Note
Sections 10-1 to 10-16 designated as Part I by L 1994, c 283, §2(1).
§10-1 Declaration of purpose. (a) The people of the State of Hawaii and the United States of America as set forth and approved in the Admission Act, established a public trust which includes among other responsibilities, betterment of conditions for native Hawaiians. The people of the State of Hawaii reaffirmed their solemn trust obligation and responsibility to native Hawaiians and furthermore declared in the state constitution that there be an office of Hawaiian affairs to address the needs of the aboriginal class of people of Hawaii.
(b) It shall be the duty and responsibility of all state departments and instrumentalities of state government providing services and programs which affect native Hawaiians and Hawaiians to actively work toward the goals of this chapter and to cooperate with and assist wherever possible the office of Hawaiian affairs. [L 1979, c 196, pt of §2]
Law Journals and Reviews
The Crown Lands Trust: Who Were, Who Are, the Beneficiaries? 38 UH L. Rev. 213 (2016).
Structure Hawaii Revised Statutes
10. Office of Hawaiian Affairs
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.
10-8 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.
10-13 Appropriations; accounts; reports.
10-13.5 Use of public land trust proceeds.
10-17 Grants; conditions and qualifications.
10-18 Hui `Imi advisory council.
10-23 Authorization of office projects and loan programs; issuance of revenue bonds.
10-24 Revenue bond anticipation notes.
10-25.1 Federal tax-exempt status; preference; protection.
10-27 Covenants in resolution authorizing revenue bonds.
10-30 Payment and security of revenue bonds; revenue bonds not a debt of the State.
10-31 Office of Hawaiian affairs projects and loan programs to be self-supporting.
10-32 Office of Hawaiian affairs projects, loan programs, 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.