Deceptive For-Profit Entertainment Games
Description:
Makes tampering with for-profit entertainment games, such as for-profit coin- or dollar bill-operated entertainment machines and arcade games, an unfair or deceptive act or practice.
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TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to unfair and deceptive trade practices.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Chapter 480, part I, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§480- Tampering with for-profit entertainment games. A person engages in an unfair or deceptive act or practice within the meaning of section 480-2 when, in the conduct of any trade or commerce, the person tampers with for-profit entertainment games, including coin- or dollar bill-operated machines and arcade games. As used in this section, "tampering with for-profit entertainment games" means the person knowingly conducts, carries on, operates, or exposes for play, or allows to be conducted, carried on, operated, or exposed for play, any for-profit entertainment game that has been marked, tampered with, or otherwise placed in a condition, or operated in a manner the result of which tends to deceive the public or tends to alter the normal selection of criteria that determine the result of a game."
SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2007.
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