Report Title:

Gasoline sales; fractional pricing

 

Description:

Prohibits the use of fractional pricing for the sale of gasoline.

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

425

TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT


 

 

relating to gasoline.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 486-52.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "[[]§486-52.5[]]  Price posting by gallon required[.]; fractional cent pricing prohibited.  The director shall adopt rules to require any retail dispenser of gasoline, whose variator price is set in liters, for every grade of gasoline sold, to post on top or on the face panel of each gasoline pump and on any other pricing advertisement in conspicuous numbers comparable in size to any other posted price, the price per United States gallon for the gasoline dispensed[.]; provided that the posted price shall not use a fraction of a cent.  If the variator price is set in gallons, no liter price posting or advertisement shall be required.  Nothing in this section shall be deemed to require that gasoline be sold by the gallon."

     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  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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, 2007.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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