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• • SUPREME l:Ol.'f('I' OF HA WAI I —IU Opiniwe of theCourt . . mendedthat the effective date of article VII, section 2, as • be • amended. should not be.upon its ratifiication, but should postponed fora period of three full years after its ratification. • In accordance with the recommendation of the Convention • the amendments to-arliele I-II, section 2 of the State Con- • 3 stitution and the provisions to delay the effective date of these amendments as contained in article . VI, section 9 were ratified by the people in the general election held on . ' • November 2, 1968. Thus. the amended article VII, section 2 became effective on January 1, 1972.Chikasuye v. Lota, 51 i Haw. 443, 462 P.2d 192 (1969). The Committee on Local Government had proposed the • adoption of the amended version of article VII,section 2 after • it conducted public hearings and deliberated upon numerous proposals submitted to it. In its Standing Committee Report e No. 53 (majority), the Committee stated: The principal change in this section is the protection of certain charter provisions against amendment or re- peal by the legislature. In Fa.si, et al., v. City and County of Honolulu, et al., g 50 H. 277,the.Supreme held that a charter, even if ; { . adopted under the Constitution as provided by.Article • VII, Section 2, is no more than a statutory charter which `• . • is subject to continuing legislative control. This proposal ; 4 ;. will give a county charter a higher status within a pre- i scribed area. The designated provisions will become of r • superior authority to a statute. . t • In prescribing the area within wi-ich a charter shall b.e • , M of superior authority to a statute the proposal is similar to. • e the model provision recommended by The American 't Municipal Association. This model provision • was adopted by South Dal:uta , at 1962. It basis was the Hawaii • Proposal No. 241, introducedthe request of th State Association of Counties. . Your Committee omitted from the draft presented by Proposal 241 the words "personnel" and "procedure." I. The word "personnel' was omitted because your Com- . • I ; I • ' . inittee was convinced that the legislature should not be • deprived of the power to enact, and maintain in effect, ,t • R .