REPORT TITLE:
Fireworks; Prohibitions


DESCRIPTION:
Prohibits fireworks within 1,000 feet from any animal care
establishment, which includes animal hospitals, animal shelters,
animal kennels, or animal quarantine stations.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                        
THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           796
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO FIREWORKS.
 


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

 1      SECTION 1.  Section 132D-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 amended by adding a new definition to be appropriately inserted
 
 3 and to read as follows:
 
 4      ""Animal care establishment" means any animal hospital,
 
 5 animal shelter, animal kennel, or animal quarantine station."
 
 6      SECTION 2.  Section 132D-5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 7 amended to read as follows:
 
 8      "[[]§132D-5[]]  General prohibitions.  It shall be unlawful
 
 9 for any person without a permit to:
 
10      (1)  Remove or extract the pyrotechnic contents from any
 
11           fireworks;
 
12      (2)  Throw any ignited fireworks from a moving vehicle; or
 
13      (3)  Set off, ignite, discharge, or otherwise cause to
 
14           explode any fireworks:
 
15           (A)  At any time not within the periods for use
 
16                prescribed in section 132D-3, unless permitted
 
17                pursuant to section 132D-10;
 
18           (B)  Within one thousand feet from any operating
 
19                hospital, convalescent home, home for the elderly,
 

 
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 1                or animal [hospital;] care establishment;
 
 2           (C)  In any school building[,] or on any school grounds
 
 3                and yards, without first obtaining authorization
 
 4                from appropriate school officials;
 
 5           (D)  On any highway, alley, street, sidewalk, or other
 
 6                public way; in any park; within fifty feet from a
 
 7                canefield; or within one thousand feet from any
 
 8                building used for public worship during the
 
 9                periods when services are held; except as may be
 
10                permitted pursuant to section 132D-10; and
 
11           (E)  Within five hundred feet from any hotel."
 
12      SECTION 3.  This Act does not affect rights and duties that
 
13 matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were
 
14 begun, before its effective date.
 
15      SECTION 4.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
16 New statutory material is underscored.
 
17      SECTION 5.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
 
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19                           INTRODUCED BY:_________________________