If sand is stuck to your feet or in your hair or in your toy shovel, fine. If a little bit spilled into your beach bag, fine. If you need to take some with you for traditional cultural purposes protected by the state Constitution, that\u2019s fine, too. But if you want to take a bucket of sand from the beach to sprinkle in your yard, or for any other reason, even if it\u2019s only a gallon\u2019s worth, that is no longer okay under Act 120.<\/p>\n
Act 120 doesn\u2019t just aim to protect Hawai`i\u2019s beaches by controlling unwanted vegetation. The act also prevents sand, coral, rocks, and \u201cother marine deposits\u201d from being hauled off the beach, a gallon at a time.<\/p>\n
Until now, state law allowed people to take these materials from the beach, so long as what was taken didn\u2019t exceed one gallon per person per day.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf people honestly knew how important sand was within an ocean ecosystem, you would have thousands supporting [HB17],\u201d wrote West O`ahu fisherman Carl Jellings in his testimony on the bill.<\/p>\n
Act 120 allows for only the inadvertent taking of those materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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