Hawaii Revised Statutes 84. Standards of Conduct

PART I. GENERAL PROVISIONS

  • 84-1 Construction.
    This chapter shall be liberally construed to promote high standards of ethical conduct in state government. [L 1972, c 163, pt of §1] Law...
  • 84-2 Applicability.
    This chapter shall apply to every nominated, appointed, or elected officer, employee, and candidate to elected office of the State and for election to...
  • 84-3 Definitions.
    "Business" includes a corporation, a partnership, a sole proprietorship, a trust or foundation, or any other individual or organization carrying on a business, whether...

PART II. CODE OF ETHICS

  • 84-11 Gifts.
    Part heading amended by L 1979, c 91, §5. §84-11 Gifts. No legislator or employee shall solicit, accept, or receive, directly or indirectly, any...
  • 84-11.5 Reporting of Gifts.
    Part heading amended by L 1979, c 91, §5. [§84-11.5] Reporting of gifts. (a) Every legislator and employee shall file a gifts disclosure statement...
  • 84-12 Confidential Information.
    Part heading amended by L 1979, c 91, §5. §84-12 Confidential information. No legislator or employee shall disclose information which by law or practice...
  • 84-13 Fair Treatment.
    Part heading amended by L 1979, c 91, §5. §84-13 Fair treatment. No legislator or employee shall use or attempt to use the legislator's...
  • 84-13.5 Washington Place; Campaign Activities.
    Part heading amended by L 1979, c 91, §5. [§84-13.5] Washington Place; campaign activities. The governor shall not allow Washington Place to be used...
  • 84-14 Conflicts of Interests.
    Part heading amended by L 1979, c 91, §5. §84-14 Conflicts of interests. (a) No employee shall take any official action directly affecting: (1)...
  • 84-15 Contracts.
    Part heading amended by L 1979, c 91, §5. §84-15 Contracts. (a) A state agency shall not enter into any contract to procure or...
  • 84-16 Contracts Voidable.
    Part heading amended by L 1979, c 91, §5. §84-16 Contracts voidable. In addition to any other penalty provided by law, any contract entered...
  • 84-17 Requirements of Disclosure.
    Part heading amended by L 1979, c 91, §5. §84-17 Requirements of disclosure. (a) For the purposes of this section, the terms: "Disclosure period"...
  • 84-17.5 Disclosure Files; Disposition.
    Part heading amended by L 1979, c 91, §5. §84-17.5 Disclosure files; disposition. (a) All financial disclosure statements filed by a legislator, employee, or...
  • 84-18 Restrictions on Post Employment.
    Part heading amended by L 1979, c 91, §5. §84-18 Restrictions on post employment. (a) No former legislator or employee shall disclose any information...
  • 84-19 Violation
    Part heading amended by L 1979, c 91, §5. §84-19 Violation. (a) Any favorable state action obtained in violation of the code of ethics...

PART III. STATE ETHICS COMMISSION

PART IV. ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT

  • 84-31 Duties of Commission; Complaint, Hearing, Determination.
    (a) The ethics commission shall have the following powers and duties: (1) It shall prescribe forms for the disclosures required by article XIV of...
  • 84-31.3 Filing of False Charges.
    (a) Any person who knowingly and intentionally files a false charge with the commission, or any member of the commission who initiates action against...
  • 84-31.5 Repealed.
    L 1998, c 32, §1.
  • 84-32 Procedure.
    (a) With respect to legislators and employees removable only by impeachment: when the ethics commission after due hearings pursuant to section 84-31(c) determines that...
  • 84-33 Disciplinary Action for Violation.
    In addition to any other powers the civil service commission or other authority may have to discipline employees, the civil service commission or authority...
  • 84-34 No Compensation.
    The members of the ethics commission shall serve without compensation but shall be allowed their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of...
  • 84-35 Staff.
    The ethics commission may employ and at pleasure remove such persons, including an executive director, as it may deem necessary for the performance of...
  • 84-35.5 Prohibition From Political Activity.
    The members of the ethics commission and its staff shall not take an active part in political management or in political campaigns during the...
  • 84-36 Cooperation.
    The ethics commission may request and shall receive from every department, division, board, bureau, commission, or other agency of the State cooperation and assistance...
  • 84-37 Concurrent Jurisdiction.
    Notwithstanding any provision contained herein, pursuant to article III, section 12 of the constitution of the State of Hawaii each house of the legislature...
  • 84-38 Judicial Branch.
    The powers and duties assigned in this part IV to the governor shall, with respect to employees in the judicial branch, be assigned to...
  • 84-39 Administrative Fines.
    (a) Where an administrative fine has not been established for a violation of a provision of this chapter, any person, including a legislator or...

PART V. MANDATORY ETHICS TRAINING

  • 84-41 Applicability of Part.
    This part applies to legislators, members of the board of education, trustees of the office of Hawaiian affairs, the governor, the lieutenant governor, and...
  • 84-42 Mandatory Ethics Training Course.
    All state officers and employees enumerated in section 84-41 shall complete an ethics training course administered by the state ethics commission as provided in...
  • 84-43 Ethics Training Course.
    (a) The state ethics commission shall establish, design, supervise, and conduct ethics training designed specifically for the officers and employees to whom this part...

Last modified: October 27, 2016