[PART VIII.]  RESTORATION OF BEACH LANDS

     §171-151  Definitions.  For the purposes of this part:

     "Beach lands" means all lands in the shoreline area including sand, rocky, or cobble beaches, dune systems, landward and seaward sand reserves, and all such lands subject to the natural processes of erosion and accretion.  The term includes easements and rights in such land and any improvements on land.

     "Beach restoration" means an activity undertaken to:

     (1)  Maintain and improve beaches and dune systems through management of sand and native dune vegetation;

     (2)  Place sand on an eroded beach from an approved outside or adjacent source, with or without stabilizing structures; or

     (3)  Remove abandoned remnant materials from beaches and dunes that pose a risk to public health and coastal ecosystems; provided that emergency erosion protection structures constructed pursuant to permits issued by the department and that continue to provide the protection for which they were permitted shall not be deemed abandoned remnant materials.

     "Coastal lands" means all land within the state coastal zone management area; provided that any leasing or development of public lands shall be limited to all fast lands up to one mile mauka of the shoreline and all submerged lands. [L 1999, c 84, pt of §2; am L 2025, c 102, §2]