Report Title:

Public Lands; Leases; State Parks

Description:

Specifies permissible activities of groups leasing campsites on state parks or public lands.

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2487
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to public lands.

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

     SECTION 1.  Section 171-43, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§171-43  Lease of campsites or sites for youth athletic [and/or] or educational activities[.], or both.  The board of land and natural resources may directly lease without recourse to public auction to any eleemosynary or religious organization campsites or sites for youth athletic [and/or] or educational activities, including but not limited to fishing, ocean and marine conservation, and forestry, or both, in a state park area or on lands under the control of the department of land and natural resources at nominal consideration.  Where the lease is for campsites, the lease shall provide that the lessee shall permit the public to use the campsites at the rates approved by the board in its rules and regulations.  Except as provided herein, the terms and conditions of sections 171-33, 171-35 and 171-36 shall apply."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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