HHCA 0206 ANNOTATIONS

The Act of July 10, 1937, c 484, 50 Stat 508, provides in part: "That the legislature of the Territory of Hawaii may create a public corporate authority to engage in slum clearance, or housing undertakings, or both, within such Territory.... The legislature.... may, without regard to any federal acts restricting the disposition of public lands of the Territory, authorize the commissioner of public lands, the Hawaiian homes commissioner, and any other officers of the Territory having power to manage and dispose of its public lands, to grant, convey, or lease to such authority parts of the public domain, and may provide that any of the public domain or other property acquired by such authority may be mortgaged by it as security for its bonds...."

Governor's power to set aside public lands by executive order does not extend to Hawaiian home lands. Att. Gen. Op. 75-3.

Native Hawaiians, Self-Determination, and the Inadequacy of the State Land Trusts. 14 UH L. Rev. 519.

Absent demonstrable intent to restrict government's authority to enforce state and county criminal laws on Hawaiian home lands, section does not preclude enforcement of such laws. 80 H. 168, 907 P.2d 754.