HCC §2-4
How the County Council Can Summon People to Testify
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This section lets the County Council, with the clerk's signature and the county seal, order people to appear and testify at council meetings. People who are summoned get paid for travel and time. Anyone who ignores the order can be fined up to $100.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Subpoenas
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 chair of the council is authorized when countersigned by the clerk, and over the Seal of the County duly affixed, to summon or to subpoena persons to appear before the council, upon the request in writing of and by parties interested in the matter then pending before the council to the clerk, or to the chair of the council stating that such persons are necessary for the full understanding and legal determination of the matters before the council. (b) The person summoned shall be paid from the general fund of the County, upon claims duly certified as by ordinance provided and regulated at the rate of 10 cents a mile, going and coming, and $1 a day during actual attendance before the council. (c) Any person who fails to appear or otherwise violates this section shall be fined a sum not to exceed $100.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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