Report Title:

Natural Area Reserves System; Game Animal Control; Public Hunting

Description:

Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to designate public hunting as the primary means to control game animals in the natural area reserves system. (SD1)

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

1076

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

S.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO NATURAL AREA RESERVES SYSTEM.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 195-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"(a) To preserve, manage, and protect the reserves system, the department is authorized, in addition to any other powers, to:

(1) Designate and bring under its control and management, as part of the reserves system, any areas as follows:

(A) State owned land under the jurisdiction of the department may be set aside as a natural area reserve by resolution of the department, subject to the approval of the governor by executive order setting the land aside for that purpose;

(B) New natural area reserves may be established:

(i) By gift, devise, grant, reimbursement to cooperators, exchange, or purchase of land or any interest therein, including, but not limited to, conservation easements;

(ii) By eminent domain pursuant to chapter 101; or

(iii) By the setting aside of state owned land for that purpose by the governor, as provided in section 171-11;

(2) Cooperate or contract with any federal, state, or county governmental agency, quasi-governmental agency, private organization, or individual in carrying out the purpose of this chapter;

(3) Acquire by gift, devise, grant, or donation any personal property to be used in the acquisition or management, or both, of natural area reserves;

(4) Implement, after consultation with the commission and based on the most comprehensive up-to-date compilation of scientific data, the acquisition, management, protection, and use of natural area reserves; [and]

(5) Designate hunting as the primary means of reducing game animal numbers, as appropriate, whether through public hunting or through contracting with public organizations and clubs; and

(6) Prepare and take the necessary steps to implement the management plan set forth in section 195-11."

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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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.