HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2327

TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2016

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO CONSUMER PROTECTION.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 487-10, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§487-10  Investigators, appointment and powers.  The director shall appoint and commission one or more investigators as the exigencies of the public service may require.  Persons appointed and commissioned under this section shall have and may exercise all the powers and authority of a police officer or of a deputy sheriff[.] in the service of process or in the service of subpoenas."

     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  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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:

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BY REQUEST


 


 

Report Title:

Office of Consumer Protection; Service of Process; Subpoena; Investigators

 

Description:

Clarifies scope of Office of Consumer Protection investigator powers.

 

 

 

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