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• A ,�.,r'......�.� _� i t(k SUPREME COURT OF HAWAII-18 • Opinion of the Court ti tion superiority clauses. Such a provision as contained in article VII,section 2 of our State Constitution allows a county in this state through its charter to redelegate to another . appropriate local officer or body a power originally delegated i by the legislature to another body. 2,'llcQuillan on Municipal ; Corporations, .3d ed., 618, section'9.03. • One of the duties and functions of the County of Maui upon its creation in 1905 was to acquire, establish and main- } 1 • • tain a public water system and to furnish domestic water to its t inhabitants:Sec Act 39, S.L.H. 1905. Maui County operated such a water system until 1949, when the structure and e • • organization of that unit was modified by the legislature 1 • . which created for the county under Act 289, S.L.H. 1949, an • autonomous board of water supply. We would treat and re- t PP Y 1 l • • gard such an agency as performing a local function as distin- 1 . guished from state function. In 1955, the legislature repealed. i Act 289, S.L.-H. 1949, and abolished the autonomous county I. • • board of water supply.See Act 201, S.L.H. 1955. Six years later in 1961, the legislature enacted Act 155, S.L.H. 1961, which has been codified as HRS chapter 54. This chapter • restored to Maui county an autonomous board of water sup- ply. It is our opinion that a county charter commission is • empowered to study the waterworks of a county as a depart- i ' merit of the county government. A provision was contained in ' the bill (H.B. 18) which became Act 73, S.L.H. 1963. that would have prevented the charter commission from consider • - ing and recommending the establishment of autonomous . agencies, such as the 'Maui board orf Water supply. However, • such a provision was deleted in the Sena. See Hawaii Sen- ' ate Journal 1963. 2d Leg. Gen. Sess. S:C.Rep. 67 at 704. •. ' y • There is nothing in the enabling act which prevents the char- • ter commissions from studying and analyzing such a local , function and. to recommend for adoption a department of water supply designed ti, meet the needs of the locality. Further, we agree with the legislature that the regulation of the manufacture, importation and sale of intoxicating li- - quer within a county is a local concern. The Senate Commit- tee on Judiciary stated with respect to S.B. No. 11, which • r I .