Report Title:

Transportation; Airline Bonuses for Increased Flights

Description:

Allows the director of transportation to adopt rules to pay bonuses to airlines that increase the number of flights into and out of any county other than Honolulu. Provides for calculation based on number of flights in a given month for each county as compared to flights made during January, 2003.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

840

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to aeronautics.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 261-12, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"(a) Powers to adopt. The director of transportation may perform such acts, issue and amend such orders, adopt such reasonable general or special rules and procedures, and establish such minimum standards, consistent with this chapter, as the director deems necessary to carry out this chapter and to perform the duties assigned thereunder, all commensurate with and for the purpose of protecting and insuring the general public interest and safety, the safety of persons operating, using, or traveling in aircraft, and the safety of persons and property on land or water, and developing and promoting aeronautics in the State. No rule of the director shall apply to airports or air navigation facilities owned or operated by the United States.

In furtherance of the duties assigned under this chapter, the director may adopt rules relating to:

(1) Safety measures, requirements, and practices in or about the airport premises;

(2) The licensing and regulation of persons engaged in commercial activities in or about the airport premises;

(3) The regulation of equipment and motor vehicles operated in or about the airport operational area;

(4) Airport security measures or requirements, and designation of sterile passenger holding areas and operational areas;

(5) The regulation of motor vehicles and traffic;

(6) The reduction of landing fees for any airline that increases the number of flights into or out of any county in this State, other than a county having a population greater than five hundred thousand persons. The rules shall specify a formula applicable to all airlines based on the number of in-bound and out-bound flights in a given month for each county, as compared to the number of in-bound and out-bound flights made during the month of January, 2003; and

[(6)] (7) Any other matter relating to the health, safety, and welfare of the general public and persons operating, using, or traveling in aircraft."

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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