PART III. 
COPIES OF RECORDS; COSTS AND FEES



 



§92-21  Copies of records; other costs and
fees.  Except as otherwise provided by law, a copy of any government
record, including any map, plan, diagram, photograph, photostat, or geographic
information system digital data file, which is open to the inspection of the
public, shall be furnished to any person applying for the same by the public
officer having charge or control thereof upon the payment of the reasonable
cost of reproducing such copy.  Except as provided in section 91-2.5, the cost
of reproducing any government record, except geographic information system
digital data, shall not be less than 5 cents per page, sheet, or fraction
thereof.  The cost of reproducing geographic information system digital data
shall be in accordance with rules adopted by the agency having charge or
control of that data.  Such reproduction cost shall include but shall not be
limited to labor cost for search and actual time for reproducing, material
cost, including electricity cost, equipment cost, including rental cost, cost
for certification, and other related costs.  All fees shall be paid in by the
public officer receiving or collecting the same to the state director of
finance, the county director of finance, or to the agency or department by
which the officer is employed, as government realizations; provided that fees
collected by the public utilities commission pursuant to this section shall be
deposited in the public utilities commission special fund established under section
269-33. [L 1921, c 96, §1; RL 1925, §166; am L 1929, c 166, pt of §1; am L
1931, c 178, §1; RL 1935, §147; RL 1945, pt of §458; am L 1945, c 248, §1; am L
1949, c 345, §1; am L Sp 1949, c 23, §1; RL 1955, §7-1; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1,
§14; am L 1963, c 114, §1; HRS §92-21; am L 1974, c 145, §2; am L 1976, c 212,
§3; am L 1991, c 145, §3; am L 1993, c 103, §1; am L 1994, c 226, §2; am L
1998, c 311, §4; am L 1999, c 160, §1 and c 301, §3(1)]



 



Cross References



 



  Court documents, see §607-5.



 



Case Notes



 



  Records not otherwise open to the public are not opened by
this section.  42 H. 14.