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HRS § 84-32 - Procedure
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This provision sets out how ethics complaints are issued and referred, and who must take disciplinary action after referral.
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This provision sets out how ethics complaints are issued and referred, and who must take disciplinary action after referral.
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The civil service commission or another authority may discipline an employee who violated the code of ethics, including reprimand, probation, demotion, suspension, or discharge.
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Members of the ethics commission serve without compensation, but they may be paid actual and necessary expenses incurred while doing their duties.
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The ethics commission may hire and remove staff, must set employee pay within available appropriations, and its employees are exempt from chapter 76.
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Members of the ethics commission and its staff must not take part in political management or political campaigns while they are in office or employed.
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The ethics commission may request cooperation and assistance from state departments and agencies, and those agencies must provide it.
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Each house of the Hawaii legislature may make rules for its members and may investigate and discipline members for violating those rules or the code of ethics.
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For employees in the judicial branch, the chief justice of the supreme court gets the powers and duties that part IV assigns to the governor.
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The ethics commission may impose an administrative fine of up to $500 for each violation of this chapter, but only after a hearing and a commission decision.
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This part applies to specified state officials and does not apply to other State officers or employees.
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Covered state officers and employees must complete an ethics training course administered by the state ethics commission.
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The state ethics commission must run ethics training for covered officers and employees, and state agencies must help identify attendees and provide facilities.
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The listed police chiefs, their authorized subordinates, and the Honolulu city and county medical examiner serve ex officio as the coroner for their respective counties.
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Coroners or deputy coroners must ensure a stranger’s or indigent person’s body is decently buried or cremated, and the person in charge of the burial or cremation must get a burial-transit permit from the local health agent.
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Counties must pay witness fees, mileage, and reasonable inquest expenses for coroner's inquests.
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A corpse or remains covered by this section may not be moved, disturbed, or disposed of unless the required authorities first approve; the coroner must remove the body.
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A police officer may recover and hold clothing and personal property found on a body that appears to have died in the circumstances covered by section 841-3, and treat it as evidence.
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Certain officials may order or conduct an autopsy when death appears covered by section 841-3 and public safety or welfare makes it necessary.
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An autopsy under this chapter must be performed by a certified anatomic or forensic pathologist.
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A coroner in a county under 200,000 people may ask for autopsy help from a coroner or medical examiner in a county of 200,000 or more, if that person agrees. The requesting county must pay the helper’s expenses.