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OF HAWAII
BILL NO. 83
(DRAFT 3)
ORDINANCE NO. 95 83
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 19, OF THE HAWAII COUNTY CODE, 1983,
RELATING TO PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTIONS.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Purpose. The purpose of this ordinance is to allow property tax
exemptions for persons with impaired sight or hearing and those totally disabled effective at the
next tax payment date after they have been certified as having this disability. At present, a
person who files for this exemption on December 31, of a given year could receive the benefit in
the July tax bill of the ensuing yeaz, while someone filing on January 1, could not receive the
benefit until July of the following year, which is 18 months later.
SECTION 2. Chapter 19, Section 19-68, Subsection (a), of the Hawaii County Code,
1983, is amended to read as follows:
"Section 19-68. Claims for certain exemptions.
(a) None of the exemptions from taxation granted in sections 19-71, [19-73] 19-74. 19-
76 to 19-78 and 19-89.2 shall be allowed in any case, unless the claimant shall have filed with
the department of finance, on or before December 31 preceding the tax yeaz for which such
exemption is claimed, a claim for exemption in such form as shall be prescribed by the
department.
The exempSion from taxation granted for disabilities in section 19-73 and 19-75 chap be
allowed from the next tax payment date: provided that the claimant shall have filed a claim for
the disability exemption alone with a copv of the physician's certificate of disability with the
department on or before June 30 for the first half payment or December 31 for the and half
p~vment on such form as shall be prescribed by the department "
SECTION 3. Materials to be repealed are bracketed.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 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 provision or application, and to this end, the
provisions of this ordinance are declared to be severable.
SECTION 5. This ordinance shall take effect July 1, 1995.
INTRODUCED BY:
COUNCIL MBER, COUNTY OF HAWAII
Hilo, Hawaii
Date of Introduction: June 20, 1995
Date of 1st Reading: June 20, 1995
Date of 2nd Reading: July 5, 1995
Effective Date: July 1, 1995
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Introduced By:
Date Introduced:
First Reading:
Published:
REMARKS:
Jim Rath
June 20, 1995
June 20, 1995
June 27, 1995
Second Reading: July 5, 1995
To Mayor: July 6, 1995
Returned: July 12. 1995
Effective: July 1, 1995.
Published July 20, 1995
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adopted by the County Council andpublished as
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MA1~COIINTYOF(~IAWAIl Bitt No.: 83 (Draft 3 )
Reference: C-361/FC-88
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