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BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII:
Section 1. Article XI, Section 11-5, of the Hawai`i County Charter (2018
Edition), is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b) For acceptance of petitions, the clerk shall require that:
(1) The petitions indicate the five members of the committee for that petition by
name and residence address as they appear on the general county register for
the County of Hawai`i.
(2) The petitions indicate the designated representative for the committee and the
address to which all notices for the committee are to be sent.
(3) The petitions be filed on papers of uniform size and style and assembled as
one instrument.
(4) Each elector signing such petitions shall print their name, which shall be
reasonably similar to their name as it appears on the general county register
for the County of Hawai`i, and add their signature[;] and month and day of
their birth date[, and the last four digits of their social security number] on
said petition.
(5) The petition contain a prominent notice stating whether one or more petition
circulators are to be paid. Paid means monetary payment or payment of goods
or services. Pay for petition circulators shall not be based on the number of
signatures collected.
(6) The petition contain the ballot title and the ballot question.
(7) Each page of the completed petition form shall be numbered consecutively."
Section 2. Article XII, Section 12-1.3, of the Hawai`i County Charter (2018
Edition), is amended to read as follows:
"Section 12-1.3. Signatures.
Signers of a recall petition shall print their name, which shall be reasonably similar
to their name as it appears on the general county register for the County of Hawai`i, and
add their signature, residence address, and month and day of their birth date[, and the
last four digits of their social security number] on said petition. To each such petition
paper there shall be attached an affidavit of the circulator thereof, stating the number of
signers to such part of the petition and that each signature appended to the paper was
made in the circulator's presence and is believed to be the genuine signature of the
person whose name it purports to be, and that each signer understood the nature of the
recall petition."
Section 3. Charter material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken through. New
charter material is underscored. When revising, compiling, or printing these charter
provisions for inclusion in the Charter of the County of Hawai`i (2020), the revisor need not
include the brackets, bracketed and stricken material, or underscoring.
Section 4. The revisor of the charter shall renumber charter article, chapter, and
section numbers and any cross references thereto pursuant to amendments approved by the
electorate.
Section 5. Severability. 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 6. This amendment shall take effect upon approval by the electorate.
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