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COUNTY OF HAWAII STATE OF HAWAII BILL NO. ?_44 ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 19, OF THE HAWAII COUNTY CODE 1983 (1995 EDITION), BY AMENDING ARTICLE 10, SECT[ON 19-75 RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY TAX EXEMPT[ONS (EXEMPTION, PERSONS WITH IMPAIRED SIGHT OR HEARING AND PERSONS TOTALLY DISABLED). BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAI`1: SECTION I. Chapter 19, Article 10, Section 19-75, Subsections (b) and (d), of the Hawaii County Code 1983 (1995 Edition) is amended to read as follows: "Section 19-75. Exemption, persons with impaired sight or hearing and persons totally disabled. (a) Definitions as used in this chapter: (I) "Blind" means a person whose central visual acuity does not exceed 20/200 in the better eye with correcting lenses, or whose visual acuity is greater than 20/200 but is accompanied by a limitation in the field of vision such that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angle no greater than twenty degrees. (2) "Deaf' means a person whose average loss in the speech frequencies (five hundred to two thousand Hertz) in the better ear is eighty-two decibels, A.S.A., or worse. (3) "Person totally disabled" means a person who is totally and permanently disabled, either physically or mentally, and who except for such total disability would be able to engage in any substantial gainful business or occupation. (b) Any person who is blind or deaf, as defined in subsection (a) of this section, as long as the person's sight or hearing is so impaired, shall be exempt except for the minimum tax trom real property taxes on all real property owned by the person up to, but not exceeding a taxable value of $50,000. The impairment of sight or hearing shall be certified to by a licensed audiologist, ophthalmologist, optometrist or