(a) There is established a special fund for the University of Hawaii to be known as the university revenue-undertakings fund into which all revenue of the university under subpart D of part VI, including any appropriation allocated pursuant to this section received from, or related to, university projects, university systems, or networks or any combination thereof, constructed or maintained by the board under subpart D of part VI shall be deposited. At the direction of the board, there may be established accounts in the university revenue-undertakings fund as required by the resolution authorizing revenue bonds.

If revenue bonds are issued under subpart D of part VI payable from the revenue of a university parking facility or the revenue of a university system that includes a university parking facility, the board in the resolution authorizing revenue bonds may direct that all or any part of the moneys required by this chapter to be paid into the university parking revolving fund created by § 304A-2275 shall be deposited in the university revenue-undertakings fund in lieu of being deposited in the university parking revolving fund.

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 304A-2167.5

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • university: refers to the University of Hawaii, unless otherwise required by the context. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 304A-101
(b) All moneys in the university revenue-undertakings fund shall be applied in accordance with the resolution of the board authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds under subpart D of part VI, as follows:

(1) To provide for all costs of construction, operation, repair, and maintenance of a university project, university system, network, or any combination thereof, including reserves therefor;
(2) To pay when due all revenue bonds and interest thereon, for the payment of which all or any part of the revenue of the university is or has been pledged, charged, or otherwise encumbered, including reserves therefor;
(3) To reimburse the university for all moneys advanced to pay the expenses incurred in making the preparation for the initial issuance of revenue bonds under subpart D of part VI;
(4) To reimburse the general fund of the State for principal and interest on general obligation bonds issued for all university projects, university systems, networks, or any combination thereof, or issued to refund any of such general obligation bonds, to the extent required by law; and
(5) To provide a reserve for betterments and improvements to and renewals and replacements of, university projects, university systems, networks, or any combination thereof.

If adequate provision is made for all the foregoing purposes, and if permitted by law and the covenants in the resolution authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds under subpart D of part VI, any moneys remaining in the university revenue-undertakings fund at the end of a fiscal year may be expended by the board in subsequent years in furtherance of any of the purposes of the university.

(c) The following terms used in this section shall be as defined in § 304A-2671: “appropriation”, “board”, “construction”, “cost of construction”, “cost of maintenance”, “maintenance”, “network”, “reserves”, “revenue bonds”, “revenue of the university”, “university project”, and “university system”.