SECTION 1. Purpose and Intent. The purpose of this ordinance is to increase the admission fees for the Honolulu Zoo and delete the sale of the annual family pass. The revenues generated by the fee increase will be used to partially offset the cost of Zoo operations.

    SECTION 2. Section 10-2.1, Revised Ordinances of Honolulu 1990, as amended, is amended to read

" Sec. 10-2.1    Admission fees for the Honolulu Zoo.

[(a)]    The following daily admission fees shall be assessed for the Honolulu Zoo:

(1)    Child [five] three years of age and under: free. Child must be accompanied by a person 18 years old or older.

[(2)    Annual family pass holder as specified in subsection (b): free.]

[(3)](2) Child [six] four to 12 years of age: [one dollar] three dollars per person.

[(4)](3) Resident of Hawaii, 13 years of age and older: [four dollars] six dollars per person.

[(5)](4) Nonresident of Hawaii, 13 years of age and older: [eight dollars] twelve dollars per person.

[(6)](5) Member of the Honolulu Zoological Society: free.

[(7)](6) The director of enterprise services is authorized to set reduced rates for persons participating in structured educational tours, group purchases, and promotional packages and persons with promotional coupons. The director is also authorized to allow entry of any person into the Honolulu Zoo as part of a promotional offer or package made available by the city.

[(b)    An annual family pass may be purchased for twenty-five dollars each. An annual family pass holder is the person or persons named on the pass who is or are entitled to free unlimited admission, during operating hours, to the Honolulu Zoo for the period specified in the pass.]"

SECTION 3. Ordinance material to be repealed is bracketed. New material is underscored. When revising, compiling, or printing this ordinance for inclusion in the Revised Ordinances of Honolulu, the revisor or ordinances need not include the brackets, the bracketed material or the underscoring.

SECTION 4. This ordinance shall take effect on July 1, 2009.

                         INTRODUCED BY:

                         Todd Apo (BR)

                        

                        
DATE OF INTRODUCTION:
                        

March 2, 2009         
Honolulu, Hawaii                     Councilmembers

APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:

Deputy Corporation Counsel

APPROVED this day of , 20____.

MUFI HANNEMANN, Mayor
City and County of Honolulu