Haw. Code R. § 13-283-1 - Policy and purpose
(a) Burial sites
with human skeletal remains have cultural significance and are sensitive
historic properties, significant to the descendants and to the relevant
cultural group. Burials are quite different from other historic properties.
Human remains, under American Common law, cannot be owned; rather the burials
are held in trust for their descendants. Treatment of burials must meet this
trust with the utmost sensitivity. It is the Department of Land and Natural
Resource's policy to preserve burials in place when at all possible. However,
when removal must occur, and if osteological analysis must take place, it is
the Department of Land and Natural Resource's policy that this be done with the
utmost sensitivity and with high standards of analysis.
(b) This rule establishes standards for
osteological analysis of human skeletal remains, when analysis is done to
determine ethnicity of skeletal remains, to ensure the quality of burial
analysis and thereby to better protect the public's interests.
Notes
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