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SECTION 6. Execution and Form of Fully Registered Bonds. The Bonds of a series shall be lithographed, steel engraved, typewritten, printed or in other reproduced form as the Director of Finance may determine. The Bonds of a series shall bear the manual or facsimile signatures of the Director of Finance and of the Mayor of the County, and shall also bear the seal of the County or a facsimile of such seal. The Director of Finance may provide for the Bonds of a series to be issued in and effect a book-entry system for such Bonds. The Director of Finance may prepare such number of blank Bonds of any series executed and sealed as aforesaid as she shall determine and deliver such executed blank Bonds to the registrar for such series for safekeeping prior to the time such Bonds are actually issued, exchanged or transferred. The Director of Finance shall direct the registrar for the Bonds of a series to register and authenticate such Bonds and no such Bond shall be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless and until the certificate of authentication endorsed on such Bond shall have been manually executed by such registrar; provided that a certificate of authentication shall not be required for any Bond if the Director of Finance is the registrar and if such Director has manually signed the Bond in question. The Bonds of a series shall be designated and the form of such Bonds, including the registrar's certificate of authentication (if required) and the assignment, shall be substantially in the form of general obligation bonds heretofore issued by the County with such insertions,variations and omissions as are required with respect to a particular series of the Bonds,book-entry provisions,variable rate provisions or other provisions as the Director of Finance may determine. SECTION 7. Sale of Bonds. Without any further authorization from or action by the Council but subject to the provisions hereof and of applicable law,the Director of Finance is hereby authorized to issue and sell the Bonds in their entirety at one time, or from time to time in two or more separate series, or as part of a series of other general obligation bonds of the County, at competitive sale or at negotiated sale to qualified purchasers in accordance with Section 47-8,Hawai`i Revised Statutes,as amended, in each case at such price or prices and upon such terms and conditions as she shall approve and determine to be in the best interest of the County. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, with respect to the sale of the Bonds or of portions of the Bonds, the Director of Finance is hereby authorized to retain bond counsel, paying agents, registrars and financial and accounting consultants, upon such terms and conditions as she shall deem advisable,to select the date for such sale,to publish and distribute a Notice of Sale or to enter into a negotiated contract for the sale of the Bonds or portions thereof, in each case in such form and containing such terms and conditions as she shall approve and deem advisable,to distribute an Official Statement and such other information relating to the County 3