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i SECTION 3. Four-year terms of office for council members shall commence in the year 2000. To honor the spirit and intent of the 1996 term limitation Charter amendment, this ordinance establishing conversion to four-year terms of office beginning in the year 2000 determines that any council members elected in 1996 and re-elected to office in the 1998 and 2000 general elections shall be eligible to serve consecutive terms of office until 2004. This ordinance finds that incumbent council members elected in 1996 may serve two (2) two-year terms until the year 2000, and one (1) four-year term until the year 2004. Any candidate(s) newly elected to the County Council in the 1998 general election, upon serving one (1) two-year term until the year 2000, shall be eligible to serve two additional four-year terms of office until the year 2008. This will allow council members first elected in 1998 to serve three consecutive terms of office, thereby achieving parity with any incumbent council members elected in 1996 and who are thereby eligible to serve a total of three consecutive terms until the year 2004. SECTION 4. Material to be repealed is bracketed. New material is underscored. SECTION 5. If any portion of this ordinance, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the ordinance which can be given effect without the provision or the application, and to this end, the provisions of this ordinance are declared to be severable. SECTION 6. Upon adoption of this ordinance, this council, by appropriate resolution, shall provide that this amendment be submitted to the electorate of Hawaii County for approval at the next 1998 general election. SECTION 7. Upon approval of the Charter amendment proposed in this ordinance by a majority of voters voting thereon, as duly certified, the provisions of Section 3 of this ordinance shall take effect at twelve o'clock meridian on the first Monday of December after the 1998 election. INTRODUCED BY: 02, COUN L MEMBER, TY OF HAWAII JR/rf Hilo, Hawaii Date of Introduction: June 1, 1998 Date of 1st Reading: June 1, 1998 Date of 2nd Reading: June 16, 1998 Date of 3rd Reading: July 1, 1998 Effective Date: July 22, 1998 REFERENCE: Comm: 816