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cPJNL�-u• COUNTY OF HAWAII -•` `" • STATE OF HAWAII BILL NO. 125 ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 4, OF THE HAWAII COUNTY CODE 1983 (2016 EDITION,AS AMENDED), RELATING TO ANIMALS. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII: SECTION 1. Purpose. Hawai`i County residents and their animals have recently been subjected to a number of vicious attacks by dogs. These incidents have resulted in severe injuries and even the death of persons and animals who were attacked. In response to these events,this ordinance includes additional provisions to regulate persons who own, harbor, or keep any dog that has bitten, injured, or maimed a person or injured, maimed, or destroyed an animal belonging to another person. This ordinance groups these new provisions with existing sections relating to dangerous dogs into a new division, entitled"Dangerous Dogs," and reorganizes chapter 4 to effectuate creation of this new division. To support this structural reorganization,this ordinance further amends the chapter for clarity, makes minor formatting changes, and repeals inefficacious provisions that refer to State law and severability. SECTION 2. Chapter 4, article 1, section 4-1, of the Hawai`i County Code 1983 (2016 Edition, as amended), is amended by removing the letters (a)through(s)that precede the definitions. SECTION 3. Chapter 4, article 1, section 4-1, of the Hawai`i County Code 1983 (2016 Edition, as amended), is amended by amending the definition of"bodily injury"to read as follows: "Bodily injury"means [the same as that defined in section 707 700, Hawaii Revised Statutes] physical pain, illness, or any impairment of physical condition." SECTION 4. Chapter 4, article 1, section 4-1, of the Hawai`i County Code 1983 (2016 Edition, as amended), is amended by adding the definitions of"serious bodily injury" and "substantial bodily injury"to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows: 'Serious bodily injury"means bodily injury which creates a substantial risk of death or which causes serious, permanent disfigurement, or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ."