Bill Text: HI SB3255 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Feral Pig Control Permits.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-29 - Referred to WTL, JDC. [SB3255 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-SB3255-Introduced.html
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to feral pig control permits.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
The legislature further finds that the process for acquiring the necessary permits to eradicate feral pigs on private property is often difficult and cumbersome. Creating an expedited process for acquiring permits to eradicate feral pigs would better allow landowners to protect their property and persons.
The purpose of this Act is to codify an expedited process for acquiring permits to eradicate feral pigs on private property.
SECTION 2. Section 183D-61, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§183D-61 Permits to take wild birds, game birds, and game mammals. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions contained in this chapter, the department may adopt rules pursuant to chapter 91:
(1) Authorizing the taking and collecting of wild birds, game birds, and game mammals for scientific and educational purposes, or for the purpose of distributing wild birds to different localities in the State pursuant to this title; or
(2) Authorizing the keeping of wild birds
in captivity for the protection, treatment for injury or disease, propagation,
and other similar purposes consistent with the preservation, protection, and
conservation of wild birds[;
(3) Authorizing the taking and
destruction of those wild birds, game birds, and game mammals the department
may have found after investigation to be destructive to crops or to other game
birds and game mammals or otherwise harmful to agriculture or aquaculture, or
to constitute a nuisance or a health hazard; or
(4) Authorizing without requiring
permits or reports, the destruction within a district of wild birds, game
birds, and game mammals which are generally destructive to crops or otherwise
harmful to agriculture or aquaculture, or constitute a nuisance or a health
hazard within the district].
(b) The department shall issue permits for the
destruction or control of feral pigs that have caused or are likely to cause
substantial damage to privately owned land, agricultural or aquacultural crops,
indigenous plants or wildlife, or that pose a threat to human health and
safety; provided that:
(1) No permit or report shall be required
to destroy or control feral pigs on privately owned land when the landowner is otherwise
in compliance with department rules adopted pursuant to section 183D-3;
(2) An authorized agent of the
department shall investigate a complaint regarding feral pigs that have caused
or are likely to cause substantial damage to privately owned land and, if the
authorized agent is satisfied that substantial damage has occurred or is likely
to occur, a permit shall be granted;
(3) An authorized agent shall have no
more than ninety days to investigate the complaint and issue the permit or
notify the applicant why the permit was not issued after the complaint has been
made;
(4) Applicants may appeal the decision
of the authorized agent to the department if the permit is not issued within
ninety days;
(5) Permits shall state the species and
may specify the number to be destroyed and the method of control to be use; and
(6) Permits may include other terms and
conditions as the department deems to be necessary and appropriate.
(c) The department shall authorize, without
requiring permits or reports, the destruction or control of feral pigs in a
given area which are generally destructive to crops or otherwise harmful to agriculture
or aquaculture, or constitute a nuisance or health hazard in that area.
[(b)]
(d) Except as provided in [subsection
(a) (4) ,] subsections (b) and (c), the rules shall require the
person or persons seeking authority to apply for and obtain a written permit
from the department. The permits may
prescribe terms and conditions the department deems necessary to prevent abuse
of the authority granted thereby, and may be canceled by the department, after
notice and hearing, for the violation of any term or condition."
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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Report Title:
Wildlife Control Permits; Department of Land and Natural Resources; Feral Pigs
Description:
Codifies certain administrative rules of the Department of Land and Natural Resources regarding permits to destroy or control harmful feral pigs.
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