HCC §32-22
How the public is told about a hearing
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗The county clerk must put a notice in a local newspaper twice, with at least a week between them, and finish at least a week before the hearing. The notice must say what the district plan is, where to get the full plan, when and where the hearing is, and that people can speak for or against it. It must also explain how to protest and what happens if you don't.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Published notice of hearing
A copy, taken August 21, 2026. The version published by Hawaiʻi County is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
(a) The clerk shall publish a notice of the hearing twice, at least one week apart, in a newspaper of general circulation in the County. Publication shall be completed at least seven days prior to the date of the hearing. (b) The notice shall contain all of the following information: (1) A summary of the resolution of intention to establish the district and the name, address and telephone number of a department or official of the County from which a copy of the resolution of intention can be obtained (alternatively the notice may contain the full text of the resolution). (2) The time and place of the hearing on the establishment of the district. (3) A statement that at the hearing the testimony of all interested persons or taxpayers for or against the establishment of the district, the extent of the district, the financing of specified types of facilities or the special tax will be heard. The notice shall also describe, in summary, the protest procedure, including the respective rights of owners and lessees and the effect of protests against the establishment of the district, the extent of the district, the financing of a specified type of facilities, or a specified special tax, as provided in section 32-27, and the effect of failure to file a written protest as provided in section 32-6. (1994, ord 94-77, sec 3.)32-22
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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