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COUNTY OF HAWAII <br />STATE OF HAWAII <br />BILL NO. 266 <br />ORDINANCE NO. (DRAFT 3) <br />AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 25 (ZONING CODE) OF THE HAWAII <br />COUNTY CODE 1983 (2005 EDITION, AS AMENDED) RELATING TO <br />AGRICULTURAL TOURISM. <br />BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII: <br />SECTION 1. Chapter 25, article 1, subsection 25-1-5(b), Hawai`i County Code 1983 <br />(2005 Edition, as amended), relating to definitions, is amended by amending the definition of <br />"Agricultural tourism" to read as follows: <br />""Agricultural tourism", "ag-tourism" and/or "agri-tourism" means [visitor fela4ea <br />enduete on ^] the practice of visiting an agribusiness horticultural, aquacultural or agricultural <br />operation including but not limited to a farm orchard winery, greenhouse, botanical garden, <br />hunting_ preserve an agricultural products rocessin facility, acility a companion animal or livestock <br />show, for the purpose of recreation education or active involvement in the operation, other than <br />as a contractor or employee of the operation." <br />SECTION 2. Chapter 25, article 1, subsection 25-1-5(b), Hawai`i County Code 1983 <br />(2005 Edition, as amended), relating to definitions, is amended by adding the following new <br />definitions to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows: <br />"Value-added agricultural product," means the enhancement or improvement of the overall <br />value of an agricultural commodity or of an animal or plant product to a higher value. The <br />enhancement or improvement includes but is not limited to marketing, agricultural processing, <br />transforming or packaging education presentation, activities and tours." <br />"Agricultural products," includes, but is not limited to crops, fruit, juice, vegetables, <br />floriculture herbs honey, forestry husbandry, livestock and livestock products (cattle, sheep, <br />hogs horses poultry, milk and eggs, etc.), , aquaculture products (fish, fish products, algae/limu, <br />water plants and shellfish), horticultural specialties (nursery stock, ornamental shrubs, flowers <br />and Christmas trees). <br />