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SECTION 5. Article XV, Charter Amendment or Revision, section 15-1, Hawaii <br /> County Charter, is amended to read as follows: <br /> "Section 15-1. Initiation of Amendments or Revisions. Amendments or revisions o1' <br /> <br /> this charter may be initiated only in the following manner: <br /> (a) By ordinance of the council adopted after three readings on separate days and <br /> passed by the affirmative vote oftwo-thirds of the entire membership. <br /> (b) Hy petition presented to the council, signed by qualified electors equal in number <br /> to at least twenty percent of the registered voters for the last preceding general election, setting <br /> forth the proposed amendments or revisions. Such petition shall designate and authorize not less <br /> than three nor more than five of the signers thereto to approve any alteration or change in the <br /> form or language or any restatement of the text of the proposed amendments or revisions which <br /> may be made by the corporation counsel. <br /> Electors signing such petition shall print their names, add their signatures, residence <br /> addresses, ~ and the dates of signing on said petition. Signatures may be <br /> on separate sheets but each sheet shall have appended to it the affidavit of some person that to <br /> the best of the affiant's knowledge and belief the persons whose signatures appear on the sheet <br /> are registered electors of the county, that they signed with knowledge of the contents of the <br /> petition and that their residences are correctly given. <br /> Upon tiling of such petition with the council, the county [clerks] clerk shall examine the <br /> same to see whether it contains a sufficient number of apparently genuine signatures of <br /> registered voters. The clerk may question the genuineness of any ~ ' <br /> sienature appearing on the petition ~atx#-if] or affidavit (f the clerk finds that any such signature <br /> ~~es are] on the uetition or affidavit is not genuine, the clerk shall disregard [ther+}] such <br /> si nab tute. [ ~ 'Che <br /> clerk shall eliminate any sheet of the petition which is not accompanied by [tzar a valid <br /> affidavit. The invalidity of any sheet shall not affect the validity of the petition if a sufficient <br /> number of signatures ~re,;,~ir~s] remain after eliminating such invalid sheet. The clerk shall <br /> complete the examination of the petition within twenty workinK days." <br /> SF.C'f10N 6. New material is underscored. Material to be repealed is bracketed and <br /> stricken. In printing this ordinance, the brackets, stricken material and the underscoring need not <br /> be included. <br /> SECTION 7. Severability. If any provision of this ordinance, or the application thereof <br /> to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, such invalidity shall not effect other provisions or <br /> applications of the ordinance which can be given effect without the invalid provision or <br /> application, and to this end, the provisions of this ordinance arc declared to be severable. <br /> 4 <br /> <br />