STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3467

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2604

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 2604, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ACQUISITION OF REAL PROPERTY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to clarify that acceptance by the Territorial Legislature or the Legislature of a dedication of land in the Kakaako Community Development District by a private owner is sufficient to convey title to the State.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from eight individuals.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources and Department of Transportation.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of the Attorney General, Hawaii Community Development Authority, and Chamber of Commerce Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that there is currently a dispute regarding ownership of public rights-of-way in the Kakaako Community Development District.  Lands claimed by a private entity via quit claim deed are otherwise considered to be public roadways; however, the unimproved roadway shoulders are currently being administered as private property.  These rights-of-way and shoulders include but are not limited to portions of Queen, Kawaiahao, and Waimanu Streets, Cummins Street, the attendant unimproved roadway shoulders, and other streets or real estate not yet identified within the Kakaako Community Development District.  This measure seeks to clarify whether past or prospective legislative action regarding the acceptance of dedicated real property in the Kakaako Community Development District is sufficient to have conveyed or to convey title to the State.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2604, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

 

 

 

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair