Report Title:

Hawaii Penal Code; Petty Misdemeanors

Description:

Eliminates current statutory inconsistency between a statute defining a "petty misdemeanor" and statute setting forth the maximum term of imprisonment that may be imposed for a "petty misdemeanor".

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

496

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to petty misdemeanors.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 701-107, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (4) to read as follows:

"(4) A crime is a petty misdemeanor if it is so designated in this Code or in a statute other than this Code enacted subsequent thereto, or if it is defined by a statute other than this Code [which] that provides that persons convicted thereof may be sentenced to imprisonment for a term [of which the maximum is less than one year.] not to exceed thirty days."

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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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.

INTRODUCED BY:

_____________________________