HCC §2-29
Planning commissions must keep public records and set their office location
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗The windward and leeward planning commissions must keep public records of their decisions. Their office is in the planning department unless both commissions agree, by a majority vote at a joint meeting, to put it somewhere else, with council approval.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Records of findings required; location of office
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.
(a) The windward and leeward planning commissions shall keep public records of their findings and determinations, whether acting independently or jointly. (b) The office of the windward and leeward planning commissions shall be in the planning department, or such other place designated by a consensus of both commissions determined by an affirmative vote of a majority of the combined membership, with the approval of the council. Any such vote shall occur only during a joint meeting of both commissions.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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