KCC §3-1.4
Gifts to County officials and employees
Read the official text at ecode360.com ↗This rule bans County Council members and employees from taking gifts meant to sway their official actions or reward them. It allows only small non-cash gifts, public service awards, and gifts they would get anyway as private citizens.
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The ordinance, as written (Kauaʻi County) — Gifts
A copy, taken August 22, 2026. The version published by Kauaʻi County is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
No Councilmember or employee of the County shall solicit, accept, or receive directly or indirectly any gift, whether in the form of money, service, loan, travel, entertainment, hospitality, thing or promise, or in any other form, under circumstances in which it can reasonably be inferred that the gift is intended to influence him or her in the performance of his or her official duties or is intended as a reward for any official action on his or her part.The prohibition against gifts in Section 3-1.4(a) shall not apply to:An occasional non-pecuniary gift, insignificant in value, orAn award publicly presented in recognition of public service, orAny gift which would have been offered or given to the Councilmember or employee if he or she were not an official or employee.
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