HCC §18-13
How to appeal a commission decision on your certificate
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗A carrier who is denied, suspended, altered, amended, or revoked a certificate can appeal to a circuit judge. The appeal must be filed within 20 days. Filing an appeal does not stop the commission's order from taking effect.
The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Appeals
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.
Any carrier who has been refused a certificate of convenience and necessity or whose certificate has been suspended, altered, amended, or revoked by the commission, may appeal from the refusal, suspension, alteration, amendment, or revocation to the circuit judge of the third circuit, at chambers, by filing a petition in the court within twenty days of the date of the order or decision appealed from; provided that the appeal shall not operate as a stay to the order or decision of the commission. The appeal shall be subject to the rules prescribed by the court and the Hawai‘i Rules of Civil Procedure.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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