§338-17.8, Certificates for children born out of State. (a) Upon application of an adult or the legal parents of a minor child, the director of health shall issue a birth certificate for such adult or minor, provided that proof has been submitted to the director of health that the legal parents of such individual while living without the Territory or State of Hawaii had declared the Territory or State of Hawaii as their legal residence for at least one year immediately preceding the birth or adoption of such child. (b) Proof of legal residency shall be submitted to the director of health in any manner that the director shall deem appropriate. The director of health may also adopt any rules pursuant to chapter 91 that he or she may deem necessary or proper to prevent fraudulent applications for birth certificates and to require any further information or proof of events necessary for completion of a birth certificate. (c) The fee for each application for registration shall be established by rule adopted pursuant to chapter 91. [L 1982, c 182, §1]Source
This is the law that lets people in HI register births that didn't occur in HI. I believe the notation at the end (L 1982) refers to the year the law was enacted, in this case, 1982.
Am I wrong? Is this not what the number "1982" means in the law? If so, then it seems it's just another baseless internet rumor that "at the time of his birth, Obama's mother could have registered his birth even if he wasn't born in the state of HI", which makes a LOT of what still fuels the controversy to this day quite moot.
The law was amended in 1982, there were laws allowing foreign born babies, or born in other states IIRC, to be registered in HI. I think the first such law was enacted in 1911, and had another amendment in the 60s. Chief Engineer knows all the details.
(Courtesy Ping to CE - this subject has come up so often I will copy and paste anything you say about it on my desktop, sorry to bug you again.)