STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1412

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 864

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 864 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COUNTIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to permit the counties to adopt ordinances prohibiting billboards or outdoor advertising devices located in the airspace or waters beyond the boundaries of the county.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Department of the Corporation Counsel for the City and County of Honolulu, Na Leo Pohai, Life of the Land, and the Sierra Club-Hawaii Chapter.

This measure clarifies the counties' ability to prohibit outdoor advertising devices and billboards by extending the regulatory authority of the counties to include the airspace and waters beyond the boundaries of the counties that are visible from any public highway, park, or other public place located within the county.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Modifying the exemption created for outdoor advertising devices carried by a person or vehicle by limiting the vehicle to devices that transport persons or property on a highway; and

(2) Removing provisions that allow the counties to regulate billboards or outdoor advertising devices located in waters beyond the boundaries of the county.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 864, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 864, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,

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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair