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HCC §31-4

Enterprise zone duration, surveys, reports, and land sales

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This section sets how long an enterprise zone lasts, requires the mayor to send surveys and yearly reports to a state agency, and allows the county to sell or lease its land in the zone if it will be developed. It also says the zone grows if the federal government designates part of it.

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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Duration of enterprise zones and other requirements

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) Upon designation by the governor of an area as an enterprise zone, the said enterprise zone shall retain enterprise zone status for a twenty-year period beginning on the date of the governor's designation. The amendment of a zone status under section 31-5 of this chapter shall not extend the twenty-year period. (b) Within sixty days of the designation by the governor of an area as an enterprise zone, the mayor or the mayor's designated representative shall submit to the DBEDT a survey of the existing business conditions within the said enterprise zone. (c) Annually, and within sixty days after the anniversary date of zone designation by the governor, the mayor or the mayor's designated representative shall submit to the DBEDT a report evaluating the enterprise zone program's effectiveness upon the said enterprise zone. (d) If any portion of an area designated as an enterprise zone is subsequently included in an area designated as an enterprise zone by an agency of the Federal government, the said enterprise zone shall be enlarged to include the area designated by the Federal government. ENTERPRISE ZONE PROGRAM § 31-4 (e) Upon designation of an area as an enterprise zone, the County may make available for sale or lease, under appropriate law, all County-owned land within the zone not designated or targeted for public use, with the condition that it be developed as defined in chapter 209E, Hawai‘i Revised Statutes, and chapter 6 of title 15, Hawai‘i Administrative Rules. (1994, ord 94-8, sec 1.)31-4
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗as published Jul 16, 2026our copy taken Aug 21, 2026

Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.

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