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COUNTY OF HAWAII ORDINANCE NO. STATE OF HAWAII BILL NO. 239 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII: (DRAFT 2) AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 7, CIVIL DEFENSE, ARTICLE 2, AND AMENDING CHAPTER 29, WATER USE AND DEVELOPMENT, OF THE HAWAII COUNTY CODE 1983 (2005 EDITION, AS AMENDED), RELATING TO COUNTY WATER SPIGOTS. SECTION 1. Purpose. In recognition of the decades long need for public access water spigots, it is no longer appropriate for water spigots to remain under Civil Defense Chapter of this Code. The purpose of this ordinance is to clearly establish a system for public water spigots to be used by the populace to obtain potable water for everyday needs. This ordinance further provides that during any time of impending or declared disaster, the civil defense agency shall assume control of any or all public water spigots to ensure water needs created by such impending or declared disaster can be addressed in an expeditious, organized, and effective manner SECTION 2. Chapter 7, article 2, section 7 -8, of the Hawai`i County Code 1983 (2005 Edition, as amended), is repealed: (a) If within any di.,trict of the County, upon a declaration of an emergency by the mayor, residents request that water be hauled to their residences, they shall pay the hauling charges. (c) Tw y rs after August 1, 1978, ach resident shall pay the County an amount equivalent to the total standard commercial hauling charges. (d) The County shall make water available for hauling at no charge to ach requesting resident. "]