§201-3  Specific research and promotionalfunctions of the department.  Without prejudice to its general functionsand duties, the department of business, economic development, and tourism shallhave specific functions in the following areas:

(1)  Industrial development.  The department shall:

(A)  Determine through technical and economicsurveys the profit potential of new or expanded industrial undertakings;

(B)  Develop through research projects andother means new and improved industrial products and processes;

(C)  Promote studies and surveys to determineconsumer preference as to design and quality and to determine the best methodsof packaging, transporting, and marketing the State's industrial products;

(D)  Disseminate information to assist thepresent industries of the State, to attract new industries to the State, and toencourage capital investment in present and new industries in the State;

(E)  Assist associations of producers anddistributors of industrial products to introduce these products to consumers;and

(F)  Make grants or contracts as may benecessary or advisable to accomplish the foregoing;

(2)  Land development.  The department shall:

(A)  Encourage the most productive use of allland in the State in accordance with a general plan developed by thedepartment;

(B)  Encourage the improvement of land tenurepractices on leased private lands;

(C)  Promote an informational program directedto landowners, producers of agricultural and industrial commodities, and thegeneral public regarding the most efficient and most productive use of thelands in the State; and

(D)  Make grants or contracts as may benecessary or advisable to accomplish the foregoing;

(3)  Credit development.  The department shall:

(A)  Conduct a continuing study of agriculturaland industrial credit needs;

(B)  Encourage the development of additionalprivate and public credit sources for agricultural and industrial enterprises;

(C)  Promote an informational program toacquaint financial institutions with agricultural and industrial credit needsand the potential for agricultural and industrial expansion, and informproducers of agricultural and industrial products as to the manner in which toqualify for loans; and

(D)  Make grants or contracts as may be necessaryor advisable to accomplish the foregoing;

(4)  Promotion.  The department shall:

(A)  Disseminate information developed for orby the department pertaining to economic development to assist present industryin the State;

(B)  Attract new industry and investments tothe State; and

(C)  Assist new and emerging industry with goodgrowth potential or prospects in jobs, exports, and new products.

The industrial and economic promotionalactivities of the department may include the use of literature, advertising,demonstrations, displays, market testing, lectures, travel, motion picture andslide films, and other promotional and publicity devices as may be appropriate;and

(5)  Self-sufficiency standard.  The department shallestablish and update biennially a self-sufficiency standard that shallincorporate existing methods of calculation, and shall reflect, at a minimum,costs relating to housing, food, child care, transportation, health care,clothing and household expenses, federal and state tax obligations, familysize, children's ages, geography, and the number of household wage earners. The department shall report to the legislature concerning the self-sufficiencystandard no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regularsession of 2009, and every odd-numbered year thereafter.  The recommendationsshall address, among other things, the use of any federal funding that may beavailable for the purposes of establishing and updating the self-sufficiencystandard.

The department shall be the central agency tocoordinate film permit activities in the State. [L 1955, c 264, pt of §1; RL1955, §28A-6; am L 1957, c 23, §5; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §§10, 25; am L 1963, c2, §3; HRS §201-3; am L 1974, c 85, §1; am L 1977, c 12, §1; am L 1981, c 98, §5;am L 1983, c 235, §2; am L 1984, c 81, §1; am L 1987, c 336, §7; am L 1990, c293, §8; am L 1996, c 166, §4; am L 1998, c 156, §6 and c 176, §8; am L Sp2008, c 12, §2; am L Sp 2009, c 5, §3]

 

Revision Note

 

  Paragraph (5)redesignated pursuant to §23G-15(1).

 

Cross References

 

  Firearms permit formotion picture and television production, see §134-2.5.

  New industrytraining, see §394-8.