§1-28.5  Publication of notice.  (a) Notwithstanding any other statute, law, charter provision, ordinance, or ruleto the contrary, whenever a government agency is required to give public noticeor to publish notice, the notice shall be given only as follows:

(1)  For statewide publication:

(A)  In a daily or weekly publication ofstatewide circulation; or

(B)  By publication in separate daily or weeklypublications whose combined circulation is statewide; and

(2)  For county-wide publication, by publication in adaily or weekly publication in the affected county.

Additional supplemental notice may also be giventhrough Hawaii FYI, the State's interactive computer system.

(b)  For purposes of this section, thecomptroller pursuant to chapter 103D shall determine a publication for allgovernment agencies to enable the public to go to one source of publication forpublished public notice on each island.

(c)  Whenever a public notice is published in anewspaper or other publication described in subsection (a), proof of thepublication shall be the affidavit of the printer, publisher, principal clerk,or business manager of the newspaper or other publication or of the designatedagent of the group that published the notice.

(d)  This section shall not apply to noticesrequired by chapters 103D, 103F, and 523A.

(e)  For purposes of this section,"government agency" means each department, board, commission, orofficer of the State or any of its political subdivisions. [L 1998, c 2, §2; amL 1999, c 160, §22; am L 2003, c 74, §1]