MCC §14.46.040
When the council can override a protest about sewer or drainage work
Read the official text at library.municode.com ↗This section says the county council can override a protest against a sewer or drainage improvement project if two-thirds of the council votes to do so. It only applies to protests about sewer or storm drainage work, not other parts of a project. Once overruled, the council can move forward with the work.
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The ordinance, as written (Maui County) — Protests—Conditions for overruling
A copy, taken August 21, 2026. The version published by Maui County is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
A protest of the quantum specified in section 14.46.030 may be overruled by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members of the council
insofar as such protest is against a proposed improvement involving only sanitary
sewerage or storm drainage facilities or against the sanitary sewerage and/or storm
drainage portion of a proposed improvement; and if such protest is against a proposed
improvement involving sanitary sewerage and/or storm drainage facilities and other
improvements, it may be so overruled as to the sanitary sewerage and/or storm drainage
portion of such proposed improvement. The council may proceed forthwith notwithstanding
such a protest in the event same is overruled as provided in this section.
(Ord. 801 § 1 (part), 1974: prior code § 25-5.1.3)
Read the official text at library.municode.com ↗as published Nov 21, 2025our copy taken Aug 21, 2026
Published by the County of Maui through Municode.
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