Report Title:

Home Occupation; Counties

Description:

Regulates home occupations.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	1443
TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to home occupations.

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

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

     "§46-  Home occupation. (a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, no county ordinance regulating home occupations shall prohibit the owner of a home occupation from:

(1) Employing less than three employees;

(2) Receiving no more than one courier visit per day; and

(3) Servicing less than six customers per day.

(b)  A county may regulate activities of owners of home occupations that are disruptive to the surrounding neighborhood, or are a source of unreasonable noise or noxious fumes.

For the purposes of this section, "home occupation" means a business operated from a home by the owner occupant of a residential dwelling."

     SECTION 2.  New statutory material is underscored.

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

INTRODUCED BY:

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