HCC §2-202
Environmental management department's duties and powers
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗The county's environmental management department runs solid waste, wastewater, and recycling programs. It works through a director who can assign tasks to others but cannot give away the power to make rules. The director can create, change, or cancel rules for these programs.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Powers, duties, and functions
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.
The department of environmental management shall manage solid waste, wastewater, and recycling programs of the County, and exercise other functions as prescribed by the mayor or prescribed by ordinance. The department shall administer this article as well as chapters 20 and 21 through the director. The director may delegate to any person such power and authority vested in the director as the director deems reasonable and proper for the effective administration of these chapters, except the power to make rules. The director may adopt, amend, and repeal rules relating to solid waste, wastewater, and recycling. (2001, ord 01-110, sec 2; am 2005, ord 05-22, sec 1; am 2020, ord 20-86, sec 5.)2-202
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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