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CHAPTER 10

OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS

        Part I.  General Provisions

Section

     10-1 Declaration of purpose

     10-2 Definitions

     10-3 Purpose of the office

     10-4 Office of Hawaiian affairs; established; general powers

   10-4.5 Authority over disbursements

     10-5 Board of trustees; powers and duties

     10-6 General duties of the board

     10-7 Board of trustees

     10-8 Organization; quorum; meeting

     10-9 Salaries; benefit; expenses

   10-9.5 Salary commission; established

    10-10 Administrator; appointment, tenure, removal

    10-11 Salary of the administrator

    10-12 Assistant; staff

    10-13 Appropriations; accounts; reports

  10-13.3 Interim revenue

  10-13.5 Use of public land trust proceeds

  10-13.6 Public land trust conveyed for the development of

          housing projects

    10-14 Repealed

  10-14.5 Budget preparation and submission; auditing

 10-14.55 Audit and report

  10-14.6 Legislative review

    10-15 Annual report

  10-15.5 Repealed

    10-16 Suits

    10-17 Grants; conditions and qualifications

    10-18 Hui ‘Imi advisory council

    10-19 Hawaiian registry

    10-20 Taro security; funding

        Part II.  Revenue Bonds

    10-21 Definitions

    10-22 Powers of the board

    10-23 Authorization of office projects and revenue bonds

    10-24 Revenue bond anticipation notes

    10-25 Revenue bonds

  10-25.5 Support facility for variable rate revenue bonds

    10-26 CUSIP numbers

    10-27 Covenants in resolution authorizing revenue bonds

    10-28 Validity of bonds

    10-29 Bonds

    10-30 Payment and security of revenue bonds; revenue bonds

          not a debt of the State

    10-31 Office of Hawaiian affairs projects to be

          self-supporting

    10-32 Office of Hawaiian affairs project and bonds exempt

          from taxation

    10-33 Powers herein, additional to other powers

    10-34 Funding and refunding bonds; authorization and purpose

    10-35 Funding and refunding bonds; principal amount

    10-36 Limitation of authority

Note

  Criminal justice system task force on treatment of Native Hawaiians (expires August 1, 2013).  L 2011, c 170, §2.

  Public land trust information system.  L 2011, c 54.

  Use of lands in public land trust; payments and accounting requirements.  L 2006, c 178.

Cross References

  Allowance of indigenous Hawaiian architecture by county ordinances, see §46-1.55.

  Successor determination program, see §171-100.

Attorney General Opinions

  Office of Hawaiian affairs constitutionally valid.  Att. Gen. Op. 80-8.

  Legislature may not authorize office of Hawaiian affairs to use funds derived from public land trust to better the conditions of "Hawaiians", as defined in §10-2, distinguishing from "native Hawaiians" as defined in §5(f) of the Admission Act.  Att. Gen. Op. 83-2.

Law Journals and Reviews

  The Constitutionality of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.  7 UH L. Rev. 63.

  The Office of Hawaiian Affairs and the Issue of Sovereign Immunity.  7 UH L. Rev. 95.

  The Native Hawaiian Trusts Judicial Relief Act:  The First Step in an Attempt to Provide Relief.  14 UH L. Rev. 889.

  Native Hawaiian Entitlement to Sovereignty:  An Overview.  17 UH L. Rev. 427.

Case Notes

  Does not violate §5 of the Admission Act.  921 F.2d 950.

  Appellant who contended, among other things, injury by the provisions of article XII of the state constitution and this chapter personally subjecting appellant to racial classification, lacked standing as appellant did not suffer an injury in fact.  342 F.3d 934.

  Plaintiff challenging constitutionality of article XII, §§5 and 6 of state constitution and this chapter, lacked standing, where plaintiff had not suffered any injury-in-fact.  188 F. Supp. 2d 1233.