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(c) Individual signatures may be withdrawn within fifteen days after the filing of an <br /> <br /> initiative or referendum petition with the clerk of the council by the filing of a written request <br /> therefor, by the individual, with the clerk of the council." <br /> SECTION 3. Article XI, Initiative and Referendum, section 11-5, Hawaii County <br /> Charter (2000), is amended to read as follows: <br /> "Section 1]-5. Initiative and Referendum: Procedure after Filing. <br /> (a) Within twenty workin days after the filing of an initiative or referendum petition, <br /> the clerk of the council shall complete a certificate as to the sufficiency of the petition. As soon <br /> as a certificate is completed, the clerk shall notify the petitioners' committee of the contents of <br /> the certificate. If a petition is certified sufficient, the clerk shall present [his] the certificate to the <br /> county council at its next meeting. If the clerk certifies a petition insufficient, the certificate shall <br /> show the particulars wherein the petition is defective. A majority of the petitioners' committee <br /> may elect to amend a petition certified insufficient and must so notify the clerk, but if a majority <br /> does not elect to amend a petition, the clerk shall present the certificate to the county council at <br /> its next meeting. A petition is approved for consideration through council action upon the <br /> clerk's certificate of sufficiency. <br /> (b) [f a majority of the petitioners' committee elects to amend its petition, then within <br /> ten days after receipt of the clerk's certificate, the committee shall file a supplementary petition <br /> upon additional papers. The supplementary petition shall be governed by the same requirements <br /> as for an original petition. Within five working days after the tiling of a supplemental petition, <br /> the clerk shall complete a second certificate as to the sufficiency of the original petition as <br /> amended by the supplementary petition. Thereafter, the procedural requirements for the petition <br /> as amended shall be the same as that for the original petition as provided in subsection (a), this <br /> section. <br /> (c) A majority of the petitioners' committee may request the county council to review <br /> the clerk's certificate, at or before the meeting at which the clerk presents the certificate to the <br /> council. 'fhe council shall review the latest clerk's certificate, upon the committee's request, and <br /> shall approve or reject the certificate or may substitute its own determination of sufficiency of <br /> the petition by resolution. 'The review actions of the council shall be tinal but shall not preclude <br /> the tiling of a new petition for the same purposes." <br /> SECTION 4. Article XII, Removal of Elected Officers, chapter 1, Recall, section 12-1.3. <br /> Hawaii County Charter (2000), is amended to read as follows: <br /> "Section 12-1.3. Signatures. Signers of a recall petition shall print their names and their <br /> signature, their residence [er~taili+tg] address, [t"°~~ and the date of <br /> signing on said petition. To each such petition paper there shall be attached an affidavit of the <br /> circulator thereof, stating the number of signers to such part of the petition and that each <br /> signature appended to the paper was made in the circulator's presence and is believed to be the <br /> genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be, and that each signer understood <br /> the nature of the recall petition." <br /> 3 <br /> <br />