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COUNTY OF HAWAII STATE OF HAWAII
BILL NO. 6s
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAP"fER 2, ARTICLE 27, SEC."PION 2-153 OP THE
HAWAII COlJNTY CODE, RELATING TO REVISIONS OF THE COUNTY CODE.
BF, IT ORDAINED BY'fHE COUNCII. OF THE COUNTY OF IIAWAI`I:
S}?C"PION 1. The County Council finds that it would enhance efficiency if the County clerk,
rather than the corporation counsel, prepared supplements to the Hawaii County Code.
~fechnological developments and the improved records management system allow the County
clerk to maintain the Hawaii County Code. Given these developments and the amendments to
the Code made over the years, the County Council also authorizes republication of the Code.
fhe Council also finds that the Code should be amended to use gender neutral terms
when referring to both genders.
SECTION 2. Chapter 2, Article 27, Section 12-153, Hawaii County Code is amended to read as
Ibllows:
(a) As soon as possible after the close of each ~„~'°;~J ug arter, the [ee~tetr
eeunse}J County clerk shall prepare for publication aloose-leaf supplement to the
~#awai+] Hawaii County Code. The supplement shall contain all ordinances of a general
and permanent nature enacted subsequent to the last revision, republication, or
supplement to the [I=Fau~~it] Hawaii County Code.
(b) In preparing the supplement to the [Hawaii] Hawaii County Code or the
republication of a new edition, the ~ee~era~ietreettasel] County clerk shall review all
ordinances to be included and may:
(I) Number and renumber chapters, sections, and parts of sections;
(2) Rearrange sections;
(3) Change reference numbers to agree with renumbered chapters,
divisions, or sections;
(4) Substitute the proper section or chapter numbers for the terms "the
preceding section," "this ordinance," and like terms;
(5) Strike out figures where they arc merely a repetition of written words;
(6) Change capitalisation for the purpose of uniformity;
(7) Correct manifest clerical or typographical errors;
Correct the spelling of I Iawaiian words and names;
(9) Change anv male or female gender term to a term which is neutral in
gender when it is clear that the ordinance is not applicable only to
members of one sex without altering the sense, meaning, or effect of anY
a~t~ and
~ Make such other changes in any ordinance incorporated in the
supplements as shall be necessary to conform the style thereof as near as
may be with that of the last revision of the ~~~awaii~ Hawaii County
Code; provided that the changes shall not alter the sense, meaning or
effect of any ordinance.
fhe matter set forth in the supplements shall be prima facie evidence of the law.
(c) "I'he County clerk shall prepare and publish a June 30, 2005 edition of the Hawaii County
Code. After republication, the Countv clerk and the director of data systems shall ensure that the
Hawaii County Code is posted on the county's website and is updated as soon as possible at the
end of each quarter. Use of the code on the county website, however, is at the sole risk of the
user. 'Che County makes no warranty or representation of any kind reeardina its content and
shall not be held responsible for any unintentional omission, addition, or error in or loss of
service or data; or for anv breakdown, interruption, or delay in service.
SEC"PION 3. Material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New material is
underscored. In printing this ordinance, the brackets, bracketed material and underscoring need
not he 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.
SEC"PION 5. This ordinance shall take effect upon its approval.
IN"IKODUCED BY:
COUNCIL MEM ~R, COUNTY OF HAWAII
Hawaii
Date of Introduction:
Date of 1st Readin
pate of 2nd Rea~ing:
Effective Date:
Gri"._. _ ~'cmm. 177