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MZV Oi y~ Ldig COUNTY OF HAWAII STATE OF HAWAII 1T~ Oi~M~t` 08 ~ BILL NO. 259 ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 2, ARTICLE 15, SECTION 2-91.1(a), HAWAII COUNTY CODE 1983 (2005 EDITION, AS AMENDED), RELATING TO FILING OF FINANCIAL DISCLOSURES BY REGULATORY EMPLOYEES. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII: SECTION 1. Purpose. In 2000, the voters of the County of Hawaii amended the Hawaii County Charter to create the Department of Environmental Management. Prior to this Charter amendment, the divisions currently under the Department of Environmental Management belonged to the Department of Public Works. Presently, pursuant to Chapter 2, Article 15, Section 2-91.1 of the Hawai' i County Code 1983 (2005 Edition, as amended), only regulatory employees of the Department of Public Works, and not the Department of Environmental Management, are required to file financial disclosures. The purpose of this ordinance is to correct this obvious oversight, and to provide that regulatory employees from the Department of Environmental Management are required to file financial disclosures. SECTION 2. Chapter 2, Article 15, Section 2-91.1(a), Idawai`i County Code 1983 (2005 Edition, as amended), is amended as follows: (a) Definitions. The following words used in this section shall have the respective meanings in this section: (1) "Candidate" has the meaning given it by section 11-191(3)," Hawaii Revised Statutes; (2) "Elective" means all elective offices of the County ofHawai`i; (3) "Income" means gross income defined by section 61 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954; (4) "Regulatory employee" means: (A) Supervisors of inspectors employed by the department of public works and denartment of environmental management; (B) Inspectors employed by the department of public works and de artment of environmental mana eg ment; (C) Supervisors of liquor contrrol investigators; (D) Liquor control investigators; (E) Buyers and purchasing agents; (F) Supervisors of real property tax appraisers; (G) Real property tax appraisers; (H) Planners employed by the planning department; (I) Supervisors of inspectors employed by the department of water supply; (J) Inspectors employed by the department of water supply; (K) The legislative auditor.