Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 130-3

  • Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.

Whenever, due to an emergency resulting from the effects of enemy attack, or the anticipated effects of a threatened enemy attack, it becomes imprudent, inexpedient, or impossible to conduct the affairs of county government at the regular or usual place or places thereof, the governing body of each county may meet at any place within or without the territorial limits of the county on the call of the presiding officer or any two members of the governing body, and shall proceed to establish and designate by ordinance, resolution, or other manner, alternate or substitute sites or places as the emergency temporary location, or locations, of government where all, or any part, of the public business may be transacted and conducted during the emergency situation. The sites or places may be within or without the territorial limits of the county and may be within or without the State.