Traditional Rights-of-Way, Maintenance

(a)It shall be unlawful for the owner, lessee, or tenant of any lands adjacent to or abutting the ocean shore to block, impede, or interfere with the public use of any traditional right-of-way.

(b)It shall be unlawful for the Territorial Planning Commission to approve or permit any development of land which will result in the blocking, impeding, or interfering with the public use of any traditional right-of-way which provides public access to the ocean shore. Nothing in this Section shall prevent the Territorial Planning Commission from approving the COL2272017 CH. 65 PUBLIC ACCESS TO THE OCEAN SHORE development of land wherein an alternative perpetual right-of-way or easement in favor of the public and allowing access to the ocean shore has been duly recorded in the form and manner provided by law.