§107-3  Powers and duties of the department
of accounting and general services.  The powers and duties of the
department of accounting and general services shall include:



(1)  The powers and duties heretofore attached to the
surveyor general, except such as relate to the geodetic survey of the Hawaiian
Islands;



(2)  The surveying, locating land boundaries,
triangulation, mapping, subdividing, studying land titles and boundaries,
preparing metes and bounds descriptions, marking land boundaries, and other work
related thereto of all lands owned, controlled or in the possession of the
State, when such action is required in order to use, sell, lease, exchange, or
improve such lands, and, when requested, the performing of similar services
with regard to private lands to be acquired by the State for public purposes;



(3)  Collaborating with the state departments and
agencies in acquiring lands required by the State for public purposes, the cost
in connection therewith to be borne by the department or agency acquiring the
land. [L 1951, c 283, §1; RL 1955, §103-1; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §12; HRS
§107-3]