Report Title:

Landowners' Liability; Commercial Purposes

 

Description:

Clarifies definition of "land" under the landowners' liability law to exempt land etc. open to the public for commercial purposes.

 

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

761

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to landowners' liability.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 520-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "land" to read:

""Land" means land, roads, water, water courses, private ways and buildings, structures, and machinery or equipment when attached to realty, other than lands owned by the government[.] or open to the public for commercial purposes."

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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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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