(a) An agency may recruit, train, and accept the services of volunteers.

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 90-2

  • agency: means any state agency within the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, the office of Hawaiian affairs, and any agency within the executive and legislative branches of the several counties. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 90-1
  • county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
  • person: means any individual or organization. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 90-1
  • volunteer: means any person who of the person's own free will provides goods or services to an agency with no monetary or material gain and includes material donors, occasional-service, regular-service, and stipended volunteers. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 90-1
(b) No person shall on the basis of sex, age, race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, marital status, physical or mental handicap, or political grounds, be excluded from participation in, or be denied the benefits of, any volunteer program or volunteer activity.
(c) Volunteers recruited, trained, or accepted by an agency shall be excluded from any provision of law relating to state or county employment, from any collective bargaining agreement between the State and counties, with any employees’ association or union, from any law relating to hours of work, rates of compensation, leaves, and employee benefits, and from any other provision of title 7, except those consistent with this chapter.
(d) An agency may reimburse volunteers for expenses, consistent with the provisions of § 90-4, as deemed necessary to assist volunteers in performing their services.
(e) An agency may designate a person or establish a position to coordinate and administer the volunteer activities of that agency.

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