S.R. No. 176 Summary

• Urges the Department of Accounting and General Services to provide maintenance services at Sunset Memorial Park, located in Pearl City on Oahu

• Urges the Department of Accounting and General Services to develop a plan for the State to take ownership of Sunset Memorial Park

• Addresses conditions at the cemetery, which has been neglected due to legal uncertainty following the involuntary dissolution of the owning company in 2006 and the owner's death in 2011

• Notes the cemetery currently has $168,000 in a trust fund but legal issues prevent access to those funds, leaving the cemetery dependent on volunteer maintenance

• Identifies problems including sunken graves, overgrown vegetation, vandalism, theft of ashes from urns, and accidental fires from homeless encampments