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Meeting: Environmental Management Committee — June 4, 2013
Action: Postponed to call of Chair; never taken up again.
(Note: Also postponed by the Committee on April 8 and 16, 2013
Re. Bill 44; Comm. 181 (2012-2014 term)
COUNTY OF HAWAII
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ORDINANCE NO.
STATE OF HAWAII
BILL NO. 44
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 20, ARTICLE 4, SECTION 20-47 OF THE
HAWAII COUNTY CODE 1983 (2005 EDITION, AS AMENDED), RELATING TO
COLLECTION OF FEES.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Purpose. The purpose of this amendment is to implement new payment
methods for commercial haulers to ensure that payments due are made in a timely manner.
Furthermore, the grace period before which a finance charge is implemented is reduced from
sixty days to thirty days for all overdue collections, not just those overdue collections owed by
commercial haulers.
SECTION 2. Chapter 20, article 4, section 20-47 of the Hawaii County Code
1983 (2005 Edition, as amended) is amended to read as follows:
"Section 20-47. Collection of fees.
(a) All charges shall be collected by the solid waste division of the department.
(b) For Federal or State agencies religious entities, nonprofit organizations, and
all businesses with the exception of commercial haulers, billings shall be
made monthly. Payments are due before the end of the month following the
month in which charges are incurred. A finance charge of one and one-half
percent monthly annual rate of eighteen percent) shall be charged on all
balances which are thirty or more days overdue. In addition to this, access
to County solid waste facilities may be denied until the account is current.
(c) Commercial haulers shall either:
Pay all established refuse disposal fees at the time of depositingrefuse
efuse
into the landfill(s) or
Make payments as provided in subsection (b), but only after posting
collateral in the amount equal to a normal thirty day billing_ period. The
computation of the amount of collateral required shall be determined by
multiplying the number of tons per month by one and one-half times the
per ton solid waste disposal charge. Collateral shall be deposited with
the department of environmental management in the form of cash,
certified check or equivalent security approved by the department."
SECTION 3. Material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New material is
underscored. In printing this ordinance, the brackets, bracketed and stricken material,
and underscoring need not be included.
SECTION 4. 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 5. This ordinance shall take effect one hundred and eighty days after
its approval.
Hawaii
Date of Introduction:
Date of 1 st Reading:
Date of 2nd Reading:
Effective Date:
REFERENCE Cana. 181
INTRODUCED BY:
COUNCIL MEMBER, COUNTY OF HAWAII
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