Bill Text: HI HB2219 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To The Environment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-07-10 - Act 118, on 07/05/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1219). [HB2219 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2018-HB2219-Introduced.html
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TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2018 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to the environment.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The
legislature finds that the exceptional tree act, Act 105, Session Laws of
Hawaii 1975, recognizes the value of trees for their beauty and ecological
functions and requires each county to establish a county arborist advisory
committee to recommend regulations to protect trees of exceptional
stature. The legislature also finds that
section 58-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, requires one member of the county
arborist advisory committee to be actively employed in the practice of
landscape architecture. The county of
Hawaii currently has only three landscape architects working within the county,
thereby severely limiting the pool of candidates. As a result, the county of Hawaii has not had
a functioning county arborist advisory committee since 2008.
The purpose of this Act is to expand the candidate pool for membership on a county arborist advisory committee by including, in addition to persons actively employed in landscape architecture, certified arborists, horticulturalists with specialization in trees, and persons who have received a master's degree in botany.
SECTION 2. Section 58-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"[[]§58-2[]] County
arborist advisory committees; establishment. Each county of the State shall establish a
county arborist advisory committee, [which] whose members shall
be appointed by the mayor and shall include [the]:
(1) The
county planning director, or the director's designee; [one]
(2) One
member who shall be a person actively employed in the practice of
landscape architecture, a certified arborist, a horticulturist with
specialization in trees, or a person who has received a master's degree in
botany; and [not]
(3) Not less than three other members selected on the basis of active participation in programs of community beautification, or research or organization in the ecological sciences, including ethnobotany, or Hawaiiana."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Exceptional Trees; County Arborist Advisory Committee; Membership Qualifications
Description:
Makes eligible for membership on a county arborist advisory committee certified arborists, horticulturists with specialization in trees, and persons who have received a master's degree in botany.
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