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
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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,
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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.
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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
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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
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RESOLUTION NO. ............ 3.34 ............ ............
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