City agencies can adopt official seals and logos

(a) Executive agencies of the City and County of Honolulu are authorized to adopt official seals or logotypes. A copy of any official seal or logotype adopted by a city agency shall be filed with the office of the city clerk within 30 days of its adoption. For the purposes of this article, “logotype” includes any trade name, trademark, service mark, nickname, motto, slogan, abbreviation, word, logo, logogram, logographic, logotype, symbol, design, graphic depiction, or other work or designation that may be associated with the city or an executive city agency, facility, property, operation, or activity. (b) The seals and logotypes may be used only for: (1) Official governmental purposes; (2) City-sponsored articles or activities when the sponsorship of the article or activity and the use of the seal or logotype on the article or for the activity is approved by the director; or (3) Revenue-raising activities authorized pursuant to subsections (c) and (d). (c) The department, to the extent deemed necessary and practicable, shall register any official seal or logotype adopted by an executive city agency with the State of Hawaii and take any additional measures required by law to ensure the city’s exclusive ownership of the seal or logotype. As the exclusive owner of an agency’s seal or logotype, the city, through the department, may enter into contracts with private parties for the manufacture, fabrication, production, reproduction, marketing, distribution, and sale of articles or materials imprinted with the agency’s seal or logotype for the purpose of raising revenues or securing goods, materials, supplies, or equipment at no or reduced costs for the city, nonprofit city support or friends group, or city employee organizations. Any goods, materials, supplies, or equipment received under this article shall not be a gift or donation within the meaning of Charter § 13-113. (d) The city may provide for an exclusive or nonexclusive license to use an agency’s official seal or logotype; provided that in contracting for an exclusive license for the use of an agency’s seal or logotype, the director, to the extent feasible, shall follow procedures similar to the procurement procedures provided for in HRS Chapter 103D and the rules adopted pursuant thereto; and provided further, that such procedures need not be applied to any exclusive license granted to a nonprofit city support or friends group or city employee organization. In granting a license, the director shall establish an appropriate duration for the license. Any license for exclusive use of an agency’s official seal or logotype shall not preclude the use of the agency’s official seal or logotype for official governmental purposes. (e) The department shall maintain a copy of all contracts relating to the use of an official seal or logotype of an executive city agency and make them available for public inspection. (f) The director shall provide a report to the council on or before January 1 of each year relating to official seals and logotypes registered pursuant to subsection (c). (g) For the purposes of this article, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning. Department. The department of budget and fiscal services. Director. The director of budget and fiscal services.