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COUNTY OF HAWAII e TERRITORY OF HAWAII
RESOLUTION NO.
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WHEREAS, the.- provisions of Section 123-301 of the
Revised Laws of Hawaii 1955 enable, empower and authorize
each of the boards of supervisors of.the city and county
of Honolulu and the counties of Maui, Kauai and 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 respective boards of
supervisors :in the manner provided by law, relating to
resolutions involving the expenditure of public money,
and the amount so fixed maybe, 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 board of
supervisors 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, on the 29th, day of May, 1957, a public
hearing concerning the amount of the county fuel tax
to be fixed was ''regularly held by this board after due
notice within the period as aforesaid; 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 one cent per gallon; and
WHEREAS, the board of supervisors of the county of
Hawaii, after considez}glhe varov_arl numerous highway
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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 three cents per gallon,
NOW9 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the board of
supervisors'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
tax commissioner of the Territory of Hawaii, in accordance
with law, at three cents per gallon, effective as of
July 1, 1957.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the county clerk be and
he is hereby instructed and directed to send a copy each
of this resolution to the Honorable Earl W. Fase, Tax
Commissioner of the Territory of Hawaii, and to the
Honorable Kc6m Tai Lee, Treasurer of the Territory of
Hawaii.
Dated at Hilo, Hawaii, this 5th day of June, 1957.
Introduced by:
Supervisor, Representative
District.
Seconded by;
Su visor, Representative
District.
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BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Ayes Noes Ab. Ex
JAMES KEALOHA, Chairman g
THOMAS K. COCK X
HEL ENE , H. HALE g
IKUO HISACKA g
HIROSHI TANAKA :X.
.Wm. THOMPSO N %
RCBERT M. YAMADA ` ; ..X
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution
passed first reading on June 5, 1957, by the Board of
Supervisors, County of Hawaii.
County Clerk
County of Hawaii.
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