[1] Legislative powers are vested with the nine-member Maui County Council, while executive powers are rest with the office of the Mayor of Maui County.
All seats in the county council have residency requirements, but all Maui County voters may vote in elections for all nine at-large seats regardless of residence.
Members of the county council are elected on a nonpartisan, at-large basis to two-year terms, with a limit of five consecutive full terms.
[1] Members of the Maui County Council are elected every two years.
The Chair of the county council is elected by the body's nine seated members.