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COUNTY OF HAWAII <br />ORDINANCE NO. <br />STATE OF HAWAII <br />BILL NO. 3 37 <br />AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 10, EROSION AND SEDIMENTATION <br />CONTROL, HAWAII COUNTY CODE 1983 (2005 EDITION, AS AMENDED). <br />BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII: <br />SECTION 1. Chapter 10, Hawaii County Code 1983 (2005 edition, as amended), is <br />hereby repealed in its entirety. <br />SECTION 2. The Hawaii County Code is amended by adding anew Chapter 10, which <br />shall read as follow: <br />"Chapter 10 <br />EROSION AND SEDIMENTATION C ONTROL <br />Article 1. General Provisions. <br />Section 10-1. Purpose. <br />The purpose of this chapter is to provide minimum standards to protect property, promote <br />public health, safety and welfare, and to preserve and enhance the natural environment, including <br />water quality, by regulating grubbing and grading operations and controlling soil erosion and <br />sedimentation in construction and in agricultural operations within the County. <br />Section 10-2. Definitions. <br />Whenever used in this chapter, the following words shall have the meaning indicated: <br />"Agriculture" or "Agricultural operations" means the care and production of livestock, <br />livestock products, poultry or poultry products, aquaculture or aquaculture products, apiary, <br />horticultural, agronomical or floricultural products or the planting, cultivating and harvesting of <br />crops or trees, including tree farms to produce the same. Agricultural production may include <br />but not be limited to land preparation in accordance with acceptable conservation practices. <br />"Best management practices" or `BMPs" mean schedules of activities, prohibitions or <br />designations of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to prevent or <br />reduce the pollution of State waters. Best management practices include treatment requirements, <br />operating procedures, and practices to control site runoff. <br />"Burial site" means any burial site, as defined in section 6E-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, <br />which has been recorded in an archaeological survey of the property or is otherwise known to the <br />owner. <br />