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permit, certificate, or registration within the last five years, no more than $2,000 per day or the offered rental rate, whichever is greater, for each day that the rental property was advertised, offered, or operated as a short-term vacation rental without a required permit, certificate, or registration; (3) For an owner who has been the subject of two or more final decisions finding a violation relating to their operation of a short-term vacation rental without a permit, certificate, or registration within the last five years, no more than $5,000 per day or twice the offered rental rate, whichever is greater, for each day that the rental property was advertised, offered, or operated as a short- term vacation rental without a required permit, certificate, or registration. Section 25-4- .4 Short-term vacation rental enforcement account. (a) Pursuant to section 10-12, Hawaii County Charter, a special fund to be known as the "short-term vacation rental enforcement fund" is created. This fund shall be administered by the director. (b) The purpose of the fund is to support efforts to enforce the County's short-term vacation rental law. (c) This account shall be funded by fees and fines collected in connection with one- time registration fees for short-term vacation rentals pursuant to section 25-4 .(b), and with nonconforming use certificate renewal application fees pursuant to section 25-4 .1.(e). (d) The funds in this account shall be utilized to pay for expenses that facilitate enforcement of the County's short-term vacation rental enforcement law." SECTION 3. Chapter 25, article 1, section 25-1-5, of the Hawaii County Code 1983 (2016 Edition, as amended), is amended by adding new definitions to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows: ""Reachable" means being able to answer the telephone at all times, being able to be physically present at the short-term vacation rental within one hour following a request byaguest, a neighbor, or a County gency." ""Short-term vacation rental" means a dwellina unit of which the owner or operator does not reside on the building site, that has no more than five bedrooms for rent on the building site, and is rented for a period of thirty consecutive days or less. This definition shall not apply to the short-term use of an owner's primary residence as defined under the Internal Revenue Code." 13