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

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CA -21: Relating to Initiative and Referendum Petitions CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII: Section 1. Article XI, Section 11-5, of the Hawai`i County Charter (2018 Edition), is amended by amending subsection (c) to read as follows: "(c) For purposes of certification, any petition shall be found insufficient that: (1) Is signed by registered voters of the county equal in number to less than fifteen percent of the number of persons who voted for the office of Mayor in the last Mayoral election. (2) Proposes, or requests [appeal] repeal of, an ordinance not subject to the powers of initiative or referendum." Section 2. Charter material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken through.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 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 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 5. This amendment shall take effect upon approval by the electorate. 29