STAND. COM. REP. NO. 824-16
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2016
RE: H.B. No. 2049
H.D. 2
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2016
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2049, H.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"
begs leave to report as follows:
(1) Requires the counties to accept the surrender of a private road if there has been no act of private ownership for five years;
(2) Specifies that a private road is surrendered if the State or county initiates condemnation proceedings to acquire the road; and
(3) Exempts the State and counties from maintaining surrendered roads and from liability for lack of maintenance or for maintenance performed prior to assuming ownership.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2049, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Chair |
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