Report Title:
Gasoline Dealers
Description:
Effective 7/1/10 to 6/30/06, provides a market for the franchise of a gasoline dealer who wishes to retire or for other reasons cash in their interest in the franchise, by allowing a manufacturer or jobber who purchases the franchise in a dealer initiated sale, to operate a former dealer retail service station indefinitely without finding a replacement dealer.
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
1139 |
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TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to service stations.
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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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 This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2001; provided that on June 30, 2006, section 1 of this Act shall be repealed, and section 486H-10.4(a), Hawaii Revised Statutes, is reenacted in the form in which it read on June 30, 2001.
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