HB2466

Report Title:

Wildfire Management; Fireworks Prohibited Zones

Description:

Allows counties to designate any geographic area receiving an average annual rainfall of less than 10 inches as a fireworks prohibited zone in which no fireworks or consumer fireworks may be used.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2466
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

SECTION 1. Chapter 46, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§46- Wildfire management; fireworks prohibited zone. To promote wildfire management, each county, by enactment of an ordinance, may designate a geographic area within its jurisdiction as a fireworks prohibited zone in which no fireworks or articles pyrotechnic, as those terms are defined in section 132D‑1, may be used. To be designated a fireworks prohibited zone, a geographic area shall have average annual rainfall of less than ten inches. A county may designate more than one fireworks prohibited zone."

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

"§132D‑17 Inconsistent county ordinances, rules. [~~Notwithstanding~~] Except for section 46‑ , notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, no county shall enact ordinances or adopt any rules regulating fireworks or articles pyrotechnic, except as required in this chapter, that is inconsistent with or more restrictive than, the provisions of this chapter. Any ordinances and rules regulating fireworks or articles pyrotechnic that were enacted or adopted by a county before March 31, 1995, except those provisions [~~which~~] that are not inconsistent with, or more 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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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 upon its approval.

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