Report Title:
Cultural Monitors
Description:
Defines cultural monitors and their qualifications. Allows appropriations for certain projects to be expended for the hiring of cultural monitors.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
1561 |
TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 6E-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new definition to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows:
""Cultural monitor" means any person who is hired to interpret the cultural rather than the scientific significance of an archaeological project area, including burial sites. A "cultural monitor" shall demonstrate:
(1) A cultural affiliation with the affected project area;
(2) Familiarity with the affected and anticipated cultural properties in the project area; and
(3) Sensitivity and the ability to represent and communicate to developers and property owners on behalf of the native Hawaiian community."
SECTION 2. Section 6E-9, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"[[]§6E-9[]] Investigation, recording, preservation, and salvage; appropriations. Whenever there is any project by any government agency on lands [which] that are owned or controlled by the State or its political subdivisions and [which] that have historic property or value, one per cent of the appropriations for the project, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended for the investigation, recording, preservation, and salvage of such historical property or value. These appropriations may be expended for the hiring of cultural monitors. Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the expenditure of more than one per cent of the project appropriations for the purposes herein stated should an additional amount be necessary and mutually agreed to by the department and the government agency planning the construction or improvement."
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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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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