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COUNTY OF HAWAII STATE OF HAWAII
BILL NO 3sa
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 21, OF THE HAWAII COUNTY CODE 1983
(1995 EDITION), RELATING TO SEWER SERVICE CHARGES.
BE 1T ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Purpose. Presently, the County Department of Environmental
Management charges its customers based upon the water drawn through it meter. This
procedure unfairly charges customers for water not disposed of in the public sewer system.
This bill allows customers to document accurate readings of discharge into the county sewer
system and allows for customers to be charged only for the amount actually discharged into the
county system.
SECTION 2. Chapter 21, article 4, section 21-29, of the Hawaii County Code 1983
(1995 edition), is amended to read as follows:
Section 21-29. Sewer user charges for nonresidential customers.
Sewer user charges for nonresidential customers, including those connected to
gang cesspools, shall be assessed to all lots accessible to a public sewer whether
connected or not. User charges for sewer service to nonresidential customers, which
include industrial, commercial, agricultural, governmental and miscellaneous services
users, hotels, and service stations shall be based on water volume usage based on water
meter reading and shall be assessed according to the schedule shown under section
21-36.1; provided that water consumed for the purpose of coolers or swimming pools
shall not be included in water consumption totals on which these rates are based. No
sewer charges shall be levied on water used for irrigation or other uses [only when
separate water meters are installed for such purposes and the water drawn through such
meters is not discharged into the sanitary sewage system.] when the water is not
discharged into the sewer svstem and a separate metering system is installed to provide
a method of accounting for the amount of water which is or is not subject to the sewer
use charges, as the case may be. A minimum monthly charge shall be applicable and
shall be equal to the schedule under section 21-36.1. Unoccupied units will be assessed
a monthly maintenance fee equal to the current minimum monthly charge.
SECTION 3. Material to be repealed is bracketed. New material is underscored. In
printing this ordinance, the brackets, bracketed material and underscoring need not be included.
SECTION 4. 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 ordinance shall take effect upon approval.
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CO CIL EMBER, C LINTY OF HAWAII
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