Report Title:

Fireworks; Counties

 

Description:

Allows counties to enact ordinances or adopt rules regulating fireworks that are more restrictive than state law regulating fireworks under chapter 132D, Hawaii Revised Statutes. (HB398 HD1)

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

398

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009

H.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT


 

 

relating to fireworks.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 132D-17, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§132D-17  [Inconsistent county ordinances, rules.] County authority.  Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, [no county shall] counties may enact ordinances or adopt any rules regulating fireworks or articles pyrotechnic, except as required in this chapter, that [is inconsistent with or] are more restrictive than[, the provisions of] provided within this chapter.  Any ordinances and rules regulating fireworks or articles pyrotechnic that were enacted or adopted by a county before March 31, 1995, except those provisions [which] that are [not inconsistent] consistent with[,] or more restrictive than those of this chapter, are declared void."

     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  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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.