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i • 1.. SUPREME COURT OF HAWAII-8 1 ., . . Opinion of the Court. administrative structure and organization as these terms are 3 used in section 2, article•VII of the State Constitution, and 1 • that all of these mentioned athendments and provisions of the I. .1 revised charter are in direct conflict with state statutes on i civil service, waterworks, police and liquor control, and are s thus invalid. I. • • I i Prior to the commencement of•this action, the entire provisions of, including the revisions to, therevised charter i • were submitted to and ratified by the people of Maui County '4 at the general election held on November 2. 1976.The validity 1 • and enforceability of these provisions including the revisions, .t are herein tested against the applicable provisions of article VII of the State Constitution and HRS § 50-15. Article VII, section 5 of our State Constitution provides - • that"This article shall not limit the power of the legislature to enact laws of state-wide concern." HRS § 50-15 reads: § 50-15 Reserved powers. Notwithstanding the provi- • . • •sions of this chapter, there is expressly reserved to the 1 . state legislature the power to enact all laws of general application throughout the State on Matters of concern • and interest and laws relating to the fiscal powers of the counties, and neither a charter nor ordinances adopted l under a charter shall be-in conflict-therewith. • Our State Constitution becgme effective upon Hawaii's , •I "admission into the Union on August 29,-1959. It was amended i 4 . once in 1968. Prior to its amendment,-article VII, the local' t S government article, provided in section 2 thereof: "Each 1 political subdivision shall have power to frame and adopt a • charter for its own self-government within such limits and under such procedures as may be prescribed by law. -i We stated in Fasi v. City and County, 50 Haw. 277, • I 283-84, 439 P.2d 206, 210 (1968):. Y It is clear from the language of article VII, section 2, i ' and the foregoing account of its formulation in the con- ' ' vention,that a charter contemplated in the constitution is "'4 1 . . t