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COUNTY OF HAWAI`I •� ` f `a.,M, STATE OF HAWAI I BILL NO. 49 (DRAFT 4) ORDINANCE NO. 2 ;. AN ORDINANCE TO INITIATE AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE III, SECTION 3-4 OF THE HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER(2022 EDITION), RELATING TO VACANCY IN OFFICE. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII: SECTION 1. Article III, section 3-4, of the Hawai`i County Charter(2022 Edition) is amended to read as follows: "Section 3-4. Vacancy in Office. la) When any vacancy occurs in the county council, a majority of the remaining members of the council shall appoint [as] by resolution a successor [a person] with the [requisite] qualifications required by Section 3-3 to fill the vacancy[.-] for the remainder of the unexpired term. Within thirty days after the occurrence of any vacancy,the council chairperson shall notify all remaining members of the council [by registered mail] that on a specified regular meeting date, formal action shall be taken to fill the vacancy. Should the council fail to fill any vacancy within sixty days after its occurrence, [the chairperson ef] the council chairperson shall appoint a successor with the qualifications required by Section 3-3 to fill the vacancy for the remainder of the unexpired term. [The person (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), any vacancy to be filled in a council district seat after an election wherein a candidate for the same seat has been duly elected shall be filled by the person so elected to serve for the remainder of the unexpired term. (c) The remainder of the unexpired term served by a council member filling a vacancy shall not apply to the term limit set forth in Section 3-2." SECTION 2. Material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New charter material is underscored. When revising, compiling, or printing these charter provisions for inclusion in the Charter of the County of Hawai`i, the revisor need not include the brackets, the bracketed and stricken material, and the underscoring. SECTION 3. Severability. If any provision of this ordinance, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of the ordinance which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this ordinance are severable.