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HRS §356D-102

Counties must provide free services to public housing

Counties must give the housing authority and its tenants the same services they give others, like police, fire, trash pickup, and street use, for free. Counties must also open or close streets in housing projects when asked, but do not have to build them. The authority can still choose to pay for these services if it wants.

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The statute, as written — Facilities and services by counties to authority and tenants

Each county within which the authority may own, operate, or administer any public housing project or complex and to which, or for whose benefit, the authority or its predecessors in interest has made (by payment to the county) or may hereafter make, gifts or donations including any payment in lieu of taxes, upon request of the authority, shall provide and furnish to the authority in regard to every public housing project or complex, and to the tenants and other occupants of the public housing project, free of charge and without condition or other requirement, all the facilities, services, and privileges as it provides or furnishes, with or without charge or other consideration, to any person or persons. The facilities and services may include police protection, fire protection, street lighting, paving maintenance, traffic control, garbage or trash collection and disposal, use of streets or highways, use of county incinerators or garbage dumps, storm drainage, and sewage disposal. In addition, each county, upon request of the authority and free of charge and without condition or other requirement, shall open or close, but not construct or reconstruct, streets, roads, highways, alleys, or other facilities within any public housing project or complex within the county. Nothing in this section shall be construed to restrict or limit the power of the authority to agree to pay, or to pay, for any and all of the facilities, services, and privileges, if in its discretion it deems the payment advisable.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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