BE IT ORDAINED by the People of the City and County of Honolulu:

    SECTION 1. The purpose of this ordinance is to increase the administrative fees that may be requested for special duty officers and to increase the amount of the special duty workers’ compensation fund.

    SECTION 2. Section 6-44.3, Revised Ordinances of Honolulu 1990, as amended, is amended to read as follows:

" Sec. 6-44.3    Fees for special duty requests.

(a)    Any person or entity requesting the services of a special duty police officer shall be assessed an administration fee of [seven] fourteen dollars for each request for a police officer, plus [one dollar] two dollars for each additional officer requested. For every request, there shall also be a workers' compensation fee of up to five dollars per day for each officer. The workers' compensation fees shall be deposited into the general trust fund and maintained in a separate account for the purpose of paying workers' compensation expenses for officers injured while on special duty assignments. These fees shall be assessed by the Honolulu police department and shall be in addition to any charge assessed for the services of the special duty police officer. These fees shall not be assessed to the extent that a request is not fulfilled.

(b)    Once the workers' compensation fee separate account reaches a range between $500,000 and $1,000,000, the chief of police shall reduce the workers' compensation fee to maintain the account [at this level.] within this range.

(c)    Within 30 days after the first day of each fiscal year, the department of budget and fiscal services shall file a report with the city clerk. The report shall include the following information for the prior fiscal year: 1) the fee charged; 2) total workers' compensation fees collected; 3) fund balance in the workers' compensation fee separate account at the end of the prior fiscal year; and 4) details of expenditures from the account, including administrative costs, fringe benefits, workers' compensation benefits, and training costs.

SECTION 3. Ordinance material to be repealed is bracketed. New material is underscored. When revising, compiling, or printing this ordinance for inclusion in the Revised Ordinances of Honolulu, the revisor of ordinances need not include the brackets, the bracketed material or the underscoring.

SECTION 4. This ordinance shall take effect upon its approval.

                         INTRODUCED BY:

                         Todd Apo (BR)

                        

                        
DATE OF INTRODUCTION:
                        

March 2, 2009         
Honolulu, Hawaii                     Councilmembers

APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:

Deputy Corporation Counsel

APPROVED this day of , 20____.

MUFI HANNEMANN, Mayor
City and County of Honolulu