HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2299
THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2022
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY.

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

SECTION 1. Section 712-1271, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (1) to read as follows:

"(1) Whenever there is reason to believe that a nuisance as defined in this chapter is in existence, kept, or maintained in any county, the attorney general of the State or the prosecutor or prosecuting attorney of the respective [counties] county shall, or any citizen of the State residing within [such] the county may in the citizen's own name, or any organization, including, but not limited to a tenant organization within [such] the county may in the organization's own name, maintain a suit to abate and prevent the nuisance and to perpetually enjoin the person or persons causing, maintaining, aiding, abetting, or permitting the nuisance, or the owner, lessee, or agent of the building, premises, or place in or upon which the nuisance exists from directly or indirectly causing, maintaining, aiding, abetting, or permitting the nuisance."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

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

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Prosecuting Attorney; Nuisances; Abatement; Counties; Suits; Penal Code

Description:

Makes technical amendments to nuisance abatement law.

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