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AN ORDINANCE TO INITIATE AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE III, SECTION 3-2, OF THE HAWAI‘I COUNTY CHARTER (2022 EDITION), RELATING TO COUNTY COUNCIL TERMS.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I:
SECTION 1. Article III, section 3-2, of the Hawai‘i County Charter (2022 Edition), is amended to read as follows:
“Section 3-2. Composition and Terms.
There shall be a county council composed of nine members. There shall be nine council districts, each of which shall be represented by a resident elected from that district.
The terms of the council members shall be [two] four years and shall begin at twelve o’clock meridian on the first Monday of December after their election. The terms of the council
members shall not exceed [four] three consecutive [two] four-year terms. Candidates shall be elected in accordance with the election laws of the state, insofar as applicable.”
SECTION 2. Any incumbent council member reelected in the 2024 election, either in the first special election or second special election, shall serve a four-year term and may run for
two additional four-year terms, consecutively, regardless of the number of terms served as the incumbent council member.
SECTION 3. Charter material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New material is underscored. When revising, compiling, or printing these charter provisions for inclusion in the
Charter of the County of Hawaiʻi, the reviser need not include the brackets, bracketed and stricken material, and underscoring.
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 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. Upon adoption of this ordinance, the Council, by appropriate resolution, shall provide that this amendment be submitted to the electorate of Hawai‘i County for approval
in the 2024 general election.
SECTION 6. The charter amendment proposed in this ordinance shall take effect upon its approval by a majority of voters voting on this legislation in the 2024 general election, as
duly certified.
INTRODUCED BY:
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COUNCIL MEMBER, COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I
_______________, Hawai‘i
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