Bill Text: HI SB411 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Chapter 183, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-17 - Re-Referred to WTL/JDC, WAM. [SB411 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2018-SB411-Introduced.html
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THE SENATE |
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TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2017 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO CHAPTER 183, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 183-5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:
"(c) In addition:
(1) A fine of an amount up to [$10,000]
the current market value of each koa tree at that location and the cost of
restoration or replacement of the habitat per violation of section 183-17
may be levied for each destroyed or harvested koa tree, or portion thereof,
larger than six inches in diameter at ground level; and
(2) A fine of an amount up to [$2,000] the
current market value of each tree or plant, other than koa, at that location
and the cost of restoration or replacement of the habitat per violation of
section 183-17 may be levied for each destroyed or harvested tree or plant,
other than koa, or portion thereof, larger than six inches in diameter at
ground level."
SECTION 2. Section 183-18, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§183‑18 Criminal penalties. (a) Unless otherwise specified, any person who violates a provision of this part or a rule adopted pursuant to this part shall be guilty of a petty misdemeanor. A person convicted of violating a provision of this part or a rule adopted pursuant to this part shall be sentenced, without the possibility of probation or suspension of sentence, as follows:
(1) A mandatory fine of not less than $100, or imprisonment of not more than thirty days, or both, for a first offense, or any offense not preceded within a five-year period by a conviction for a prior offense;
(2) A mandatory fine of not less than $500, or by imprisonment of not more than thirty days, or both, for an offense that occurs within five years of a conviction for a prior offense; and
(3) A mandatory fine of $1,000, or imprisonment of not more than thirty days, or both, for an offense that occurs within five years of two or more convictions for prior offenses.
For purposes of this subsection, "offense" means a violation of any provision of this part or any rules adopted pursuant thereto.
(b) Any person who [violates] is
convicted for violating section 183-17[, upon conviction thereof,]
is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than $2,000 or
imprisoned not more than one year, or both. [In addition to any other
penalty imposed under this section, a fine of up to $2,000 shall be levied for
each tree illegally destroyed or harvested under section 183‑17.]"
SECTION 3. Section 183-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is repealed.
["§183-4 General penalty.
Any person violating any of the provisions of chapters 183 to 185, for which
violation a penalty is not otherwise provided, or violating any rule or
regulation of the department of land and natural resources, and any master of
any vessel which brings into the State any article which the department shall
at any time prohibit from being imported into the State, and the master of any
vessel from which is landed any article required in chapters 183 to 185 to be
inspected, before the master has received a permit to land the articles from
the department or its officer or inspector, as in such chapters provided, shall
be fined not more than $500."]
SECTION 4. This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun before its effective date.
SECTION 5. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2017.
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Report Title:
Penalties; Timber Trespass in Forest Reserves; Destruction or Harvesting of Trees and Plants on State Lands; Koa Trees; Forest Reserve Violations
Description:
Amends fines for the destroying or harvesting of koa trees and other trees and plants on state lands to an amount up to the current market value of each tree or plant at that location and the cost of restoration or replacement of the habitat. Clarifies that any person that violates a provision of part II of chapter 183, HRS (forest reserves), or any rule adopted pursuant thereto, other than section 183-17, HRS, shall be guilty of a petty misdemeanor. Repeals the general penalty provision of chapter 183, HRS.
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