Hawaii House Bill 2050 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 25 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-01-27 - Referred to TRN, JUD, FIN, referral sheet 2
Pending: House Transportation Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Requires the counties to accept the surrender of a private road in cases where there has been an absence of any act of private ownership over the road for five years. Exempts the State and counties from performing any maintenance on a surrendered road and from liability arising from use of the road until the State or county performs maintenance work on the road. Deems a highway, road, alley, street, way, lane, bikeway, bridge, or trail that has been commonly used by residents of a particular area for emergency access purposes or for health and safety reasons to be publicly accessible for those reasons, without regard to actual ownership or responsibility for maintenance.

Private Roads; Repair and Maintenance

Rep. Ryan Yamane [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-01-27	House	Referred to TRN, JUD, FIN, referral sheet 2
2016-01-25	House	Introduced and Pass First Reading.
2016-01-22	House	Pending introduction.

SB2372 (Same As) 2016-04-29 - Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-29-16 11:00AM in conference room 225.

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=2050&year=2016
Text	http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2016/bills/HB2050_.HTM