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BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII:
Section 1. 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[, . • - .. . • - ' . - . ' ] 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 2. Charter material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken through.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 3. 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 4. 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 5. This amendment shall take effect upon approval by the electorate.