ROH §5-1.4

Liability of officers and employees on bonds

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This section says what happens if a bonded city officer or employee keeps money they collected for the city instead of turning it over. The budget director must sue them, and the city can recover the money plus extra damages. The city pays the lawsuit costs.

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The ordinance, as written (Honolulu County) — Liability of officers and employees on bonds

A copy, taken August 22, 2026. The version published by Honolulu is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.

If any bonded city officer or employee refuses or neglects to account for and pay over all moneys received by such person by virtue of such person’s office or employment, such person shall be liable for such refusal or neglect upon such person’s official bond, and the director of budget and fiscal services shall bring an action against such person for the recovery thereof, in the name of the city and recover in such action, in addition to the amount so received, 50 percent thereon by way of damages. No order of the council shall be necessary to bring such action. The director of budget and fiscal services’s reasonable expenses, including any attorney fees, if necessarily incurred, shall be a city charge. )

Read the official text at honolulu.gov ↗as published Jan 1, 2026our copy taken Aug 22, 2026

Published by the City and County of Honolulu through American Legal Publishing.

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