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December 27, 2021
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TO: Jon Henricks, County Clerk
Office of the County Clerk
FROM: Lee E. Lord, Managing Director
County of Nawai'i
RE: Mayor's COVID-19 Second Amended Emergency Rule No. 19
Transmitting Mayor's COVID-19 Second Amended Emergency Rule No. 19
issued by Mayor Mitchell D. Roth and signed by Managing Director Lee Lord
to the County Clerk, custodian of records.
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County of Hawaii is an Equal Opportunity Provider and Employer.
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Mayor's COVID-19 Second Amended Emergency Rule No. 1
Pursuant to the authority vested in me by Hawaii Revised Statutes ("HRS")
Chapter 127A and due to the public health concerns related to COVID-19, 1 hereby
amend the Mayor's COVID-19 First Amended Emergency Rule No. 19 adopted on
December 1, 2021. This amendment shall have the force and effect of law.
On November 2, 2021, Governor Ige issued Executive Order No. 21-08, which
set statewide limits for social gatherings, restaurants, bars, social establishments, and
gyms. Subsequently, on November 29, 2021, Governor Ige issued an Emergency
Proclamation Related to COVID-19 which relaxed those limits.
Since then, there has been a rapid increase in the number of COVID-19 cases
on Hawaii Island with seven-day average of cases at sixty-six (66) per day and the test
positivity rate at 7.4% as of December 27, 2021. Currently, over 66% of Hawaii Island
residents have been vaccinated. These increased numbers necessitate reinstatement
of more stringent gathering restrictions. This Emergency Rule Amendment is based
upon evidence that COVID-19 continues to endure within this state and county at
an increased rate of infection via travel related cases as well as through community
spread as reported by the State Department of Health and the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention. This Emergency Rule Amendment is also based upon
scientific evidence that reinforces the types of best practices and social policies that
are most effective at mitigating or preventing the transmission of COVID-19. To
date, the number of documented cases of COVID-19 in the State is in excess of
103,773, and there have been at least 1,082 deaths attributed to this disease in the
State.
I, Mitchell D. Roth, Mayor of the County of Hawaii, hereby amend Section D.
Gatherings, of the Mayor's COVID-19 First Amended Emergency Rule No. '19, as
follows:
D. Gatherings
Rules stated herein may be superseded by rules promulgated by the Governor.
County of Hawaii is an Equal Opportunity Provider and Employer.
Mayor's COVID-19 Second Amended Emergency Rule No. 19
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Except as otherwise permitted in this Rule and pursuant to Exhibit 2 (County
parks operations) and Exhibit 5 (Commercial/Business Gatherings - special events
requests), indoor social gatherings of more than ten (10) persons and outdoor social
gatherings of more than one hundred (100) persons are prohibited.
A social gathering is defined as a planned or spontaneous event, assE: bly, or
meeting that brings together multiple people from separate households in a single
space or area, indoors or outdoors, at the same time and in a coordinated fashion.
1. A social gathering includes, but is not limited to, such get-togethers
as a banquet, barbecue, concert, fair, festival, funeral, luau, parade,
party, picnic, or wedding.
2. A social gathering does not include, and this definition does not
apply to:
• Federal, state and county government operations and functions;
• Educational, adult and childcare facilities with adequate and
active supervision and monitoring, enforcement capabilities, and
established emergency response protocols;
• Businesses, operations, and activities operating under Section
A of this Rule;
• Park operations and functions governed by Exhibit 2.
Mayor's COVID-19 First Amended Emergency Rule No. 19 in all other respects
shall remain in full force and effect.
This Second Amended Emergency Rule No. 19 shall take effect immediately and
shall continue through January 28, 2022, unless extended, rescinded, superseded, or
amended by my subsequent order, or as otherwise provided by law.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of
the County of Hawaii to be affixed. Done this 27th day of December, 2021 in Hilo,
Hawaii.
Lee E. Lord, Managing Director
for Mitchell D. Roth, Mayor
County of Hawaii
County of Hawai'i is an Equal Opportunity Provider and Employer.