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COUNTY OF HAWAI`I pJ�SY OF h,�, • �; MOW::;: 7TE OF•N,'J� ORDINANCE NO. STATE OF HAWAI`I BILL NO. 51 (DRAFT 2) AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 4, ARTICLE 3, OF THE HAWAI`I COUNTY CODE 1983 (2016 EDITION, AS AMENDED), RELATING TO ANIMALS. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAI`I: SECTION 1. Chapter 4, article 3, of the Hawaii County Code 1983 (2016 Edition, as amended) is amended by adding a section to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows: "Section 4-3- . Feedine prohibited. (a) A person mgy not feed or attempt to feed a stray or feral animal on property owned, leased rented managed or operated by the County. (b) Any person convicted of a violation of this section is subject to a fine not more than $50 for the first violation and not more than $500 for any subsequent violation. (c) For the purposes of this section: "Feed" means to deliberately introduce any food material, substance, or attractant directly to or in the vicinity of an animal. "Feral" means undomesticated or living in a wild and unconfined state. (d) Nothing in this section prohibits restricts or limits the ability of the County or of a person authorized or contracted by the Coupty to trap, remove, impound, or seize an animal or to undertake anyother power or duty under this chapter of the Hawaii Revised Statutes, chapters 142 or 143." SECTION 2. New material is underscored. In printing this ordinance, the underscoring need not be included. 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.