{"data":{"id":"us-hi/haw.-rev.-stat.-261e-4","jurisdiction":"us-hi","citation":"Haw. Rev. Stat. § 261E-4","heading":"Air carrier commission; establishment.","body":"(a) There is established an air carrier commission to assist in the regulation of interisland air carriers pursuant to the purposes of this chapter. The commission shall be placed with the department of transportation for administrative purposes.\n\n(b) The commission shall consist of five members. The commission shall be appointed in the manner prescribed in section 26-34, except as otherwise provided in this section. The members shall be appointed for terms of six years each, subject to the advice and consent of the senate. The terms of the members initially appointed shall be for two, three, four, five, and six years, respectively, as designated by the governor at the time of appointment. The governor shall designate a member of the commission to be chairperson of the commission. Each member shall hold office until the member's successor is appointed and qualified.\n\n(c) In appointing members, the governor shall consider persons who have experience in transportation, accounting, engineering, government, finance, law, or other similar fields. No person owning any stock or bonds of any Hawaii air carrier or of any common carrier by air, or having any interest in, or deriving any remuneration from, any Hawaii air carrier or any common carrier by air shall be appointed as a commissioner; provided that any person who has retired from the service of, and no longer holds any position with, any common carrier or Hawaii air carrier may be eligible for appointment.\n\n(d) The members of the commission shall receive no compensation for their services on the commission, but shall be reimbursed for actual expenses, including travel expenses, incurred in the performance of their duties. [L Sp 2008, c 1, pt of §2]","path":["HI Code","Division 1","Title 15","Chapter 261E"],"source_url":"http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol05_Ch0261-0319/HRS0261E/HRS_0261E-0004.htm","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:11Z","sha256":"6409b8e8c24d7951393d148a2f7f3618c6958fccce380aea88b2075c89d999eb","source_id":"us-hi","stale":false,"prev":"us-hi/haw.-rev.-stat.-261e-3","next":"us-hi/haw.-rev.-stat.-261e-5","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}