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COUNTY OF HAWAII <br />STATE OF HAWAII <br />BILL NO. 361 <br />ORDINANCE NO. ®~ a-$4 (Dtu~ET z) <br />AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 14, GENERAL WELFARE, HAWAII <br />COUNTY CODE 1983 (2005 EDITION, AS AMENDED), RELATING TO THE <br />RESTRICTION OF GENETICALLY ENGINEERED TARO (KALO) AND COFFEE. <br />BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII: <br />SECTION 1. Chapter 14, Hawaii County Code 1983 (2005 Edition, as amended), is <br />amended by adding a new article to be appropriately designated and to read as follows: <br />"Article .Genetically Eneineered (Trans¢enic) Taro (kalo) and Coffee. <br />Section 14- Purpose. <br />The pumose of this article is to protect the taro (kalo) and coffee industry from <br />genetic en ineering and preserve agriculturally-based practices and cultural traditions <br />associated with taro (kalo) and coffee within the County of Hawaii. <br />Section 14- .Definitions, <br />hereditary apparatus of a living cell is altered, modified, or chanced so that the cell can <br />produce more or different chemicals or perform completely new functions. <br />"Person" includes natural persons, partnerships, joint ventures, societies <br />associations, clubs, trustees, trusts or corporations or any officer a ent employee <br />factor, or any other personal representative thereof, in any capacity actin¢ either for <br />himself or for any other person, under personal appointment or pursuant to law. <br />"Recombinant DNA" means the transfer of genes, regulatory sequences or <br />nucleic acid between hosts by the use of vectors or laboratory manipulations and includes <br />the insertion, excision, duplication, inactivation, or relocation of specific eenes <br />re ulatorv sequences or sections of nucleic acid This term does not~a ply to a material <br />or an o~anism developed exclusively through traditional methods of breedine, <br />organisms, or the product of a eenetically engineered organism into the open <br />environment. <br />Section 14- .Genetically engineered (transeenicl taro (kalol, unlawful. <br />It shall be unlawful for any person to test, propagate, cultivate, raise plant grow <br />introduce or release genetically engineered (tran~enic) or recombinant DNA taro (kalo) <br />THIS WILL VERIFY THAT TWO-THIRDS OF THE MEMBERSHIP <br />OF THE HAWAII COUNTY COUNCIL VOTED TO OVERRIDE THE <br />MAYOR'S VETO ON BILL 361, DRAFT 2. <br />COUNCIL CHAIR <br />