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Home My WebLink AboutORD 2008-149 2006-2008COUNTY O!F HAWAI`I STATE OF HAWAII I3II.I. NO. 353 (Draft 2) ORDINANCE NO. ®8 149 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 18, OF THE HAWAII COUNTY CODE 1983 (2005 EDITION, AS AMENDED), RELATING TO PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII: SECTION 1. Chapter 18, Article 2, Division 3, Section 18-49, of the Hawaii County Code 1983 (2005 edition, as amended), is amended to read as fiollows: Section 18-49. Schedule of fares. (a) No driver or owner of a taxicab while operating the taxicab within the County shall charge, demand, collect, or receive a fare other than that based on the following schedule, except as provided by this section: (1) Initial meter actuation shall equal $3 and shall entitle customer to one-eighth of a mile or less, or one minute waiting or elapsed time or less. (2) Thereafter, [39] forty cents for each additional one-eighth of a mile or fraction thereof. (3) [T#i+#y] Forty cents for each additional one minute of waiting or elapsed time or fraction thereof. (b) Where a taximeter is designed to calculate fares upon the basis of a combination of mileage traveled and time elapsed, as provided in section 18-44 the rates of fare upon the combination of mileage traveled and time elapsed shall be the same fixed by subsection . (a)~ (c) The foregoing rates or charges shall be subject to the following exceptions and conditions whichever the case may be: (1) Fares are only applicable to the use of the taxicabs when actually occupied by or standing at the direction of the passenger for hire or when occupied by parcels, baggage or property transported for hire; provided that no charges shall be made for the use of a taxicab for hire except as provided herein. (2) A driver, owner, or lessee who owns, operates, cnntrols or dispatches a taxicab may give a discount to handicapped persons, senior citizens, or students. Such discount shall not exceed twenty percent of the meter fare. (3) The driver, owner or lessee of a taxicab may waive the baggage charges prescribed in section 18-52. (d) This section shall not apply when. a taxicab or taxicab company is carrying passengers under aCounty-sponsored public transit program. ,(e1 The schedule of fares may be evaluated on an annual basis. no later than June thirty (30) of each year to make a determination of either proposed increase or decrease to the current taxi fares. SECTION 2. Material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New material.ig underscored. In printing this ordinance, the brackets, bracketed and stricken 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 upon its approval. UCED BY: COUNCIL MEMBER,~CQ~UN~Y~QF I-iA1NAl'I ~na;Hawai'i Date of Introduction: October 8, 2008 Date of 1st Reading: October 8, 2008 Date of 2nd Reading: October 22, 2008 Effective Date: November 5, 2008 REFERENCE: Comm. 1439.1 2 OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK County of Hawaii Kona, Hawaii Introduced By: Dominic Yagong Datelntroduced: October S, 2008 First Reading: October 8, 2008 Published: October 17, 2008 REMARKS: Second Reading: October 22, 2008 To Mayor: October 30, 2008 ;_t ~ • ROLL' CA'LL''VOTE 1 A ~ES IJ~EI~ ABS EX Ford v X Higa L. . :.'X - ,~~~+~n Hoffmann `~ - '~~~~'X Ikeda X Jacobson X Naeole X Pilago X Yagong X Yoshimoto X 8 0 1 0 Returned: November 5, 2008 Effective: _ November 5, 20_08 Published: November. 13, 2008 REMARKS: i %)c? HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing BILL was %rrl;ea.~d above. ~ ROLL CALL VOTE AYES NOES ABS EX Ford X Higa X __ Hoffmann' X Ikeda X Jacobson X Naeole X Pilago X l Yagong X ~ Yoshimoto X i I 5 0 4 ~~ l ~ by the County Council published as AF'Pr:C?'vED AS TO F? ~F:?~ AND LEGALITY: ~~ . DEPUTY CORPORATI OUNSEL COUNTY OF HAWAII ~.,,~ OCT 31 2008 dppw ~.d/Disapproved this ~~ dcry ,~ Nnvervtbrr , ;o_o'g ~i,~.., ,~ A 'OR. CQ , NTY ~F H.A WA!'1 353 (Draft 2) Bill No.: C-1439.1/FC-333 Reference: Ord No.: ®t~ ~'YJ Ordinances Numbered OS-149, OS-150, 08-151, 08-152, & 08-153 I hereby certify that the following Ordinances passed second and final reading at the meeting of the County Council on October 22, 2008, by vote, as listed below: Ordinance 08-149 (Bill 353, Draft 2): An Ordinance Amending Chapter 18, of the Hawaii County Code 1.983 (2005 Edition, as Amended), Relating to Public Transportation. AYES: Council Members Ford, Ikeda, Jacobson, Pilago, and Chair Hoffinann - 5; NOES: None; ABSENT: Council Members Higa, Naeole, Yagong, and Yoshimoto - h; EXCUSED: None. Ordinance 08-150 (Bi11364, Draft 3): An Ordinance Amending Ordinance No. 465 Which Reclassified Lands From Agricultural - I Acre (A-]a) to Neighborhood Commercial- 7,500 Square Feet (CN-7.5) at Kealakekua, South Kona, Hawaii, Covered by Tax Map Key 8-2- 13:F'ortion of 2. AYES: Council Members Ford, Ikeda, Jacobson, Pilago, and Chair Hoffmann - 5; NOES: None; ABSENT: Council Members Higa, Naeole, Yagong, and Yoshimoto-4;, EXCUSED: None. Ordinance 08-151 (Bill 365, Draft 2): An Ordinal~ce Adopting the County of Hawaii North Kohala Community Development Plan. AYES: Council Members Ford, Ikeda, Jacobson, Pilago, Yagong, and Chair Hoffmann - 6; NOES: None; ABSENT: Council Members Higa, Naeole, and Yoshimoto - 3; EXCUSED: None. Ordinance 08-152 (Bill 368): An Ordinance Authorizing the Mayor of the County of Hawaii to Enter Into an Intergovernmental Agreement for a State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund Loan for Wastewater Public Improvement Projects; and Authorizing the Issuance of $1,000,000 General Obligation Bonds of the County of Hawaii for the Purpose of Financing Qualified Wastewater Public Improvements of the County of Hawaii. AYES: Council Members Ford, Ikeda, Jacobson, Naeole, Pilago, Yagong, and Chair Hoffinann - 7; NOES: None; ABSENT: Council Members Higa and Yoshimoto - 2; EXCUSED: None. Ordinance 08-153 (Bi11374): An Ordinance to Amend Ordinance No. 08-78, as Amended, the Operating Budget for the County of Hawaii for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2009. AYES: Council Members Ford, Ikeda, Jacobson, Naeole, Pilago, Yagong, and Chair Hoffmann - 7; NOES: None; ABSENT: Council Members Higa and Yoshimoto - 2; EXCUSED: None. /?, Casey J~ntS'an County Clerk (Hawai`i Tribune-Herald - November 13, 2008) (West Hawaii Today -November 13, 2008) Note: The original Digest/Affidavit is attached to Ordinance OS-149.