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COtJN7"~ O~ I~.W~.I`~ ~°I`~?.T O~ I~~J1~I`I <br /> SILL NO. 244 <br /> (Draft 4) <br /> OI~INANCE NO.~'~ <br /> <br /> AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 19, OF THE HAWAI I COUNTY CODE 1983 (1995 <br /> <br /> EDITION), BY AMENDING ARTICLE 10, SECTION 19-75 RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY <br /> <br /> TAX EXEMPTIONS (EXEMPTION, PERSONS WITH IMPAIRED SIGHT OR HEARING AND <br /> <br /> PERSONS TOTALLY DISABLED). <br /> <br /> BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII: <br /> SECTION 1. Chapter 19, Article 10, Section 19-75, [Subsections (b) and (d),] of the <br /> <br /> Hawaii County Code 1983 (1995 Edition) is amended to read as follows: <br /> "Section 19-75. Exemption, persons [with iBnpaired sight or hearing and persons <br /> o~vho are blind, deaf, and/or totally disabled. <br /> (a) Definitions as used in this chapter: <br /> (1) "Blind" means a person whose central visual acuity does not exceed 20/200 <br /> in the better eye with correcting lenses, or whose visual acuity is greater than <br /> 20/200 but is accompanied by a limitation in the field of vision such that the <br /> widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angle no greater than twenty <br /> degrees[.], as certified under this section. <br /> (2) "Deaf' means a person whose average loss in the speech frequencies (five <br /> hundred to two thousand Hertz) in the better ear is [eighty] ninety-two <br /> decibels, [A.S.A.,] or such other level as may be updated by A.N.S.I., or <br /> worse[.] , as certif ed under this section. <br /> (3) "[Person] Totally disabled" means a person who is totally [and permanently] <br /> disabled, either physically or mentally, and who, except for such total <br /> disability, would be able to engage in [any] substantial gainful business or <br /> occupation, as certified under this section. <br /> <br />