Definitions

For the purposes of this code, the following terms, phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meaning given in this section, unless it is apparent from the context that a different meaning was intended: A. "Agency" means any office, department, board, commission or other governmental unit of the county. B. "County" means the county of Maui. C. "Employee" means any person, except an officer, employed by the county or agency thereof, but the term shall not include an independent contractor. D. "Officer" means a person who is elected to a county office, or a person who is appointed by such elected person or by such appointed person or by a county agency and who has discretionary executive, administrative, or policy-making powers and responsibilities. The term shall include the following: 1. Mayor, members of the county council, corporation counsel, prosecuting attorney, director of finance, and county clerk; 2. Any person appointed as administrative head of any agency of the county or as member of any board or commission; 3. Any person appointed by a board or commission as the administrative head of any agency of the county; 4. The first deputy or a division chief appointed by the administrative head of any agency of the county; 5. Assistant and deputies of the corporation counsel; 6. Assistant and deputies of the prosecuting attorney. E. "Persons" include individual natural persons, partner- ships, joint venturers, societies, associations, clubs, trustees, trusts or corporations, or any officers, agents, employees, factors or any kind of personal representatives of any thereof, in any capacity, acting either for himself or for any other person, under either personal appointment or pursuant to law. (Ord. 1018 § 1, 1980: prior code § 1-3.1)