Section 13-256-33 - Priority and procedures in the issuance of commercial vessel permits(a) All commercial use permits shall be valid for not more than one year and shall automatically terminate on the expiration date.(b) An application for a commercial use permit shall be made in writing to the department on the form provided by the department. The applicant shall indicate in the application the type and characteristics of the vessel, including but not limited to the vessel's overall length, draft, beam, principal source of propulsion, and any secondary or auxiliary source of propulsion, the passenger carrying capacity, and any other pertinent information. No application shall be complete until the applicant pays the application fee prescribed in these rules. The department shall accept the completed application form for consideration by endorsing it and entering the time and date on the application form submitted. The time and date the application is endorsed by the department shall be the effective filing date and shall establish the applicant' s priority date; provided, however, priority for applicants who held a commercial use permit for Hanalei Bay or river in November 2000 shall be based upon the date the department issued such permit. An applicant must file a new application form each year but the effective filing date shall remain the same.(c) Only when the number of commercial use permits issued under subsection (a) falls below the number authorized in section 13-256-38 or section 13256-39, will the department offer a permit to the applicant with the next highest priority date; provided that in no event shall the limit set in section 13-256-38 or section 13-256-39 be exceeded thereby. [Eff 2/24/94; am 8/8/11] (Auth: HRS §§ 200-2, 200-3, 200-4, 200-22, 200-24) (Imp: HRS §§ 200-2, 2003, 200-4, 200-22, 200-24)