Report Title:

Gasoline Dealers; Service Stations

 

Description:

Amends the law relating to gasoline dealers to exempt, from 7/1/01 to 6/30/06, dealer-initiated sales of retail service stations to manufacturers or jobbers from the requirement that the manufacturer or jobber find a replacement dealer for the service station within 24 months.

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

348

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

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 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[.]; provided that this paragraph shall not apply to sales to a manufacturer or jobber that have been initiated by an independent retail gasoline dealer."

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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2001; provided that on June 30, 2006, section 1 of this Act shall be repealed, and section 486H-10.4(a), Hawaii Revised Statutes, is reenacted in the form in which it read on June 30, 2001.

INTRODUCED BY:

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