Report Title:

Burial Cave; Historic Preservation

Description:

Clarifies that a burial site may include a cave or lava tube.  Defines burial cave.

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2308
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to historic preservation.

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

     SECTION 1.  Section 6E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new definition to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows:

     ""Burial cave" means an entire lava tube or cave where sufficient physical or cultural evidence suggests that the entire cave or lava tube was used for or viewed as a burial site."

     SECTION 2.  Section 6E-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "burial site" to read as follows:

     ""Burial site" means any specific unmarked location, including an entire cave or lava tube, where prehistoric or historic human skeletal remains and their associated burial goods are or once were interred, and its immediate surrounding archaeological context, deemed a unique class of historic property and not otherwise included in section 6E-41."

     SECTION 3.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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