HB2333

Report Title:

Company Operated Service Station; Time Limit

Description:

Reduces the amount of time a manufacturer or jobber may operate a former dealer operated service station from 24 months to 90 days.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2333
TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to gasoline dealers.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 486H-10.4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"(a) Beginning August 1, 1997, no manufacturer or jobber shall convert an existing dealer operated retail service station to a company operated retail service station; provided that nothing in this section shall limit a manufacturer or jobber from:

(1) Continuing to operate any company operated retail service stations legally in existence on July 31, 1997;

(2) Constructing and operating any new retail service stations as company operated retail service stations constructed after August 1, 1997, subject to subsection (b); or

(3) Operating a former dealer operated retail service station for up to [twenty-four months] ninety days until a replacement dealer can be found if the former dealer vacates the service station, cancels the franchise, or is properly terminated or not renewed."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

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