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BILL NO. F
COUNTY OF HAWAII - STACTE OF HAWAII
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ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING THE PROVISIONS FOR IMPROVEMENTS BY
ASSESSMENT.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. In accordance to the provisions of Article
XII, Special Assessment Improvements of the County Charter,
the following shall be the ORDINANCE FOR IMPROVEMENT BY
ASSESSMENT .
ARTICLE 1. General Provisions.
1.1 Definitions. Whenever used in this ordinance:
(a) "Improvement District" means and includes any area
within the County of Hawaii which has been designated by the
Council as an Improvement District for the purposes of this
ordinance.
(b) "Council" means the legislative body of the County
of Hawaii.
(c) "County" means County of Hawaii.
(d) The terms of expressions "Special Improvement,"
"Improvement," the "Making of a Special Improvement," "Make
any Special Improvement" and equivalent expressions, mean and
include any one or more or any combination of any of the
following:
(1) The establishment, opening, extension, widening
or altering of any street, alley or other highway, or sidewalk;
(2) The grading, paving, curbing, macadamizing or
otherwise improving of the whole or any part of any existing
public street, alley, or other highway or sidewalk;
(3) The construction of a storm drainage system;
(4) The construction of any sanitary sewerage system;
(5) The construction of a street lighting system;
(6) The construction of a water system;
(7) The construction and installation of underground
utility facilities and the removal, relocation, replacement or
reconstruction of the utility facilities required to be placed
underground.
(e) "Cost" means the cost, either estimated or actual,
as the case may be of the improvements to be opened, constructed,
or improved in proceedings taken pursuant to this ordinance for
which assessments are to be levied. There may be included
within the definition of "cost" amounts for construction
contingencies, bond discounts, reserve funds, fees of financial,
legal, engineering and surveying consultants.
(f) "Incidentals" mean expenses incurred by the County
in carrying out proceedings pursuant to this ordinance for
preparation of maps, notices, and other documents; posting,
mailing and publication costs; preparation and printing of
bonds, bond registers and transfer books; fees of financial,
legal engineering and surveying consultants; and such other
miscellaneous expenses incurred by the County which relate
directly to the proceedings.
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(g) "Premium" means any of the following:
(1) An amount payable by a property owner at the
time he makes an advance payment of unpaid installments of
his assessment in accordance with the provision of Section 4.7
which amount is in addition to the unpaid principal amount of
his assessment and the interest thereon to the next subsequent
annual date for the payment of installments;
(2) An amount payable to the holder of a bond
issued pursuant to this ordinance which is called by the Director
of Finance for payment before maturity in accordance with the
provisions of Section 5.5, and which is in addition to the
face amount of such bond and the interest thereon payable
to such bondholder;
(3) An amount paid by the purchaser of the bonds
in excess of the par value of the bonds;
(4) Premium under sub-section (1) above may not
exceed five per cent (5%) of the unpaid amount; and under sub-
section (2) above the premium may not exceed five per cent (5%)
of the face amount of the bond.
1.2 Method.
Whenever in the opinion of the Council it is desirable
to make any special improvement, as hereinabove defined, in
any improvement district, such special improvement shall be
made and done under the provisions of this ordinance; and the
cost thereof, including the cost (if not assumed by the county
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in the manner provided by section 2.1) of acquiring, whether
prior to or after the commencement of the proceedings for
such improvements, any new land therefor, shall be assessed
against the land specially benefited, either on a frontage
basis or according to area of the land within an improvement
district or on both an area and frontage basis; and the county
may issue and sell bonds to provide the funds for such improve-
ments, which bonds shall be secured by such assessments as a
lien upon the lands assessed; and for such purpose the Council
may create, define and establish frontage improvements or
improvement districts; all according to the provisions of
this ordinance.
1.3 Sewers, limitations.
For the construction of sanitary sewerage systems the
lands specially benefited by such improvement shall be assessed
according to the area of the lands within an improvement
district at the rate of not more than 4 cents per square foot,
and the balance of the costs shall be borne by the county,
except that, where the construction of any such system is
initiated under sections 3.3 or 3.4, the total cost thereof
shall be assessed against the lands specially benefited.
1.4 Improvements in other areas.
In districts other than the designated improvement
districts as defined in section 1.1, the construction of any
of the improvements provided for by this ordinance may be
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initiated by petition as and in the manner prescribed by
sections 3.3 and 3.4.
1.5 Public land or land exempt from taxation, etc.; cost
otherwise assessable against borne by county.
Whenever any public land, or any land by law exempted
from assessments of the character provided for in this
ordinance, forms part of any improvemrent district or fronts
upon or is situated with relation to any special improvement
or area to be so improved in such manner that such land would,
if privately owned or not exempt from such assessment, be
subject to assessment, the Council shall, nevertheless, without
assessing such public or exempted land for any part of the cost
of such improvements, by general ordinance appropriate and pay
toward such improvements out of general revenues the portion
of the cost thereof which would otherwise be assessable against
the same in lump sum, or, at the election of the Council, in
such equal installments with such interest thereon as the
Council shall determine. In the event, however, any part or
parts of such exempt lands as desc~ ibed in the preceding
sentence, except public lands, may be required for right-of-way
or easement purposes within such improvement districts the
value thereof shall be chargeable to the improvement district,
and upon acquisition the owner shall be compensated therefor
in the following manner: (1) where the value of the part
taken together with any severance damages exceeds the portion
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of the cost of the improvements which would otherwise be
assessable against the exempt land, the county shall pay the
difference to the owner or owners; (2) where the value is
less than the portion of the cost of improvements which would
otherwise be assessable against such exempt lands, the value
of the land shall be deducted therefrom and the county shall
pay the balance of the assessment as provided herein. With
respect to any such proposed improvement where any part of
the cost is thus to be borne by the county, the Council shall
have the same right of approval or protest as though the county
were the private owner of the public or exempted land so involved.
As to such expenditure for public and exempt lands, the county
shall be entitled to be reimbursed out of state revenues by
appropriations to be made from time to time by the legislature
to the extent of fifty per cent of all assessments regularly
apportioned against persons, corporations or entities, which
are part of any improvement district or frontage improvement
and are exempted by law from the payment of such assessments.
The county shall be entitled to be likewise reimbursed for the
full amount of assessments regularly apportioned against
public lands which are a part of any improvement district or
frontage improvement, which public lands are owned in fee
simple by the United States, or by the State, and which are
not set aside for schools maintained by the county, or for
county parks, or for other county purposes or for street areas
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or frontages; provided, that in case any land exempted by law
from assessments as herein provided, other than public land,
or any part thereof, is sold or leased after the establishment
of a frontage improvement or an improvement district, the
grantee in the one case and the lessor in the other, shall
assume the payment of assessments from the date of such sale
or lease in the same manner as if the property had not been
exempted from assessments and as if assessments apportionable
against the property had been paid in installments to such date
of sale or lease; and that all payments received from such
grantee or lessor, as the case may be, shall be paid into the
permanent improvement fund. Nothing in this section shall be
taken to prejudice any rights of the State to reimbursement
from the United States for assessments herein assumed by the
State, but the latter shall be subrogated to the rights of the
county on such assessments so assumed.
ARTICLE 2. Costs.
2.1 Certain costs to be borne by county.
Except as otherwise provided in this ordinance, the county
shall pay out of any funds available for such purposes the
entire cost of engineering, incidentals and inspection, and
in case of a frontage improvement the cost assessable against
the frontage or frontages of any adjoining or cross street or
in case of an area improvement district, the cost of improving
the area common to both streets at the intersection of any
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cross street or one-half of the area opposite the intersection
of any adjoining street, and thirty-three and one-third per
cent of the total cost of general improvements (excluding
engineering, incidentals and inspection) upon or along all
main or general thoroughfares and upon or along all other
streets or highways, except where improvements are initiated
under sections 3.3 or 3.4; provided that in the case of a
main or general thoroughfare, as hereinafter defined, the
county shall assume and pay out of available funds all costs
of acquiring all land necessary for roadway in excess of
sixty feet in width, and all costs of pavement in excess of
twenty feet in width; provided, further, it shall be lawful
for the county to assume and pay out of such available funds
the cost of widening any street or highway in any district where
the costs of construction of the street or highway to be
widened were assessed against the lands benefited by such
construction in the manner provided by this ordinance. Amain
or general thoroughfare within the meaning hereof is any street
or highway as is subjected to more than ordinary traffic and
travel by the general public or which serves as a generally
necessary connecting thoroughfare between substantially
different or naturally separated localities or sections of the
county.
The Council whenever in its judgment the interest of the
county will be best served and to protect the county from
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claims for damages from surface waters, may provide for the
collection and disposition of storm waters by proceeding
independently of any other improvement proceedings, and, in
either event, pay the whole or any part of the cost thereof
out of available funds, or may assess the whole or any part
of the cost thereof according to the benefits arising there-
from and in the manner provided for apportioning assessments
for special improvements. It shall be lawful for the county
to assume and pay out of such available funds all or any part
of the cost of acquiring any new land required for any improve-
ment under the provisions of this ordinance.
ARTICLE 3. Procedures.
3.1 Initial procedure.
The Council shall, by resolution requiring not more than
one reading for its adoption, direct the chief engineer,
department of public works, to investigate and report to the
Council preliminary data concerning the special improvement
proposed to be opened, constructed, or improved, the general
character and extent of any improvement to be proposed,
whether such improvement should be proposed on a frontage or
an area basis, whether any new land will be necessary to be
acquired, and the estimated cost thereof and the proportion
of the cost which should be borne by the county, the materials
recommended to meet the conditions of the improvement the
boundaries of the improvement to be proposed and any sub-
districts or zones therein as to which different portions of
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the cost should be charged, the estimated cost of the improvement,
the portions of the cost to be borne by the county, and the
portions of the cost to be specifically assessed against the
lands specially benefited with the maximum unit of assessment
to be made against the property posed, and to prepare and
furnish all necessary drawings and other data, details, and
specifications for the improvements and any other matters or
details intended to apply thereto. The report, when so furnished
and filed with the Council, shall not be acted upon until one
week has elapsed from the date of the filing of the same. If
the proposed improvement includes the construction or improvement
of a water system or the laying or installation of conduits,
pipes, hydrants, or any appliance for supplying or distributing
a water supply, the chief engineer shall obtain from the
Department of Water Supply preliminary plans and estimates for
such proposed water system, and the engineer shall furnish the
Department of Water Supply with such preliminary plans of the
proposed improvement as will enable the Department of Water
Supply to make its plans and estimates for the proposed water
system. The chief engineer shall incorporate such preliminary
plans and estimates of the Department of Water Supply in his
report to the Council.
Thereafter the Council may, by resolution requiring one
reading for its adoption, propose the making of an improvement
or improvements specifying the streets, storm drainage, sanitary
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sewerage system, water system or street lighting system, or
combination thereof, to be opened, constructed, or improved;
the area, owners, so far as known, and general description
and location of new land to be acquired, if any; the materials
proposed to be used; the proposed method of assessment including
the minimum number of installment payments to be proposed; the
maximum term of assessment bonds to be issued to represent
unpaid installments; the maximum rate of interest to be borne
by said bonds; the premium required to be paid on the advance
payment of installments or the call and redemption of any
bond prior to its maturity; the amount of the reserve fund
either as set forth in the report of the chief engineer or as
otherwise determined by the Council; the general boundaries of
the district or frontage, subdistricts and zones to be assessed;
and the maximum estimated unit of assessment. The Council may
adopt the plans and estimates so furnished by the Department
of water Supply and incorporated in the report of the chief
engineer. If the plans and estimates of the Department of
Water Supply are adopted by the Council, the plans and estimates
shall be referred to and incorporated by reference in such
resolution. The resolution shall refer to and incorporate by
reference such surveys, plans, maps, and other data reported
by the chief engineer as are approved by the Council. The
resolution shall also fix a date of public hearing upon the
proposed improvement, which date shall be not less than
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fifteen days after the first publication of notice thereof
in a newspaper of general circulation in the county.
After the adoption of the resolution, the county clerk
shall cause a notice of the public hearing to be published
twice a week for two successive weeks (four publications in
all) in a newspaper of general circulation in the county,
giving notice, generally, to all owners, lessees, and occupants
of land proposed to be assessed or acquired and to all others
interested in the general details of the proposed improvements
as adopted by the Council and stating the time and place of
public hearing and where the resolution and reports and other
data may be seen and examined prior to the hearings. Like
notices shall be posted conspicuously at least ten days prior
to the hearing approximately every two hundred and fifty feet
along the highway or highways proposed to be opened or
improved. A similar notice of public hearing shall be mailed
to all owners, lessees, and occupants of land proposed to be
assessed at least two weeks prior to the hearing. Said notice
shall contain, in addition to the material contained in the
published and posted notices, a description of the property
of such owner, lessee, or occupant of land set forth in such
manner as to enable such owner, lessee, or occupant to identify
same, together with a statement that the property described on
said notice is proposed to be assessed to pay for a portion of
the cost of the proposed improvements. In case of a storm
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drainage, sanitary sewerage, water or street lighting system
proposed to be constructed or improved independently, like
notices shall be posted conspicuously at various places
within the area or along the frontage to be assessed.
Affidavits of publication both in the newspaper and along the
route of improvement, respectively, shall be filed with the
Council at the hearing.
3.1.1 Report of Chief Engineer.
In preparing the report required by section 3.1, the chief
engineer may consult with the County Director of Finance or
with such financial consultant as has been specially employed
by the Council to assist in the proceedings or who may otherwise
be available to the Council, at the direction of the Council.
Upon the written advice and recommendation of the Director of
Finance or of such a financial consultant, the chief engineer
may include such sums as he deems proper for reserve funds,
bond discount allowances, and construction contingencies in
determining his estimate of the project cost and the amount to
be assessed therefor.
3.2 Protests, objections, suggestions.
Any owner of property proposed to be assessed may at any
time prior to or at the public hearing file in writing, with
the Council, any protest, objection or suggestions as to the
proposed improvement, stating briefly his reason therefor, or
present the same in person orally, at the public hearing. If
fifty-five per cent of the property owners of the total
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frontage or area to be assessed for such improvements, at the
hearing or prior thereto, file with the Council written
protests, duly acknowledged by such owners, against the making
of the improvements or against any part of the plan therefor,
the same shall not be made contrary to the protest. If the
protest is against the making of any improvement, the same
shall not be made, and the proceedings shall not be renewed
within six months from the date of closing the public hearing,
unless each and every owner protesting withdraws his protest.
Any lessee of any property to be assessed under this ordinance, who
by the express terms of his lease must pay the kind of assess-
ments contemplated by this part shall be subrogated to all
the rights of such owner to protest by filing with the Council
prior to or at the hearing a certified copy of his lease,
together with a citation of the book and page of the public
reocrd of the same if it is recorded; provided, that any lessor
of such lessee, or any owner of the property to be assessed,
may, at any time before the closing of the public hearing, make
void the protest or the rights of protest of any lessee of the
property on consideration of filing with the Council a duly
acknowledged waiver of the stipulation in the lease which
required the lessee to pay the special assessment, and a
written undertaking by the lessor or owner to pay the special
assessment to be made under the proposed improvement.
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3.2.1 Waiver of objections.
All objections to any act or proceeding occurring prior
to the time within which such objections are permitted to be
filed in relation to the work, not made in writing and in the
manner and at the time specified, shall be waived if the
notices required by section 3.1 have been actually mailed,
published and posted as required by law.
3.3 Petition of owners.
If the owners of not less than sixty per cent of the
frontage upon any street, alley or highway designated by them,
or of sixty per cent of the area of land designated by them
as a proposed improvement district, file with the Council a
petition duly acknowledged by the owners requesting the
construction of special improvements, together with the surveys,
maps, plans and other preliminary data and estimates mentioned
in section 3.1 in the case of a proceeding initiated by the
Council, the Council shall thereupon proceed thereon in the
same manner as though the plan for such improvements had been
initiated on its own motion; and the cost of the preliminary
surveys, maps and other data, if not in excess of the estimate
therefor stated in the petition, shall be deemed part of the
cost of the improvement; provided, that upon such petition the
Council shall not have the power to abandon the proceedings or
make any change or modification of the plans or the details
or specifications for the proposed improvements without the
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written and duly acknowledged consent of the owners of not
less than sixty per cent of the frontage or area of the land
to be assessed; except that the Council may decline to acquiesce
in or may modify any part of the plan which contemplates the
payment by the county of any part of the cost of acquiring
new land or of any part of the cost of improving any main or
general thoroughfare, and in such event, if the owners of not
less than sixty per cent of the frontage or property to be
assessed acquiesce in writing in the change or modification,
the Council shall be bound to proceed with the plan as so
modified.
3.4 Petition by owners of one hundred per cent of frontage
or area.
If a petition is filed and is acknowledged by the owners
of one hundred per cent of the frontage upon any street, alley,
or highway or of the area of land designated by them as a
proposed improvement district, and by all lessees of any
property to be assessed under this ordinance, who, by the express
terms of the lease, must pay the kind of assessment contemplated
by this ordinance, unless the lessor shall, with the petition,
file a duly acknowledged waiver of the stipulation in the
lease which requires the lessee to pay the special assessments
to be made under the proposed improvement, then the Council
shall proceed in the same manner as though the plan for the
improvement had been initiated on its own motion, excepting
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that it shall be unnecessary for the Council to give, publish,
mail, or post notices of the proposed improvements, as provided
for in section 3.1; and in the case of a petition acknowledged
by the owners of one hundred per cent as aforesaid, section 3.2
shall be inapplicable thereto, any other provision or section
to the contrary notwithstanding; and in the case the owners of
one hundred per cent as aforesaid, in writing, consent to the
amount and apportionment of the proposed assessments for such
improvements, it shall be unnecessary to give the notice or
to hold the hearing specified by section 3.8; and the Council
may immediately proceed to fix the assessment or assessments
in the manner provided by section 4.1.
No such improvement shall be approved by the Council
unless: (1) the assessed valuation for taxation purposes of
the land to be improved is twice the estimated cost of the
proposed improvement, or (2) the Council by resolution finds
the appraised value of such land in accordance with prevailing
standards of appraisal then used by banks for loans thereon
is twice the estimated cost of the proposed improvement and
that such approval is in the public interest.
3.5 Determination by Councilmen.
After the hearing provided in section 3.1, the Council
shall consider any protests, objections or suggestions which
may have been made or filed and whether sufficient valid
protests have been filed to compel it to abandon any part or
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all of the proposed improvement. If the Council still has
jurisdiction to continue it shall then proceed, determine
whether or not the proposed improvement shall be made as
proposed, or made with modifications, and in the latter event
modifications or changes, not substantially reducing the
frontage or area to be assessed, and not increasing the
maximum estimated unit of assessment, or lessening the unit
cost per front foot or square foot may be made without again
giving notice of a hearing as provided in section 3.1; provided,
such modifications or changes shall not materially alter the
general character or plan so advertised; and provided further,
that no modification of or change in the plans and estimates
furnished by the Department of Water Supply shall be made
without the consent of such Department of Water Supply.
If, after such initial or further advertisement and
hearing when no changes are made which will require further
advertisement or hearing, the Council determines to proceed
with the improvements, it shall, by resolution requiring not
more than one reading for its adoption, create, define and
establish the extent of the frontage improvement or the improve-
ment district to be assessed, as the case may be, and define
the kind, extent and general details of the proposed improvements,
describe each parcel of land to be acquired, if any, declare
the part or proportion of the cost of the improvement which
is to be borne by the county as aforesaid, the method of
assessment, and the kinds of materials to be used, and by the
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resolution further direct the chief engineer to prepare a
corrected map of the highway or highways to be improved
showing the abutting lands, or of the improvement district
showing the highways therein to be improved, or the special
improvements to be constructed or improved, as the case may be,
and showing the exact location of the improvements, together
with final details, plans and specifications for the work; all
in such form as will readily permit and encourage genuine
competition between contractors in so far as the materials
specified will permit of such competition; and the same, when
by resolution similarly approved and adopted by the Council,
shall be used as the basis for the calling of bids and awarding
of a contract or contracts for the work as hereinafter provided.
If the proposed improvement includes the construction or
improvement of a water system as aforesaid, the Council shall
by resolution request the Department of Water Supply to furnish
final detail plans and specifications for such water system
for such proposed improvement, including plans and specifications
for adequate and appropriate conduits, pipes, hydrants and
other appurtenances (including reservoirs and booster pumps)
necessary for supplying and distributing the water supply for
such proposed improvement, and such resolution shall also
direct the chief engineer, department of public works, to
furnish the Department of Water Supply with such copies of
the final surveys, maps and plans covering the proposed
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improvements, other than for such water system, as may be
necessary to enable the Department of Water Supply to prepare
the final plans and specifications for such water system.
The Department of Water Supply shall furnish such final plans
and specifications when so requested; provided, that the
Department of Water Supply may refuse to furnish such plans
and specifications where funds for the amount the county is
obliged to pay towards the contract price have not been
included in the budget of the county for such year. Such
final plans and specifications so furnished by the Department
of Water Supply shall be incorporated in the resolution
adopted by the Council and shall be used as the basis for
the calling of bids and awarding of a contract or contracts
for such work.
In case the improvements so determined upon require the
acquisition of any new land therefor, the Council shall acquire
the same before final award of the contract, either by deed,
or other voluntary conveyance from the owners thereof, or it
may, at its option, and in the name of the county cause condemna-
tion proceedings to be brought to acquire the same in like
manner as by law provided, and after the filing of the petition
in such proceedings the final award of the contract may be made.
If the cost of acquiring such land exceeds the estimate therefor,
the Council may provide for the excess cost by general
appropriation. In the event that land has been acquired by
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condemnation under the provisions of Chapter 101, Hawaii
Revised Statutes and in the award made on the condemnation
there has been deducted from the compensation or damages
otherwise payable to the landowner, any amount by reason of
the fact that land of such landowner not sought to be condemned
would be benefited by the construction of improvements proposed
to be made after the condemnation, it shall be unlawful to
make any assessments against such land under this ordinance
without having first credited against the amount for which
land would otherwise have been assessed the amount that has
been deducted in the award made on condemnation for benefits
by reason of the construction of improvements proposed to be
made after condemnation.
3.6 Water system; inspection of work by Department of water
Supply; use of system after completion; costs which Department
of Water Supply may assume.
If any proposed special improvement includes the
construction or improvement of a water system as aforesaid, the
Department of Water Supply shall maintain an inspector over the
work to see that the plans and specifications which it has
furnished have been complied with. After the work has been
completed and accepted, the water system, pipes, conduits,
hydrants and other appurtenances for supplying or distributing
water so installed shall constitute a part of the system of
the Department of Water Supply and shall at all times thereafter
be used, operated and maintained by it as a part of its system.
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If any proposed special improvement includes the construction
or improvement of a water system as aforesaid, the Department of
water Supply may, but such requirement is not mandatory, assume
and pay out of its funds available for such purpose, the cost
of engineering, incidentals and inspection, and not to exceed
thirty-three and one-third per cent of the total cost of the
construction or improvement of such water system.
3.7 Contract, bids, bonds.
All improvements made under the provisions of this ordinance
shall be constructed under contract let to the lowest responsible
and reliable bidder therefor, after public advertisement by the
Council in some newspaper of general circulation in the county
twice a week for not less than two weeks, except as provided
in sections 103-21 to 103-32, and Part III of Chapter 64,
Hawaii Revised Statutes. The Council may either let the work
as an entire contract, or, in its discretion, make one or more
contracts separately for the different kinds of work to be
performed, or for the improvement of different highways or
special improvements or parts of highways or special improvements
to be improved or constructed under one proceeding. No bid
shall be considered unless accompanied by a certified check,
or its equivalent payable to the county, for not less than
five per cent of the amount of the bid, which check, or its
equivalent, shall be forfeited to the county, unless the
successful bidder signs the contract and furnishes an approved
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bond within the time specified by the Council. No bid in
excess of the estimated costs shall be accepted by the Council
without the written and acknowledged approval of the owners
of at least sixty per cent of the frontage or area to be
assessed, as the case may be. The Council shall have the
right to reject any and all bids and in such case to readvertise
for tenders if it deems advisable to do so. No contract shall
be made without a bond to the county for the faithful perform-
ance of such contract in an amount not less than fifty per cent
of the contract price, with at least two sufficient sureties,
each of whom shall be worth not less than the full amount of
bond over and above all property exempt from execution, and
who shall, upon the written demand of the Council or of any
owner of property subject to assessment, be required to justify
thereon on an examination under oath before the Council;
provided that, instead of personal sureties, a duly qualified
surety company may be substituted as provided by law. If upon
such examination, any surety is held insufficient, a new bond
with sufficient surety or sureties shall be filed by the
successful bidder within the time specified and allowed by
the Council, or the contract to him and the deposit shall be
forfeited. Upon the contract being signed and a sufficient
bond furnished as aforesaid, the deposit made with the bid
shall be returned to the contractor. Any other method of
letting contracts shall be illegal and void.
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The Council may, any other provision of the law to the
contrary notwithstanding, let the contract without having the
total amount of the contract price available, and if the comple-
tion of the contract will extend beyond the fiscal year in
which the same is executed it may be let without the Council
appropriating the total amount the county is obliged to pay
towards the contract price. In the latter event, however, the
county must have available and appropriated at the time of
letting the contract, if the same is to be completed during
the next succeeding fiscal year, at least fifty per cent or if
the same by its terms is not to be completed until beyond the
next succeeding fiscal year at least thirty-three and one-third
per cent of the amount the county is obliged to pay toward the
contract price and the balance shall in the first event be a
first charge on the revenues of the county for the next succeeding
fiscal year and in the latter event shall be a first charge on
the revenues of each of the next two succeeding fiscal years
in the amount that the same will be required during such fiscal
years but in an amount of not less than fifty per cent of the
balance at the beginning of the first succeeding fiscal year
and the remainder at the beginning of the second succeeding
fiscal year. The contract shall not be legal unless, before
it is let, the Council by resolution provides for the automatic
appropriation at the beginning of the next succeeding fiscal
year or years of the amounts herein made a first charge on the
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revenues of the county for such fiscal year or years and the
Director of Finance of the county shall make the appropriations
on his books as by the resolution provided.
3.8 Notice of improvement authorized.
The Council shall cause to be prepared by the chief
engineer, department of public works, a corrected map similar
to that required under section 3.1 and a preliminary assessment
roll and description of properties to be assessed showing in
detail the proportionate amount per front foot, and the exterior
boundaries of the lands subject to the assessment, if the
assessment is to be made on such basis, or per square foot,
if the assessment is to be made according to area, proposed to
be assessed against the property in the benefited district or
in the several subdistricts or zones thereof, if any, and a
list of all known owners, lessees and occupants of the land
fronting upon such highway or highways or situate within the
improvement district, and shall thereupon by advertisement in
the same manner as that provided in section 3.1 give notice
of the total amount of the cost of the improvement based upon
the bid of the lowest responsible and reliable bidder, the
maximum share per front foot or per square foot, as the case
may be, proposed to be charged to the benefited district or
subdistricts or zones, if any, and that the corrected map,
preliminary assessment roll and description of properties may
be seen and examined at the office of the chief engineer during
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business hours at any time prior to and including the date
fixed for hearing. In addition to the other material
contained on the notice to be mailed as required by section 3.1
and by this section, each mailed notice shall contain the
amount proposed to be assessed against the property described
therein. The notice shall also fix a date and place when a
public hearing will be had and the Council will sit as a
board of equalization to receive complaints or objections
respecting the total amounts of the proposed several assessments,
which date shall not be less than ten days nor more than three
weeks after the date of the first newspaper publication of the
notice.
ARTICLE 4. Assessments.
4.1 Assessments fixed by ordinance.
After the hearing, the Council shall forthwith proceed to
make such modifications or changes as to them may seem equitable
or just, or shall confirm the first proposed assessment, and
upon reaching a final decision shall by ordinance, fix the
portions of the cost to be assessed against the benefited
properties and against the owners thereof respectively, which
ordinance shall incorporate by reference the assessment roll
as approved by the Council. After the final enactment of
such ordinance the amounts of the several assessments so
listed, advertised and incorporated and not previously objected
to shall be conclusively presumed to be just and equitable and
not in excess of the special benefits accruing or to accrue
by reason of the improvement to the specific property assessed.
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4.2 Notice and collection of assessments.
The Director of Finance shall forthwith post notice of
assessment upon the land assessed, and notify the several
owners, lessees or occupants, respectively, by registered
letter with request for a return receipt, of the several amounts
assessed on the respective properties and of the date when such
assessments are payable. He shall also collect such assessments
and set aside all moneys so collected in a special fund or funds
for the frontage improvement or improvement district, as the
case may be.
4.3 Assessments payable when.
All assessments so made shall be due and payable within
thirty days after the date of the last publication of the
ordinance; provided that any assessments may, at the election
of the owner of the land assessed, be paid in installments
with interest, as hereinafter provided. Failure to pay the
whole of any assessment within the period of thirty days shall
be conclusively considered and held an election on the part of
all persons interested in such assessments, whether under
disability or otherwise, to pay in installments. All persons
so electing to pay in installments shall be conclusively
considered and held to have consented to the improvement and
such election shall be conclusively held and considered as a
waiver of any and all right to question all power or jurisdiction
of the county to make the improvement, the regularity or the
sufficiency of the proceedings, or the validity or correctness
of the assessment.
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4.4 Lien; new assessment.
All assessments made pursuant to this ordinance shall be
a lien against each lot or parcel of land assessed from the
date of the first publication of the ordinance declaring the
assessment until paid and shall have priority over all other
liens except the lien of property taxes and for other public
purposes. The lien of assessments levied pursuant to this
ordinance shall be on a parity with the lien of property taxes
and liens for other public purposes. As between liens of
assessments made pursuant to this ordinance, the earlier lien
shall be superior to the later lien. No delay, mistake,
error, defect, or irregularity in any act or proceeding
authorized by this ordinance shall prejudice or invalidate any
assessment; but the same may be remedied by subsequent or
amended acts or proceedings and, when so remedied, the same
shall take effect as of the date of the original act or
proceeding. If in any court of competent jurisdiction any
assessment made under this ordinance is set aside for irregularity
in the proceedings, the Council may, upon notice as required in
making an original assessment, make a new assessment in
accordance with the provisions of this ordinance.
4.5 Installments payable when.
In case of an election to pay any assessment in installments,
the assessment shall be payable in not less than five nor more
than twenty equal annual installments of principal, and each
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annual installment may in turn be made payable in twelve
equal monthly installments as hereinafter provided. Interest
in all cases shall be paid on the unpaid principal, payable
annually at a rate not exceeding six per cent per annum. The
number of such annual installments and period of payment and
the rate of interest shall be as determined by the Council;
provided, that after the annual installments are determined
and fixed if it appears to be of advantage to the assessee,
the Council may permit the Director of Finance to accept
payments in monthly installments as hereinabove provided.
4.6 Payment in bonds.
The Director of Finance may accept in lieu of cash in
payment of any assessment, installment thereof, interest,
penalty, cost, expense or any portion thereof, bonds of the
improvement district in which the land is situated, whether
such bonds are outstanding or hereafter issued, to a value of
par, plus accrued interest to the date of acceptance of such
bonds by the Director of Finance. Upon the receipt of such
bonds, the Director of Finance shall cancel same and credit
the improvement district with the amount allowed on the bonds.
4.7 Effect of failure to pay installment.
Failure to pay any installment, whether of principal or
interest, when due, shall cause the whole of the unpaid
principal to become due and payable immediately and the whole
amount of unpaid principal and accrued interest shall thereafter
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draw interest at the rate of one per cent per month or fraction
of a month until the day of sale as hereinafter provided; but
at any time prior to the date of sale, the owner may pay the
amount of all delinquent installments with interest thereon
at one per cent per month or fraction of a month, and all
costs and expenses accrued, and shall thereupon be restored
to the right thereafter to pay in installments in the same
manner as if default had not been made. The owner of any
land assessed, not in default as to any installment or payment,
may at any time after the expiration of the first thirty-day
period, pay the entire unpaid principal with interest thereon
to the next subsequent annual date for the payment of the
installments, together with any premium required to be paid
pursuant to the resolution of the Council adopted pursuant to
the provisions of section 3.1.
4.8 Owner of undivided interest.
The owner of any undivided interest in any land may pay
the whole assessment and may have a joint or several right of
action against the other owners of any interest in such land
for their proportionate share of the assessments.
4.9 Sale for default.
In case of default in the payment of any installment of
principal and interest when due, the Director of Finance shall
advertise and sell the property concerning which default is
made for the whole of the unpaid assessment thereon, interest
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and costs. The purchaser of such property shall be permitted
to pay in cash the total amount of the delinquent installment
or installments of principal and interest and penalty, and
the balance in equal annual or monthly installments as originally
provided. Such sale and advertisement shall be made by the
treasurer in the same manner, under the same conditions and
penalties and with the same effect as provided by general law
for sales of real property for default in payment of property
taxes.
4.10 Purchase at sale.
At any sale for default in payment of any assessment as
aforesaid, the Director of Finance may accept, in lieu of cash,
in payment for the land so sold, bonds of such improvement
district whether such bonds are then outstanding or hereafter
issued, to a value of par plus accrued interest to date of
sale. Upon the receipt of such bonds, the Director of Finance
shall cancel same and credit the improvement district with the
amount allowed on the bonds.
4.11 Certificate by Director of Finance.
The Director of Finance shall, on request, give a
certificate in writing to any person making request for same,
showing in the certificate the balance due on any individual
assessment for improvements for principal, with the date of
next installment payment, the number of the installment
payment and the amount to be due for the installment payment
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and particulars of interest and penalty on the next installment
date to be due and owing.
4.12 Sale of land bid in by Director of Finance at sale.
Whenever any land has been bid in by the Director of
Finance at any sale for default of the owner thereof, the
Director of Finance, in making such sale thereof as may by law
be authorized, may sell the same upon the following terms and
conditions:
(a) A down payment at the sale of twenty per cent of
the sale price;
(b) The balance payable in monthly installments of not
less than one and one-third per cent of the total sale price,
plus interest at the rate of five per cent per annum upon all
unpaid balances;
(c) Failure for thirty days to pay any installment due
shall effect an entire forfeiture of the purchaser's right,
title and interest in such land and in any payments previously
made by him on account thereof;
(d) Such building restrictions as the Director of
Finance may prescribe;
(e) Such land when sold shall be subject to real property
taxes.
ARTICLE 5. Financing.
5.1 Improvement bonds authorized.
In the event of an election to pay all or any part of any
such special assessment in installments, the amount required for
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immediate use to pay the cost of the improvement, or the
installments thereof from time to time as they fall due may
be advanced out of any funds available in the general fund
or the permanent improvement fund; provided that as soon as
practicable, the amounts so necessary shall be secured, and
repaid if advances have been made, by the issuance of sufficient
district improvement bonds of the county to raise such
required amount or amounts. Such bonds shall be in such form
as may be prescribed by the Council, shall bear the name of
the benefited or improved district, shall be payable to bearer
in a sufficient period of years to cover the outstanding
installment payments determined upon pursuant to the provisions
of this ordinance, and shall be subject to call but not prior
to the second interest date thereof as hereinafter provided
and at such premium, if any, as may have been provided for in
the resolution of the Council adopted pursuant to section 3.1.
The bonds of each issue shall bear serial numbers, shall be
of such denomination, not exceeding $5,000 each, as may be
determined by the Council, and shall bear interest at the rate
of not more than seven per cent per annum, payable semi-
annually, as may be determined by the Council.
Such bonds shall be executed by the Director of Finance
and issued pursuant to and under the authority and requirements
of resolutions of the Council. The bonds shall be countersigned
by the chairman of the Council and attested by the clerk and
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by the seal of the county. Interest coupons shall bear a
lithographed or engraved facsimile of the signature of the
Director of Finance. The Director of Finance shall preserve
a record of the bonds in a suitable book kept for that purpose.
The bonds shall be payable only out of the moneys collected
on account of assessments made for the improvement for which
they are issued or from the reserve fund established pursuant
to section 5.2.1, in the event that the moneys collected out
of assessments are insufficient to pay the bonds or the
interest thereon as they become due, and the county shall not
otherwise guarantee payment of any bonds issued under the
provisions of this ordinance; provided that interest payments
may be advanced by the Council temporarily out of any moneys
available in the county treasury.
5.2 Special funds for payment of bonds and certain other
expenses.
All moneys collected on account of assessments and
interest for any improvement after the issuance of any bonds
shall be kept by the Director of Finance in a special fund and
applied solely to the payment of interest and principal of
bonds issued for such improvement until such bonds have been
paid. In the event that any surplus remains in any such special
fund after the payment of the bonds chargeable against such fund
or in case of a premium received on the sale of the bonds, it
shall be credited to and become a part of a fund to be known
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as the improvement district revolving fund, the moneys in
which shall be available to make up deficiencies in the
proceeds of bonds sold below par, to cover deficiencies in
interest realized on account of diminishing balances of
installments outstanding, and to advance interest due on
bonds outstanding prior to collection of annual assessments,
and also for the purpose of paying all expenses in connection
with the sale of delinquent improvement district lots and the
prices of such delinquent lots as are bid for ark purchased by
the Director of Finance for the county, and the Director of
Finance may upon such purchase transfer the proper amounts so
bid to the proper special funds for the respective improvement
districts concerned. In the event that moneys in the special
fund prove insufficient at any time to pay the principal and
interest, or the interest only, as the case may be, on bonds
outstanding, moneys shall be transferred from the reserve fund
established pursuant to section 5.2.1, or from the improvement
district revolving fund into such special fund in such amounts
as will enable the Director of Finance to make the payments
of principal or interest, or interest only, as the same becomes
due.
5.2.1 Reserve Fund.
The Council may provide in the resolution adopted pursuant
to section 3.1 that a reserve fund shall be established as
additional security for the payment of principal and interest
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on bonds issued in proceedings taken pursuant to this
ordinance. The reserve fund shall be established from the
proceeds from the sale of bonds in such amount as is designated
by the Council in the aforementioned resolution. Thereafter,
moneys in the reserve fund shall be used in accordance with
the provisions o£ section 5.2. Moneys in the reserve fund
may be used to pay the principal interest or both, in whole
or in part, on the last outstanding maturity or maturities
of the bonds and in such case assessments or such portions
thereof which would otherwise be collected to make such payments
shall be cancelled.
5.2.2 Replenishment of reserve fund.
When moneys are transferred from the reserve fund to the
special fund described in section 5.2, the Council shall
replenish the reserve fund by providing for the levy and
collection of an annual ad valorem assessment upon the lands
assessed in the proceedings. The ad valorem assessment
referred to in this section shall be levied, collected and
enforced by the county in the same time and manner as the
county levies, collects, and enforces property taxes for
general county purposes.
5.3 Payment of principal and interest.
The principal and interest of the bonds shall be payable
at the office of the Director of Finance and may also be made
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payable at the office of any bank or fiduciary company in such
other places as may be determined by the Council. In all cases,
the bonds and coupons shall recite the places of payment. In
case any bonds are made payable elsewhere than in Hilo, Hawaii,
the Director of Finance shall remit the funds necessary to pay
the interest and principal when due, of any such bonds, with
exchange, to the institution so designated, first assuring
himself that such institution is then solvent.
5.4 Use of bonds; sale.
Bonds so issued may be used by the Council at par at the
time of final acceptance of the contract to pay wholly or in
part the contract price of any improvement made as aforesaid,
or, in the event that the bonds are not so used, they shall
then be sold to the highest bidder or bidders therefor, after
public advertisement for tenders for at least once each week
for not less than two successive weeks in a suitable newspaper
of general circulation in the county, and the proceeds thereof
shall be so applied; provided that in the event at an advertised
sale only part of the issue so advertised is bid for, thereafter,
the Council may authorize the Director of Finance, by resolution
requiring one reading for adoption, to sell the whole or any
part of the remainder of such issue at the highest bid so
received to any person at private sale. In the event no
purchaser is found, the county may be the purchaser of any
such bonds, using any funds available and unspent. Bonds sold
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to a purchaser or purchasers other than the county may be
sold for such discount as is acceptable to the Council.
5.5 Payment before maturity.
On and after the second interest due date of any bonds
so issued and annually thereafter, whenever sufficient funds
are in the hands of the Director of Finance, exceeding the next
interest payment on the unpaid balance of any bonds so issued,
the Council may direct the Director of Finance, by resolution,
to call for payment, by advertisement for not less than five
days in some newspaper of general circulation in the county,
such a number of bonds as there are funds to pay. In each case
the bonds to be called for payment shall be those of the
lowest outstanding serial numbers which serial numbers shall
be specified in the advertisement so published. At the
expiration of thirty days from the first publication of such
notice, interest on the bonds so called for payment shall cease;
and the moneys provided for the payment shall be set aside by
the Director of Finance in a special deposit to which fund
only the owners of the bonds shall thereafter look for payment.
'I`he call price of any bond called for payment before maturity
pursuant to this section shall be the principal amount of such
bond, interest at the rate stated on the face of the bond from
the date on which interest on such bond was last paid to and
including the thirtieth day from the first publication of
such notice, together with the applicable premium payable,
if any.
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5.6 Payment at maturity.
All bonds not previously paid shall be paid at maturity
together with interest thereon as the same become due at the
places and in the manner prescribed by this ordinance.
5.7 Bonds not chargeable against general revenues.
No bonds issued under the provisions of this ordinance
shall be considered as county bonds within the meaning of
section 248.2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, nor shall the payment
of the same be a charge against the general revenues of the
county.
ARTICLE 6. Refunding.
6.1 Refunding authorized.
The Council may provide for the refunding of the outstanding
indebtedness of improvement districts located within the county
in the manner hereinafter provided.
6.2 Initiation of refunding.
The owners of real property in any improvement district
whose property represents seventy-five per cent or more of the
outstanding improvement assessments at the time of the filing
of the petition shall, if it is desired that the indebtedness
of the district be refunded, file with the Council a petition,
which petition shall set forth the indebtedness of the district,
that it is desired that the indebtedness be refunded, and the
proposed method of refunding the outstanding indebtedness. The
Council shall thereupon, by resolution requiring not more than
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one reading for its adoption, direct the chief engineer,
department of public works, to investigate and report to the
Council the amount of unpaid assessments and the property
subject to the same in the improvement district, the detail
of any delinquent assessments and of any unpaid penalties,
whether the petitioners own real estate representing seventy-
five per cent or more of the unpaid assessments in the district,
the proposed method of reassessment of the lands subject to
existing assessments, a new assessment roll showing the proposed
new assessments, the cost of the proposed refunding scheme,
and other details which may be necessary to carry into effect
the proposed refunding project. Such report of the chief
engineer shall be filed with the Council. Within seven days
after the filing of the chief engineer's report, the petitioners
shall deposit with the Director of Finance a sum sufficient to
meet the cost of the refunding project as reported by the
chief engineer.
Thereafter the Council shall, by resolution requiring
one reading for its adoption, propose the adoption of the
suggested refunding plan specifying the outstanding indebtedness
of the district, that the owners of land representing not less
than seventy-five per cent of the unpaid improvement assessments
have petitioned that the outstanding indebtedness of the district
be refunded, the proposed refunding plan in detail, and the
proposed method of reassessment, including the minimum number
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of installment payments to be proposed, and the maximum
estimated unit of assessment. The resolution shall refer to
and incorporate by reference the preliminary assessment roll
and such other data reported by the chief engineer as shall be
approved by the Council. The resolution shall also fix the
date of public hearing upon such plan, which date shall not be
less than fifteen days after the first publication of notice
thereof in a newspaper of general circulation in the county.
After the adoption of the resolution, the county clerk shall
cause a notice of the public hearing to be published as provided
in section 3.1, giving notice generally to all owners, lessees
and occupants of the land still under assessment in the improve-
ment district, and to all others interested in the general
detail of the proposed refunding plan, stating the time and
place of the public hearing and where the resolution, preliminary
assessment roll and other data may be seen and examined prior
to the hearing. Like notices shall be posted in three of the
most conspicuous places in the improvement district for which
the outstanding bonds are issued. Affidavits of publication,
both in the newspaper and of the posting, respectively, shall
be filed with the Council at the hearing.
6.3 Protest against refunding.
Any owner of property, the assessments on which to pay
the outstanding indebtedness have not been fully discharged,
may at any time prior to or at the public hearing, file in
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writing with the Council any protest, objection or suggestion
as to the proposed refunding measure, stating briefly the
reason therefor, or may present the same in person orally at
the public hearing. If the owners of real property representing
thirty per cent or more of the outstanding improvement assess-
ments shall at the hearing, or prior thereto, file with the
Council written protests duly acknowledged by such owners
against the proposed refunding project, or against any part of
the plan therefor, the same shall not be made contrary to such
protest. If the protest is against the adoption of any
refunding plan, the same shall not be made, and the proceedings
shall not be renewed within one year from the date of closing
the public hearing, unless each owner protesting shall sooner
withdraw his protest. Any lessee of any property to be assessed
under this ordinance who by the express terms of his lease must
pay the kind of assessments contemplated by this ordinance
shall be subrogated to all the rights of such owner to protest
by filing with the Council prior to or at the hearing a
certified copy of his lease, together with a citation of the
book and page of the public record of the same if it is
recorded; provided, that any lessor of such lessee, or any
owner of property to be assessed, may, at any time before
the closing of the public hearing, make void the protest or
the right of protest of any lessee of the property on consideration
of filing with the Council a duly acknowledged waiver of the
stipulation in the lease which required the lessee to pay the
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special assessment, and a written undertaking by the lessor
or owner to pay the special assessment to be made under the
proposed improvement. The Council shall also at the hearing
sit as a board of equalization to receive complaints or
objections respecting the total amounts of the proposed
assessments.
6.4 Determination by Councilmen.
After the hearing, the Council shall consider any protests
or suggestions which may have been made or filed and whether
sufficient valid protests have been filed to compel it to
abandon the proposed refunding plan. If the Council still has
jurisdiction to continue, it shall then proceed, determine
whether or not the refunding plan shall be adopted as proposed,
or adopted with modifications, and in the latter event the
clerk shall be directed to give notice again of the hearing
as provided in section 6.2. If after such initial and
further advertisement and hearing the Council determines to
proceed with the refunding measure, it shall by ordinance
requiring not more than one reading for its adoption,
promulgate the refunding measure. Should the refunding
project provide for the issuance of new bonds in the improvement
district, the ordinance shall provide for the form of new bonds
to be issued, approve of the assessment roll, and incorporate
the same by reference, which assessment roll as provided in
section 3.8, shall contain only the names of the property owners
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who have not fully paid the assessments originally provided
for the payment of the outstanding improvement bonds and shall
provide for the levying of new assessments in amounts sufficient
to retire the refunding bonds to be issued pursuant to the
terms hereof. After the final enactment of the ordinance,
the amounts of the several assessments so listed, advertised
or incorporated, not previously objected to, shall conclusively
be presumed to be just and equitable and not in excess of the
special benefits accruing or to accrue by reason of the
original improvement project. Upon final passage of the
ordinance as provided above, all assessments therein made
shall be a lien in the same manner and to the same extent as
provided in section 4.4; provided, that in no case shall this
new assessment constitute a lien on property which has been
discharged from the payment of the original assessment.
6.5 Refunding bonds.
Bonds issued for the refunding of the outstanding
indebtedness of any improvement district shall bear the name
of the improvement district for which they are issued, shall
be payable to bearer and shall be in the form and issued and
sold and subject to call and under all the other conditions
and terms as prescribed by sections 5.1 to 5.7, except as
otherwise prescribed in this ordinance.
A lower rate of interest than that authorized in the
original issue of bonds may be prescribed and the refunding
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bonds may be authorized to run for a term not to exceed
fifteen years from the maturity date of the outstanding bonds.
6.6 Petition by all owners.
If the petition is filed and acknowledged by the owners
of land representing one hundred per cent of the unpaid
assessments in any improvement district, and by all lessees
of any property to be assessed, who, by the express terms of
their respective leases must pay the kind of assessments
contemplated by sections 6.1 to 6.8, unless the lessor of
such lease files with the petition a duly acknowledged waiver
of the stipulation in the lease which requires the lessee to
pay such special assessments, and a written undertaking by
the lessor or owner to pay the special assessments to be made
under the proposed refunding plan, then the Council upon the
payment to the Director of Finance of the cost of the
refunding plan, as estimated by the chief engineer, shall
proceed as provided above to have a hearing on the proposed
new method of assessment and the assessment roll; provided that
in case the owners of one hundred per cent as aforesaid,
consent, in writing, to the amount and apportionment of the
proposed assessments under the refunding plan, it shall be
unnecessary to give the notice or to hold any of the hearings
specified above and the Council may immediately proceed to
fix the assessment in the manner provided.
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6.7 Old bonds canceled.
Should the refunding project provide for the retirement
of the outstanding bonds of the improvement district, the
Director of Finance shall stamp the retired bonds "canceled"
and shall keep such canceled bonds in his possession.
6.8 Obligations unimpaired.
Nothing in sections 6.1 to 6.7 contained shall be
construed as giving the Council or any improvement district
authority to impair the obligations of the improvement district
under any outstanding improvement district bonds.
ARTICLE 7. Limitation on Time to Sue.
7.1 Limitation on Time to Sue.
No action or proceeding to review any acts or proceedings
or to question the validity or enjoin the performance of any
act or the issue or payment of any bonds, or the levy or collec-
tion of any assessments authorized by this ordinance, whether
band upon irregularities or jurisdictional defects, or
otherwise, shall be maintained unless begun within thirty
days after performance of the act or the passage of the
resolution or ordinance complained of.
ARTICLE 8. Severability
8.1 Severability.
If any provision of this ordinance or the application
thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such
invalidity shall not affect without the invalid provision or
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application, and to this end the provisions of this ordinance
are declared to be severable.
SECTION 2. Ratification and Validation. The levy of
all special assessments, all outstanding improvement bonds
of the County payable from special assessments, and all acts
and proceedings heretofore had or taken or purportedly had
or taken, by or on behalf of the County under law or under
color of law preliminary to and in the authorization,
execution, sale, issuance, and payment (or any combination
thereof) of all such bonds are hereby validated, ratified,
approved and confirmed, including but not necessarily limited
to the terms, provisions, conditions, and covenants of any
resolution and ordinance appertaining thereto, the redemption
of improvement district bonds before maturity and provisions
therefore, and the use of the proceeds of such assessments
and bonds, notwithstanding any lack of power, authority, or
otherwise, other than constitutional, and not withstanding
any defects and irregularities, other than constitutional, in
such assessments, bonds, acts and proceedings, and in such
authorization, execution, sale, issuance, and payment,
including without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
such acts and proceedings heretofore not been levied nor
purportedly levied and issued nor purportedly issued. Such
outstanding assessments and bonds are and shall be, and such
assessments and bond heretofore not levied nor purportedly
levied and issued nor purportedly issued shall be, after such
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levy or issuance, binding, legal, valid, and enforceable
obligations in accordance with their terms and their
authorizing proceedings, subject to the taking or adoption
of acts are proceedings heretofore not had nor taken, but
required by and in substantial and due compliance with laws
appertaining thereto.
SECTION 3. This Ordinance shall take effect upon its
approval.
INTRODUCED BY:
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nci man, County o awaii
Honokaa, Hawaii
Date of Introduction: October 7, 1970
Date of Adoption: November 5, 1970
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BILL N0. 737
Honokaa, Hawaii
Date of Introductions
Date of Adoptions
October 7, 1970
November 5, 1970
First Readin
AYES NOES E
Car enter X
De Luz X
Edwards X
Greenwell X
Mata oshi X
Souza X
Yadao X
Yamada X
Chr Hisaoka X
9 0 0
Publication Dates October 14, 1970
Second 8 Final Readin
AYES NOES E
Ca enter x
De Luz X
Edwards X
Greenwell x
Mata oshi X
Souza X
Yadao
Yamada x
Chr Hisaoka X
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We do hereby certify that the foregoing BILL was adopted by the County Council
and published as indicated above.
Approved,?^'~~ { -~s~--~, this ~OZ~day of
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Council Chairman
County Clerk
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November 9, 1970