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Meeting: Council — June 3, 2016
Action: Failed at 2"d reading (Draft 3) due to vote count of 0 ayes and 9 noes.
I" rdg.: May 4, 2016 (9 ayes)
Re: Bill 154; Comm. 705 (2014-2016 term): FC -62
COUNTY OF HAWAII
ORDINANCE NO.
STATE OF HAWAII
BILL NO. 154
(DRAFT 3)
AN ORDINANCE TO INITIATE AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE 111, SECTION 3-2
OF THE IIAWAPI COUNTY CHARTER (2014), RELATING TO COUNTY COUNCIL
TERMS.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Article Ill, section 3-2 of the Hawaii County Charter (2014), is
amended to read as follows:
"Section 3-2. Composition and Terms.
There shall be a county council composed of nine members. One member shall be
elected from each of nine districts. The terms of the council members shall be two years
and shall begin at twelve o'clock meridian on the first Monday of December after their
election. [The os�,._...«6eFs shall not exceed four eenseei e t%.. year
terms] No council member shall be eligible to run for re-election as an incumbent after
having served five consecutive full two-year terms Candidates shall be elected in
accordance with the election laws of the state, insofar as applicable."
SECTION 2. Charter material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New
material is underscored. When revising, compiling, or printing these charter provisions
for inclusion in the Charter of the County of Hawaii, the reviser need not include the
brackets, bracketed and stricken material, and underscoring.
SECTION 3. 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 severable.
SECTION 4. Upon adoption of this ordinance, this Council, by appropriate
resolution, shall provide that this amendment be submitted to the electorate of Hawai' i
County for approval in the 2016 general election.
SECTIO)A 5. Upon approval of the charter amendment proposed in this
ordinance by a majority of voters voting on this legislation in the 2016 general election.
as duly certified, this ordinance shall take effect at twelve o'clock meridian on December
5, 2016, and shall apply to the terms of all council members duly elected in the 2016
elections, whether that be in the primary election or general election, and any election
thereafter.
ACOLINCILCED B�'' F,MBER. COUNTY OE HAWAII
Hawaii
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REFERENCE Comm 705.15