Report Title:

Fireworks; Counties; Legal Restrictions

Authorizes the counties to enact fireworks laws that are stricter than existing state fireworks laws in chapter 132D, HRS.

A BILL FOR AN ACT

SECTION 1. The purpose of this Act is to allow the various counties to enact more stringent fireworks laws than those currently imposed by state law in chapter 132D, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

SECTION 2. Section 132D-17, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§132D-17 Inconsistent county ordinances, rules. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, no county shall enact ordinances or adopt any rules regulating fireworks, except as required in this chapter, that is inconsistent with or [more] less restrictive than, the provisions of this chapter. Any ordinances and rules regulating fireworks that were enacted or adopted by a county before March 31, 1995, except those provisions [which] that are not inconsistent with, or [more] less restrictive than those of this chapter, are declared void."

SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on August 1, 2006.