Comm No 0055 - Final Text of Proposals Submitted to County Clerk

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or charter, with any council alternatives, and the purpose thereof and a notice to the electorate that copies of the proposed amendments or charter are available at the office of the county clerk. Members of the commission shall hold office until the day after the election at which the amendments or charter is ratified or rejected. If the majority of the voters voting upon a charter amendment votes in favor of it or a new charter, if a new charter is proposed, the amendment or new charter shall become effective at the time fixed in the amendment or charter." Section 2. Charter material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken through. New charter material is underscored. When revising, compiling, and 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 3. 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 4. Severability. If any provision of this charter proposal, or the application thereof to any person or circcumstance, 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 5. This amendment shall take effect upon approval by the electorate. 28