REPORT TITLE:
Gasoline Dealers


DESCRIPTION:
Creates an exception to the gasoline retail divorcement law by
allowing a manufacturer or jobber to operate a former dealer
operated retail service station where the current or new dealer
is in agreement with such an operation and when the dealer has a
contract interest in the operation.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                        1977
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.           
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO GASOLINE DEALERS.



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

 1      SECTION 1.  Section 486H-10.4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
 
 3      "(a)  Beginning August 1, 1997, no manufacturer or jobber
 
 4 shall convert an existing dealer operated retail service station
 
 5 to a company operated retail service station; provided that
 
 6 nothing in this section shall limit a manufacturer or jobber
 
 7 from:
 
 8      (1)  Continuing to operate any company operated retail
 
 9           service stations legally in existence on July 31, 1997;
 
10      (2)  Constructing and operating any new retail service
 
11           stations as company operated retail service stations
 
12           constructed after August 1, 1997, subject to subsection
 
13           (b); [or]
 
14      (3)  Operating a former dealer operated retail service
 
15           station for up to twenty-four months until a
 
16           replacement dealer can be found if the former dealer
 
17           vacates the service station, cancels the franchise, or
 
18           is properly terminated or not renewed[.]; or
 
19      (4)  Operating a former dealer operated retail service
 

 
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 1           station when the current or new dealer:
 
 2           (A)  Is in agreement with such an operation; and
 
 3           (B)  Has a contract interest in the operation."
 
 4      SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
 5 New statutory material is underscored.
 
 6      SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
 
 7 
 
 8                           INTRODUCED BY:  _______________________