Bill Text: HI SB2952 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

Hawaii Senate Bill 2952 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Time Shares; Special Management Areas

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-10 - The committee on WTL deferred the measure. [SB2952 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2014-SB2952-Introduced.html

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2952
TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2014
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO TIME SHARes.

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

SECTION 1. Section 205A-28, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§205A-28 Permit required for development. (a) No development shall be allowed in any county within the special management area without obtaining a permit in accordance with this part.

(b) No development of units with a time share interest or pursuant to a time share plan, as those terms are defined in section 514E-1, shall be allowed in any county within the special management area."

SECTION 2. Section 514E-5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§514E-5 Geographic limitations. (a) Except as provided in this [~~section,~~] subsection, time share units, time share plans, and transient vacation rentals are prohibited.

(1) Existing time share units, time share plans, and transient vacation rentals are not impaired by the provisions of this section.

(2) Time share units, time share plans, and transient vacation rentals are allowed:

(A) In areas designated for hotel use, resort use, or transient vacation rentals, pursuant to county authority under section 46-4, or where the county, by its legislative process, designates hotel, transient vacation rental, or resort use;

(B) In a hotel where the county explicitly approves such use, in advance, as a nonconforming use; or

(C) In a county with a population in excess of five hundred thousand, in an existing hotel which is a valid nonconforming use under county ordinance.

(b) No development of time share units or units pursuant to a time share plan shall be allowed in any county within the special management area.

For purposes of this subsection, "development" and "special management area" shall have the same meanings as in section 205A-22."

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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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.

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title:

Time Shares; Special Management Areas

Description:

Prohibits development of time shares in special management areas.

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