REPORT TITLE:
Hawaiian Homes Commission Act


DESCRIPTION:Allows the DHHL to license infrastructure
improvements to Hawaiian Home Lands to the counties for
operations and maintenance purposes.


 
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THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT, 1920, AS AMENDED.



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

 1      SECTION 1.  Section 220 of the Hawaiian Homes Commission
 
 2 Act, 1920, as amended, is amended by amending subsection (a) to
 
 3 read as follows:
 
 4      "(a)  Subject to subsection (d), the department is
 
 5 authorized directly to undertake and carry on general water and
 
 6 other development projects in respect to Hawaiian home lands and
 
 7 to undertake other activities having to do with the economic and
 
 8 social welfare of the homesteaders, including the authority to
 
 9 derive revenue from the sale, to others than homesteaders, of
 
10 water and other products of such projects or activities, or from
 
11 the enjoyment thereof by others than homesteaders, where such
 
12 sale of projects or enjoyment of projects or activities by others
 
13 does not interfere with the proper performance of the duties of
 
14 the department; provided that roads through or over Hawaiian home
 
15 lands, other than federal-aid highways and roads, shall be
 
16 maintained by the county in which the particular road or roads to
 
17 be maintained are located.
 
18      Each county shall also maintain and repair any storm
 
19 drainage systems, pedestrian ways, water facilities and systems,
 

 
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 1 sidewalks, street lighting, sanitary sewage facilities and
 
 2 systems, traffic signals and other infrastructure improvements
 
 3 constructed in accordance with applicable county standards on
 
 4 Hawaiian home lands.  The department may license such
 
 5 improvements and the land on which they are located to the
 
 6 appropriate county for operations, repair and maintenance
 
 7 purposes."
 
 8      SECTION 2.  New statutory material is underscored.
 
 9      SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
 
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11                           INTRODUCED BY:  _______________________
 

 
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