Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 13 - DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES › Subtitle 11 - OCEAN RECREATION AND COASTAL AREAS › Part 1 - SMALL BOAT FACILITIES AND PROVISIONS GENERALLY APPLICABLE TO ALL STATE NAVIGABLE WATERS › Chapter 235 - OFFSHORE MOORING RULES AND AREAS › Subchapter 2 - OFFSHORE MOORING AREAS › Section 13-235-31 - Ke'ehi Lagoon mooring area

Current through June, 2024
(a) The Ke'ehi
					 Lagoon mooring area means the area confined by the boundaries shown for that
					 mooring area on Exhibit "C", dated, July 15, 1990, located at the end of this
					 subchapter. The boundaries are as follows:
Beginning at a point on the water measured by azimuth
						clockwise from True South, 185 degrees for a distance of one hundred five feet
						from the Kalihi Channel Entrance rear range Light; then 154 degrees for a
						distance of three thousand three hundred ninety-four feet; 250 degrees for a
						distance of eight hundred three feet; 334 degrees for a distance of three
						thousand five hundred four feet; 021 degrees for a distance of six hundred
						feet; 080 degrees for a distance of five hundred thirty feet; then on a
						straight line to the point of beginning.
(b) The mooring permit shall contain a
					 statement, signed by the owner, certifying that the owner has been informed
					 that the Ke'ehi Lagoon mooring area lies within the airport traffic area of the
					 Honolulu International Airport, and shall include a covenant to hold harmless
					 the U. S. Government and the State of Hawaii from any liability or
					 inconvenience that may arise from overflight by aircraft.
(c) No person shall anchor or moor a vessel
					 or houseboat within Ke'ehi Lagoon except at a location and in accordance with a
					 mooring permit issued by the department under the provisions of sections
					 13-231-2 and 13-231-17.
(d) No
					 person shall operate, anchor, or moor a vessel, contrivance, or other object in
					 Ke'ehi Lagoon where any part of the vessel, contrivance or other object exceeds
					 or projects beyond a height above the elevations in the height restrictions of
					 structures and improvements as shown on Exhibit "B" dated August 31, 1990,
					 located at the end of this chapter.
(e) No person shall install, maintain or
					 permit the installation or maintenance of any lights or electromagnetic devices
					 on a vessel, contrivance or other object which may interfere with aircraft
					 operating to or from Honolulu International Airport or which may adversely
					 affect the safe and efficient use of Honolulu International Airport.
(f) No person shall sink, or allow to be
					 sunk, any vessel, contrivance or other other object in Ke'ehi Lagoon. If a
					 vessel, contrivance or other object is operated or moored so as to be in danger
					 of wreckage, damaging other property, or sinking, it shall be declared derelict
					 in accordance with chapter
					 200, HRS, and section 13-231-19 shall
					 apply.
(g) No person shall abandon
					 any vessel, contrivance or other object in Ke'ehi Lagoon. Abandoned vessels
					 shall be disposed of pursuant to provisions of chapter
					 200, HRS. Abandoned contrivances or
					 other objects shall be disposed of in accordance with applicable laws and
					 rules.
(h) No person shall anchor
					 or moor a houseboat within Ke'ehi Lagoon, except that a person who owns and is
					 residing aboard a houseboat located within Ke'ehi Lagoon mooring area on
					 February 3, 1992 and who first obtained a permit by May 1, 1992, may apply for
					 and be issued a permit to moor the houseboat at a location designated by the
					 department, subject to the following conditions:
(1) Any structure extending above the main
					 deck shall conform to minimum safety standards used in the marine construction
					 industry; and
(2) The houseboat
					 must be equipped with a U. S. Coast Guard approved type III marine sanitation
					 device, which has the overboard discharge closed and sealed. Compliance with
					 condition (1) shall be accomplished within one hundred twenty days from
					 February 3, 1992, provided that the department may extend the time period for
					 compliance upon acceptance of a plan presented by the owner to accomplish any
					 necessary modifications within a reasonable period of time. Compliance with
					 condition (2) shall be accomplished within thirty days of the date that a
					 sewage pump-out facility is installed and available for use at Ke'ehi small
					 boat harbor. No new applications to anchor or moor a houseboat within Ke'ehi
					 Lagoon shall be accepted after February 3, 1992.