Comm No 0019.02 - Transmit CA-5 for First Reading

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(g) (3) Full, free, and unrestricted access to and authority to examine and inspect any property, facility, or equipment of any county agency, executive agency, or program pertinent to the audit or to a contract. (4) Full, free, and unrestricted access to and authority to administer oaths and subpoena witnesses and compel the production of records pertinent thereto. If any person subpoenaed as a witness or compelled to produce records shall fail or refuse to respond thereto, the proper court, upon request of the county auditor, shall have the power to compel obedience to any process of the county auditor and to punish, as a contempt of the court, any refusal to comply therewith without good cause. The county auditor may retain special counsel, in the manner authorized by the council, to represent the county auditor in implementing these powers. The [legislative] county auditor shall conduct or cause to be conducted all audits in accordance with government auditing standards, and shall set forth final audit findings and recommendations in written reports, copies of which shall be transmitted to the county council and the mayor and filed with the county clerk as public records." Section 2. Charter material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken through. New charter material is underscored. When revising, compiling, or printing these charter provisions for inclusion in the Charter of the County of Hawai`i (2020), the revisor need not include the brackets, bracketed and stricken material, or underscoring. Section 3. The revisor of the charter shall renumber charter article, chapter, and section numbers and any cross references thereto pursuant to amendments approved by the electorate. Section 4. Severability. If any provision of this ordinance, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect 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. Section 5. This amendment shall take effect upon approval by the electorate. 2