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"Public property" means all real property owned by the Count SECTION 3. Chapter 20, article 3, section 20-38, of the Hawaii County Code 1983 (2016 Edition, as amended) is amended to read as follows: "Section 20-38. [ ] Removal of abandoned or derelict vehicles. (a� No person shall leave, abandoned, or place any wrecked or nonoperational automobile or construction equipment or part or portion of a wrecked or nonoperational automobile or construction equipment, or scrap iron, or other similar material, upon any part of a public [street, eady r highway ay or upon elly premises of „ ethefj highway, public property, or private property of another. (b) The removal of abandoned or derelict vehicles shall be subject to the following: (1) The department shall only remove abandoned or derelict vehicles that are located on, or within ten (10) feet from the edge of, any public or private road. (2) The department shall not remove abandoned or derelict vehicles from any area within which the vehicle is located if the department's Derelict and Abandoned Vehicle Coordinator determines that the road is unsafe for a tow truck to traverse. (3) All decisions to tow shall be subject to the discretion of the department's Derelict and Abandoned Vehicle Coordinator. (c) The department shall promulgate rules and procedures for the removal of derelict and abandoned vehicles and shall follow the provisions of Chapter 290, Hawaii Revised Statutes, as amended, for the removal of abandoned and derelict vehicles." SECTION 4. Severability. 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 declared to be severable. 2