HB2270

Report Title:

Pest Control and Eradication

Description:

Broadens the scope of the types of noxious weeds and pests that the department of agriculture shall assist in controlling and eradicating.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2270
TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to pest control.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 141-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§141-3 Designation of pests; control or eradication of pests; emergency power. (a) The department of agriculture shall establish by rule, the criteria and procedures for the designation of pests for control or eradication.

(b) The department of agriculture shall, so far as reasonably practicable, assist, free of cost to individuals, in the control or eradication of [insects, mites, diseases,] noxious weeds[,] or [other] pests [injurious to vegetation of value]; and in the investigation, suppression, and eradication of contagious, infectious, and communicable diseases among domestic animals; and shall in like manner distribute to points where needed, beneficial insects, or pathogens and other antidotes for the control of [insects, mites and diseases or other] pests [injurious to vegetation of value,] and for the control or eradication of vegetation of a noxious character.

(c) Notwithstanding subsection (a), if the department finds the incipient infestation of a pest that [is injurious or deleterious or that is likely to become injurious or deleterious to the agricultural, horticultural, aquacultural, or livestock industries of the State without] requires immediate action, it may proceed without prior notice or upon a minimum of forty-eight hours notice and hearing to adopt an emergency rule for the eradication of the pest to be effective for a period of not longer than one hundred eighty days without renewal.

(d) As used in this chapter "pest" shall have the same meaning as defined in section 150A-2."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

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

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