HRS §46-23
Who sets salaries for county department leaders
This section says that county councils set the pay for appointed department heads and their deputies or assistants, unless state law already sets those salaries. It only covers who decides the salary, not the amount.
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The statute, as written — Salaries of department heads, deputies, assistants; fixed how
Salaries of appointive heads of departments and salaries of deputies or assistants of any department, whose head is elected or appointed, shall be fixed by the council of the respective county governments where no other provision is made in the Hawaii Revised Statutes, or any amendatory acts thereto, for fixing the salaries.
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