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(e) A council member elected in either the first special election or second special election in 2020 who is reelected in either the first special election or second special election of 2022 shall serve for four years and shall be eligible for reelection in 2026. If the incumbent council member is reelected in 2026, the council member shall serve for two years and shall not be eligible for reelection in 2028. An election for the affected council district seat shall be called in 2028, and the person duly elected shall serve a four-year term, pursuant to Section 3-2 of this Charter." Section 3. Charter material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken through. New charter material is underscored. When revising, compiling, or printing these charter provisions for inclusion in the Charter of the County of Hawai`i (2020), the revisor need not include the brackets, bracketed and stricken material, or underscoring. Section 4. The revisor of the charter shall renumber charter article, chapter, and section numbers and any cross references thereto pursuant to amendments approved by the electorate. Section 5. Severability. If any provision of this charter proposal, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the charter proposal which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end, the provisions of this charter proposal are declared to be severable. Section 6. This amendment shall take effect at twelve o'clock meridian on December 5, 2022, and thus apply to terms of office for council members elected in the 2022 first special election or the 2022 second special election. 19