Report Title:

Assignment of Homestead Leases to Hanai and Adopted First Cousins

Description:

Allows nine hundred ninety-nine year homestead leases to be assigned to hanai and adopted first cousins.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2440

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to public lands.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 171-99, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (e) to read as follows:

"(e) Assignment; certificate of occupation or homestead lease. No existing certificate of occupation or existing homestead lease, or fractional interest thereof, shall be transferable or assignable except by conveyance, devise, bequest, or intestate succession and with the prior approval of the board of land and natural resources; provided that transfer or assignment by conveyance, devise, or bequest shall be limited to a member or members of the occupier's or lessee's family.

For the purposes of this section, "family" means the spouse, reciprocal beneficiary, children, parents, siblings, grandparents, grandchildren, nieces, and nephews of the occupier or lessee. For homestead leases, "family" also includes biological, adopted, and hanai first cousins.

All the successors shall be subject to the performance of the unperformed conditions of the certificate of occupation or the homestead lease."

SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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