§189-6  Licenses for marine life from watersnot within state jurisdiction.  Any other provision of law to the contrarynotwithstanding, wherever the possession or sale of marine life or productswithin the State is prohibited as for instance by a closed season, theprohibition shall not apply where the marine life or products have been takenfrom or caught outside of the waters of the State and the possession or salehas been licensed by the department of land and natural resources under rulesadopted by the department.  The department may make rules pursuant to chapter91 governing the issuance, suspension, and revocation and all other terms ofthe licenses.  In addition, the department may specify in the rules that anyberried, undersized, or out-of-season lobsters taken from the waters of theNorthwestern Hawaiian Islands may not be possessed and sold under authority ofthe license. [L 1929, c 187, §8; RL 1935, §337; RL 1945, §1261; am L 1947, c39, §7; am L 1955, c 96, §7; RL 1955, §21-116; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §22; am L1961, c 132, §2; HRS §189-6; am L 1981, c 85, §83; am L 1999, c 234, §1]

 

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  Fishing in Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, see §188-37.