HAR §13-232-8. Marine toilets – restrictions

(a) No toilet on a vessel or contrivance shall be operated so as to discharge any untreated sewage directly or indirectly into the waters of a small boat harbor. (b) No person on a vessel or contrivance equipped with a toilet shall use, or permit the use of that toilet on the waters of a small boat harbor unless the toilet is equipped with facilities in good operating condition that will adequately treat, hold, incinerate, or otherwise handle sewage in a manner that is capable of preventing water pollution. A water pollution control device that is acceptable for the purposes of this section is any device determined by the director of the department of health to be effective in arresting the possibility of pollution from sewage passing into or through a toilet aboard a vessel or contrivance. (c) No person shall live on board a vessel or contrivance in any small boat harbor unless it contains one or more toilets equipped with water pollution control devices in good operating condition and of a type acceptable to the director of health; provided that, the department may permit the operator or other persons to live on board a vessel not equipped with a toilet and acceptable water pollution control device for a period not to exceed the period described in sections 13-231-21 and 13-231-22 if: (1) The vessel is from another state or a country other than the United States and is temporarily using the waters of this State or if the vessel has a home port in the State but is visiting another small boat harbor; (2) Adequate on-shore toilet facilities are readily available, meaning within a walking distance of not more than two hundred feet, for use by the persons living on board; and 232-8 Unofficial Compilation (3) A toilet aboard the vessel is not used while in the small boat harbor. [Eff 2/24/94; am 12/31/18] (Auth: HRS §§200-2, 200-3, 200-4) (Imp: HRS §§200-2, 200-3, 200-4)