HCC §2-95
Overnight travel expenses
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This section explains how County employees can get paid for personal costs during overnight work trips. They can choose either actual costs with proof or a set daily allowance. It also covers partial-day trips and meal allowances for non-overnight travel within the County.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Overnight travel expenses
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 traveler may accept either of the following methods of payment for personal expenses incident to overnight travel. (a) The actual cost of lodging, meals (including tips) and laundry over the entire period of travel, supported by receipts and/or affidavit; or (b) Per diem allowance for overnight travel at rates equal to the highest allowance for such expenses payable to any County employee in a bargaining unit; provided that in the case of official travel time involving a fraction of a day, the allowable claim shall be in terms of quarter-day periods, with the quarter-day periods measured from midnight. (c) Per diem allowance for less than a full day shall be payable only for travel to other islands. For nonovernight travel within the County, employees shall be entitled to meal allowance and other allowed expenses.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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