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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRES 334 Draft 01 1969-1972RE: MEETING OF: November 3, 1971 ACTION: Filed. OFFICE INFORMATION ONLY F_5 RE: Res. 334 County of Hawaii—State of Hawaii 0 Resolution No. 33.11 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 three cents per gallon by Resolution No. 147 (1957); 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 three cents per gallon, thereby making the aggregate county of Hawaii fuel tax on liquid fuel six cents per gallon, I. - 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 with law, at six cents per gallon, effective June 1, 1971; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that if any provision of this resolution or the application thereof to any person or circumstances 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 the Honorable Ralph W. Kondo, State Director of Taxation. Dated this 24th day of March, 1971. Introduced by: I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing resolution was duly passed on first reading by the County Council, County of Hawaii, at their meeting held March 24 9 19711 by the following Aye and No vote: AYES: Councilmen Carpenter, De Luz, Hisaoka, Yadao and Chairman Matayoshi - 50 NOES: Councilmen Edwards, Souza and Yamada - 3* ABSENT AND EXCUSED: Councilman Greenwell - 1. 'A Uiii TY--CIERK c7 -- COUNTY OF HAWAII Laupahoehoe, Hawaii ROLL CALL VOTE COUNTY COUNCIL AYES NOES A/E County of Hawaii Carpenter Hilo, Hawaii De Luz I hereby certify that the foregoing RESOLUTION was by the vote indicated to Edwards well the right hereof adopted by the COUNCIL of the County of Hawaii on. Green Hisaoka Souza ................................................................................. Yadao ATTEST: Yamada Chr. Matayoshi Tadashi Suzuki Herbert T. Matayoshi Reference: ............................................................... CHAIRMAN & PRESIDING OFFICER COUNTY CLERK M. B. No. 19.� Ce '7 . .........../.................. 4 ..................... RESOLUTION NO. ............ 3.34 ............ ............ MTM 4471