HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2520
TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2014
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to feral birds.

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

     SECTION 1.  Section 322-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§322-1  Removal, prevention.  The department of health and its agents shall examine into [all]:

(1) All nuisances, foul or noxious odors, gases or vapors, water in which mosquito larvae exist, sources of filth, and all causes of sickness or disease, on shore, and in any vessel, which may be known to them or brought to their attention, which in their opinion are dangerous or injurious to health[, and into any];

(2) All odors and filth resulting from the feeding of feral birds; and

(3) Any and all conditions created or existing [which] that cause or tend to cause sickness or disease or to be dangerous or injurious to health,

and shall cause the same to be abated, destroyed, removed, or prevented.

     For purposes of this part, a nuisance shall include[:

(1) Toxic] toxic materials that are used in or by-products of the manufacture or conversion of methamphetamine, and clandestine drug labs that manufacture methamphetamine[; and

(2) Odors and filth resulting from a person feeding feral birds]."

     SECTION 2.  This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun before its effective date.

     SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

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

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Public Health; Nuisance Abatement; Feral Birds; Feeding

Description:

Repeals the requirement that DOH must first find a danger or injury to health before investigating and abating, removing, or preventing odors and filth resulting from a person feeding feral birds.

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