Report Title:

Home Occupation; Counties

Description:

Regulates home occupations.  (HB1443 HD1)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	1443
TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009		H.D. 1
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, the owner of a home occupation may:

(1) Employ up to two non-occupant, non-family member employees;

(2) Receive one courier visit per day, excluding deliveries by the United States Postal Service; and

(3) Service up to five 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.

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

     SECTION 2.  New statutory material is underscored.

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