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TITLE 11. AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter
141 Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity
141D Agricultural Enterprises
142 Animals, Brands, and Fences
143 Animals: Licenses and Regulations
144 Feed
145 Regulation of Farm Produce
145D Donation of Food
146 Slaughtering Operations and Slaughterhouses
147 Grades and Standards
148 Advertising and Marketing
148D Aquaculture Advisory Council--Repealed
149 Economic Poisons--Repealed
149A Hawaii Pesticides Law
150 Seeds
150A Plant and Non-Domestic Animal Quarantine and
Microorganism Import
151 Weed Control--Repealed
152 Noxious Weed Control
153 Agricultural Products Program--Repealed
154 Fruit and Nut Orchards--Repealed
155 Agricultural and Water Infrastructure Loans
155D Livestock Revitalization Program
156 Farm Advisory Board--Repealed
157 Milk Control Act
159 Hawaii Meat Inspection Act
161 Poultry Inspection
163 Marketing Orders and Agreements--Repealed
163D Agribusiness Development Corporation
164 Agriculture Coordinating Committee--Repealed
165 Hawaii Right to Farm Act
166 Agricultural Parks
166E Non-Agricultural Park Lands
167 Irrigation Water Development
168 Irrigation and Water Utilization Projects
169 Private Agricultural Parks
CHAPTER 141
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND BIOSECURITY
Part I. General Provisions
Section
141-1 Duties in general
141-2 Rules
141-2.2 Deputy chairperson for biosecurity; established
141-2.5 to 2.7 Repealed
141-3 Designation of pests; control or eradication of
pests; emergency power
141-3.5 Control or eradication programs
141-3.6 Entry of private property to control or eradicate
any pests
141-4 Weights of coffee; rules
141-5 Charges for inspection, etc.
141-6 Appeal from inspector's decision
141-7 General penalty
141-8 Crop damage; civil liability
141-9 Energy feedstock program
141-10, 11 Repealed
141-12 Agricultural food safety certification program
141-12.5 Grant program; food safety certification costs
141-13 Hawaii healthy food incentive program; rules
141-14 Industrial hemp special fund; established
141-15 Farmer apprentice mentoring program; established
141-16 Compost reimbursement program
141-17 Fine meshed nets; invasive species; permissible; rules
141-18 Plant care components; fumigation; treatment;
certification; fees; restrictions
Part II. Industrial Hemp Pilot Program--Repealed
141-31 to 40 Repealed
141-41 Renumbered
Part III. Commercial Hemp Production
141-42 Commercial hemp production
141-43 Rulemaking authority
Part IV. Aquaculture
141-51 Definitions
141-52 Aquaculture program
141-53 Fees for aquaculture services
141-54 Aquaculture development special fund
141-55 Powers, duties, and activities of the department
141-56 Brood stock acquisition; exclusive property rights
141-57 Protection of indigenous species
141-58 Programmatic environmental impact reports
141-59 Rulemaking authority
Note
Chapter heading amended by L 2025, c 236, §17.
Acquisition of the Wahiawa irrigation system. L 2023, c 218.
Cover crop reimbursement pilot program; reports to 2025-2026 legislature. L 2022, c 312, §2.
Feral chicken control programs and feeding of feral animals education campaigns in each county. L 2024, c 185, §2.
Food hub pilot program; reports to 2023-2027 legislature (terminated on June 30, 2027). L 2022, c 313.
Food safety certification training program to assist farms in obtaining United States Department of Agriculture Good Agricultural Practices certification or its equivalent. L 2022, c 136, §2.
Food safety certification training program to provide direct implementation assistance to small and medium sized farms. L 2019, c 104, §2.
Hawaii hemp task force; report to 2025 legislature (dissolved on August 30, 2024). L 2023, c 263, §13.
Meat processing task force; reports to 2024-2025 legislature (ceases to exist on June 30, 2025). L 2023, c 54, §3.
Pesticide subsidy program for coffee growers; report to 2025 legislature (repealed June 30, 2025). L 2014, c 105, §§3, 6; L 2015, c 152, §1; L 2017, c 65, §2; L 2021, c 138, §2; L 2023, c 216, §3.
Swine farm survey for porcine respiratory and reproductive syndrome. L 2000, c 207.
Cross References
Agricultural and aquacultural building permit exemptions, see §46-88.
Hawaii agriculture workforce advisory board, see §371-19.
Law Journals and Reviews
Legislation Codifying Energy Justice: Access to Energy for Drinking Water, Sanitation, and Agriculture. 44 UH L. Rev. 204 (2022).
Case Notes
Discussed: 842 F.3d 688 (2016).