HomeMy WebLinkAboutBIL 177 Draft 01 1998-2000 COUNTY OF HAWAII STATE OF HAWAII
BILL NO. 177
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 2l, HAWAI`I COUNTY CODE
1983 (1995 EDITION), RELATING TO SEWERS.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWA[`I:
SECTION 1. Chapter 2 L, Article 1, General Provisions, Section 21-2
(a)(22) and (24), Hawaii County Code, is amended to read as follows:
"(22) "Sewage works", "sewer system", or "sewer", means all facilities
for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage. None of these shall
include any type of cesspool, including any gang cesspool."
"(24) "Public sewer" means a sewer system controlled by the County."
SECTION 2. Chapter 21, Article 1, General Provisions, Section 21-2,
Hawaii County Code, is amended by adding the following new definitions to be
numbered accordingly, and to read as follows:
) "Gang cesspool" means a cesspool that serves more than one
residence, business, or lot."
SECTION 3. Chapter 21, Article 4, Sewer Service Charges, Section 21-
31, Hawaii County Code, is amended as follows:
"Sewer user charges for residential customers shall be assessed to all lots
accessible to a up blic sewer whether connected or not. User charges for sewer
service to residential customers, which include service for single family
dwellings, duplexes, housing projects, condominiums, townhouses, apartments
and dormitories shall be according to the schedule shown under section 21-36.1.
Unoccupied units will be assessed a monthly maintenance fee equal to the current
monthly sewer user fee."
SECTION 4. Material to be repealed is bracketed. New material is
underscored. In printing this ordinance, the brackets, bracketed material and
underscoring need not be included.
SECTION 5. 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 6. This ordinance shall take effect upon its approval.
INTRODUCED BY:
V
COUN IL EMBER, COUNTY OF HAWA[`I
Hilo, Hawaii
Date of Introduction:
Date of 1 s` Reading:
Date 2°d Reading:
Effective Date:
gEFEREIyCE: Comm. 564