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regulations. When rules and regulations are adopted, which they can be by the Planning Commission, by the Water Commission. The Water Commission can set rules about who has to hook up and how many hook ups you can have. Those are under State law. The State Statute says those are signed by the Mayor. There are a couple of instances, and these are the ones that give me concern at this point, where the State law specifically describes the Mayor as being the Chief Elected Official of the County. I think there are only two or three of those. In Liquor Control, which is delegated to the counties, there are functions that are carried out by the Mayor. The Mayor, for example, appoints, and this is in the Charter as well, the Mayor appoints the Liquor Commission. It defines the Mayor as being the Chief Elected Official of the County. The same thing is true for certain motor vehicle licensing requirements in CHAPTER 286. At this point, I don't think that this is an insurmountable problem and I don't think that you need enabling legislation from the State to go to a County Manager form of government. If the Commission wants to continue on this, I would like to look at it in a little more detail and present a little more of a formal opinion about this. I need to say one thing further though, and this is a complication of all of this. If the Charter does go to a City Manager form of government, I feel that one individual will have to be designated in the Charter as having those powers which are delegated to the County Mayor under State law and that person can be called the City Manager. I don't think it has to be called the Mayor. But if you go to the kind of system where you have a Mayor and a City Manager, I feel that it would be very dangerous from a legal point of view, to try to put some of those functions with the City Manager and some of those with the Mayor. I think that all of those functions where State law says the Mayor has this power, will have to still go to the person who is called the Mayor and then you will have a split in certain powers between the City Manager and the Mayor, and I can give a more comprehensive listing of what all these State delegated functions and powers are. The final thing that I'd like to say about this is that even after I do a more formal work- up on this question which I would want to do, it's impossible to give you 100% assurance that the City Managing form of government is legal in Hawaii without some further authorization of the State Legislature. As I sit here, I think it is but this is the kind of thing that lawyers can only give opinions and if the voters enact the City Manager form of government and somebody wants to challenge the authority of the City Manager to do certain things, it is possible that a court could say that it is not authorized under State law. I say that as a possibility and I think no attorney can give you an absolute 100% assurance that that couldn't happen. SANTANGELO: Thank you, Chris. This is kind of like getting into the problem solving. I sense where the Chairman is going is do we have enough information to have some opinion whether we want to pursue this or not. On my side, I looked at it and some things that caught my attention were out of looking at our peers and some figure popped out. Of 1900 of them or something, there were 1200 of them, or two- thirds, that were very similar to us that use this form of government, number one. Number two, dealing in today's society and the importance of an administrative 14