HAR §13-256-19. Parasailing activities

(a) Parasailing operators shall comply with rules and regulations promulgated by the U. S. Coast Guard in addition to the following provisions: (1) All parasailing vessels shall have access to designated areas only from harbors or ramp facilities by the most direct route consistent with safety considerations. (2) No commercial parasailing vessel shall operate on the waters of the State unless the owner has applied for and been issued a commercial operating area use permit for a designated parasail operating area, in addition to any commercial use permit 256-21 Unofficial Compilation required for state-owned facilities. (3) No operator shall be issued more than one commercial operating area use permit for a designated parasailing operating area. (4) No permittee shall be allowed to operate more than one parasail vessel with a parasail aloft in the designated parasailing operating area. (5) No parasailing vessel shall be engaged in parasailing activities while it is within three hundred feet of the shoreline or any marked channel entrance. (6) All parasail vessels shall carry at least one hall be to observe the passenger in the chute. (b) Parasailing operations shall be curtailed in certain designated areas under this chapter as necessary to avoid possible adverse impacts on humpback whales or other protected marine life. In designated areas during the whale season, the maximum vessel speed for parasailing shall be eighteen (18) knots, and maximum transit speed for shuttling passengers to and from the parasailing zones shall be fifteen (15) knots or minimum planing speed, whichever is less, unless governed by other limits such as slow- no-wake zones or as marked by signs. [Eff 2/24/94] (Auth: HRS §§200-22, 200-24) (Imp: HRS §§200-22, 200- 24)