Report Title:

Highways; Utility Facilities

Description:

Clarifies that the provisions regarding responsibility for the charges for the removal, relocation, replacement, or reconstruction of utility facilities are applicable only to state or county highway projects that receive funding from the Federal Highway Administration.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

145

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to highways.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 264-33, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"(a) Whenever, as the result of [the work of] any construction, reconstruction, or maintenance [of] project that receives funding from the Federal Highway Administration for any [state highway or] state or county [federal-aid] highway, it is necessary to provide for or require the removal, relocation, replacement, or reconstruction of any utility facility, and the expense of removal, relocation, replacement, or reconstruction exceeds $10,000, one-half of this excess expense shall be a proper charge against the state or county funds available for the construction or maintenance of state or county highways; provided that all of the expense of removal, relocation, replacement, or reconstruction of publicly owned utility facilities shall be a charge against the state or county funds."

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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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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