Haw. Code R. § 13-256-17 - Recreational thrill craft operations
(a) Access to and
from designated recreational thrill craft operating areas shall be by the most
direct route consistent with safety considerations. Thrill craft operators
shall not exceed a speed of slow-no-wake when within three hundred feet of the
shoreline.
(b) Thrill craft
operation shall be prohibited in state waters surrounding the islands of
Kahoolawe, Lanai, Molokai and Niihau. In all other non-designated ocean
recreation management areas of state waters, recreational thrill craft may
operate seaward of five hundred feet from the shoreline or the outer edge of
the fringing reef whichever is greater.
(c) In designated ocean recreation management
areas, recreational thrill craft may operate only within locations designated
for recreational thrill craft use.
(d) No thrill craft shall be operated for
profit or gain in a recreational thrill craft operating area.
(e) Recreational thrill craft may gain access
to state waters only from launching or harbor facilities or from private
beachfront property.
(f) The State
may exempt thrill craft from the requirements of this section, and allow thrill
craft to operate outside of designated thrill craft areas, as described in
subchapters two through eleven, conditioned upon application for, and receipt
of, a miscellaneous use permit pursuant to section
13-231-3(a)
(8).
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