STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2388
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2747
Honorable Donna Mercado Kim
President of the Senate
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2014
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committees on Transportation and International Affairs, Water and Land, and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2747 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SUBDIVISION DOCUMENTS,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Department of Transportation, Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, and Department of Land and Natural Resources to submit to the counties certain information on parcels located within a subdivision.
Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation, Department of Land and Natural Resources, Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, County of Hawaii Department of Finance, County of Maui Department of Finance, and one individual.
Your Committees find that section 264-43, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which exempts the Department of Transportation from county subdivision ordinances in acquiring, subdividing, consolidating, maintaining, and administering the state highway system, poses problems for counties. For example, section 3.48.010(F) of the Maui County Code provides in pertinent part: "The director [of finance] shall provide for the County maps drawn to appropriate scale, showing all parcels, blocks, lots, or other divisions of land based upon ownership, and their areas or dimensions, numbered or otherwise designated in a systematic manner for convenience of identification, valuation, and assessment." The exemption makes it difficult for Maui County to maintain accurate records of subdivision parcel ownership, since the Department of Transportation is not required to furnish any information to Maui County about parcels that may have been transferred by the Department to private owners or vice versa.
The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and the Department of Land and Natural Resources pose similar problems as the Department of Transportation to the counties in their respective land transactions in subdivisions.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and International Affairs, Water and Land, and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2747 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation and International Affairs, Water and Land, and Hawaiian Affairs,
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____________________________ MALAMA SOLOMON, Chair |
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____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair |
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____________________________ MAILE S.L. SHIMABUKURO, Chair |