(a) A volunteer who designs, constructs, maintains, or repairs a skateboard park for a governmental entity shall not be liable to any person for injury or damage sustained when using a public skateboard park, except for injury or damages resulting from gross negligence or intentional misconduct.

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 662D-4

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Governmental entity: means any agency, association, authority, board, commission, division, office, officer, public body, task force, or any other similar entity authorized or established by any county or the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 662D-1
  • Nonprofit organization: means any organization that is exempt from taxation pursuant to section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code, Hawaii Revised Statutes 662D-1
  • Volunteer: means a person performing services without compensation, other than reimbursement for actual expenses incurred, for a nonprofit organization, a nonprofit corporation, a hospital, or a governmental entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 662D-1
(b) No nonprofit organization or nonprofit corporation that provides volunteers to a governmental entity to design, construct, maintain, or repair a public skateboard park shall be liable to any person for injury or damage sustained when using a public skateboard park, except under the doctrine of respondeat superior.

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