Honolulu City Council is the legislature of the City and County of Honolulu, the capital and largest city in Hawai'i, the fiftieth state in the United States. The City and County of Honolulu is a municipal corporation that manages government aspects traditionally exercised by both municipalities and counties in other states. Each of the nine members of its City Council is elected to a four-year term and can serve no more than two consecutive terms. Council members are elected by voters in nine administrative districts that, since 1991, are reapportioned every ten years. Like the Honolulu mayor, members of the City Council are elected via nonpartisan elections. Enacted in 1973, the City and County Charter establishes the council's legislative power and responsibility for Honolulu County, including its budget, public safety, zoning and municipal development, and other governmental affairs. History Honolulu's first legislative body was the Board of Supervisors of Oʻahu County, established by the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaiʻi via the County Act of 1905. The mayor-council system of municipal government was created when the consolidated city-county of Honolulu was established in the city charter adopted by the 1907 territorial legislature. Unlike the current nine-member city council, the original board included seven elected at-large supervisors led by the Mayor of Honolulu. The Board of Supervisors was renamed the Honolulu City Council in 1955. In 1959, the same year in which Hawaiʻi became a U.S. state, the city and county adopted a new charter that reapportioned three seats of the council from at-large to specific rural districts. Changes to the charter in 1973 required all council districts to elect its council members, and set rules for electing the council president and filling vacancies. A 1992 charter amendment limited council members to no more than two consecutive terms, and required council seats to be nonpartisan. It also established the rule of "decennial reapportionment," which requires the council to appoint a commission to review and reapportion council districts every ten years. Another charter amendment, adopted in 1998, staggered council member terms, with four of the nine members elected in one election, and the remaining five in the next. Beginning in 2002, an appointed city auditor became responsible for city government accountability. Composition The City Council has nine members, each of whom was elected by one of nine council districts that represent the City and County of Honolulu and encompass the entire Island