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

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CA -23: Relating to Corporation Counsel CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII: Section 1. Article VI, Chapter 5, Section 6-5.2, of the Hawai`i County Charter (2018 Edition), is amended to read as follows: "Section 6-5.2. Appointment and Removal. The corporation counsel shall be appointed by the mayor, confirmed by the council and may be removed by the mayor with the approval of the council. The corporation counsel shall be an attorney licensed to practice and in good standing before the Supreme Court of the State of Hawai`i. The corporation counsel shall have been licensed to practice law for a period of not less than five years preceding appointment, and have at least three years of experience in a responsible administrative capacity." Section 2. 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 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. 32