Haw. Code R. § 16-85-98 - Oral testimony
(a) The board shall accept oral testimony on
any item which is on the board's agenda, provided that the testimony shall be
subject to the following conditions:
(1) Each
person seeking to present oral testimony is requested to notify the board not
later than forty-eight hours prior to the meeting, and at that time to state
the item on which testimony is to be presented;
(2) The board may request that any person
providing oral testimony submit the remarks, or a summary of the remarks, in
writing to the board;
(3) The board
may rearrange the items on the agenda for the purpose of providing for the most
efficient and convenient presentation of oral testimony;
(4) Persons presenting oral testimony shall,
at the beginning of the testimony, identify themselves and the organization, if
any, that they represent;
(5) The
board may limit oral testimony to a specified time period but in no case shall
the period be less than five minutes, and the person testifying shall be
informed prior to the commencement of the testimony of the time constraints to
be imposed; and
(6) The board may
refuse to hear any testimony which is irrelevant, immaterial, or unduly
repetitious to the agenda item on which it is presented.
(b) Nothing in this section shall require the
board to hear or receive any oral or documentary evidence from a person on any
matter which is the subject of another pending proceeding, subject to the
hearings relief, declaratory relief, or rule relief of chapter
16-201.
(c) Nothing in this section
shall prevent the board from soliciting oral remarks from persons present at
the meeting or from inviting persons to make presentations to the board on any
particular matter on the board's agenda.
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