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HI Rev Stat § 199-1.5 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 12. Conservation and Resources|199. Conservation and Resources Enforcement Program|199-1.5 Conservation and resources enforcement special fund; established.

  §199-1.5 Conservation and resources enforcement special fund; established. (a) There is hereby established in the state treasury a special fund known as the conservation and resources enforcement special fund, which shall be administered by the department.  (b) The following shall be deposited into the conservation and resources enforcement special fund:  (1) Grants, awards, donations, gifts, transfers, or moneys derived from public or private sources for the purposes of enforcing the provisions of title 12; chapters 6D, 6E, and 6K; or any rule adopted thereunder;  (2) Fees, reimbursements, administrative charges, and penalties collected for activities related to the enforcement of natural, cultural, and historic resources protection laws and rules, except as otherwise provided by law that provides for deposits into other special funds administered by the department;  (3) Moneys derived from interest, dividends, or other income from the above-mentioned sources;  (4) Revenues generated from section 249-9.7; and  (5) Appropriations by the legislature to the special fund.  (c) The conservation and resources enforcement special fund shall be used for expenditures, including but not limited to:  (1) Training;  (2) Research;  (3) Equipment;  (4) Preparation and dissemination of information to the public;  (5) Data collection and development;  (6) Information technology;  (7) Safety;  (8) Wireless communication;  (9) Management;  (10) Travel;  (11) Equipment rental;  (12) Repairs;  (13) Planning;  (14) Information;  (15) Education;  (16) Operations;  (17) Maintenance functions authorized and deemed necessary by the department;  (18) Funding for consultants or contractual hires related to the enforcement of:  (A) Title 12;  (B) Chapters 6D, 6E, and 6K; or  (C) Any rule adopted thereunder; and  (19) Work performed in cooperation with enforcement authorities of the State, the counties, and the federal government.  (d) The fund shall be held separate and apart from all other moneys, funds, and accounts in the department, except that any moneys received from the federal government or from private contributions shall be deposited and accounted for in accordance with conditions established by the department and agencies or persons from whom the moneys are received. Any balance remaining in the fund at the end of any fiscal year shall be carried forward in the fund for the next fiscal year.  (e) As used in this section, "department" means the department of land and natural resources. [L 2011, c 78, §1; am L 2021, c 50, §3]
HI Rev Stat § 199-2 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 12. Conservation and Resources|199. Conservation and Resources Enforcement Program|199-2 Board of land and natural resources, delegation of authority.

  §199-2 Board of land and natural resources, delegation of authority. The board of land and natural resources may delegate to enforcement officers within the conservation and resources enforcement program, such authority as may be required for enforcement of title 12, chapters 6D, 6E, and 6K, and rules adopted thereunder. [L 1978, c 171, pt of §1; am L 2004, c 142, §9]
HI Rev Stat § 199-3 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 12. Conservation and Resources|199. Conservation and Resources Enforcement Program|199-3 Conservation and resources enforcement officers, duties; other law enforcement officers.

  §199-3 Conservation and resources enforcement officers, duties; other law enforcement officers. (a) The conservation and resources enforcement officers, with respect to all state lands, including public lands, state parks, forest reserves, forests, aquatic life and wildlife areas, Kaho €˜olawe island reserve, and any other lands and waters within the State, shall:  (1) Enforce title 12, chapters 6D, 6E, and 6K, and rules adopted thereunder;  (2) Investigate complaints, gather evidence, conduct investigations, and conduct field observations and inspections as required or assigned;  (3) Cooperate with enforcement authorities of the State, counties, and federal government in development of programs and mutual aid agreements for conservation and resources enforcement activities within the State;  (4) Cooperate with established search and rescue agencies of the counties and the federal government in developing plans and programs and mutual aid agreements for search and rescue activities within the State;  (5) Check and verify all leases, permits, and licenses issued by the department of land and natural resources;  (6) Enforce the laws relating to firearms, ammunition, and dangerous weapons contained in chapter 134;  (7) Enforce the laws in chapter 291E relating to operating a vessel on or in the waters of the State while using intoxicants;  (8) Whether through a specifically designated marine patrol or otherwise, enforce the rules in the areas of boating safety, conservation, and search and rescue relative to the control and management of boating facilities owned or controlled by the State, ocean waters, and navigable streams and any activities thereon or therein, and beaches encumbered with easements in favor of the public, and the rules regulating vessels and their use in the waters of the State; and  (9) Carry out other duties and responsibilities as the board of land and natural resources from time to time may direct.  (b) Every state and county officer charged with the enforcement of laws and ordinances shall enforce and assist in the enforcement of title 12, chapters 6E and 6K, and rules adopted thereunder and in the enforcement of chapters 266 and 267 and of all rules adopted thereunder. [L 1978, c 171, pt of §1; am L 1981, c 85, §112; am L 1987, c 364, §1; am L 1991, c 272, §5; am L 1996, c 296, §2; am L 1997, c 17, §1; am L 2000, c 189, §24; am L 2004, c 142, §10] Note  Chapter 267 referred to in text is repealed.
HI Rev Stat § 199-4 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 12. Conservation and Resources|199. Conservation and Resources Enforcement Program|199-4 Board of land and natural resources, police powers.

  §199-4 Board of land and natural resources, police powers. (a) The board of land and natural resources shall have police powers and may appoint and commission enforcement officers within the conservation and resources enforcement program. Persons appointed and commissioned under this section shall have and may exercise all of the powers and authority of a police officer, including the power of arrest, and in addition to enforcing title 12, chapters 6D, 6E, and 6K, and rules adopted thereunder, may enforce all other state laws and rules, and county ordinances within all lands and waters of the State; provided that such powers shall remain in force and effect only while in actual performance of their duties, which shall include off-duty employment when such employment is for other state departments or agencies. These enforcement officers shall consist of personnel whose primary duty will be the enforcement of title 12, chapters 6D, 6E, and 6K, and the rules adopted thereunder within the areas under the jurisdiction of the department of land and natural resources.  (b) An enforcement officer, upon arresting any person for violation of title 12, chapter 6D, 6E, or 6K, or any rule adopted thereunder, may immediately take the person arrested to a police station or before a district judge, or take the name, address, and the number of the fishing, hunting, or other licenses or permits, if any, of the person, and note the violation of the law or rule by the person, and issue the person a summons or citation, printed in the form described in section 199-5, warning the person to appear and to answer to the charge against the person at a certain place and time within seven days after the arrest. Any person failing to obey a summons issued pursuant to this section shall be subject to section 199-6. [L 1978, c 171, pt of §1; am L 1981, c 226, §1; am L 1982, c 147, §10; gen ch 1985; am L 2004, c 142, §11]
HI Rev Stat § 199-5 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 12. Conservation and Resources|199. Conservation and Resources Enforcement Program|199-5 Summons or citation.

  §199-5 Summons or citation. There shall be a form of summons or citation for use in citing violators of title 12, chapters 6D, 6E, and 6K, and rules adopted thereunder, which do not mandate the physical arrest of the violators. The summons or citation shall be printed in a form commensurate with the form of other summons or citation used in modern methods of arrest and shall be so designed to include all necessary information to make it valid and legal within the laws and rules of the State. The form and content of the summons or citation shall be adopted or prescribed by the district courts.  In every case where a summons or citation is issued, the original of the same shall be given to the violator; provided that the district courts may prescribe the issuance to the violator of a carbon copy of the summons or citation and provide for the disposition of the original and any other copies. Every summons or citation shall be consecutively numbered and each carbon copy shall bear the number of its respective original. [L 1978, c 171, pt of §1; am L 1981, c 85, §113; am L 1997, c 17, §2; am L 2004, c 142, §12]
HI Rev Stat § 199-6 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 12. Conservation and Resources|199. Conservation and Resources Enforcement Program|199-6 Failure to obey a summons.

  §199-6 Failure to obey a summons. Any person who fails to appear at the place and within the time specified in the summons or citation issued by the officers or their agents or subordinates, upon that person's arrest for violation of title 12, chapters 6D, 6E, and 6K, and rules adopted thereunder, shall be guilty of a petty misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $500 or be imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.  If any person fails to comply with a summons or citation issued, or if any person fails or refuses to deposit bail as required and within the time permitted, the officers shall cause a complaint to be entered against the person and secure the issuance of a warrant for the person's arrest.  When a complaint is made to any prosecuting officer of the violation of title 12, chapters 6D, 6E, and 6K, and rules adopted thereunder, the officer who issued the summons or citation shall subscribe to it under oath administered by another official or officials of the department of land and natural resources whose names have been submitted to the prosecuting officer and who have been designated by the chairperson of the board of land and natural resources to administer the same. [L 1978, c 171, pt of §1; am L 1981, c 85, §114; gen ch 1985, 1993; am L 1997, c 17, §3; am L 2004, c 142, §13]
HI Rev Stat § 199-8 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 12. Conservation and Resources|199. Conservation and Resources Enforcement Program|199-8 Inspection; exhibit upon demand; penalty.

  §199-8 Inspection; exhibit upon demand; penalty. (a) Notwithstanding section 199-7, any conservation and resources enforcement officer of the department of land and natural resources upon whom the board of land and natural resources has conferred police powers may, in the performance of the officer's official duties, stop and temporarily detain any person who the officer reasonably believes is, or recently has been, engaged in hunting or fishing. During this brief detention, the officer, upon lawful demand, may inspect any license, permit, stamp, tag, or other documentation required for hunting or the taking of aquatic resources, as well as any game or aquatic life in the person's possession, including the contents of any receptacle or container of any kind that could reasonably be used to carry the regulated game or aquatic life, and any equipment, article, or device capable of taking the game or aquatic life, while reasonably proximate to the respective hunting or fishing area, to determine whether the person is in compliance with any provision of title 12 and any rules adopted thereunder regulating hunting or aquatic life and conservation of wildlife or aquatic resources. Unless otherwise allowable under section 183D-25, upon probable cause, or incident to arrest, the officer shall not inspect the clothing upon the person who is subject to a natural resource inspection related to hunting or fishing, nor shall the officer inspect the contents of any receptacle or container that could not reasonably be used to carry game or aquatic life.  (b) Any inspection shall be conducted within a reasonable distance from the environment in which the hunting or fishing took place and shall not include vehicular inspections beyond a reasonable distance unless upon probable cause or failure to heed a demand to stop when requested to submit to an administrative inspection for title 12 resources or equipment used for the capture or take of wildlife or aquatic resources as used in hunting or fishing. Inspections shall be conducted by any person authorized by the department of land and natural resources to enforce title 12 and any rule adopted thereunder.  (c) For violations of this section, the administrative fines shall be as follows:  (1) For a first violation, a fine of not more than $1,000;  (2) For a second violation within five years of a previous violation, a fine of not more than $2,000; and  (3) For a third or subsequent violation within five years of a previous violation, a fine of not more than $3,000.  (d) For the purposes of this section:  "Fishing" means the taking of any regulated aquatic life, as defined in section 187A-1.  "Game" or "wildlife" includes any animal parts thereof. [L 2021, c 47, §2]
HI Rev Stat § 199D-1 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 12. Conservation and Resources|199D. Civil Natural Resource Violations Act|199D-1 Civil natural resource violations system authorization.

  §199D-1 Civil natural resource violations system authorization. (a) There is established, within the department of land and natural resources, a civil natural resource violations system, whose purpose shall be to process violations of departmental regulations for which administrative penalties have been authorized by law or rules adopted thereunder.  (b) The department shall adopt, amend, and repeal rules, subject to chapter 91, for the purposes of this chapter.  (c) The rules may include, but are not limited to, the following:  (1) Notice of natural resource infraction;  (2) A form of the answer that shall be made pursuant to a notice of natural resource infraction, which answer may be an admission of the infraction, a denial of the infraction, or an admission of the infraction with mitigating circumstances;  (3) The action to be taken after an answer is received or when a person fails to answer the notice of natural resource infraction;  (4) Administrative hearings under this chapter;   (5) The imposition and enforcement of monetary assessments made pursuant to this chapter; and  (6) Means of assuring that the alleged violator who answers the notice of natural resource infraction by an admission of the infraction or an admission of the infraction with mitigating circumstances has knowingly and voluntarily elected to use the civil natural resource violations system and waive the appeal provided for in section 91-14. [L 2004, c 142, pt of §2]
HI Rev Stat § 199D-2 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 12. Conservation and Resources|199D. Civil Natural Resource Violations Act|199D-2 Applicability.

 §199D-2 Applicability. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, all natural resource infractions that the department identifies as subject to administrative penalties may be adjudicated pursuant to this chapter. This chapter may be applied by all of the divisions of the department. [L 2004, c 142, pt of §2]
HI Rev Stat § 200-1 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 12. Conservation and Resources|200. Ocean Recreation and Coastal Areas Programs|200-1 Definitions.

  §200-1 Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:  "Beaches encumbered with easements in favor of the public" means any lands which lie along the shores of the State which are now, or may hereafter be, encumbered by easements granted in favor of the public for bathing, swimming, or other similar or related purposes and for foot passage.  "Board" means the board of land and natural resources.  "Chairperson" means the chairperson of the board of land and natural resources.  "Department" means the department of land and natural resources.  "Ocean waters" means all waters seaward of the shoreline within the jurisdiction of the State.  "Sailing school vessel" means a vessel:  (1) Less than five hundred gross tons, carrying six or more individuals who are sailing school students or sailing school instructors principally equipped for propulsion by sail even if the vessel has an auxiliary means of propulsion;  (2) Owned or leased by a corporation, association, organization, or other duly chartered entity determined under the Internal Revenue Code to be exempt from the federal income tax and operated for the purpose of providing sailing instruction and therapeutic, educational, recreational, vocational, or family counseling services to emotionally disturbed youth or to youth sentenced by the family court to a rehabilitative sailing program and their families; and  (3) That is in compliance with title 46 Code of Federal Regulations part 169.  "Shoreline" means the upper reaches of the wash of the waves, usually evidenced by the edge of vegetation growth or by the upper limit of debris left by the wash of the waves. [L 1991, c 272, pt of §2; am L 1996, c 188, §3; am L 2012, c 27, §1] Note  The amendment made by L 2014, c 218, §8 is not included in this section.
HI Rev Stat § 200-2 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 12. Conservation and Resources|200. Ocean Recreation and Coastal Areas Programs|200-2 Board of land and natural resources, powers and duties.

  §200-2 Board of land and natural resources, powers and duties.  (a) The board shall have the primary responsibility for administering the ocean recreation and coastal areas programs and performing the functions heretofore performed by the department of transportation and the department of public safety in the areas of boating safety, conservation, search and rescue, and security of small boat harbor environs.  (b) The board shall not transfer its jurisdiction, management, or operations of the small boat harbors to any other department or agency or any county in any manner unless expressly provided by law. [L 1991, c 272, pt of §2; am L 1996, c 296, §3; am L 2007, c 270, §2] Cross References  Alien aquatic organisms, see §187A-32(b).
HI Rev Stat § 200-2.5 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 12. Conservation and Resources|200. Ocean Recreation and Coastal Areas Programs|200-2.5 Disposition of state boating facility properties.

  §200-2.5 Disposition of state boating facility properties.  (a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the board may lease fast lands and submerged lands within an existing state boating facility by public auction, a request for proposals, or by direct negotiation pursuant to section 171-59 and chapter 190D, for private development, management, and operation; provided that any lease of fast lands or submerged lands pursuant to a request for proposals shall be subject to section 200-2.6, regardless to which state boating facility the fast or submerged lands are attached.  As used in this section, the term "state boating facility" means a state small boat harbor, launching ramp, offshore mooring, pier, wharf, landing, or any other area under the jurisdiction of the department pursuant to this chapter.  (b) The permissible uses under any lease disposed of under this section shall be consistent with the purpose for which the land was set aside by the governor pursuant to section 171-11. Permissible uses may include any use that will complement or support the ocean-recreation or maritime activities of state boating facilities.  (c) Disposition of public lands of state boating facilities constructed, maintained, and operated in accordance with this chapter shall not exceed a maximum term of sixty-five years.  (d) All revenues due to the State derived from leases of state boating facilities shall be deposited in the boating special fund.  (e) The department shall adopt rules in accordance with chapter 91 to implement this section. [L 2001, c 299, §2; am L 2011, c 197, §4] Note  Requirement for leases. L 2011, c 197, §8.
HI Rev Stat § 200-2.6 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 12. Conservation and Resources|200. Ocean Recreation and Coastal Areas Programs|200-2.6 Ala Wai boat harbor; leases.

  §200-2.6 Ala Wai boat harbor; leases. The fast lands and submerged lands of the Ala Wai boat harbor that may be leased include the following:  (1) All fast lands and submerged lands described in the request for qualifications or request for proposals issued by the division of boating and ocean recreation of the department on November 25, 2008;  (2) The fast land described as a portion of tax map key: (1) 2-3-37-12, composed of approximately 112,580 square feet, presently used for harbor offices and permitted vehicular parking; and  (3) The fast land described as a portion of tax map key: (1) 2-3-37-12, which is a triangular area located Diamond Head of Mole B, presently used for permitted vehicular parking. [L 2011, c 197, §2] Note  Requirement for leases. L 2011, c 197, §8.
HI Rev Stat § 200-3 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 12. Conservation and Resources|200. Ocean Recreation and Coastal Areas Programs|200-3 Ocean recreation and coastal areas programs.

  §200-3 Ocean recreation and coastal areas programs. The board shall assume the following functions of the department of transportation:  (1) Managing and administering the ocean-based recreation and coastal areas programs of the State;  (2) Planning, developing, operating, administering, and maintaining small boat harbors, launching ramps, and other boating facilities and associated aids to navigation throughout the State;  (3) Developing and administering an ocean recreation management plan;  (4) Administering and operating a vessel registration system for the State;  (5) Regulating the commercial use of state waters and marine resources, including operations originating from private marinas;  (6) Regulating boat regattas and other ocean water events;  (7) Administering a marine casualty and investigation program;  (8) Assisting in abating air, water, and noise pollution;  (9) Conducting public education in boating safety;  (10) Administering the boating special fund;  (11) Assisting in controlling shoreline erosion;  (12) Repairing seawalls and other existing coastal protective structures under the jurisdiction of the State; and  (13) Removing nonnatural obstructions and public safety hazards from the shoreline, navigable streams, harbors, channels, and coastal areas of the State. [L 1991, c 272, pt of §2; am L 2012, c 289, §2] Law Journals and Reviews  Wiping Out the Ban on Surfboards at Point Panic. 27 UH L. Rev. 303.
HI Rev Stat § 200-4.5 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 12. Conservation and Resources|200. Ocean Recreation and Coastal Areas Programs|200-4.5 Safety of ocean users; rules.

  §200-4.5 Safety of ocean users; rules. The department shall adopt rules to promote greater safety of ocean users in the State's nearshore waters. The rules shall include but not be limited to the creation of safe zones for free divers and swimmers and stricter enforcement of boating regulations around swim zone buoys. [L 2012, c 195, pt of §2]