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DILL NO. 47
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE REPEALING CHAPTER 2,ARTICLE 41 OF THE HAWAII
COUNTY CODE 1983 (2016 EDITION,AS AMENDED),RELATING TO THE
DISASTER AND EMERGENCY FUND.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Purpose. The Council finds that Article 41 of the Hawaii County Code,
which created and set guidelines for administering the Disaster and Emergency Fund, is mostly
duplicative, obsolete, and unnecessary with the establishment of Article X, Section 10-17 of the
Hawaii County Charter, as approved by voters in the 2020 General Election. The purpose of this
ordinance is to repeal Chapter 2, Article 41 of the Hawaii County Code to provide for clear,
effective maintenance and administration of the Disaster and Emergency Fund via the provisions
located within the Hawai`i County Charter.
SECTION 2. Chapter 2, article 41, of the Hawaii County Code 1983 (2016 Edition, as
amended), entitled"Disaster and Emergency Fund", is repealed:
"[Ar-tiele 41. Disaster and Emer-geney Fund.
Seetion 2 Creation of fund; purpose.
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known as the disaster- and emefgeiiey ffind is efeale47
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supplemental finaneial r-esaufees to respond to publie health and safe�,
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(a) Eaeh fiseal yeaf, the mi i int to be appfapfiated into the disaste
emefgeney ffind shat be $250,000.
a targeted ffinding amettal of$10,000,000. This pohey does Rot pfeelude the use of
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The money in the disastef and emefgeney fund shall only be tAilized fef
fallowing pttfposes:
(.) To clean up County 7 ineluding I I
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damaged by a nattifal of human caused disastef of othef
"" ...'.es when siieh aetion sefves a public purpose.
(3) To tediate fespense for- ser-viees to deal with p4he health an
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{(Cil To pay fef opefational ex-penses of the County after-a disaster-of emergency
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disaster of emergency.
which shall not exeeed five pefeefA of
l expenses,
this fiifld exeept as indieated in (5) above. Fof the pufposes of this ,
administfative expenses afe defined as staff of eentfaeted I
felated ffinge benefits.
Section 2 211. Dissolution of the ffin d.
The disastef and emefgeney fund shall not be dissolved tmiess stleh disseltAieff is
appfaved by ry two tl,ifds vote of the /ryetH t y r nil
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the gr-aPA money shall fetuffi to the disaster-and emefgeney 4uSeetion 2 213. Administiration of the fund.
The difeetof of finartee shall adfainistef the disaster-a-Rd emergency
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shall include i estfaet.t of the P,.,d 1»
SECTION 3. Material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. In printing this
ordinance, the brackets and bracketed and stricken material need not be included.
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SECTION 4. Severability. If any provision of this ordinance, or the application thereof
to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or
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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 severable.
SECTION 5. This ordinance shall take effect upon its approval.
INTRODUCED BY:
COUNCIL MEMBER, UNTY OF HAWAII
Hawaii
Date of Introduction:
Date of 1 st Reading:
Date of 2nd Reading:
Effective Date:
REFERENCE Corm, 297
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