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J��v os................... COUNTY OF HAWAII -:�- ;`'- •', STATE OF HAWAII BILL NO. 154 ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE TO INITIATE AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE III, SECTION 3-2 OF THE HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER (2014), RELATING TO COUNTY COUNCIL TERMS. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII: SECTION 1. Article III, section 3-2 of the Hawai`i County Charter(2014), is amended to read as follows: "Section 3-2. Composition and Terms. There shall be a county council composed of nine members. One member shall be elected from each of nine districts. The terms of the council members shall be [two] four years and shall begin at twelve o'clock meridian on the first Monday of December after their election. The terms of the council members shall not exceed [few] three consecutive [two] four year terms. Candidates shall be elected in accordance with the election laws of the state, insofar as applicable." SECTION 2. Charter material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New material is underscored. When revising, compiling, or printing these charter provisions for inclusion in the Charter of the County of Hawai`i, the reviser need not include the brackets, bracketed and stricken material, and underscoring. SECTION 3. If any provision 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 invalid provision or application, and to this end, the provisions of this ordinance are severable. SECTION 4. Upon adoption of this ordinance, this Council, by appropriate resolution, shall provide that this amendment be submitted to the electorate of Hawai`i County for approval in the 2016 general election. SECTION 5. Each person who is duly reelected to serve as council member in the 2016 elections, whether that be in the primary election or general election, shall serve a four-year term and shall be eligible to serve two additional four-year terms of office without regard for how many terms that person has already served as a council member, whether those previous council terms were held consecutively or otherwise.