Report Title:

Fireworks

 

Description:

Prohibits use of fireworks except in areas designated by each county.

 

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

1407

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

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-5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"[[]§132D-5[]] General prohibitions. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person without a permit to:

(1) Remove or extract the pyrotechnic contents from any fireworks;

(2) Throw any ignited fireworks from a moving vehicle; or

(3) Set off, ignite, discharge, or otherwise cause to explode any fireworks:

(A) At any time not within the periods for use prescribed in section 132D-3, unless permitted pursuant to section 132D-10;

(B) Within one thousand feet from any operating hospital, convalescent home, home for the elderly, or animal hospital;

(C) In any school building, or on any school grounds and yards without first obtaining authorization from appropriate school officials;

(D) On any highway, alley, street, sidewalk, or other public way; in any park; within fifty feet from a canefield; or within one thousand feet from any building used for public worship during the periods when services are held; except as may be permitted pursuant to section 132D-10; and

(E) Within five hundred feet from any hotel.

(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to set off, ignite, discharge, or otherwise cause to explode any fireworks except within areas designated by each county for that purpose."

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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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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