PART II. CODE OF ETHICS

 

Note

 

  Part heading amended by L 1979, c 91, §5.

 

§84-11  Gifts.  No legislator oremployee 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 inwhich it can reasonably be inferred that the gift is intended to influence thelegislator or employee in the performance of the legislator's or employee'sofficial duties or is intended as a reward for any official action on thelegislator's or employee's part. [L 1972, c 163, pt of §1; gen ch 1985]

 

Attorney General Opinions

 

  Section does not apply to receipt by department ofagriculture of gifts from private sector to assist in preventing entry of browntree snakes into Hawaii, since the gifts are to be used by department toconduct official department functions.  Att. Gen. Op. 92-04.