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BILL NO. 312
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ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 21, ARTICLE 4, OF THE HAWAII
COUNTY CODE 1983 (1995 EDITION), RELATING TO SEWER SERVICE
CHARGES.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAI'L•
SECTION 1. Chapter 21, Article 4, of the Hawai i County Code 1983 (1995
Edition) is amended by amending Section 21-32 to read as follows:
Section 21-32. Billing of charges; payment; late penalty.
(a) The sewer service charge levied pursuant to this chapter shall be collected by the
director of finance or any bank designated by the wastewater division as an agent
for collection. Billings for sewer service charges of nonresidential [aed
°°~,c~mc;,tiul] users shall be processed monthly or bimonthly in accordance with the
department of water supply billing cycle. Billing for single-€aeal}] unit and
[deple*] multi-unit residential [ ~"~ton.~,~] users shall be processed monthly or
bimonthly. [
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(b) Payment shall be [;~~;.:4~] due thirty days after [k~il-keg] date of bi1L [t1-ten
e~erdtee- sit-fee.] In_addition, interest at the rate of one and one-half percentper
month shall be imposed upon the outstanding balance for all accounts that are
f ~ oast due.
(c) Charges For sewer service shall be billed to the [
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the lot, parcel of land, building or premises, [ herein
referred to as the "propertv"1 to which the services are provided. If requested by
the owner, the department will bill a tenant or other individual designated (herein,
referred to as the "designated person's by the owner. Such request shall be in
writing and si ned by all parties involved, includine all propertv owners and the
desi ngnated person. The propertv owners and the deli ngnated person shall be
jointly and severally liable for the entire sewer service charge without further
notice of anv delinguenev to the propertv owners.
(d) [User fees collected from lots that were classified under accessible but under the
revised definition are now classified as not accessible shall be reimbursed for the
amount collected.] Sewer service charges levied shall be a debt due to the county.
If this debt is not paid when due, it shall be deemed delinquent and may be
recovered by the county by a civil action filed against the property owners, or the
designated person, or both. Any jud mg ant against the property owners or
responsible parties shall be filed with the Bureau of Conveyances. As used
herein, "person" means any individual, partnership, co-partnership, firm,
company, limited liability company, corooration, association, joint stock
company, trust estate, government entity, or any other le ag 1 entity, and their legal
representatives, aeents, and successors and assigns.
SECTION 2. Material to be deleted is bracketed. New material is
underscored. In printing this ordinance, the brackets, bracketed material and
underscoring need not be included.
SECTION 3. 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 4. This ordinance shall take effect [span-its-apHreual} on
October 1, 2005.
INTRODUCEDBY• ~i/~ g/~
OUNCIL MEMBER, COUNTY OF HAWAII
Hilo, Hawaii
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