Bill Text: HI HB2068 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Fireworks; Counties

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-09 - (H) Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting no (0) and none excused (0). [HB2068 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2068-Introduced.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2068

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2010

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to fireworks.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 132D-17, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§132D-17  [Inconsistent county ordinances, rules.] County authority.  Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, [no county shall] the counties may enact ordinances or adopt any rules regulating fireworks or articles pyrotechnic, except as required in this chapter, that [is inconsistent with or] are more restrictive than[, the provisions of] provided within this chapter.  Any ordinances and rules regulating fireworks or articles pyrotechnic that were enacted or adopted by a county before March 31, 1995, except those provisions [which] that are [not inconsistent] consistent with[,] or more restrictive than those of this chapter, are declared void."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

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

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Fireworks; Counties

 

Description:

Allows the counties to enact or adopt more restrictive fireworks ordinances or rules than the state law under fireworks law.

 

 

 

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