HRS §226-57
How state functional plans guide project locations
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗This section says state functional plans guide how the state spends money to carry out laws. The legislature can allow a project to be built somewhere other than where the county plan says, if there is a statewide reason. County plans do not force the state to build anything.
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The statute, as written — Functional plans; implementation
A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
(a) Functional plans shall be used to guide the allocation of resources for the implementation of state policies adopted by the legislature. (b) The legislature, upon a finding of overriding statewide concern, may determine in any given instance that the site for a specific project may be other than that designated in the county general plan; provided that any proposed facility or project contained in a county general plan shall not require the actual development or implementation of that facility or project or its inclusion in any state functional plan by any state agency. The implementation of functional plans shall conform to existing laws, rules, standards, and this chapter.
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