Bill Text: HI HB1331 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Public Access to Beaches; Land Acquisition

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB1331 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB1331-Introduced.html

Report Title:

Public Access to Beaches; Land Acquisition

 

 

Description:

Directs the counties to acquire land or negotiate an easement to provide public access to coastal and inland recreational areas at quarter-mile intervals.

 

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1331

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT


 

 

relating to public access.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 115-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§115-2  Acquisition of lands for public rights-of-way and public transit corridors.  When the provisions of section 46-6.5 are not applicable, the various counties shall purchase land or negotiate easements for public rights-of-way to the shorelines, the sea, and inland recreational areas, and for public transit corridors where topography is such that safe transit does not exist[.]; provided that public shoreline access shall be available at intervals of approximately one-quarter of a mile."

     SECTION 2.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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