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<br /> only the residence address is required to identify and verify a properly registered voter nn a <br /> <br /> petition. <br /> SECTION 2. Article XI, Initiative and Referendum, section i 1-4, Hawaii County <br /> <br /> Charter (2000), is amended to read as follows: <br /> "Section 11-4. Initiative and Referendum Petitions: Forms and Sufficiency. <br /> ~ Initiative and referendum petitions shall be governed by the rules regarding form <br /> <br /> and sufficiency set forth in this section, as well as by such other rules as the county council may <br /> impose by ordinance, consistent with the provisions and with the spirit and purpose of the <br /> <br /> charter. <br /> (b) For immediate acceptance of petitions, the clerk of the council shall require that: <br /> (1) The petitions indicate, by name and address, the five signers who <br /> constitute the petitioners' committee for that petition. <br /> (2) The petitions indicate the address,] to which all notices for petitioners' <br /> committee are to be sent. <br /> (3) The signatures to petitions be filed on papers of uniform size and style and <br /> assembled as one instrument. Upon presentation, petitions which <br /> reasonably comply with this subsection (a) shall be accepted by the clerk <br /> without delay; petitions shall be rejected for non-compliance. <br /> (4) }aectors signing such petitions shall print their names, add their signatures, <br /> residence addresses, and the dates of signing on <br /> said petition. <br /> (c) For purposes of certification, any petition shall be found insufficient which: <br /> (1) Is signed by less than the required number of qualified voters of the <br /> county. <br /> (2) Proposes, or requests appeal of, an ordinance not subject to the powers of <br /> initiative or referendum. <br /> (d) Signatures are invalid and petitions insufficient: <br /> (1) [f signers arc not given an opportunity to read the full text of the proposed <br /> ordinance under an initiative petition, or the designation and description of <br /> the ordinance in question under a referendum petition, and if the full text <br /> of a proposed ordinance or ordinance under question is not contained in or <br /> attached to each signature paper or set of signature papers of an initiative <br /> or referendum petition, respectively, throughout circulation. <br /> (2) If affidavits (executed by the circulators for each set of signature papers) <br /> are not attached to the papers at the time of filing of petition with the clerk <br /> of the council. Each affidavit shall attest to the effect that: a particular <br /> individual personally circulated an identifiable set of papers; each paper <br /> bears a stated number of signatures; each signature on a paper was affixed <br /> in the circulator's presence; each signature is the genuine signature of the <br /> person whose name it purports to be. <br /> 2 <br /> <br />