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<br /> Hawai'i County Building .•4*of•4.0
<br /> 25 Aupuni Street ••. Environmental Management
<br /> Hilo, Hawai`i 96720 Committee Chair
<br /> Hawai`i County Council
<br /> County of Hawai`i
<br /> DATE: August 28, 2013 N r
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<br /> TO: J Yoshimoto, Chairperson, P
<br /> and Members of the Hawai`i County Council •• s
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<br /> FROM: Zendo Kern, Council Member VI —
<br /> SUBJECT: Proposed Amendments to Bill No. 64; Relating to Clearing Occupied and
<br /> Unoccupied Lots
<br /> Please find below amendments to Bill No. 64. The amendments are illustrated in Ramseyer format
<br /> with respect to the contents of Bill No. 64; material to be deleted is bracketed and stricken through;
<br /> material to be added is underscored. The proposed amendments read as follows:
<br /> 1. Amends "Section 20- . Definitions"to read:
<br /> "Section 20- Definitions.
<br /> As used in this article:
<br /> "Refuse"means any discarded or disposable matter, including garbage, rubbish, and swill
<br /> as defined in section 20-31.
<br /> "Undergrowth" means any bush, small tree, or other vegetation.
<br /> "Unsafe flora" means any or any part of a tree, bush, vine, or grass that poses an
<br /> [immediate] imminent danger for fire, health, safety, property damage, or criminal threat to persons
<br /> or adjacent property and structures including buildings, roofs, rain gutters, antennae, driveways,
<br /> landscaping, privacy structures (including gates, fencing, and stone walls), tents, garages,
<br /> automobiles, power lines, phone lines, playground equipment, water [catchments] catchment tanks,
<br /> swimming pools, or any other structures and property not identified here."
<br /> 2. Amends "Section 20-21. Removal of refuse, undergrowth, and unsafe flora required," to
<br /> read:
<br /> "Section 20-21. Removal of refuse, undergrowth, and unsafe flora required.
<br /> Every owner of any occupied or unoccupied lot the frontage of which abuts or adjoins any
<br /> public street or highway within the County, shall clear the lot of all refuse, uncultivated
<br /> undergrowth, and unsafe flora thereon to a depth of not exceeding one hundred feet from any street
<br /> or highway adjoining, whenever on the lot there is refuse, uncultivated undergrowth, or unsafe
<br /> flora to an extent that the lot [ham] poses or is likely to [ -a] pose an imminent
<br /> danger for fire, health, safety, property damage, or crime hazard."
<br /> Comm. No. .ICO
<br /> Serving the Interests of the People of Our Island Ref.To:
<br /> Hawaii County is an Equal Opportunity Provider and Employer Ref. Date AU
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