[§201H-2] Hawaii housing finance and development administration; establishment, staff. [Section effective July 1, 2006.] (a) There is established the Hawaii housing finance and development administration to be placed within the department of business, economic development, and tourism for administrative purposes only. The administration shall be a public body and a body corporate and politic.

(b) The administration shall employ, exempt from chapter 76 and section 26-35(a)(4), an executive director and an executive assistant. The executive director shall be paid a salary not to exceed eighty-five per cent of the salary of the director of human resources development. The executive assistant shall be paid a salary not to exceed ninety per cent of the executive director's salary. The administration may employ, subject to chapter 76, technical experts and officers, agents, and employees, permanent and temporary, as required. The administration may also employ officers, agents, and employees, prescribe their duties and qualifications, and fix their salaries, not subject to chapter 76, when in the determination of the administration, the services to be performed are unique and essential to the execution of the functions of the administration. The administration may call upon the attorney general for legal services as it may require. The administration may delegate to one or more of its agents or employees its powers and duties as it deems proper. [L 2005, c 196, pt of §20]