Report Title:

Public Notices; Counties; Publication

 

Description:

Requires the state comptroller to determine the publication for public notices for the State and city and county of Honolulu and the directors of finance to determine the publication for public notices in the remaining counties. (SD1)

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

190

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

S.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO COUNTIES.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 1-28.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

"(b) For purposes of this section[, the]:

(1) The comptroller pursuant to chapter 103D shall determine a publication for [all] the government agencies of the State and the city and county of Honolulu to enable the public to go to [one] a source of publication for published public notice on each island[.] for the State, and on the island of Oahu for the city and county of Honolulu;

(2) The directors of finance for each of the counties of Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui, pursuant to chapter 103D, shall determine a publication for their respective county government agencies to enable the public to go to a source of county-published public notices on each island, and each county shall pay the direct cost of its county-published public notice; and

(3) Nothing in this section shall preclude the comptroller and the county directors of finance from entering into cooperative agreements for the publication of public notices."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval; provided that this Act shall not have any effect on a contract implementing 1-28.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, entered into prior to the effective date.