HRS §88-184
Pension board members serve for free; counties pay board costs
Pension board members do not get paid for their service. Each county must set aside enough money each year to cover the board's necessary expenses, including pension payments. The Honolulu water board must also fund pensions for its own employees.
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The statute, as written — Expenses; appropriations
The members of the pension boards shall serve without pay, but the respective county councils shall appropriate annually a sum sufficient to, and shall, defray the necessary expenses of the boards, including moneys required to cover the payment of pensions granted under this part; provided that the board of water supply of the city and county of Honolulu shall annually appropriate sufficient moneys to cover, and there shall be paid from such moneys, pensions granted under this part as a result of employment in the service of the board of water supply.
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