Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 1391 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to clarify the obligations of owners of private roads by requiring such owners to maintain private roads in good repair:

(1) Pursuant to an agreement; or

A concerned individual testified in support of the bill. The Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii opposed the measure.

Your Committee finds that this bill provides a process for the maintenance of private roads whereby all homeowners who share the use of a private road should also equitably share in its maintenance expense.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1391 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.