Report Title:

Diamond Head State Park Monument

Description:

Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to stop its current practice of imposing admission or entrance fees to Diamond Head State Monument. Prohibits the Board of Land and Natural Resources from charging admission or entrance fees to Diamond Head State Monument.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

412

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO DIAMOND HEAD STATE MONUMENT.

 

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

SECTION 1. The practice of imposing admission or entrance fees to Diamond Head State Monument is tantamount to a tax on the citizens of this state. The purpose of this bill is to direct the Department of Land and Natural Resources, as caretakers of that park, to discontinue the practice of imposing admission or entrance fees.

SECTION 2. Section 6E-32, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:

"[(c)] The Diamond Head State Monument Plan, adopted by the board of land and natural resources in November of 1979, shall serve as the official document setting forth the future direction of the Diamond Head State Monument.

The board of land and natural resources may amend the monument plan from time to time with the review and recommendations of the Diamond Head citizen advisory committee, organized in October of 1977. The board shall not, however, direct the imposition of admission or entrance fees to Diamond Head State Monument."

SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored.

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

 

INTRODUCED BY:

 

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