Report Title:

Burial Cave; Historic Preservation

 

Description:

Clarifies that a burial site may include a cave or lava tube or a portion of a cave or lava tube.  Defines burial cave.

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1662

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.  Section 6E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended as follows:

     1.  By adding a new definition to be appropriately inserted and to read:

     ""Burial cave" means a cave or lava tube, or portion of a cave or lava tube, where sufficient physical or cultural evidence suggests that the cave or lava tube, or portion of the cave or lava tube, was used for or viewed as a burial site."

     2.  By amending the definition of "burial site" to read:

     ""Burial site" means any specific unmarked location, including a cave or lava tube, or portion of a cave or lava tube, where prehistoric or historic human skeletal remains and their associated burial goods are or once were interred, and its immediate surrounding archaeological context, deemed a unique class of historic property and not otherwise included in section 6E-41."

     SECTION 2.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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