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CITY COUNCIL ORDINANCE ~ CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU BILL 49 200~CD1, FD2 ",.,,;,,d- HONOLULU, HAWAII DDC 9/21/04 A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE a period of seven years following the construction of the agricultural land_ improvements. The claim for exemption shall be filed with the director on or before September 30th preceding the tax year for which such exemption is claimed on such for_m_as_ shall beQrescribed by the department The claim shall be supported by documentation describing the agricultural land improvements, establishing that the agricultural land improvements have been constructed and establishing the amount of expenses therefor. Any additional qualifying agricultural improvements for a subsequent fiscal year shall be separately claimed. (d) The claim for exemption once allowed, shall continue for a period of seven ey ars " SECTION 7. It is the intent of the council to annually set the tax rate for properties classified agricultural at a rate that is equal to or less than the rate for properties classified improved residential. SECTION 8. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this ordinance, all lands approved for an agricultural dedication under the applicable ordinance provisions existing prior to the enactment of Ord. 02-39, and irrespective of whether or not the petition for dedication was filed after July 30, 2002, the effective date of Ord. 02-39, shall continue to be subject to the ordinance provisions for agricultural dedication under which the petition was filed and approved by the director, including the provisions for failure to observe the restrictions on the use of the dedicated land and the imposition of the rollback tax and penalty therefor, and as may be further amended by the provisions of Section 5 of Ord. 02-39. SECTION 9. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this ordinance, for tax year 2005-2006 only, petitions to dedicate for a specific agricultural use, or for vacant agricultural land, shall be filed with the director by November 1, 2004, and shall be approved or disapproved by December 15, 2004. Due to the limited time available to the director to implement this ordinance for the tax year 2005-2006, for tax year 2005- 2006 only, the director shall determine the average agricultural production value per acre of vegetable and melons, and fruits but excluding pineapple, using data from the report published by the State of Hawaii, Department of Agriculture entitled "Statistics of Hawaii Agriculture 2002." SECTION 10. Ordinance material to be repealed is bracketed; new material is underscored. When revising, compiling or printing this ordinance for inclusion in the Revised Ordinances of Honolulu, the revisor of ordinances need not include the brackets, bracketed material, or the underscoring. ~o