A county may exercise any power necessary and convenient to establish tax increment districts, including the power to:

(1) Create tax increment districts and determine the boundaries of the districts;

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 46-104

  • agency: means an agency defined in § 53-1 or the Hawaii community development authority as established pursuant to chapter 206E. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 46-102
  • county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
  • district: means a contiguous or noncontiguous geographic area designated pursuant to § 46-103 by the county council for the purpose of tax increment financing. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 46-102
  • Tax increment: means the amount of real property taxes levied for one year on the assessment increment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 46-102
  • Tax increment fund: means a fund which shall be held by the director of finance or other fiduciary designated by the county council and into which all tax increments and other moneys pledged by the county for payment of tax increment bonds are paid, and all proceeds from the sale of tax increment bonds are deposited, and from which moneys are disbursed to pay project costs for the tax increment district or to satisfy claims of holders of tax increment bonds issued for the district. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 46-102
(2) Issue tax increment bonds;
(3) Deposit tax increments into the tax increment fund created for a tax increment district; and
(4) Enter into agreements, including agreements with the redevelopment agency and owners or developers of project lands and bondholders, determined to be necessary or convenient to implement redevelopment plans or community development plans, as the case may be, and achieve their purposes.

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