§6E-6  Depositories for certain specimens
and objects.  The department shall serve as or shall determine the
depository for all field notes, photographs, negatives, maps, artifacts, or
other materials generated or recovered through historic preservation projects
supported in whole or in part by the State or taking place on state lands.



Any aviation artifact or any specimen and
object of natural and of botanical, ethnological, architectural, historical, or
archaeological value or interest, and any book, treatise, or pamphlet relating
thereto in the possession of the University of Hawaii, or any other state
agency or its political subdivisions, if and when the same is no longer needed
for scientific investigation, for study, or for any other purpose, at the request
of the Bishop Museum or other qualified museums in this State, shall be
transferred and delivered by and with the consent of such department, bureau,
or board having possession thereof, to the Bishop Museum or other qualified
museum, or exchanged with such museum, and whereupon, the title shall become
vested in such museum and shall be held by them; provided that the aviation
artifacts or any specimens and objects so transferred are made available at all
reasonable times by the museum for study and examination by the officials of
the university of such department, bureau, or board and to qualified scholars.
[L 1976, c 104, pt of §2; am L 1996, c 97, §5]