Report Title:

Shoreline Certification; Vegetation; Planting

Description:

Prohibits the modification of shorelines through the planting of vegetation.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	3015
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to shorelines.

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

     SECTION 1.  Chapter 205A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part III to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

     "§205A-   Shoreline planting prohibited. (a)  The planting of vegetation or the facilitation or inducement of vegetation growth by human intervention to influence or modify the shoreline shall be prohibited.

(b)  The vegetation growth prohibited in subsection (a) shall not be considered in the determination of shorelines under section 205A-42."

     SECTION 2.  Section 200-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "shoreline" to read as follows:

     ""Shoreline" [means the upper reaches of the wash of the waves, usually evidenced by the edge of vegetation growth or by the upper limit of debris left by the wash of the waves.] has the same meaning as defined in section 205A-1."

     SECTION 3.  Section 205A-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "shoreline" to read as follows:

     ""Shoreline" means the upper reaches of the wash of the waves, other than storm and seismic waves, at high tide during the season of the year in which the highest wash of the waves occurs, usually evidenced by the edge of vegetation growth, or the upper limit of debris left by the wash of the waves[.]; provided that the vegetation is not influenced or modified by human intervention."

     SECTION 4.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 5.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

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