Section 6-21-14 - Employees excluded from membershipThe following classes of employees shall be excluded from membership in the system:
(1) Persons employed by the legislature or any committee thereof; except that legislative employees employed on a full-time basis during and between sessions and any member of the system on leave of absence to be employed by the legislature during any legislative session shall be included in the membership of the system as provided in sections 88-21 and 88-54, Hawaii Revised Statutes;(2) Persons employed on short-term or temporary appointments of three months or less;(3) Persons employed as substitute teachers;(4) Persons employed in part-time positions in adult education and evening class programs;(5) Persons in any position requiring less than one-half or full-time employment, including but not limited to, lecturers teaching less than seven credit hours per semester at baccalaureate colleges of the University of Hawaii and lecturers teaching less than eight credit hours per semester in the community colleges of the University of Hawaii;(6) Graduate assistants of the University of Hawaii;(7) Persons employed in any position where employment is casual or intermittent and the percentage of full-time equivalence is indeterminate; provided that after at least three months, any person whose employment has been determined to average twenty or more hours per week shall be included in the membership of the system;(8) Members of the legislature who do not elect to be members as provided in section 88-42, Hawaii Revised Statutes; or(9) Students, including graduate school students, employed as student helpers, student hires, student aides, summer student law clerks, college student interns, or in similar non-permanent positions.[Eff 11/9/81; am and comp 2/9/89] (Auth: HRS § 88-28) (Imp: HRS §§ 88-21, 88-43)