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COUNTY OF HAWAII STATE OF HAWAII <br /> RESOLUTION No. 33? 83 <br /> (Draft 3) <br /> WHEREAS , the provisions of Section 243-5 , Hawaii Revised <br /> Statutes, enable, empower , and authorize the Council of the County <br /> of Hawaii to determine the amount of the County fuel tax; and <br /> WHEREAS, it is provided in said section that the amount of the <br /> County fuel tax shall be determined by resolution to be adopted by <br /> the Council in the manner provided by law, relating to resolutions <br /> involving the expenditure of public money, and the amount so fixed <br /> may be, per gallon, one or more cents or a fraction of a cent or <br /> both, or zero ; and <br /> WHEREAS , the said section further provides that no such <br /> resolution shall be adopted until the Council shall conduct a public <br /> hearing on the amount of the proposed tax after a notice of such <br /> hearing shall have been published in a newspaper of general <br /> circulation within the County at least twice during a period of <br /> thirty days immediately preceding the date of such hearing ; and <br /> WHEREAS , the existing County fuel tax imposed upon the sale or <br /> use of gasoline and other liquid fuel had been set ten years ago at <br /> 5 cents per gallon by Resolution No . 129 ( 1977) ; and <br /> WHEREAS, the Council, after considering the various and numerous <br /> highway needs and improvements to be made within the County of <br /> Hawaii, believes that the County fuel tax should be increased by an <br />