HRS §421C-33
Volunteers are not employees of the association
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗This section says that a member who volunteers up to 25 hours a month for their association is not an employee. The association can accept their help. If the volunteer signs a written statement saying they are a volunteer, labor laws do not treat them as an employee.
condominium associations
The statute, as written — Volunteers exempted
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) For the purposes of this section, "volunteer" means an individual who: (1) Is a member of an association; (2) Is not an employee of the association; and (3) Who volunteers and donates up to twenty-five hours of labor and services per month to the association. (b) Associations may accept labor and services from volunteers. (c) In addition to any exemptions granted to nonpaid labor, volunteers who acknowledge in writing that they are volunteers shall be construed not to be in the employ of the association, their labor and services shall be construed to not be employment, and they shall not be construed to be employees of the association, under title 21 or any other labor law.
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