Bill Text: HI SB1336 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Property Access.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-05 - The committee(s) on WTL deleted the measure from the public hearing scheduled on 02-06-19 1:15PM in conference room 229. [SB1336 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2019-SB1336-Introduced.html
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THE SENATE |
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THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to PROPERTY ACCESS.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 7-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§7-1 Building materials, water, etc.; landlords'
titles subject to tenants' use. (a) Where the landlords have obtained, or may hereafter obtain, private,
fee simple ownership and allodial titles to their lands, the land
owners, landlords, and people on each of their lands shall not be deprived
of the right to take firewood, house-timber, aho cord, thatch, or ki leaf, from
the land on which they live, for their own private use, but they shall not have
a right to take such articles to sell for profit. The people shall also have a right to
drinking water, and running water, and the right of way[.] to the
nearest and most easily accessible roadway.
The springs of water, running water, and
roads shall be free to all[,].
The roads shall not be obstructed, gated, or locked up, on all lands
granted in fee simple; provided that this shall not be applicable to wells and
watercourses, which individuals have made for their own use.
(b)
Any ancient tenancy parcel or kuleana, traceable to the Hawaiian Kingdom
government, either by way of royal patent grant or land commission award, shall
not be deprived of easement rights. Each
ancient tenancy parcel shall have a right to a vehicular easement and a utility
easement to the parcel from the nearest and most easily accessible roadway in
the most direct route available; provided that the route of the easement shall
be the least intrusive on the properties crossed by the easement; provided
further that the easement shall follow existing roadways where available.
(c)
Easement rights of ancient tenancy parcels shall be over any type of
privately owned land or land owned by the State, whether it is registered at
the land court or of ancient tenancy.
(d)
A land owner in need of an easement under this section shall not be
required to petition the state civil court system to determine the land owner's
right to an easement. The department of
land and natural resources and board of land and natural resources shall adopt
rules pursuant to chapter 91 specifying procedures for establishing easement
rights pursuant to this section and determining the recommended location and
width of easements. An easement route
shall be determined within six months of the time of request.
(e)
A land owner in need of an easement shall be required to pay for a metes
and bounds survey of the easement route, shall be required to register the
easement with the bureau of conveyances, and shall hold harmless from liability
any land owner whose parcels the easement crosses."
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.
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Report Title:
Ancient Tenancy Parcels; Easement Rights
Description:
Establishes easement rights for land owners of ancient tenancy parcels.
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not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
