Report Title:

Contractor Repair Act; Definition of Contractor

Description:

Removes entities engaged in the business of selling a dwelling from the definition of "contractor" under the Contractor Repair Act.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	1759
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to the definition of contractor under the contractor repair act.

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

     SECTION 1.  Section 672E-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "contractor" to read as follows:

     ""Contractor" means any person, firm, partnership, corporation, association, or other organization that is engaged in the business of designing, manufacturing, supplying products, developing, or constructing[, or selling] a dwelling."

     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  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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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