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Meeting:
Action: Public hearings on Resolution m�7a81 on on 7hursdayy�July
July2 ,1981
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County Councilroom at 7 P•
Konawaena School Cafetorium at 7 P.m.
Re: Resolution 127-$1
County of Hawaii—State of Hawaii
Resolution No. X27 81
WHEREAS, the provisions of Section 243-5, Hawaii Revised
Statutes, enable, empower and authorize the Council of the County
of Hawaii to determine the amount of the county fuel tax; and
WHEREAS, it is provided in said section that the amount of
the county fuel tax shall be determined by resolution to be
adopted by the Council in the manner provided by law, relating
to resolutions involving the expenditure of public money, and
the amount so fixed may be, per gallon, one or more cents or a
fraction of a cent or both, or zero; and
WHEREAS, the said section further provides that no such
resolution shall be adopted until the Council shall conduct a
public hearing on the amount of the proposed tax after a notice of
such hearing shall have been published in a newspaper of general
circulation within the county at least twice during a period of
thirty days immediately preceding the date of such hearing; and
WHEREAS, the existing county fuel tax imposed upon the
sale or use of gasoline and other liquid fuel has been and is now
set at five cents per gallon by Resolution No. 129 (1977); and
WHEREAS, the Council after considering the various and
numerous highway needs and improvements to be made within the
County of Hawaii, believes that the county fuel tax should be
increased by an additional two cents per gallon, thereby making
the aggregate County of Hawaii fuel tax on liquid fuel seven
cents per gallon,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the County
of Hawaii that it does hereby fix, determine and set the amount
of the County of Hawaii fuel tax to be levied and collected by
the Department of Taxation of the State of Hawaii, in accordance
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with law, at seven cents per gallon, effective at the earliest
possible date as provided in Section 243-5, HRS.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that if any provisions of this
resolution or the application thereof to any person or circum-
stances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other
provisions or applications of this resolution which can be given
effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this
end the provisions of this resolution are declared to be
severable; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County Clerk be and he is
hereby instructed and directed to send a copy of this resolution
to George Freitas, State Director of Taxation, and Jensen S.L.
Hee, State Director of Finance_
Dated this
day of
COUNTY COUNCIL
County of Hawaii
Hilo, Hawaii
. 1981.
INTRODUCED BY:
Councilman, County of Hawaii
hereby certify that the foregoing RESOLUTION was by the vote indicated to
the right hereof adopted by the COUNCIL of the County of Hawaii on
ATTEST:
COUNTY CLERK
CHAIRMAN & PRESIDING OFFICER
ROLL CALL VOTE
JAYESI NOES I A/E
De Luz, III
Domingo
Fujii
Hale
Kawahara
Lai
Schutte
Reference: C
M.B. No.
RESOLUTION NO.
i2'7 81