, c 109, §3; gen ch 1985]
HI Rev Stat § 46-80 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 6. County Organization and Administration|46. General Provisions|46-80 Improvement by assessment; financing.

 §46-80 Improvement by assessment; financing. Any county having a charter may enact an ordinance, and may amend the same from time to time, providing for the making and financing of improvement districts in the county, and such improvements may be made and financed under such ordinance. The county may issue and sell bonds to provide funds for such improvements. Bonds issued to provide funds for such improvements may be either bonds when the only security therefor is the properties benefited or improved or the assessments thereon or bonds payable from taxes or secured by the taxing power of the county. If the bonds are secured only by the properties benefited or improved or the assessments thereon, the bonds shall be issued according and subject to the provisions of the ordinance. If the bonds are payable from taxes or secured by the taxing power, the bonds shall be issued according and subject to chapter 47. Except as is otherwise provided in section 46-80.1, in assessing land for improvements a county shall assess the land within an improvement district according to the special benefits conferred upon the land by the special improvement; these methods include assessment on a frontage basis or according to the area of land within an improvement district, or any other assessment method which assesses the land according to the special benefit conferred, or any combination thereof. [L 1976, c 105, §1; am L 1978, c 180, §1(2); am L 1992, c 226, §3] Law Journals and Reviews  Improvements by Assessment in Hawaii. 14 HBJ 139.
HI Rev Stat § 46-81 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 6. County Organization and Administration|46. General Provisions|46-81 Reserve funds for payment of improvements.

  §46-81 Reserve funds for payment of improvements. Any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, no county with a population of less than 100,000 persons shall impose or collect any ad valorem assessment to establish, maintain, or replenish a reserve fund. As used in this section, "reserve fund" means any fund established by a county to provide security, in addition to any special fund made up of moneys collected on account of assessments and interest for improvements, for the payment of principal and interest on bonds issued for such improvements where moneys in the special fund are insufficient for this purpose. The provisions of this section shall not prevent any county from imposing or collecting an ad valorem assessment to establish, maintain, or replenish a reserve fund for an improvement by assessment district in existence on June 2, 1978. [L 1978, c 180, §1(1)] Revision Note  "June 2, 1978" substituted for "the effective date of this section".