§172-13 - Destruction, defacing or removal of survey monuments; penalty. - Hawaii Statutes

     [§172-13  Destruction, defacing or removal of survey monuments; penalty.]  It shall be unlawful, without the written consent of the state comptroller, for any person to destroy, deface, change, or remove to another place, any trigonometrical survey station, boundary line mark or monument, corner post, or any other government line of survey, or to cut down any witness tree or any tree blazed to mark the line of a government survey, or any bench mark in any government survey.  Any person who violates this chapter, shall be fined not more than $500, or imprisoned not more than four months, or both. [L 1911, c 106, §1; RL 1925, §4304; RL 1935, §5780; RL 1945, §11170; RL 1955, §274-1; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §12; HRS §732-1; ren L 1972, c 9, pt of §1]

 

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  Classification of offense and authorized punishment, see §§701-107, 706-640, 663.