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SECTION 5. Article XV, Charter Amendment or Revision, section 15 -1, Hawaii County Charter, is amended to read as follows: "Section 15 -1. Initiation of Amendments or Revisions. Amendments or revisions of this charter may be initiated only in the following manner: (a) By ordinance of the council adopted after three readings on separate days and passed by the affirmative vote of two - thirds of the entire membership. (b) By petition presented to the council, signed by qualified electors equal in number to at least twenty percent of the registered voters for the last preceding general election, setting forth the proposed amendments or revisions. Such petition shall designate and authorize not less than three nor more than five of the signers thereto to approve any alteration or change in the form or language or any restatement of the text of the proposed amendments or revisions which may be made by the corporation counsel. Electors signing such petition shall print their names, add their signatures, residence addresses, [seeial seourity numbers] and the dates of signing on said petition. Signatures may be on separate sheets but each sheet shall have appended to it the affidavit of some person that to the best of the affiant's knowledge and belief the persons whose signatures appear on the sheet are registered electors of the county, that they signed with knowledge of the contents of the petition and that their residences are correctly given. Upon filing of such petition with the council, the county [clerks] clerk shall examine the same to see whether it contains a sufficient number of apparently genuine signatures of registered voters. The clerk may question the genuineness of any [signatures ] signature appearing on the petition [an4-4] or affidavit. If the clerk finds that any such signature [or signatures are] on the petition or affidavit is not genuine, the clerk shall disregard [them] such signature. [in deto.....inin,.whether the petition ,.mains „ S..r- i-cient number of signatures-.] The clerk shall eliminate any sheet of the petition which is not accompanied by [the required] a valid affidavit. The invalidity of any sheet shall not affect the validity of the petition if a sufficient number of signatures [reEnains] remain after eliminating such invalid sheet. The clerk shall complete the examination of the petition within twenty working days." SECTION 6. New material is underscored. Material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. In printing this ordinance, the brackets, stricken material and the underscoring need not be included. SECTION 7. Severability. If any provision of this ordinance, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, such invalidity shall not effect other provisions or applications of the ordinance which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end, the provisions of this ordinance are declared to be severable. M