HCC §15-55
Why this law exists: letting people fund park improvements
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This section explains why the county allows private citizens and groups to pay for park improvements. It says the county often lacks money for these projects, so it wants to encourage donations. In return, donors can get a credit against some park user fees after giving the improvements to the county.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Purpose
A copy, taken August 21, 2026. The version published by Hawaiʻi County is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
Private citizens and civic groups wish to make improvements to County parks and recreational facilities to enable the general public to benefit from those improvements and wish to make such improvements by advancing the cost of improvements from their own funds. Budgetary constraints limit the County in making improvements which the department of parks and recreation wishes to make to its parks and recreational facilities. The council wishes to provide a means by which private citizens and civic groups may be encouraged to make such improvements with the approval of the department of parks and recreation. The council wishes to provide a means by which such private citizens or civic groups may, after donating the completed improvements to the County for the use and benefit of the general public, receive a setoff against certain user fees imposed by the department of parks and recreation for the use of the facility at which the improvements are made.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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