Report Title:

Historic Buildings; Photographs

 

Description:

Requires the submission of archival quality photographs of privately owned buildings over fifty years old that are listed or eligible for listing on the state or national register of historic places as a condition of receiving a permit to demolish, construct, or otherwise alter the building.

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

402

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT


 

 

RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that section 6E-10, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which prevents any county building department from issuing a building permit for demolition, construction, or alteration of any privately-owned building over fifty years old, until after the applicant has provided the department of land and natural resources with archival quality back and white photographs of the building, is overly broad in scope, resulting in unnecessary delays in the permitting process.

     The purpose of this Act is to narrow the scope of this section by requiring only those privately-owned buildings over fifty years old that are either listed or eligible for listing on the Hawaii register of historic places or National Register of Historic Places to submit archival quality photographs to the department of land and natural resources.

     SECTION 2.  Section 6E-10, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

     "(b)  In the case of any building over fifty years old[,] that is eligible for listing or is listed on the Hawaii register of historic places or National Register of Historic Places, no demolition, construction, or other alteration of the building shall occur until after the owner has transmitted to the department, at the owner's expense, archival quality black and white photographs of the building."

     SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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