Standard format for city agency rules

(a) The department of the corporation counsel shall prescribe a uniform format for the preparation and publication of the rules of the executive departments and agencies of the city. The uniform format must provide that each rule published will be accompanied by a reference to the authority pursuant to which the rule has been adopted, the law implemented by the rule, if any, and the effective date of the rule. The uniform format must further provide that, whenever possible, applicable law should be incorporated by reference and not be reprinted in the rule. (b) If a uniform format is no longer prescribed pursuant to subsection (a), the rules of the executive departments and agencies of the city must be prepared and published in the form prescribed in the most recent edition of the Hawaii Administrative Rules Drafting Manual prepared by the State legislative reference bureau; provided that references therein to the Hawaii Revised Statutes will be deemed references to the Revised Ordinances of Honolulu, when appropriate, and other such adjustments will be made as necessary to give the drafting manual a reasonable interpretation when applied to the city. )