Section 13-256-17 - Recreational thrill craft operations(a) Access to and from designated recreational thrill craft operating areas shall be by the most direct route consistent with safety considerations. Thrill craft operators shall not exceed a speed of slow-no-wake when within three hundred feet of the shoreline.(b) Thrill craft operation shall be prohibited in state waters surrounding the islands of Kahoolawe, Lanai, Molokai and Niihau. In all other non-designated ocean recreation management areas of state waters, recreational thrill craft may operate seaward of five hundred feet from the shoreline or the outer edge of the fringing reef whichever is greater.(c) In designated ocean recreation management areas, recreational thrill craft may operate only within locations designated for recreational thrill craft use.(d) No thrill craft shall be operated for profit or gain in a recreational thrill craft operating area.(e) Recreational thrill craft may gain access to state waters only from launching or harbor facilities or from private beachfront property.(f) The State may exempt thrill craft from the requirements of this section, and allow thrill craft to operate outside of designated thrill craft areas, as described in subchapters two through eleven, conditioned upon application for, and receipt of, a miscellaneous use permit pursuant to section 13-231-3(a) (8).[Eff 2/24/94] (Auth: HRS §§ 200-22, 200-24) (Imp: HRS §§ 200-22, 200-24)